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10 Popular (and Weird) Ancient Foods
Many foods cherished by our ancestors continue to find a place on tables worldwide. From the staple presence of bread to the remarkable status of beer, countless ancient delights have withstood the test of time. But other foods have faded into oblivion and been mostly uneaten for centuries. Whether due to animal extinction or shifting […]
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The tools for overcoming the top 10 DevOps challenges
DevOps is a way of working that reduces waste. It uses smart tools and practices to build, test, and ship software faster. It makes teams quicker, systems stronger and problems smaller when done right. It’s not… ⌘ Read more
Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire ⌘ Read more
‘Pregnancy test’ for skeletons could help reveal ancient mothers
Progesterone, oestrogen and testosterone can be detected in skeletons over 1000 years old, offering a way to identify individuals who died while pregnant or soon after giving birth ⌘ Read more
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SpaceX launches the 11th test flight of its mega Starship rocket with another win
SpaceX launched another of its mammoth Starship rockets on a test flight Monday, successfully making it halfway around the world while releasing mock satellites like last time. ⌘ 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
Gary Kasparov: “Putin is testing Europe: before the end of the year, he will launch a ground invasion” ⌘ Read more
Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
Article URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/11/0238213/microsofts-onedrive-begins-testing-face-recognizing-ai-for-photos-for-some-preview-users
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Unbelievable Security Hole: JWT Secret in a Series-B Funded Company
It started as a routine penetration test. Little did I know I was about to uncover one of the most basic yet catastrophic security…
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Testing asynchronous workflows using OpenTelemetry and Istio
Learn how to test complex asynchronous workflows in cloud native applications using OpenTelemetry for context propagation and Istio for traffic routing. Explore cost-effective approaches to isolate test environments without duplicating infrastructure. Introduction Asynchronous architectures have become… ⌘ Read more
Servo GTK: a widget to embed Servo in GTK4
Servo, the Rust-based browsing engine spun off from Mozilla, keeps making progress every month, and this made Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wonder: what if we make a GTK widget so we can test Servo and compare it to WebKitGTK? As part of my job at Amazon I started working in a GTK widget which will allow embedding a Servo Webview inside a GTK application. This was mostly a research project just to understand the current state of Servo and whether it was … ⌘ Read more
Memory chips just 10 atoms thick could vastly increase capacity
A memory chip just 10 atoms thick has been tested in a lab and integrated into conventional chips, demonstrating a technology that could improve the capacity of our devices ⌘ Read more
Selfish sperm see older fathers pass on more disease-causing mutations
Older men are more likely to pass on disease-causing mutations to their children because of the faster growth of mutant cells in the testes with age ⌘ Read more
Beta 2 of iOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 Available for Testing
Apple has released the second beta versions of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1. The new beta builds are available for all enrolled beta testers, and offer continued refinement of the new operating systems. iOS 26.1 beta includes a new “Slide to Stop” feature for turning off alarm clocks on iPhone, which aims … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/10/06/beta-2-of-ios-26-1-macos-tah … ⌘ Read more
Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
Article URL: https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1974781722953953601
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493358
Points: 501
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Rocket test proves bacteria survive space launch and re-entry unharmed
A world-first study has proven microbes essential for human health can survive the extreme forces of space launch. The study has been published in npj Microgravity. ⌘ Read more
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XMPP Interop Testing: Two New Features for Clearer Testing
We’ve just released version 1.7.1 of all of our test runners. This release adds two improvements to make interop testing
both stricter and easier to set up!
Some tests can’t be executed if the server lacks required features. Previously, these “impossible” tests were skipped,
which could make a run look fully successful when it wasn’t. Now you can configure the suite to treat impossible t … ⌘ Read more
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@movq I'm glad it make sense for you 😅 I will never understand it. All I know is that I'm a conservative socialist and there's a lot of "stupid shit"™ happening in the world (including my own country). I still blame extreme Capitalism.
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@bender@twtxt.net Well see that’s just what the freak’n tests say about me haha 🤣
immigration and multiculturalism
What about it? I grew up in a multicultural country.
Test.
