Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory
Dave Levitan, Climate Science Writer - MIT Technology Review
_Stephan: ”king” Trump, his administration, and his Congressional vassals are doing nothing about preparing for the ongoing climate change crisis, whose crescendo is estimated to be about 14 years from now. Instead, they seek to entrap the United States in carbon energy to serve the oligarchs who have funded Trump and the Republican Congr … ⌘ Read more
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
MARK SHERMAN, Supreme Court Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: The Epstein Trump pedophilia story has taken over the media, so I want to focus on some other major stories getting very little media attention. This is some good news, surprising in a way, given the MAGAt majority that dominates the Supreme Court. The good news is that the C … ⌘ Read more
‘No way we’re going back’: Canadians are flying just about anywhere but the US
Ewan Gleadow, Staff Writer - Raw Story
_Stephan: The damage “king” Trump has done to the wellbeing of the United States is historic, and it particularly stands out in international relationships. Canadians, Europeans, Chinese, and others aren’t choosing to visit. It has affected the tourism business, the importation by other nations of American goods, and the importat … ⌘ Read more
Common cents: US Mint to press its final penny
Associated Press Reporters, - Associated Press
Stephan: No more pennies. After 232 years, the little copper coins we have handled all our lives will cease to be coined. Here are the facts.
A die for a penny press is seen at the US Mint in Philadelphia on Wednesday. Credit: Matt Slocum / APThe US Mint in [Philadelphia](htt … ⌘ Read more
China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomacy Returns With Threat Against Japan’s Leader
A Chinese diplomat’s call to cut off the prime minister’s “filthy neck” signaled a revival of a combative style Beijing had tried to dial back. ⌘ Read more
Cost of treatment for deadly cancer slashed
The cost of a crucial treatment for a deadly cancer will drop from nearly $13,000 a month to just $25 after it was added to the PBS. ⌘ Read more
How France Remembers the November 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris
A decade ago, Islamic State militants killed 130 people in an assault that shocked France. Some survivors are still struggling, but for many of their compatriots, memories of the attacks are growing more distant. ⌘ Read more
How France Remembers the November 2015 Terrorist Attacks in Paris
A decade ago, Islamic State militants killed 130 people in an assault that shocked France. Some survivors are still struggling, but for many of their compatriots, memories of the attacks are growing more distant. ⌘ Read more
iPhone 16e Has Apparently ‘Failed’ Just Like iPhone Air
Apple’s entry-level iPhone 16e model is selling poorly, just like the iPhone Air, according to an Asia-based leaker.
The Weibo user known as “ Fixed Focus Digital” said that the iPhone 16e is not selling well a … ⌘ Read more
next-20251113: linux-next
Version:next-20251113 (linux-next)Released:2025-11-13 ⌘ Read more
Toyota Opens the Doors To Its First EV Battery Plant In the US
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Production is now underway at Toyota’s new $13.9 billion battery plant in North Carolina, the company’s first outside Japan. After the first batteries rolled off the production line at its new facility in Liberty, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Toyota said today marks a “pivotal moment” in the company … ⌘ Read more
As it happened: Brisbane on Thursday, November 13
For today’s news updates as they happen in Brisbane and beyond. ⌘ Read more
Superquiz, Thursday, November 13
Trivia buffs, test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz. ⌘ Read more
Subsea Cable Investment Set To Double As Tech Giants Accelerate AI Buildout
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach around $13 billion between 2025 and 2027, almost twice the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, according to telecommunications data provider TeleGeography. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft now represent about 50% of the overall market, up from a neglig … ⌘ Read more
UPS (and FedEx) Ground Dozens of MD-11 Aircraft After Tuesday’s Crash in Kentucky
American multinational freight company UPS “has grounded its fleet of MD-11 aircraft,” reports the Guardian, “days after a cargo plane crash that killed at least 13 people in Kentucky. The grounded MD-11s are the same type of plane involved in Tuesday’s crash in Louisville. They were originally built by McDonnell Do … ⌘ Read more
Goose turns 13 today! ⌘ Read more
Deals: Early Black Friday Pricing on M4 MacBook Air for $749 (25% Off) & More
Amazon continues to offer wildly great deals on the M4 MacBook Air, with the 13″ model starting at $749 (down from $999), and the 15″ starting at $949 (down from $1199), with the $250 discount available on other models with more RAM and SSD storage as well. The base model 13″ is a whopping 25% … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/07/deals-early-black-friday-pricing-on-m4-macb … ⌘ Read more
Archinstall 3.0.13 Adds WiFi Connection Menu To Arch Linux Installer
Just days after the Archinstall 3.0.12 release for this text-based Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 is now available to deliver a new feature. That new feature is a text-based interface for being able to connect to a WiFi network within Archinstall… ⌘ Read more
43% of Gen Z Prefer YouTube and TikTok To Traditional TV and Streaming
A new Activate Consulting report reveals that 43% of Gen Z now prefer YouTube and TikTok over traditional TV or paid streaming. With global media revenues surging and traditional TV viewership collapsing, the average person now spends over 13 hours a day consuming content across platforms, effectively living a “32-hour day” th … ⌘ Read more
Deals: $250 Off M4 MacBook Air, Starting at $749 (All-time Low!)
