MacOS Sonoma 14.4 Update Released with New Emoji & Bug Fixes
MacOS Sonoma 14.4 update has been released by Apple for Mac users running the Sonoma operating system. The macOS Sonoma 14.4 update includes cutting edge new Emoji icons like a mushroom, lime, phoenix, broken chain, and shaking heads, along with new versions of existing Emoji icons that face the opposite direction. Additionally, there’s support for … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/03/07/macos-sonoma-14- … ⌘ Read more

Hilarious detail in Google Street view
There have been some truly peculiar moments in time captured by the Google street view cameras. But this one has people scratching their heads. ⌘ Read more

Paul Murray speaks to voters ahead of Dunkley by-election
Sky News host Paul Murray heads to the pre-poll booths in Dunkley to ask voters why they voted for their chosen candidate.

The by-election will be the government’s first major ballot box litmus test and the stakes are high for both leaders.

The passing of former federal member for Dunkley, Peta Murphy will be at the front of mind for many voters, saying they will vote for Labor can … ⌘ Read more

Canadian cities ‘not gatekeepers,’ head of mayors’ group tells Poilievre
The president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities says his members are community builders and not gatekeepers, a term Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has commonly used to attack municipal bureaucrats. Scott Pearce made the comment at a news conference the federation held in Ottawa ahead of the spring budget, as the group calls for more federal in … ⌘ Read more

Man attacked with hatchet, hit in the head at SEPTA station
Philadelphia police say the man was walking through the SEPTA concourse when he was attacked from behind by a man wielding a hatchet and demanding his valuables in an apparent robbery attempt. ⌘ Read more

Ben Stokes brushes off suggestion that England were not ruthless against India
Ben Stokes dismissed suggestions England lack a ruthless edge and expressed pride at how his team have fared in Indian conditions after not being given a “chance in hell” of success. England succumbed to a first Test series defeat under the leadership of captain Stokes and head coach Brendon McCullum, as India moved into an unassailable 3-1 lea … ⌘ Read more

Hungary’s opposition lead protest against Orbán’s leadership
At the event held at Kossuth Lajos Square in front of Parliament, speakers from the Democratic Coalition (DK), Momentum, the Socialist Party and Parbeszed criticised Orbán’s rule, as well as a pardon granted by outgoing President Katalin Novák to the deputy head of a children’s home convicted of covering up child abuse. The protests are the latest in a series engulfing the Hungarian … ⌘ Read more

Twtxt spec enhancement proposal thread 🧵

Adding attributes to individual twts similar to adding feed attributes in the heading comments.

https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/pulls/17

The basic use case would be for multilingual feeds where there is a default language and some twts will be written a different language.

As seen in the wild: https://eapl.mx/twtxt.txt

The attributes are formatted as [key=value]

They can show up in the twt anywhere it is not enclosed by another element such as codeblock or part of a markdown link.

Pinellas County - Long Run: 13.12 miles, 00:09:14 average pace, 02:01:03 duration
it was pouring with heavy winds when i woke up so i waited a bit for it to calm down before heading out. it was great until the rain stopped and the humidity came in which coincided with the ascent. overall it was a good session. beth’s handheld water sucks.
#running

How to Check Battery Capacity & Cycle Count from Command Line on Mac
Most Mac users will likely see battery stats in the menu bar of MacOS, and head to System Information to investigate cycle count, but some users who spend a lot of time at the command line may find it useful to be able to retrieve battery information from the Terminal. One way to find battery … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/01/03/how-to-check-battery-capacity-cycle-count-from-command-li … ⌘ Read more

A new dawn starting here, I am heading to the forest with the dogs

Pinellas County - Long run: 16.54 miles, 00:09:54 average pace, 02:43:52 duration
broke up some of the run in to 5km on/off. got a bit light headed at around 14 miles so walked it off and hydrated. overall pretty nice run.

grandma lib passed today.
#running

I would love to be able to time travel back to the days when Talking Heads toured and witness one of their epic live concerts.

I will go for a walk to clear my head

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I lasted for a long time.. Not sure where or when it was “got”. We had been having a cold go around with the kiddos for about a week when the wife started getting sicker than normal. Did a test and she was positive. We tested the rest of the fam and got nothing. Till about 2 days later and myself and the others were positive. It largely hasn’t been too bad a little feaver and stuffy noses.

But whatever it was that hit a few days ago was horrible. Like whatever switch in my head that goes to sleep mode was shut off. I would lay down and even though I felt sleepy, I couldn’t actually go to sleep. The anxiety hit soon after and I was just awake with no relief. And it persisted that way for three nights. I got some meds from the clinic that seemed to finally get me to sleep.

