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** Not what I was expecting **
A while ago I was talking with someone about books. I mentioned that I like to read capital R romance novels, and like 19th century literary realism.

This person excitedly recommended Victor LaValle’s The Changeling. Knowing nothing about it, and because I pretty much say“yes” to any book recommendation I get from a real live person that I can find at the library, I’ve been reading it.

My dude. What the fuck!? This is just horror. 🥲😨 ⌘ Read more

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**So I need to figure out how to block ASN(s)…

Additionally, I’ thinking of; How to detect DDoS attachs?

Here’s one way I’ve come up that’s qu …**
So I need to figure out how to block ASN(s)…

Additionally, I’ thinking of; How to detect DDoS attachs?

Here’s one way I’ve come up that’s quite simple:

Detecting DDoS attacks by tracking requests across multiple IPs in a sliding window. If total requests exceed a threshold in a given time, flag as potential DDoS. ⌘ Read more

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Linda McMahon Has no Education Experience Except Wanting to Defund Public Schools
Jessica Washington,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Betsy DeVos Trump’s Secretary of Education in his first administration did everything she could to sabotage free public schools. This time he seeks to appoint Linda McMahon, who knows and has no experience with public education at all, and will do Trump’s bidding. United States public school children a … ⌘ Read more

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‘Can it be done?’ Mike Johnson seeks to shut 75% of federal agencies with Elon Musk’s help
David Edwards,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: In 16 days the first convicted multiple-felon and sex offender in American history will become the President of the United States, and, as he tells us repeatedly, he will immediately seek to change the country into a racist, male-dominant, christofascist pseudo-democracy. He yet again is what the … ⌘ Read more

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What Makes Someone Wise? Global Study Finds Cross-Cultural Agreement on 2 Major Factors
,    -  Nice News

_Stephan: A reader sent me this, and I found it a very interesting report on research about wisdom. I see so little wisdom in our politics and religion today, and so little understanding of what defines it, that I thought you might like to see this report as well. To download the research paper upon which it is based: https://www.nat … ⌘ Read more

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Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
Ian Sample,  Science Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: I found the research paper upon which this report is based in the medical research literature and then found this excellent article on the research in The Guardian which is one of the most reliable sources of fact-based journalism. If you are still smoking please consider what this research is saying about your life. If you know som … ⌘ Read more

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Top Ten Ways to Become a Zombie
Zombies aren’t just figments of horror movies and video games—they’re inspired by very real and very horrifying diseases. The world is teeming with ways to turn you (or something else) into the walking undead. Whether it’s a syndrome that convinces you you’re already dead or a virus that rewires you to bite your neighbors, this […]

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10 Book Adaptations You Forgot About
Books are an excellent source of inspiration for filmmakers. If they take a literary classic and adapt it to the screen, they practically guarantee the project’s success. After all, the story already works on the page, so all the screenwriters have to do is translate it. Doing so will put the movie, TV show, or […]

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Get the AirTag 4-Pack for the All-Time Low Price of $69.99 on Amazon
Today we’re tracking the return of an all-time low price on Apple’s AirTag 4-Pack, which has hit $69.99 on Amazon, down from $99.00. This deal was first introduced during Black Friday back in November, and we’ve only seen it return twice so far since then.

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For the time being… I’ve just blocked all of OpenAI(s) Bots. They (thankfully) publish a JSON endpoint that you can use to block all OpenAI …
For the time being… I’ve just blocked all of OpenAI(s) Bots. They ( thankfully) publish a JSON endpoint that you can use to block all OpenAI crawlers from reaching your server ( in my case, blocking it at the edge). Example:

proxy-1:~# curl -qs https://openai.com/gptbot.json | jq -r '.prefixes[].ipv4Prefix' | xargs -I{} ./block-ip.sh {}

Where … ⌘ Read more

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**(#buvh2sa) @aelaraji Yes! 👏 This is exactly what it is! 🤣 I will of course soon™ be hosting this service, likely at validator.twtxt.net ...** [@aelaraji _@aelaraji.com_](https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt&nick=aelaraji) Yes! 👏 This is exactly what it is! 🤣 I will of course soon™ be hosting this service, likely atvalidator.twtxt.net😅😅 ⌘ [Read more](https://twtxt.net/twt/rmyrhwq)

