Tootfinder

Oh and I should also add that while the original video and the screenshots later in the thread are all from Ubuntu, my main machine at work is actually running Slackware, so those rpm and deb packages (which is all we make for internal builds) would not be a lot of use to me directly anyway. 😜

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 56, which requires social media companies to add warning labels on mental health risks for users under 18 in the state (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/california-h…

@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.

@… Regarding quotes, I'd add that in Germany and Austria, guillemets are an alternative to „…“ and are used like this: »…«
In Switzerland, only «…» are used for all national languages, but they are only spaced in French.

@… Wouldn’t hurt to add the synonyms and see if they get critical mass IMO.

@… top tip: add 1960s cha-cha music to videos of totalitarian state funerals.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs AB 56, which requires social media companies to add warning labels on mental health risks for users under 18 in the state (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/california-h…

@… Also the dialog utility makes it really easy to add a bit of curses UI powered by a simple shell script, which is exactly what you are seeing here. That whole thing was just written in bash.

Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a "personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o" and will add "erotica for verified adults" (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have

»Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse:
The decentralized network will offer full control over who can quote your posts.«
I am curious to see how this affects the behavior of the @… users. I cannot classify this as good or bad and have no opinion in this regard. What is yours?
:mastodon:

Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
Mastodon is rolling out quote posts, allowing you to repost someone else’s content and add extra context. The decentralized network will offer full control over who can quote your posts.

TIL `hyphens: auto` does not add hyphens for capitalized words (in English at least).
extraordinarily (wraps with hyphen)
Extraordinarily (no wrap no hyphen)
Adding `word-break: break-word` breaks the capitalized word, but still no hyphen 🤨
Demo (applies to Firefox and Chrome, working in Safari): https://codepen.io/zachl…

@… I want to add a fifth FreeBSD product:
― a toaster.

This is great news for all #XML and #pandoc users: Pandoc has now a native XML reader and writer for an XML representation of its internal document model (which was previously mainly serialized as JSON). This means that it is now possible to add support for new input or output formats via X technologies like

@… "Right now, new subscription sign-ups have slowed to around 1–2 per day – a long way off our target of 2,000"
...
"Add in current subs revenue of around €20k/year"
...
"579 people have stepped up and subscribed. Our target is 2,000"
Anyone who has had any interest in Boards would have signed up right now,…

@… @… or add a partition for data, in case you decide to try another distro.

Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/mastodon-is-taki…

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

I'm on fire today.
Now you can add your instance (cookie based) and it will enable a link on every post to "open in your instance" so you can interact with posts found on #mastodon

Sharp Leaves: "@thibaultamartin Can I add som…" | @…
https://

There might still be a lot of broken rules and errors in there,
Please help me fix them 😏
I hope some people find my little copy&paste project and help fix and add more useful rules. 🙏
Yes, I know, there are tools like mago and other great linters and fixers, but the cool thing is: phpstan is PHP. If a rule does not fit, I can make it fit. If I need a new rule, I can build it myself. I´m not a Rust or Python; I work with PHP, so I prefer independence! 💪
🔗

Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, building upon Threads' 500-character text limit for posts (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/770391/meta-threads-text-dumps-attachmen…

You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts
Threads now allows users to add text attachments to their posts that can include as many as 10,000 characters.

Augmented Shuffle Differential Privacy Protocols for Large-Domain Categorical and Key-Value Data
Takao Murakami, Yuichi Sei, Reo Eriguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02004 https:…

Augmented Shuffle Differential Privacy Protocols for Large-Domain Categorical and Key-Value Data
Shuffle DP (Differential Privacy) protocols provide high accuracy and privacy by introducing a shuffler who randomly shuffles data in a distributed system. However, most shuffle DP protocols are vulnerable to two attacks: collusion attacks by the data collector and users and data poisoning attacks. A recent study addresses this issue by introducing an augmented shuffle DP protocol, where users do not add noise and the shuffler performs random sampling and dummy data addition. However, it focuse…

Clearly whatever mechanism is responsible for parsing out my message and deciding how to handle it, is trying to add my shopping item to OmniFocus. WHY? I DIDN’T ASK YOU TO PUT IT IN OMNIFOCUS!?!
If it *always* did that, I would accept it as intentional that OmniFocus has been somehow marked as *the* app for storing all my lists.
But it’s the inconsistency that makes it maddening. Given the same command, the system should always do *the same thing*.
Please fix that Apple. N…

@… To add an important side note: In 0.5 the async client uses ReactPHP while the sync client used a howbrew internal event loop. Making them both non-blocking, be it internally only for one of them

Mullvad VPN adding QUIC obfuscation for WireGuard to help users get around firewalls and censorship #censorship

Introducing QUIC Obfuscation for WireGuard
We are excited to add QUIC obfuscation for WireGuard, aimed at helping users bypass firewalls and censorship. This new obfuscation method is now available on all desktop platforms.

