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AI Browser Dia Launches Publicly on Mac
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When Will Apple’s Macs Get M5 Chips? 2025-2026 Launch Timeline
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ChatGPT Now Interacts With Multiple Apps Inside Conversations
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iPad Mini 8 on the Way: Expected Features and Release Timeline
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Remembering Steve Jobs
Today marks the 14th anniversary of Steve Jobs passing away, at the age of 56. He died just one day after Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S and Siri.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again paid tribute to Jobs.
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Next iPad Pro to Have Two Key Features, But One Rumor Still Uncertain
The next iPad Pro models are rumored to feature two key upgrades, including Apple’s M5 chip, and an increased minimum of 12GB of RAM.
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Woot’s Apple Watch Band Sale Has Solo/Braided Loops at Massive Discounts
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The calendar has flipped over to October, but that doesn’t mean Apple is done with product launches for 2025. We’re still expecting updates to several product lines, and Apple has a history of making announcements in October so we’ll be keeping a lookout for news.
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10+ macOS Tahoe Features You Might Have Missed
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When Would Apple Announce an October Event This Year?
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#py5 comes with some cool integrations with other #Python libraries, such as the ability to convert #Pillow images, #shapely and #trimesh objects.
But you can create and register your own conversion functions too!
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I would love to get any suggestions of what you would like to see (and possibly use) as a client, by sharing a link, app/website name or even a sketch made by you on paper.
I think I’ll pick a third and maybe a fourth design to build together with the two already mentioned.
For reference, the screens I think of providing are (some might be optional or conditionally/manually hidable):
- Global / personal timeline screen
- Profile screen (with timeline)
- Thread screen
- Notifications screen or popup (both valid)
- DM list & chat screens (still planning, might come later)
- Settings screen (it’ll probably be a hard coded form, but better mention it)
- Publish / edit post screen or popup (still analysing some use cases, as some “engines” might not have direct publishing support)
I also plan on adding two optional metadata fields:
display_name: To show a human readable alternative for a nick, it fallback tonickif not defined
banner: Using the same format asavatarbut the image expected is wider, inspired by other socials around
I also plan on supporting any metadata provided, including a dynamically parsable regex rule format for those extra fields, this should allow anyone to build new clients that don’t limit themselves to just the social aspect of twtxt, hoping to see unique ways of using twtxt! 🤞
DietPi September 2025 Update Brings Faster Backups and Roon Server Early Access
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Pretty happy with my zs-blog-template starter kit for creating and maintaining your own blog using zs 👌 Demo of what the starter kit looks like here – Basic features include:
- Clean layout & typography
- Chroma code highlighting (aligned to your site palette)
- Accessible copy-code button
- “On this page” collapsible TOC
- RSS, sitemap, robots
- Archives, tags, tag cloud
- Draft support (hidden from lists/feeds)
- Open Graph (OG) & Twitter card meta (default image + per-post overrides)
- Ready-to-use 404 page
As well as custom routes (redirects, rewrites, etc) to support canonical URLs or redirecting old URLs as well as new zs external command capability itself that now lets you do things like:
$ zs newpost
to help kick-start the creation of a new post with all the right “stuff”™ ready to go and then pop open your $EEDITOR 🤞
Severe but funny burn-ins on my TFT again:
https://movq.de/v/9df0437d27/MVI_8891.MOV.mp4
Now everything looks like it has that silly slogan as a background image:
Working on a project that does Augmented Reality and computer vision object detection and QR code and image recognition inside a Web application. Pretty neat what can be done today with a few thousand lines of JavaScript.
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added opengraph to my blog :D https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/underground-soundcloud-remixes
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The image needs to be an absolute URL, and some tags are missing. Almost there!
Thanks to a blog post by ~solderpunk and the presence of ImageMagick on my pubnix, all of my weirdcore art (apart from the animated works) is now under 32K in size! Honestly, I’d say the lower JPEG quality actually adds to the vibe of the images: something from the early web, taken permanently out of context and long forgotten.
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Well, that was fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxNq8zOEbM8
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting, yes. I didn’t know that.
No AI being used is really great. However, the same clips shown over and over again and some images being mirrored was quite annoying to me. Also, there were some quite terrible computer animations and sometimes the narration and picture didn’t match at all. Talking about the medieval period and then showing an image from the 18th hundred or so. What the heck?
These production issues made me sceptical pretty much early on. So I quickly crosschecked Wikipedia. But it seems spot on from what I’ve read. Very good. Also, the narrator’s voice was really nice to listen to.
