Apple Shareholders Vote to Continue Illegal DEI Practices
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Use Firefox? Mozilla Says it Can Use Your Data However it Wants.
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Reba loves water. Today, she laid down in the sink and asked me to fill it up 😅 ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev, I am getting:

Feed was redirected: https://twtxt.andros.dev -> https://twtxt.andros.dev/

Each time my client fetches your feed. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. Wouldn’t be both, pretty much, be the same (I noticed the /, yes)?

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, well, what they want is for us to become hopeless and give up. We should just try. Not wait and … wait.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @david@collantes.us I often think about moving to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It’s a long way from home and probably not realistic, but one can dream. 😅

Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation
Standards are only useful if they’re widely adopted, and adoption is only effective if the available tooling facilitates it. I imagine SI units would not have been too popular when they were introduced if you had to build… ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I wouldn’t call it regular, but cyclical. Since, with the exception of Yarn (maybe?), clients are everything when it comes to twtxt, every now and then we see an increase of interest on new development. I have seeing them come and go, only few “beside remains”. :-)

Question to the twtxt veterans, are we experiencing an explosion of clients or is this a regular occurrence?

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

Got myself a proper bass amp and now I really want to live in a small house in the middle of nowhere, where I won’t bother anyone. 😅

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

RFK Jr. targets childhood psychiatric drugs; doctors push back
Joseph Choi ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: And so it starts. The first child in a decade in the United States has just died of measles, and now Robert Kennedy, jr. is attacking psychiatric drugs used in the treatment of children. So if you have a child who is depressed, anxious, or hyperactive. Trump and the Republican Congress members are telling you, “tough… you need to understand your well … ⌘ Read more

FDA Layoffs in Staff Overseeing Food Safety, Medical Devices, and Tobacco Products
,    -  Associated Press

Stephan: The safety of the food you and your family eat has now been put in danger by “king” Trump. The Trump coup is putting every American in danger. Do I need to say more?

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The Trump administration’s effo … ⌘ Read more

The White House is now deciding who can cover the president, reversing decades of precedent
Hadas Gold,  Staff Writer  -  CNN

_Stephan: Like all fascist authoritarians criminal Trump makes no effort to hide the fact that he wants to control the media, and what it reports about him, and his administration. As you may have heard the Associated Press has been banned from the White House because they won’t call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf … ⌘ Read more

(#gwkgnlq) @andros@andros I don’t get the “layers” bit at all, but the composability ist just common sense to me. It requires a good l …
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10 Unbelievable Reasons for Why People Faked Their Own Deaths
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I have the same feeling at my job. Every time I return to old projects, it’s like my first time.

I have the feeling, that I have come to a dead end with my first version of the TwtxtReader. That’s why I’m stopping the project and starting again.
But of course, everyone is welcome to take a look at https://github.com/upputter/TwtxtReaderMK1

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

To me it appeared that the failed attempts to ban NPD in the past actually helped them gain more supporters.

What makes AfD stronger for sure is just going “lol nah we’re not even going to try”:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-verbot-antrag-100.html

If they don’t try, then it means that “it can’t be that bad, it’s just a normal party”, right? 😡

I agree. finding good writings on architecture is hard to find. I used to read architecture reviews over on the high scalability blog. i suspect the reason why is that the arch is how the big tech companies can build moats around their bases. I know in AWS world it only goes as far as how to nickle and dime you to death.

I have the books but they don’t grow much more past interview level.

I agree. finding good writings on architecture is hard to find. I used to read architecture reviews over on the high scalability blog. i suspect the reason why is that the arch is how the big tech companies can build moats around their bases. I know in AWS world it only goes as far as how to nickle and dime you to death.

I have the books but they don’t grow much more past interview level.

US Probes UK’s Apple Encryption Demand for Possible Treaty Violation
U.S. officials are looking at whether the United Kingdom violated a bilateral agreement by demanding Apple create a “backdoor” to access end-to-end encrypted iCloud data, according to a letter from National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard (via Reuters).

