Startup launches biological computer made of human brain cells
Melbourne start-up launches biological computer using human neurons; Novel immune system function reveals potential for antibiotic advancements; Australia reveals its oldest-known impact crater dating back 3.47 billion years ⌘ Read more

PowerPC Windows NT made to run on GameCube and Wii
Remember about half a year ago, when the PowerPC versions of Windows NT were made to run on certain models of PowerPC Macs? The same developer responsible for that work, Rairii, took all of this to the next level, and it’s now possible to run the PowerPC version of Windows NT on the GameCube, Wii, Wii U, and a few related development boards. NT 3.51 RTM and higher. NT 3.51 betas (build 944 and below) will need kernel patches to ru … ⌘ Read more

I spent this Monday afternoon back from work, drawing myself as the “you made it to Friday sailors” dog. Totally unrelated to the 3 hours wasted on meetings, pretending to discuss great suggestions from high management, nobody else wants to implement.
Link to OG meme: https://youtu.be/z8x3JS7pP14

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net The outcome was to be expected but it’s still pretty catastrophic. Here’s an overview:

East Germany is dominated by AfD. Bavaria is dominated by CSU (it’s always been that way, but this is still a conservative/right party). Black is CDU, the other conservative/right party.

The guy who’s probably going to be chancellor recently insulted the millions of people who did demonstrations for peace/anti-right. “Idiots”, “they’re nuts”, stuff like that. This was before the election. He already earned the nickname “Mini Trump”.

Both the right and the left got more votes this time, but the left only gained 3.87 percentage points while the right (CDU/CSU + AfD) gained 14.72:

The Green party lost, SPD (“mid-left”) lost massively (worst result in their history). FDP also lost. These three were the previous government.

This isn’t looking good at all, especially when you think about what’s going to happen in the next 4 years. What will CDU (the winner) do? Will they be able to “turn the ship around”? Highly unlikely. They are responsible for the current situation (in large parts). They will continue to do business as usual. They will do anything but help poor/ordinary people. This means that AfD will only get stronger over the next 4 years.

Our only hope would be to ban AfD altogether. So far, nobody but non-profit organizations is willing to do that (for unknown reasons).

I don’t even know if banning the AfD would help (but it’s probably our best/only option). AfD politicians are nothing but spiteful, hateful, angry, similar to Trump/MAGA. If you’ve seen these people talk and still vote for them, then you must be absolutely filled with rage and hatred. Very concerning.

Correct me if I’m wrong, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @arne@uplegger.eu, @johanbove@johanbove.info.

The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM bug hunt!
Last year somebody reported a problem with the DOS 3.3 SYS.COM command when used with NetDrive. They started with a valid FAT12 image, ran SYS.COM to make it bootable, and then they were not able to mount the image using NetDrive again. Running SYS.COM against the image had broken something. Besides copying the operating system’s hidden files to the target drive letter, SYS.COM also copies some boot code into the first sector of the disk. In general it does not make sense … ⌘ Read more

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org That’s cool, dedicated parking for snow. :-) There are also some rather large icicles. Thanks for sharing this photo! <3

@arne@uplegger.eu Well, just for my understanding. The command:
echo "Lorem ipsum" | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -iter 100000 -out message.enc -pass file:shared_key.bin
will take the input string from echo to openssl. It then will

1. use the content of shared_key.bin as password
   
2. use PBKDF2 with an iteration of 100000 to generate a encryption key from the given password (shared_key.bin)
   
3. use the PBKDF2 generated key for an aes-256-cbc encryption
   

The final result is encrypted data with the prepended salt (which was generated by runtime), e.g.: Salted__q�;��-�T���"h%��5�� ....

With a dummy script I now can generate a valide shared key within PHP ‘openssl_pkey_derive()’ - identical to OpenSSL.
I also can en-/decrypt salted data within my script, but not with OpenSSL. There are several parameters of PBKDF2 unknown to me.

Question:

1. Is the salt, used by aes-256-cbc and PBKDF2 the same, prepended in the encrypted data?
   
2. Witch algorithm/cipher is used within PBKDF2: sha1, sha256, …?
   
3. What is the desired key length of PBKDF2 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.openssl-pbkdf2.php)?
   

To be continued …

among these options, 3

Although I like it more “twt”, without the dot and with a t at the end

You have a microwave oven at home, right?

