Scientists to explore life creation from basic chemicals + 2 more stories
European scientists launch MiniLife project to create lab-made life, companies in Australia start mandatory climate disclosures, and discontent shapes global elections as incumbents lose votes. ⌘ Read more

Origami Black Hole
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This year is a perfect square: 2025 = 45². Most of us reading this at time of posting won’t be alive next time that happens since 46² = 2116, 91 years from now. This has been bouncing around the internet but for some reason I felt compelled to record it here!

Skew-T Log-P
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Whoops, this of course should have read “other than on the last three days”. Yeah, people give a fuck, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. And police doesn’t care either. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuerwerk#Bundesrepublik_Deutschland_(Gegenwart)

Okay, this is pretty cool. My 8086 toy OS running on my old Pentium from an actual floppy disk. 😍 I just love that sound and the feeling of using floppies. This brings back so many memories from my early DOS days.

The cp-unopt program copies a file and intentionally uses small unaligned reads/writes (hopefully triggers more bugs).

The I/O cache works “okay-ish”, I guess. When sha1 runs, it has to do a few reads for the first file and basically none for the second one. Both could have been served entirely from the cache, theoretically. (But even just having an I/O cache in the first place speeds up things dramatically.)

Notice how there’s an EA file. That’s a left-over from OS/2, because I copied some files to the floppy using OS/2. In other words, my FAT12 implementation survives OS/2 writing to it. 🥳 (But I guess it should show up as EA DATA.SF. My current code starts at the left and stops at the first space.)

https://movq.de/v/d4d50d3c74/los86-on-p133-from-floppy-small2.mp4

Time Capsule Instructions
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New AI tool will identify diabetes risk 13 years early + 2 more stories
NHS launches trial for AI diabetes prediction; Eni unveils €100 million supercomputer for energy; UN Security Council approves peacekeeping in Somalia. ⌘ Read more

Lasering Incidents
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What should the advantage be to nick = _compared to just not defining a nick and let the client use the domain as the handle?

What is not intuitive is that you put something in the nick field that is not to be taken literary. The special meaning of _ is only clean if you read the documentation, compared to having something in nick that makes sense in the current context of the twtxt.txt.

Sun Avoidance
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Have fun @johanbove@johanbove.info and see -(or read?)- you soon!

Thanks @bender@twtxt.net for the feedback. I fixed and expanded the article. I’m sorry for my poor interaction. Furthermore, I’m reading and writing while programming a client in Emacs.

D Roll
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I’ve been making a little toy operating system for the 8086 in the last few days. Now that was a lot of fun!

I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself. I think going for real-mode 8086 + BIOS is a good idea as a first step. I am well aware that this isn’t going anywhere – but now I’ve gained some experience and learned a ton of stuff, so maybe 32 bit or even 64 bit mode might be doable in the future? We’ll see.

It provides a syscall interface, can launch processes, read/write files (in a very simple filesystem).

Here’s a video where I run it natively on my old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop (and Warp 3 later in the video, because why not):

https://movq.de/v/893daaa548/los86-p133-warp3.mp4

(Sorry for the skewed video. It’s a glossy display and super hard to film this.)

It starts with the laptop’s boot menu and then boots into the kernel and launches a shell as PID 1. From there, I can launch other processes (anything I enter is a new process, except for the exit at the end) and they return the shell afterwards.

And a screenshot running in QEMU:

Exclusion Principle
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Is AI finally ready to replace your doctor?
Advances in artificial intelligence mean that machines can now perform certain diagnostic tasks with far better accuracy than human doctors - but the picture is more complicated than you might think ⌘ Read more

China launches first batch of internet satellites + 2 more stories
China launches first 10 Guowang satellites for internet access; NASA’s Webb telescope challenges planet formation theories; NATO takes over coordination of Ukraine military aid. ⌘ Read more

after thinking and researching about it, yep, I agree that WebFinger is a good idea.

