@movq@www.uninformativ.de if they haven’t, I would recommend a “subtle” nudge. You know, like leaving an advert flier at their door for a “Basic English (including swearing words!) for Dummies” book, or something like that. :-D :-P

@prologic@twtxt.net cool! Will test later today. I recommend to keep up with the changes, and make them non-technical user “friendly”.

AMD Making It Easier To Install vLLM For ROCm
Deploying vLLM for LLM inference and serving on NVIDIA hardware can be as easy as pip3 install vllm. Beautifully simple just as many of the AI/LLM Python libraries can deploy straight-away and typically “just work” on NVIDIA. Running vLLM atop AMD Radeon/Instinct hardware though has traditionally meant either compiling vLLM from source yourself or AMD’s recommended approach of using Docker containers that contain pre-built versions of vLLM. Finally there is now a blessed P … ⌘ Read more

The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture
The American monoculture – the era when three television networks, seven movie studios, and a handful of record labels determined virtually everything the country watched and heard – is collapsing under the weight of algorithmic recommendation engines and infinite streaming options. An estimated 200 million tickets were sold for “Gone With the Wind” in 1939 when the U.S. population … ⌘ Read more

• Neal Stephenson’s “Polostan” is the last of these books, and the book worth mentioning but not necessarily a recommendation. If you know me well enough, you know that I think Neal Stephenson is the best writer of all times (prove me wrong). And I’m sorry to say, this - while a five stars book - is not Stephenson at its best: in fact, it was his first book ever where at a certain point I felt the book wasn’t probably edited (probably rushed in). This is the first of a series, and it almost feels like just the first part of what should be the first book, it is almost as if he rushed publishing it to appease the editorial gods or something. Now, don’t take this criticism as a sign that Polostan isn’t a book worth reading, not at all. But if you didn’t read all the rest he wrote, do that first, and give Polostan some time… because I’m sure it will best read if you have its sequel ready to be picked up once you finish this one.
  

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Elon Musk: X’s New Algorithm Will Be Made Open Source in Seven Days
“We will make the new ð algorithm…open source in 7 days,” Elon Musk posted Saturday on X.com. Musk says this is “including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users,” and “This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed.”

Some context f … ⌘ Read more

The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV
Several years after Samsung introduced the Frame TV in 2017 – a television designed to display fine art and resemble a framed painting when switched off – competitors are finally catching up in meaningful numbers. Amazon announced the Ember Artline TV at CES 2026 this week, a $899 model that can display one of 2,000 works of art for free and includes an Alexa AI tool to recommend pieces suited to … ⌘ Read more

VSCode IDE Forks Expose Users To ‘Recommended Extension’ Attacks
An anonymous reader shares a report: Popular AI-powered integrated development environment solutions, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae, recommend extensions that are non-existent in the OpenVSX registry, allowing threat actors to claim the namespace and upload malicious extensions.

These AI-assisted IDEs are forked from Microso … ⌘ Read more

Samsung’s CES Concepts Disguise AI Speakers as Turntables and Cassette Players
Samsung is bringing a pair of retro-styled speaker concepts to CES 2026 that combine old-school aesthetics with OLED screens and AI-powered music recommendations, and the company is positioning them as alternatives to conventional Bluetooth speakers that typically depend on a paired smartphone or tablet for con … ⌘ Read more

Manjaro Linux 26.0 Rolling Out - Xfce Edition Recommended If Wanting To Use X11
Package updates for the Arch Linux powered Manjaro Linux distribution have been pushed out for Manjaro 26.0 “Anh-Linh” while updated ISOs are expected to soon become available. The Manjaro 26.0 milestone brings KDE Plasma 6.5 and GNOME 49 but with both of those you may lose X11 session support so they are recommending their Xfce Edition for wanting wanting to continue using an X.Org desktop session… ⌘ Read more

Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite 2025 Movies, TV Shows and Books?
Another year wraps up, and with it comes the annual ritual of taking stock. What were the movies, TV shows and books from this year that stood out to you? Not necessarily the ones that dominated conversation or topped charts, but the ones you found yourself recommending to friends, or returning to for a second watch or read.

