Soooo very very close! 😅 
FRIENDS I GOT A PHYSICAL COPY OF A TUX GAME LOOK AT ITTTTTTTTTT
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Only 10% of the German population had Internet access in 1998: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Deutschland#/media/Datei:Diagramm_Internetnutzer_in_Deutschland.svg I guess I was lucky in that regard.
(If today’s tech wasn’t constantly trying to track and scam you, I might still be an early adopter.)
Russian weapons plant hit by drones in Tambov Oblast, media reports attacks across country ⌘ Read more
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44197932
Points: 517
# Comments: 190 ⌘ Read more
NATO officials reject Russian demand to halt expansion, media reports ⌘ Read more
QR codes, already posted about them in the last two posts, but I want to hear your hot takes: Should they only be black and white, are they even worth doing in 2025, incorporating them into things,..?
Also, finally getting full screen view for avatars in XMPP - a better integrated one, after 25 years. Y@ay!

EVERYTHING’S GNARLY 🎵 🔪
How to Enable Volume Slider on iPhone Lock Screen
For the majority of existence for iPhone, anytime that music, podcasts, audiobooks, or media was being played on the device but the screen was locked, a volume slider was visible on the iPhone Lock Screen. The volume slider made it easy to see what volume something was playing at, and also made it very easy … Read More ⌘ Read more
How to Enable Volume Slider on iPhone Lock Screen
For the majority of existence for iPhone, anytime that music, podcasts, audiobooks, or media was being played on the device but the screen was locked, a volume slider was visible on the iPhone Lock Screen. The volume slider made it easy to see what volume something was playing at, and also made it very easy … Read More ⌘ Read more
I’m finding this very interesting… An evolved neural network that plays the game of tic-tac-toe and so far is a pretty decent player. Here is a visualization of it’s evolved “brain” that underwent GA (genetic algorithm) training with classification learning + self-play. 
I sent you my QR code, please respond!

*for context: long ago, there were some complaints, about some of my sitting drawings, where the legs are apart, not using dithering/more shading and one of my favourite artists, made a video, exploring the use of QR codes, in art
P.S.: the code just redirects to my websites
This is one of my attempts: 
$ go build ./cmd/xor/... && ./xor
Generation 95 | Fitness: 0.999964 | Nodes: 9 | Conns: 19
Target reached!
Best network performance:
[0 0] → got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.000) ✅
[0 1] → got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.990) ✅
[1 0] → got=1 exp=1 (raw=0.716) ✅
[1 1] → got=0 exp=0 (raw=0.045) ✅
Overall accuracy: 100.0%
Wrote best.dot – render with `dot -Tpng best.dot -o best.png`
Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
Article URL: https://blog.google/technology/ai/generative-media-models-io-2025/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44044043
Points: 503
# Comments: 298 ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de you need to get a gold chain and hang this little penguin on it, so that nobody can doubt your Linux user status.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org maybe 3D printed toys are the solution, to the dust collecting problem. My collection of 3D printed canines, just expanded today, with this new keychain:

I made a batgirl one for you (it’s so tiny…….)
I’m thinking of bringing back filters (this time not as a feature flag, just baked in): New filters: Hide Feed, Hide Bots, Hide News, Media Only, No Replies, Local Only — toggle to trim noise & surface the Twts you care about.
Thousands of everlasting daisies turn farm into social media hotspot
A decision to plant a trial crop of the flowers 20 years ago has transformed the Egerton-Warburton family farm into a haven for creatives and curious visitors. ⌘ Read more
i got a shelf for all my cassette tapes! from a lovely person on facebook marketplace :] i don’t think they produce these anymore, i think i got a good deal
Introducing Mac Themes Garden
I’ve “launched” the Mac Themes Garden! It is a website showcasing more than 3,000 (and counting) Kaleidoscope from the Classic Mac era, ready to be seen, downloaded and explored! Check it out! Oh, and there also is an RSS feed you can subscribe to see themes as they are added/updated! ↫ Damien Erambert If you’ve spent any time on retrocomputing-related social media channels, you’ve definitely seen the old classic Mac OS themes in your timeline. They are exquisitely beauti … ⌘ Read more
HydraLink Offers Open USB-to-Automotive Ethernet Interface for Testing and Diagnostics
HydraLink is now available on CrowdSupply as a compact and open-source USB-to-Automotive Ethernet adapter intended for engineers, researchers, and others working with in-vehicle networks. It supports both 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1 over single-pair Ethernet, enabling direct access to automotive Ethernet without the need for media converters or additional lab equipment. Hy … ⌘ Read more
smug woof

@bmallred@staystrong.run It really is 🤣 
happy free comic book day! my store was out of freebies but i got some of my pulls and also a trade of one of my favorite reads last year!
I’m not even being facetious here either. I’d llove to see you “unit tests” this: 
Confession:
I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️
La France Dacialand
Magie des médias trop occupés à commenter les politiques américaines et la mort du pape, la récente étude de l’INSEE portant sur la pauvreté en France n’a eu qu’une modeste couverture : pour la presse, cette pauvreté qui touche trois Français sur vingt n’est qu’un simple élément de décor qui ne sort que lors des campagnes […] ⌘ Read more
Should ink to this 
P.S: the couple first Seasons and Her (The movie) are the main reasons I find it a bit difficult to go back to mainstream social media or even care about smartphones 😆
A visual flow chart diagram that illustrates how two different but very related concepts can lead to system accidents 👌 
- asynchronous evolution
- drift into failure
Here’s an example of what you end up with (I don’t follow the feed, but it’s in my pod’s cache) 
This is the best I can do! 
god i love XG so much like who else is rapping like them in k-pop. cocona my girl!!!!!!!!
good morning yarn verse. have a ruru clip
PR to Add improved styles for the logo for twtxt.ndev

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org “hmmm, marzipan….”

This one just occurred to me randomly.

yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as "client" features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:
This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:
- Sharing small posts
- Sharing links
- Sharing media
- Having long conversations
- Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
- RSVPing to virtual or physical events
**(#6kkpdda) This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:
Sharing small posts
Sharing links
Sharing media
Having long conversat …**
This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:Sharing small posts
Sharing links
Sharing media
Having long conversations
Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
RSVPing to virtual or physical events ⌘ Read more
Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:
- 2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microblogging
- 2017–2019 – Community builds CLI tools, but adoption remains niche
- 2020 – Yarn.social launched by @prologic@twtxt.net with federation, threading, UI
- 2021–2023 – Pods sync, user mentions, blocking, search, and media support added
- 2024+ – Yarn.social becomes the reference Twtxt platform, with active federated pods
**(#2dh7m3q) Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:
2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microbloggin …**
Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:2016 – Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microblogging
2017–2019 – Community builds CLI tools, but adoption remains niche
2020 – Yarn.social launched by @prologic @twtxt.net with federation, threading, UI
2021–2023 – Pods sync, user mentions, blocking, search, and media … ⌘ Read more
I do not agree with every decision the Internet Archive makes, but I consider it a very important tool, for Internet archival and preservation - to the point, it even influenced what licence I chose, for my media and websites.
Sadly they’re now facing another threat, in the form of litigious music labels, that they’re now trying to convince to stop, by collecting signatures here.
i must stop ghosting all my social media except discord and fedi when i am depressed. ghosting is the mind killer
@prologic@twtxt.net earliest I have of you:

My welcome message, and first recorded mention (that I could find):
