Este país llamado España: Un año de amnistías y escándalos
Esmeralda Ruiz comenta que un año después de la fuga de Puigdemont, sigue sin haber explicaciones, mientras Junts aprieta a Sánchez con la amnistía. ⌘ Read more
El análisis de Juan Ramón Rallo: El 100% de aranceles a los chips en EEUU
Esmeralda Ruiz y Juan Ramón Rallo analizan los aranceles de Trump a los chips y la respuesta de Europa. ⌘ Read more
Tertulia de Dieter: La situación de Fernando Grande-Marlaska
Carmelo Jordá, Luis Fernando Quintero y Pablo Planas comentan el posible movimiento en el ministerio del Interior. ⌘ Read more
Entrevista a Enrique Navarro
Entrevista a Enrique Navarro por la alianza de China con el Gobierno de Sánchez para aumentar su influencia en la Justicia española. ⌘ Read more
En este país llamado España: El cansancio del ministro del Interior
Esmeralda Ruiz comenta que Marlaska intentó irse tras la crisis con Israel, mientras Moncloa prepara septiembre sin Presupuestos ni socios. ⌘ Read more
San Francisco Billboards - August 2025
Every time I take a Lyft from the San Francisco airport to downtown going up 101, I notice the billboards. The billboards on 101 are always such a good snapshot in time of the current peak of the Silicon Valley hype cycle. I’ve decided to capture photos of the billboards every time I am there, to see how this changes over time. ⌘ Read more
El análisis de Beatriz García: La guerra entre las CCAA por el cupo catalán
Esmeralda Ruiz y Beatriz García analizan el caos de los impuestos autonómicos y el rechazo de trabajos para cobrar ayudas. ⌘ Read more
Tertulia de Dieter: El Gobierno y los actos de Franco
Esmeralda analiza la actualidad con Pepe García Domínguez, Cristina Losada y Alejandro Vara. ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2025
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of July 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 helping these project … ⌘ Read more
XMPP Providers: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Providers SurveyIn May 2025, we ran a small survey to gather feedback from XMPP server operators.
Our main concerns were XMPP Provider’s service and the project itself.
First of all, we would like to thank almost 60 people who participated in this survey.
While the XMPP Providers project currently lists a little more than 70 providers, this is a good turnout.
At this point we can already tell that the gen … ⌘ Read more
Comment on Newelle, AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0 by temp mail
Ne zamandır web sitelerim için aradığım içeriği sonunda buldum. Bu kadar detaylı ve net açıklama için teşekkürler. ⌘ Read more
psst i’ll be at my local event for HTML day!!! i’m very excited but very nervous, i don’t even know what i’ll be working on! but i’ll figure it out…
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
us to massively build out t … ⌘ Read more
Speaking of manpages:
“Man pages are great, man readers are the problem”
https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/04/09/man-pages-are-great-man-readers-are-the-problem/
Since Fastly acquired and recently shut down glitch.com, some of my ancient webapps are no longer available, nor do I have any plans to make them available again - all had either zero, or very few monthly visits, used outdated libraries and would be a waste of money, to continue hosting and updating elsewhere.
All art archives remain unaffected and all projects shut down before 2025, were already permanently deleted, but if there’s someone out there, still relying on the recently discontinued projects, somehow - you can reach out and request their source code.
These requests will only be honoured, until the end of this year, when we plan to permanently delete, all of this data (both webapps and files only hosted on Amazons CDN).
Canine out °_°
Prosodical Thoughts: Debian repository key change
We have been working on some changes to our Debian/Ubuntu package repository.
If you use our repository to keep up to date with new Prosody packages, you
need to take action before 4th August 2025 to continue receiving updates
smoothly.
The ‘apt’ utility has been moving towards a new format for specifying package
repositories. If you are familiar with putting deb lines in a sources.list
file, [that method is changing](ht … ⌘ Read more
37C3 and New Year’s Eve 2023
Another one from the vaults. The 37C3 conference took place in
December, 2023. This report was mostly written in January, 2024.
Mostly finished it at night in my cottage between 28 and 29th
December, then edited and added some stuff in July, 2025. So… Only
1.5 years late?
It was a little ironic, and a little sad, that I was finishing the
37C3 report during 38C3. I didn’t manage to get any tickets for me and
#3 for 38C3 and had to make do with watching the stream.