@… I would not expect this to work without a few changes first. First step would be an internals change to add an export for Core.js over using Eleventy.js — this skips a lot of the file system stuff

Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, building upon the 500-character text limit for posts (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/770391/meta-threads-text-dumps-attachments-10000-…

You can now attach 10,000 character blogs to your Threads posts
Threads now allows users to add text attachments to their posts that can include as many as 10,000 characters.

OMFG
"A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month"
https://www.

Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.

#emacs users who bank with the uk starling bank, (niche!): I received a handy new contribution to my starling.el project, a new view that lets you see your spending insights. Thanks to Alex:
https://github.com/draxil/starling-e…

@… Some language servers do this. The Haskell Language Server, for example, will let you add an explicit type annotation for an implicitly typed variable or function. I think I’ve seen this for TypeScript too.
I’m not sure if this answers your question, but I hope it does.

"**The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, Amazon then pushed out to users.**"
Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
https://www.404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-commands-in-amazons-ai-coding-agent/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

@… tlp is command line based, but you can add TLP-UI for GUI interface.

@… amazing, thank you so much for this!
fwiw, there is a way to add a custom timeout to Eleventy’s Fetch utility: https://www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins/fetch/#a

❝ Where to submit a bug report ❞
For some aspects of FreeBSD, I would add GitHub to the list.
A recent example: <https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2531>, which combines something from Bugzilla with (I guess) part of an email.

Managing Correlations in Data and Privacy Demand
Syomantak Chaudhuri, Thomas A. Courtade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02856 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.02856

Managing Correlations in Data and Privacy Demand
Previous works in the differential privacy literature that allow users to choose their privacy levels typically operate under the heterogeneous differential privacy (HDP) framework with the simplifying assumption that user data and privacy levels are not correlated. Firstly, we demonstrate that the standard HDP framework falls short when user data and privacy demands are allowed to be correlated. Secondly, to address this shortcoming, we propose an alternate framework, Add-remove Heterogeneous …

PrivWeb: Unobtrusive and Content-aware Privacy Protection For Web Agents
Shuning Zhang, Yutong Jiang, Rongjun Ma, Yuting Yang, Mingyao Xu, Zhixin Huang, Xin Yi, Hewu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11939

PrivWeb: Unobtrusive and Content-aware Privacy Protection For Web Agents
While web agents gained popularity by automating web interactions, their requirement for interface access introduces significant privacy risks that are understudied, particularly from users' perspective. Through a formative study (N=15), we found users frequently misunderstand agents' data practices, and desired unobtrusive, transparent data management. To achieve this, we designed and implemented PrivWeb, a trusted add-on on web agents that utilizes a localized LLM to anonymize private informa…

OpenAI rolls out Instant Checkout to let users make single-item purchases directly in ChatGPT, starting with US Etsy sellers, and plans to add Shopify merchants (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/29/chatgpt-instant-checkout-etsy-shopify.html…

Etsy pops 13% as OpenAI announces ChatGPT Instant Checkout for the shopping site
U.S. ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Free users can now make purchases through the chatbot

@… I edited my previous reply to add: It's a little hard to follow the side-by-side screenshots of what corresponds to what, so I'd recommend separating them and explaining them one at a time, if possible (along with a link to the demo).

Alright, next step in my #OTEL adventure for @… was to add react/cache|dns|socket so I can trace any potential connection issues. Not sure yet what to do next:
* Event loop
* react/stream
* Just add tests to what you have before adding more

Improving Low-Cost Teleoperation: Augmenting GELLO with Force
Shivakanth Sujit, Luca Nunziante, Dan Ogawa Lillrank, Rousslan Fernand Julien Dossa, Kai Arulkumaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13602

Improving Low-Cost Teleoperation: Augmenting GELLO with Force
In this work we extend the low-cost GELLO teleoperation system, initially designed for joint position control, with additional force information. Our first extension is to implement force feedback, allowing users to feel resistance when interacting with the environment. Our second extension is to add force information into the data collection process and training of imitation learning models. We validate our additions by implementing these on a GELLO system with a Franka Panda arm as the follow…

🔧 Key Features
Character Consistency
Maintains appearance of characters or objects across multiple prompts and edits. Enables placing the same character in different environments, showcasing products from multiple angles, or generating consistent brand assets.
✏️ Targeted Transformations
Precise local edits using natural language commands:
Blur backgrounds
Remove objects or stains
Remove people from photos
Alter poses
Add color to black and whit…

@… Oh, add `export` to your shell hook?