Now the morning after I realized for all that time a part of me was missing. I would close my eyes and it would just go dark. No imagination, no pictures, nothing. Normally I can visualize things as I read or think about stuff.. But for the last few days it was just nothing. The waking up to it was quite shocking.

Though its just the first night.. I guess I’ll have to see if it persists. 🤞

So.. Of y’all that had covid. Did you have at the end a night where for no reason your brain amped up to 11 and can’t sleep at all? It happened to me last night and my FIL the night before.

I went to bed at 8 and woke up full on anxiety attack at 12 and could not calm my head until around 7 am. Today has sucked a lot.

SPRF Half Marathon: 13.20 miles, 00:09:29 average pace, 02:05:12 duration
still host and humid (no surprise) but more cloud cover today. no kids but beth came and was able to cheer me on in a couple of places which was fun. the last bit she yelled “five to go!” which kind of got in my head a bit, albeit i think the heat started to get to me as well. had to take a couple of brief walks just to recollect and focus again. pretty good training run. keeping it in the green for the most part and around marathon pace. can’t wait to see how cooler weather and more training will pay off!
#running #race

Pinellas County - Base: 5.05 miles, 00:09:18 average pace, 00:46:58 duration
mmm… a chill to the air. had been up since 0230 but just laid in bed. did not head out in the morning because of work but was able to sneak this in between meetings.
#running

5G chaos in my head
One of the reasons I like blogging is that it sometimes helps me organize my thoughts. There’s a lot of chaos in my head before I write them down, and after, my head is sometimes calm. ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - Base: 7.25 miles, 00:10:21 average pace, 01:15:03 duration
it was alright. had to wait too long each time i crossed 113th, the second time the blood rushed to my head and made me a bit nauseous so walked that off.
#running

Pinellas County - Long run: 12.81 miles, 00:11:45 average pace, 02:30:38 duration
drank too much, slept too little. kept the pace where i wanted to when i headed out so that is something. found a nice little area with hills so will definitely be returning.
#running

Murray’s 100 million bees are finally on the move after an ‘anxious’ week stuck in a varroa mite surveillance zone
After playing a crucial role in pollinating Victorian almond orchards and a week caught in a varroa mite surveillance zone, Queensland’s Murray Arkadieff and his 1,000 beehives are finally heading home. ⌘ Read more

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Beekeeper says eradication ‘impossible’ as varroa mite spreads through coastal region
The number of varroa mite detections in the Kempsey area of the NSW Mid North Coast has grown to 13 in just over a week. ⌘ Read more

I bought myself a Tilley LTM6 hat. It was expensive and still feels a bit strange to wear because nobody wears hats here. But it’s comfortable even with my big head (I always have to buy XXL caps and helmets) and it protects my face and neck pretty well from the sun. And it comes with a lifetime warranty! ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Big Tech Show - Apr 23, 2023 - Hour 2
Listen now (0 sec) | Listener questions! All hour! So much nerdiness it makes my head explode! ⌘ Read more

From my small experience in writing an event database, I am inclined to agree with this.

** Moon maker **
I recently re-read Peter Naur’s“Programming as theory building”. Afterwards I set out to write my own text editor. The paper posits that it’s really hard, if not impossible, to fully communicate about a program and sort of gestures at the futility of documentation…what spun around inside my head as I read was that our primary programming medium — text files — is silly. Like, some folks would totally 100% s … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: “We need disruption to end the destruction.
No more excuses.
No more greenwashing.
No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.”

Not our words.
It’s the latest of many strong statements by António Guterres, head of the United Nations.

Time for a 🧵…**
“We need disruption to end the destruction.

No more excuses.

No more greenwashing.

No more bottomless greed of the fossil fuel industry and its enablers.”

Not our words.

It’s the latest of many strong statem … ⌘ Read more

Nia Archives – Conveniency
Video directed by Nia Archives + Delphino Productions. Nia’s new Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP – the follow up to one of 2022’s best releases -- is out next month, pre-order the limited signed vinyl edition here… [Continue reading…](https://www.gorillavsbear.net/nia-archives-conv … ⌘ Read more

**This is how every news program should start, what political interviews first question should be about, the first impact assessment to every decision that is made.

The world knows how disastrous >1.5C is, pretends to be doing what is needed to avoid it, but we’re heading to 2°C.**
This is how every news program should start, what political interviews first question should be about, the first impact assessment to every decision that is made.

The world knows how disastrous >1.5C is, pretends to be doing what i … ⌘ Read more

Trying to wrap my head around webfinger..

my first thoughts about it were that a subject of acct:me@sour.is would have a listing of rel’s for the different accounts that are related to me (ie. yarn, salty, twitter, mastodon, etc…)

but maybe my thinking is at the wrong level.. that each of those accounts would be on a subject level and the rels are describing different aspects of that account. so i would have salty:acct:xuu@sour.is, twitter:acct:xuu, mastodon:acct:xuu@chaos.social, yarn:acct:xuu@ev.sour.is and then i could have a main acct:me@sour.is that links them together as aliases.

