Symas contributes to development of @npub1ervw...j0h0 . I personally don't endorse Signal; their idiotic MobileCoin venture made it clear their priority is profit, not user safety. You actually *can* get secure private messaging without relying on centralized metadata storage or AWS.

Fosstodon

Cwtch (@cwtch@fosstodon.org)

Today we are releasing Cwtch 1.16! Cwtch is a privacy-only p2p messenger based on @torproject v3 onion services. The focus of this release was m...

A new engineer discovers how Cloudflare used #LMDB for their distributed config https://xcancel.com/UltraSive/status/1948967694004326605#m "99th %ile of reads dropped by two orders of magnitude!" "LMDB stability has been exceptional. It has been running in production for over three years. We have experienced only a single bug and zero data corruption. Considering we serve over 2.5 trillion read requests and 30 million write requests a day on over 90,000 database instances across thousands of servers, this is very impressive."

New for OpenLDAP 3.0 - forget about bothersome index configuration. Just feed your entire DB into chatGPT. Search queries will be answered immediately by #AI, without maintaining any indices.

It's not a "smart" appliance if it only works while connected to a 3rd party's remote server, and can be knocked out of commission by a WAN outage. Smart appliances should only communicate with your LAN.

Mastodon

Augie Ray (@augieray@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image My Internet has been out for three hours. One forgets how reliant we can be on that digital lifeline. I have a smart home, so m...

Hm, good question... how much has voter suppression impacted this election? The impact is certainly non-zero

WIRED

Flaw in Right-Wing ‘Election Integrity’ App Exposes Voter-Suppression Plan and User Data

A bug that WIRED discovered in True the Vote’s VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an i...

Most sci-fi stories involving time travel involve a mechanism that's incredibly rare and/or difficult to operate. What if complete plans for a working time machine, including its power source, were published anonymously on the web, in a decentralized fashion? (Impossible to identify who published it, or from where, and thus making it impossible to go back and prevent the publication.) What if anybody could build their own, using commonly available parts and tools?

It's only April and my PV panels have already hit a peak output over 10% over their rated capacity (yesterday). The power graph from today clearly shows the jump around 9am when the sun is finally in front of the house. The house faces SSW so the panels aren't getting direct illumination from sunrise, though they're still producing a tiny bit of power then.

Other cryptocurrency projects talk a big game about being the future of money, but they're all just scams to separate speculators from their cash. #Monero has demonstrated time and time again that it's actually focused on being a useful currency, not a vehicle for speculators.

Bitfinex blog

The Fortunes of Monero - Bitfinex blog

While the crypto community’s gaze was fixed on Bitcoin reaching a new all time high in price this week, a significant yet underreported devel...

First spec for storage of digital data in DNA in case you'd forgotten that you're already living in a sci-fi world... https://www.snia.org/news_events/newsroom/dna-data-storage-alliance-releases-its-first-specifications

Bitcoin sucks, literally. Sucks electricity, among other things...

Mastodon

Frédéric Jacobs (@fj@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Bitcoin, less efficient than ever per block. Consuming a broader percentage of USA electricity every year. > “we estimate e...

Digging up an older vid, from 2022-12-08 : mining Monero on my new (at the time) Android car radio

There's an art to debugging with print statements. You need to show enough to be able to identify problems happening, without being so verbose as to overwhelm with useless noise. When #LMDB is built with debug logging enabled, the output can be too voluminous to sift thru. But it shows exactly what the code is doing, in such a way that you can parse the log and rerun the exact same operations, and get an identical database as a result.

Timelines and following hashtags is still a stupid way to interact with people. The Usenet model of topics is still the better model. You can't build meaningful thoughts from a firehose of non-sequiturs.

Hash bang slash, bin s h, c d slash dot config When you know the keys to type You can code without the hype

With #Ahsoka airing, I figured I should watch The Clone Wars to get more of her back-story. I watched all of season 1 but frankly it was an unbingeable slog. It's not really grabbing me, so I only watch 1 or 2 episodes at a time. After season 1 I skipped to the end, or end of S6. So I see Yoda learning how to become a Force ghost. Cool, but how come Anakin became one, he never trained? I guess Yoda might have taught Obi-Wan at least. #StarWars #clonewars

Everything relevant I have to tell you on this topic could be written concisely in a 500char toot, but I'm going to make you waste your time watching my video instead.

Mastodon

Nick @ The Linux Experiment (@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social)

Since macOS was really not my cup of tea, I installed @AsahiLinux@treehouse.systems on my M1 MacBook Pro. While I was expecting it to be alpha qua...

Seeking opinions... One of my old projects, RTMPdump, relies on OpenSSL for some crypto primitives, but the APIs it uses have been deprecated in 1.1 and newer. I'm wondering whether and how to support the newer versions. Since we're supporting an ancient proprietary protocol, adopting new APIs to allow supporting newer encryption schemes is irrelevant. Avoiding weaknesses in older ciphers is also irrelevant, we have to use what Adobe used, and nothing else.

#LMDB data store, concurrent cache, etc., for #Eclipse

org.eclipse.rdf4j.sail.lmdb (Eclipse RDF4J 5.3.0-M1 API)

declaration: package: org.eclipse.rdf4j.sail.lmdb

This is a tune that for some reason I thought I learned off the Atlantic Fiddles CD many years ago, but recently when I dug up that recording I didn't find this tune on there, so now I have no idea where I got it from. Anyone else recognize it? It seems it's originally a highland pipe tune.

Aoine Shona daoibh! 星期五快樂! Бақытты Жұма! Happy Friday! *this toot void where prohibited