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[WTS] [0.005 XMR] Zen Mind - Shunryu Suzuki Digital Scans

I’ve scanned this book. There are 68 pics (138 pages). These scans are double-paged (2 pages scanned at same time). (47MB) Download link is a Tor/Onion link, using the OnionShare program. You will need the Tor browser to download. After purchasing, you will automatically receive the download link.

Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/Qbby/

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PEP 770: Improving measurability of Python packages with Software Bill-of-Materials
Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) is a technology-and-ecosystem-agnostic method for describing software composition, provenance, heritage, and more. SBOMs are used as inputs for software composition analysis (SCA) tools, such as scanners for vulnerabilities and licenses, and have been gaining traction in global software regulations and frameworks. ⌘ Read more

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Editor’s Note — Happy New Year
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

Stephan: I think we are about to enter a very difficult year but, whatever the societal complexities, I wish the best possible 2025 for you, your friends, and family. And remember the Quotidian Choice, make each of your decisions in 2025, of the options available to you, the one that is the most compassionate, life-affirming, and fostering of wellbeing.

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Trump Medicare Pick Dr. Oz Says Uninsured ‘Don’t Have Right to Health’ in Resurfaced Clip
David Badash,  Staff Writer  -  The New Civil Rights Movement

_Stephan: Both my wife and I, like many of you, pay for and receive Medicare so we could be affected by what Mehmet Oz has in mind. This should not be  mistaken for the evil Medicare Advantage programs designed to enrich insurance corporations.  You would think Mehmet Oz’s heartless nonsens … ⌘ Read more

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Where the minimum wage will rise in 2025
Emily Peck,  Staff Writer  -  Axios

Stephan: Here is some good news. Even in some Red states, and many Blue states the minimum wage will be going up.

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Millions of workers are getting a raise on Jan. 1, when the minimum wage is set to rise across 21 states, and 48 cities and counties.

Why it matters: Th … ⌘ Read more

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A recipe for zero-emissions fuel: Soda cans, seawater, and caffeine
Jennifer Chu ,    -  MIT News

Stephan: A reader sent me this fascinating potentially good news. I am so happy to get such stories because they tell me that even in the midst of all the crises that currently plague America there are still pockets of people striving to develop technologies designed to help us exit the carbon era.

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Bible Back in Texas Schools After Being Pulled for Sexual Content
Elizabeth Nolan Brown ,  Staff Writer  -  reason

Stephan: This is how weird book censorship is getting in the Red States. Did you ever think of the Bible as being too sexually explicit to be read by a minor?

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10 Events from 2024 That’ll Be in History Textbooks One Day
We’re not entirely sure if they still have history books in school or if they just teach kids these days using TikTok videos and Instagram reels to account for their short and fractured attention spans. Okay, we’re kidding about that little quip… we hope. We’re pretty certain that textbooks are still a thing, whether in […]

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(#td7zniq) I’m pretty happy with my Clownflare replacement solution. I’m going to start progressively migrating off Cloudflare soon™, but firs …
I’m pretty happy with my Clownflare replacement solution. I’m going to start progressively migrating off Cloudflare soon™, but first i need to take what I’ve built and commoditized it into something that that’s reusable and easily usable by others. This likely means Packer image and Terraform module. Once that’s done I’ll think about how to build a half decent wAF ( _Web Application Firewall … ⌘ Read more

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Apple Broke a 13-Year Hardware Streak in 2024
For over a decade, Apple has consistently announced all-new hardware product lines, from the iPad in 2010 to the Vision Pro in 2023. But for the first time in 14 years, Apple failed to announce any major new hardware products in 2024, focusing solely on updates and refinements to its existing product lines.

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Finally spending the time/effort today (on my day off) to see if I can get a working prototype and proof-of-concept self-hosted alternative to …
Finally spending the time/effort today ( on my day off) to see if I can get a working prototype and proof-of-concept self-hosted alternative to Clownflare going. Components I’m using so far are: Alpine Linux ( may swap this out for µLInux at some point), Wireguard, Caddy. ⌘ Read more

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Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 8 January 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, January 8th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

Agenda overview (unconfirmed)
  • Updates. What is everyone working on?
  • Discussion: Post-quantum security and ethical considerations over elliptic curve cryptography3

This meeting’s chairperson should be Rucknium4. The full dis … ⌘ Read more

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everoddandeven proposes bounty for monero-cpp Python bindings module
everoddandeven1 has proposed a bounty2 for creating a Python module that exposes the core functionalities of the monero-cpp library 3:

This module should enable Python developers to interact with monero-cpp API using a Pythonic interface without needing to write or interact with C++ code directly.

