Mathematicians discover impossible problem in Super Mario games
Using the tools of computational complexity, researchers have discovered it is impossible to figure out whether certain Super Mario Bros levels can be beaten without playing them, even if you use the world’s most powerful supercomputer ⌘ Read more

@xuu@dev.txt.sour.is Yeah it’s not feature gated or anything.

Sorry you’ll have to forgive me, what’s different? 🧐

US defense contractor describes seven-minute UFO encounter
The contractor and two other witnesses encountered a strange barbell-shaped object over the Canadian wilderness. The incident, which occurred on Augus… ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net What the hell?! 😱 So these companies would prefer to continue to harm human health?! 🧐

The same company separately quoted over $7,000 to install an outdoor garden tap and plumbing for approximately 20m 😱

Just got a quote to fix a bathroom tap and hoses that are corroded for > $1,000 😱

@bender@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Soeey where?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com LOL 🤣

@shreyan@twtxt.net Yhe default is 20ms AFAIK so the delay you’re seeing is the axtual request latency I think?

I haven’t found a good way to do the right style of “indicator” yet 😢

Help wanted! 🙏 I also broke two other features that require client-side JavaScript 🤦‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net Good advice!

The chemical-free veggie garden that sprang to life on an arid salt pan
A community supported agriculture enterprise is supplying chemical-free produce grown on Whyalla’s arid salt pans and offering alternatives to the big supermarkets. ⌘ Read more

Russia faces $32 billion bill for carbon emissions from Ukraine war
The estimated greenhouse gas emissions caused by the war in Ukraine are equivalent to around 175 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, and Ukraine plans to include the associated climate damage in its compensation claim against Russia ⌘ Read more

Martin Rees: Why challenge prizes can solve our most pressing issues
As the winner of the Longitude Prize on Antimicrobial Resistance is announced, chair of the prize committee Martin Rees, the UK’s Astronomer Royal, explains why it pays to reward ideas ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net it is good solutions. Just the a/ is hard to implement if they have a mobile phone with 5G (solutions exist though). and the point b/ is the most important, a continuous discussion about the dangers.

Quantum sensor gets a read on tiny worm implanted with nanodiamonds
Tiny diamonds and quantum sensors can be used to measure conditions inside cells or living organisms, potentially offering a way to detect diseases or study biology in minute detail ⌘ Read more

What would a wormhole look like if we ever found one?
How could we tell the difference between an ordinary black hole and one connected to a tunnel through space-time? ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Not yet and you’re probably right 🤣 The last part is probably far fetched 😅

@tkanos@twtxt.net I have a different solution. I a) ban social media networks on the network b) educate them about the dangers and c) permit them to use Twtxt / Yarn.social when they’re older.

Wild elephants each have their own names, new study finds
Scientists now believe that elephants, like humans, have assigned names that they use when calling one another. While it has long been suspected that … ⌘ Read more

Social networks are very dangerous for teenagers. When your teen needs one consider giving him a Flip Phone. And watch all new device connecting to the wifi because the « friends » of the teen will give him, one of their old mobile (that he will hide).

We could detect a malfunctioning warp drive on an alien starship
Faster-than-light warp drives are theoretically possible to build, and if aliens are using them, we should be able to detect the gravitational waves produced when one goes wrong ⌘ Read more

Australian pterosaur had a huge tongue to help gulp down prey
Scientists have identified a new species of pterosaur from a 100-million-year-old fossil in Australia, which appears to have had a massive tongue to push prey down its throat ⌘ Read more

Multiple video clips show brightly lit UFO flying over streets of Tehran
A strange object spotted over Iran has been captured on camera from multiple different angles. It’s not often that we get to see clear video footage o… ⌘ Read more

Muscle zapping during exercise helps people recover after a stroke
A small trial has found that electrical stimulation of arm muscles while people do physiotherapy exercises leads to more improvement ⌘ Read more

Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Linux Foundation Release Line-up for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit + AI_dev China 2024
In Hong Kong this summer, cloud native enthusiasts from across Asia and around the world will convene to move forward cloud native, open source, and AI technologies Hong Kong – June 12, 2024 – The Cloud Native Computing… ⌘ Read more

Oops sorry yeah I accidentally duplicated the image links and edited very late 😢

@shreyan@twtxt.net It is!

