@prologic@twtxt.net The main thing that I tought of is that whomever is abusing your services must be a well known actor (by range/set of IPs) that got reported by other Crowdsec users. So to my simpleton’s understanding, your reverse-proxy/web server passes the requests by crowdsec for processing, they get banned for $N hours if the source has already been blacklisted by the community or violates any of a set of behavior base rules (and even more hours for repeat offenders); otherwise the requests/responses go as per usual. Not sure if I got things right but this might help paint a better picture of the process.

https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html

AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect — it’s the point.

And someone commented on that with:

I’m fascinated by the take about the resource usage being an advantage to the AI bros.

They’ve created software that cannot (practically) be replicated as open source software / free software, because there is no community of people with sufficient hardware / data sets. It will inherently always be a centralized technology.

Fascinating and scary.

construir coisas na internet passou a ter premissas tão complexas que uma pessoa se esquece de como se fazia. Ando a re-adoptar esta metodologia, que hoje em dia já soa a punk

(entrevista com o Joshua Schachter, criador do del.icio.us)

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Linus Torvalds, Communism, & The WEF
“I am one of those ‘woke communists’ you worry about,” says Linux founder, Linus Torvalds. ⌘ Read more

Today in my #Python themed study group at the community center a young participant recommended:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Replaced/

#EducationalGame

Bangladesh bomb attacks on Catholic churches, school leave Christian community alarmed, police confirm terror angle | Today News ⌘ Read more

Thank you for the encouragement and love and kind words, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt and others along the way I’m not sure of their feed uris 💕 I’ll keep at it, but for the time being I will keep my distance, mostly off IRC, because I don’t have the energy to spare in that kind of engagement (what//if the worst happens, it’s so draining). I need to remember what I ever did any of this for, it was back in ~2020 and I wanted really to build small interconnected communities that any non “tech savvy” person (more or less) could also benefit from ane enjoy. Even if there are aspects of the specs we’ve built/extended over time that aren’t “perfect”™, they’re “good enough”™ that they’ve last 5+ years (I believe this is 6 years running now). I want to spend a bit of time going back to why I did any of this in the the first place, and get a little micro-SaaS offering going (barely covering running costs) so encourage more folks to run pods, and thus twtxt feeds and grow the community ever so slightly. Other than that, I plan to get the specs “in order” to a point (with @movq@www.uninformativ.de and @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s help) where I hope they’ll stand the test of time – like SMTP.

Thank you all ! 🙏

British and Canadian Intelligence Intercept Communications Linking Indian Government With Assassination Plots in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of October 2025.

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

Just like any other product or project by the XSF, the Newsletter is the result of voluntary work … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: ​​Expert Insights from Our Latest Webinars
The Erlang Solutions team has been creating webinars that share knowledge, spark ideas, and celebrate the BEAM community. Each one offers a chance to explore new tools, hear fresh perspectives, and learn from the people building scalable and reliable systems every day.

If you haven’t tuned in yet, here’s a look at some of our recent sessions, full of practical insights and new thinking shaping the future of the BEAM.

Ignite Realtime Blog: Helping Dutch Healthcare Speak the Same Language with XMPP

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has put out a call to action: it’s time for the community to help make secure, interoperable chat a reality - especially in healthcare. Here at Ignite Realtime, we’re excited to support this effort. Our projects, … ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: Towards Secure and Interoperable Healthcare Chat
Supporting the development of the Dutch NTA 7532 standard with lessons from international practice

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is an independent, non-profit organization that promotes and advances open standards for real-time communication and collaboration. The XSF oversees the development of extensions to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and fost … ⌘ Read more

The Confidential Communication from UK’s Ofcom to 4Chan
The lawyer representing 4chan has provided documents sent by the UK’s Office of Communications (marked CONFIDENTIAL). ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Immersive Esports: The Technology Behind Competitive Gaming
Esports has outgrown local tournaments and now runs on global platforms linking millions of players and fans, powered by immersive esports technology. Communities form around games, teams, and streamers, blending competition, entertainment, and social connection. At this scale, reliability and low latency are non-negotiable to keep matches fair and audiences engaged during spikes.