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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

a658d: Tell that to the inventor of Post-Its!

Amd of course, TDD! I tried that, but it doesn’t work all that great for me in its strict form. I have the feeling that coming up with a single new failing test, making it pass, maybe some refactoring, rinse and repeat wastes significantly more time than doing it in – what they call – the “bundle” approach. Coming up with several tests in advance and then writing the code or vise versa is usually much quicker. I do find that more enjoyable, it also helps me to reduce smaller context switches. I can focus on either the tests or the production code.

As for the potentially reduced code coverage with a non-TDD approach, I can easily see which parts are lacking tests and hand them in later. So, that’s largely a specious argument. Granted, I can forget to check the coverage or simply ignore it.

I agree with John, TDD results in less elegant code or requires more refactoring to tidy it up. Sometimes, it’s also not entirely clear at the beginning how the API should really look like. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. Especially when experimenting or trying out different approaches. With TDD, I then also have to refactor the tests which is not only annoying, but also involves the danger of accidentally breaking them.

TDD only works really well, if you have super tiny functions. But we already established that I typically don’t like tiny methods just for the purpose of them being extremely short.

When fixing a bug, I usually come up with a failing test case first to verify that my repaired code later actually resolves the problem. For new code, it depends, sometimes tests first, sometimes the productive code first. Starting off with the tests requires the API to be well defined beforehand.

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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Just before the pandemic, we watched Uncle Bob videos once a week in the lunch break. While almost all of my old teammates agreed with his views, I partially found them to be very odd and even counterproductive.

I didn’t come across John Ousterhout or any of his work before, at least not deliberately. So, this document is my first contact.

I only finished the chapter on comments and I totally agree with John so far. This document just manifests to me how weird Bob’s view is on certain subjects.

I always disagreed with the concept of a maximum method length. Sure, generally, shorter functions are probably better, but it always depends. And I’ve certainly seen super short methods that just made the code flow even worse to follow. While “one function should only do one thing” is a nice general rule, I’m 100% in team John with the shown examples. There are cases, where this doesn’t help readability at all. Not even close.

To me, a function always has to justify its existence. Either by reusing it at least at another place or by coming up with dedicated tests for it. But if it is just called once and there are no tests, I almost always decide against it. Personally, I don’t mind longer methods. We just recently had a discussion about that and I lost against two other workmates who are more in Uncle Bob’s camp, they refactored one medium sized method into three very short ones. Luckily, we agree on most other topics.

Lol, what!? The shorter the method, the longer the variables inside? I first thought I misread or the writeup mixed it up. I’ll always do it the other way around.

I’ve been also bitten badly by outdated comments in the past, but Bob must have worked on really terrible projects to end up with such an attitude to dislike comments. Oh well. No doubt, I’ve come across by several orders of magnitude more useless comments, in my experience (autogenerated) JavaDocs fall in the category more frequently than not. So, I know that there are different types of comments. A comment doesn’t automatically mean that it is good and justified.

But I also partially agree with Bob and John and think that a good name has a proper chance to save a comment. Though, when in doubt, I go John’s route and use a shorter name with a comment rather than use a kilometer long identifier. Writing good comments typically takes some time, sometimes much longer than writing the code. It regularly takes me several minutes. It’s a hard art.

I perhaps should read up on John’s work. He seems to be more reasonable and likeminded. :-) Let me continue to complete this document.

Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kubescape as a CNCF incubating project.  Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security project designed to offer comprehensive security coverage throughout the entire development and deployment lifecycle…. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′32″S, 126°43′15″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

@doesnmppsflt@doesnm.p.psf.lt this one is the safest feed to follow. Quark’s will cease to exist, as I am not renewing the domain. Bender’s will eventually fade away too, I am afraid. “No show, however good, can last forever.” :-)

Kubestronaut in Orbit: Samah Eddaoudi
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Amazon Debuts Alexa+ Generative AI
Amazon today announced the launch of Alexa+, a new version of Alexa that includes large language models, agentic capabilities, services, and devices at scale to redefine “the way we interact with digital assistants.”

