‘Supergirl’ Movie Criticized for Script, Poor Visual Effects
The Onion joked the new movie Supergirl is about a hero who must single-handedly save the world “after the catastrophic collapse of interest in the genre.”

Unfortunately, The Hollywood Reporter says the film’s reviews “range from negative to tepid praise (averaging a 58 percent Rotten Tomatoes score).”

Many point fingers at the film’s script, wi … ⌘ Read more

CachyOS June 2026 OS Released With More Performance Optimizations
CachyOS is out today with a new feature release for this Arch Linux powered distribution that delivers stellar out-of-the-box performance… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM “Color Format” Property With AMD GPU Driver Support
While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver… ⌘ Read more

Developer AI Token Costs Could Exceed Their Salaries in Two Years
“Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers’ AI token usage as they do for their salaries,” writes InfoWorld:

According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer’s monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers are increasingly adopting generative AI and agent … ⌘ Read more

Linux Dropping Old Drivers, AI Detected Vulnerabilities & Other Kernel Highlights Of Q2
With Q2’2026 quickly coming to an end, here’s a recap of the most popular Linux kernel news over the past three months on Phoronix… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree
Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new features and improvements merged over the past week since the Linux 7.1 stable debut, the Linux kernel source tree now exceeds 43 million lines… ⌘ Read more

Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: “Major Milestone”
For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It was nice at around 5 o’clock on the balcony with just 22°C and the tiniest breeze. But I got eaten alive. Fucking mozzies.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It was around 29 °C for a while inside and pretty nice on the balcony, but that’s over now. 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de 26°C inside, 30°C outside right now.

An Amazon Seller Says They Were Offered a Way to Bribe an Amazon Employee
Jack Nekhala had a business selling on Amazon — and in December he received an unusual offer, reports Bloomberg. A woman said she could bribe an Amazon employee “to help him retrieve $90,000 in funds that the e-commerce giant had frozen after suspending him over an alleged violation of review policy.”

Hoping to ingratiate himsel … ⌘ Read more

Speaking of vim… Which version of vim should I ship with GoNIX? 🤔 Vim or Neovim or something else?

Other than the few Unicode issues I mentioned recently, vim-classic works just fine. I completely forgot that I switched to it.

IBM is Getting Ready to Scale Quantum Computing
IBM spent a decade “building, testing and improving” quantum computing, reports the Wall Street Journal.

“This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn that technology into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science project.”

IBM said last month it plans to form a new independent subsidiary called Anderon, a foundry to produce the silicon wafers n … ⌘ Read more

Starting the day with 32 °C inside and absolutely no cooling from the outside.

@bender@twtxt.net I know heat (I’ve been to Southeast Asia, for example – or Florida 🤣), but you’re right, it does hit very differently when it’s at home. “At home” is usually the cool and relaxed place, but now it’s hell. And no AC anywhere in sight.

Renewable Energy Just Hit 30% of America’s Electricity Generation
America generated 10.06% more energy with renewables in the first four months of 2026 than it did in the same period the year before. That’s according to new figures from America’s Energy Information Administration, cited in this report from Electrek:

The growth was led by utility-scale solar (+21.3%), hydropower (+15.7%), small-scale solar
… ⌘ Read more

Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning
The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it’s a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering “infinite” zooming and panning to in effect provide an infinite workspace… ⌘ Read more

How a Seemingly Harmless Image Can Jailbreak Vision-Language AI Models
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Florida International University researchers have developed a technique called JaiLIP (Jailbreaking with Loss-guided Image Perturbation) that uses subtle image modifications to bypass AI safety guardrails. Unlike traditional jailbreaks that rely on carefully crafted prompts, the attack works through ima … ⌘ Read more

France’s Heat This Week Was Worse Than a Dire Scenario Imagined For 2050
There’s a deadly, record-breaking heat wave spreading east across Europe, reports the Washington Post — and it’s even worse than a dire earlier forecast:

The forecast was recorded in 2014 as part of a campaign coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that invited about 60 presenters worldwide to imagine a weather … ⌘ Read more

Wer „Feuer und Flamme – Mit Feuerwehrmännern im Einsatz“ geil findet, dem gefällt sicher auch „In höchster Not – Bergretter im Einsatz“ vom Bayerischen Rundfunk. https://www.ardmediathek.de/serie/in-hoechster-not-bergretter-im-einsatz/staffel-1/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL2Jyb2FkY2FzdFNlcmllcy9GMjAyNFdPMDA0MjM3QTA/1

@thecanine@twtxt.net Oh, I’m absolutely bad with videogames. Never heard of that one.