Share your picks and, if you’r … ⌘ Read more

Question to my fellow Vimers: Which snippet insertion mechanism are you using or can you (not) recommend?

Rust’s ‘Vision Doc’ Makes Recommendations to Help Keep Rust Growing
The team authoring the Rust 2025 Vision Doc interviewed Rust developers to find out what they liked about the language — and have now issued three recommendations “to help Rust continue to scale across domains and usage levels.”

— Enumerate and describe Rust’s design goals and integrate them into our processes, helping to ensure they … ⌘ Read more

‘I love my chest’: Why Kate chose to ‘stay flat’ after breast cancer
After a cancer diagnosis, Kate Miller’s doctor recommended a mastectomy on one side only. But Kate wanted both breasts gone. ⌘ Read more

Fuck me, soooooooo beautiful! Awwww! :‘-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYfKgi133qo

This focuses more on the landscape part, other episodes also have amazing interactions with the locals. I cannot recommend the Itchy Boots channel enough. It’s in my top three channels of all time I believe. I hardly get the travel bug, but this has now changed. Watching Noraly’s videos brings me great joy. It also shows humanity is not lost, contrary to what one might think in this crazy world. :-)

Caution, this channel gets very addictive!

I lost £13k after my second-hand EV turned out to be a clone car
Sevak Maljian says he carried out all recommended checks when buying a used car. ⌘ Read more

Findings set to reveal dysfunction that led to WA’s first youth detention death
The coroner investigating WA’s first recorded death in youth detention is expected to hand down wide-ranging findings and recommendations following the death of 16-year-old Cleveland Dodd in 2022. Here’s everything you need to know. ⌘ Read more

Not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth, US vaccine advisers say
President Donald Trump is calling the vote a “very good decision” after US vaccine advisers recommended ending the universal hepatitis B shots at birth. ⌘ Read more

Teen seriously injured in e-bike crash in Perth’s western suburbs
A 14-year-old boy suffers serious injuries in an e-bike crash in Perth’s western suburbs, just two days after a parliamentary inquiry into WA’s e-rideable laws made 33 recommendations in a bid to make the devices safer. ⌘ Read more

Linux Still Dealing With Quirky Firewire Devices As We Enter 2026
For Linux 6.19 as what will be the first stable kernel release of 2026, the IEEE-1394 Firewire stack continues dealing with device quirks and improving support for different Firewire-connected devices. In 2026 is also when the Linux Firewire maintainer plans to begin recommending users migrate away from the IEEE-1394 bus followed by closing the Linux Firewire efforts in 2029… ⌘ Read more

AT&T and Verizon Are Fighting Back Against T-Mobile’s Easy Switch Tool
AT&T and Verizon are blocking T-Mobile’s new “Switching Made Easy” tool that scans their customer accounts to recommend comparable plans. AT&T is also suing, alleging T-Mobile used bots to scrape over 100 fields of sensitive customer data. From The Mobile Report: According to a lawsuit, which AT&T has shared directly with us, T-Mob … ⌘ Read more

Hegseth’s use of Signal app posed risk to US personnel, watchdog finds
A report by the Pentagon watchdog concludes US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated Pentagon policy by using his personal device for official business and recommends better training for all Pentagon officials. ⌘ Read more

@kiwu@twtxt.net I’d recommend the one i linked you to a 2nd hand Sony 👌

For those visiting Hanoi in the Old Quarters that are beer snobs like me; highly recommend this place called Local Craft Beer 🤩

Young detainee forced to wear makeshift spit hood, report finds
An incident at a Tasmanian youth detention centre where a detainee had an improvised spit hood put over his head while being transported by a contracted security company, has been criticised for being “entirely incompatible” with human rights. ⌘ Read more

Threats against Victorian judges, magistrates by sovereign citizens double
A report tabled in state parliament has recommended judicial officers be paid an allowance to increase their personal security. ⌘ Read more