Eels are fascinating creatures. :-)
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👓 "How to Make an Apostrophe in HTML: The Complete 2500 Word Guide" https://thelinuxcode.com/how-can-i-make-an-apostrophe-in-html/
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@eric@itsericwoodward.com Hmm, the images are all 404ing. Also, I reckon that lots of code blocks are broken, too.
the code to generate this image (have you noticed it is a 3D mesh?)
is here: https://abav.lugaralgum.com/selected-work/py5band/
Folks I finally made something I wanted to make for a long time, a T-Shirt design thing.
Available at Rednubble https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/numpy-shapely-trimesh-and-py5-by-villares/173500912.7H7A9?asc=u
And also available in Brazil at Uma Penca: https://umapenca.com/villares/
You can also buy stickers and other items… soon my “Python Reading Club” and “Python is also for artists!” designs will be available. This will help support my free and open source activities. I make free and open educational resources, I teach at several places and I need to make ends meet.
#python #numpy #shapely #trimesh #py5 #creativeCoding #FLOSS
Folks I finally made something I wanted to make for a long time, a T-Shirt design thing.
Available at Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/numpy-shapely-trimesh-and-py5-by-villares/173500912.7H7A9?asc=u
And also available in Brazil at Uma Penca: https://umapenca.com/villares/
You can also buy stickers and other items… soon my “Python Reading Club” and “Python is also for artists!” designs will be available. This will help support my free and open source activities. I make free and open educational resources, I teach at several places and I need to make ends meet.
#python #numpy #shapely #trimesh #py5 #creativeCoding #FLOSS
Folks, I finally made something I wanted to make for a long time, a T-Shirt design thing.
Available at Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/numpy-shapely-trimesh-and-py5-by-villares/173500912.7H7A9?asc=u
And also available in Brazil at Uma Penca: https://umapenca.com/villares/
You can also buy stickers and other items… soon my “Python Reading Club” and “Python is also for artists!” designs will be available. This will help support my free and open source activities. I make free and open educational resources, I teach at several places and I need to make ends meet.
#python #numpy #shapely #trimesh #py5 #creativeCoding #FLOSS
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, great idea! :-D I never saw the Epson Image Scan logo before.
This is something that @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz might enjoy:
Recreating the “EPSON Image Scan!” logo with one of my Tux plushies. 😅
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@prologic Hmm, good question. I haven’t checked the market, I got mine from someone I know. But to be honest, I’d suspect that buying a used one is actually your best shot, because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning new ones are very, very expensive. 🫤
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@prologic@twtxt.net It’s quite similar to how escape sequences work in a terminal. ASCII text is printed as ASCII text and then an escape sequence can make it bold or underline and so on. Other escape sequences allow you to say “the following $n bytes are part of a bitmap image”, and then this gets printed at whatever the current position is (somewhat similar to SIXEL in a terminal).
It’s just that the units are a bit weird, because this is all done in bloody inch. 😅
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Sooooooooo, things happened, and I now have a dot matrix printer again. 😍😂
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This is why I love tech from that era.
Write bytes to a parallel port and stuff happens. If it’s just ASCII bytes, then it will print ASCII text. Even the simplest programs can use a printer this way.
With a little bit of ESC/P, you can print images and other fancy stuff. That’s what I did this morning – never worked with ESC/P before, now I can print images. It’s not that hard.
Hayes-compatible modems are similar: Write some AT commands to the serial port and the modem does things. This isn’t even arcane knowledge, it’s explained in the printed manual.
Maybe I’m wearing rose-tinted glasses here, but I think with all this old stuff, you get useful results very quickly and the manuals are usually actually helpful. It’s so much easier to get started and to use this hardware to the full extent. Much less complexity than what we have today, not a ton of libraries and dependencies and SDKs and cloud services and what not.
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After around 3 years, I managed to make my "smallest recognizable canine", even smaller. So here's the all new, smallest recognizable canine 2.0:
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, glad you like it, but sadly I’m not sure, if there’s still a way, for this particular project, to continue.
Reducing 38 pixels (previous smallest) to 27, inside of a 7x7 square canvas, is a result I’m really happy with. Now it seems I can only shave off single pixels and get a lot worse looking results - to the point it doesn’t even look like my mascot, to me.
There doesn’t seem to be a hard cap for drawing tiny dogs. It’s possible to arrange 5 pixels, in a way someone recognizes them, as some kind of a dog. The record for cats, is currently a single orange pixel: https://youtu.be/gzeK8NKuzmg
The only way to beat that, is either a monitor, with just a single red diode lit, inside one of its pixels, or an image file that’s broken and empty, on purpose.
#GitHub is becoming unusable! Images on discussions no longer load for me most of the time, posts keep loading infinitely and it breaks the reply feature… I’m really pissed by this. Is it just me? Does it think I’m a bloody AI scraper bot or something? What the hell.