The links to the talks go to [C … ⌘ Read more
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I was drafting support for showing “application icons” in my window manager, i.e. the Firefox icon in the titlebar:
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de According to this screenshot, KDE still shows good old application icons:
And GNOME used to have them, too:
I like the looks of your window manager. That’s using Wayland, right? The only thing on this screenshot to critique is all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!!1 At least the file browser. 8-)
This drives me nuts when my workmates share their screens. I really don’t get it how people can work like that. You can’t even read the whole line in the IDE or log viewer with all the expanded side bars. And then there’s 200 pixels on the left and another 300 pixels on the right where the desktop wallpaper shows. Gnaa! There’s the other extreme end when somebody shares their ultra wide screen and I just have a “regularish” 16:10 monitor and don’t see shit, because it’s resized way too tiny to fit my width. Good times. :-D
Sorry for going off on a tangent here. :-) Back to your WM: It has the right mix of being subtle and still similar to motif. Probably close to the older Windowses. My memory doesn’t serve me well, but I think they actually got it fairly good in my opinion. Your purple active window title looks killer. It just fits so well. This brown one (
) gives me also classic vibes. Awww. We ran some similar brownish color scheme (don’t recall its name) on Win95 or Win98 for some time on the family computer. I remember other people visting us not liking these colors. :-DEmail Forwarding Broken on iCloud
I have been getting occasional bounces from an iCloud+ Custom Domain email filter I have, which forwards certain emails I receive to wife. The first one I got looked like this:
<wife.email@mydomain.com>: host mx01.mail.icloud.com[17.57.156.30] said: 554 5.7.1
[HM07] Message rejected due to local policy. Please visit
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204137 (in reply to end of DATA command)
I sent an email to t … ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I fully agree with you on https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-22/0/POSTING-en.html!
Although, in the first screenshot, the window title background is much darker in the new version than the old one!1!1 :-P Kidding aside, the contrast in the old one is still better.
Also, note the missing underlines for the Alt hotkeys now. I just think that the underline in the old one is too thick.
Status 2025-07-21
Morning, computer! Spending my days off trying to figure things out.
Some of them will occur in this post. I think best when I’m writing,
after all.
I’m back from a short vacation since a couple of weeks. I’m still
going to take a few days off every week for a while. I need the break.
It’s been way too many 12-16 hour workdays. I’m nominally working 80%
(~6 hour days), so I figure I’ve been working a lot for free.
Yeah, well, I like the TKey project to succeed. The ideas behind it
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After many weeks and probably at least a hundred hours of research, discussions and in-person viewing, I think I've finally come up with my Final Choices (shortlist) of a Hybrid Camper / Caravan that I think will suit my family and that I'll enjoy (far less work for me to setup and teardown). The one at the top of the list I'm leaning towards os the SWAG SCT16 Family 4B Media #Camping #Campers
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@bender@twtxt.net That was one of the inputs into my research 🧐 So that’s already factored in. We bought our new truck (2025 GWM Canon) recently to replace the ‘ol 2nd hand Nissan Navara we bought that just had too many things go wrong with it, and I don’t have time or energy to learn to be a diesel mechanic haha 🤣 – So yes, the SCT-16 has a Tare (unladen weight) of 2150Kg and a maximum legal (ATM) weight of 2,800Kg.
Folks, another unicorn vomited in our sky tonight: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-07-19/
MCP 規範完整中譯稿：2025-3-26 版
【引】儘管 AI 可以幫助我們順利地理解 MCP 規範，但一份完整的 MCP 規範中譯稿還是有意義的，可以進一步幫助我們理解 MCP 規範的來龍去脈，以及協議中細節的方方面面。如果希望希望極簡入門的話， 可以閱讀老碼農的新作——1. 規範模型上下文協議 (Model Context Protocol，MCP) 是一個開放的協議，支持 LLM 應用程序與外部數據源和工具之間的無縫集成。無論是構建基於 ⌘ Read more
Langchain 構建一個智能體程序的六步曲
摘要：學習如何構建一個智能體程序 - 從選擇真實的任務示例，到構建 MVP，再到測試質量和安全性，最終部署到生產環境中。Langchain 2025 年 7 月 9 日。1 前言儘管似乎每家公司都在談論今年要構建智能體，但實際上這樣做的公司卻很少。讓想象力奔放地展開，想象智能體如何可以改變你的業務是很容易的，但許多團隊不確定從哪裏開始、如何取得進展以及如何設定期望。在這個指南中，我們將介紹一個從想 ⌘ Read more
A mate visted me and we went on a few hours long hike. We came across a mythical creature in its natural habitat:
ProcessOne: ejabberd 25.07
Release Highlights:
This release focus on integration in a wider federated network, with support for spam fighting features, better compliance with Matrix network and native support for PubSub Server Information to have your server count as part of the wider XMPP network (for example, you can register your server on XMPP Network Graph).