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(#f26jg3a) @kat Haha 🤣 If someone figures this out, please let me know 🙏🙏 – In the meantime, I’m going to very soon™ write a daemon …
@kat @yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Haha 🤣 If someone figures this out, please let me know 🙏🙏 – In the meantime, I’m going to very soon™ write a daemon that will watch the audit log for repeated violations and add to the network firewall. ⌘ Read more

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**(#4nndfsa) This is better:

proxy-1:~# ./audit-log-by-ip.sh 4.227.36.76 | coraza-log-formatter -m -
2025/01/04 23:17:04 4.227.36.76 58982 GE ...**
This is better:

proxy-1:~# ./audit-log-by-ip.sh 4.227.36.76 | coraza-log-formatter -m -
2025/01/04 23:17:04 4.227.36.76 58982 GET /external?aff-HY0BLO=&f=mediaonly&f=noreplies&nick=g1n&uri=https%3A%2F%2Fthe-president-codes.linegames.org null 0 On OWASP_CRS/4.7.0
Actionset: OWASP_CRS/4.7.0
Message: Bad User Agent
Severity: 0
Raw: SecRule REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent “@pmFromFile /etc/cadd … ⌘ Read more

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**Nice! I wrote another useful tool 👌

proxy-1:~# ./audit-log-by-ip.sh 4.227.36.76 | coraza-log-formatter -m -
Actionset: OWASP_CRS/4.7.0
M ...**
Nice! I wrote another useful tool 👌

proxy-1:~# ./audit-log-by-ip.sh 4.227.36.76 | coraza-log-formatter -m -
Actionset: OWASP_CRS/4.7.0
Message: Bad User Agent
Severity: 0
Raw: SecRule REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent “@pmFromFile /etc/caddy/waf/bad_user_agents.txt” “id:2000,log,phase:1,deny,msg:‘Bad User Agent’”

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**How in da fuq do you actually make these fucking useless AI bots go way?

proxy-1:~# jq '. | select(.request.remote_ip=="4.227.36.76")' /v ...**
How in da fuq do you _actually_ make these fucking useless AI bots go way?

proxy-1:~# jq ‘. | select(.request.remote_ip==“4.227.36.76”)’ /var/log/caddy/access/mills.io.log | jq -s ‘. | last’ | caddy-log-formatter -
4.227.36.76 - [2025-01-05 04:05:43.971 +0000] “GET /external?aff-QNAXWV=&f=mediaonly&f=noreplies&nick=g1n&uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmy-hero-ultra-impact-codes.linegames.org HTTP/2.0” … ⌘ Read more

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everoddandeven releases ‘Monero Daemon GUI’ v1.1.0
everoddandeven1 has released Monero node manager monerod-gui 2 version 1.1.0 Toughness 3 with various UI and daemon fixes and improvements:

Changes overview
UI fixes and improvements
Daemon settings fixes
Minor code reorganization
Upgrade dependencies

Consult the Github repository2 for the complete changelog4, a demo and usage instructions.

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Cyrix126 releases Gupaxx v1.7.0
Cyrix1261 has released Gupaxx 2 version 1.7.03 with UI improvements, new features, and various bugfixes:

This release improve a bit the UI, simplify the use of custom arguments, add better reactivity from p2pool regarding the node connectivity, adds new features and also brings improvements/bugfixes.

Changes overview


[UI] Ability to resize height of consoles
[UI] Friendly custom start options interface
[ ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/cyrix126-releases-gupaxx-v1.7.0-ui-improvements-new-features-fixes/)

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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 1 2025: 18 PRs, 4 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.

1 - PRs (18, 17:1:0)

Opened (17)

monero-project/monero:

  • #96671 depends: freebsd_base: update to 13.4 (tobtoht)
  • #96682 build: make libsodium an optional build dependency (tobtoht)
  • #96703 build: remove libtool (tobtoht)
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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter December 2024

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of December 2024.

