@david@collantes.us Ah, yes, the hardware might not. As I just said in the other thread: No problem, you can keep the same installation. I did so many times on my PC/laptop at work.

@javivf@adn.org.es Oh, yes, looking at SMART is always a good idea. 😅 My SSD isn’t that old, though. It got replaced recently, tbh. But no need to reinstall, I just copy the files to a new disk. (Works just as fine when switching to an entire new machine.)

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club @abucci@anthony.buc.ci – I’ve already spoken to @xuu@txt.sour.is on IRC about this, but the new SqliteCache backend I’m working on here, what are your thoughts regarding mgirations from old MemoryCache (which is now gone in the codebase in this branch). Do you care to migrate at all, or just let the pod re-fetch all feeds? 🤔

10 Iconic Landmarks That Were Nearly Called Something Else
Some of the world’s most iconic places have instantly recognizable names—imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower, New York without Times Square, or Australia without the Great Barrier Reef. But history doesn’t always work out the way we expect. Many of these landmarks were nearly given completely different names, some of which would have changed how […]

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10 Musicians Who Became Famous After Death
Musicians understand that they may never achieve stardom, but there is no way of knowing if they will turn into legends posthumously. Some musicians work hard at their craft and spend decades trying to succeed. They write and record multiple songs and albums, earn record deals, and travel the world, playing their music anywhere that […]

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Mandated use of AI at work
Although I also use AI for some features on this blog and sometimes chat with some AI agent (whether it’s ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot), I have mixed feelings about its mandated use at work (Shopify is just one company doing it). ⌘ Read more

I paid an athlete $120 to send me a personalised video. You can, too
Thousands of celebrities are sending personalised videos to paying fans. But how exactly does it work? ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net pretty neat, search actually works now!

FYI: I’ve re-opened up search for anonymous use. So things like this now work without having to have an account on this pod or login. 👌 #search #twtxt

FYI: I’ve re-opened up search for anonymous use. So things like this now work without having to have an account on this pod or login. 👌 #sear …
FYI: I’ve re-opened up search for anonymous use. So things like this now work without having to have an account on this pod or login. 👌 #search #twtxt ⌘ Read more

This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod’s entire data volume 🤦‍♂️ What a disastrous incident 🤣 I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup (we’ll get into why I hadn’t been taking backups consistently later), that we’d start a fresh! 😅 Spring clean! 🧼 – Anyway… One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own ways of working… I’ve now rectified this…

Does mentioning @prologic@twtxt.netdoesnm.p.psf.lt not work? 🧐

(#idk64aa) Does mentioning @prologic@prologic not work? 🧐
Does mentioning @prologic @twtxt.net doesnm.p.psf.lt not work? 🧐 ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yup yup. Much work to be done, so little time. 😩

I need to get Peering working again on this branch! That will drag in many Twts Twts I now no longer have 😭

I need to get Peering working again on this branch! That will drag in many Twts Twts I now no longer have 😭
I need to get Peering working again on this branch! That will drag in many Twts Twts I now no longer have 😭 ⌘ Read more

(#igytpja) @bender@bender Working?
@bender @twtxt.net Working? ⌘ Read more

(#o5rdlra) Works okay hmmm what’s up?
Works okay hmmm what’s up? ⌘ Read more

A cat broke into a greenhouse at work and found the Cat Nip ⌘ Read more

if someone can help me create a list of things that are either not working or behaving in an unexpected/indescribable way, please list them, in …
if someone can help me create a list of things that are either not working or behaving in an unexpected/indescribable way, please list them, in some order of priority, and I’ll focus on fixing them tomorrow. G’night! 😴 ( leaving this pod on the highly experimental SqliteCache backend) ⌘ Read more

Okay. let’s see how things work now…. (sorry for all the fucking around!)
Okay. let’s see how things work now…. ( sorry for all the fucking around!) ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of March 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these project … ⌘ Read more

Keymap not working :( ⌘ Read more

10 Low-Tech Solutions Beating High-Tech in Developing Regions
In the most resource-challenged parts of the world, the fanciest technologies often gather dust while simpler solutions thrive. Against unstable electricity, limited technical expertise, and scarce resources, a quiet revolution in appropriate technology transforms lives through elegantly simple designs. These low-tech innovations succeed by working with existing constraints rather than fighting against them, usi … ⌘ Read more

Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator
Hi all,

Tom Howard is going public as HN moderator today. He has been doing HN moderation work for years already and knows the site and its practices inside-out, so the only new thing you’ll see is mod comments from Tom showing up in the threads the way mine do. I’m not going anywhere, so you’ll have two of us to put up with going forward :)

I’ve known Tom since he was sctb’s and my batchmate back in YC W09. Many of you know him as the kind and thoughtful community member … ⌘ Read more

10 Genius German Words with No English Equivalent
The German language has a knack for packing complex ideas into a single word or brief phrase. From time to time, those phrases work their way into the English language. For instance, you’ve probably used the word “zeitgeist” to convey the defining mood or spirit of an era or “schadenfreude” to express the joy you […]

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Hmmm this needs a bit more work.
Hmmm this needs a bit more work. ⌘ Read more

Blue95: Fedora Atomic Xfce converted to a Windows 95 desktop
Blue95 is a modern and lightweight desktop experience that is reminiscent of a bygone era of computing. Based on Fedora Atomic Xfce with the Chicago95 theme. ↫ Blue95 GitHub page Exactly as it says on the tin. This is by far the easiest way to get the excellent Chigaco95 theme for Xfce set up and working in a polished way, and it also contains a few different application choices from the regular Fedora Xfce desk … ⌘ Read more

Registry format is its own thing. It takes the regular feed and appends nick \t uri \t to it. Its something that existed before yarn got big. There is still a bit of work but I will put together a ui for it to make it easier to view and navigate.

