I noticed Google put out this article: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html itās very current day Google, but the comments under the YouTube video are pretty on point and I saw a few familiar faces there. There is also, unexpectedly, ways to contact Google.
First a form for āteachers, students, and hobbyistsā, that I filled politely, as someone who falls under their hobbyist category. It can be filled both anonymously, or with an e-mail attached, to be contacted by them (I chose the second option).
Also a general feedback and questions form, that I was not as polite in and used to send them the following message:
I have already provided some feedback, in the teacher, student and hobbyists form/questionaire, as well as an open letter Iāve recently sent to the European Commission digital markets act team, as I do believe your proposal might not even be legal, given the fact it puts privacy-focused alternative app stores at risk (https://f-droid.org/cs/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html) and it was proposed this early, after Google lost in court to Epic Games, over similar monopoly concerns. Why should we trust Google to be the only authority for all developer signatures, right after the European courts labeled it a gatekeeper?
Assuming this gets passed, despite justified developer backlash and at best questionable legality, can you give us any guarantees, this will not be used to target legal malware-free mods, or user privacy enhancing patchers, like the ones used for applying the ReVanced patches? I have made a few mods myself, but I am in no way associated with the ReVanced team. I just share many peoples concerns, Google Chrome has been conveniently stripped of its manifest v2 support, that made many privacy protecting extensions possible and now youāre conveniently asking for the government IDs, of all the developers, who maintain these kinds of privacy protections (be it patches, or alternative open-source apps) on Android.
Finally, new books arrived. Letās see if Dead Silence is as good as it sounds. š
@bender@twtxt.net So far so good š Iāll let you know how things go though!
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org In my case it was a silver necklace, a hummingbird with a wing connected with the cold welding I mentioned using thin brass wires.
It made it in a goldsmithing class (I went to a private craftmanship high-school) so no phones allowed (no photos of it) and no ātake homeā of the works.
Hereās a rough sketch of it drawn by memory, the dots in the wing is where it connects to the body.
The technique is basically the same as i described, but the scale is much smaller, the whole piece was about 5-6 cm on the largest side.
The rivet was made by drilling a hole through the parts, than with a short and thicker drill you widen the hole on the surface to let the rivet settle flatter on the piece, then with a rubber hammer you hit it to flatten the head until itās snug on the hole, lock them together by doing the same on the other side.
Note that widening the hole with a thicker drill head wonāt make a difference with bigger holes, mine had holes of about 1-2 mm of diameter maximum.
Hereās a sketch of what is going on for clarity.
iOS 26: See Your Full Call History With Any iPhone Contact
Buried within iOS 26 is a hidden history that lets you see every call youāve ever exchanged with a specific contact, potentially going back years. You might not know it, but you can access this detailed call history on your iPhone in seconds.
Viewing the new extended history screen can come in handy when you need to recall when you last spoke with someone. ⦠ā Read more
Trent Daltonās latest is about how far a journalist will go for a story
In Gravity Let Me Go, a struggling crime journalist lands the scoop of a lifetime, to the detriment of his loved ones. Thatās something Trent Dalton understands intimately. ā Read more
** Wobbly updates or a sort of week notes **
Hello RSS goblins.
Itās unseasonably warm here, and well, I suppose everywhere. Thatāsā¦frightening, but before I let that weigh to heavily on this post I must move on.
Itās been a gorgeous weekend. We took the kids to the beach Friday after dinner, expecting to play on the sand and scramble up the rocks, but they actually each went swimming. They had a blast. The car is filled with sand, and I hope that last little hurrah of summer hangs around for a bit.
We also went putt putt golfi ⦠ā Read more
From the chicken archive, 2017.
Not mine, these were more or less free roaming chickens. Farmers didnāt use some of their fields for a while and allowed some other farmer to let the birds live there in the meantime.
