Netflix’s Live-Action Remake of Hit Animated Show Finally Returns in June
After a lengthy wait, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is finally set to return. The streaming giant has confirmed that Season 2 will premiere in June 2026. The upcoming season is expected to expand the story’s scope while introducing several fan-favorite characters. Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 is just a few […]

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Superman & Jason Momoa’s Lobo Have Already Fought in DCU
Superman and Lobo may already have a history in the new DCU. The two characters, played in James Gunn’s universe by David Corenswet and Jason Momoa, will appear in the upcoming movie Supergirl. The film will be out in theatres on June 26 and is directed by Craig Gillespie. Jason Momoa Reveals Superman and Lobo […]

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Length of Lobo’s Role in Supergirl Reported & Fans Won’t Be Pleased
A new, disappointing update about the scope of Lobo‘s role in Supergirl has surfaced. It suggests that the fan-favorite character may not get a lot of screentime in the movie. Lobo said to be in just 15% of Supergirl, plot revealed Fans hoping that Lobo will play a big role in Supergirl will need to […]

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Supriya Ganesh Addresses The Pitt Exit, Points to Noah Wyle ‘For Answers’
Actress Supriya Ganesh recently spoke about her exit from the hit HBO Max medical drama The Pitt. After two seasons of playing one of the central characters, she will not return for Season 3. The actress pointed to the executive producers “for answers” about the surprising decision. Supriya Ganesh talks about her exit from The […]

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Spider-Man Noir Co-Creator Says Prime Video Show Is ‘More Noir’ Than the Comic
The co-creator of the Spider-Noir character has shared his take on the recently released Prime Video series. David Hine praised the cast and highlighted the nuances he liked. However, he also had strong, less favorable opinions about a specific aspect. David Hine reviews Spider-Noir Created by Oren Uziel, the live-action adaptation of Spider-Noir debuted on […]

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Anya Taylor-Joy’s Lucky Gets New Sun-Scorched Poster After Trailer Launch
Anya Taylor-Joy‘s upcoming Apple TV show Lucky got a new official poster. This comes shortly after the trailer, which reminded subscribers of its summer release. Lucky gets official poster after trailer release Apple TV shared a new poster for Lucky on X (formerly Twitter). It features a red-hued photo cutout of Anya Taylor-Joy’s title character, […]

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Lexie’s Post-Resurrection Attitude on DOOL May Have a Bizarre Explanation
Days of Our Lives fans are discussing the return of Lexie, who was brought back on the show after 15 years. Much of the discussion centers on Lexie’s new attitude, which appears sharper and harsher than many viewers remember. A fan on Reddit recently shared a theory about why the character may have undergone this […]

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Samantha Callback in Sex and the City Star’s New Ad Has Fans Buzzing
Sex and the City star Jason Lewis brought back his famous character from the franchise in a new video, where he referenced the character’s fictional relationship with Kim Cattrall‘s Samantha Jones. Created as an advertisement for The Owls Brew, the video sparked discussion among Sex and the City fans because of its reference to Samantha. […]

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Major Aliens Star Almost Chose Stanley Kubrick Over James Cameron
A casting tug-of-war between two legendary directors reshaped Aliens. James Cameron created an entirely new character to prevent one actor from choosing Stanley Kubrick’s movie. The revelation gave new insight into how the 1986 sci-fi sequel assembled its iconic Colonial Marine squad. Ricco Ross almost did Full Metal Jacket instead of Aliens Ricco Ross, who […]

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DC’s 2026 Pride Event Is Its Best Yet for 1 Simple Reason
One simple change makes Justice League: Dream Girls – A DC Pride Event the best special the publisher has ever released for Pride Month. Since 2021, DC has annually printed at least one special highlighting their LGBTQIA+ characters and creators. However, the latest comic series is easily its strongest to date because one minor change. […]

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New Avengers Trailer Sees Major Marvel Character Defeat Doctor Doom
Marvel Comics has released the trailer for Avengers: Armageddon, and it’s pretty interesting. The trailer teases the fall of Doctor Doom and the rise of a dangerous new threat. Also, the upcoming comics event will see the Avengers teaming up to defeat an extremely overpowered enemy who has control over their fates. Avengers: Armageddon #1, created […]

