La Suisse vote sur la limitation de sa population à 10 millions d’habitants
Une initiative de l’extrême droite helvétique, qui est soumise au référendum dimanche, propose de limiter la population pour faire avancer ses thèmes xénophobes et son emprise sur la démocratie. Un discours qui séduit l’électorat conservateur du pays. ⌘ Read more

FOMO to the moon
In an awkward attempt to bridge the generation gap at a recent family gathering, I asked a 20-something relative about [gender-redacted pro-noun] investing habits.

“I DCA into an S&P ETF,” was the answer. ⌘ Read more

BYD is showing Tesla how to build trust in robocars
By Liam Denning

BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle giant, is making a habit of stealing Tesla Inc.’s thunder. BYD scored a hat-trick last year. ⌘ Read more

Roku Updates Its UI For the First Time In a Decade
Roku is rolling out its first major homescreen update in a decade. The UI doesn’t look too dramatically different, but users will notice more personalization-driven changes, including frequently used apps, “top picks,” household-specific layouts, and recommendations based on viewing habits. Rest assured, Engadget adds, “Everything is still in various shades of purp … ⌘ Read more

PFAS: l’État attaqué pour inaction par des associations et des riverains de sites pollués
Plusieurs associations et des habitants de territoires contaminés aux polluants éternels saisissent le tribunal administratif pour faire reconnaître la responsabilité de l’État. Ils dénoncent la passivité des pouvoirs publics alors que ceux-ci avaient connaissance des risques. ⌘ Read more

«Vous faites rentrer que les Blancs!»: à Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, une soirée foot relance les accusations de gentrification
Des habitants racisés ont été refoulés à l’entrée d’une diffusion publique d’un match de Ligue des champions dans un lieu culturel. Le directeur du lieu a reconnu une erreur et le maire, Karim Bouamrane, est intervenu. Mais l’incident a marqué des Audoniens qui craignent d’être exclus de certains … ⌘ Read more

‘Software Isn’t Dead, But Its Cosy Business Model Might Be’
The software industry’s decades-old habit of charging companies a flat fee for every employee who uses a product is running into a fundamental problem: AI agents don’t sit in chairs, and they don’t need licences.

As autonomous agents take on tasks that human workers once handled, the per-seat pricing model that made SaaS revenue so predictable is giving way t … ⌘ Read more

Ancient Martian Beach Discovered, Providing New Clues To Planet’s Habitability
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: New findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that once held a vast lake – considerably expanding the timeline for potential habitability at this ancient site. In an i … ⌘ Read more

Study Casts Doubt on Potential For Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Jupiter’s moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond Earth, with a large subsurface ocean thought to be hidden under an outer shell of ice. But new research is raising questions about whether Europa in fact has what it takes for habitability. Reuters: The study assessed the pot … ⌘ Read more

Americans Are Watching Fewer New TV Shows and More Free TV
Americans are settling into streaming habits that should worry Hollywood executives, as new Nielsen data analyzed by Bloomberg reveals that not a single new original series cracked the top 10 most-watched streaming shows in 2025 – the first time this has happened since Nielsen began publishing streaming data in 2020.

The shift extends beyond origi … ⌘ Read more

YouTube Releases Its First-Ever Recap of Videos You’ve Watched
YouTube has launched its first-ever “Recap” for videos watched on the main platform, giving users personalized cards that showcase their top channels, interests, and a personality type based on their watch habits. The feature rolls out across North America today and globally this week. TechCrunch reports: Users can find their Recap directly on the You … ⌘ Read more

Seven Years Later, Airbus is Still Trying To Kick Its Microsoft Habit
Breaking free from Microsoft is harder than it looks. Airbus began migrating its 100,000-plus workforce from Office to Google Workspace more than seven years ago and it still hasn’t completed the switch. The Register: As we exclusively revealed in March 2018, the aerospace giant told 130,000 employees it was ditching Microsoft’s productivit … ⌘ Read more

Huge cloud of plasma belched out by star 130 light years away
A coronal mass ejection from a distant star has been confirmed for the first time, raising questions about how such events could impact exoplanet habitability ⌘ Read more

What’s the Best Ways for Humans to Explore Space?
Should we leave space exploration to robots — or prioritize human spaceflight, making us a multiplanetary species?