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Donald Trump Has Launched a War Against the Working Class
Michael Arria,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: As Trump’s fascist oligarch coup moves into its second month I confess I am surprised that Trump voters don’t yet seem to fully realize how severely Trump is going to damage the quality of their personal life, and the lives of their family. I keep seeing interviews with Trump voters, particularly White men, who just don’t seem capable of comprehending what is … ⌘ Read more

Trump approval rating holds steady at 44%, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
,    -  Reuters/IPSO

_Stephan: Trump voters seem psychologically unable to reconsider their adoration and loyalty to criminal Trump, even as he announces scheme after scheme to destroy the quality of their lives. I did not understand how it was possible for Hitler to destroy democracy and impose authoritarian control over Germany in 1933, but watching the docile Republican sheep continue to … ⌘ Read more

This document is the result of a series of discussions between Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin and John Ousterhout, held between September 2024 and February 2025. The text addresses three main topics: method length, comments, and Test Driven Development (TDD).
https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code/blob/main/README.md
This is something to read and reflect on for days.

I read a lot about Clean Code, SOLID, TDD, DDD… now I’m discovering «A Philosophy of Software Design»… but nobody talks about the importance of the project architecture. Do we depend on the framework to do the work for us?
You know I’m a big fan of Clean Architecture, but I feel alone when I share my thoughts on social media or at work.
You have to think outside the framework.

Everything has been created in huge quantities for a long time, there is no need to invent anything. You just need to download and run it.

I have released new updates to the twtxt.el client.

• Markdown to Org mode (you need to install Pandoc).
  
• Centred column.
  
• Added new logo.
  
• Added text helper.
  

The new version I will try to finish the visual thread. You still can’t see the thread yet.

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Haasoscope Pro Open Source USB Oscilloscope with 2 GHz Bandwidth and 3.2 GS/s Sampling
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Quick macOS Tip: Create and Use Text Clippings for Productivity
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The relatively little-known feature has been around since at least Mac OS 9, and it offers a convenient way to save out pieces of text from pretty much anywhere for later use in another app or document.

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Boog900, hinto-janai, vtnerd CCS proposals ready for funding
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• 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
  

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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
  
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spirobel submits CCS proposal to develop Monero Payment Links, Browser Wallet, multisig companion app
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@david@collantes.us Yeah. A horrendously wrong but simple solution often outpaces are bit more correct but complex one. Especially if the simple one suggests that oneself doesn’t have to change at all and can just continue along. Wishful thinking.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh right, I completely forgot about the media! Maybe a sign that they’re losing their relevance? The third power appears to be gone or changed sides. Lots of them work on their own abolishment.

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The Housing Loophole That Lets Wealthy Investors Raise Rents on Poor Tenants
Jesse Coburn,  Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: An SR reader, who describes herself as a “retired teacher” wrote to tell me she was just notified her rent in an apartment building that was sold by its owner to an investment group will be going up 25%, and she is not sure she can afford it. That prompted me to do some research to see what is going on with rents for ren … ⌘ Read more

Trump Backs House GOP Bill Slashing $1 Trillion From Medicaid and Food Stamps
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_Stephan: I was just told today by the office of one of my physicians that telemedicine, doing a video meeting with a physician, will no longer be covered by Medicare. That, for me, is a big deal. I live on an island and going to a medical appointment on the mainland when all that is involved is a conversation, is an all-day opera … ⌘ Read more

Testing the World’s Thinnest Foldable Smartphone
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

The big established parties are all bad traitors. I blame them and their actions to help raise AfD. They just [don’t?] give a fuck about the ordinary people, they’re only concerned about their private gain and power.

To a large degree, yes. But I think the media is also equally at fault. There was absolutely no reason to invite AfD people to every event and let them talk. This has been going on for over 10 years. When we give them a stage to spread their hate, are we really surprised that hate spreads … ?

I don’t know the answers to this desaster. I’m beginning to think that people literally just want an outlet for their frustration, nothing more. It’s not about what particular parties actually plan to do. At least I think this applies to people in their 30ies and 40ies.

