10 Times Eclipses Marked History
Telling the time in the ancient world was tricky; trying to describe the past between different cultures was almost impossible. People used different calendars, and attempting to make them work together was tricky. Your year of the Consulship of Cornelius Rufus and Curius Dentatus might be the year of the Archon Charinus to your neighbor. [ā¦]
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Aqara Launches Camera Hub G5 Pro
Smart home company Aqara today announced the global availability of its Camera Hub G5 Pro, which is designed specifically for outdoor surveillance. The G5 Pro integrates with the Apple Home app and it supports HomeKit Secure Video.
Available in two colors, the G5 Pro provid ⦠ā Read more
Said goodbye to my Christmas kitty of 20 years on Valentineās Day ā Read more
MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 22 February 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 22nd 2025 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.
The meetingās 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 20 ⦠ā Read more
Meet Tiger, my boyfriends ancient 20 year old kitty. ā Read more
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Worldās Thinnest Foldable Phone Launches Next Week
Oppo has confirmed a February 20 global launch for its Find N5, which the company claims is the worldās thinnest device in the foldable phone category. The phone is expected to be re-branded as the OnePlus Open 2 in the US.
The Chinese vendor has been teasing the device in the last few weeks, touting its waterproofing and nearly invisible display crease, and ⦠ā Read more
[LFF] [6.55 XMR] Gupaxx development
Every monero given will be converted to hours of work. When a goal is attained, a new release will occur, including elements present in the roadmap. A release is about 20 hours of work. Bug fixing releases will not wait for a new funding goal to be completed.
Links:
Cyrix126 (Github) ā Read more
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MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 15 February 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 15th 2025 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.
The meetingās 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 20 ⦠ā Read more
MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 8 February 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, February 8th 2025 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.
The meetingās 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[ ⦠ā Read more
Processing log data with Fluent Bit and WebAssembly
Member post originally published on the Chronosphere blog by Sharad RegotiĀ Learn how WASM can be used to extend Fluent Bitās processing capabilities, enabling users to implement custom logic and functionalities. Fluent BitĀ has overĀ 20+ filtersĀ that can⦠ā Read more
10 Most Effective Surprise Attacks in Military History
The surprise attack has been a cornerstone of military strategy throughout most of human history. While true surprise attacks are a little more difficult to coordinate on a mass scale in the modern age of warfare, they remain reference points for how to conduct the most effective kind of military campaign: the kind that minimizes [ā¦]
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[ANN] Cuprate has achieved full verification sync in under 24 hours!
Cuprate, the upcoming Rust-written monero node has achieved full verification sync in 20 hours. An official development update is coming soon.
Links:
- https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1ibq7rb/
- https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate/issues/195
u/Swimming-Cake-2892 (Reddit) ā Read more
Update Now: iOS 18.3 and macOS Sequoia 15.3 Include 20+ Security Updates
Along with new features, the iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3 updates that Apple released today include multiple security fixes, including a fix for vulnerability that may have been actively exploited on some devices.
According to Appleās [security ⦠ā Read more
[47°09ā²20ā³S, 126°43ā²54ā³W] Transfer 50% completeā¦
On my blog: Toots 𦣠from 01/20 to 01/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/24/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Unreleased Sony WH-1000XM6 Headphones Appear in FCC Filing
Sony could be close to launching the successor model to its popular WH-1000XM5 over-ear noise-canceling headphones, if a new FCC filing is anything to go by.