Total Bounty: 0 XMR (to date)

Payout criteria overview

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Monero Observer Blitz #37 - December 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this December in the Monero community:

Breaking
  • Brandon Goodell concluded that Generalized Bulletproofs are ‘suitable for use’ after reviewing security proofs ( 1)
  • XMR registered a 2.5-year high of $218 after a ~31% surge at the beginning of the month ( 2)
  • **Rucknium discove … ⌘ Read more

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Whoohoo! 💪 Last night I added support for SSH Agent Forwarding to sshbox that now enables me to use it as an SSH Reverse Proxy to a private S …
Whoohoo! 💪 Last night I added support for SSH Agent Forwarding to sshbox that now enables me to use it as an SSH Reverse Proxy to a private SSH service. I can now use this to front my Gitea’s SSH service 👌 ( without exposing my infra behind the proxy or the IP addresses). ⌘ Read more

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Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.5 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

Hope everyone has had a good 2024, and you’re looking forward to a better 2025!

We’re ending this year with a bugfix release for our stable 0.12 branch. This
brings some general polish and a collection of fixes for various small issues
people have reported in the past months.

A notable behaviour change in this release is that Prosody will no longer send
delivery errors to people you have blocked. Inste … ⌘ Read more

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Kubestronaut in Orbit: Sofonias Mengistu
Get to know Sofonias This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit is Sofonias Mengistu, a DevOps Engineer at Gebeya.INC based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With 14 years of IT experience—five of those dedicated to cloud-native technologies—Sofonias has led… ⌘ Read more

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Apple Vision Pro May Now Be Out of Production
Apple’s first-generation Vision Pro headset may have now ceased production, following reports of reduced demand and production cuts earlier in the year.

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In October, The Information’s Wayne Ma reported that Apple had abruptly reduced production of the Vision Pro headset ahead of po … ⌘ Read more

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** Year in review, 2024 **
As a treat, I figured I could write a year in review kinda thing, too. In no particular order here are some reflections organized into some mostly sensical categories.

Health

Since recovering from my brain bleed and the subsequent repair procedures, this year I’ve enjoyed getting back into a routine of exercising. I’ve never been one to track numbers, or reps, or distances — I mostly exercise because I enjoy doing it. This year I got back into going for regular short runs, very long walks (sorry aging d … ⌘ Read more

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American doctors hate the health care system almost as much as you do
Dylan Scott,  Staff Writer  -  Vox

_Stephan: I recently talked with a friend of mine who is also one of my doctors and he told me how bad the hassle of being a physician trying to practice in the American illness profit system has become. Another of my physicians told me her group practice was sold to Optum, and she is now an employee, and not very happy about it. My wife goes to two do … ⌘ Read more

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Costco is pushing back — hard — against the anti-DEI movement
Nathaniel Meyersohn,  Staff Writer  -  CNN

_Stephan: Here is some good news. Costco, is the store where we do most of our shopping. It is owned by one of the few American companies that actually support social wellbeing. In contrast to, say, Walmart, owned by the Walton family, a store system we don’t shop in because of its vile corporate policies and support of MAGAt politicians. Costco is going more orga … ⌘ Read more

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Plants Are Becoming Less Nutritious Because of Climate Change, Impacting Herbivores From Insects to Giant Pandas
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

Stephan: We are destroying the ecosystems of Earth, and making wholy inadequate attempts to restore Earth’s matrix of life. For that reason humanity is going to have a horrible planet-wide catastrophe occur about 2040, 15 years from now.

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10 Fascinating Origins of New Year’s Eve Superstitions
New Year’s Eve is celebrated across the world with a mix of joy, hope, and anticipation, but it’s also steeped in superstitions that reflect the diverse cultural beliefs about starting the year off right. From wearing specific colors to performing quirky rituals, these traditions often revolve around themes of luck, prosperity, and protection. While some […]

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10 Shocking Tales of Bodies Found in Abandoned Houses
Bodies found in abandoned houses raise questions of identity, manner, and cause of death, as well as the reasons that they came to be in the houses in the first place. Unfortunately, the answers to some of these questions are never likely to be known. Those that are determined frequently point to misfortune, drugs, and […]

The post [10 Shocking Tales of Bodies Found in Abandoned Houses](https://listverse.com/2024/12/31/10-shoc … ⌘ Read more

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**For my reference, but anyone else too… Creating a new Wireguard public/private key pair and bringing up a new client:

wg genkey | tee /e ...**
For my reference, but anyone else too… Creating a new Wireguard public/private key pair and bringing up a new client:

wg genkey | tee /etc/wireguard/private.key
cat /etc/wireguard/private.key | wg pubkey | tee /etc/wireguard/public.key

