Children hurt as school bus roof ripped off by bridge
Among the injured is a boy, 8, who has been taken to hospital with a “non-serious” head injury. ⌘ Read more

Wikipedia’ top 20 articles of 2025 sees Charlie Kirk and Trump head the list
Wikipedia has released its 20 most-read articles on English Wikipedia for the year. ⌘ Read more

Air force and Olympians team up for special Christmas exercise
With Olympians on board and a cargo of presents, the Royal Australian Air Force is getting a head start on Santa with Exercise Christmas Hop. ⌘ Read more

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

Russian Launch Site Mishap Shows Perilous State of Storied Space Program
A Soyuz launch at Baikonur damaged Russia’s only launchpad capable of sending astronauts and crucial propellant to the ISS. “The rocket itself headed to space without incident, taking three astronauts – Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev of Russia and Chris Williams of NASA – to the space station,” reports the New York Ti … ⌘ Read more

Bulldogs’ top AFLW draft pick wants to join Kangaroos
The Kangaroos’ domination of the AFLW is set to be given another boost, with a former number one draft pick confirming she wants to head to North. ⌘ Read more

Zelenskyy eyes talks with Trump on ‘key issues’ as Witkoff heads to Moscow
The Ukrainian president meets French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris as he sounds out European allies on Washington’s blueprint to end Russia’s war. ⌘ Read more

Gold Coast urged to curb car dependence after light rail loss
With the population heading toward 1 million, the Gold Coast is being urged to overhaul its transport system or risk becoming defined by traffic. ⌘ Read more

Head happy to ‘play any role’ in day-night Ashes Test
Travis Head says he has no qualms if he is shifted back down Australia’s batting order following his exploits as an opener in the first Ashes Test. ⌘ Read more

How the Rabbitohs and a DM landed Albo in love
Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon will head off on a five-day honeymoon tomorrow after an intimate wedding at The Lodge among only their closest family and friends. ⌘ Read more

South-East Asia floods kill hundreds as cyclone hits Sri Lanka
Parts of South-East Asia have been hit with record levels of rain as a cyclone hits Sri Lanka, causing floods and landslides, as the system heads towards India. ⌘ Read more

Emergency response needed to prevent climate breakdown, warn experts
Scientists sounded the alarm on the dire consequences of continued inaction at a briefing in London, warning that we could be heading for “unprecedented societal and ecological collapse” ⌘ Read more

Child safety inquiry flags subpoena as department accused of ignoring law
The head of Queensland’s child safety inquiry says he “might need to subpoena” files from the department after hearing it was often “not” following its own legislation around preferred permanency options for children in care. ⌘ Read more

A Very Big Performance Optimization For Loop Block Devices Heading To Linux 6.19
A set of patches implementing async I/O IOCB_NOWAIT support for the loop block device is heading to the Linux 6.19 kernel with some performance improvements that will make loop block device users “wow”… ⌘ Read more

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ I woke up quite late today (after a long night helping/assisting with a Mainframe migration last night fork work) to abusive traffic and my alerts going off. The impact? My pod (twtxt.net) was being hammered by something at a request rate of 30 req/s (there are global rate limits in place, but still…). The culprit? Turned out to be a particular IP 43.134.51.191 and after looking into who own s that IP I discovered it was yet-another-bad-customer-or-whatever from Tencent, so that entire network (ASN) is now blocked from my Edge:

+# Who: Tentcent
+# Why: Bad Bots
+132203

Total damage?

$ caddy-log-formatter twtxt.net.log | cut -f 1 -d  ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n -k 1 | head -n 5
  61371 43.134.51.191
    402 159.196.9.199
    121 45.77.238.240
      8 106.200.1.116
      6 104.250.53.138

61k reqs over an hour or so (before I noticed), bunch of CPU time burned, and useless waste of my fucking time.