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10 Classic American Songs That Started in Minstrelsy
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@bender@twtxt.net Sorry to disappoint (again): https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/2025/02/24/latest-calculations-conclude-asteroid-2024-yr4-now-poses-no-significant-threat-to-earth-in-2032-and-beyond/

And, Ramadan is next week. So, we switched to UTC from UTC+1 in the weekend. As if it’s going to make the days any shorter 😅

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Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 4 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, March 4 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 repositor … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net And if that rock won’t hit us, there still is a chance in 2038, to get everything shut down. 🤓

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You are right. Like I said in my (german only post) to the election results: “It saddens me and makes me think.” …

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I am going to start using this one more, or exclusively, from now on. I need to get used to it, as “quark” will be gone, and “bender”, well, he is kind of tired of getting bent. :-D

() @movq@www.uninformativ.de / @ well, I was wrong. It doesn’t merit congratulations. Boy, that 2032 asteroid is starting to look quite appealing…

I spent this Monday afternoon back from work, drawing myself as the “you made it to Friday sailors” dog. Totally unrelated to the 3 hours wasted on meetings, pretending to discuss great suggestions from high management, nobody else wants to implement.
Link to OG meme: https://youtu.be/z8x3JS7pP14

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Neat, I got the principle, so mission accomplished. :-)

I have configured my vim to use a tab width of four. So, I noticed that especially https://www.falsifian.org/blog/2021/06/04/catalytic/reachability_with_stack.cc (but also partially the other C++ file) mixes tabs and spaces for indentation. :-)

Na, you’re spot on, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! The result is an expected, terrible disaster. It just seems the absolute catastrophy is delayed for another four years.

Even though I’m the last one who wouldn’t be glad about banning the nazis, I’m not a fan of banning parties in general. I believe that a healthy democracy has to withstand extremists. Whether it’s still healthy is debatable. To me it appeared that the failed attempts to ban NPD in the past actually helped them gain more supporters.

The big established parties are all bad traitors. I blame them and their actions to help raise AfD. They just give a fuck about the ordinary people, they’re only concerned about their private gain and power. I bet nothing will change, to the contrary, it will only get worse. The winners do have the chance to turn it for the better, but they just will not. No way, unfortunately.

But then, we must not forget that people are just dumb and stupid, too. Also, that won’t change. AfD won’t help these idiots either, but they still vote for them. I also don’t understand how there is still so much support for the other big parties left. Education is important. Very important. But I have the impression that we’re lacking it.

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@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net The outcome was to be expected but it’s still pretty catastrophic. Here’s an overview:

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East Germany is dominated by AfD. Bavaria is dominated by CSU (it’s always been that way, but this is still a conservative/right party). Black is CDU, the other conservative/right party.

The guy who’s probably going to be chancellor recently insulted the millions of people who did demonstrations for peace/anti-right. “Idiots”, “they’re nuts”, stuff like that. This was before the election. He already earned the nickname “Mini Trump”.

Both the right and the left got more votes this time, but the left only gained 3.87 percentage points while the right (CDU/CSU + AfD) gained 14.72:

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The Green party lost, SPD (“mid-left”) lost massively (worst result in their history). FDP also lost. These three were the previous government.

This isn’t looking good at all, especially when you think about what’s going to happen in the next 4 years. What will CDU (the winner) do? Will they be able to “turn the ship around”? Highly unlikely. They are responsible for the current situation (in large parts). They will continue to do business as usual. They will do anything but help poor/ordinary people. This means that AfD will only get stronger over the next 4 years.

Our only hope would be to ban AfD altogether. So far, nobody but non-profit organizations is willing to do that (for unknown reasons).

I don’t even know if banning the AfD would help (but it’s probably our best/only option). AfD politicians are nothing but spiteful, hateful, angry, similar to Trump/MAGA. If you’ve seen these people talk and still vote for them, then you must be absolutely filled with rage and hatred. Very concerning.