@bender@twtxt.net Please, mate, keep the heat to yourself! I don’t wanna trade that. ;-)

The firefly season is ending. I only saw 200 of them or so. There was one female directly on the forest road. If only I brought my camera and tripod, that would have worked out I reckon. I had my torch with me and this looked really cool.

Dusk took forever today. It was really long light out there. Full moon is tomorrow.

On the way back, there was suddenly a load clatter and crashing sound 100 meters away from me. I didn’t see anything, but a tree fell over in the forest out of the blue. Fuck me dead, that was scary as hell. Luckily, I was already on the main road, only meadows around me. It’s the second time I witnessed a tree accidentally coming down. The first one was during the most expensive hail storm in our area so far in 2011 behind me when setting up a summer camp. The weather changed in less than 15 minutes.

Maybe not such a good idea to go out so late alone. :-? Any rustling in the forest immediately reminded me of the boar the other day. Luckily, always false alarm. Still a bit terrified from that event.

Max Planck Slapped With Two Paper Retractions By Suspected Rogue Algorithm
Max Planck won 1918’s Nobel Prize for physics. Yet two of his papers were retracted — a move now being criticized by Yves Gingras, a historian of physics at the University of Quebec and Mahdi Khelfaoui, a fellow historian of science at UQ Trois-Rivières. Science reports:

The papers, both quietly retracted in 2011, original … ⌘ Read more

Scroll Burned in 79 AD Volcanic Eruption Finally Deciphered Using AI
When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., it buried hundreds of papyrus
scrolls. They were rediscovered in the mid-1700s, remembers Smithsonian magazine, “the only
surviving collection of its kind from the Greco-Roman
world…”

“But when scholars tried to unroll them, the carbonized manuscripts
crumbled to dust.”

Every generation that fo … ⌘ Read more

California Sheriff Says Their Drone Disarmed a Suspect, Shares Video on Instagram
The Los Angeles Police Department says about 1,500 police agencies across America have drone programs, reports SFGate, and 58 of those drone-using police agencies are in California.

The Sacramento County sheriff’s office recently posted drone footage on Instagram set to theme from “Mission: Impossible,” claiming “ … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org so pretty! Ah, the anticipation of an incoming heat wave! Now you guys have a small glimpse of what we live with here almost every single day. 😅

Non-Invasive Stimulation of the Brain Ended Opioid Addiction, Cigarette Craving
The Jerusalem Post reports that doctors at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus “have successfully treated their first Israeli opioid addiction patient using an experimental noninvasive brain technology, easing him through withdrawal in just 20 minutes…”

[T]he team of specialists at the Haifa medical center interv … ⌘ Read more

Reserved THP Feature Proposed For Linux To Combine The Best Of HugeTLB & THP
Linux kernel developer and Bytedance engineer Qi Zheng sent out a request for comments (RFC) patch series on a new feature called Reserved THP to combine the best of HugeTLB and THP kernel functionality… ⌘ Read more

FSF ‘LibreLocal’ Organized From Prison by a Man Jailed for ‘Cyber-Crimes’ After Promoting Free Software
Thursday the Free Software Foundation blogged about this year’s 47 ‘LibreLocal 2026’ meetups, highlighting 10 that took place in Australia, Mexico, the United States, New Zealand, Cameroon, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, China, and Iran. “Far from each other in many parts o … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! You had one of the strangest guesses so far, first one I had to look up. 😄 It is a reference to a (human) cop/detective, from a 2019 videogame. Since there’s no spoilers tag on Twtxt, the name of the file on my site, includes the correct answer.