High-spe … ⌘ Read more

Royal Mail fined £21m after missing post delivery targets
It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued. ⌘ Read more

Royal Mail fined £21m after missing post delivery targets
It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued. ⌘ Read more

The UK Begins Process of Blocking 4Chan in 60 Days
The United Kingdom Office of Communications (Ofcom) has issued a fine to 4Chan. ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Paradox - “Chat Control” update

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October 14th was supposed to be the day the European Council voted to mandate scanning of all private communications, encrypted or not.

The vote was pulled at the last minute.

Germany withdrew support, creating a blocking minority that blocked the Danish Presidency&aposs hope to g … ⌘ Read more

Komi helping Tadano (keigi) [Komi Can’t Communicate] ⌘ Read more

🤔 💭 🧐 What if, What if we built our own self-hosted / small-web / community-built/run Internet on top of the Internet using Wireguard as the underlying tech? What if we ran our own Root DNS servers? What if we set a zero tolerance policy on bots, spammers and other kind of abuse that should never have existed in the first place. Hmmmm

It happened.

“Can you help me debug this program? I vibe coded it and I have no idea what’s going on. I had no choice – learning this new language and frameworks would have taken ages, and I have severe time constraints.”

Did I say “no”? Of course not, I’m a “nice guy”. So I’m at fault as well, because I endorsed this whole thing. The other guy is also guilty, because he didn’t communicate clearly to his boss what can be done and how much time it takes. And the boss and his bosses are guilty a lot, because they’re all pushing for “AI”.

The end result is garbage software.

This particular project is still relatively small, so it might be okay at the moment. But normalizing this will yield nothing but garbage. And actually, especially if this small project works out fine, this contributes to the shittiness because management will interpret this as “hey, AI works”, so they will keep asking for it in future projects.

How utterly frustrating. This is not what I want to do every day from now on.

From the Captain’s Chair: Pradumna Saraf
Docker Captains are leaders from the developer community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others. “From the Captain’s Chair” is a blog series where we get a closer look at one Captain to learn more about them and their experiences.  Today, we are interviewing Pradumna… ⌘ Read more

Soaring rents pushing people away from jobs, community, review finds
Median rental prices have risen to more than $700 per week for the first time, according to Cotality’s Quarterly Rental Review. ⌘ Read more

High security a fact of life for UK Jewish community living in fear of attack
Leaders in the UK’s tight-knit Jewish population are asking what more can be done to keep their institutions safe. ⌘ Read more

Arduino UNO Q Combines Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 and STM32 MCU
Qualcomm Technologies has announced its plan to acquire Arduino, marking a major development in the embedded and maker ecosystems. The acquisition aims to combine Qualcomm’s edge computing and AI expertise with Arduino’s large developer community and open hardware approach. As part of the announcement, both companies introduced the Arduino UNO Q, a new dual-processor development […] ⌘ Read more

Telcos face surprise ‘stress test’ within weeks as Optus fallout continues
The adequacy of Australia’s emergency call network will be stress tested with a surprise drill ahead of bushfire season, as the opposition ramps up its assault over the communication minister’s handling of last month’s fatal triple-0 outage. ⌘ Read more

My open letter, to the European Commission digital markets act team:

Hello,

I am joining other developers, concerned about Googles new plan, to approve every app and effectively destroy most of the competing 3rd party stores this way. The biggest one of these alternative stores, most known for their focus on user and developer privacy, already states, this would make it impossible for them to operate: https://f-droid.org/cs/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
Even communities like the XDA forum, where new developers are often introduced to the world of Android development, would likely be strongly impacted, as making, publishing and installing Android apps is made less accessible.