9 macOS Tahoe Tips Youāll Actually Use
While the most obvious change to macOS Tahoe 26 is the newly rounded and translucent Liquid Glass interface appearance, there are also a variety of neat new features and customization options that youāre sure to appreciate easily well. Letās review some of the most useful tips for macOS Tahoe that youāll want to check out, ⦠Read More ā Read more
Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI
I coded my latest app entirely in Markdown and let GitHub Copilot compile it into Go. This resulted in cleaner specs, faster iteration, and no more context loss. āØ
The post [Spec-driven development: Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI](https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/spec-driven-development-using-markdown-as-a-p ⦠ā Read more
Pretty happy with my zs-blog-template starter kit for creating and maintaining your own blog using zs š Demo of what the starter kit looks like here ā Basic features include:
- Clean layout & typography
- Chroma code highlighting (aligned to your site palette)
- Accessible copy-code button
- āOn this pageā 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 āstuffā⢠ready to go and then pop open your $EEDITOR
š¤
Task for this weekend:
https://movq.de/v/b05a7ce782/vid-1758959332.mp4
When you call man ascii
, you get this nice table, but thereās a weird vertical line at the bottom. That line is supposed to be a vertical rule and is supposed to go from the bottom of the table all the way to the top.
Letās see if I can debug this. (Not getting my hopes up at this point, but Iāll try.)
Hey @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com, I just wanna let you know that twtstrm/0.4.0 sends a broken User-Agent
header. Instead of the URL, the nick is repeated.
Each origin feed numbers new threads
(tno:N)
. Replies carry both (tno:N)
and (ofeed:<origin-url>)
. Thread identity = (ofeed, tno)
.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes itās kind of terrible š ā Letās not do this š¤£
I was trying to say (badly):
Thatās kind of my position on this. If we are going to make significant changes in the threading model, letās keep content based addressing, but also improve the user experience. Answering your question, yes I think we can do some combination of both.
@alexonit@twtxt.alessandrocutolo.it Yhays kind of love you!! Stance and position on this. If we are going to make chicken changes in the threading model, letās keep content based addressing, but also improve the use of experience. So in fact, in order to answer your question, I think yes, we can do some kind of combination of both.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I donāt think thereās any point in continuing the discussion of Location vs. Content based addressing.
I want us to preserve Content based addressing.
Letās improve the user experience and fix the hash commission problems.
Here is just a small list of things⢠that Iām aware will break, some quite badly, others in minor ways:
- Link rot & migrations: domain changes, path reshuffles, CDN/mirror use, or moving from txt ā jsonfeed will orphan replies unless every reader implements perfect 301/410 history, which they wonāt.
- Duplication & forks: mirrors/relays produce multiple valid locations for the same post; readers see several āparentsā and split the thread.
- Verification & spam-resistance: content addressing lets you dedupe and verify youāre pointing at exactly the post you meant (hash matches bytes). Location anchors can be replayed or spoofed more easily unless you add signing and canonicalization.
- Offline/cached reading: without the original URL being reachable, readers canāt resolve anchors; with hashes they can match against local caches/archives.
- Ecosystem churn: all existing clients, archives, and tools that assume content-derived IDs need migrations, mapping layers, and fallback logic. Expect long-lived threads to fracture across implementations.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org a content warning is kind of like a forum spoiler cut, or like the <details>
tag in HTML; it lets you write a sentence or so that someone can then click to expand to see the actual post. itās called a CW because most people use it to warn for potentially triggering/harmful subjects, but you can really use it for anything, like spoilers in a TV show or even for joke punchlines
is there someone (ideally not in the opposite timezone to me) whoād be willing to let me bother them with technical questions abt twtxtv2 and/or yarnās inner workings? :3
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org hihi ^^ i did that at first, but i personally i donāt like it when websites donāt let me change my password when i am already authenticated ā fwiw you can view and log out other sessions, if that diminishes this attack vector at all
@bender@twtxt.net The address is/was correct but probably got mangled by the Markdown renderer. Letās try again in a code block:
gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-09/2025-09-03--roophloch.txt
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, that was a lot of fun. š Now letās wait and see if I ever get to actually use this. š
