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On my way to FOSDEM 2025
I’m leaving by train for FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium tomorrow
morning, arriving tomorrow evening, Goddess willing.

During FOSDEM I’ll probably mostly be in the Security devroom.

My presentation about the Tillitis TKey is on Saturday at 14:30.

I’m bringing some TKeys, both enduser and unlocked, and a couple of
TKey flash programmers if you want to … ⌘ Read more

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[ANN] Gupaxx dev will be live coding at 30 January 14:30 UTC

You will see me in direct coding on Gupaxx. We can see your messages and tips with xmrchat! It will fund the development of Gupaxx.

Links:

• https://peertube.wtf/w/gfhxc2e7qSFrQouGcQ4yJv
  
• https://github.com/Cyrix126/gupaxx
  
• https://xmrchat.com/gupaxx
  
• [MO report](/xmrvsbeast-proposes-bounty-gupax-fork-integrated-xmrvsbeast-bonus-hashrate-raffle-p2pool- … ⌘ Read more

MacOS Sonoma 14.7.3 & MacOS Ventura 13.7.3 with Security Updates Available
Apple has issued macOS Sonoma 14.7.3 along with macOS Ventura 13.7.3 for Mac users who are continuing to run those operating systems. These are security focused updates that are concurrent with the freshly released MacOS Sequoia 15.3 update for those running Sequoia, and are not expected to include any features or notable changes. Safari 18.3 … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/ … ⌘ Read more

iPhone SE 4 to Have Notch Instead of Dynamic Island
The upcoming iPhone SE 4 will feature a notch instead of the Dynamic Island, respected display analyst Ross Young said today. The device will have a “notch like the iPhone 14,” according to Young, which contradicts a recent leak that depicted a ‌Dynamic Island … ⌘ Read more

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Scientists and engineers produce world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery with potential lifespan of thousands of years
,    -  University of Bristol (U.K.)

Stephan: Here, thank goodness – I am so tired of all the bad news – is what looks to be very important good news about non-carbon energy. I will follow this as it develops.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screenshot-202 … ⌘ Read more

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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 3 2025: 66 PRs, 12 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 (13)

monero-project/monero:

• #96971 [WIP] carrot_impl (jeffro256)
  
• #96982 add do_not_relay option to sweep_single … (SNeedlewoods)
  
• #97063 ci: build wallet_api for all linux cli jobs (t … ⌘ Read more

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com It’s mybe because of their (pixelfed) app release, a few days ago!? https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/decentralized-instagram-alternative-pixelfed-launches-mobile-apps/

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[47°09′14″S, 126°43′26″W] Transponder jammed

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How to Generate AI Images with Image Playground on Mac, iPhone, iPad
Image Playground is an artificial intelligence tool from Apple available for iPhone, Mac, and iPad, that allows you to quickly create and generate images and artwork based upon descriptions or even photos and people from your image library. It’s a fun tool to use, and also super easy. To use Image Playground on your device, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/01/14/how-generate-ai-images-image-playground-m … ⌘ Read more

Securing public AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) with OpenID Connect (OIDC)
Member post originally published on the Devtron blog by Badal Kumar and Siddhant Khisty TL;DR: Learn how to secure your AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) with OpenID Connect (OIDC) to enhance authentication, prevent unauthorized access and ensure… ⌘ Read more

Kubestronaut in Orbit: Sathish Kumar Venkatesan
Get to know Sathish This week’s Kubestronaut in Orbit is Sathish Kumar Venkatesan, an IT professional from Brampton, Canada, with over 16 years of diverse experience spanning cloud technologies, DevOps, and system administration. Currently serving as… ⌘ Read more

EU Not Reassessing Apple and Google Antitrust Investigations, But New Administration Could Shift Priorities
The European Union is “reassessing” its investigations into big U.S. tech companies like Apple, Meta, and Google, claims Financial Times, though a spokesperson from the European Commission has denied that such a review is taking place.