I am not just writing on their behalf, I run a small website myself (https://thecanine.ueuo.com/), that both provides legal modifications, for some android apps - for example adding an amoled dark theme, to the most popular XMPP chat client for Android, or increasing one of Androids keyboard apps height. This all comes after Googles previous changes to the Android operating system, that prevent users from installing old apps (old to Google, can mean only a couple of months, without an update - https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/target-sdk and the target version gets increased every year). I rely on apps developed by a single developer, even for things like making the pixel art presented on my website and sideloading as a way to make these apps work, before developers can catch up to Google’s new requirements - if Google is allowed to slowly kill these options, us digital artists will soon lose the tools we need to create digital art.

Indigenous-run corporation convicted, fined for failing to lodge reports
The corporation has been fined $2,000 for failing to lodge reports to the Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations. ⌘ Read more

‘Being new is no excuse’: Ley savages Wells over Triple Zero crisis
The communications minister introduced legislation 18 months after it was recommended, with three deaths linked to the September Optus outage. ⌘ Read more

‘Being new is no excuse’: Ley savages Wells over Triple Zero crisis
The communications minister introduced legislation 18 months after it was recommended, with three deaths linked to the September Optus outage. ⌘ Read more

‘Being new is no excuse’: Ley savages Wells over Triple Zero crisis
The communications minister introduced legislation 18 months after it was recommended, with three deaths linked to the September Optus outage. ⌘ Read more

Pro-Hamas graffiti condemned as Australian Jewish community marks October 7
Political leaders have condemned the painting of a pro-Hamas slogan on a Melbourne billboard as Australia’s Jewish community commemorates the October 7 terrorist attack. ⌘ Read more

Announcing ORAS v1.3.0: Elevating artifact and registry management workflows
The ORAS community is thrilled to announce the release of ORAS CLI v1.3.0, a version packed with stability improvements and pioneering capabilities. In addition to strengthening existing functionality, this release introduces three major new features designed… ⌘ Read more

[$] Next steps for BPF support in the GNU toolchain
Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the
advent of extended BPF. There has been a growing effort to add BPF support
to the GNU toolchain as well, though. At the 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron, the
developers involved got together with representatives of the kernel
community to talk about the state of that work and what needs to happen
next. ⌘ Read more

I know the community is about cats, but I’m going to post a picture of this rare tiger specimen. ⌘ Read more

Lake Tahoe algae experiment suggests seasonal shifts ahead
As the climate warms and nutrient inputs shift, algal communities in cool, clear mountain lakes like Lake Tahoe will likely experience seasonal changes, according to a study from the University of California, Davis, published in Water Resources Research. ⌘ Read more

Llama.cpp Gets an Upgrade: Resumable Model Downloads
We’ve all been there: you’re 90% of the way through downloading a massive, multi-gigabyte GGUF model file for llama.cpp when your internet connection hiccups. The download fails, and the progress bar resets to zero. It’s a frustrating experience that wastes time, bandwidth, and momentum. Well, the llama.cpp community has just shipped a fantastic quality-of-life improvement… ⌘ Read more

New laws aim to rebuild trust in Triple Zero after fatal failures
The communications minister, who last week called herself a “new minister”, will introduce legislation this week amid mounting criticism over delays. ⌘ Read more

R1 Neo Meshtastic Device Introduced with GPS and nRF52840 Processor
The R1 Neo from Muzi Works is a compact, water-resistant Meshtastic device designed for long-range communication and GPS-based location tracking. Developed and assembled in Atlanta, it is the company’s first model built on a custom PCB featuring a dedicated I/O controller and integrated power management. The unit is powered by a Nordic nRF52840 microcontroller paired […] ⌘ Read more

Saturday Citations: Bird news: Vultures as curators and a newly discovered interspecies warning call
This week, researchers reported that mild dietary stress supports healthy aging. Engineers created artificial neurons that can communicate directly with living cells. And dark energy observations suggest that the universe could end in a “big crunch” at 33 billion years old. ⌘ Read more

Natural barriers in northern Sweden’s rivers challenge downstream assumptions
Rivers in northern Sweden do not always become wider or richer in species further downstream. Natural barriers shape the flow and stop plants from spreading, new research from Umeå University shows. The study is published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. ⌘ Read more

[$] Fedora floats AI-assisted contributions policy
The Fedora \
Council began a process to create a policy on AI-assisted
contributions in 2024, starting with a survey to ask the community
its opinions about AI and using AI technologies in Fedora. On
September 25, Jason Brooks published
a draft policy for discussion; so far, in keeping with the spirit of
compromise, it has something … ⌘ Read more

OpenSUSE Leap 16 released
The openSUSE\
Leap 16 release is now available.

