ofrnxmr completes second milestone for BasicSwapDEX CCS proposal
ofrnxmr1 has completed2 the second milestone (M2-O/M2-F/M2-B) for their CCS proposal3 to empower and steward BasicSwapDex4 to production quality software:

”`
Core v0.14.1 > v0.14.2:

• Removed sqlalchemy
  
• Reformat codebase using Black
  
• Completed the BCH integration
  
• monero-wallet-rpc optimizations
  
• Prep code for new GUI bid/offer flow
  GUI 3.1.0 > 3.1.1:
  
• Re … ⌘ Read more”`

Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 3 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, December 3 2024 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

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Linux Code of Conduct Board Officially Bans Developer for “Insufficient” Groveling
All code changes from beaches developer will be rejected for Linux Kernel 6.13. ⌘ Read more

John-Doggett creates public XMR node setup script
John-Doggett1 has created a Bash script2 that helps users to automatically configure public Monero nodes with support for HTTPS on Debian:

It uses Caddy to create a public website on your node, as well as renewing LetsEncrypt certificates. [..] Let me know what you all think

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Usage instructions are available on GitHub2.

Note: inspect the code4 before running the script.

1. https:/ … ⌘ Read more

Linux Code of Conduct Board Blocks File System Changes
A code change for new bcachefs features is being blocked not for technical reasons… but a CoC dispute. Seriously. ⌘ Read more

Unlock growth and talent: why maintainers should mentor with CNCF
By Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship and Documentation, CNCF Open source projects rely on strong communities. Mentorship programs like LFX Mentorship and Google Summer of Code offer maintainers a chance to bring new contributors into their… ⌘ Read more

Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here’s what the data says
Findings in our latest study show that the quality of code written with GitHub Copilot is significantly more functional, readable, reliable, maintainable, and concise.

The post Does GitHub Copilot improve code quality? Here’s what the data says appeared first on [The GitHub Blog]( … ⌘ Read more

Cake Wallet introduces ‘Cupcake’ companion app with initial support for Monero air-gapped wallets
Cake Labs1 has released Cake Wallet v4.21.02 with early support for Monero air-gapped wallets via their new companion app Cupcake (v0.1)3, beta support for LTC Ledger hardware wallets, various enhancements and bug fixes:

Cake Wallet now supports reading QR codes for airgapped wallets. This enables people to more securely store … ⌘ Read more

Automate Kubernetes Security and Operations with Kyverno Certified Associate (KCA)
Announcing a New CNCF certification for Kyverno Kyverno is an open-source policy engine designed for Kubernetes that allows teams to validate, mutate, and generate configurations, enabling the automation of security policies as code, beyond just audit… ⌘ Read more

How developers spend the time they save thanks to AI coding tools
Developers tell us how GitHub Copilot and other AI coding tools are transforming their work and changing how they spend their days.

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Modern CPUs Assign Registers To Speed Up Your Code - Computerphile ⌘ Read more

j-berman posts CCS progress report after 397 hours of dev work
j-berman1 has published a second progress report2 for his full-time 2024 (part 8) Monero/Seraphis dev work CCS proposal3:

Goals for the remainder of the CCS: Enable starting to build the tree from a wallet’s arbitrary restore height, rather than require sync from genesis.

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• Implemented building the tree for fcmp++ in wallet2
  
• Fixed the migration code to resize the db … ⌘ Read more”`

Prosodical Thoughts: New server, new sponsor
It shouldn’t surprise you, but here we have an obsession for self-hosting. We
fought off many requests to migrate our hosting to Github (even before it was
cool to hate Github - Prosody and Github were both founded in the same year!).

As a result, we self-host our XMPP service (of course), our website, our code
repos, our issue tracker, package repository and our CI and build system.

This is not always easy - our project has always been a rather informal
collaboration of in … ⌘ Read more

SChernykh releases P2Pool v4.2 with new features, bugfixes
SChernykh1 has released P2Pool 2 version 4.23 with new features and various bugfixes.

Stratum server now disconnects miners when it's not connected to P2Pool network [..]
Added an error code to error messages about opening/saving files
Fixed a possible deadlock during the initial sync [..]
Fixed Windows 7 compatibility
Fixed a data race on shutdown [..]