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‘Merrick Garland has been wholly useless’: MSNBC host drops the hammer on outgoing AG
Tom Boggioni,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I completely agree with Michael Steele’s comments and thinking. Felon Trump with the assistance of Attorney General Merrick Garland, Judge Aileen Cannon, and President Joe Biden’s permissive complacency has essentially walked away from accountability for his multiple crimes, sex offenses, and traitorous be … ⌘ Read more

‘Abominable’: Trump and GOP Float Tying Los Angeles Wildfire Aid to Debt Ceiling
Eloise Goldsmith,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Felon Trump has a long history of blocking federal aid to states led by politicians he doesn’t like, and his Republican Congressional cretins support him in this. However, this situation in Los Angeles is unlike anything the country has seen before regarding the extent of damage, the suffering, and damage tha … ⌘ Read more

The Psychological Toll of California’s Catastrophic Fires
April Rubin,    -  Axios

_Stephan: 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 … ⌘ Read more

On a Mission From God: Inside the Movement to Redirect Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to Private Religious Schools
Alec MacGillis,  Reporter  -  ProPublica

Stephan: This is the best fact-based report I have seen recently describing how the christofascists are trying to get access to your tax dollars in order to fund their christofascist indoctrination programs and further degrade public education.

Reporting Highl … ⌘ Read more

o fediverso mencionado nos media mainstream, sempre bom de se ver

https://www.publico.pt/2025/01/14/p3/cronica/nao-refens-musk-zuckerberg-resposta-fediverso-2118595

10 Weirdest Concept Car Designs Ever
Most concept cars are never meant to be anything more than a concept. They’re elaborate ideas for vehicles that cannot possibly be mass manufactured (or even made) when they are showcased at trade shows and other industry events. Concept cars are instead meant to excite consumers, investors, and the general public about the future. As […]

The post 10 Weirdest Concept Car Designs Ever app … ⌘ Read more

next-20250114: linux-next
Version:next-20250114 (linux-next)Released:2025-01-14 ⌘ Read more

First iPhone Chips Made in America Soon to Start Mass Production
Apple is nearing the start of mass production for its first U.S.-made A-series chips at TSMC’s Arizona plant, Nikkei Asia reports.

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The report suggests that test production of the chips at the new TSMC plant near … ⌘ Read more

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Teacher turned florist proves it’s never too late for a career change
More than a decade of teaching has taught Natalie Brock a thing or two, but her biggest life lesson has been to “do something you love”. ⌘ Read more

Could high coffee prices trigger a boom for Aussie growers?
Bad weather in key coffee producing countries has sent the price of beans soaring but Australian growers say capitalising on gaps in the market will be difficult. ⌘ Read more

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[47°09′00″S, 126°43′14″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 2 2025: 18 PRs, 6 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 (12)

monero-project/monero:

• #96831 Failed to build for FreeBSD using GCC (Low-power)
  
• #96872 depends: boost: update to 1.66.0 RELEASE
  
• #96853 miniupnpc: fix build with gcc 14 [RELEAS … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′14″S, 126°43′58″W] Resetting transponder

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Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 14 January 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, January 14 2025 at 18:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #cuprate channels.

Cuprate is an effort to create an alternative Monero node implementation.

Greetings
Updates: What is everyone working on?
Project: What is next for Cuprate?
Any other business

The meeting’s moderator should be Boog9003. Consult the Cuprate code … ⌘ Read more

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[47°09′30″S, 126°43′14″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from W

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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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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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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 52 2024: 94 PRs, 7 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 (20)

monero-project/monero:

• #96411 depends: expat: update to 2.6.4 (tobtoht)
  
• #96422 depends: unbound: update to 1.22.0 (tobtoht)
  
• #96433 depends: hidapi: update to 0.14.0 (tobtoht)
  
• **#9647 … ⌘ Read more

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[47°09′14″S, 126°43′10″W] Wind speed: 83kph – batteries low

