Boog900 submits CCS proposal to continue working full time on Cuprate for 3 months
Boog9001 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 looking to continue full-time development work on Cuprate 3 for 3 months:

This proposal will be for 3 months work on Cuprate while continuing coordination of the Cuprate project and also being an active maintainer for monero-rs. My main plan is to work towards what is needed to achieve a working alpha binary that can s … ⌘ Read more

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Windows 10 will be covered by 0patch, a third-party paid patching service
So I learned something new today: there are companies that provide security patches for Windows that aren’t Microsoft. I never even considered this could be a thing, but it turns out that a paid service called 0patch seems to have been around for a long time, and the consensus seems to be that not only can it be trusted, it also sometimes provides patches sooner than Microsoft does. Tod … ⌘ Read more

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Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse
AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites of major outlets, prompting an inquiry into potential rules violations. ⌘ Read more

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Fixing KWin’s performance on old hardware
KWin had a very long standing bug report about bad performance of the Wayland session on older Intel integrated graphics. There have been many investigations into what’s causing this, with a lot of more specific performance issues being found and fixed, but none of them managed to fully fix the issue… until now. ↫ Xaver Hugl An excellent deep dive into a very annoying problem KWin on Wayland running on older Intel hardware was facing. It turns out t … ⌘ Read more

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How the Developer of ‘Among Us’ Is Helping Indie Studios Survive Gaming’s Current Tumult
As the video game industry contracts, indie developers are left with fewer options for funding. Innersloth has some ideas for how to provide a lifeline. ⌘ Read more

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US states shape foreign policy amid national China unease, research shows
State-level officials such as governors, state legislators and attorneys general are shaping U.S.-China relations as the two countries navigate a strained geopolitical relationship, according to new research by political scientist Kyle Jaros. ⌘ Read more

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Surprise! The Latest ‘Comprehensive’ US Privacy Bill Is Doomed
Gutted of civil rights protections by Democrats to woo pro-business Republicans, the American Privacy Rights Act was pulled from a key congressional hearing—and appears unlikely to receive a full vote. ⌘ Read more

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**(#nmanhea) @movq Oh that’s hilarious! Your Twt didn’t parsee and render properly! I might have to think about switching to Goldmark 🤣

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[@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) Oh that’s hilarious! Your Twt didn’t parsee and render properly! I _might_ have to think about switching to Goldmark 🤣

$ bat https://twtxt.net/twt/nmanhea | jq ‘.text’
”(#nhhbupa) @prologic@twtxt.net Dunno, maybe you just love [Tasmanian devils](h … ⌘ Read more

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Tiptop Helps You Trade In Your Old Stuff to Pay for New Stuff
One of Postmates’ founders is back with an ecommerce payment startup called Tiptop. The service lets you pay for online purchases by trading in something of value you no longer want. ⌘ Read more

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(#joo54wq) I thuink that’s sorted out then. Pulled in the latest deps, repro’d locally, bug gone. So twtxt.net will roll out shortly with the …
I thuink that’s sorted out then. Pulled in the latest deps, repro’d locally, bug gone. So twtxt.net will roll out shortly with the new version in a few mins 👌 ⌘ Read more

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What’s really inside vapes? We pulled them apart to find out
While vapes or e-cigarettes first appeared around 20 years ago as an alternative to smoking, their prevalence and use have increasingly become problematic. ⌘ Read more

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Camera Face-Off: We Pit Smartphones From Xiaomi, Oppo, and Honor to Find a Winner
Chinese phones like the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, Oppo Find X7 Ultra, and Honor Magic 6 Pro are pushing cameras to new highs with large imaging sensors. Here’s what the results are like. ⌘ Read more

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