What “naked” singularities are revealing about quantum space-time
Are points of infinite curvature, where general relativity breaks down, always hidden inside black holes? An audacious attempt to find out is shedding light on the mystery of quantum gravity ⌘ Read more

Astronaut medical records reveal the health toll of space travel
The largest collection yet of detailed medical data and tissue samples from astronauts should help researchers better understand the impacts of space flight on health ⌘ Read more

How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Earth’s orbit?
Earth is lagging behind other worlds with its single moon, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society we are giving it more – and giving those moons moonmoons to orbit them ⌘ Read more

Marine fungus can break down floating plastic pollution
The plastic-digesting capabilities of the fungus Parengyodontium album could be harnessed to degrade polyethylene, the most abundant type of plastic in the ocean ⌘ Read more

Docker Desktop 4.31: Air-Gapped Containers, Accelerated Builds, and Beta Releases of Docker Desktop on Windows on Arm, Compose File Viewer, and GitHub Actions
Docker Desktop 4.31 release offers new features to empower developers, including: air-gapped containers, accelerated builds, and beta releases of Docker Desktop on Windows on Arm (WoA) and Compose File Viewer. ⌘ Read more

Docker Launches 2024 State of Application Development Report
The Docker 2024 State of Application Development Report offers insight into developers’ processes and tools, industry trends, Docker usage, and more. ⌘ Read more

Ozempic and Wegovy linked to lower risk of alcoholism
People taking semaglutide, also called Ozempic and Wegovy, either for weight loss or type 2 diabetes, were less likely to become addicted to alcohol ⌘ Read more

The first stars in the universe could have formed surprisingly early
Huge stars might have formed in the first million years of the universe if there was enough matter clumped together, according to a computer model ⌘ Read more

Man discovers mysterious footprints in remote Kentucky woodland
The alleged Bigfoot prints appeared to have been left by someone or something that wasn’t wearing any shoes. The footprints, which were discovered by … ⌘ Read more

Couple of days ago I made a small patch to yarnd (this pod effectively runs main) that filtered out “inactive users”, hard-coded to be LastSeenAt > 90 days and not bother fetching feeds for anything they follow. This has had a dramatic impact on the resources used by this pod (twtxt.net) – See screenshtos.

Has anyone noticed anything? that is y’all that actually do use this pod 😅

Thanks ! I’ll see what happened later tonight 🤞

True 🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Haha glad to hear it 🤣 Speaking of which, how are you finding the SPA-like experience on twtxt.net?

Water surety needed in the Coal River Valley
Vineyard expansions depend on water surety ⌘ Read more

Or is this /. post just badly written?! 🤔

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Any way of opting out of this? I trust Apple (sort of) because it’s a closed ecosystem. If Apple continue down this path of developing an advertising platform (too late?) and sharing data with 3rd parties, I’m not sure if I can continue to trust Apple… 🧐

New jobs program aims to help farm workers like Nina settle into a new life in on the land
Timor-Leste national Nina Goncalve is happy with her job picking strawberries, but visas are a challenge. A new employment initiative for migrant workers might be just what she and this WA community need. ⌘ Read more

End of ‘go-to’ harvest trail farm labour program a big loss, farmers say
Backpackers fear a rise in exploitation on Australian farms after the government axed a 26-year-old jobs program, which farmers fear will also increase costs and threaten harvests. ⌘ Read more

10 Years Since Kubernetes Launched at DockerCon
Reflecting on the monumental announcement of Kubernetes at DockerCon on June 10th, 2014, Docker CEO Scott Johnston celebrates its transformative impact on container orchestration and modern application development over the past decade, highlighting Docker’s role in this pivotal industry shift. ⌘ Read more

How dodo de-extinction is helping rescue the extraordinary pink pigeon
The same genetic tools being used to resurrect the woolly mammoth and dodo could help many other vulnerable species that have yet to die out ⌘ Read more

Elephants seem to invent names for each other
An analysis of their vocalisations suggests that African savannah elephants invent names for each other, making them the only animals other than humans thought to do so ⌘ Read more

The largest volcanoes on Mars have frosted tips during winter
We know that there is ice at the Martian poles and underground, but until now it wasn’t clear it could exist on the surface of the Red Planet ⌘ Read more

A surprisingly quick enzyme could shift our understanding of evolution
Biological processes such as DNA replication or cellular structure formation may become more accurate when done as quickly as possible, offering new hints into life’s origins ⌘ Read more