The companyās WH-1000XM5 cans, which we compared to Appleās AirPods Max back in [May 2022](https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/20/son ⦠ā Read more
[47°09ā²32ā³S, 126°43ā²20ā³W] Not enough data ā sampling finished
To continue my recovery today, I didnāt do much other than lie in bed and watch Netflix (Iāve been binge-watching a lot since we subscribed to Netflix a few weeks ago): I watched the miniseries The Playlist. ā Read more
I hope to ignore US politics as much as I can in the next few years ā it can really bring you down. Letās also hope Trump and his oligarch friends donāt cause too much harm until then. ā Read more
To continue my recovery today, I didnāt do much other than lie in bed and watch Netflix (Iāve been binge-watching a lot since we subscribed to Netflix a few weeks ago): I watched the miniseries The Playlist. ā Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Turkish Constitution of 1921 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/20/turkiye.html #programming #project #devjournal
New memo shows āexactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American peopleā: senator
Matthew Chapman, Ā Staff WriterĀ - Ā Raw Story
_Stephan:Ā I think that within the next month, starting with this coming Tuesday, we are going to see just how radically felon Trump and his MAGAts plan to restructure American society. If felon Trump does what he says he wants to do by June you and I will not recognize the United States we have known all our liv ⦠ā Read more
US to hit debt ceiling Tuesday, starting Congressā countdown clock
Tami Luhby, Ā Senior WriterĀ - Ā CNN
Stephan:Ā This isnāt what everyone is talking about today but starting tomorrow we will see this and newly inaugurated Trumpās executive orders sweep across the United States like a hurricane. Buckle up it is going to get strange and, I am afraid, very chaotic.
, Liudmila Molkova (Microsoft) As organizations increasingly adopt Large Language Models (LLMs) and other generative AI technologies, ensuring reliable performance, efficiency, and safety is essential⦠ā Read more
10 Times the Might of the British Empire Was Defeated in Battle
During the reign of Elizabeth I in the late 16th century, the British Empire began to take shape. Although the 1707 Act of Union brought Scotland into the fold, strictly speaking, it was the English Empire. That aside, by 1913, the Empire encompassed some 400 million subjects at a time when the actual British population [ā¦]
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HelloQuitteX, les ingƩrences des uns et la panique des autres
Nous sommes le 20 janvier et le moment tant attendu est arrivé : non, je ne veux pas parler de lāinvestiture de Donald Trump comme 47e prĆ©sident amĆ©ricain, ce qui est ā on le reconnaĆ®tra aisĆ©ment ā complĆØtement anecdotique mais bien du dĆ©part officiel de Sandrine Rousseau du rĆ©seau X, qui devrait provoquer une onde de [ā¦] ā Read more
Ten More People Who Give Christianity a Bad Name
This list is a sequel to one written years ago. It is not intended to promote or denigrate any religion. It only looks at ten prominent people who call themselves Christian yet whose words and deeds prove them to be quite disingenuous. Only living people are included, and they are not listed in any particular [ā¦]
The post [Ten More People Who Give Christianity a Bad Name](https://listverse.com/2025/01/20/ten-more-people-who-give-chris ⦠ā Read more
Apple Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Apple has updated the home page of its website to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. today. The page highlights some of Kingās most impactful quotes, and invites people to explore his legacy further through the Apple Books and Apple News apps.
Apple CEO Tim Cook also honored King in a social media post ⦠ā Read more
The Psychological Toll of Californiaās Catastrophic Fires
April Rubin, Ā Ā - Ā Axios
_Stephan:Ā I lived in Los Angeles, was the Senior Fellow at Philosophical. Research society, and ran my research laboratory, Mobius Society, and television production company Clearlight Productions, there for 20 years. I know all the neighborhoods destroyed by the fires very intimately. At least four of my long-time friends have lost their homes in this disaster. I have found the media c ⦠ā Read more
Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 20 January 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, January 20 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.
This meetingās chairperson will probably be rābrunner72 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](#fn ⦠ā Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de An ähnliche Aktionen, von vor 20 Jahren, kann ich mich auch noch erinnern. Viel aktueller als damals⢠waren unsere Spiele gestern auch nicht. BF1942, CoD, Flatout, CnC, AoE2, Unreal und Quake3, um nur einige zu nennen.