I found okta will do something similar with its accounts to show as okta:acct:user@domain so maybe I am on to something?

I’ll let the head of the bird site comment on that:

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RT by @mind_booster: Communicating the climate crisis to non-experts is difficult. Here I tried to illustrate in a simple way where we stand and where we are heading.
Communicating the climate crisis to non-experts is difficult. Here I tried to illustrate in a simple way where we stand and where we are heading.

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The version control system in my head isn’t as good as Git.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de @mckinley@twtxt.net Yup, some people do. I tried several times to figure out whether I also have some imaginary voice in my head or not. And I can’t really tell. My best bet is that it depends. Generally there is no voice or just a very faint one. For very complex stuff I think my brain plays some audio. But it’s very hard to tell. If I try to think about it, it feels super weird in my head.

whenever someone denies something, nod my head sagely and say “glomarizing nicely, I see.”

My head is all over the place completely disorganised

I do have that damn song stuck in my head now… It is a good song but still…

Yesterday, we had a heavy thunderstorm in the evening. At first it wasn’t too bad, just thunder in the distance and then a few drops of rain for at most five minutes. That was it. Alright, I thought, it’s over, let me call a mate and walk to the dairy farm. The heavy clouds looked awesome, a bit threatening but mostly harmless and just beautiful. We decided on a small detour to the home made ice cream vending machine and got ourselves some expensive, but very yummy pineapple/mint, yoghurt and raspberry/basil tubs. Mint was super strong, had to eat three spoons of some other flavors to actually taste it. A few spoons in and then the thunder rolled in from nowhere. So we quickly headed for the dairy farm while eating our ice creams. Half way there the sky floodgates opened and we took cover under a tree at the local playground. A minute later we decided to climb up the slide tower, because it had a proper roof. A tiny bit of hail cam down, but nothing serious.

About 15-20 minutes the rain stopped and the thunder and lighning rolled past. So we continued our journey and I finally filled my two one liter bottles successfully. Every now and then it drizzled a little bit through the forest. We reached our homes and a couple minutes later rain hit again. Thunder and lighning went crazy. The sky lit up every few seconds and this continued through half of the night.

Right after I hung up to meet my mate, another mate called and reported a few villages north of us they experienced hail sized a bit under golf balls. But he luckily managed to get the car in the underground carpark in time.

Today, it rained the whole morning. This was great since the temperatures stayed below 20°C, so my walk was a real joy. It’s going to get close to 30°C tomorrow, though, gnarf, örks, bwäh. :-(

How leaders mingle after Nato meetings: with fine food, art and music at Madrid’s famous Prado Museum
Nato country leaders and European Union heads of state and government got to admire some of the world’s greatest art and listen to a Ukrainian classical orchestra live as they gathered to dine at Madrid’s Prado Museum. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong could issue No 1 typhoon warning signal on Wednesday night, forecaster says, ahead of expected visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping
Hong Kong Observatory warns strong winds and showers are possible with tropical depression heading towards west of Hong Kong and Guangdong province. ⌘ Read more

Is Chinese University of Hong Kong head Rocky Tuan a patriot? Vice-chancellor addresses criticism, vows CUHK will link China and West
Vice-chancellor, whose term has been extended by another three years, says his institution aims to link China and the West, and is committed to joint projects with mainland. ⌘ Read more

School in China ditches sleeping on desks at nap time for health reasons and lets students set up their own tents to sleep in
A school in China, concerned by the health impacts of students sleeping with heads on desks, tried something different — now its ‘sleep lying down project’ is winning praise nationally. ⌘ Read more

Prince Charles says Commonwealth nations free to decide on dropping queen as head of state
Addressing a summit of Commonwealth prime ministers and presidents in Rwanda, the monarch also expressed ‘personal sorrow’ at Britain’s legacy of slavery. ⌘ Read more

UBS’s top China banker says Hong Kong still a magnet for global IPOs, with additional reforms likely to attract more start-ups in Greater Bay Area
Hong Kong can still create wider room for more stock offerings from global companies and start-ups in Greater Bay Area, according to John Lee, head of Greater China global banking at UBS. ⌘ Read more

Coronavirus: Hong Kong tour group heads to Japan for the first time in more than 2 years after Tokyo eases Covid rules
Ten travellers join seven-day trip organised by EGL Tours, which had previously pushed back the departure date from June 11 to June 15 and then to Wednesday. ⌘ Read more