Scientists Confirmed What Is Inside Our Moon
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density similar to that of iron. To figure it out once and for all, [astronomer Arthur Briaud of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in France] and his colleagues collected data from space mission … ⌘ Read more

I think because it still inserted the wrong alias in my following list:

# follow = manton@bridge.twtxt.net https://bridge.twtxt.net/twtxt/remote/d428c49928a4a0d1.txt

I’m not currently sure why this is tab-completing incorrectly hmmm 🧐

Testing 1 2 3 @manton@twtxt.net

I wound up running 2 out of 3 of the one-shots, both Halloween games based on Ravenloft / Curse of Strahd, and both rousing successes (for the players, not so much for Strahd).

Since I’m on something of a gaming kick, I think I’m going to try and finish plotting out the rest of the fae adventure I’m running for my kids, while also (hopefully) finishing my super secret astral gaming project.

Can I do it? Stay tuned and find out!

ap-verify: a67864d4229ae22f5f60

Wow :O That didn’t work!

Test @-mentioning@twtxt.net an AP actor via the Bridge. Hey @manton@twtxt.net 👋

verify: 3074975949c3b0d27df4

I need some test Activity Pub / Mastodon users to test with 🤔

And this isn’t even me, it’s the other end 🤣

WOW LOL

fetch https://weaknotes.com/users/david: status 500 Internal Server Error

First real test failed trying to lookup / follow @david@weaknotes.com

She Used ChatGPT To Win the Virginia Lottery, Then Donated Every Dollar
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: Winning the lottery isn’t what brought Carrie Edwards her 15 minutes of fame. It was giving it all away. Standing alone in her kitchen one day in September, the Virginia woman was thunderstruck to discover she had won $150,000 in a Powerball drawing. As she was absorbing h … ⌘ Read more

PSOs to be redeployed from train stations in retail crime crackdown
Security patrols at 120 “low-crime rate” train stations will be scaled back as Protective Services Officers’ target major suburban retail hubs and crime hot spots on the rail network. ⌘ Read more

Sydney’s food truck divide: The suburbs with hundreds and those with none
There are close to 2000 food trucks in Sydney. See how many your area has. ⌘ Read more

Eastern suburbs council votes to trade native trees for ocean views
A Sydney council has voted to remove trees in clifftop reserves in some of Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs to restore ocean views for waterfront residents. ⌘ Read more

YouTube TV and Disney Reach Deal Ending Two-Week Blackout of ESPN, ABC
YouTube TV and Disney have ended their two-week carriage standoff, restoring ESPN, ABC, and other Disney networks under a new multiyear deal. Variety reports: Under the new agreement, ESPN’s full lineup of sports – including content from ESPN Unlimited – will be made available on YouTube TV to base-plan subscribers at no addi … ⌘ Read more

‘Terrible’: P-plate driver charged after pregnant woman killed in Sydney’s north
A 33-year-old woman who was eight months’ pregnant has died, along with her unborn child, after being struck by a car in Sydney’s north-west. ⌘ Read more

The Age photos of the week, November 15, 2025
The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age ⌘ Read more

Haha 🤣 I wonder what the reliability of executing a sleep in a 200 billion year loop cycle is? 🤔

Amyl and the Sniffers’ free gig shut down over security fears in Melbourne
A free gig by Australian rockers Amyl and the Sniffers has been shut down after security fences at Federation Square “got crushed in”. ⌘ Read more

Cycling body welcomes Queensland e-bike crackdown
E-bike suppliers have been warned they face hefty fines if they sell non-compliant bikes, following the recent deaths of two boys. ⌘ Read more

For those curious, the new Twtxt <-> ActivityPub bridge I’m building (bidirectional) simply requires three things:

1. You register your Twtxt feed to the bridge: https://bridge.twtxt.net
   
2. You verify that you in fact own/control the feed by putting the verification code somewhere on/in your feed (doesn’t matter where or how)
   
3. You proxy/forward requests for /.well-known/webfinger to the Bridge bridge.twtxt.net.
   

I’m still testing through and ironing out bugs 🐛 Please be patient! 🙏

technically I can put the Bridge verificaiton code in my feed’s metadata so no-one really ever sees or notices it 🤔 Maybe I’ll add a first-class button/field thingy in yarnd so users can “register their feed” straight from their pod? 🤔

Apple’s $230 iPhone Pocket Sells Out Nearly Immediately
Apple’s limited-edition “iPhone Pocket” sold out almost instantly worldwide despite its $150-$230 price tag. Appleinsider reports: Longtime Apple users immediately saw the resemblance with the old iPod socks, and everyone saw the price. Apple and Japan’s Issey Miyake fashion house partnered to create a limited edition iPhone Pocket, a stretched sock-like bag or sho … ⌘ Read more

Five People Plead Quilty To Helping North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies
“Within the past year, stories have been posted on Slashdot about people helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at U.S. corporations, companies knowingly assisting them, how not to hire a North Korean for a remote IT job, and how a simple question tripped up a North Korean applying for a remote IT job,” writes longtime Slashdot … ⌘ Read more

verify: be6b4443c96a602b1947

Police hunt more protesters over planned rock-throwing attack on officers
Images have been released of seven more protesters who police have accused of assault during a Melbourne protest last month. ⌘ Read more