Apple’s latest MacBook Air, Mac Studio put its new chips to good work
Apple’s M4 chip, which debuted in the iPad Pro last year, has made its way to the entire portfolio of Macs, bringing improvements in processing and graphics as well as AI. ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is Got the most basic view working 😅
@xuu @txt.sour.is Got the most basic view working 😅 ⌘ Read more

(#w4mnpkq) @xuu@xuu Actually… I’m working on a new Sqlite backend/cache for yarnd 🤣 I might revive yarns (_the crawler / search …
@xuu @txt.sour.is Actually… I’m working on a new Sqlite backend/cache for yarnd 🤣 I might revive yarns ( the crawler / search engine) one day 🤞 ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me I am currently working on Implementing a registry that is also a crawler. It finds any feeds that are mentioned or in the follows header.

https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt

https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users

I think @prologic@twtxt.net is also working on one.

10 Worst Movies by Great Directors
While the days of movies serving as a cultural monolith are long gone, there are still names out there that demand as much as hundreds of millions of dollars in investment from companies and demand from audience members many hours in driving to theaters, watching ads, reading or writing essays devoted to their work. Whether […]

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Interesting.. so running into an issue where queries only return a partal set of rows if i run in a docker image built from scratch. i have to add the debian root image for it to work. I wonder what file is missing that the root has?

Cedar: A New Approach to Policy Management for Kubernetes
The challenges organizations face when managing access control and authorization in cloud-native environments continue to grow in complexity. Organizations scaling their Kubernetes deployments, for example, work to balance their security requirements, operational flexibility, and policy manageability…. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I had that as my avatar/userprofile pic at work for a few years. 😆

Super stressful day at work and, once I got home: Internet outage.

I guess that’s a sign.

Erlang Solutions: My Journey from Ruby to Elixir: Lessons from a Developer

For years, Ruby was my go-to language for building everything from small prototypes to full-fledged production apps. I fell in love with its elegance and expressiveness and how Ruby on Rails could turn an idea into a working web app in record time. The community—with its focus on kindness and collaboration—only deepened my appreciation. In short, Ruby felt like home.
… ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.10
This new version does not have many new features, but it has quite a few
breaking changes, which should not impact many people, as well as one important
security fix.

Thanks to everyone who contributed with code, issues, suggestions, and reviews!

After working on TLS stuff, I noticed that we still allowed unencrypted SCRAM to be negociated, which is really not good.
For packagers who only want this security fix, the commit fd66aef38d48b6474654cbe87464d7d416d6a5f3 should app … ⌘ Read more

KDE developers show off SDDM replacement
KDE’s login manager, SDDM, has its share of problems, and as such, a number of KDE developers are working on replacement to fix many of these long-standing issues. So, what exactly is wrong with SDDM as it exists today? With SDDM, power management is reinvented from scratch with bespoke configuration. We can’t integrate with Plasma’s network management, power management, volume controls, or brightness controls without reinventing them in the desktop- … ⌘ Read more

10 Incredible Works of Art in Unexpected Places
The vast majority of artworks can be found in galleries and museums. Those casting a slightly wider net can take tours of artful graffiti on the sides of city buildings and explore pretty sculpture gardens. But for those seeking something a little more unusual, there are also art pieces that can be found in rather […]

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(#xxu5i3a) @andros@andros This is cool! 😍 Migut just have to add support for this to see how it might work in yarnd 🤣
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev This is cool! 😍 Migut just have to add support for this to see how it might work in yarnd 🤣 ⌘ Read more

The best Windows laptop for work has one major letdown
Small, fast and packed with raw AI power, HP’s latest premium productivity laptop hits all the right notes for working on the go. But, there is one quibble. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I guess the thing is that usernames are no longer needed for many popular things, like WhatsApp. “Just install the app”, done. When I ran my Matrix server for our family, this was the first thing that people were bummed out about: “Oh, this needs a username and a password? Why doesn’t it just work? That’s annoying.”

People are less and less exposed to “low-level” details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a “file”: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

I lost my original Windows 95 CD (and it’s too expensive for my taste to buy on eBay), so I finally sat down and got an old disk image of one of my PCs to work in QEMU.

I don’t intend to do much with Win95. I just want to be able to boot it, if I want to check how certain things worked or looked in that version. The purpose of this really is to be an archeological digsite.

(#rozpvfa) Unfortunately none of the content on the Wikipedia page for him really criticises much of his work. He must be really good at being a …
Unfortunately none of the content on the Wikipedia page for him really criticises much of his work. He must be really good at being a “businessman” and killing tech innovation 🤣 ⌘ Read more

(#rozpvfa) > After working 14 years at IBM, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity in 2 …

After working 14 years at IBM, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity in 2004.[16][14][12] In July 2005, he was hired by Yahoo! to lead Yahoo! Research in Sunnyvale, California.[17] At Yahoo!, he worked on research projects including search and advertising.[15][18] In 2011, he was appointed as Yahoo!’s chief strategy offi … ⌘ Read more

@david@collantes.us While you’re typing? I guess this could be used as a starting point (doesn’t work on the very first line):

inoremap <CR> <Esc>:r!date +"\%F \%T"<CR>A 

What’s the end goal here? 😅

@eapl.me@eapl.me Thank you for this!

I cast a test vote. Did it work? :-)