Amazon is cutting $250 off the price of all M4 MacBook Air models, starting at $749 for the 13″ MacBook Air, and $949 for the 15″ MacBook Air. These are all-time low prices and tremendous deals on fantastic Apple laptops, and probably match whatever upcoming Black Friday deals are to be expected. It’s exceptionally rare … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/11/05/deals-250-off-m4-macbook-air-starting-at-749-al … ⌘ Read more
Deals: AirTags 4-pack for $65, M4 MacBook Air from $799
Amazon is slashing $200 off the price of all M4 MacBook Air models, with prices starting at $799 for the 13″ Air, and $999 for the 15″ Air model. These are absolutely fantastic Mac laptops and are also staff favorites around here. 13″ M4 MacBook Air ($200 off) 13″ M4 MacBook Air 16GB / 256GB … Read More ⌘ Read more
How plant-fungi friendships may change in the face of warming soil and rising CO₂ levels
Just as the human body contains a multitude of symbiotic microbial companions, most plant species also live alongside microbial friends. Among these companions are mycorrhizal fungi, which help plants gather water and nutrients—particularly nitrogen—from the soil. In exchange, plants provide mycorrhizal fungi with an average of 3% to 13% of the carbon they pull from the atmosphere through photosynthesis and so … ⌘ Read more
3rd Beta of iOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 Available for Testing
Beta testing for iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 is accelerating pace, with the third beta release now being available for those participating in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. Beta 3 comes just a week after beta 2, and Apple usually goes through several beta versions before issuing a final … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/13/3rd-beta-of-ios-26-1 … ⌘ Read more
Where Did Voicemail Go in iOS 26? Finding iPhone Voicemail in the New iOS
Wondering if voicemail no longer works in iOS 26? Convinced that iOS 26 removed the Voicemail feature from iPhone? Can’t determine how to check voicemail on iOS 26? If you can’t find voicemail on iPhone since updating to iOS 26, you’re not alone. The new unified Phone app design in iOS 26 features a complete … Read More ⌘ Read more
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day
Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day is welcoming the AI/ML and High Performance Computing (HPC) communities. Since 2022 there have been multiple dedicated events (Batch / HPC and Cloud Native AI days) but given the overlap… ⌘ Read more
next-20251013: linux-next
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10 Unexpected Things Scientists Made Using DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, holds the genetic information passed from parents to offspring. But researchers are driven by a bigger question—beyond inheritance, what more can you do with DNA? The results are mind-bending. From sperm plastic to woolly mammoth meatballs, here are ten projects that prove DNA is a freakishly malleable material. Related: 10 Awesome […]
The post [10 Unexpected Things Scientists Made Using DNA](https://listver … ⌘ Read more
Deals: $200 Off M4 MacBook Air, AirPods from $89, & More
Amazon is cutting $200 off the price of all M4 MacBook Air models, starting at $799 for the 13″ Air, and $999 for the 15″ Air. 13″ M4 MacBook Air ($200 off) 13″ M4 MacBook Air 16GB / 256GB for $799 (MSRP: $999) 13″ M4 MacBook Air 16GB / 512GB for $999 (MSRP: $1,199) 13″ … Read More ⌘ Read more
@zvava@twtxt.net yarnd fetches the feeds roughly every ten minutes:
grep twtxt.net www/logs/twtxt.log | cut -d ' ' -f1 | tail -n 20
2025-10-04T07:00:45+02:00
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I suspect that the timing was just right. Or wrong, depending on how you’re looking at it. ;-)
OpenAI’s H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
Article URL: https://www.techinasia.com/news/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45453586
Points: 552
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Deals: M3 iPad Air for $449, M4 MacBook Air for $799
Amazon is back again offering two of the absolute best deals on great new Apple gear: the M4 MacBook Air starting at $799 for the 13″ and $999 for the 15″ (both being offered at a $200 discount), and separately, the M3 iPad Air for $449 for the 11″ and $649 for the 13″ (both … Read More ⌘ Read more
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I got an empty line through the table, similarly to one of the linked bug reports, just at a different location:
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Oh man, if the EU actually rolled out this horribd idea called ChatControl that actually threatens the security and privacy of secure e2e encrypted messaging like Signal™, fuck me, I'm out 🤦♂️ I'll just rage quit the IT industry and become a luddite. I'm out.
