OpenSSL 3.5.0 released
Version\
3.5.0 of OpenSSL has been released. This release adds support for
server-side QUIC ( RFC 9000), a
new configuration option ( no-tls-deprecated-ec) that disables
support for TLS groups deprecated in RFC 8422, and more. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net it’s fine, I never expected my yeets, to be preserved for future generations. Any art I posted here, can be found through my (now almost entirely HTML 5 complient) website.

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, libxslt, python3.11, python3.12, and tomcat), Debian (ghostscript and libnet-easytcp-perl), Fedora (openvpn, perl-Data-Entropy, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (python-jinja2), SUSE (giflib, pam, and xen), and Ubuntu (apache2, binutils, expat, fis-gtm, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-azure, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-azure-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-nvidia, … ⌘ Read more

5 Biggest Changes Rumored for iPhone 17 Pro
Later this year, Apple will introduce the iPhone 17 series, which includes the iPhone 17 Pro and the iPhone 17 Pro Max, two new high-end flagship devices that will be sold alongside the regular iPhone 17 and an all-new ultra-thin iPhone 17 Air.

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If you have been holding out for the iPhone 17 Pro or its bigger sibling, here are five of the b … ⌘ Read more

CalDigit Launches New Thunderbolt 5 Docks
CalDigit today announced the upcoming launch of two new Thunderbolt 5 docks, the TS5 and the TS5 Plus. Both docks support transfer speeds of up to 80Gb/s with a speed boost feature when paired with Apple’s Thunderbolt 5 Macs.

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The TS5 has a total of 15 ports, including four Thunderbolt 5 ports, two USB-A ports, three USB-C ports (including tw … ⌘ Read more

After searching for 5 hours I found him in the freaking walls ⌘ Read more

EM1103B Board Integrates 0.5 TOPS NPU and 8MP ISP with RV1103B SoC
The EM1103B is a compact single-board computer built around the Rockchip RV1103B SoC. Designed for vision-based AIoT tasks, it targets applications like smart cameras, doorbells, and battery-powered surveillance devices, combining processing, AI acceleration, and imaging features in a small footprint. As the name suggests, the board is powered by the Rockchip RV1103B, similar to the […] ⌘ Read more

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Top Stories: iOS 18.4 Released, New AirPods Max Features, and More
We’re just two months away from WWDC where we’ll get our first glimpses of iOS 19 and related updates, but this week saw the public release of iOS 18.4 with a number of changes and improvements including some audio improvements for the USB-C AirPods Max.

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This week also saw the first beta of iOS 18.5, a new rumor about iOS 19 compatibility, and Apple’s w … ⌘ Read more

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Nicolas, 35 ans, désespère de l’Éducation Nationale
Un billet à 4 mains par Citronne et h16 Nicolas, 35 ans, marié, et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans) apprécie plus que tout sa petite routine. Le matin, après un bon petit déjeuner, il emmène ses enfants à l’école et se rend au travail ; il apprécie sa petite pause-déjeuner avec ses […] ⌘ Read more

Axzez Expands OS Compatibility, Lowers Interceptor 2.0 Pricing
Axzez has officially released its updated Interceptor OS Installer, now featuring full support for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. Designed for performance and simplicity, the installer is built on Debian Bookworm and integrates modern kernel versions — 6.12.19-v8 for Raspberry Pi and 6.12.20 for Banana Pi. According to the announcement, this release delivers a […] ⌘ Read more

XMPP Interop Testing: Enabling Tests
Our project creates a framework that allows anyone to easily add XMPP standards compliance tests to the test phase of
their build pipeline. Prior to our most recent release (version 1.5.0) a test execution would basically run all tests
in the test suite. We provided an option to exclude certain tests, but in essence, the bulk of tests would execute.