Google rolls out an AI-powered conversational photo editing tool, previously exclusive to the Pixel 10 series, to all Google Photos users on Android (Artie Beaty/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-users-just…

Your Android phone just got a massive Google Photos upgrade - here's what it can do now
Previously exclusive to the Pixel 10, you can now edit photos with a simple AI prompt - remove glare, add clouds, and more.

@… I’m not here to argue, I just want to add that I think it’s interesting how perspective can make the same events look differently.
Growing up as a child in Central Europe, my understanding was always that Hitler putting a bullet in his head is what ended the war.
The Japanese/American conflict was more of a sideshow. I would never have c…

Adobe rolls out new generative AI features for Photoshop to let users more easily add or remove people and objects, including "Harmonize" compositing, in beta (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/715073/adobe-photosho…

Photoshop just made it shockingly easy to edit objects and people into photos
Adobe is launching some new generative AI features for Photoshop that make it easier than ever to convincingly add or remove people and objects in photographs.

Please add this tiny bit-o-CSS for stable scrollbar gutters to your Reset Stylesheets
https://www.zachleat.com/web/stable-scrollbar-gutters/

I didn't go digging, this one just dropped in my lap whilst I was browsing for something else.
User: "… Can somebody please tell me, how does one add a user to the sudoers file?!"
Forum member: "I can but I won't", and four other members congratulate this person for his bad manners. What the fuck?
User: "… visudo is broken. It doesn't let me type anything. Got any ideas?"
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Ok, they have slowed down the rate they gain partners it seems. They only have 934. So it took them 9 months and 4 days to add 64 more partners.

Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/google-revamps-discover-pag…

Google revamps Discover page to show content from creators | TechCrunch
Google will now let you follow publishers and creators directly through its Search app's Discover page.

@… wait until they add that big mirror on the north side!

Say it with me: LLM's offer next likely token prediction.
If you want to predict likely tokens (E.g., predictive keyboard typing), great!
If you want ANYTHING OTHER THAN NEXT LIKELY TOKEN PREDICTION you don't want an LLM.
No, not even if you add RAG.
No, not even if it's "agentic".
If you want certainty, if you want rule adherence, if you want comprehension of any kind, you don't want an LLM. No matter what OpenAI tells you.

@… thanks.
I didn't want to add more noise in GitHub than I already have … and I'm keeping my distance from Phabricator 🙂

Google updates video editing tool Vids to add AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools, and releases a basic version to all users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/google-vid…

Google Vids adds AI avatars to its video editor and launches a consumer version | TechCrunch
Google is launching a free consumer version of its video editor Vids that will be available without any AI-powered features.

Google Photos will let users edit images using text or voice prompts, first on Pixel 10 devices in the US, and will add support for C2PA Content Credentials (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/you-can-now-talk-to-google-photos-to…

You can now talk to Google Photos to make your edits | TechCrunch
Google Photos introduces an "ask to edit" feature that lets you speak or text your edit requests.

A hacker claims to have compromised Amazon's Q coding assistant for VS Code via a GitHub pull request; Amazon says "no customer resources were impacted" (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-comma…

Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, which Amazon then pushed out to users.

Google updates its Search app's Discover page to let users follow specific publishers and creators; it plans to add YouTube Shorts and X and Instagram posts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/google-revamps-discover-pag…

Google revamps Discover page to show content from creators | TechCrunch
Google will now let you follow publishers and creators directly through its Search app's Discover page.

Sources: OpenAI is aiming to add a checkout system into ChatGPT, to ensure users complete transactions within the platform, with merchants paying a commission (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/449102a2-d270-4d68-8616-70bfbaf212de

Add #speech2text to your #omarchy (#arch #linux) 🎙️ 🤖 😊
Since there is no WhisperFlow f…