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@prologic@twtxt.net Germany was listed as “opposing” on https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ for a while, now it’s back to “undecided”. According to netzpolitik.org, it’s still debated. Also according to that page, there could be an important vote on the EU level on October 13/14.
The green party and the (far) left are opposing this (at least in Germany). Sadly, Germany is leaning more right with every year … As for young people: The (far) left is the strongest party among young people, with the (far) right being the second strongest one. (https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2025-02-23-BT-DE/umfrage-alter.shtml) Is there cause for hope? I don’t know.
Kaidan: Kaidan 0.13.0: Multi-Account Support and Secure Password Storage
Kaidan 0.13.0 is out now!
And it comes with a bunch of shiny new features.
Most of the work has been … ⌘ Read more
Lunduke’s Week in Tech - Sep 13, 2025
Open Source Leftists Celebrate Murder, Censor Conservatives, and say “Free Software is White Supremacy”. ⌘ Read more
Here’s an example of X11/Xlib being old and archaic.
X11 knows the data type “cardinal”. For example, the window property _NET_WM_ICON (which holds image data for icons) is an array of “cardinal”. I am already not really familiar with that word and I’m assuming that it comes from mathematics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number
(It could also be a bird, but probably not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinalidae)
We would probably call this an “integer” today.
EWMH says that icons are arrays of cardinals and that they’re 32-bit numbers:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest-single/#id-1.6.13
So it’s something like 0x11223344 with 0x11 being the alpha channel, 0x22 is red, and so on.
You would assume that, when you retrieve such an array from the X11 server, you’d get an array of uint32_t, right?
Nope.
Xlib is so old, they use char for 8-bit stuff, short int for 16-bit, and long int for 32-bit:
That is congruent with the general C data types, so it does make sense:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types
Now the funny thing is, on modern x86_64, the type long int is actually 64 bits wide.
The result is that every pixel in a Pixmap, for example, is twice as large in memory as it would need to be. Just because Xlib uses long int, because uint32_t didn’t exist, yet.
And this is something that I wouldn’t know how to fix without breaking clients.
Saw this on Mastodon:
https://racingbunny.com/@mookie/114718466149264471
18 rules of Software Engineering
- You will regret complexity when on-call
- Stop falling in love with your own code
- Everything is a trade-off. There’s no “best” 3. Every line of code you write is a liability 4. Document your decisions and designs
- Everyone hates code they didn’t write
- Don’t use unnecessary dependencies
- Coding standards prevent arguments
- Write meaningful commit messages
- Don’t ever stop learning new things
- Code reviews spread knowledge
- Always build for maintainability
- Ask for help when you’re stuck
- Fix root causes, not symptoms
- Software is never completed
- Estimates are not promises
- Ship early, iterate often
- Keep. It. Simple.
Solid list, even though 14 is up for debate in my opinion: Software can be completed. You have a use case / problem, you solve that problem, done. Your software is completed now. There might still be bugs and they should be fixed – but this doesn’t “add” to the program. Don’t use “software is never done” as an excuse to keep adding and adding stuff to your code.