This behavior is generally preferable when testing an XMPP server implementation. A benefit of exclusion-based
… ⌘ Read more

ESP32-P4-Module-DEV-KIT Introduces Wi-Fi 6, Dual-Core RISC-V, and Ethernet
The ESP32-P4-Module-DEV-KIT is a low-cost development board based on the ESP32-P4, with an integrated ESP32-C6 coprocessor. It supports Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5/BLE, and is designed for embedded HMI applications and edge computing. The board features a 400 MHz RISC-V 32-bit dual-core processor for performance-intensive tasks, along with a low-power RISC-V single-core processor running at up […] ⌘ Read more

1st Beta of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Released for Testing
While Apple may have just released the final versions of MacOS Sequoia 15.4, iOS 18.4, and iPadOS 18.4 to the general public, they’re already back on the beta train. This time around we’ve got the first beta versions of iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and MacOS Sequoia 15.5. It’s not clear what the focus of these … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/02/1st-beta-of-ios-18-5-macos-sequoia-15- … ⌘ Read more

Nintendo Switch 2 announced for a June 5 launch
The system supports 4K graphics, has an integrated voice chat platform and will cost $700. ⌘ Read more

Hi, I’m 5 years old today ⌘ Read more

MacOS Sonoma 14.7.5 & MacOS Ventura 13.7.5 Security Updates Released
Apple has released macOS Sonoma 14.7.5 and MacOS Ventura 13.7.5 as security updates for Mac users running Sonoma and Ventura operating systems. These updates are security patch focused and do not include new features that are otherwise available in the latest MacOS Sequoia 15.4 update that was released simultaneously. Separately, you’ll find software updates available … [Read More](https://osxd … ⌘ Read more

well, that leads to a long conversation.

Piracy is a difficult topic which is very personal, so I won’t say much about it.

On writing books, I’ve tried along with other digital products such as courses and videogames, and I got to confess that it has been hard for me.

If it helps, I think it all reaches our expectations on the activity and the result. If royalties is the expectation, it’s going to be slow. By 5% of royalties, for a rough example, a huge amount of sales will be required to get a decent “wage”, so I’ve understood of doing it by the side of a normal employment although it has been discouraging and a bit sad.

I have reflected about it in Spanish here: https://sembrandojuegos.substack.com/p/sobre-expectativas-al-crear-juegos

Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (mercurial and opensaml), Fedora (augeas, mingw-libxslt, and nodejs-nodemon), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), Red Hat (grafana, kernel, kernel-rt, opentelemetry-collector, and podman), SUSE (apache-commons-vfs2, python3, and python36), and Ubuntu (ghostscript, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop,
linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15,
linux-nvidia, linux-oracle, linux-orac … ⌘ Read more

Nicolas, 35 ans, ne touchera jamais sa retraite
Un article rédigé à 4 mains par Citronne et h16 Avec le mois qui se termine, Nicolas, 35 ans, marié avec deux enfants de 5 et 8 ans, examine sa feuille de paie. Les petites lignes se multiplient mais un montant le rassure : celui que lui et son patron ont cotisé pour sa retraite. Nicolas […] ⌘ Read more

5 GitHub Actions every maintainer needs to know
With these actions, you can keep your open source projects organized, minimize repetitive and manual tasks, and focus more on writing code.

The post 5 GitHub Actions every maintainer needs to know appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

2 is a great idea, you should suggest it in that blog post.

About 1, well, I think anyone has an email address and only about 5% use a Feed, so it makes sense to offer what most people use 🤔

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neat! my watcher is currently sitting at about 75 MB following over 1500 feeds. only about 200 are currently somewhat active.

-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   69M Mar 25 20:46 twt.db
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   32K Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-shm
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu  5.6M Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-wal

sqlite> select state, count(*) n from feeds group by 1;
hot|7
warm|8
cold|183
frozen|743
permanantly-dead|857

neat! my watcher is currently sitting at about 75 MB following over 1500 feeds. only about 200 are currently somewhat active.

