10 Inventors Who Died Awful Deaths in Their Own Creations
Inventing things is a challenging and uncertain gig. After all, there is no guarantee that what you think up will work. The madness of tinkering can perennially leave you in the trial-and-error stage, too. And with all the legalities around patents, new product marketing, manufacturing, and sales, even if you manage to bring your idea […]

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10 Ways Animals Use Deception to Survive
The act of deception is as old as the human race itself. Just as humans use deception to survive until the long arm of the law catches up with them, the same also applies to animals. However, we are not aware of whether animals use a 911 system. We also do not know the location […]

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P2Pool to hardfork and enable merge mining on October 12 2024
SChernykh1 has released P2Pool2 version 4.03 with merge mining support4, which will be enabled after its next hardfork on October 12th 2024 at 20:00 UTC:

P2Pool (not Monero!) will hardfork to new consensus rules on October 12th, 2024 at 20:00 UTC. Merge mining will be enabled at that time. You must update to P2Pool v4.0 or newer before this date.

Changes overview


Features:
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Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 6 July 2024 1500 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 6th of July 2024 at 15:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 23 channels.

Discussions should be focused on community highlights, CCS updates and workgroup reports for Matrix and IRC channels. plowsof4 will moderate the meeting.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.

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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 26 2024: 12 PRs, 4 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.

1 - PRs (12, 11:1:0)

Opened (11)

monero-project/monero:

  • #93831 Daemon RPC: /getblocks.bin return chain’s top_block_hash in resp (j-berman)
  • #93822 Daemon RPC: high_height_ok req boolean field /getblocks.bin (j-berman)
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rehrar submits CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero ‘non-dev’ work
rehrar1 has submitted a CCS proposal2 to work part-time on Monero non-dev tasks for 3 months:

I was recently approached by luigi, of the current core team about retaking on some of my old duties. There’s a lot of opportunity for improvement in the non-dev areas of the project, and not always enough hands to get it done.

Total funding: 75 XMR.

ETA: 3 months.

Proposed work overview

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In-reply-to » Can anyone recommend and/or vouch for a Chrome/browser extension that lets me write rewrite rules for arbitrary links on a page? e.g: s/(www\.)?youtube.com\/watch?v=([^?]+)/tubeproxy.mills.io/play/\1 for example? 🤔

Have not tried any of them, but some of these seem to fit the bill:

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