Harvard professor Robin Wordsworth, who’s researched the evolution and habitability of terrestrial-type planets, shares his thoughts:

In space, as on Earth, industrial structures degrade with time, and a truly sustainable life support system must have the capa … ⌘ 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. :-)

The Martian permafrost may be hiding veins of habitable liquid water
Buried underground near the surface, frozen regions of Mars could have tiny hidden channels full of liquid water, which could be a habitable environment for microscopic organisms ⌘ Read more

Does individual climate action distract from the big picture? New research has answers
New research suggests that trying to change people’s climate habits won’t hurt support for big picture solutions. ⌘ Read more

Australian wine labels feeling the pinch as Chinese buy and drink less
Cheaper bulk wine has been struggling in the market, but now even prestigious labels like Penfolds are feeling the pinch off the back of changing drinking habits and a reported crackdown on lavish banquets for civil servants. ⌘ Read more

General relativity might save some planets from death
Some habitable worlds orbiting dead stars could be kept alive for aeons thanks to a quirk of Einstein’s theory of gravity ⌘ Read more

** Read the Book **
There’s a whole lot going on, and I’ve been feeling myself develop bad habits concerning doom scrolling. I can’t reconfigure my life to not have a phone, so, instead, I made a thing to replace those things that invite me to doomy scroll. Meet Read the Book.

Read the book is a relatively simple website where you can read a book. The books are presented in short chunks so you’re never faced with a big scrolling wall of text. It has support for dark mode and light mode, and you can u … ⌘ Read more

trying to start a new habit of taking daily notes in obsidian… i really hope i can make it stick!

Erlang Solutions: Avoiding Common Startup Tech Mistakes
When you’re moving quickly in a startup, taking shortcuts in your tech stack is tempting. A quick workaround here, a temporary fix there, with plans to tidy it all up later. But later can easily turn into never.

Those early decisions, however small they seem, have a habit of sticking around. Over time, they slow you down, create technical debt, and make it harder to scale.

This blog looks at how to avoid common startup tech mistakes b … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz creating habits or rituals as hard, dropping ones that you no longer need or considered harmful is even harder! Good luck! 🙏

** Something something something, week notes **
I’ve finished my little exploratory jaunt through the writings of Sally Rooney this week. I’ve left aside one of her novels for some other time, Beautiful World, Where Are You. Some authors have clear habits, or“projects.” Rooney strikes me as such an author. Naming either seems a bit trickier, though. Something something something, what do normative friendships between people entail, something something something how is morality constructed by other peoples’ percep … ⌘ Read more

jenny really isn’t well equipped to handle edits of my own twts.

For example, in 2021, this change got introduced:

https://www.uninformativ.de/git/jenny/commit/6b5b25a542c2dd46c002ec5a422137275febc5a1.html

This means that jenny will always ignore my own edits unless I also manually edit its internal “json database”. Annoying.

That change was requested by a user who had the habit of deleting twts or moving them to another mailbox or something. I think that person is long gone and I might revert that change. 🤔

I put 27 life-changing habits to the test ⌘ Read more

** Job posting **
I don’t write about work here. Not really as a rule, but out of habit.

It is a Saturday, and this morning at around 1 AM the federal government here in the U.S. fired my entire team, and the whole group they worked out of, 18f. This means that the team I was on is now just me. I was the only one not from 18f.

Nothing about this will increase efficiency or help anyone, at all.

If any of you beautiful RSS people are hiring senior level designers or qualitative researchers, please reach out and I can make introd … ⌘ Read more

Show HN: I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass
i wanted to change the habit of reaching for my phone in the morning and doomscrolling away an hour so i built an app to help me. now i have to literally touch grass before accessing my most distracting apps

the app is built in swiftui, uses the screen time apis provided by apple and google vision to recognise grass or not

i’d love to get your thoughts on the concept.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158660](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43 … ⌘ Read more

Chute du gouvernement Barnier : victoires des déficits !
Un article de Henry Bonner Je me trouve à Baltimore, sur la côte Est des États-Unis, pour la fête de Thanksgiving. Je rends aussi visite à des cousins, qui habitent en Virginie, juste au Sud. Un membre de ma famille enseigne le français dans un collège-lycée et me propose une visite pour une journée, devant […] ⌘ Read more

https://github.com/wakatara/harsh Very powerfull #cli #habit tracker for geeks. Adopted!

** Sleepy garden beds **
This afternoon I put the garden to sleep for the fall; in the past we’ve had some fall and winter vegetables going, but this year that didn’t happen, so, I emptied out the rain barrels, cleaned them out, trundled them to a place where they wouldn’t get blown around by any winds, mulched some of the beds, weeded and generally plotzed around like a garden goblin.

I’ve fallen into the habit of making a big thing of rice over the weekend — I always intend to do something with this rice, but instead I use it for s … ⌘ Read more

Habit Hooks ⌘ Read more

‘People shop differently now’: Stall operators fear the future of markets
Business owners say changing consumer habits, rising costs, and an increase in theft are driving many family-run stalls to the brink. ⌘ Read more

La sécurité, ce n’est pas pour les gueux !
Ah, le charme tranquille de Paris alors que l’été s’est installé et que beaucoup de ses habitants sont partis, loin, en vacance ! Pas de doute, il règne actuellement sur la capitale française cette ambiance décontractée qu’on n’avait plus connue depuis des années… Pourtant, ce n’était pas gagné d’avance. Il y a de cela à peine […] ⌘ Read more

Unfortunately not on that front. Still the same 404 posting errors and oddly occasional login errors.