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@bender Really? 🤔
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And I need to make something absolutely clear as well here. Twtxt was completely and utterly dead back in {Aug 2020](https://yarn.social/about.html) when I came across the spec and its simplicity and realised the lost opportunity. Since then we’ve continued to grow a small but thriving community. The extensions we’ve built over time have stood and lasted the test of time for the past ~5 years. We need not break things too badly, because what we have today and was designed years ago actually works quite well™ (despite some flaws).
Autonomous Testing of etcd’s Robustness
As a critical component of many production systems, including Kubernetes, the etcd project’s first priority is reliability. Ensuring consistency and data safety requires our project contributors to continuously improve testing methodologies. In this article, we describe… ⌘ Read more
Run, Test, and Evaluate Models and MCP Locally with Docker + Promptfoo
Promptfoo is an open-source CLI and library for evaluating LLM apps. Docker Model Runner makes it easy to manage, run, and deploy AI models using Docker. The Docker MCP Toolkit is a local gateway that lets you set up, manage, and run containerized MCP servers and connect them to AI agents. Together, these tools let… ⌘ Read more
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The driver’s license documents in Germany now have an expiration date. You have to renew them every 15 years. (Not the license itself, just the documents.)
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@bender@twtxt.net A renewed vision test might be a good idea for some people. 😅 I mean, it is kind of curious that you get this license as a young person and then it lasts a lifetime, without any further tests. As long as you don’t screw up really bad, it remains valid …
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@itsericwoodward any news about this? I am, at the very least, curious!
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@bender@twtxt.net Thanks for asking!
So, I’ve been working on 2 main twtxt-related projects.
The first is small Node / express application that serves up a twtxt file while allowing its owner to add twts to it (or edit it outright), and I’ve been testing it on my site since the night I made that post. It’s still very much an MVP, and I’ve been intermittently adding features, improving security, and streamlining the code, with an eye to release it after I get an MVP done of project #2 (the reader).
But that’s where I’ve been struggling. The idea seems simple enough - another Node / express app (this one with a Vite-powered front-end) that reads a public twtxt file, parses the “follow” list, grabs (and parses) those twtxt files, and then creates a river of twts out of the result. The pieces work fine in seclusion (and with dummy data), but I keep running into weird issues when reading real-live twtxt files, so some twts come through, while others get lost in the ether. I’ll figure it out eventually, but for now, I’ve been spending far more time than I anticipated just trying to get it to work end-to-end.
On top of it, the 2 projects wound up turning into 4 (so far), as I’ve been spinning out little libraries to use across both apps (like https://jsr.io/@itsericwoodward/fluent-dom-esm, and a forthcoming twtxt helper library).
In the end, I’m hoping to have project 1 (the editor) into beta by the end of October, and project 2 (the reader) into beta sometime after that, but we’ll see.
I hope this has satisfied your curiosity, but if you’d like to know more, please reach out!
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The driver’s license documents in Germany now have an expiration date. You have to renew them every 15 years. (Not the license itself, just the documents.)
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de better than in the US. Our lasts only 10 years, and you need to go through the vision test, and, of course, pay). Recently they added a little gold star denoting “real ID” compliance, and we had to pay $10 to get the old one replaced—out of the regular renew “schedule”.
In here it is all about control, and money.
I am back to my bash scripting! This is in fact a test.
First Beta of iOS 26.1, MacOS Tahoe 26.1 is Available for Testing
Apple has issued the first beta versions of iOS 26.1, MacOS Tahoe 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and the rest of the OS 26 suite. The first betas are available for any user registered in the developer beta program, and soon after for public beta testers too. It’s not entirely clear what the focus of iOS 26.1 … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/09/22/first-beta-of-ios-26-1-macos-tahoe-26-1-is-available-for-testin … ⌘ Read more
@zvava@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m not entirely sure about the spaces, but maybe they were omitted to simplify parsing of mentions in the form of @<nick url>. If the next token after the @<nick does not look like a URL, it’s not a mention but regular text. This is just wild guessing, though.
Looking at the regex and tests in the original twtxt reference implementation seems to confirm that theory in the sense as it relies on whitespace as the delimiter:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2025-09-17-21-30-25.png
Another thing about nicks is that the original twtxt reference implementation converts nicks to all lowercase:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2025-09-17-21-20-39.png
You probably know this already, the original twtxt file format specification can be found here: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html
As for extensions, I don’t know of anything outside of twtxt.dev that has actually been (partially) implemented. However, there is also the issue tracker of the official reference implementation. You might wanna dig through that. For example, there is an alternative suggestions of multiline messages: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/issues/157
Ubuntu’s Rust GNU Utils Replacement 17x Slower & Buggy
Canonical plans to replace the battle tested GNU Coreutils with new, untested, Rust-based replacements. ⌘ Read more
I corrupted my SQLite test database with sed -i s/… $(find …). Clearly, I found too many files. That’s the signal to go to bed.