-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   69M Mar 25 20:46 twt.db
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   32K Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-shm
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu  5.6M Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-wal

sqlite> select state, count(*) n from feeds group by 1;
hot|7
warm|8
cold|183
frozen|743
permanantly-dead|857

Rock Identification
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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ruby-rack), Fedora (chromium, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, OpenIPMI, and python-jinja2), Mageia (kernel, kernel-linus, and wpa_supplicant, hostapd), Red Hat (fence-agents, kernel, kernel-rt, libxml2, libxslt, and pcs), SUSE (cadvisor, docker, freetype2, nodejs-electron, php8, rsync, u-boot, warewulf4, webkit2gtk3, and zvbi), and Ubuntu (elfutils, python3.5, python3.8, ruby-rack, smartdns, and zvbi). ⌘ Read more

Nicolas, 35 ans, cherche une location de vacances
Un article à 4 mains écrit par h16 & Citronne Voilà, le budget pour le trajet semble établi mais pour Nicolas, 35 ans, marié et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans), le planning des vacances estivales ne s’arrête pas là : il faut à présent déterminer l’hébergement sur place. C’est pour cela que […] ⌘ Read more

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Launches for Mac
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is available for download on the Mac as of today, and it is the first Assassin’s Creed title that is launching for Mac at the same time that it is launching on PlayStation 5, Windows machines, and the Xbox.

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Set in 16th century Japan, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is part of the main Assassin’s Creed gaming lineup, and it is the successor to Assass … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 26 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 26th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Maintainers for the research-lab GitHub repo3
  
• FROSTLASS4
  
• ‘Veridise Logarithmic Derivative Review’5
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code6
  
• Release o … ⌘ Read more

RDK X5 Development Kit Featuring HDMI, MIPI CSI, and Gigabit Ethernet
The RDK X5 is a development kit designed for intelligent computing and robotics. It features a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi single board computer but is powered by the 10 TOPS Sunrise 5 processor. The RDK X5 includes an octa-core Cortex-A55 CPU running at 1.5 GHz, a dedicated BPU with 10 TOPS of […] ⌘ Read more

acx, plowsof, selsta, SyntheticBird45 CCS proposals ready for funding
Four CCS proposals have been moved to the funding stage and are now looking for community support:

• acx’s !557 1: part-time work on Monfluo (3 months) 2
  
• plowsof’s !560 3: CCS Coordinator 4
  
• selsta’s !553 5: part-time monero development (3 months) (16) 6
  
• SyntheticBird45’s !553 7: _Cuprate Arti integration and development ( … ⌘ Read more

Chinese EV giant launches cars that can fully charge in 5 minutes
BYD says its latest range of electric vehicles can be charged almost as fast as it takes to refuel a regular car. ⌘ Read more

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 24 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 24 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.

This meeting’s chairperson will probably be r​brunner72 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis3/JAMTIS4, FCMPs5, and other long-term Monero development issues.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer6.

… ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23231”>#231**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2312’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers March 9-16 2025 news:

Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support

To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 and Matrix roo … ⌘ Read more

I think I should try self-hosting some Mastodon thingy again.

The “export data” feature on the Mastodon instance I’m using seems to be broken. I’ve contacted the admins but we couldn’t find the issue – yet. I don’t want to bother them too much, it’s a free service after all.

But this means that everything I post over there is very, very volatile. It could all be gone in 5 minutes and I’ll have no way to restore it. Hmm.

Chapter 2:
Chapter 4: Chapter 5:

Chapter 2:
Chapter 4: Chapter 5:

ah crap. chapters 2, 4 and 5 are being cropped by yarn on upload. they should be more like 2-3 hours long

ah crap. chapters 2, 4 and 5 are being cropped by yarn on upload. they should be more like 2-3 hours long

@prologic@twtxt.net chapter 5:

@prologic@twtxt.net chapter 5:

Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 11, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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A cat that has been visiting me for 5 years - got this photo during golden hour as she was distracted by a bird on the roof. ⌘ Read more

Nicolas, 35 ans, planifie ses vacances
L’arrivée du printemps pousse les uns et les autres à s’organiser pour l’été qui vient et avec lui, les vacances familiales. Nicolas, 35 ans, marié et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans) réfléchit donc à son prochain voyage en famille. Français de la classe moyenne, correctement imbibé des « réalités » médiatiques actuelles, Nicolas […] ⌘ Read more

[ANN] CypherGoat launch - crypto exchange aggregator + giveaway

It is a crypto swap aggregator it automatically finds the best exchange rates from our partnered exchanges at no extra cost. You can then perform the swap on that exchange, without ever leaving our website! We currently support 12+ exchanges.