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 help thes … ⌘ Read more

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Should Waymo Robotaxis Always Stop For Pedestrians In Crosswalks?
“My feet are already in the crosswalk,” says Geoffrey A. Fowler, a San Francisco-based tech columnist for the Washington Post. In a video he takes one step from the curb, then stops to see if Waymo robotaxis will stop for him. And they often didn’t.

Waymo’s position? Their cars consider “signals of pedestrian intent” including forward motion wh … ⌘ Read more

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It was probably my most productive first week of January so far. Big progress in the apartment: lots of furniture (and a large wall unit) dismantled, two rooms painted and much more. Tomorrow maybe a bit more relaxed program, so that I don’t need a vacation from vacation straight away. 😅 ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » The fact that the official Python docs don’t clearly state what a function returns, grinds my gears. This has cost me so much time over the years. You always have to read through a huge block of text.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de woah it’s like a cheatsheet with explanations! java is kind of arcane magic sorcery to me so i’m having trouble understanding it but i have that with most programming languages. this is like so much easier to actually look at and read instead of my eyes glazing over lol

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Oh gawd. I can’t enable caching on my edge proxy everywhere 😱 Some shit™ doesn’t deal with a caching reverse proxy in front of it very well …
Oh gawd. I can’t enable caching on my edge proxy everywhere 😱 Some shit™ doesn’t deal with a caching reverse proxy in front of it very well for some reason I don’t have time to dig into right now 🤔 ⌘ Read more

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What’s a reasonable per second or per minute rate limit that I could apply in general at my edge proxy for all clients? (no matter what) … L …
What’s a reasonable per second or per minute rate limit that I could apply in general at my edge proxy for all clients? ( no matter what) … LIke a good reasonable upper bound? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

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(#qed3omq) @movq Yeah it’s starting to piss me off too 🤣 Not nearly as much as that guy, but stil. Anyway I’m having fun! Now I just need to …
@movq @www.uninformativ.de Yeah it’s starting to piss me off too 🤣 Not nearly as much as that guy, but stil. Anyway I’m having fun! Now I just need to find a good IP/Subnet list that I can blacklist entirely, ideally one that’s updated frequently so I can refresh firewall rules. ⌘ Read more

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The fact that the official Python docs don’t clearly state what a function returns, grinds my gears. This has cost me so much time over the years. You always have to read through a huge block of text.

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You could at least put a list of possible return values in there (always at the same location, please!), here’s a mockup:

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New Year’s attacks fuel fears of extremism in military
Brad Dress,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Did you particularly note that the two terrorists that recently murdered innocent Americans were militarily trained MAGAts? The rising percentage of MAGAts in active service, or recent retirement, in the armed forces is a trend I having been following and reporting on (see SR archive) in SR for years. It really concerns me because if Trump orders the use of the militar … ⌘ Read more

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Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2024
Chip Brownlee ,  Reporter  -  The Trace

Stephan: Here, as bad as it still is, is some good news about gun violence in the United States. Gun violence is going down, so are gun sales. Children killed by gun violence is down. Mass shootings are down, although still high. Federal spending for research on gun violence is much larger. We still have the most gun violence in the developed democracies, but the trends are better, so that is good news.

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Australia Banned Kids From Social Media. Now It Has Advice for the US.
Steven Overly,    -  Politico

_Stephan: As I have been saying for years now, the internet and social media are sewers that are completely distorting how children born since 1997 have matured. That’s when the Six Degrees website launched, and what we call social media began. It has completely changed the culture of developed societies. Now, finally, as this article describes, a few count … ⌘ Read more

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As a child psychiatrist, I see what smartphones are doing to kids’ mental health – and it’s terrifying
Emily Sehmer,  Child Psychiatrist and Conttributing Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: This column is a confirmation of what I said in the previous comment. This is why what Australia is doing is so important, and why the United States has to act.

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10 Crucial Events That Defined Entire Eras of American History
Certain events have very clearly defined American history. The Battle of Gettysburg, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of public figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy—certainly, the list goes on from there. But just as much, there have been quite a few incredibly important events that have defined American history, […]

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In-reply-to » @andros What do you mean by API? yarnd (which powers Yarn.social pods like twtxt.net) does have an API, however that API is designed for clients to interact with the pod and the user's account and feed. e.g: there is a command-line client called yarnc and I used to maintain a mobile native app (using Flutter).