Optional

vim /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf
wg-quick up wg0

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NanoKVM-USB: 4K HDMI Loopback, USB 3.0, and Integrated Keyboard/Mouse Control
This month, Sipeed unveiled the NanoKVM-USB, described as a compact and low-cost device designed to simplify the operation and management of multiple systems. The Sipeed Wiki pages indicate that this device eliminates the need for dedicated keyboards, mice, or monitors. It allows users to perform operations graphically through the Chrome browser on a single computer, […] ⌘ Read more

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Radxa Orion O6 AI Board with Up to 64GB RAM, Dual 5GbE Ports and PCIe Gen4 Expansion
The Radxa Orion O6 is a Mini ITX motherboard designed for AI computing and multimedia applications. Powered by the Cix CD8180 System-on-Chip, it combines powerful performance with a compact form factor for a variety of demanding use cases. The SoC integrates a 12-core CPU featuring Cortex-A720 and Cortex-A520 cores. Its Arm Immortals G720 GPU supports […] ⌘ Read more

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** The social is predicated on its exclusions **
I’ve been sitting on this post for like 8 months. I’ve written it and rewritten it at least a dozen times. I hsve two or three notes documents worth of research. It has never felt right, though. It still doesn’t. I figured an rss-only debut for it would be fine, and maybe one day I’ll bring it to a normy kinda post.

At my job I try to make big public digital services accessible. Because of this I think a lot about disability, and how some portion of disability is socially c … ⌘ Read more

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Apple Opens Doors to Its iPhone Audio and Video Testing Chambers
Apple recently invited CNET’s Patrick Holland to tour its specialized laboratories in Cupertino where company engineers test and calibrate the iPhone 16’s audio and video capabilities.

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設計模式 in Go: Observer
行爲模式旨在解決對象間通信和交互相關的問題,專注於定義那些複雜到無法靜態設計的協作策略,這些協作策略使得程序可以在運行時動態地進行職責派遣以實現更好的擴展。今天我們開始第 8 個行爲模式的學習 —— Observer(觀察者模式)。問題背景:—–觀察者模式用於當對象之間存在一對多關係時,即一個對象的變化需要傳播給多個其他對象。它允許被觀察對象的狀態發生變化時,其他依賴對象能自動收到通知並進行 ⌘ Read more

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[WTS] Collection clean out! 90% silver, gold panda, silver bullion, world coins, commemoratives, errors, toning, graded silver, red seal banknote, copper, state quarter album.

Bitcoin and Monero receive a 3% discount. Preference will be given to anyone willing to take large lots or use crypto. Take everything in the listing, and we’ll work out a good bulk discount! Feel free to send an offer on anything! I’m flexible on most pricing when it comes to selling in a lot (or for Bitcoin). Free shipping on purchases over $75.

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OpenTelemetry Collector completes fuzzing audit
Cross-posted from the OpenTelemetry blog by Adam Korczynski OpenTelemetry is happy to announce the completion of the Collector’s fuzzing audit sponsored by the CNCF and carried out by Ada Logics. The audit marks a significant step in the OpenTelemetry… ⌘ Read more

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Solving Android app issues with OpenTelemetry: Beyond local profiling
Member post originally published on the Embrace blog by Francisco Prieto Cardelle OpenTelemetry is a powerful observability framework that can help engineers monitor and resolve common Android performance issues. We’ll dive into a few of these… ⌘ Read more

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Cilium releases 2024 annual report
Following a year of significant milestones in 2023, 2024 for Cilium was pivotal in that organizations are now leveraging the project to manage their entire Kubernetes networking stack. We are pleased to share the 2024 Cilium… ⌘ Read more

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Go Protobuf 新增全新不透明 API
Protobuf 是 Google 的語言中立的數據交換格式。早在 2020 年 3 月,就發佈了 google.golang.org/protobuf 模塊,這是對 Go protobuf API 的重大修訂。該包引入了對反射的一流支持、一個 dynamicpb 實現和 protocmp 包,以便於測試。現在,我們將爲生成的代碼發佈一個新的 API,我們將說明創建新 API 的動機,並展示如何在 ⌘ Read more

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高性能 Gin 框架原理學習教程
作者:jiayan 工作中的部分項目使用到了 gin 框架,因此從源碼層面學習一下其原理。1. 概述Gin 是一款高性能的 Go 語言 Web 框架,Gin 的一些特性:快速 基於 Radix 樹的路由,小內存佔用,沒有反射,可預測的 API 性能。 支持中間件 傳入的 HTTP 請求可以由一系列中間件和最終操作來處理,例如:Logger,Authorization,GZIP,最終操作 D ⌘ Read more