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Robert Pattinson Reveals Surprising ‘90s Inspiration for The Odyssey Character
Robert Pattinson found an unlikely muse for his role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. To play one of ancient literature’s most despised villains, the actor looked into a flashy con man from a 1995 crime drama. Robert Pattinson says Antinous in The Odyssey is a ‘little like’ James Woods’ Lester in Casino Robert Pattinson plays […]

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Adafruit Pauses Blog After Demand Letter From Flux.ai’s Lawyers
Longtime Slashdot reader Matt_Bennett shares a blog post from Adafruit: Adafruit received at 10:38 p.m. ET on May 22, 2026 a letter from former FBI chief of staff, Jonathan F. Lenzner, and partner at Fenwick & West LLP, counsel for Flux, demanding, among other things, that Adafruit refrain from publishing an article addressing what the letter charact … ⌘ Read more

Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious
Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon series—made with AI—without her consent. ⌘ Read more

QuiznessDesk, Monday, May 25
What is the only country that Denmark borders?
What type of animal is a sidewinder?
Chemically pure gold contains how many carats?
Which Charles Dickens novel featured the character of Tiny Tim?
What is the longest river in France?
Which Lion King character did Jeremy Irons provide the voice for?
Who had a hit in 1982 with Maneater?
In mythology, which of the following did Pegasus have that a normal horse wouldn`t? Wings, a crown, or three eyes?
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QuiznessDesk, Wednesday, May 20
The Bahamas lie off the coast of which US state?
How is ascorbic acid more commonly known?
Which of the following was not one of the famous Brontë sisters? Anne, Jane or Emily?
In what decade did the building of the Berlin Wall begin?
Which cartoon character’s name is Italian for “pine eye”?
A Kind Of Magic and Hammer To Fall by Queen are songs on the soundtrack to which 1986 film?
Kelly Rowland, Michelle Williams and Beyonce Knowles made up which band?
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Kids Bypass Age Verification With Fake Moustaches
A new Internet Matters survey suggests the UK’s Online Safety Act age checks are easy for many children to bypass. Reported workarounds include fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, video game characters, and even drawing on a fake mustache. The Register reports: The group surveyed over 1,000 UK children and their parents, and while it did report some positive effects from changes ma … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oops, I guess the new text is a bit obscure. If you follow the link, the text is a bit more explicit, but you still need to know what a lexical scope is. Anyway, this is part of Perl moving very carefully toward being UTF-8 by default while also not breaking code written in the 90s. If you name a recent version like “use v5.42;” then Perl stops letting you use non-ASCII characters unless you also say “use utf8;”. The “lexically” part basically means that strictness continues until the next “}”, or the end of the program. That lets you fix up old code one block at a time, if you aren’t ready to apply the new strictness to a whole file at once.

I’m supporting incremental SQLite schema changes to just upgrade from an older database version to whatever the current software version supports. In the past, I already noticed that this is quite expensive in unit tests when each test case runs through the entire schema patches and applies them one by one.

To speed up test execution I now decided that I finally go through the troubles of maintaining both a set of incremental patches and a full schema setup in one go. A unit test verifies that both ways end up with the same structure. This gives me a set of SQLs to check the structures:

SELECT type, name, tbl_name, sql
FROM sqlite_schema
ORDER BY type, name, tbl_name

Unfortunately, the resulting CREATE TABLE SQL queries are formatted differently, depending on whether the full schema was set up in one big step or the structure had been modified with ALTER TABLE. Mainly, added columns are not on their own lines but appended in one physical line. That’s why I wanted an SQL formatting tool. Since I didn’t find one that works decently, I’m now doing some simple string manipulation. Joining consecutive whitespace into a single space character, removing spaces before commas and closing parentheses and spaces after opening parentheses. This works surpringly good enough. Of course, if it fails, the “diff” is absolutely horrendous.

Now for the cool part, my test execution dropped from around 5:05 minutes to just 1:32 minutes! I call that a win.

I just stumbled across PRAGMA table_info('tablename') https://sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_table_info, PRAGMA foreign_key_list('tablename') and friends. I guess, I have to play with that, now. It’s probably much better to use than the SQL text approach.