You can type 3 and 0 for 30 seconds, 100 for a minute (shown as 1:00), or 200 for two minutes (2:00).

What would happen if you type 777 and Start?
A) Nothing
B) Self-destruction
C) Will run for 7 minutes and 77 seconds (boring!)

What about 7777 ?

Recovery: 3.11 miles, 00:10:19 average pace, 00:32:03 duration

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Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.18 miles, 00:09:17 average pace, 00:29:34 duration

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reviewing logs this morning and found i have been spammed hard by bots not respecting the robots.txt file. only noticed it because the OpenAI bot was hitting me with a lot of nonsensical requests. here is the list from last month:

• (810) bingbot
  
• (641) Googlebot
  
• (624) http://www.google.com/bot.html
  
• (545) DotBot
  
• (290) GPTBot
  
• (106) SemrushBot
  
• (84) AhrefsBot
  
• (62) MJ12bot
  
• (60) BLEXBot
  
• (55) wpbot
  
• (37) Amazonbot
  
• (28) YandexBot
  
• (22) ClaudeBot
  
• (19) AwarioBot
  
• (14) https://domainsbot.com/pandalytics
  
• (9) https://serpstatbot.com
  
• (6) t3versionsBot
  
• (6) archive.org_bot
  
• (6) Applebot
  
• (5) http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
  
• (4) http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html
  
• (4) Googlebot-Mobile
  
• (4) DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
  
• (3) https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
  
• (3) YandexNews
  
• (3) ImagesiftBot
  
• (2) Qwantify-prod
  
• (1) http://www.google.com/adsbot.html
  
• (1) http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/robot.php
  
• (1) YaK
  
• (1) WBSearchBot
  
• (1) DataForSeoBot
  

i have placed some middleware to reject these for now but it is not a full proof solution.

Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:10:31 average pace, 00:32:39 duration

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KDE Plasma 6.3 brings drawing tablet improvements
Speaking of KDE, Plasma 6.3 has been released. It brings with it a ton of improvements aimed at digital artists, such as much improved management and configuration of drawing tablets. You can now map an area of the tablet’s surface to a part of the screen, change the functions of stylus buttons, customise the pressure curve and range of a stylus, and much more. The entire settings panel for drawing tablets has also been redesigned t … ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.17 miles, 00:09:12 average pace, 00:29:07 duration
legs are soooo tight. felt light though.
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Cassette: a POSIX application framework featuring a retro-futurist GUI toolkit
Cassette is a GUI application framework written in C11, with a UI inspired by the cassette-futurism aesthetic. Built for modern POSIX systems, it’s made out of three libraries: CGUI, CCFG and COBJ. Cassette is free and open-source software, licensed under the LGPL-3.0. ↫ Cassette GitHub page Upon first reading this description, you might wonder what a “cassette-futurism aesthe … ⌘ Read more

Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:10:53 average pace, 00:33:48 duration

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Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.17 miles, 00:09:10 average pace, 00:29:04 duration

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Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:10:54 average pace, 00:33:53 duration

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Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.17 miles, 00:08:59 average pace, 00:28:30 duration

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Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:11:42 average pace, 00:36:22 duration

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Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.16 miles, 00:09:07 average pace, 00:28:50 duration

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Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:10:53 average pace, 00:33:48 duration

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New human-like species discovered in China + 3 more stories
Scientists propose a new human-like species based on ancient fossils; oceans warm four times faster than in the 1980s; researchers recreate endosymbiosis significantly in the lab; CIA updates its Covid-19 origins assessment, hinting at a lab leak. ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.17 miles, 00:09:08 average pace, 00:28:57 duration
kept it what felt easy. my right chest is still hurting a bit when i breathe. really hard to get out of bed these last two days.
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i feel sooo bad for disappearing here but i have been doing so much IRL and it has been exhausting

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

Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:10:52 average pace, 00:33:47 duration