DeprecationWarning: 'mode' parameter is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 13 (2026-10-15)
img1 = PIL.Image.fromarray(my_array, mode="RGB")
So I went to see the documentation:
https://hugovk-pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/Image.html#PIL.Image.fromarray
And came out empty handed, that is, couldn’t understand what to do instead :(
And the plot thickens:
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9063
(@py5coding I guess you’ll want to check this out at some point. py5_tools.animated_gif uses this)
DeprecationWarning: 'mode' parameter is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 13 (2026-10-15)
img1 = PIL.Image.fromarray(my_array, mode="RGB")
So I went to see the documentation:
https://hugovk-pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/Image.html#PIL.Image.fromarray
And came out empty handed, that is, couldn’t understand what to do instead :(
And the plot thickens (this affects many projects, there are some workarounds, but some argument about “reverting” this change allowing some “mode” on import):
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9063
(@py5coding@py5coding I guess you’ll want to check this out at some point. py5_tools.animated_gif uses mode=“RGB”)
#Pillow #PIL #Python
On Image.fromarray():
DeprecationWarning: 'mode' parameter is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 13 (2026-10-15)
img1 = PIL.Image.fromarray(my_array, mode="RGB")
So I went to see the documentation:
https://hugovk-pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/Image.html#PIL.Image.fromarray
And came out empty handed, that is, couldn’t understand what to do instead :(
And the plot thickens (this affects many projects, there are some workarounds, but some argument about “reverting” this change allowing some “mode” on import):
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9063
(@py5coding@py5coding I guess you’ll want to check this out at some point. py5_tools.animated_gif uses mode=“RGB”)
YAYYY TY @prologic@twtxt.net NOW I HAVE IMAGE & YOUTUBE EMBEDS ON MY YARN POD 🎉🎉🎉
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on my yarn pod nothing really embeds (not even images) so i'm looking at the embed rules part of the mod settings and i'm like... i don't know how to do any of this 😭😭😭
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There is a missing feature I’ve been intending to add to though, which is that any link that looks like a URL that might be an image, for example, ends with .png or .jpg or whatever, we should just render that as an image and not expect users to wrap it in Markdown image links 
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on my yarn pod nothing really embeds (not even images) so i'm looking at the embed rules part of the mod settings and i'm like... i don't know how to do any of this 😭😭😭
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ahh what do you mean by images don’t embed? They definitely should! By default however all domains are blocked, so you might want to either allow some domains or just put in a .* entry to allow all/any domsins. Screenshot attached 
on my yarn pod nothing really embeds (not even images) so i’m looking at the embed rules part of the mod settings and i’m like… i don’t know how to do any of this 😭😭😭
#GitHub #GitHubPages #fail This is driving me mad…
Images randomly deciding not to load on all my pages.
Is it just me? Is it my browser’s fault? Is it just in Brazil?
I was working on this #shapely + #trimesh page… and I can only see the last image (the animated gif)!
https://abav.lugaralgum.com/material-aulas/Processing-Python-py5/shapely-e-trimesh.html
#GitHub #GitHubPages #fail This is driving me mad…
Images randomly deciding not to load on all my pages.
Is it just me? Is it my browser’s fault? Is it just in Brazil?
I was working on this #shapely + #trimesh page… and I can only see the last image (the animated gif)!
https://abav.lugaralgum.com/material-aulas/Processing-Python-py5/shapely-e-trimesh.html
Update: On this exact page I have bungled the image URLs (I blame Marktext for being stupid and not using a relative reference). But I swear loading problems have been going on other well formed pages.
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My website has 0 depreciated tags now and all identical IDs, were merged into a single class. This also improves, how the text on top of the page, is aligned on mobile.
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@thecanine@twtxt.net image is so real lol literally me
So 429: Too Many Requests on my GitHub hosted images, breaking my tutorials etc… Not good!
July will be gone and my escape to Codeberg.org has not even started (I have to finish my PhD…)
This is your friendly reminder that you could be making #PaperObjects with #Python and #py5, you know?
https://github.com/villares/Paper-objects-with-Processing-and-Python/
(Mind you that GitHub images are mostly failing to load here today for some unknown reason)
If you like this, support my work:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5B4MZ78C9J724
https://liberapay.com/Villares
https://wise.com/pay/me/alexandrev562
#Processing #CreativeCoding
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Do I buy a new monitor or do I live with the burn-ins all the time? It’s getting annoying. When I edit images in GIMP, I have to double check if something is a pixel or a burn-in.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org To be fair, I did first notice this a while ago. But no monitor I ever had showed burn-ins like this (be it TFT or CRT), so I didn’t know that I should have sent it back. And then it got worse over time and now I see ghost images after 20-30 minutes. :(
wrote a script to make epic aesthetic half tone images and i was impressed with myself how fast i did it but to be fair i already had the commands noted down and i just had to script it lmfao
Do I buy a new monitor or do I live with the burn-ins all the time? It’s getting annoying. When I edit images in GIMP, I have to double check if something is a pixel or a burn-in.