Sovereign Tech Fund Hiring A New Leader For Driving Open-Source Funding
Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund / Sovereign Tech Agency has been a godsend the past few years for the open-source community. This funding from the German government has led to significant funding for dozens of prominent open-source infrastructure projects to provide more resources for enhancing security, enabling new features, and more. As the Sovereign Tech Fund prepares for the next phase of growth, they are hiring a new head to lead the efforts.. … ⌘ Read more

Red Hat Losing Another Prominent Linux Kernel Engineer
Another highly influential Linux kernel engineer, David Hildenbrand, is leaving Red Hat after a decade of major contributions to memory management, virtualization, and VirtIO. His recent kernel patch updates his maintainer info to a kernel.org address, signaling his departure. He hasn’t yet said where he’s headed next. Phoronix reports: David Hildenbrand serves as … ⌘ Read more

Google Boss Says Trillion-Dollar AI Investment boom Has ‘Elements of Irrationality’
Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google’s parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC. From the report: Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence investment had been an “extraordinary moment”, there was some “irrationali … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I wished my mate would see it, too. But he turned his head a second too late. :-(

Cummins weighs in on transition debate
Australian captain Pat Cummins explains why the ageing Test team remains largely the same heading into the Ashes. ⌘ Read more

‘He will never grow up’: Jail for baby killer who tried to blame partner for death
Benjamin Swann deliberately caused a blunt-force trauma to baby Elijah’s head when he got up to settle the crying infant at a Werribee home last year. ⌘ Read more

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Head for a Record in 2025, Global Carbon Project Reports
But there are signs that greenhouse gas pollution in China might be slowing, according to a new analysis. ⌘ Read more

Man hit over the head with gun in Sydney
Police are searching for attackers after a man was smashed over the head with a gun at Quakers Hill. ⌘ 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. :-)

GNOME Declares War on Framework Computer
GNOME OS Team says Framework “supports Fascist and Racist s***heads”, “does not feel comfortable in further collaboration”. ⌘ Read more

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Says China ‘Will Win’ AI Race With US
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the US in the AI race, thanks to lower energy costs and looser regulations. From a report: In the starkest comments yet from the head of the world’s most valuable company, Huang told the FT: “China is going to win the AI race.” Huang’s remarks come after the Trump administration maintained a ban o … ⌘ Read more

Gemini AI To Transform Google Maps Into a More Conversational Experience
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Google Maps is heading in a new direction with artificial intelligence sitting in the passenger’s seat. Fueled by Google’s Gemini AI technology, the world’s most popular navigation app will become a more conversational companion as part of a redesign announced Wednesda … ⌘ Read more

Head trainer at Zoomies Fitness ⌘ Read more

Trump again taps Musk ally Jared Isaacman to lead NASA
President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut Jared Isaacman to head NASA, again tapping the close associate of Elon Musk to lead the US space agency. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org believe it or not, I imagined the whole thing in my head, and kind of ROFLMAO. I am sure it was much, much less funny in real life. So, sorry! :-P

This Aussie start-up plans to make Medibank-style breaches impossible
As the cost of cybercrime heads toward $10 trillion annually, one Australian company is taking a radically new approach to protecting data. ⌘ Read more

Bro headed home after seeing that halloween costume ⌘ Read more

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Jonathan Watts and Wajã Xipai,  Environmental Writers  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The 2040 catastrophe I have long been warning you about looks ever more inevitable. As  the Secretary General of the UN has warned, after studying the scientific research, “Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately.” Trump and the Republicans, of cou … ⌘ Read more

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head ⌘ Read more

We had some gray soup with the occasional fine rain with strong wind gusts. Despite the bad forecast we took the train to Geislingen/Steige and strolled up to the Helfenstein castle ruin. All the colorful leaves were so beautiful, it didn’t matter that the sun was behind thick layers of clouds.

We then continued to the Ödenturm (lit. boring tower). By then the wind had picked up by quite a bit, just as the weatherman predicted. We were very positively surprised that the Swabian Jura Association had opened up the tower. Between May and October, the tower is typically only manned on Sundays and holidays between 10 and 17 o’clock. But yesterday was Saturday and no holiday. The lovely lady up there told us that they’re currently experimenting with opening up on Saturday, too, because there are some highly motivated members responsible for the tower.

We were the very first visitors on that day. Last Sunday, when the weather lived up to the weekday’s name, they counted 128 people up in the tower. Very impressive.

The wind gusts were howling around the tower. Luckily, there are glass windows. So, it was quite pleasant up in the tower room. Chatting with the tower guard for a while, we got even luckier: the sun came out! That was really awesome. The photos don’t do justice. As always, it looked way more stunning in person.

Thanks to all the volunteers who make it possible to enjoy the view from the thirty odd meters up there. That certainly made our day!