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Fusion reactor breaks 1,000 seconds record + 3 more stories
Chinese scientists break nuclear fusion record with 1,066 seconds at 100 million Celsius; US launches $500 billion AI infrastructure The Stargate Project; AI-designed drugs from Isomorphic Labs set for clinical trials by 2026; New AI method shows 90-100% accuracy in early breast cancer detection. ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.15 miles, 00:08:59 average pace, 00:28:16 duration
another cold one. slept hard ran light.
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SDL 3.2.0 released
SDL, the Simple DirectMedia Layer, has released version 3.2.0 of its development library. In case you don’t know what SDL is: Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and popular games including Valve‘s award winning catalog and many Humble Bundle games. ↫ SDL website This new release has a lot of impr … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Die meisten Hersteller von Internetradios (Sony, Denon, Marantz, …) binden einen externen Dienstleister (vTuner) fest(!) in ihre Geräte ein, damit die Nutzer sich durch eine große große Liste von weltweiten Internetradio-Stationen hören können.
Nun hat vTuner seit ca. 2020 sein Geschäftsmodell geändert. Man darf da nun für jedes Gerät (MAC-Adresse) bezahlen. Die Kosten steigen auch von $3 auf $7 pro Jahr. Die Hersteller zucken einfach mit den Schultern. Im schlimmsten Fall schaltet vTuner einfach die Domain ab und dann steht man da - wie bei mir: http://sagem.vtuner.com
Der XML-Parser von der alten Sagem-Huddel verlangt zeilenweise Einträge ohne Einzüge. Vielleicht standest Du mit Deinem Parser ja Pate!? 😉

Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:10:52 average pace, 00:33:47 duration

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Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.15 miles, 00:09:39 average pace, 00:30:26 duration
legs feel really beat up but i have no idea why.
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MorphOS 3.19 released
It’s been about 18 months, but we’ve got a new release for MorphOS, the Amiga-like operating system for PowerPC Macs and some other PowerPC-based machines. Going through the list of changes, it seems MorphOS 3.19 focuses heavily on fixing bugs and addressing issues, rather than major new features or earth-shattering changes. Of note are several small but important updates, like updated versions of OpenSSL and OpenSSH, as well as a ton of new filetype definitions – and so much more. Havin … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yellowjackets is about a girls soccer team that gets into a plane crash in the wilderness and start hunting and killing and eating each other. also there’s lesbians. it rules. season 3 comes out valentines day

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz AKB48 and other spinoffs sound so great. I’m listening and whistling to them for hours now. I have no clue what the lyrics are about, but it’s just fantastic music. Thanks for introducing me to them. <3

@prologic@twtxt.net <3

Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire + 3 more stories
Scientists showcase new antimony atom method in quantum computing; UK leader signs treaty with Ukraine enhancing security; Israel and Hamas agree on ceasefire and hostages; SpaceX launches Falcon 9 with lunar landers for commercial missions. ⌘ Read more

Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:10:37 average pace, 00:32:58 duration
easy miles
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org thank youuuu the songs are all instrumental versions of idol songs! here’s a list:

right now - newjeans
onna no ko otoko no ko - ogura yuko
nattou angel - nattou angels (akb48 sub unit)
tsumiki no jikan - skek48
supernatural - newjeans
cookie (FRNK remix) - newjeans
hype boy (250 remix) - newjeans
hurt (250 remix) - newjeans
new moon ni koishite - momoiro clover z
tenshi wa doko ni iru - fairy wink

@suitechic@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz thank you nikki <3

Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.12 miles, 00:09:24 average pace, 00:29:20 duration
good pace finally. honestly it was mainly because my body is exhausted today and could not imagine pushing it any more.
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I’m refactoring (mangling four lines of of code with assignments into one function call) and man, do I love vim macros! Such a bloody amazing invention. Saves me heaps of manual labor.

@kingdomcome@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz all me hahah! thank you <3

Recovery: 3.11 miles, 00:10:02 average pace, 00:31:11 duration
getting some extra miles in. been a little anxious and cannot seem to focus as of late.
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Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.13 miles, 00:09:09 average pace, 00:28:38 duration
really nice out. still went out faster than i wanted and i really need to get better at keeping it on track.
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new icon from a very dark comic mini series that just came out (doll parts by luana vecchio

curl: (3) URL rejected: Malformed input to a URL function. Writing sender in bash was BAD idea

@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