This major version update of our fixed-release community-Linux
distribution has a fresh software stack and introduces an unmatched
maintenance- and security-support cycle, a new installer and
simplified migration options.

See our look at this release for more
information. ⌘ Read more

‘I’m still a new minister’: Anika Wells under pressure over Optus saga
Anthony Albanese has publicly backed the communications minister in the wake of multiple Triple Zero outages and three deaths. ⌘ Read more

Hi everyone, here’s a little introduction of my twtxt client (still WIP).

The client I’m developing is a single tenant project that runs entirely in the browser (it might use an optional backend).

It’s entirely based on native web-components and vanilla JS, it is designed to act closer to a toolkit than a full-fledged client, allowing users to “DIY” their own interface with pure html or plain javascript functions.

Users can also build their own engines by including a global javascript object that implement the defined internal API (TBD).

I’m planning to build a system that is easy enough to build and use with any skill level, using only pure html (with a homebrew minimal template engine) or via plain JS (I’ll be also providing some pre-made templates too).

Everything can be self-hosted on any static hosting provider, this allows to spread twtxt within communities like Neocities and similarly hosted websites (basically any Indieweb/Smallweb/Digital garden website and any of the common GitHub/Lab/Berg/lify Pages).

It will be probably named something like TxtCraft or craf.txt but I’m not really sure yet… 🤔 (Maybe some suggestions could help)

I’m still in the experimental phase, so there’s no decent source-code to share yet, but it will soon enough!

Announcing H1 2026 KCDs
We’re excited to announce the first wave of Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) for 2026! These community-organized events bring together local practitioners, adopters, and contributors to connect and share cloud native knowledge. What’s New in 2026 This… ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I feel you buddy 🤗 At one point we have quite a vibrant community. Phil was great, jlj too and Adi was well just Ado 😅

Erlang Solutions: Meet the Team: Adam Rack
Meet Adam Rack, our new Business Development Manager.

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Adam is all about building high-performing teams, driving innovation, and delivering solutions that make a difference.

In our latest chat, he talks about what excites him in this new chapter, his vision for growing our DACH presence, and why sustainability and community matter to him.

And I need to make something absolutely clear as well here. Twtxt was completely and utterly dead back in {Aug 2020](https://yarn.social/about.html) when I came across the spec and its simplicity and realised the lost opportunity. Since then we’ve continued to grow a small but thriving community. The extensions we’ve built over time have stood and lasted the test of time for the past ~5 years. We need not break things too badly, because what we have today and was designed years ago actually works quite well™ (despite some flaws).

@prologic@twtxt.net the simplest thing to do is to completely forgo hashing anything because we are communicating using plain text files right now :3 while i agree hashes are incredibly helpful in the backend im not sure it has a place outside of it, it basically eliminates two core design principals of twtxt (human readability and integrating well with unix command line utilities) and makes new clients more difficult to build than it should be

Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
With the help of GitHub, UNHCR turned drone imagery into maps — helping refugees in Kakuma and Kalobeyei build sustainable, powered communities.