Six of my last eight posts were about twtxt itself. As much as it’s understandable between all the excitement and confusion with finding out and using a new technology, I really don’t want this feed to become something like this:

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Python ‘Chardet’ Package Replaced With LLM-Generated Clone, Re-Licensed
Ancient Slashdot reader ewhac writes: The maintainers of the Python package `chardet`, which attempts to automatically detect the character encoding of a string, announced the release of version 7 this week, claiming a speedup factor of 43x over version 6. In the release notes, the maintainers claim that version 7 is, “a ground … ⌘ Read more

sudo-rs Breaks Historical Norms With Now Enabling Password Feedback By Default
On recent builds of Ubuntu 26.04 when being prompted by sudo for the password, password feedback is now enabled by default to show asterisk (*) characters when inputting your password. Traditionally sudo has not provided password feedback in the name of security to not divulge the length of your password in case anyone is looking/capturing your screen. But upstream sudo-rs has now changed the default behavior in the name of an improv … ⌘ Read more

‘How Many AIs Does It Take To Read a PDF?’
Despite AI’s progress in building complex software, the ubiquitous PDF remains something of a grand challenge – a format Adobe developed in the early 1990s to preserve the precise visual appearance of documents. PDFs consist of character codes, coordinates, and rendering instructions rather than logically ordered text, and even state-of-the-art models asked to extract information from them wil … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Abed is a character from Community and “cool cool cool” was one of his “things”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXYjejIup4

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, I see. Unfortunately, there seems to be no box drawing character for a corner with a diagonal line. Indeed, this is probably the best you can do.

Is the single character enough to hit it comfortably with the mouse, though? Maybe one additional to the left and above could be something to think about. Not sure. Of course this complicates it a bit more. Personally, I like fullscreen windows, so I’m definitely the wrong guy to judge this or even comment on. :-)

Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides
Google and Character.AI have agreed to settle multiple lawsuits from families alleging the chatbot encouraged self-harm and suicide among teens. “The settlements would mark the first resolutions in the wave of lawsuits against tech companies whose AI chatbots encouraged teens to hurt or kill themselves,” notes Axios. From the report: Families … ⌘ Read more

People of Dubious Character Are More Likely To Enter Public Service
A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found that Chinese graduate students who plagiarized more heavily in their master’s theses were significantly more likely to pursue careers in the civil service and to climb the ranks faster once inside.

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Fleischer Studios Criticized for Claiming Betty Boop is Not Public Domain
Here it is — Betty Boop’s first appearance, which became public domain on Thursday. It’s a 60-second song halfway through a longer cartoon about a restaurant titled Dizzy Dishes. (The first scene makes it clear this is a restaurant of anthropomorphized animals — which explains why the as-yet-unnamed character has floppy dog ears…)
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At around 19 seconds in the video, you can see some minor graphical glitches.

Text mode applications in Unix terminals are such a mess. It’s a miracle that this works at all.

In the old DOS days, you could get text (and colors) on the screen just by writing to memory, because the VGA memory was mapped to a fixed address. We don’t have that model anymore. To write a character to a certain position, you have to send an escape sequence to move the cursor to that position, then more escape sequences to set the color/attributes, then more escape sequences to get the cursor to where you actually want it. And then of course UTF-8 on top, i.e. you have no idea what the terminal will actually do when you send it a “🙂”.

Mouse events work by the terminal sending escape sequences to you (https://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html#Mouse%20Tracking).

ncurses does an amazing job here. It’s fast (by having off-screen buffers and tracking changes, so it rarely has to actually send full screen updates to the terminal) and reliable and works across terminals. Without the terminfo database that keeps track of which terminal supports/requires which escape sequences, we’d be lost.

But gosh, what a mess this is under the hood … Makes you really miss memory mapped VGA and mouse drivers.

Well, you girls and guys are making cool things, and I have some progress to show as well. 😅

https://movq.de/v/c0408a80b1/movwin.mp4

Scrolling widgets appears to work now. This is (mostly) Unicode-aware: Note how emojis like “😅” are double-width “characters” and the widget system knows this. It doesn’t try to place a “😅” in a location where there’s only one cell available.