Here’s an example of X11/Xlib being old and archaic.
X11 knows the data type “cardinal”. For example, the window property _NET_WM_ICON (which holds image data for icons) is an array of “cardinal”. I am already not really familiar with that word and I’m assuming that it comes from mathematics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number
(It could also be a bird, but probably not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinalidae)
We would probably call this an “integer” today.
EWMH says that icons are arrays of cardinals and that they’re 32-bit numbers:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest-single/#id-1.6.13
So it’s something like 0x11223344 with 0x11 being the alpha channel, 0x22 is red, and so on.
You would assume that, when you retrieve such an array from the X11 server, you’d get an array of uint32_t, right?
Nope.
Xlib is so old, they use char for 8-bit stuff, short int for 16-bit, and long int for 32-bit:
That is congruent with the general C data types, so it does make sense:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types
Now the funny thing is, on modern x86_64, the type long int is actually 64 bits wide.
The result is that every pixel in a Pixmap, for example, is twice as large in memory as it would need to be. Just because Xlib uses long int, because uint32_t didn’t exist, yet.
And this is something that I wouldn’t know how to fix without breaking clients.
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@kat why does ffmpeg always freeze the video in the first five seconds after a cut lmfao
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I have absolutely no idea, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it uses the closest full image after your cut point and not the one before. Hence, the deltas between the two full images have nothing to really refer to. So, the video player just shows the first full image it finds and “freezes” the image until the video stream actually hits it.
Let me try to visualize it, | represent full images, . just subsequent deltas:
Original start of video
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|......|.....|........|......|..
↑ ↑
Cut point Cut point
Resulting video:
....|.....|........|....
↑↑↑↑
This is where it freezes
Could be complete bullshit, though. Wouldn’t be the first time that I’m wrong. :-)
I’m just curious, what exact command line do you use to cut the video?
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The lack of suckless-like simple, hackable software these days is appalling.
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@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this really could use a proper definition or a “manifest”. 😅 Many of these ideas are not very wide spread. And I haven’t come across similar projects in all these years.
Let’s take the farbfeld image format as an example again. I think this captures the “spirit” quite well, because this isn’t even about code.
This is the entire farbfeld spec:
farbfeld is a lossless image format which is easy to parse, pipe and compress. It has the following format:
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║ Bytes │ Description ║
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║ 8 │ "farbfeld" magic value ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ 4 │ 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (width) ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ 4 │ 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (height) ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ [2222] │ 4x16-Bit BE unsigned integers [RGBA] / pixel, row-major ║
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The RGB-data should be sRGB for best interoperability and not alpha-premultiplied.
(Now, I don’t know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesn’t.)
I think these are some of the properties worth mentioning:
- The spec is extremely short. You can read this in under a minute and fully understand it. That alone is gold.
- There are no “knobs”: It’s just a single version, it’s not like there’s also an 8-bit color depth version and one for 16-bit and one for extra large images and one that supports layers and so on. This makes it much easier to implement a fully compliant program.
- Despite being so simple, it’s useful. I’ve used it in various programs, like my window manager, my status bars, some toy programs like “tuxeyes” (an Xeyes variant), or Advent of Code.
- The format does not include compression because it doesn’t need to. Just use something like bzip2 to get file sizes similar to PNG.
- It doesn’t cover every use case under the sun, but it does cover the most important ones (imho). They have discussed using something other than RGBA and decided it’s not worth the trouble.
- They refrained from adding extra baggage like metadata. It would have needlessly complicated things.
“Can you see circles or rectangles [on the experiment’s image]?
And does the answer depend on where you grew up?” — Anil Seth
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/optical-illusions-see-world-perception #perception
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@lyse those are pretty cool! The one change I would recommend doing pronto is the colour of the hyperlinks. Ay, ay, ay, my retina! :-P
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@quark@ferengi.one Ta. Hmm, what’s wrong with the blue text color? Is it too dark on the black background for you? :-?
Normal links are blue while images are teal. I thought I differentiate the two if I easily can. The underline of URLs comes from my terminal and is not tt’s fault.
Configuring colors is in the todo list. But of course, providing a sane default is definitely something I’d like to have.
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Current toy project: an image feed generated by mk(1). Still some edges to clean up but it’s nice: http://a.9srv.net/img/_readme.html
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