The post Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency appeared first on [The GitHub Blog](https://github. … ⌘ Read more

Local Roots, Global Reach: CNCJ Reflects on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025
Konnichiwa from Tokyo! 🇯🇵 In June 2025, something remarkable happened: the global cloud native community gathered in Tokyo for the first-ever KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) under the Linux… ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Why Europe’s ‘Chat Control’ Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry While Failing to Protect Children

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On October 14th, the European Concil will vote on a regulation that … ⌘ Read more

Albanese says he’d be surprised if Optus boss wasn’t considering his future
The prime minister says Optus hasn’t fulfilled its Triple Zero obligations, while Communications Minister Anika Wells says the telco “perpetuated an enormous failure on the Australian people”. ⌘ Read more

Hello everyone! 👋

After a long while away, I’m back on twtxt with this new feed.

Some of you might remember me as justamoment@twtxt.net, that was a test account I made for trying things out, but I ended up keeping it more than planned.

I also tried other social platforms in search of a place that felt right for me.

In the end twtxt was the one that ticked all of my boxes:

• Slow social: it act more like a feed reader and I really appreciate that there’s no flood of content that I can’t keep up with.
  
• No server needed: I absolutely love to have total control over my content, I tend to avoid having moving parts that might break, plus you can put your feed under version control and it’s all backed up.
  
• Ownership: I can put my feed anywhere I want and nobody can decide if I can access it or not.
  
• For hackers: a single .txt file allows me to join a community, how cool is that!
  

This is why I decided to build my own twtxt client, one that allows you to decide how the feed is presented on your “instance”.

It’s still in the making but I’ll try to share a bit of it once I defined how things should work.

Coincidentally, I discovered that @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com and @zvava@twtxt.net were also building a twtxt client, seems like twtxt is set to grow!

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 5.0.2 release!
The IgniteRealtime community is happy to announce a new release of its open source, real-time communications server server Openfire! Version 5.0.2 brings a number of stability improvements and bug fixes.

Notably, it addresses a recently identified security vulnerability, identifies as CVE-2025-59154. The issue allows for potential identity spoofing via unsafe Common Nam … ⌘ Read more

«… It all went well until 1980 or so, when Ronald Reagan appointed a new head of the EPA. The lady didn’t like her stationery we had designed and with a simple “I want my daisy back” undermined the overall graphic system. If the Queen doesn’t like it, we don’t like it became the attitude, and the program began to crumble. The old logo was fully reinstated and the graphic system was abandoned. A decade later, nobody at the EPA could find a copy of the Graphic Standards System, except a bunch of legalese that you will find on its website.

I’m a fan of the EPA and all its efforts and hope that we helped in some small way for this agency to communicate within itself, to other government agencies, and with the American people. I’m very grateful and appreciative that Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth of Standards Manual, and Julie Anixter of AIGA, brought this document to life again. Have fun revisiting.»
(from the introduction by Steff Geissbühler)

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2025

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XMPP Newsletter Banner

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of August 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these proj … ⌘ Read more

There’s always something more urgent: I’ve been known for a long time that sooner or later I’d feel prompted to switch from #github to somewhere else (since 2018 at least!), but I’ve been postponing and only very slowly flirting with the idea… That didn’t work too bad for me: if I had rushed into it I would have probably migrated to #gitlab, before knowing about the more objectionable sides to it. In the end, 2025 was the year I finally acted upon the urge to move. I did not do a very thorough analysis of the alternative hosts - what I have been reading about them along the years felt enough, and I easily decided to choose #codeberg. Being hasty like that, alas, was a mistake: I just now found - during this slow and time-consuming process of deciding what and how to migrate - that there is a low repository limit on codeberg: “The owner has already reached the limit of 100 repositories.” I’m not complaining, mind you, and those “lucky 100” that are already there will stay - at least as a sort of backup. But this means that codeberg is not for me - and so this time I turn to you, the #mastodon community.

What github alternative, not self-hosted, should I move my >100 projects into?

The XMPP Standards Foundation: MongooseIM 6.4 - Simplified and Unified
MongooseIM is a scalable and efficient instant messaging server. It implements the open, proven, extensible and constantly evolving XMPP protocol, which is an excellent choice when it comes to instant messaging. To communicate with other XMPP entities, the server uses three main types of interfaces, listed in the table below.