Trumpās and Muskās Disgusting Response to California Fires
Malcolm Ferguson , Ā Ā - Ā The New Republic
_Stephan:Ā I lived in Los Angeles for 20 years, and watching the images on television are causing me great grief. I called one friend and he and his partner were packing up their paintings and valuables into their cars and preparing to leave. Two other friends have lost their houses to the fire. And yet, as their article describes, instead of promising help Trump and Mu ⦠ā Read more
Oh no, best wishes, @aelaraji@aelaraji.com! To hopefully brighten your day a tad:
Single cigarette takes 20 minutes off life expectancy, study finds
Ian Sample, Ā Science EditorĀ - Ā The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan:Ā 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 ⦠ā Read more
Get the AirTag 4-Pack for the All-Time Low Price of $69.99 on Amazon
Today weāre tracking the return of an all-time low price on Appleās 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 weāve only seen it return twice so far since then.

monero-project/monero:
10 Extreme Structures We Might See in the Future
In 2023, Saudi Arabia unveiled plans for the Mukaab (ācubeā in Arabic) in Riyadh, which will be the largest inner city building in the world, capable of enclosing 20 Empire State Buildings within its walls. It will showcase the latest digital and holographic technology, providing a breathtaking visual experience of the interior. The region has [ā¦]
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āKind of amazingā: Ethics expert aghast by Trump Christmas merchandise spree
Brad Reed, Ā Managing EditorĀ - Ā Raw Story
_Stephan:Ā Donald Trump and I met in New York at a charity function arranged by Gloria Vanderbilt when he was about 20 and I was about 24. We began talking because as we stood at the bar he noticed that like himself I had asked the bartender for iced sparkly water with a lime slice in it. He introduced himself and when I asked him what ⦠ā Read more
GOP senator who appeared to urinate on self in DUI test caught double-dipping on expenses
Cassandra Stephenson, Ā Staff WriterĀ - Ā Raw Story | Tennessee Lookout
Stephan:Ā I want to make a point today that most of the media either does not see, or wonāt properly address. They do one-off stories like this one, but they donāt report on the trend I described in my editorās comment.
, you are able to have a phone conversation with ChatGPT to get AI answers by phone. Essentially the phone line for ChatGPT means that you can access and use ChatGPT entirely by voice, ⦠[Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/12/20/use-cha ⦠ā Read more
Cloud native solutions for SMBs: unlocking scalability and resilience
Ambassador post by Angel Ramirez, CEO of Cuemby and CNCF ambassador. As the technology landscape evolves, businesses must embrace innovations that enable them to adapt and thrive. Cloud-native technologies, championed by the CNCF community, have emerged⦠ā Read more
OpenTelemetry.io 2024 review
Project post originally published on the OpenTelemetry blog byĀ Severin NeumannĀ (Cisco),Ā Patrice ChalinĀ (CNCF),Ā Tiffany HrabusaĀ (Grafana Labs) As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on the year and share some insights and accomplishments fromĀ SIG Communications, the team responsible for⦠ā Read more
Announcing 1000 Kubestronauts
CNCF is excited to share that since launching the Kubestronauts program less than a year ago, over 1000 Kubestronauts have joined the program. A special welcome to our 1,000th Kubestronaut, Remy Mollandin!Ā Each of these 1000+ Kubestronauts⦠ā Read more
Top 5 Apple Products to Look Forward to in 2025
Itās looking like 2025 is going to be an important year for Apple, with the company planning to revamp the iPhone, push further into smart home products, and improve Apple Intelligence. There are tons of new products rumored for 2025, including new iPhones, M4 Macs, a smart home command center, and much more.
 by implementing a new text generation technique that offers substantial speed improvements for AI applications.