Links:

• https://4rkal.com/posts/launching-cyphergoat/
  
• https://cyphergoat.com/
  
• [https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1ja7eqp/](https://fa … ⌘ Read more

Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 15 March 2025 1600 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 15th of March 2025 at 16:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 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.

_This is an ongoing story and the re … ⌘ Read more

US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies
Nina Lakhani,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: Once again, the corrupt majority on the Supreme Court has decided against wellbeing.  Depending on where you live, and you will have to check, your local water supplies may become more polluted.

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Radxa CM3J with Built-in Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 for Industrial Applications
The Radxa CM3J is an industrial-grade compute module built around the Rockchip RK3568J SoC. This compact module integrates a CPU, PMU, LPDDR4X, eMMC, and wireless connectivity options such as Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 in a 55mm x 40mm form factor. The Radxa CM3J is powered by the Rockchip RK3568J, a quad-core Cortex-A55 64-bit SoC […] ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23230”>#230**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2302’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers March 2-9 2025 news:

Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support

To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 and Matrix room … ⌘ Read more

Zuko turned 5 today 🎂 ⌘ Read more

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 17 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 17 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.

This meeting’s chairperson will probably be r​brunner72 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis3/JAMTIS4, FCMPs5, and other long-term Monero development issues.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer6.

… ⌘ Read more

How to live without taking pictures of your cat every 5 minutes saying how beautiful she is? ⌘ Read more

[47°09′17″S, 126°43′25″W] Raw reading: 0x67CBDCE1, offset +/-5

Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 10, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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MIA for 2.5 days and Skid found his way back home. Lord only knows what this man got into😂 (cute pics at the end!) ⌘ Read more

[ANN] Monero Konferenco 2025: Call for Presentations!

Monerokon 5 will take place on 20th - 22nd June and we are still looking for people who want to speak at the event! If you are interested, please make sure to not miss the submission deadline: 24 March 2025 @ 17:00 CET

Link: https://cfp.twed.org/mk5/cfp

u/monerobull (Reddit) ⌘ Read more

b4n6_b4n6, not-a-money-printer propose bounties to make Monero GUI, RetoSwap, UnstoppableSwap ‘Whonix friendly’
b4n6_b4n61 and not-a-money-printer2 have proposed bounties3’4’5 to make monero-wallet-gui6, RetoSwap7, and UnstoppableSwap8 Whonix friendly 9:

”`
#1 Make monero-wallet-gui whonix friendly
Total Bounty: ~0.12 XMR (to date)

#2 Make reto swap whonix friendly
To … ⌘ Read more”`

I went on a 5:30 hours long hike to my second backyard mountain. About 12km to get there and roughly 9km on the way back. It was super nice, sunny all day long, 12°C and luckily just a little bit of wind. Great scenery. I managed to capture one great spotted woodpecker hammering along. There was also a kestrel hovering over a meadow and then landing on a sports field light pole. At the castle ruin I could watch 10-12 gliding red kites (with the V-shaped tail) and other raptors, maybe bussards, I don’t know, for about five minutes. That was fascinating. Unfortunately, my camera doesn’t too well with moving targets.

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86 more photos: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-hohenrechberg-2025-03-03/

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 10 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 10 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.

This meeting’s chairperson will probably be r​brunner72 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis3/JAMTIS4, FCMPs5, and other long-term Monero development issues.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer6.

… ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23229”>#229**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2292’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers February 23-2 March 2025 news:

Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support

To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 and M … ⌘ Read more

The first quarter is on track for negative GDP growth, Atlanta Fed indicator says
Jeff Cox,  Economics Editor  -  CNBC

Stephan: And so criminal Trump’s self-created recession begins. All you Trump voters, I hope you enjoy it, you chose it.

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SChernykh releases P2Pool v4.4
SChernykh1 has released P2Pool 2 version 4.43 with various new features and fixes.