That’s why I was wondering if using Go 1.22.4 could be an issue. I don’t know how exactly. Only way to test is to rebuild it with an older version I guess, which is why I did the make clean in the first place. Old habits die hard lol.

What Is the Potential of Habitability of Orbiting Planets Around a Brown Dwarf? ⌘ Read more

Decoding your daily typing habits with GreptimeDB and Streamlit
Member post originally published on Greptime’s blog by Tison Nowadays, typing is a nearly daily occurrence for most people. Interestingly, your typing habits may vary significantly from what you might assume. Below, you’ll find a dashboard that provides… ⌘ Read more

Jeux Olympiques 2024 : de bien belles perspectives !
À moins de 100 jours des prochains Jeux Olympiques à Paris, on sent nettement l’excitation et la joie s’emparer de tout le pays. La capitale et ses habitants se réjouissent très manifestement des festivités et jamais le mot “épreuves olympiques” n’aura trouvé une aussi belle résonnance avec ce que traversent actuellement les Parisiens qui goûtent […] ⌘ Read more

Fake good news about our real bad habits ⌘ Read more

How to Recover Unsaved Word Documents on Mac with AutoRecovery
While you should get in the habit of frequently saving your documents as you work in them, including in Microsoft Word, things don’t always go as planned. Many modern Mac apps will automatically save progress as you work in them, and Microsoft Word is one of them. Thanks to a feature called AutoRecovery, which saves … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/02/26/how-to-recover-unsaved-word-documents-on-mac-wit … ⌘ Read more

I have a habit of running system updates on my work laptop before going out for coffee. Like some kind of ritual to prepare to go into the world fully patched.

Finding Habitable Worlds | Exoplanets 101 ⌘ Read more

Australia watching England smoking ban ‘with interest’, as government reforms tobacco laws
Australia will closely monitor a UK plan to ban cigarette sales for future generations, as the government progresses plans to prevent young people from picking up a smoking habit. ⌘ Read more

** week notes **
Last year I set out to rekindle my reading habit. That went well. This year’s reading has been enjoyable, but I’m not cozy with the ratio of non-fiction to fiction I’ve read this year…non-fiction (especially of the computing persuasion) far out balances the fiction I’ve read. I think this is mostly because I’ve been mired amidst a fiction book that I’ve found to be a slog…but enjoyable, too. I’d have abandoned it and moved on, elsewise. Onward!

Spring is quickly making way to summer h … ⌘ Read more

🌠 Better Bookmarks, Word Counts, & Borders
Natural language syntax highlighting, improved reviews and habit trackers, and a nifty way to leverage Google for searching your vault. ⌘ Read more

Hand Habits – Something Wrong
Hand Habits shares the opening track from their new collection of songs Sugar the Bruise, coming in June on Fat Possum. Listen to “ Something Wrong” via the visualizer by Ethan Skaates below… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Now immortal, he kept dying out of spite, and eventually habit. Made his deaths moving, beautiful, stylish, grotesque, all to wake up again the next morning

Comment les Français deviennent Argentins
un article de Henry Bonner “Nous attendons 80 enfants”, m’a informé la gardienne de la maison à notre arrivée. La semaine dernière, l’idée a circulé de proposer un concert de piano et guitare aux habitants des alentours afin de rencontrer les familles. Nombre d’entre elles tirent leur source de revenus du ranch où nous sommes, […] ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I get the worry of privacy. But I think there is some value in the data being collected. Do I think that Russ is up there scheming new ways to discover what packages you use in internal projects for targeting ads?? Probably not.

Go has always been driven by usage data. Look at modules. There was need for having repeatable builds so various package tool chains were made and evolved into what we have today. Generics took time and seeing pain points where they would provide value. They weren’t done just so it could be checked off on a box of features. Some languages seem to do that to the extreme.

Whenever changes are made to the language there are extensive searches across public modules for where the change might cause issues or could be improved with the change. The fs embed and strings.Cut come to mind.

I think its good that the language maintainers are using what metrics they have to guide where to focus time and energy. Some of the other languages could use it. So time and effort isn’t wasted in maintaining something that has little impact.

The economics of the “spying” are to improve the product and ecosystem. Is it “spying” when a municipality uses water usage metrics in neighborhoods to forecast need of new water projects? Or is it to discover your shower habits for nefarious reasons?

🌲Building a habit of checking in with the bigger picture
On the importance of knowing when to sit down and dive deep into your notes… so you don’t get overwhelmed always keeping them neat. ⌘ Read more