Apple earlier this year [published](https://mac ⦠ā Read more
Gate.io drops Monero ETF markets, plans to delist XMRUSDT perpetual contract on December 26 2024
Crypto CEX Gate.io 1 has announced plans2 to delist the XMRUSDT 3 perpetual contract from their platform on December 26 2024 at 8:00 UTC, after silently closing leveraged Monero ETF markets ( XMR3L and XMR3S 4) earlier today:
Gate.io will cease trading of the leveraged tokens XMR3L and XMR3S on December 20, 2024, at 10:00 UTC. [..] **Gate.io ⦠ā Read more
Das Spiel der 20 Felder: Die möglichen Regeln des 4.600 Jahre alten Spiels mit einem Entwurf für einen modernen Spielplan.
[47°09ā²20ā³S, 126°43ā²38ā³W] Wind speed: 90kph ā batteries low
[47°09ā²20ā³S, 126°43ā²49ā³W] Wind speed: 75kph
Amazon Takes $200 Off M2/M3 MacBook Air, Available From $799
Amazon is discounting Appleās 13-inch M2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and 256GB SSD storage down to $799.00 in every color. This is a $200 discount on the M2 MacBook Air, and Amazon is currently guaranteeing delivery before Christmas for the computer.
 ā Read more
AirPods 4 With ANC Drop to $139, Beating Black Friday Deals ($40 Off)
Amazon has just significantly dropped the price on Appleās AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation to $139.00, a $40 discount from their usual $179.00 pricing. This beats Black Friday pricing by around $25, making this a tremendous opportunity to pick up Appleās latest AirPods a ⦠ā Read more
**(#p53b4na) @movq This random comment from another Slashdot article pretry much sums up my view on so-called āAIā:
Elevator music
Tony Isaac ā¦**
@movq @www.uninformativ.de This random comment from another Slashdot article pretry much sums up my view on so-called āAIā:Elevator music
Tony Isaac 20 minutes ago
If you derive your income from producing āelevator musicā you might indeed be in danger of losing that income to AI. Also, bumper musi ⦠ā Read more
AirPods 4 Available for Record Low Black Friday Price of $164.99
Amazon has Appleās AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $164.99, down from $179.00. This is one of the rare Black Friday deals that has stuck around this week, and right now weāre only tracking the sale on Amazon.
 > Given the incredible damage social media has done to democracy and our mental health, Iād like to see it banned for anyone under 20 ā¦
Given the incredible damage social media has done to democracy and our mental health, Iād like to see it banned for anyone under 200 years old.
And this is just funny but effective 𤣠ā Read more
Gingeropolousās āMonero Research Computingā cluster upgrade CCS ready for funding
Gingeropolous1ās CCS proposal2 to upgrade their Monero Research Computing cluster is ready for funding:
Funding needed: 20 XMR
To support this proposal, you can donate any XMR amount to the address listed on its Gitlab Funding Required 2 page.
Consult the previous Monero Observer report3 to learn more about this CCS.
- https://gi ⦠ā Read more
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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 47 2024: 20 PRs, 8 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.
Opened (14)
monero-project/monero:
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Termux same thing @doesnm uses and it worked š Media
@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt No itās all good⦠Iāve just rebuilt it from master and it doesnāt look like anything is broken:
~/GitRepos> git clone https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt.git
Cloning into 'htwtxt'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 411, done.
remote: Total 411 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 411 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (411/411), 87.89 KiB | 430.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (238/238), done.