Insider speaks out after major charity rocked by mass resignations
A Lions Club member who ordered an investigation into how Need for Feed subsidised volunteer drivers is speaking out after recommendations to improve transparency were not implemented. ⌘ Read more

WHO gives green-light to Ozempic-style drugs for obesity
Ozempic-style medications have been recommended as long-term treatments for obesity under new guidelines released by the World Health Organization. ⌘ Read more

@kiwu@twtxt.net I see. I have no experience on the matter, sadly. :-( I am sure you can find plenty of recommendations online. Beware of anything below $100 (you will find plenty of cheap, but they are, indeed, cheap in the whole sense of the word). I’d say, a decent one will start around $250-$300, and up.

Newegg Sparks Debate With New PayPal-Integrated AI Shopping Push
BrianFagioli writes: Newegg’s new partnership with PayPal is another sign that mainstream e-commerce is shifting control from users to AI-driven intermediaries. Instead of shoppers visiting Newegg directly, PayPal’s agentic commerce system pushes product discovery through AI platforms like Perplexity where recommendations, checkout, and fraud che … ⌘ Read more

The ‘concerning’ link between childhood maltreatment and suicide risk
Suicide Prevention Australia says there’s an “urgent” need for action to stop the “significant and lasting” impact of childhood trauma. ⌘ Read more

@iolfree@tilde.club @movq@www.uninformativ.de So true! Good read, thanks for recommending. :-)

What has changed in the year since the NT’s landmark DV inquest?
A year after NT Coroner Elisabeth Armitage handed down 35 recommendations from a landmark domestic violence inquest, those on the frontline say things are going backwards. ⌘ Read more

Looking for recommendations to spoil my cat as we are nearing the end. ⌘ Read more

To finish, we have #Macron. #Sovereignty? Nah, what he wants is:

• less regulation
  
• a “smaller”, “risk-based” #GDPR
  
• postpone 1 year the #AIAct obligations for big tech
  

With a straight face, he recommends these anti-sovereingty measures as things that somehow will be good for our tech sovereignty….

At least he puts emphasis on enforcing #DMA, and make sure that hyperscalers comply with it.

He also defends EU-first public procurement, but his examples are SAP and Mistral (and their non-interoperable solutions)…

Finally, he things it is important to speed up AI adoption, going as far as saying that next year instead of a digital sovereignty summit we’ll have an AI summit…

No, not finally! To finish, he wants to “protect the children”! We all know where that one leads…

@prologic@twtxt.net no, I really meant small. I only have a handful of GiBs left of storage. If you can wait until mid-December, then no probleml. Right now it is kind of running on fumes. For testing, and to do not disturb anyone timelines, I recommend you run a small test instance. Running GtS is easier than running Yarn, by the way. Word.

Queensland (and everyone else) reject call to weaken bail laws
The nation’s attorneys-general met today in Brisbane before the release of a report recommending nationwide bail law changes. ⌘ Read more

CNCF and SlashData Report Finds Leading AI Tools Gaining Adoption in Cloud Native Ecosystems
New report provides maturity and recommendation scores for tools and projects across AI inference, ML orchestration, and agentic AI platforms Key Highlights: ATLANTA, KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NORTH AMERICA. – November 11, 2025 – The Cloud Native… ⌘ Read more

The Algorithm Failed Music
An anonymous reader shares a report: Spotify is the most popular music streaming service in the world. While its algorithmic recommendations aren’t necessarily the reason, its reach has meant that hundreds of millions of people are being fed a steady diet of music curated by a machine. Spotify’s goal is to keep you listening no matter what. In her book Mood Machine, journalist Liz Pelly recounts a story told to … ⌘ Read more

Unesco Adopts Global Standards On ‘Wild West’ Field of Neurotechnology
Unesco has adopted the first global ethical standards for neurotechnology, defining “neural data” and outlining more than 100 recommendations aimed at safeguarding mental privacy. “There is no control,” said Unesco’s chief of bioethics, Dafna Feinholz. “We have to inform the people about the risks, the potential benefits, the alterna … ⌘ Read more

Double congrats, @thecanine@twtxt.net! \o/

I’m not a fan of the gemtext limits. This being only a single page (which probably doesn’t get updated a whole lot), the efforts of having two dedicates files are not all that big, or so I’d at least naively imagine.