XMPP InterfacePurposeConnection typeReworked in v … ⌘ Read more

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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2025

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XMPP Newsletter Banner

Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of July 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or helping these project … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Supporting the BEAM Community with Free CI/CD Security Audits
At Erlang Solutions, our support for the BEAM community is long-standing and built into everything we do. From contributing to open-source tools and sponsoring events to improving security and shaping ecosystem standards, we’re proud to play an active role in helping the BEAM ecosystem grow and thrive.

One way we’re putting that support into action is by offering free CI/CD-based security … ⌘ Read more

i signed up for omg.lol and i’m really liking it. such a cozy and fun little community with a suite of fun web things. i wish the financial barrier to entry was a bit lower though (maybe like $5 for a few months on it or something) just so i could recommend it to my broke friends more, but i totally get why it’s priced the way it is (solo dev!!!)

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This is it, boys and girls! The year of the Linux Desktop is this! I can smell it! :-D

For the first time, Linux has officially broken the 5% desktop market share barrier in the United States of America! It’s a huge milestone for open-source and our fantastic Linux community.

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Pessoas da comunidade brasileira de #ProgramaçãoCriativa por muitos anos fizeram encontros sob o nome promovido pela Fundação Processing, os chamados #ProcessingCommunityDay, fizemos encontros em várias cidades e então depois de 2020, com a pandemia do COVID-19, fizemos três eventos nacionais muito inspiradores em 2021, 2022 e 2023 (vide https://compoetica.github.io/links/)

Ano passado não conseguimos fazer e este ano pretendemos retomar, só que usando outro nome: #Compoética. Vamos aos poucos divulgar mais sobre o encontro brasileiro de programação criativa em https://compoetica.github.io/CP2025/

Meus agradecimentos profundos ao @guilhermesv@guilhermesv que dedica generosamente um enorme esforço para organizar esses eventos da comunidade e cria o design e peças de comunicação sempre emocionantes de lindos.

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Ignite Realtime Blog: Empowering Digital Sovereignty with Openfire: A Secure and Customizable Communication Platform
In today’s interconnected world, digital sovereignty has become increasingly important for individuals and organizations seeking to maintain control over their data, infrastructure, and technologies. Openfire, an open-source, real-time collaboration (RTC) server that uses the XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I first wondered how the lists could be ever improved, but then b.png shows the better approach with the inset boxes on the left. No surprises there. Very clearly communicated.

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OpenBSD has the wonderful pledge() and unveil() syscalls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXO6nelFt-E

Not only are they super useful (the program itself can drop privileges – like, it can initialize itself, read some files, whatever, and then tell the kernel that it will never do anything like that again; if it does, e.g. by being exploited through a bug, it gets killed by the kernel), but they are also extremely easy to use.

Imagine a server program with a connected socket in file descriptor 0. Before reading any data from the client, the program can do this:

unveil("/var/www/whatever", "r");
unveil(NULL, NULL);
pledge("stdio rpath", NULL);

Done. It’s now limited to reading files from that directory, communicating with the existing socket, stuff like that. But it cannot ever read any other files or exec() into something else.

I can’t wait for the day when we have something like this on Linux. There have been some attempts, but it’s not that easy. And it’s certainly not mainstream, yet.

I need to have a closer look at Linux’s Landlock soon (“soon”), but this is considerably more complicated than pledge()/unveil():

https://landlock.io/

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@bender@twtxt.net Yeah, well, it’s a bit like twtxt. There is a Gopher community, but it’s small. I actually don’t like that HTTP is so easily accessible. I don’t like it that much when people post links to my site on HackerNews or something like that. Too much exposure.

Gopher is a small world. It’s slow and cozy.

And much like twtxt, the protocol is simple®, so it’s easier to tinker with it.