~/GitRepos> cd htwtxt
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> go mod init htwtxt
go: creating new go.mod: module htwtxt
go: to add module requirements and sums:
go mod tidy
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> go mod tidy
go: finding module for package github.com/gorilla/mux
go: finding module for package golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt
go: finding module for package gopkg.in/gomail.v2
go: finding module for package golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal
go: found github.com/gorilla/mux in github.com/gorilla/mux v1.8.1
go: found golang.org/x/crypto/bcrypt in golang.org/x/crypto v0.29.0
go: found golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/terminal in golang.org/x/crypto v0.29.0
go: found gopkg.in/gomail.v2 in gopkg.in/gomail.v2 v2.0.0-20160411212932-81ebce5c23df
go: finding module for package gopkg.in/alexcesaro/quotedprintable.v3
go: found gopkg.in/alexcesaro/quotedprintable.v3 in gopkg.in/alexcesaro/quotedprintable.v3 v3.0.0-20150716171945-2caba252f4dc
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> go build
master ~/GitRepos/htwtxt> ll
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 330 B Fri Nov 22 20:25:52 2024 ī§ go.mod
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 1.1 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:52 2024 ī§ go.sum
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 8.9 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 ī§ handlers.go
.rwxr-xr-x aelaraji aelaraji 12 MB Fri Nov 22 20:26:18 2024 ļ htwtxt <-------- There's the binary ;)
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 4.2 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 ī§ io.go
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 34 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 ī LICENSE
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 8.5 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 ī§ main.go
.rw-r--r-- aelaraji aelaraji 5.5 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 ī README.md
drwxr-xr-x aelaraji aelaraji 4.0 KB Fri Nov 22 20:25:06 2024 ļ templates
[LTH] [Bounty] [0.1 XMR] Fix ā[warn] Unparseable address in hidden service port configurationā error
So Iāve been getting the above error on my TOR monero nodes, the nodes will start and work without issue (20+ nodes) but after X amount of hours all of them show the same ā[warn] Unparseable address in hidden service port configuration.ā this has only started in the last week, anyone else finding the same? Sometimes it recovers automatically others it will sit repeating the same error until rebooted where it will work again.
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Have an Old iPhone or iPad? iCloud Backups & Safari Bookmark Syncing Will Soon Not Work
Apple is dropping support for iCloud backups for iPhone or iPad running iOS 8 or earlier. Additionally, Apple is also dropping support for Safari Bookmark Syncing for devices running iOS 10 or earlier, or macOS Sierra 10.12.5 and earlier. While this will not impact the vast majority of people, there are many older model iPhone, ⦠[Read More](https://osxdaily ⦠ā Read more
APIOps and an API gateway: Get your development groove back
Member post originally published on the ngrok blog by Joel Hans Developers love a groove. No, I donāt mean a touch of jazz to class up your workday, but the specific patterns you rely on for⦠ā Read more
Beta 4 of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, MacOS Sequoia 15.2, Available for Testing
Apple has released the fourth beta version of iOS 18.2, MacOS Sequoia 15.2, and iPadOS 18.2, for users participating in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. The primary focus of these new betas appear to be introducing additional Apple Intelligence features, including things like ChatGPT integration to Siri, Genmoji for custom Emoji creation, ⦠[Read More](https://osxdaily ⦠ā Read more
Initial thoughts about Bluesky
Thereās a lot of noise about Bluesky recently, it seems like they passed 20 million users, with more than 1 million new users daily recently. ā Read more
Cloud Neutral Postgres Databases with Kubernetes and CloudNativePG
Member post by Gabriele Bartolini, VP Chief Architect of Kubernetes at EDB Abstract This article delves into the concept of cloud neutralityā a term I prefer over agnosticismā in PostgreSQL deployments. It highlights the transformative impact⦠ā Read more
Apple Watch Series 10 Hits New Low Price of $329.99 on Amazon
Black Friday deals continue to drop for the Apple Watch Series 10 on Amazon, with $69 off both 42mm GPS and 46mm GPS models. All of these deals have been applied automatically and do not require any coupon codes.
Les Ʃlites contre le peuple
Cāest intolĆ©rableĀ ! MalgrĆ© les avertissements, malgrĆ© une presse travaillant dāarrache-pied pour sāassurer que les bonnes informations parviendraient Ć la plĆØbe, malgrĆ© des institutions et des politiciens expliquant partout les dangers encourus, le peuple sāentĆŖte Ć voter de traversĀ ! Cāest un scandale auquel il faut absolument rĆ©pondre. Et rĆ©ponse il y a donc, Ć mesure que [ā¦] ā Read more