Since 2020, Iāve been putting together one playlist every year, in which each track represents one month of that year. However, I also have assigned each season two specific songs, which does not change year-to-year: Spring: āA Little Bit Of Loveā by Weezer and āGretelā by Alex G; Summer: āDumbā by Roe Kapara and āEndless Bummerā by Weezer; Autumn: ā1979ā by The Smashing Pumpkins and āThe Dead Come Talkingā by Roe Kapara; Winter: āRed Water (Christmas Mourning)ā by Type O Negative and āChristmas Time (Donāt Let The Bells End)ā by The Darkness
@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Haha, yeah well āthinkingā isnāt really something we even know how to define, let alone simulate š¤£
@movq@www.uninformativ.de having to go to a gopher proxy to see a text document better served on readily available web servers⦠š¤, but I digress. Verbatim text:
What's Missing from "Retro"
~softwarepagan
------------------------------------------------------------------
You know, often, when I say I miss older ways of computing or
connecting online, people tell me "there's nothing stopping you
from doing that now!" and they are technicay correct in most cases
(though I can't, for example, chat with friends on MSN ever
again...) However, let me explain that while this type of thing can
*sort of* fill that hole in my heart, it isn't *the same.*
Say, for example, I wanted to connect with others over a BBS. This
wouldn't offer the same types of connections it used to. While
there are BBSes around with active users, they're no longer there
to discuss movies, Star Trek, D&D, games, etc. They're there to
discuss *BBSes.* The same can be said for Gopher, old-school forums
and all sorts of revival projects (such as Escargot, Spacehey,
etc.) Retrocomputing enthusiasts, while they have a variety of
interests, are often in these spaces to discuss the medium itself
and not other topics. This exists at a stark contrast from how
things were in the past, where a non-tech-inclined person may learn
the tech to connect with likeminded others (as I did as a
Zelda-obsessed kid.)
The same can be said of old media. People will say "well, nobody is
stopping you from watching old shows/movies now!" Again, they are
technically correct. I can go home right now and watch *Star Trek:
The Next Generation* to my heart's content. It will never again,
however, be current, or new. When something is new, it serves as a
shared cultural experience. Remember how "Game of Thrones* felt in
the mid-to-late 2010s? Yeah, that.
It's sad. I sustain myself on a mixed diet of old things, new
things, and new things intended for old millenials like me who like
old things. It can be bittersweet.
** Make awk rawk **
A friend online recently replied to something I wrote about awk by saying:
[ā¦] itās a danged shame [awk] didnāt continue to evolve the way Ruby, Python, PHP have evolved over the decades.
I had exactly this thought while working on my slightly unhingedālets see if I can implement a basic scheme using awk by writing an assembler and VM in awk,ā skwak. Which eventually lead me to start noodling on how to layer in some modern niceties into awk, without breaking awkās portability.
⦠ā Read more
/short/
if it's of this useless kind. Never thought that they ever actually will improve their Atom feeds. Thank you, much appreciated!
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @movq@www.uninformativ.de Sorry, I neither finished it nor in time. :-( Thatās as good as itās gonna get for the moment: https://git.isobeef.org/lyse/gelbariab/-/tree/master/rss-proxys?ref_type=heads
The README should hopefully provide a crude introduction. The example configuration file is documented fairly well, I believe (but maybe not). You probably still have to consult and maybe also modify the source code to fit your needs.
Let me know if you run into issues, have questions, wishes etc.
Of course, @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz! But Iāll first write some instructions (hopefully this week) and then let you know. :-) Should be much easier then.
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I have absolutely no idea, but I wouldnāt 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 āfreezesā 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
ā
|......|.....|........|......|..
ā ā
Cut point Cut point
Resulting video:
....|.....|........|....
āāāā
This is where it freezes
Could be complete bullshit, though. Wouldnāt be the first time that Iām wrong. :-)
Iām just curious, what exact command line do you use to cut the video?
I give up.
Letās try again next year. I donāt have the stamina. Death by a thousand paper cuts.
Canāt set up a meaningful taskbar: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/discussions/2924 (This is not a labwc issue, itās a generic issue in the broader Wayland ecosystem.)
@bender@twtxt.net Finally! Letās wait and see how it turns out. :-D
@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is a really good example of āsimplicityā but achieves the intent and goals š
(Now, I donāt know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesnāt.)
I donāt use a screen reader fortunately (actually theyāre pretty garbage). So all good š (I juse use full-screen zoom).
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this really could use a proper definition or a āmanifestā. š Many of these ideas are not very wide spread. And I havenāt come across similar projects in all these years.