Want this API for Goryon or just Goryon with support to just twtxt.txt. I can’t read timeline without visible replies and missing twts

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**(#7xqzija) I’m just basically learning now how ModSecurity rules work and how to write my own.

The builtin OWASP rules are already working nice …**
I’m just basically learning now how ModSecurity rules work and how to write my own.

The builtin OWASP rules are already working nicely 👌 – And yeah I won’t include the WAF on every site block, probably just my main/primary domain where I tend to run demo services and other things. ⌘ Read more

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MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 11 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, January 11th 2025 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.

The meeting’s discussion topics should be available on agenda.monerokon.org 3.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer4.

_Note that the upcoming event will take place in Prague on June 20-22 2025[ … ⌘ Read more

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0xFFFC, j-berman, tobtoht CCS proposals ready for funding
Three CCS proposals have been moved to the funding stage and are now looking for community support:

  • 0xFFFC’s!526 1: full-time C++ development (3 months, Jan, Feb, Mar, 2025) 2
  • j-berman’s!527 3: full-time development (4 months) 4
  • tobtoht’s!529 5: full-time feather + core development (3 months) 6

To support the above proposals you can donate to the XMR addre … ⌘ Read more

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(#eebumiq) @bender@bender It’s true! 🤣 It’s a total garbage nonsense title. But the actual research paper that the video references is rea …
@bender It’s true! 🤣 It’s a total garbage nonsense title. But the actual research paper that the video references is real. Apple did in fact do a bunch of research and proved what we already know 🤣 – That is, AI is stupid 🤣 ⌘ Read more

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Optimising prompt engineering for better AI outputs
Member post originally published on the yld blog by Afonso Ramos Remember when searching for information online involved typing in a few keywords and sifting through pages of results? Thankfully, those days are long gone.  Today’s… ⌘ Read more

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**(#eebumiq) But to be fair, we already knew this… I’ve observed it first hand, we knew it at the beginning. I’ll just leave you with this:

S …**
But to be fair, we already knew this… I’ve observed it first hand, we knew it at the beginning. I’ll just leave you with this:

Stochastic Parrot

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The devastating truth about the GOP’s war on education
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I listened to Joy Reid on MSNBC this evening, and agreed with her news hour showing how the United States is becoming a billionaire-owned oligarchy, as a result of a decades-long strategy to achieve where we are today by using unethical morons like Ronald Reagan and the younger George Bush in the White House, faithful servants like Leonard Leo to transform the judic … ⌘ Read more

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The billionaires and tech barons vying to build a private space station
Matthew Field,  Senior Technology Reporter  -  The Telegraph (U.K.)

_Stephan: NASA for decades the U.S. approach to space exploration is dying. It is being taken over by billionaires who are using your tax money and mine coming to them through government contracts to increase their wealth and create their own space exploration programs. This is getting virtually no coverage in the A … ⌘ Read more

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Trump Bibles, Rudy coffee, Tucker nicotine pouches: the rightwing knick-knack racket
Adam Gabbatt,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is another American trend that is getting almost no coverage in the increasingly coorrupted U.S. billionaire owned media. Once again I saw the trend but have had to go to another British newspaper to get a decent article describing the trend. The Republican Party has become a billionaire-controlled organiz … ⌘ Read more

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KAIST Develops Foundational Technology to Revert Cancer Cells to Normal Cells​
KAIST Research Team,    -  KAIST

Stephan: Here is what looks like it is going to be very good healthcare news. If cancer is an issue for you or someone you know or care for you might alert your oncologist about this research.