Correct me if I’m wrong, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @arne@uplegger.eu, @johanbove@johanbove.info.

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Simmone Shah,  Staff Writer  -  Time Magazine

Stephan: Every climate research paper I see in any journal screams out a warning of what is coming as a result of climate change and sea rise, or droughts, and how urgently important it is that we end the carbon energy era. “king” Trump is not smart enough or ethical enough to prepare the United States for what is coming.

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Trump administration shuts down national database documenting police misconduct
Gloria Oladipo,  Staff Writer  -

_Stephan: As part of his coup “king” Trump needs to be able to utilize the police for his deportation schemes and to suppress any demonstrations against his coup. So he has changed the laws in such a way that no documentation occurs of police misconduct. Here is a report of what he has done. It is getting very little media coverage bu … ⌘ Read more

Trump admin to use military sites for immigrant detention, starting with Fort Bliss
Renne Estrada,  Staff Writer  -  KFOX14

_Stephan: In a further mirroring of Hitler’s takeover of German democracy and his creation of concentration camps, Trump’s takeover of American democracy is now planning to create American concentration camps at military bases both within the United States and outside the country at Guantanamo, Cuba. Tens of thousands of … ⌘ Read more

10 Fictional Drugs We’re Glad Aren’t Real
Drugs are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they mitigate intense physiological problems, allowing sick, injured, or impaired individuals to function with the rest of society. On the other, some substances have adverse side effects. Extreme cases lead to addiction, constantly leaving you craving an unhealthy amount. Such overdoses then pave the way for […]

The post [10 Fictional Drugs We’re Glad Aren’t Real](https://listverse.com/2025/02/24/10-f … ⌘ Read more

10 War Relics with Fascinating Stories
War has always been unavoidable. Evidence of warfare stretches from ancient times to at least 10,000 years ago. Anyone who wants to learn about history or humans has to know about the series of wars that shaped our civilization. Most people generally avoid thinking, seeing, and reading about such things. But sometimes, we’re urged to […]

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Adding Custom Sleep Screen Images to the Kindle Scribe ⌘ Read more

I got to watch “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” (2017) for the Nth time earlier today. it is still a fun thing to watch, the only problem is, now I am stuck with Samuel L. Jackson singing his “Bevilo Tutto, Bevilo Tutto, Bevilo Bevilo Bevilo Tutto…” song with the nuns, again and again in my head 🤣 … But hey, I’ve learned two Italian words today.

I heard that congratulations to Germany are in order, is that right? If so, congratulations!

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Sweet! can’t wait to play with that. Good luck!

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I believe you have just reproduced the bug… it looks like you’ve replayed to a twt but the hash is wrong. I can see the hash here from Jenny, but it doesn’t look like it corresponds to any{twt,thing}. if you check it out on any yarn instance it won’t look like a replay.

Said goodbye to our beautiful girl today. ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MT #341: Is Monero keeping Bitcoin’s Cypherpunk dream alive? With Boaz Sobrado

In this episode Douglas Tuman interviews Boaz, a Forbes contributor who published a notable article about Monero last month. The discussion explores his background in crypto, starting from his experiences using Bitcoin for business operations in Cuba, to his current role as a writer for various crypto publications.

Links:

• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=r2ZhoPAglJQ
  
• [https://www.m … ⌘ 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.

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j-berman posts CCS progress report after 368 hours of dev work
j-berman1 has published a second progress report2 for his full-time 2025 (part 9) Monero (FCMPs++) dev work CCS proposal3:

* Plugged FCMP++ transactions into consensus
* Prepared the FCMP++ optimization competition for launch
* Continuing PR 9135 (blockchain sync) review [..]

Consult the previous Monero Observer report4 to learn more about Justin’s CCS.

Th … ⌘ Read more

PEP 775: Make zlib required to build CPython
Building CPython without the zlib compression library will no be longer supported, and the zlib module will be required in the standard library. The only exception is WASI, as zlib is not currently supported in CPython on WASI. Building the interpreter without zlib may still be possible, but formally unsupported. ⌘ Read more