Letās take the farbfeld image format as an example again. I think this captures the āspiritā quite well, because this isnāt 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:
āāāāāāāāāā¤āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā
ā Bytes ā Description ā
ā āāāāāāāāāŖāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā£
ā 8 ā "farbfeld" magic value ā
āāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¢
ā 4 ā 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (width) ā
āāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¢
ā 4 ā 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (height) ā
āāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¢
ā [2222] ā 4x16-Bit BE unsigned integers [RGBA] / pixel, row-major ā
āāāāāāāāāā§āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā
The RGB-data should be sRGB for best interoperability and not alpha-premultiplied.
(Now, I donāt know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesnāt.)
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 āknobsā: Itās just a single version, itās not like thereās 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, itās useful. Iāve used it in various programs, like my window manager, my status bars, some toy programs like ātuxeyesā (an Xeyes variant), or Advent of Code.
- The format does not include compression because it doesnāt need to. Just use something like bzip2 to get file sizes similar to PNG.
- It doesnāt 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 itās not worth the trouble.
- They refrained from adding extra baggage like metadata. It would have needlessly complicated things.
@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Yeah for sure! The thing that annoys me about a lot of this, is the sheer fact you canāt really self-host let alone self-train these things Iāve been playing around with AI at home over the past few months and building my own neural networks from scratch (in Go) with genetic algorithms on a few tasks and training sets, but man itās hard⢠𤣠I feel like weāre doing something wrong hereā¦
hey! i asked this a while ago but i have to ask again ā is anyone willing to offer space on their yarn pod to my friend? i would love to invite her to my own but sheās unable to access my site for personal reasons. sheās really interested in seeing what yarn is about so if anyone is willing and able, let me know!
What kind of half-assed nonsense is this? They only broadcast half of the current european soccer cup ⦠(Let me guess, Iām supposed to subscribe to some streaming service if I want to watch every game, right?)
The lid is on and the first saw brackets are done. Letās see how impractical they are. I might have to add heavy chamfers to better guide them in.
I added 07 to 11: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/hobelbankschubladen/
#Meta to the #EU: āthe focus should be on creating a regulatory infrastructure that ensures any licence that is sufficiently permissive for the user is considered open source, rather than anointing specific licences as āopen sourceā.ā
Brilliant, sure, letās ignore existing definitions and go with gut feeling (incidently, Meta has a gut feeling generator).
Okay, hereās a thing I like about Rust: Returning things as Option
and error handling. (Or the more complex Result
, but itās easier to explain with Option
.)
fn mydiv(num: f64, denom: f64) -> Option<f64> {
// (Letās ignore precision issues for a second.)
if denom == 0.0 {
return None;
} else {
return Some(num / denom);
}
}
fn main() {
// Explicit, verbose version:
let num: f64 = 123.0;
let denom: f64 = 456.0;
let wrapped_res = mydiv(num, denom);
if wrapped_res.is_some() {
println!("Unwrapped result: {}", wrapped_res.unwrap());
}
// Shorter version using "if let":
if let Some(res) = mydiv(123.0, 456.0) {
println!("Hereās a result: {}", res);
}
if let Some(res) = mydiv(123.0, 0.0) {
println!("Huh, we divided by zero? This never happens. {}", res);
}
}
You canāt divide by zero, so the function returns an āerrorā in that case. (Option
isnāt really used for errors, IIUC, but the basic idea is the same for Result
.)
Option
is an enum. It can have the value Some
or None
. In the case of Some
, you can attach additional data to the enum. In this case, we are attaching a floating point value.
The caller then has to decide: Is the value None
or Some
? Did the function succeed or not? If it is Some
, the caller can do .unwrap()
on this enum to get the inner value (the floating point value). If you do .unwrap()
on a None
value, the program will panic and die.
The if let
version using destructuring is much shorter and, once you got used to it, actually quite nice.
Now the trick is that you must somehow handle these two cases. You must either call something like .unwrap()
or do destructuring or something, otherwise you canāt access the attached value at all. As I understand it, it is impossible to just completely ignore error cases. And the compiler enforces it.