- **Spam filter … ⌘ Read more
Spare a thought for this gopher gopher://sdf.org/1/users/xiled/phlog/2025/20250710_occupied
We covered quite some ground in the two and a half hours today. The weather was nice, mostly cloudy and just 23°C. That’s also why we decided to take a longer tour. We saw four deer in the wild, three of which I managed to just ban on film, quality could be better, though. My camera produced a hell lot of defocused photos this time. Not sure what’s going on with the autofocus. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-07-10/
When the sun came out, colors were just beautiful:
How to Mount a Balcony Awning
Hi Kris,
I’ve been reading your website for quite a while. It’s one of my favourite blogs. Thank you for what you are doing!
We are currently experiencing a heat wave in Germany, so I drew inspiration from Low-tech Magazine’s article “ How to Dress and Undress your Home” and built an awning on my balcony. I documented the process so that other readers can install one themselves.
The ov … ⌘ Read more
We got some colorful spots in the sky this evening: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-07-08/
Yesterday’s moon through the window: https://lyse.isobeef.org/mond-2025-07-06/
Okay, now this is a very interesting Rust feature:
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/07/03/stabilizing-naked-functions/
This (and inline assembly) makes Rust really interesting for very low-level stuff. 🥳
** Om nom nom LLMs, in which I respond to Simon Willison’s analogy **
I am hesitant to wade into the tumultuous waters that are the discourse around generative AI and LLMs, but this morning I came across a thing that so thoroughly melted my brain I feel uncontrollably compelled to respond.
This morning, at evidently 4:10 AM (no mention of timezone), Simon Willison shared the following blog post, quoted here in full:
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Ted Unangst’s snarky (and entertaining) remarks this month:
Not Too Active Here
As you can see, I am not too active around here. I am elsewhere writing notes, which are short, silly, but fun. I am keeping this around for, mostly, two reasons. Old stuff, though bad, is part of me, a record of my past. I also may decide to come by, eventually, and write something in a longer format.
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I did a “lecture”/“workshop” about this at work today. 16-bit DOS, real mode. 💾 Pretty cool and the audience (devs and sysadmins) seemed quite interested. 🥳
- People used the Intel docs to figure out the instruction encodings.
- Then they wrote a little DOS program that exits with a return code and they used uhex in DOSBox to do that. Yes, we wrote a COM file manually, no Assembler involved. (Many of them had never used DOS before.)
- DEBUG from FreeDOS was used to single-step through the program, showing what it does.
- This gets tedious rather quickly, so we switched to SVED from SvarDOS for writing the rest of the program in Assembly language. nasm worked great for us.
- At the end, we switched to BIOS calls instead of DOS syscalls to demonstrate that the same binary COM file works on another OS. Also a good opportunity to talk about bootloaders a little bit.
- (I think they even understood the basics of segmentation in the end.)
The 8086 / 16-bit real-mode DOS is a great platform to explain a lot of the fundamentals without having to deal with OS semantics or executable file formats.
Now that was a lot of fun. 🥳 It’s very rare that we do something like this, sadly. I love doing this kind of low-level stuff.
** Of fairies, compost, and computers **
Lately I’ve buried myself in reading fiction. Stand outs from among the crowd are, of course, Middlemarch but also a lot of sort of scholarly fairy fiction; works that follow the scholastic adventures of studious professorial types in vaugely magical settings. Namely Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries’, Heather Fawcett and The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow.
I’ve also been working on a handful of personal utility programs. I … ⌘ Read more
** My measurer **
My dad is an electrical engineer and physicist. Measuring things is a core part of his professional life, and something he seems to spend a lot of time doing around the house. This is all to say my dad is relatively expert in the ways of measuring things so I think it’s hilarious that he calls absolutely anything he is using to measure anything else“my measurer.” Measuring tape, oscilloscope, scale, volt meter, bubble level, table spoons, whatever. They’re all“my measurer.” ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Short Fiction — Transgender Athlete Bans https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/22/title-ix-hope.html #fiction #freeculture #lgbtpridemonth #politics
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — First Woman — Dream to Reality https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/21/first-woman-1.html #freeculture #bookclub
We really are bouncing back and forth between flat UIs and beveled UIs. I mean, this is what old X11 programs looked like:
Good luck figuring out which of these UI elements are click-able – unless you examine every pixel on the screen.
https://galusik.fr/fridayrockmetal/2025-06-20-frm.m3u Tonight #FridayRockMetal playlist
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/16 to 06/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/20/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Gambit part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/19/gambit-part-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Go should be more opinionated
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