I always recommend checking the W3C validator results, even though I’m very guilty of not doing that myself. It just doesn’t occur to me in the heat of the moment. I reckon if I were writing HTML on a more regular basis, I would pick up on making that a real habit. Anyway, your HTML being generated, you probably can’t address the findings, though. So, might not be even worth the time heading over to the validator.

From a privacy point of view, personally, I would definitely host the CSS myself. Other than that, nice link collection. :-)

iOS 26.1 Update Released for iPhone & iPad
Apple has released iOS 26.1 for iPhone, and iPadOS 26.1 for iPad. These are the first major point release updates for iOS 26, and offer a few changes, new features, bug fixes, and security enhancements, and are therefore recommended for users running iOS 26 or iPadOS 26. You will find a new toggle for Liquid … Read More ⌘ Read more

Why do some of us love AI, while others hate it? The answer is in how our brains perceive risk and trust
From ChatGPT crafting emails, to AI systems recommending TV shows and even helping diagnose disease, the presence of machine intelligence in everyday life is no longer science fiction. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, give it a shot. At worst you know that you have to continue your quest. :-)

Fun fact, during a semester break I was actually a little bored, so I just started reading the Qt documentation. I didn’t plan on using Qt for anything, though. I only looked at the docs because they were on my bucket list for some reason. Qt was probably recommended to me and coming from KDE myself, that was motivation enough to look at the docs just for fun.

The more I read, the more hooked I got. The documentation was extremely well written, something I’ve never seen before. The structure was very well thought out and I got the impression that I understood what the people thought when they actually designed Qt.

A few days in I decided to actually give it a real try. Having never done anything in C++ before, I quickly realized that this endeavor won’t succeed. I simply couldn’t get it going. But I found the Qt bindings for Python, so that was a new boost. And quickly after, I discovered that there were even KDE bindings for Python in my package manager, so I immediately switched to them as that integrated into my KDE desktop even nicer.

I used the Python KDE bindings for one larger project, a planning software for a summer camp that we used several years. It’s main feature was to see who is available to do an activity. In the past, that was done on a large sheet of paper, but people got assigned two activities at the same time or weren’t assigned at all. So, by showing people in yellow (free), green (one activity assigned) and red (overbooked), this sped up and improved the planning process.

Another core feature was to generate personalized time tables (just like back in school) and a dedicated view for the morning meeting on site.

It was extended over the years with all sorts of stuff. E.g. I then implemented a warning if all the custodians of an activitiy with kids were underage to satisfy new the guidelines that there should be somebody of age.

Just before the pandemic I started to even add support for personalized live views on phones or tablets during the planning process (with web sockets, though). This way, people could see their own schedule or independently check at which day an activity takes place etc. For these side quests, they don’t have to check the large matrix on the projector. But the project died there.

Here’s a screenshot from one of the main views: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/k3man.png

This Python+Qt rewrite replaced and improved the Java+Swing predecessor.

@prologic@twtxt.net so far, yup. I recommend to make the event banner bigger. I almost missed the details of it, as the text is quite tiny.

The human cost of healthy eating: Some recommended US diets carry higher risk of forced labor in food supply chains
Many Americans choose food based on cost and nutrition, but personal values, such as animal welfare and environmental concerns, also shape what ends up on our plates. ⌘ Read more

18.5yo cat was recommended to be euthanised, I don’t think I agree ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de I had automatically yt-dlped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZTSIYkuMlU. It’s only worth for an experiment, no recommendation to watch.

I would absolutely recommend Mint to anyone, not just my geeky friends.

@dce@hashnix.club Apart from the crap produced in Redmond two decades ago, I only ever used and still happily use Linux, mainly Debian and Ubuntu. I’ve no idea, but maybe something in there catches your eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems (I know, what a silly recommendation.)