Forget Prompt Engineering: ‘Loop Engineering’ Is All the Rage Now
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: For the most powerful voices in AI, it’s all about being in the loop. Claude Code creator Boris Cherny recently said he doesn’t write his own AI prompts much anymore. Thanks to loops, he doesn’t have to. “It’s an agent that prompts Claude,” Cherny recently told CNBC, adding, “I don’t … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh my! :-O We reached 38°C. It’s now down one degree.

I just got up from my two, three hours siesta. And I tell you, that was bloody amazing. Layed in bed in undies, no blanket, just some power metal in my headphones and I was sleeping like a baby. Normally, I NEED a blanket, no matter what. But this summer, it’s already the second time that I actually manage to drop off without one.

We’re at 39.5 °C now. Are we going to hit 40?

SpaceX Plans To Build ‘Starpipe’ Natural Gas Pipeline To Fuel Starship Rockets
SpaceX plans to begin building an eight-mile natural gas pipeline called “Starpipe” next month to supply its Starbase launch site with fuel for a much higher cadence of Starship launches. The pipeline is expected to enter service in January 2027. Reuters reports: The pipeline plan, previously reported by Rio Grande Va … ⌘ Read more

Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net (I haven’t checked out CEF recently. Back then (over 10 years ago), just using a GTK widget was certainly much easier than CEF. 😅)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de CEF turns out to be pretty easy. I had to write a bit of C and Go to bridge, but once that got going I was able to write it into my pure Go go-wayland wlui library for final rendering. The delegating the entire CEF part was a good idea though because it keeps all the complexity in a container Image, leaving me with just the Go + C stubs/interface and SHM/IPC parts.

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, the joy of making your own browser – welcome to the club. 😃 (I chose WebKitGTK back then and that was not super compatible with websites … CEF would have been better, but also harder to use.)

So I decided to change tact a bit with GoNIX and instead of trying to build apure Go browser from scratch (which I kinda of half succeeded, in at least it was able to render most static ssr sites), I’ve instead decided to write a new browsered using the Chromium Embedded Framework, otherwise known as CEF. So now I have a fully working browser in GoNIX 🎉 – However since my goal is to keep GoNIX pretty lcean and mostly written in Go, I delegated the cef part(s) to an OCI container image and run that with GoNIX’s box (command-line container runtime). It works great 👍

Compromise: Don’t lazy-load the first ~7 images or so, i.e. the ones that are immediately in view.

KDE Plasma 6.7.2 To Fix KWin’s Most Common Crash, Plasma 6.8 To Not Crash When Ejecting CDs
While Plasma 6.7.1 was just released this week following the recent stable debut of Plasma 6.7, there are already a number of fixes piling up for Plasma 6.7.2 due out in July. Plus more feature work and fixes for Plasma 6.8 as the next desktop version going Wayland-only… ⌘ Read more

COSMIC’s New System Monitor Is Looking Very Slick
Not only is GNOME 51 working to replace GNOME System Monitor with its new replacement, but over in System76’s COSMIC space they have been baking their own new system monitor too… ⌘ Read more

tl;dr: Lazy loading is much better on slow internet lines but shittier on fast ones. 🫠

Ah, with lazy loading, browsers only start loading images when the load event occurs. And that takes time. Hm. Not a fan, I might revert this. 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oooph! Web development is tidious.

I also include width and height from now on in my galleries.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I second that!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I noticed that loading="lazy" might not be so great after all.

This is without lazy loading:

The total page load time is around 400-500 ms. Okay.

Now this is with lazy loading:

It finished much quicker, after about 250 ms. Sounds good.

But notice this gap right here?

This wasn’t there before. With lazy loading, it now takes something like 80-100 ms until the browser even starts loading images. This is Chromium, but Firefox shows a similar gap.

The net result is that there is a very noticeable delay/flicker when you open a page, because it takes so long until the images have loaded. Yes, the layout doesn’t shift around, but that has nothing to do with lazy loading.

How odd. 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see. I just use CDATA (and still have the XHTML trailing slash for <img … />). But of course, it also has its drawbacks: https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-05-11/avoid-using-cdata-in-rss I might just move away from it.

Everything is a web service these days. :-/