PebbleOS becomes open source, new Pebble device announced
Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble, the original smartwatch maker, made a major announcement today together with Google. Pebble was originally bought by Fitbit and in turn Fitbit was then bought by Google, but Migicovsky always wanted to to go back to his original idea and create a brand new smartwatch. PebbleOS took dozens of engineers working over 4 years to build, alongside our fantastic product and QA teams. Repro … ⌘ Read more

Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months, and Silicon Valley is freaked out
Speaking of “AI”, the Chinese company DeepSeek has lobbed a grenade dead-centre into the middle of the “AI” bubble, and it’s been incredibly entertaining to watch. DeepSeek has released several new “AI” models, which seem to rival or even surpass OpenAI’s latest ChatGPT models – but with a massive twist: DeepSeek, b … ⌘ Read more

AI bots paralyze Linux news site and others
Apparently, since the beginning of the year, AI bots have been ensuring that websites can only respond to regular inquiries with a delay. The founder of Linux Weekly News (LWN-net), Jonathan Corbet, reports that the news site is therefore often slow to respond. The AI scraper bots cause a DDoS, a distributed denial-of-service attack. At times, the AI bots would clog the lines with hundreds of IP addresses simultaneously as soon as they decided … ⌘ Read more

Introducing ralf : Rename A Lot of Files cli tool written in #c. Please, send your suggestions. https://si3t.ch/log/2025-01-27-ralf.txt

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz franz von stuck is one of my fave artists and i was so delighted to see one of his pieces displayed in person but i got separated from my family when i saw it and just barely got a pic before my sister dragged me back to follow them away T__T next time i will see if the met has more of his art… https://remix.girlonthemoon.xyz/u/accendio/m/franz-von-stuck-inferno-1908/

@prologic@twtxt.net i hope all corpo AI dies slow and expensive deaths

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com FUCK YEAH CADDY

anyway friends i went to the met yesterday and i have apparently been before but i was a little kid so i don’t remember. i took the chance to finally clean up and use my mediagoblin instance. here’s a collection https://remix.girlonthemoon.xyz/u/accendio/collection/2025-met/

I have managed to make the fetching of feeds asynchronous. To do this I have set up a small system of task queue. All requests are executed at the same time! 🚀
https://codeberg.org/andros/twtxt-el/src/branch/develop
#twtxtel #emacs

@doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt yes, that’s what I did while testing things out on locally but Timeline kept freaking out on me. I’m still RTFMing trying to wrap my head around the rewrites and such.

FINALLY!! Got #Caddy server up and running and got rid of nginx proxy manager and Mysql database containers 🥳🥳🥳

Muons
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@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Threema is also known to be crippled to state actors and the five eyes. It has known crypto protocol weaknesses that can leak metadata.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de No, I don’t think so. But I just looked it up. And yes, that sounds a bit creepy. I certainly heard similar calls, maybe it even was a heron. I don’t know.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ohh, I love them. Ever heard one calling? Pure dinosaur vibes.

That’s a cool comparision of an obstacle run with a knight, fire fighter and soldier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAzI1UvlQqw

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Thanks mate, I got really lucky with this one. :-)

Done, I finally finished my cli renamer, something like Thunar file renamer, unsing regex. Need to write a manpage and explain how it works now. If you’re curious: https://git.sr.ht/~prx/ralf

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that 3th shot of the heron taking off is epic!

@johanbove@johanbove.info Why not Signal? 🤔

Osceola County - Long run: 6.26 miles, 00:09:25 average pace, 00:58:56 duration
felt easy and a lot more hills. kept it at the pace i was looking for too. a bit tired though i think just from a long day prior. have to get ready for a full day at universal studios now.
#running

@prologic@twtxt.net Have you successfully dug up some gold already? The dream of having your own yacht is coming closer.

@arne@uplegger.eu Ich gratuliere zum Vorhangstangenrichtfest. :-)

@arne@uplegger.eu Hehe, schon faszinierend, wie manche Sachen das Hirn ziemlich neu verdrahten.