For example reading here: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial
I wasn’t considering some scenarios, like multiple accounts for a single domain (See ‘How can I set and manage multiple subdomain handles?’ in the link above)

Linear Sort
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Europe launches a €10.6 billion Iris2 satellite project to rival Starlink
Europe launches €10.6 billion Iris2 satellite project; Paraguay reopens its embassy in Jerusalem, enhancing Israel’s diplomatic status. ⌘ Read more

Phase Change
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METAR
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The Maritime Approximation
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China deploys historic naval fleet near Taiwan + 2 more stories
Global advertising revenue is projected to exceed $1 trillion; garment workers face increased heat risks; Taiwan raises alert over China’s largest naval fleet deployment. ⌘ Read more

GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As “Solid Tool” Alternative To systemd
GNU Shepherd as a service manager for both system and user services that is used by Guix and relying on Guile Scheme has finally reached version 1.0. For those not pleased with systemd, GNU Shepherd can be used as an init system and now has finally crossed the version 1.0 milestone after 21 years of development… ⌘ Read more

Making Tea
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Did I write here already that the reason why I love Twtxt so much is that it works without having to compile, install anything extra. Just the bin applications that come with 95% of all operating systems and you’re good to read and participate, giving you have a domain name somewhere to host the twtxt.txt file.

I was thinking of ‘tw.txt’ to avoid a double T issue… Anyway I’d say the extension and MIME type are important to know what a file (could) contain
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/MIME_types/Common_types

Reading the original spec, I understand why it should be a .txt file instead of, let’s say twtxt or anything else. In any case it could be nick.twtxt to support multiple users in the same directory.

What is curious to me was the decision at that moment of twtxt [dot] txt. You have the text part twice 🤔. Like mydb.db or eapl_todo.todo. Nothing really transcendental, just thinking out loud.
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/configuration.html

Upgrading my FreeBSD box to 14.2-RELEASE … I may have read something about some-Go-thing breaking but 🤞

World Bank launches record $100 billion aid + 1 more story
World Bank announces $100 billion support for struggling nations as Amnesty reports possible genocide in Gaza ⌘ Read more

Seismologists
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You can select some text from a web page and right/command click and select print… and select To PDF to quickly save snippets for save-keeping or further reading.

Arctic could see first ice-free day by 2027 + 3 more stories
Macron and Saudi Crown Prince to co-chair a conference for Palestinian state; UN investigates Venezuela’s election fraud; new UN aid chief prioritizes funding; study predicts ice-free Arctic by 2027 ⌘ Read more

Infinite Armada Chess
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@prologic@twtxt.net Twtxt wise, it was kind of disparate at first xD with no access to logs as you may have read on the alt-feed itself. But then, @sorenpeter@darch.dk’s script came to the rescue … like, just in time 😁 Otherwise, everything else is fun as publicised, exploring and learning along the way.

Bluesky’s Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It’s All Public
Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users’ data. But despite that, “one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face,” reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media).

“Shortly after the article’s p … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net How so? I read the article but didn’t get who’s embracing and extending what to extinguish it…

Advent Calendar Advent Calendar
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Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts ‘Scammers and Impersonators’
Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads in the U.S., according to a graph from the Financial Times. And though Threads still leads in app usage, “Prior to November 5 Threads had five times more daily active users in the U.S. than Bluesky… Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger tha … ⌘ Read more

did it work? I tried loading the file from /twtxt.txt, /twtAgent.php and /twtAgent2.php

Also reading the code, I see it creates two files, but I’m not sure which you are using now:
http://darch.dk/twtAgent.log <- 403 Forbidden
and
http://darch.dk/twtAgent.csv <- Not found here

Project update + 2 significant news stories
Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Brics nations over dollar currency rivalry; Severe flooding displaces over 122,000 in Malaysia ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is That’s cool, I read chapter one and will continue.

Landmark climate hearings set at UN court + 1 more story
More than 100 countries join ICJ for climate hearings; Germany plans a $25 billion hydrogen network; ⌘ Read more

Second Stage
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Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law
Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing.
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Neutrino Modem
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Cold Air
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Nations pledge $300 billion for climate aid + 1 more story
Taiwan’s president plans South Pacific tour for stronger ties; UN talks result in $300 billion climate funding for developing nations. ⌘ Read more

D Combinatorics
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