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My Journey to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024: A Story of Volunteering and Growth
My name is Oscar Ayra and I am from Lima, Peru. In 2024, I had the privilege of being part of the volunteer team at Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Lima. It was an enriching experience where… ⌘ Read more

Neue Spiele: Dune Awakening schlägt GTA-Möchtegern-Klon
Zwei Neuveröffentlichungen mit sehr unterschiedlichen Reaktionen der Community: Ab sofort sind Dune Awakening und Mindseye erhältlich. ( Dune Awakening, Steam)

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20 Years of the Open Invention Network
The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating
its 20th anniversary.

The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license
that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel
with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source
has accelerated, OIN has proactively expanded the scope of the OIN
license’s benefit by including more than 4,500 software components … ⌘ Read more

Spielebranche: Apple präsentiert Games-App für iOS 26 & Co
Apple bündelt mit der neuen Games-App alle Spiele und Community-Funktionen bei Mac. Dazu kommen optimierte Entwickler-Tools für bessere Performance. ( WWCD 2025, Apple)

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Restrictions frustrate residents reliant on flood-wrecked road
Residents in a small north Queensland community say they are struggling with a system that only allows access to their main road in daylight hours. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of May 2025.

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The “interception, carried out outside Israeli territorial waters, constitutes a blatant violation of international law, including maritime and humanitarian law.”

“Co-Chair of The Left, Manon Aubry (La France Insoumise, France) said: “Netanyahu’s army has intercepted the Freedom Flotilla against a backdrop of deafening silence from political leaders in Europe and the world. History is watching them. Their inaction to end the genocide is nothing more than complicity. We demand immediate action from European authorities to guarantee the safety of the crew and allow humanitarian aid to enter.”

The Left calls upon states, the European Union, the United Nations, and the entire international community to strongly condemn this illegal detention, demand the immediate and unconditional release of all crew members, and urge Israeli authorities to allow immediate and unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza, in full compliance with international law and the orders imposed on Israel by the International Court of Justice.

#Solidarity is not a crime, €genocide is. Free the #FreedomFlotilla crew.”

#madleen

https://left.eu/freedom-flotilla-intercepted-as-gaza-starves/

Angle grinder used to shear off 185-year-old church bell
A Hunter Valley farming community is reeling after a church bell that rang out the day World War I ended was stolen. ⌘ Read more

OIDC: The Digitally signed Pinky Swear “It’s Me” (Part I)

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Whenever an Elbow-Shake Protocol is being established, there’s always Users try to communicate safely during Corona pandemic!

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Senior Wadeye elder identified as latest NT death in custody
A man who died in police custody at a Darwin hospital on Saturday has been remembered as a “great visionary and educator” as the remote community of Wadeye mourns his loss. ⌘ Read more

‘Buy a generator’, power provider tells WA hotel angry at blackouts
The owners of Bremer Bay Resort say Western Power told them purchasing a diesel generator was the only way to avoid the outages plaguing the small community. ⌘ Read more

From Hollywood heavyweights to community advocates: King’s honours announced
Some 830 Australians will be recognised as part of the King’s Birthday 2025 Honours on Monday, including film director Baz Luhrmann and his frequent collaborator Catherine Martin, an award-winning costume, production and set designer. ⌘ Read more

Perth rallies against Indigenous deaths in custody in third day of protests
Perth rally organiser and Indigenous elder Hedley Hayward said the community was standing alongside the rest of the country in demanding justice for Aboriginal people who had died in police custody. ⌘ Read more

Community services buckling under demand for mental health support
Mental health support services in regional WA are in such short supply that severely unwell residents are turning to grassroots community service groups, which are struggling to cope with surging demand. ⌘ Read more

Drought devastates farming town desperate for rain relief
The effects of drought creep insidiously into every corner of a country Victorian community. ⌘ Read more

Events cop funding hit as Queensland council wields budget axe
A North Queensland council is slashing its contributions to volunteer-run events 12 months after raising rates and parking fees. ⌘ Read more

Outpouring of grief as police find remains in search for Pheobe Bishop
Floral tributes line the street as a community in mourning plans a candlelit vigil for 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop, as police work to identify remains found in dense bushland. ⌘ Read more