Russia Imposes 24-Hour Mobile Internet Blackout For Travelers Returning Home
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: Russian telecom operators have begun cutting mobile internet access for 24 hours for citizens returning to the country from abroad, in what officials say is an effort to prevent Ukrainian drones from using domestic SIM cards for navigation. “When a SIM card enters Russia … ⌘ Read more

Mesa 25.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements
Mesa 25.3 is out tonight as the newest quarterly feature release to this set of (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used across Linux systems. Mesa 25.3 features numerous Vulkan extensions added to the different open-source drivers, continued enhancements to the OpenGL drivers, and various other changes… ⌘ Read more

Logitech Reports Data Breach From Zero-Day Software Vulnerability
BrianFagioli writes: Logitech has confirmed a cybersecurity breach after an intruder exploited a zero-day in a third-party software platform and copied internal data. The company says the incident did not affect its products, manufacturing or business operations, and it does not believe sensitive personal information like national ID numbers or … ⌘ Read more

P-plate driver charged after pregnant woman killed in Sydney’s north
A 33-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant has died, along with her unborn child, after being struck by a car in Sydney’s north-west. ⌘ Read more

JPMorgan Chase Wins Fight With Fintech Firms Over Fees To Access Customer Data
According to CNBC, JPMorgan Chase has secured deals ensuring it will get paid by the fintech firms responsible for nearly all the data requests made by third-party apps connected to customer bank accounts. From the report: The bank has signed updated contracts with the fintech middlemen that make up more than 95% of th … ⌘ Read more

Sam Altman Celebrates ChatGPT Finally Following Em Dash Formatting Rules
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid using em dashes. “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it’s supposed to do!” he wrote.

… ⌘ Read more

Wine 10.19 Released With More Improvements
Ahead of the Wine 11.0 code freeze beginning in early December, Wine 10.19 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux… ⌘ Read more

Pregnant woman dies after crash in Sydney’s north-west
A woman has died and a driver has been arrested in Sydney’s north-west after a crash in a carpark in Hornsby. ⌘ Read more

Man charged after police seize $35k worth of cocaine from apartment
Police have thwarted an illegal drug trafficking operation to supply cocaine across St Kilda after seizing $35,000 worth of drugs from an apartment. ⌘ Read more

AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs Will Default To AMDGPU Driver In Linux 6.19, SMART POWER OLED Added
Sent out today is likely the last batch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver feature updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window getting underway around the start of December. And it’s an exciting one too from adding a new SMART POWER OLED feature to switching from the Radeon to AMDGPU drivers by default for aging GCN 1.0 Southern Islands and GCN 1.1 Sea Islands GPUs… ⌘ Read more

P-plater arrested after fatal crash involving pregnant woman in Hornsby
A 33-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant has died, along with her unborn child, after being struck by a car in Sydney’s north-west. ⌘ Read more

ollama 0.12.11 Brings Vulkan Acceleration
ollama 0.12.11 released this week as the newest feature update to this easy-to-run method of deploying OpenAI GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models. Exciting with ollama 0.12.11 is that it’s now supporting the Vulkan API… ⌘ Read more

P-plater arrested after fatal crash involving pregnant woman
Police arrested a 19-year-old man early on Saturday following the collision. ⌘ Read more

No offers, don’t ask, don’t tell: The real estate agent tricks used to duck price rules
Buyers are furious, experts aren’t surprised, and here’s how property underquoting rogues get away with it. ⌘ Read more

Vulkan 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension
Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions… ⌘ Read more

The day the Dismissal saved a bored Canberra teenager’s afternoon
The constitutional crisis was, at last, an upside to my adolescence. ⌘ Read more

Retail Traders Left Exposed in High-Stakes Crypto Treasury Deals
An anonymous reader shares a report: Executives are turning to a novel structure to fund crypto accumulation vehicles as investor appetite thins. They’re called in-kind contributions, and they now account for a growing share of digital-asset treasury, or DAT, deals. Instead of raising cash to buy tokens in the open market, DAT sponsors contribute … ⌘ Read more

Here I am, yet another woman wrecking the joint
A great masthead dared to ask: Did women ruin the workplace? Well, let’s dance on some of those smoking ruins. ⌘ Read more

‘I could have killed somebody’: Anthony Hopkins on realising he was an alcoholic
The actor, 87, talks about his childhood, the secret to playing a monster – and the epiphanies that changed his life. ⌘ Read more

This theatre was meant to cost $188 million. The real price is almost double
The redevelopment of Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres could be revolutionary for Sydney – but it has hit another cash problem. ⌘ Read more

‘Couldn’t believe my luck’: The moment with Germaine Greer that thrilled this Aussie artist
Australian photographer Polly Borland on working with Greer, putting her own flesh into her work – and why she’s been visiting a Buddhist temple. ⌘ Read more

Will next-gen NIDA grads join former alumni Cate, Baz, Toni and Hugo?
Just 22 students – whittled down from 1000 applicants – will graduate from the world-acclaimed drama school next Friday. ⌘ Read more