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Biden Officials Pressured US-Funded Food Monitor to Retract Gaza Famine Warning
Sharon Zhang ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: In the post-World War II period the United States has made one geopolitical mistake after another. Viet Nam was a mistake. Iraq was a mistake. Iran was a mistake. Afghanistan was a mistake. Sudan was a mistake. Syria is a mistake, and supporting Israel’s genocide is a mistake. We, the world, is watching a mass murde … ⌘ Read more

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Churches fight to stay open as attendance dwindles
Steve Osunsami and Sean Keane,  Reporters  -  abc News

Stephan:

_Something very interesting and important is happening to religion. As this report says, “In the late 1940s, nearly 80% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue, mosque or temple, according to Gallup. Today, just 45% say the same, the analytics company noted, and only 32% say that they worship God in a house of prayer once a week.” What I see i … ⌘ Read more

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‘Concentration Camps’: Border Czar Says Trump to Detain Migrant Families
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Tom Homan looks like a thug and, I suspect, has been chosen by Trump because he has no qualms about behaving like one. I fear that on 21 January Homan will start the trend Trump has constantly promised, and that it is going to provoke a civil uprising in Blue states and in Red states it may become so intense that, as in the K … ⌘ Read more

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Where Will All of Big Tech’s Nuclear Waste Go?
Matthew Gault,    -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: What few know today is that civilian nuclear power came about because Admiral Hyman Rickover figured out how to create nuclear-powered ships and submarines, and General Electric and Westinghouse which he was working with wanted a civilian market so they could develop a large enough corps of engineers and civilian nuclear reactors so that the whole effort would be as profitable as possible.  What … ⌘ Read more

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01Studio CanMV K230 Python Powered AI Development Board with RISC V Edge Computing
The distributor Youyeetoo recently highlighted the 01Studio CanMV K230 AI development board, built on Canaan’s K230 chip. This board includes features such as neural network acceleration, flexible camera interfaces, 4K video support, and onboard Wi-Fi connectivity. CanMV is an open-source project maintained by Canaan, aimed at integrating Python-based programming into edge AI app … ⌘ Read more

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Top 10 Surprising Facts from the Life of Jimmy Carter
Few U.S. politicians have led a life as unlikely as Jimmy Carter (October 1, 1924–December 29, 2024). A poor peanut farmer who became the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter was a contradiction in almost every way. He ran for governor of Georgia with segregationist support and then increased the number of African-American […]

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10 Popular but Terrible Goalkeepers
Football (soccer in America) is undeniably the world’s most popular sport, celebrated across continents from South America to the Middle East. While the beautiful game originated in England, its universal appeal lies in the thrill of teamwork and the excitement of scoring goals. Key to this drama are goalkeepers, the last line of defense, whose […]

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Standard iPhone 17 Display Again Said to Feature Higher Refresh Rate
Apple’s standard iPhone 17 next year will feature a display with a higher refresh rate, potentially bringing “ProMotion” technology to the base model in Apple’s flagship iPhone lineup for the first time.

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** Please clap **
Look. I promise I won’t always post so many rss only things, but I gotta exercise my new thing.

I am an incredibly unhandy person, yet today I accomplished two household projects — I re-hung a door that needed a hinge replaced, and I replaced a broken overhead light in our bathroom. I even navigated Lowe’s. ⌘ Read more

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Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 4 January 2025 1600 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 4th of January 2025 at 16:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 23 channels.

Discussions should be focused on community highlights, CCS updates and workgroup reports. plowsof4 will moderate the meeting.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.

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P2Pool v4.3 released with initial sync improvements
SChernykh1 has released P2Pool 2 version 4.33 with initial sync improvements, various new features and bugfixes.

Changes overview

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New Features:

  • Added –data-dir command line option
  • Added –no-stratum-http command line option to disable HTTP on Stratum ports
  • Faster initial sync (0.5-1 seconds saved on verification of blocks)
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** Neon **
I was bemoaning the lack of color at my desk and a friend sent me this link to a place that makes custom neon signs. I am likely much to indecisive, and faaaar too cheap to actually order one, but I keep having intrusive thoughts about what I’d get if I were to get one.

I think the Yiddish phrase“zol er krenken un gedenken” would be funny. It means“let him suffer and remember” which is very melodramatic, but totally rife with so much meaning. ⌘ Read more

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As Australia’s wine workforce ages, young winemakers are trying to make their mark
The wine industry’s peak body hopes it can attract the next generation of growers and producers, but young, first-generation winemakers say nepotism and historical industry connections are barriers to entry. ⌘ Read more

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