(In case of Result
, the compiler would warn you if you ignore the return value entirely. So something like doing write()
and then ignoring the return value would be caught as well.)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah. :-( But hey, there are at least six of us using mail as it should beā¢. :-)
I sent the dealer an e-mail about that with all sorts of other issues as well. Letās see if they fix anything of that some day. Or yet just even read it.
fn sub(foo: &String) {
println!("We got this string: [{}]", foo);
}
fn main() {
// "Hello", 0x00, 0x00, "!"
let buf: [u8; 8] = [0x48, 0x65, 0x6C, 0x6C, 0x6F, 0x00, 0x00, 0x21];
// Create a string from the byte array above, interpret as UTF-8, ignore decoding errors.
let lossy_unicode = String::from_utf8_lossy(&buf).to_string();
sub(&lossy_unicode);
}
Create a string from a byte array, but the result isnāt a string, itās a cow š®, so you need another to_string()
to convert your āstringā into a string.
- https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#method.from_utf8_lossy
- https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/borrow/enum.Cow.html
I still have a lot to learn.
(into_owned()
instead of to_string()
also works and makes more sense to me, itās just that the compiler suggested to_string()
first, which led to this funny example.)
Lately (since there are AI summaries at the top), each time I Google for the answer to a question, the AI summary has at least a part of the answer wrong. It makes up laws that do not exist, books that were never published - in sum, well written sentences that make linguistic sense, but with made up content.
Let me repeat: each time. Maybe I only search for hard stuff, or fringe stuff, or this some other explanation - but seriously, itās hard to understand how isnāt Google ashamed of its AI overviews⦠or not sued under some regulation regarding fake news.
PS: yes, I know, my fault for using Google as a search engine.
@bender@twtxt.net Letās start a counter penguin feed! Or something along those whiskers. Should also at least mentally help with the heat.
āLater in the evening, posting on X, #Macron said: āIām banning #socialmedia for #children under 15. Platforms have the ability to verify age. Letās do it.ā
French authorities are already progressing with efforts to force certain social media sites ā including X, Reddit, Bluesky and #Mastodon ā to introduce age verification, by classifying them as pornographic websites.
French measures forcing porn sites to verify their usersā ages came into effect on June 7, prompting the worldās largest porn website, Pornhub, to stop operating in France. Demand for virtual private network services, which allow users to trick websites into thinking they are in a different location, immediately surged.ā
https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-social-media-ban-minors-france/
watchOS 26 Features New Gesture to Dismiss Notifications
Apple in watchOS 26 has added a new one-handed wrist-flick gesture to easily dismiss notifications, but the gesture only works on newer Apple Watch models.
When you raise your wrist to check a notification but arenāt ready to respond, you can now simply flick your wrist ā turn it over and back ā to dismiss it. The quick gesture lets you dism ⦠ā Read more
Deals: M4 MacBook Air for $812! MacBook Pro 16ā³ M4 Max 48GB/1TB for $3440, & More
Amazon isnāt letting up on the great deals, with the M4 Macbook Air 13ā³ model now being offered at just $812 for the base 13ā³ model with 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, and Midnight color. You can also get great deals on other colors, but the cheapest by far is the dark Midnight color at the ⦠[Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/03/deals-m4-macbook-air-for-812-macbook-pro-16 ⦠ā Read more
New doco lets us eavesdrop on John and Yokoās conversations in the 70s
One To One: John & Yoko takes us inside the lives of the famous couple as they agitate for revolution in their new home city of New York. ā Read more
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz A blast from the past! š And all of it still works, thatās quite the surprise. I mean, Iām making real phone calls here and let the modems talk over that connection ⦠Almost like in the 90ies. š
[$] Allowing BPF programs more access to the network
MahƩ Tardy led two sessions about some of the challenges that he, Kornilios Kourtis,
and John Fastabend have run into in their work on
Tetragon (Apache-licensed BPF-based security monitoring software)
at the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. The session
prompted discussion about the feasibility of letting BPF programs
send data over the network, as well as potential new kfuncs to let BPF firewalls
send TCP reset packets. Tardy pre ⦠ā Read more
Let me and my husband draw your cats terribly! ā Read more
ā¦why- just why. Let me pee in peace ā Read more
@thecanine@twtxt.net right. Spell checkers are not AI. Full grammar checking, and correction? That one I have not seeing, but on AI. So, what I meant was, let the grammar gaffes show; we type as we speak (most of the time). About spelling mistakes, well, let them be corrected as we have done since 1971(?).