New Features:
* Added RPC-SSL support for Monero node connections
* Removed deprecated --config command line parameter
* Faster initial sync (0.5-1 seconds saved on verification of blocks)
Bugfixes:
* Updated internal dependencies

The full list of changes since v4.3 is available on Github4.

Before using the software, you should v … ⌘ Read more

Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 9, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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![‘Owning and using Monero is not a crime’ picture](/assets/img/art/25-9/owning-and-using-monero-is-not-a-cri … ⌘ Read more

Just had to put my baby down, had him since I was 5 ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Debuts New GPT-4.5 Model for ChatGPT
OpenAI today introduced the next iteration of its AI models, GPT-4.5. GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s “best model yet” for chat purposes, with scaling in unsupervised learning that allows the model to better recognize patterns, draw connections, and generate creative insights.

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GPT-4.5 has a more natural feel with an improved personality, and is able to … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Top 5 IoT Business Security Basics
IoT is now a fundamental part of modern business. With more than 17 billion connected devices worldwide, IoT business security is more important than ever. A single breach can expose sensitive data, disrupt operations, and damage a company’s reputation.

To help safeguard your business, we’ll cover five essential IoT security basics: data encryption, strong password policies, regular security audits, employee awareness tr … ⌘ Read more

Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 1 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 1st of March 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 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.

_This is an ongoing story and the repor … ⌘ Read more

Boog900, hinto-janai, vtnerd CCS proposals ready for funding
Three CCS proposals have been moved to the funding stage and are now looking for community support:

• Boog900’s !544 1: full time work on Cuprate (3 months) + January 2
  
• hinto-janai’s !543 3: full-time work (3 months) 4
  
• vtnerd’s !553 5: full-time 2025 q1/q2 6
  

To support the above proposals you can donate to the XMR addresses listed on the _Funding Requi … ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 5 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 5th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• Release of OSPEAD HackerOne and CCS milestone submissions4
  
• Research on subnet deduplication for peer selection to reduce spy node ris … ⌘ Read more

spirobel submits CCS proposal to develop Monero Payment Links, Browser Wallet, multisig companion app
spirobel1 has submitted a CCS proposal2 to finish developing the Monero Browser Wallet3, create a self-hostable Stripe Payment Links 4 alternative5 and a multisig companion app, in an effort to make XMR web shopping more convenient and secure:

Currently Monero shoppers have to copy and paste addresses from the t … ⌘ Read more

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 3 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 3 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.

This meeting’s chairperson will probably be r​brunner72 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis3/JAMTIS4, FCMPs5, and other long-term Monero development issues.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer6.

_Th … ⌘ Read more

hbs submits CCS proposal to partially fund MoneroKon 2025
hbs1 has submitted a CCS proposal2 to partially fund the Monero Konferenco 5 3 event, that is scheduled to take place at La Fabrika 4 in Prague, Czech Republic on June 20-22 2025:

For MoneroKon 2025, we also aim to achieve self-funding through ticket sales and sponsorships. However, as of February 2025, several sponsor slots remain unfilled. The funds raised so far, combined with the surplus from the pre … ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23228”>#228**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2282’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers February 16-23 2025 news:

Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support

To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 and Matrix … ⌘ Read more

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Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 8, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 1 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 1st 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 20255 … ⌘ Read more

@arne@uplegger.eu Well, just for my understanding. The command:
echo "Lorem ipsum" | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -iter 100000 -out message.enc -pass file:shared_key.bin
will take the input string from echo to openssl. It then will

1. use the content of shared_key.bin as password
   
2. use PBKDF2 with an iteration of 100000 to generate a encryption key from the given password (shared_key.bin)
   
3. use the PBKDF2 generated key for an aes-256-cbc encryption
   

The final result is encrypted data with the prepended salt (which was generated by runtime), e.g.: Salted__q�;��-�T���"h%��5�� ....

With a dummy script I now can generate a valide shared key within PHP ‘openssl_pkey_derive()’ - identical to OpenSSL.
I also can en-/decrypt salted data within my script, but not with OpenSSL. There are several parameters of PBKDF2 unknown to me.