Same goes for that weird “ä” thingie, which is actually “a” followed by U+0308 (a combining diacritic). Python itself thinks of this as two “characters”, but they only occupy one cell on the screen. (Assuming your terminal supports this …)

This library does the heavy Unicode lifting: https://github.com/jquast/wcwidth (Take a look at its implementation to learn how horrible Unicode and human languages are.)

The program itself looks like this, it’s a proper widget hierarchy:

(There is no input handling yet, hence some things are hardwired for the moment.)

Oh, that’s cute: DuckDuckGo puts a little helmet on the duck when you search for Skyrim. (Katria is a Skyrim character.)

Disney Says Google AI Infringes Copyright ‘On a Massive Scale’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Wild West of copyrighted characters in AI may be coming to an end. There has been legal wrangling over the role of copyright in the AI era, but the mother of all legal teams may now be gearing up for a fight. Disney has sent a cease and desist to Google, alleging the company’s AI tools are infr … ⌘ Read more

Disney and OpenAI have made a surprise deal – what happens next?
In a stunning reversal, Disney has changed tack with regard to safeguarding its copyrighted characters from incorporation into AI tools – perhaps a sign that no one can stem the tide of AI ⌘ Read more

Disney Puts $1 Billion Into OpenAI, Licenses 200+ Characters for AI-Generated Videos and Images
Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and has entered into a three-year licensing deal that will let users generate AI-powered short videos and images featuring more than 200 characters from its Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar franchises.

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**1girl 3d alluring armwear artist_name ass ass_focus athletic_female beanie big_ass big_breasts bitch blizzard_entertainment blonde_hair bottomless breasts bubble_butt caucasian cold curvy dat_ass fat_ass fitfemale freckles freja(overwatch) from_behind full_lips gloves headphones high_res huge_ass indoors large_ass legs looking_at_viewer looking_back mostly_nude open_mouth overwatch overwatch_2 pawg posing sexy sideboob slut snow standing thiccomantis thick_ass thick_thighs toned tongue video_game_character wide … ⌘ Read more

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RoboCop Statue Rises In Detroit
alternative_right quotes a report from the Guardian: The statue looms and glints at more than 11 feet tall and weighing 3,500 pounds, looking out at the city with, how to put it … a characteristically stern expression? Despite its daunting appearance and history as a crimefighter of last resort, the giant new bronze figure of the movie character RoboCop is being seen as a symbol of hope, drawing fan … ⌘ Read more

Fuzzy Zoeller, who beat Greg Norman to win 1984 US Open playoff, dies
Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion and one of golf’s most gregarious characters whose career was tainted by a racially insensitive joke about Tiger Woods, has died aged 74. ⌘ Read more

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All my newly added test cases failed, that movq thankfully provided in https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/pulls/28#issuecomment-20801 for the draft of the twt hash v2 extension. The first error was easy to see in the diff. The hashes were way too long. You’ve already guessed it, I had cut the hash from the twelfth character towards the end instead of taking the first twelve characters: hash[12:] instead of hash[:12].

After fixing this rookie mistake, the tests still all failed. Hmmm. Did I still cut the wrong twelve characters? :-? I even checked the Go reference implementation in the document itself. But it read basically the same as mine. Strange, what the heck is going on here?

Turns out that my vim replacements to transform the Python code into Go code butchered all the URLs. ;-) The order of operations matters. I first replaced the equals with colons for the subtest struct fields and then wanted to transform the RFC 3339 timestamp strings to time.Date(…) calls. So, I replaced the colons in the time with commas and spaces. Hence, my URLs then also all read https, //example.com/twtxt.txt.

But that was it. All test green. \o/

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If you could upload your mind to a virtual utopia, would you?
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Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka on Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
Sonic Team’s Takashi Iizuka opens up about his move to Los Angeles to rebuild the Sonic name. Now, he’s just released Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, a high speed racing video game inviting characters from Microsoft, Nickelodeon and more. ⌘ Read more

Play Super Mario Bros Remastered for Some Retro Gaming Fun
Gamers and Mario enthusiasts in particular are sure to get a kick out of Super Mario Brothers Remastered, a fan-made unofficial remake of the original Nintendo Super Mario Bros game that includes new levels, new options and game modes, new characters, a level editor, physics improvements, and more. Super Mario Bros Remastered is not meant … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/09/28/play-super-mario-bros-remastered-for-r … ⌘ Read more