Let him cook ā Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net to err is human, to forgive is divine, right? I say let us err, and forgive. My grammatical errors make me me. Misspellings? Well, we need no stinky AI for that!
should i let him in? he comes everyday and just stands there ā Read more
iOS 19 Will Let Developers Use Appleās AI Models in Their Apps
Apple will make its artificial intelligence models available to developers to use in their apps, reports Bloomberg. The company plans to introduce a new software development kit (SDK) in iOS 19 that will make it easier for app creators to add AI features.
, the stable and final version with the current extensions. Iāll let the community maintain it, if there are interested in using it. I will also be open to fix small bugs.
I donāt know if this twt is a goodbye or a see you later. Maybe I will never come back, or maybe I will post a new twt this afternoon. But itās always important to be grateful. Thanks to @prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com @arne@uplegger.eu @david@collantes.us @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt @xuu@txt.sour.is @sorenpeter@darch.dk for everything you have taught me. Iāve learned a lot about #twtxt, HTTP and working in community. It has been a fantastic adventure!
What will become of me? I have created a twtxt fork called Texudus (https://texudus.readthedocs.io/). I want to continue learning on my own without the legacy limitations or technologies that implement twtxt. Itās not a replacement for any technology, itās just my own little lab. I have also made a fork of my own client and will be focusing on it for a while. I donāt expect anyone to use it, but feedback is always welcome.
Best regards to everyone.
#twtxt #emacs #twtxt-el #texudus
The AI-Powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration
Collaboration is crucial to successful software delivery. Letās dive into how AI can help your development teams decrease their time to delivery, and foster better communication and collaboration using GitHub Copilot.
The post [The AI-Powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration](https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/the-ai-powered-devops-revolution-redefining-de ⦠ā Read more
7
to 12
and use the first 12
characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q
or a
(oops) š
And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! š± #Twtxt #Update
that said, and reading to @sorenpeter@darch.dk and @andros@twtxt.andros.dev I have new thoughts. I assume that this wonāt change anyoneās opinions or priorities, so it makes no harm sharing them.
Itās always tempting to use something that already exists (like X, Masto, Bsky, etc.) rather that building anything through effort and disagreement until reaching to something useful and valuable together. A āsocial serviceā is only useful if people is using it.
Iāll add that I havenāt lost interest on the āhackyā part of twtxt about developing tools, protocols, and extensions as a community. Itās the appealing part! Itās a nice hobby to have, shared with random people across the world.
But this is not the right way for me, and makes me feel that Iām unwelcome to propose something different (after watching replies to my previous twt). Feels like āIf you donāt agree, you are free to leave, weāll miss you.ā Naah, not cool. Iāve lived that many times before, and nowadays I donāt have enough spare time and energy for a hobby like that.
Letās see what happens next with the micro-community!
7
to 12
and use the first 12
characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q
or a
(oops) š
And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! š± #Twtxt #Update
July 1st. 63 days from now to implement a backward-incompatible change, apparently not open to other ideas like replacing blake with SHA, or discussing implementation challenges for other languages and platforms.
Finally just closing #18, #19 and #20 without starting a proper discussion and ignoring a āmicro consensusā feels⦠not right.
I donāt know what to think rather than letting it rest (May will be busy here) and focus on other stuff in the future.
LOL Amazon displaying tariff prices āhostile and political,ā White House say is this the kettle calling the pot black? 𤣠Trump, pfft, what a fucking idiot. No clue how economies work, let alone countries.
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Kernel prepatch 6.15-rc4
The 6.15-rc4 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. āSo letās see if this rc ends up avoiding any silly issues -
things certainly look pretty normal, and there were no hurried last-minute
changes this week due to system upgradesā. ā Read more
I have a little time today, so if you donāt mind, let me draw your cats! ā Read more
Today I added support for Letās Encrypt to eris via DNS-01 challenge. Updated the gcore libdns package I wrote for Caddy, Maddy and now Eris. Add support for yarnās cache to support # type = bot
and optionally # retention = N
so that feeds like @tiktok@feeds.twtxt.net work like they did before, and⦠Updated some internal metrics in yarnd
to be IMO ābetterā, with queue depth, queue time and last processing time for feeds.