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10 Exciting Things Entering the Public Domain in 2025
When a work enters the public domain, it’s like releasing an immortal animal into the wild after it has been caged for a hundred years. Now freed from copyright restrictions, the work can be studied, reinterpreted, and explored in ways that better reveal its true nature. Scholars, creators, and fans are granted new freedoms to […]

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10 Memorable Intersections Between Alcohol and Traffic
Alcohol and traffic are two opposite terms—two parallel lines that should never meet. A driver is not expected to have even a little alcohol while planning to drive; it is unsafe, dangerous, and downright immoral. An intoxicated driver poses a threat to the lives of others aside from himself. While drunk drivers have taken innocent […]

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SeeedStudio Unveils XIAO Plus Series with Expanded IO and Enhanced Connectivity
Seeed Studio recently announced the XIAO Plus series, an update to its popular XIAO lineup. This series features expanded IO options and standardized back solder points, enhancing functionality while retaining the compact XIAO form factor. The lineup includes the XIAO ESP32S3 Plus, XIAO nRF52840 Plus, and XIAO nRF52840 Sense Plus. Seeed Studio indicates that the […] ⌘ Read more

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(#fgaa2na) A pointer is basically a reference to a variable. It is typically used with structs and especially in pointer receiver methods so tha …
A pointer is basically a reference to a variable. It is typically used with structs and especially in pointer receiver methods so that you can modify fields of a struct. ⌘ Read more

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HackerBox 0110 Explores MIDI and Synth Technology with Raspberry Pi Pico 2
HackerBox 0110 offers a hands-on kit for synthesizer technology, showcasing the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2. Equipped with the RP2350 microcontroller, the kit enables exploration of MIDI technology, sound synthesis, and digital audio applications, providing tools for both learning and experimentation. The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 was launched last year, offering significant hardware […] ⌘ Read more

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使用 Go 構建基於時間的一次性密碼 -TOTP- 生成器
前言–現在很多網站都開啓了 2FA(Two-Factor Authentication,雙因素認證),如 GitHub、Google、微軟等。這種額外的安全層顯著提高了賬戶的安全性。本文將深入探討如何使用 Go 語言實現 TOTP 生成器,並詳細解釋其工作原理和安全考慮原理解析—-兩步驗證要求用戶提供兩種不同形式的身份驗證:知識因素:用戶知道的信息(如密碼) 所有權因素:用戶擁有的設 ⌘ Read more

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HTTP 代理的原理和實現
HTTP 代理可以說是每個開發者都繞不開的工具。幾乎每天都會使用,但你真的瞭解 HTTP 代理的原理嗎? 說明:這裏討論的 HTTP 代理是指 HTTP Proxy Server,具體是正向 HTTP 代理服務端的原理和實現。想了解 HTTP 代理的原理,最嚴謹的方法是閱讀 RFC 文檔,但這同時也是最困難的方式。今天,我將介紹一種更直觀的學習技巧。從名字上就可以看出,HTTP 代理基於 HTT ⌘ Read more

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Go Gin 源碼分析:上下文複用與 Goroutine 中的潛在坑
前言如果你看過Go 語言中Gin 框架的官方文檔,你可能會注意到一條重要的提醒:當在中間件或 handler 中啓動新的 Goroutine 時,不能使用原始的上下文,必須使用只讀副本。文檔中還提供了以下示例代碼:func main() { r := gin.Default() r.GET(“/longasync”, func(c gin.Context) {// 創建在 goroutine 中使 ⌘ Read more

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PicoPD Pro: USB PD 3.1 Development Board with PPS and AVS Support
The PicoPD Pro is a compact development board with the RP2040 microcontroller, enabling USB PD3.1 features like Programmable Power Supply and Adjustable Voltage Supply up to 30V. It includes an AP33772S sink controller for USB-C functionality and offers a 5V rail output for powering external components. The board includes the RP2040 microcontroller, which operates at […] ⌘ Read more

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(#6cnegna) Also post as much as you want! It’s a free world. It’s your feed. It’s your daughter. 🤣 nobody actually has to read any of it let …
Also post as much as you want! It’s a free world. It’s your feed. It’s your daughter. 🤣 nobody actually has to read any of it let alone follow you if they don’t want to. 🙃 that’s kind of the beauty of a truly decentralized slow social media ecosystem. 😎 ⌘ Read more

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Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 6 January 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Monday, January 6 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 2 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.

This meeting’s chairperson will probably be r​brunner73 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis4/JAMTIS5, FCMPs6, and other long-term Monero development issues.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer … ⌘ Read more

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