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It seems like every app is offering a “Spotify Wrapped”-style yearly review these days. One app where I genuinely find the results fascinating is Träwelldroid, which I use to log my public transport journeys on Träwelling. While the average German drives roughly 10k kilometers per year by car, I traveled approximately 9600 kilometers using public transport, spending a total of 4 days and 8 hours in transit. This is particularly noteworthy since I commuted less frequently this year and didn’t do any interrailing. Sad … ⌘ Read more

Kennedy’s lawyer has asked the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine
Brenda Goodman,  Reporter  -  CNN Health

_Stephan: Former heroin addict Robert Kennedy, Jr. had a worm in his brain, and I think the worm won. Perhaps that explains a level of stupidity, unlike anything I have ever seen in politics. Anti-vaxxer Kenedy and his lawyer Aron Siri have literally killed hundreds of thousands who followed their anti-vaxxerism. And Kennedy is t … ⌘ Read more

‘The next recession starts here’: Trump team weighs abolishing bank regulators
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  AlterNet

_Stephan: The Trump authoritarian oligarchy is trying to take the United States back to the 1930s before there were government regulations that protected the general population from exploitation by the uber-rich the the corporations they controlled. I would not be surprised to see a recession by next summer, and people losing all … ⌘ Read more

Ontario Threatens to Cut Off U.S. Energy Exports If Trump Makes Good on Tariff Plan
Janna Brancolin,  Staff Writer  -  msn | The Daily Beast

Stephan: I think the U.S. economy will be devastated if the stupidity of Trump’s tariff plan is enacted. Here is an aspect of the Canadian response that neither Trump nor his congressional submissive seems to have even considered.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screensh … ⌘ Read more

‘Burdened by diseases’: Study details what’s wrong with American healthcare
Alex Henderson,    -  AlterNet

Stephan: It is interesting to note that the murder of the Healthcare CEO has finally stimulated people to think and talk about our dreadul illness profit system. Here is some very interesting data.

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iMac Pro Launched Seven Years Ago Today
Apple’s iMac Pro launched seven years ago today, offering a high-end all-in-one desktop machine to bridge the gap between new Mac Pro models.

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In April 2017, Apple uncharacteristically apologised for its a … ⌘ Read more

After 70 years, Dick and Pixie share recipe for long life on the land
Dick and Pixie von Hofe have just celebrated 70 years of marriage, and say hard work, determination and, of course, love are the key ingredients. ⌘ Read more

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Kaidan: Kaidan 0.10.1: Media Sharing and New Message Marker Fixes
This release fixes some bugs.
Have a look at the changelog for more details.

Bugfixes:

• Fix displaying files of each message in appropriate message bubble (melvo)
  
• Fix sending fallback messages for clients not supporting XEP-0447: Stateless file sharing (melvo)
  
• Fix margins within message bubbles (melvo)
  
• Fix hiding hidden message part (melvo)
  
• Fix displaying marker for new messages (melvo)
  

The country with the best wine that (almost) nobody gets to taste
Travel by cable car up to alpine vineyards so beautiful Prince wrote a song about them, in a place that keeps the best wines all to itself. ⌘ Read more

Rain-hit cherries ‘explode’ in several states, slashing Christmas supply
The country’s two largest cherry producing states lose a third of their fruit due to heavy rain, which could see prices rise. ⌘ Read more

Report: Apple to Stop Selling iPhone 14 and iPhone SE in EU This Month
Apple plans to stop selling the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, and third-generation iPhone SE in European Union countries later this month, to comply with a regulation that will soon require newly-sold smartphones with wired charging to be equipped with a USB-C port in those countries, according to [French blog iGeneration](https://www.igen. … ⌘ Read more

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[ANN] Istanbul meetup sponsored by WizardSwap.io, organised by OrangeFren.com

- Date: Friday the 20th of December 2024 @ 18:00 local time
- Location: CoBAC Workshop, Sarıdemir, Ragıp Gümüşpala Cd. No:29, 34116 Fatih/İstanbul, Türkiye
- Tickets: free

Link: https://orangefren.com/event/20

orangefren.com ⌘ Read more

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[47°09′39″S, 126°43′14″W] Working impossible due to thunderstorm