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com let me reply before going to sleep. ššš
@test_dont_fetch@aelaraji.com Letās raise another from the dead! āFacio, Voco, Ferreā š§ šŖ #ForScience
Grok AI Gains Vision and Voice Features in iOS App
xAI has launched a new Voice Mode for its Grok chatbot, introducing a feature called Grok Vision that lets users interact with the world through their smartphone camera. Much like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, Grok can now interpret what your phone sees and respond in real time.
Using Grok Vision, iPhone users can point their camera at an object and ask āWhat am I looking a ⦠ā Read more
twtxt.net
feels very clear of late hmmm š§ This is good right? š
@prologic@twtxt.net donāt jinx it, comrade. Letās keep a low profile, and be happy. Also, it should have been: āmy pod feelsā¦ā, or āmy pod twtxt.net feelsā¦ā. Come on, mon, you are killing me! š
dm-only.txt
feeds. š
by commenting out DMs are you giving up on simplicity? See the Metadata extension holding the data inside comments, as the client doesnāt need to show it inside the timeline.
I donāt think that commenting out DMs as we are doing for metadata is giving up on simplicity (itās a feature already), and it helps to hide unwanted DMs to clients that will take months to add itās support to something named⦠an extension.
For some other extensions in https://twtxt.dev/extensions.html (for example the reply-to hash #abcdfeg
or the mention @ < example http://example.org/twtxt.txt >
) is not a big deal. The twt is still understandable in plain text.
For DM, itās only interesting for you if you are the recipient, otherwise you see an scrambled message like 1234567890abcdef=
. Even if you see it, youāll need some decryption to read it. Iāve said before that DMs shouldnāt be in the same section that the timeline as itās confusing.
So my point stands, and as Iāve said before, we are discussing it as a community, so letās see what other maintainers add to the convo.
Testing mentions, immediately followed by commas. Letās see: @prologic@twtxt.net, this one is local, it might not break. Now, this one @ isnāt local. Nor this @ one. Will they break. Letās find out!
@prologic@twtxt.net why not blanket closing everything older than, say, 3 months? Yarnd is quite a different beast today, right? Letās start over!
@bender@twtxt.net Thanks! The rain rapidly cooled off the 17°C to just 10°C. I certainly appreciated that. The weather is coming from the west here, so I thought youāve sent it our way. Let me try to return it. :-)
Todayās stroll was really nice. Just around 11km in total Iād reckon. We had a barbie at a mateās garden where everybody went on a hunt for an easter basket. Oh boy, what a preparation that must have been! Baking the bunnies, dying the eggs, mixing the bear leek butter and so on. Thatās dedication, let me tell you. :-)
It was the first time this year that we had half proper April weather and a thunderstorm in general. It started off with clear sky and lovely sunshine. Right after arvo lunch it started to rain, so we went into the hut. Then, the sun returned.
On the way back with the growling thunder in the distance coming closer and closer we escaped the rain just perfectly. A minute or two after we reached the car, wet stuff started coming down the sky. Not even half a minute after opening the front door, it poured like crazy. Lucky twice today. Thereās beautiful sunshine again by now. It smells absolutely great after the rain. I love it!
So, the Pope died. From my non-religious stand point, I think he has been the best Pope in a generation. Letās see how the upcoming one does.
@prologic@twtxt.net really? Then we have a problem with bulleted lists. Let me see:
- This is one.
- This is two.
- This is three, and final.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, thatās beautiful!
I opened up all the photos in new tabs and went through them. For a second, I wondered that it was snowing at your place right now. :-D
That made me realize that so far we basically had nearly no April weather whatsoever. May might be full of it then, letās see. :-)
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz At the core, you need an ngircd.conf like this:
[Global]
Name = your.irc.server.com
Password = yourfancypassword
Listen = 0.0.0.0
Ports = 6667
AdminInfo1 = Well, me.
AdminInfo2 = Over here!
AdminEMail = forget.it@example.invalid
[Options]
Ident = no
PAM = no
[SSL]
CertFile = /etc/ssl/acme/your.irc.server.com.fullchain.pem
KeyFile = /etc/ssl/acme/private/your.irc.server.com.key
DHFile = /etc/ngircd/dhparam.pem
Ports = 6669
Start it and then you can connect on port 6667. (The SSL cert/key must be managed by an external tool, probably something like certbot or acme-client.)