XMPP Interop Testing: Lots More Options
Since the last update, we’ve added a lot more options on how to run your tests. We’ve added a slew of new CI systems, this time focussing on freedom-respecting, open source CI systems for your open source projects.
Recent additions include Jenkins, Drone, Harness and Woodpecker.
This brings our total number of CI systems in which you can run XMPP interop tests up to a whopping ELEVEN, plus anywhere else you can run containers!
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@zvava@twtxt.net wow, this is a full change, and looking very, very, very good! I am ready to test it. 🙈
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Hahaha, how funny is that!? The Dunning-Kruger effect research was sparked off by two bank robbers who rubbed lemon juice in their faces as this makes them invisible, just like invisible ink. :'-D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995GreaterPittsburghbankrobberies
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Didn’t know that, either. 😂 The one guy even tried to test this theory with a Polaroid? And “confirmed” it? What the heck. 🥴
I’ve got a prototype of my hardcopy simulator going. I’m typing on the keyboard and the “display” goes to the printer:
https://movq.de/v/56feb53912/s.png
https://movq.de/v/235c1eabac/MVI_8810.MOV.mp4
The biiiiiiiiiig problem is that the print head and plastic cover make it impossible to see what’s currently being printed, because this is not a typewriter. This means: In order to see what I just entered, I have to feed the paper back and forth and back and forth … it’s not ideal.
I got that idea of moving back/forth from Drew DeVault, who – as it turned out – did something similar a few years back. (I tried hard to read as little as possible of his blog post, because figuring things out myself is more fun. But that could mean I missed a great idea here or there.)
But hey, at least this is running on my Pentium 133 on SuSE Linux 6.4, printer connected with a parallel cable. 😍
(Also, yes, you can see the printouts of earlier tests and, yes, I used ed(1) wrong at one point. 🤪 And ls insisted on using colors …)
The move from sourcehut git pages hosting is almost done. This is a test ;)
XMPP Interop Testing: MOAR TESTS!
Ever heard of XMPP Interop Testing? It’s this cool project that helps make sure different XMPP servers can all work
together smoothly. Our XMPP Interop Testing project provides a suite of automated tests that can be integrated into
CI/CD pipelines to verify the compliance and interoperability of XMPP server implementations.
Late last year, we reported that we had secured funding graciously provided by NLnet that allowed
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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!
Media
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@bender@twtxt.net I think it’s actually a new XEP proposal ( https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0084.html#proto-info ), but it’s still a bit unclear. Sorry for the late and vague response, I’m still trying to test it and see what it’s even about, didn’t yet find a server, that supports it.
TKey: The Next Generation
Not speaking for my employer, just as an interested developer in an
interesting open source project.
As you might have noticed, the platform repo of the Tillitis TKey has
some alpha tags for the next generation, Castor:
https://github.com/tillitis/tillitis-key1/tags
An alpha tag means that all planned features for the platform are in
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Just discovered how easy it is to recall my last arg in shell and my brain went 🤯 How come I've never learned about this before!? I wonder how many other QOL shortcuts I'm missing on 🥲
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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I use Alt+. all the time, it’s great. 👌
FWIW, another thing I often use is !! to recall the entire previous command line:
$ find -iname '*foo*'
./This is a foo file.txt
$ cat "$(!!)"
cat "$(find -iname '*foo*')"
This is just a test.
Yep!
Or:
$ ls -al subdir
ls: cannot open directory 'subdir': Permission denied
$ sudo !!
sudo ls -al subdir
total 0
drwx------ 2 root root 60 Jun 20 19:39 .
drwx------ 7 jess jess 360 Jun 20 19:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 20 19:39 nothing-to-see
Ish: Grep-like text search with optimal alignment, built with Mojo
Associated preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657890v1
The “built with Mojo” is there because this tool exists specifically to test run Mojo as a language for bioinformatics tool development.