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
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How many moons and moonmoons could we cram into Earth’s orbit?
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Marine fungus can break down floating plastic pollution
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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
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The first stars in the universe could have formed surprisingly early
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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
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Elephants seem to invent names for each other
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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
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UFOs may be evidence of ‘cryptoterrestrials’, scientists propose
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Bacteria evolve to get better at evolving in lab experiment
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Cosmic cloud exposed Earth to interstellar space 3 million years ago
The protective bubble around the sun retreated dramatically after colliding with a freezing interstellar cloud, leaving much of the solar system exposed to radiation that shaped our evolution, a study suggests ⌘ Read more

The word ‘bot’ is increasingly being used as an insult on social media
The meaning of the word “bot” on Twitter/X seems to have shifted over time, with people originally using it to flag automated accounts, but now employing it to insult people they disagree with ⌘ Read more

Two pilots radio in to report sightings of the same UFO over Ireland
Both pilots had contacted air traffic control to report that they had spotted something unusual in the sky. The incident was brought to light recently… ⌘ Read more

Hey @meff@yarn.meff.me 👋 You still around? Your pod looks like it’s still alive and kicking, but rather old 😅

The Valley of Code: htmx – This is a pretty great article on HTMX really, haven’t read it fully yet, but it vibes with how I feel about it and my own experiences so ar 👌

@bmallred@staystrong.run Why walk at a heart rate of 170?

Could ‘shrimp Jesus’ be a sign that ‘dead Internet theory’ is true ?
Could the Internet be already filled with more AI-generated content than material actually written by humans ? If you search “shrimp Jesus” on Faceboo… ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - Long run: 10.01 miles, 00:11:18 average pace, 01:53:11 duration
ugh, 90F and humid at 0521 this morning? walked whenever i saw my heart rate in the 170’s.
#running

https://www.linuxtricks.fr/wiki/fwupd-mettre-a-jour-les-firmwares-et-uefi-depuis-linux

Police in Zimbabwe claim to have been harassed by ‘goblins’
A totally bizarre story out of Zimbabwe this week concerns alleged ‘goblins’ that have been plaguing local police. We’ve seen some strange reports ove… ⌘ Read more

👋 If y’all notice any weird quirks or UI/UX bugs of late on my pod, please let me know! 🙏 For those that have a Javascript enabled web browser will notice (hopefully) a SPA (single page app) like experience, even in Mobile! No more full page refreshes! All this without writing a single line of Javascript (let alone React or whatever) 😅 – HTMX is pretty damn cooL! 😎 #htmx

@bender@twtxt.net Better user experience if you have Javascript enabled. Instead of refreshing the entire page with extra bytes and backend processing that’s unnecessary, you effectively replace the part of the UI that needs changing with a partial response.

Mooaar HTMX support inbound for yarnd 👌

Big Pineapple shining bright as state’s big thing is back on show
Visitors will soon be able to ride the Plantation Train again, which once carried then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana around the grounds. ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Hehe 🤣 There are still going to be small things to fix here and there but so far so good 🤞

I’m glad you keep me on my toes 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Fixed 😅 Sorry about that! Updating rolling out shortly…

Oh I see what I’ve done, nothing to do with HTMX, just my bad ability to search the codebase. I thought podMenu wasn’t used or podLogo clearly not 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Haha, what’s not working on mobile? 📱 Hmm? 🧐 I might have to revert all this HTMX code if it’s broken things that badly?

Mystery surrounds grey squirrel found in ‘impossible location’
Conservationists have been left puzzled by the discovery of an invasive species of squirrel on a Scottish island. Grey squirrels might seem like innoc… ⌘ Read more

Major mystery as TV doctor goes missing on small Greek island
A huge search and rescue effort is currently underway to locate Michael Mosley who disappeared four days ago. A major mystery has been unfolding this … ⌘ Read more

Starliner and Starship launches propel space industry into a new era
SpaceX successfully launched its Starship rocket on the same day that Boeing’s Starliner craft made its first crewed flight, a sign that the space industry is hotting up ⌘ Read more

What is a heat dome and are they getting worse with climate change?
Mexico and the southern US have seen extreme temperatures due to a heat dome, a weather phenomenon that will become more intense with climate change ⌘ Read more

Writers accept lower pay when they use AI to help with their work
When writers are allowed to get help from ChatGPT, they accept lower pay, fuelling fears that AI will lower the value of skilled workers ⌘ Read more

Kubernetes is ten years old!
On June 6, 2014, Joe Beda made the first commit to Kubernetes, and suddenly a movement was born. Kubernetes has changed the world over the last ten years. “I don’t think any of us expected Kubernetes to turn… ⌘ Read more