Iām assuming OpenBSD here. Havenāt tried it on Linux lately, let alone Docker. š
A mate and I had an amazing but also exhausting hike to the highest of the Three Emperor Mountains yesterday with perfect weather conditions. Sunny 18°C, blue sky with barly a cloud and a little welcoming breeze, just beautiful.
Mt. Stuifen is 757 meters above sea level, has a small shelter and a barbie area and is still the most boring one of the three. Itās also the one farthest away from me. Not sure why it has two summit crosses, but both arenāt at the summit. The third, makeshift one at the real summit was gone by now. Four years ago, somebody had cobbled one together and put it up.
We bought our tucker at a local bakery on our way. This was the first time I tried a Teufelsbrezel (lit. devilās pretzel), a lye pretzel with pepper. Havenāt come across that anywhere else. But I can certainly recommend that, itās yummy.
We were glad when we were finally back home after some 26 or 27km. I wonāt do much today and let my feet rest. Another friend called for a much, much shorter hike tomorrow.
Enjoy the 92 photos: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-stuifen-2025-04-19/
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz you can let Caddy do it, and reuse the same certificates for Ergo (just enter the certificate/key path on Ergo). Once set Caddy will keep them current.
@bender@twtxt.net also an interesting option! i think iām most worried about the cert stuff because i just let caddy handle that for me so iām not sure how to get files from certbot for that (i had issues with that yesterday) but i can look into it and just toy around with it
Apple Sports App Now Lets You Share Game Cards via iMessage and Social Media
Just in time for the start of the NBA and NHL playoffs this weekend, the Apple Sports app has received a new Game Card Sharing feature.
With this feature, Apple Sports users can generate and share game cards for all supported leagues, whether the matchup is upcoming, live, ⦠ā Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hopefully at your neighbors and not your building. :-S Keep your pecker up!
I just heard the fire brigade respond here with their compressed air sirens, too.
If you let fire take effect properly, it helps to reduce density.
Even though I really do like the shell, I always use Dolphin to mount my digicam SD card and copy the photos onto my computer. I finally added a context menu item in Dolphin to create a forest stroll directory with the current date in order to save some typing:
The following goes in ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/galmkdir.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,inode/directory
Actions=Waldspaziergang;
[Desktop Action Waldspaziergang]
Name=Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegenā¦
Icon=folder-green
Exec=~/src/gelbariab/galmkdir "%f"
In order to update the KDE desktop cache and make this action menu item available in Dolphin, I ran:
kbuildsycoca5
The referenced galmkdir
script looks like that:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
current_dir="$1"
if [ -z "$current_dir" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 DIRECTORY" >&2
exit 1
fi
dir="$(kdialog \
--geometry 350x50 \
--title "Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen" \
--inputbox "Neues Verzeichnis in ā$current_dirā anlegen:" \
"waldspaziergang-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)")"
mkdir "$current_dir/$dir"
dolphin "$current_dir/$dir"
This solution is far from perfect, though. Ideally, Iād love to have it in the āCreate Newā menu instead of the āActionsā menu. But that doesnāt really work. I cannot define a default directory name, not to mention even a dynamic one with the current date. (I would have to update the .desktop file every day or so.) I also failed to create an empty directory. I somehow managed to create a directory with some other templates in it for some reason I do not really understand.
Letās see how that works out in the next days. If I like it, I might define a few more default directory names.
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[$] The state of the memory-management development process, 2025 edition
Andrew Morton, the lead maintainer for the kernelās memory-management
subsystem, tends to be quiet during the Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, preferring to let the developers work
things out on their own. That changes, though, when he leads the
traditional development-process session in the memory-management track. At
the 2025 gathering, this discussion covered a number of ways in which the
process could be improved, but did not une ⦠ā Read more
Kernel prepatch 6.15-rc2
Linus has released 6.15-rc2 for testing.
āNothing particularly stands out to me, but itās early in the release
yet, so letās see how it goes.ā ā Read more
@iiogama@iiogama.0x212.com Let me guess, it has got an AI sticker
on it.. right? xD