@arne@uplegger.eu Zum Thema Dinosauerier fällt mir dieser 38C3-Vortrag ein, den ich mir die Tage angesehen hab: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-how-to-spec-fun-with-dinosaurs

At a gold club today for a friend’s birthday 🥳

Old Computer Challenge https://occ.deadnet.se/

AI achieves self-replication in new study + 2 more stories
AI self-replication demonstrated by researchers; ICC seeks warrants against Taliban leaders for women’s rights; CERN’s new Flash radiotherapy could revolutionize cancer treatment. ⌘ Read more

Found it https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm

Okay, so the idea of the evening is to get a wallpaper with the current sky above my head with constellations, like https://stellarium-web.org/ can show… Need to script I guess ^^

Neil’s blog https://neilzone.co.uk/

Wir leben im Jahr 2025. Da kann ich auch endlich einmal htmx großflächig in einem Projekt einsetzten, wa?

Nouveau billet intitulé “La trilogie Mars est solarpunk” https://si3t.ch/log/2025-01-25-mars-KSR.txt #solarpunk #book #sf

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ein schönes Tier. Seit dem ich den Film “Der Junge und der Reiher” gesehen habe, muss ich immer an die Geschichte denken, wenn ich einen Reiher sehe.

When a sole maintainer steps down, Linux drivers become orphans
The Linux kernel has become such an integral, core part of pretty much all aspects of the technology world, and corporate contributions to the kernel make up such a huge chunk of the kernel’s ongoing development, it’s easy to forget that some parts of the kernel are still maintained by some lone person in Jacksonville, Nebraska, or whatever. Sadly, we were reminded of this today when the sole maintainer of … ⌘ Read more

I just saw this heron fly by my window, so I investigated: https://lyse.isobeef.org/graureiher-2025-01-25/

Android 16 Beta 1 has started rolling out for Pixel devices
Basically, this seems to mean applications will no longer be allowed to limit themselves to phone size when running on devices with larger screens, like tablets. Other tidbits in this first beta include predictive back support for 3-button navigation, support for the Advanced Professional Video codec from Samsung, among other things. It’s still quite early in the release process, so more is sure to come, and some … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I may give it a try and join the call. 📞

@doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt Thank you for the bug. It is a remnant of my desperate attempt to get a nice looking jump-link scrolling within the conversations. So I just removed scroll-snap-stop: always;.

Osceola County - 5 mile run at pace: 5.04 miles, 00:08:20 average pace, 00:42:04 duration
whoa, was not expecting it to be that hilly. nice and cold and kept the pace up pretty steady. HR was mainly aerobic which was surprising since going up the hills i was expecting more spikes.

my daughter did great at her gymnastics meet, too… all-in-all a good day.
#running

Ok, it’s really spam account: https://twtxt.net/twt/xu3u7zq . Damn spammers. Can you delete this?

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Oh yeah @xuu@txt.sour.is found his “Open Registrations” got reverted somehow 🤔

https://twtxt.net/twt/nbl4xfq

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt What do you mean? Hmm? 🤔

Have freezes after i try scrolling on mobile: https://doesnm.cc/screen-20250125-093748.mp4

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Es kann nun noch mehr Daten abschnorcheln! Hurra!

Der TwtxtReader (Dummy) hat ein leichtes Re-Design bekommen. Die Devise lautet “mobile first”!
Eine Mehrsprachigkeitsunterstützung ist nun per YAML-Dateien drin.
Besonders stolz bin ich auf die Zeitangabe der Beiträge, mit Singular-Plural-Unterscheidung in unterschiedlichen Sprachen. Dafür gibt es extra einen eigenen Fluid-ViewHelper zur Übersetzungsschnittstelle.
Fortsetzung folgt …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Vielleicht auch ein “MegaPixel”? Hauptsache: Irgendwas mit KI.

I would like to make another proposal to the community, to discuss it calmly: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/9 #twtxt

Amazing! My response: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/pulls/8#issuecomment-18500