After signing the guestbook we climbed down the staircase and returned to the station and headed back. The train even arrived on time. What a great little trip!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-die-burgruine-helfenstein-und-den-oedenturm-2025-10-25/

OpenBSD 7.8 released
Like clockwork, every six months, we have a new OpenBSD release. OpenBSD 7.8 adds support for the Raspberry Pi 5, tons of improvements to sleep, wake, and hibernate, the TCP stack can now run in parallel on multiple processors, and so much more. DRM has been updated to match Linux 6.12.50, and drivers for the Qualcomm Snapdragon DRM subsystem and Qualcomm DisplayPort controller were added as well. The changelog is, as always, long and detailed, so head on over for the finer details. OpenBS … ⌘ Read more

Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making
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Like these Car Manufacturers, like GWM, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and whoever else does this stupid shit™ need to pull their heads out of their asse. :O

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, this is similar to my 2025 GWM Cannon Ute (truck) that we recently bought. It has this app called the “GWM App” that lets you view various health/stats of the vehicle, open/close the door, locks, control the A/C etc, all from your Mobile Phone. – But… Guess what?! :D It has a goddamn fucking SIM card in the head unit (dash) somewhere that once you “consent” and agree it signs up to some god knows what local cellular service and all that wonderul functionality is controlled by, guess what… A fucking goddamn CLOUD service! da actual flying fuck is wrong with these people?! – Are we some of the only people in the world that realize how fucking dumb all this Internet-connect shit™ really is?

MAGA Media Wages Asymmetric Warfare
PRRI Research Staff,    -  PRRI

_Stephan: As you can see from the chart that heads this research report, in spite of the millions who turned out for the nonviolent “No Kings” demonstrations, there are still large number of Americans, particularly MAGAT supporters, i.e., Republican voters, who still do not comprehend what is happening to the United States, or maybe they are so racist, resentful, and ignorant they don;t care of support what Trump, his adm … ⌘ Read more

In surprise move, head of US military for Latin America to step down ⌘ Read more

The AI bubble is heading towards a burst but it won’t be the end of AI
Economists, bankers and even the boss of OpenAI are warning of a rapidly inflating AI bubble. If and when it bursts, what will happen to the technological breakthroughs of the past few years? ⌘ Read more

Canadian PM Carney to head to Egypt for summit on ending war in Gaza ⌘ Read more

@alexonit@twtxt.alessandrocutolo.it Hell yeah, that looks great! :-) What a pity you’re not having any photos, though. I love that you went to a craftsmanship school and learned some amazing skills. The older I get, the more I admire all sorts of crafts. That’s also why I started building physical stuff myself in my spare time.

This sketch is well done, so you countersunk the holes to make room for the heads. Makes absolutely sense. Mille grazie! <3

As ocean temperatures warm, fish in Western Australia are heading south
Colorful tropical fish are heading south along the WA coast, including around Rottnest. This sounds spectacular, but it’s not. ⌘ Read more

Meth-Heads Confess Their SINS ⌘ Read more

@zvava@twtxt.net No HEAD requests, but regular GETs with If-Modified-Since request headers if possible: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/branch/main/internal/fetcher.go#L270

I experimented with a 2.4x7mm aluminium rivet I had on hand. As expected, it was quite a bit long. Using my pliers wrench, I was able to crush it down by quite some bit. I should have taken a photo right after the hand riveter for comparison. Now, it’s much smoother and the chance of cutting my hand open is reduced by quite a bit. But breaking the burr with a few file strokes is still necessary. I should get 2.4x4mm rivets and try with them. I reckon they would be more suited for my 0.5mm sheet metal.

With the pliers wrench again, I was able to also crush down the chopped off 3mm copper nail and form a second head. That was surprisingly easy. Now, I need to figure out how to efficiently make a head on the remaining copper nail shaft, so that I can use this again.

Both are rock solid, there’s absolutely no movement at all between the two sheet metal cutoffs.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/nietenexperiment/

Speaking of Sudoku, I was banging my head against this for 15 minutes:

https://sudokupad.app/adventure/94-advvvvvvvven

I’m glad I eventually got it right. 🥴

(via https://dosgame.club/@Tijn/115221132694421937)

@zvava@twtxt.net love the direction this is heading, hope this soon evolves into a basic Android app, usable with any instance.