Question:

1. Is the salt, used by aes-256-cbc and PBKDF2 the same, prepended in the encrypted data?
   
2. Witch algorithm/cipher is used within PBKDF2: sha1, sha256, …?
   
3. What is the desired key length of PBKDF2 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.openssl-pbkdf2.php)?
   

To be continued …

[47°09′59″S, 126°43′44″W] Raw reading: 0x67B47641, offset +/-5

Ezurio Veda SL917 Expands Industrial IoT Connectivity with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE
The Veda SL917, developed by Ezurio and based on the Silicon Labs SiWx917 chipset, is a low-power wireless module designed for industrial IoT applications. It provides connectivity options, including Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4, and support for Matter and IP networking, providing secure cloud connectivity and efficient power management. This device supports OFDMA, MU-MIMO … ⌘ Read more

Bloody hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

$ jq -r --arg host "gopher.mills.io" '. | select(.request.host==$host) | "\(.request.client_ip) \(.request.uri) \(.request.headers["User-Agent"])"' mills.io.log-au | while IFS=$' ' read -r ip uri ua; do asn="$(geoip -a "$ip")"; echo "$asn $ip $uri $ua"; done | grep -E '^45102.*' | sort | head
45102 47.251.70.245 /gopher.floodgap.com/0/feeds/democracynow/2015/Oct/14/0 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"]
45102 47.251.84.25 /gopher.floodgap.com/0/feeds/voaheadlines/2014/Mar/09/voanews.com-content-article-1867433.html ["Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3F0692937396569A52972EB2 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3F9657307A96569A52974634 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3FB7571C7896569A529E6603 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3FB75EF81296569A529E6617 ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]
45102 47.82.10.106 /gopher.viste.fr/1/OnlineTools/hangman.cgi%3FC6564ADB96569A5A9E660C ["Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.43"]

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 24 February 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, February 24 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.

This meeting’s chairperson will probably be r​brunner72 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis3/JAMTIS4, FCMPs5, and other long-term Monero development issues.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer[6]( … ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23227”>#227**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2272’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers February 9 - 16 2025 news:

Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support

To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 and Matri … ⌘ Read more

plowsof posts second progress report for fifth CCS coordinator term
plowsof1 has submitted a second progress report2 after working for almost 5 months during their fifth term as CCS coordinator3:

Although 86~ days have passed since the last milestone completion, i’ve been performing my duties / fulfilling my hourly commitments - lack of good time management has lead to there being too many loose ends (especially for -site) and meeting attendance coul … ⌘ Read more

Louisiana halts mass vaccination efforts: 5 notes
Mackenzie Bean,    -  Becker’s Clinical Leadership

_Stephan: Louisiana has a quality of life roughly equivalent to a third-world country. It has the shortest life span in the United States, an infant mortality and maternal mortality rate like a developing country, Only 15% of lower-income students and less than half of higher-income students can read proficiently. The state is controlled by MAGAt Republicans. Now the MAGAts ar … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′11″S, 126°43′19″W] Raw reading: 0x67B02D61, offset +/-5

acx releases first beta for Mysu Wallet fork ‘Monfluo’
acx1 has announced2 the first beta release of Monfluo 3 (v0.6.04) - a pure Monero wallet for Android that was forked from Mysu Wallet5 last year:

Monfluo is a fork of Mysu (previously known as MyNero) originally developed by pokkst. Mysu was a fork of Monerujo developed by m2049r. [..] There are no unique features (except the lack of features), it is a very simple wallet for minimalists. There is no su … ⌘ Read more

Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 15 February 2025 1600 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday (today), 15th of February 2025 at 16:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 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.

