@johanbove@johanbove.info Way to go! ✊ what will you be reading? Got anything planned?

Researchers engineer bacteria that break down microplastics + 2 more stories
Qatar presents final ceasefire draft to Israel and Hamas; University of Waterloo engineers bacteria to decompose microplastics; UK government announces significant AI investment initiative. ⌘ Read more

Cancelled Mastodon because the time spent on it could have been used for reading books instead and the level of interaction is not enough to keep me interested.

Radon
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@prologic@twtxt.net I say we should find a way to support mentions with only url, no nick, as per the original spec.

• For @<nick url> we already got support
  
• For @<nick> the posting client should expand it to @<nick url>, if not then the reading client should just render it as @nick with no link.
  
• For @<url> the sending client should try to expand it to @<nick url>, if not then the reading client should try to find or construct a nick base on:
  
  1. Look in twtxt.txt for a nick =
     
  2. Use (sub)domain from URL
     
  3. Use folder or file name from URL

Global temperatures surpassed 1.5C + 2 more stories
Global temperatures surpassed 1.5C this year; the World Economic Forum forecasts 170 million new jobs by 2030; Russia halts gas supplies to Europe. ⌘ Read more

Chess Zoo
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Hmm, I just noticed that the feed template seems to be broken on your yarnd instance, @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz. Looking at your raw feed file (and your mates as well), line 6 reads:

# This is hosted by a Yarn.social pod yarn running yarnd ERSION@OMMIT  go1.23.4
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Looks like the first letters of the version and commit got somehow chopped off. I’ve no idea what happened here, maybe @prologic@twtxt.net knows something. :-? I’m not familiar with the templating, I just recall @xuu@txt.sour.is reporting in IRC the other day that he’s also having great fun with his custom preamble from time to time.

That “broken” comment doesn’t hurt anything, it’s still a proper comment and hence ignored by clients. It’s just odd, that’s all.

Scientists extract 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctica + 3 more stories
James Webb Telescope finds 44 stars in the Dragon Arc galaxy; Greenland’s importance escalates due to climate change; scientists drill 1.2 million-year-old ice core; Trump considers national economic emergency for tariffs. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I read some of them that I thought might be kinda important. But nearly none really were. I gotta try your approach next time. :-)

Religious Leaders Experiment With AI In Sermons
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixler’s. In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fix … ⌘ Read more

Trimix
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I’m still making progress with the Emacs client. I’m proud to say that the code that is responsible for reading the feeds is almost finished, including: Twt Hash Extension, Twt Subject Extension, Multiline Extension and Metadata Extension. I’m fine-tuning some tests and will soon do the first buffer that displays the twts.

For later reading: https://macos-defaults.com/. What brought me there was https://macos-defaults.com/dock/autohide-delay.html

Thank you @bender@twtxt.net Much appreciated 🙏 and Sorry you/anyone had to read that…

I’m usually comfortable keeping my hardship to myself, most especially AWAY from the internet; an act of kindness of sorts towards others, “Everyone’s got their own problems to worry about” kind of thing.. But maaan am I starting to believe creating a twitter account would be a healthy decision 🤣🤦 Read nothin’ out there, just a one way echo chamber of sorts to let that shi_ out of my chest. It seem that’s what everyone else’s been using it for all this time.

A Bsky would be even better! 😂 I’d get to shi_ post and yap all I want, allll the way from terminal and never ever have to look back at it or whatever comes out of it. But I digress…

I FU_ing despise this … whatever this is. I wish I could just wake up in some sort of parallel universe where everything is just sunshine and rainbows, alas, life would be just as meaningless.

and sorry you had to read this if you did.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i’m reading this and i already have a gts server that i could secure with this but i’m thinking it’d be best for most of my public sites https://ovelny.sh/blog/a-complete-guide-for-your-gotosocial-server/

@xuu@txt.sour.is ROFLMAO! 🤣 reading that, the Tech bro sounded in my mind like Cow from Cow and Chicken

should get back to reading doctorow’s internet con, it’s so good

Features of Adulthood
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, the Python docs are more like a book. They absolutely shine if you have no idea and read them from top to bottom. The tutorial is baked right in. But they don’t work all that perfect as cheat sheets. I also remember looking for the return types way too long in the past.

I would have thought that this could be easily improved when type hints are in place. And it sure does: https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/httpclient.html#tornado.httpclient.HTTPClient.fetch

Should Waymo Robotaxis Always Stop For Pedestrians In Crosswalks?
“My feet are already in the crosswalk,” says Geoffrey A. Fowler, a San Francisco-based tech columnist for the Washington Post. In a video he takes one step from the curb, then stops to see if Waymo robotaxis will stop for him. And they often didn’t.

Waymo’s position? Their cars consider “signals of pedestrian intent” including forward motion wh … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de woah it’s like a cheatsheet with explanations! java is kind of arcane magic sorcery to me so i’m having trouble understanding it but i have that with most programming languages. this is like so much easier to actually look at and read instead of my eyes glazing over lol

The fact that the official Python docs don’t clearly state what a function returns, grinds my gears. This has cost me so much time over the years. You always have to read through a huge block of text.

You could at least put a list of possible return values in there (always at the same location, please!), here’s a mockup:

Want this API for Goryon or just Goryon with support to just twtxt.txt. I can’t read timeline without visible replies and missing twts

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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