_This is an ongoing … ⌘ Read more

Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 7, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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![‘You have the private key to my heart’ Monerochan](/assets/img/art/25-7/you-hav … ⌘ Read more

MINIX NGC-NR660 Mini PC with High-Speed 2.5GbE Networking and Triple Display Support
MINIX has recently launched the NGC-NR660, a compact yet powerful Mini PC featuring an AMD Ryzen 5 6600H processor and AMD Radeon 660M graphics. Designed for multitasking, gaming, and productivity, this system supports triple display output, 8K Ultra HD resolution, and dual 2.5GbE RJ45 ports for high-speed wired connectivity. The NGC-NR660 is equipped with 16GB […] ⌘ Read more

SECO Pi Vision 10.1 Brings Modular Industrial HMI with Raspberry Pi CM5
SECO S.p.A. and Raspberry Pi Ltd have introduced the SECO Pi Vision 10.1 CM5, an HMI solution powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, debuting at embedded world 2025 from March 11-13 in Nuremberg. This modular system combines SECO’s hardware and IoT expertise with Raspberry Pi’s technology for industrial automation, smart retail, and transportation. […] ⌘ Read more

Consumer prices rise 0.5% in January, higher than expected as annual rate rises to 3%
Jeff Cox,  Economics Editor  -  CNBC

Stephan:

_You have almost certainly noticed it. My wife and I certainly have. “emperor” Trump promised prices would go down if he were elected. They have, in fact, gone in the absolute opposite direction. And because of Trump’s ignorance and bullying they are going to go much further up. We will be in a different world … ⌘ Read more

reviewing logs this morning and found i have been spammed hard by bots not respecting the robots.txt file. only noticed it because the OpenAI bot was hitting me with a lot of nonsensical requests. here is the list from last month:

• (810) bingbot
  
• (641) Googlebot
  
• (624) http://www.google.com/bot.html
  
• (545) DotBot
  
• (290) GPTBot
  
• (106) SemrushBot
  
• (84) AhrefsBot
  
• (62) MJ12bot
  
• (60) BLEXBot
  
• (55) wpbot
  
• (37) Amazonbot
  
• (28) YandexBot
  
• (22) ClaudeBot
  
• (19) AwarioBot
  
• (14) https://domainsbot.com/pandalytics
  
• (9) https://serpstatbot.com
  
• (6) t3versionsBot
  
• (6) archive.org_bot
  
• (6) Applebot
  
• (5) http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
  
• (4) http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html
  
• (4) Googlebot-Mobile
  
• (4) DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
  
• (3) https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
  
• (3) YandexNews
  
• (3) ImagesiftBot
  
• (2) Qwantify-prod
  
• (1) http://www.google.com/adsbot.html
  
• (1) http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/robot.php
  
• (1) YaK
  
• (1) WBSearchBot
  
• (1) DataForSeoBot
  

i have placed some middleware to reject these for now but it is not a full proof solution.

10 Unbelievable Advertising Fiascoes
For various reasons, product advertisements sometimes go awry in a big way. A case in point: Budweiser Light’s ad campaign featuring transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney resulted in a boycott that cost the company almost 1.5 billion dollars, as customers switched from Bud Light to competitors’ brands. As Harvard Business Review points out, companies learned that […]

The post [10 Unbelievable Advertising Fiascoes](https://listverse.com/2025/02/12/10-unbeliev … ⌘ Read more

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 17 February 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, February 17 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.

This meeting’s chairperson will probably be r​brunner72 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis3/JAMTIS4, FCMPs5, and other long-term Monero development issues.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer[6]( … ⌘ Read more

Pineboards Introduces Modulo Carrier Boards for Raspberry Pi CM5 and CM4
Pineboards has introduced the Modulo4, Modulo5 Basic, and Modulo5 IO PoE+ carrier boards, adapting Raspberry Pi Compute Modules to the Raspberry Pi 5 form factor. These boards maintain compatibility with PCIe HATs, cases, and cooling solutions, with the Modulo5 IO PoE+ adding PoE+ support for network-powered operation. Pineboards indicates that with the release of the […] ⌘ Read more

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Matty SImon,  Senior staff Writer  -  Grist

Stephan: Even as the coup continues, in Blue states there are continued programs to transition out of the carbon energy era. Here is some good news from California, that debunks for the major carbon energy lies against the conversion.

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rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23226”>#226**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2262’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers February 3 - 9 2025 news:

Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support

To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 and Matrix … ⌘ Read more