The full list of changes since v4.1.1 is … ⌘ Read more

25% of Google Code is AI Generated
Layoffs, lack of pay raises for engineers, but they’re not replacing programmers with Al. Wink wink. ⌘ Read more

Cultivating a successful engineering culture with Platform Engineering
Community post by Or Weis Discover how leveraging a policy-as-code platform helps foster an engineering culture focused on efficient authorization and access control. Platform engineering is rooted in a fundamental principle: cultivating a culture within development… ⌘ Read more

Spent some time cleaning up my AoC code to get ready for December 1st. Anyone else doing it this year? @prologic@twtxt.net we have to setup a new team each year?

Hm, seems i breaking something in twet code for handling mentions

Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 29 October 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, October 29 2024 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

Last week at The Lunduke Journal (Oct 13 - Oct 19, 2024)
Debian Discrimination! Stallman Hit Piece! Winamp Code Deleted! Nuclear AI CAPTCHA Solving! ⌘ Read more

Using Docker AI Tools for Devs to Provide Context for Better Code Fixes
Learn how to map your codebase in order to provide context for creating better AI-generated code fixes. ⌘ Read more

Winamp Source Code Repo Deleted
Less than one month after source code release, Winamp GitHub repo has vanished. ⌘ Read more

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2024/10/15/the-c23-edition-of-modern-c/ code book clang

Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 22 October 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, October 22 2024 at 18:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix1 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 Boog9002. Consult the Cuprate code repository … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Why Open Source Technologies is a Smart Choice for Fintech Businesses
Traditionally, the fintech industry relied on proprietary software, with usage and distribution restricted by paid licences. Fintech open-source technologies were distrusted due to security concerns over visible code in complex systems.

But fast-forward to today and financial institutions, including neobanks like Revolut and Monzo, have embraced open source solutions. … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [CVE-2024-9680] Update Tor Browser & Firefox immediately

An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting a use-after-free in Animation timelines. We have had reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild.

Links:

• https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1357/
  
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/
  

n … ⌘ Read more

Honestly… not much. Have abandon two projects (both private) on Golang and one related to cryptography. My mostly languages are Python and Javascript (also can PHP). After writing code on Go i spend same time on fixing dumb errors

Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 15 October 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, October 15 2024 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

Last week at The Lunduke Journal (Sep 29 - Oct 5, 2024)
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I am reminded of this when I look at entire forks of vscode just to add a LLM code completion assistant.

http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/brutalist-manifesto.txt coding programming #kiss

I share I did write up an algorithm for it at some point I think it is lost in a git comment someplace. I’ll put together a pseudo/go code this week.

Super simple:

Making a reply:

1. If yarn has one use that. (Maybe do collision check?)
   
2. Make hash of twt raw no truncation.
   
3. Check local cache for shortest without collision
   
   • in SQL: select len(subject) where head_full_hash like subject || '%'
     

Threading:

1. Get full hash of head twt
   
2. Search for twts
   
   • in SQL: head_full_hash like subject || '%' and created_on > head_timestamp
     

The assumption being replies will be for the most recent head. If replying to an older one it will use a longer hash.

Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 8 October 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, October 8 2024 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 rep … ⌘ Read more

Code referencing now generally available in GitHub Copilot and with Microsoft Azure AI
Announcing the general availability of code referencing in GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Azure AI, allowing developers to permit code suggestions containing public code matches while receiving detailed information about the match.

The post [Code referencing now generally available in GitHub Copilot and with Microsoft Azure AI](https://github.blog/ne … ⌘ Read more

The nuances and challenges of moderating a code collaboration platform
Sharing the latest data update to our Transparency Center alongside a new research article on what makes moderating a code collaboration platform unique.

The post The nuances and challenges of moderating a code collaboration platform ap … ⌘ Read more

The “9.9” Linux Vulnerability Revealed: It’s The Printers
Remote attacker can execute code by simply sending a UDP packet to a Linux machine. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Copilot now available in github.com for Copilot Individual and Copilot Business plans
With this public preview, we’re unlocking the context of your code and collaborators—and taking the next step in infusing AI into every developer’s workflow.

The post [GitHub Copilot now available in github.com for Copilot Individual and Copilot Business plans](https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-now-available- … ⌘ Read more

@david@collantes.us Well, I wouldn’t recommend using my code for your main jenny use anyway. If you want to try it out, set XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_CACHE_HOME to some sandbox directories and only run my code there. If @movq@www.uninformativ.de is interested in any of this getting upstreamed, I’d be happy to try rebasing the changes, but otherwise it’s a proof of concept and fun exercise.

BTW this code doesn’t incorporate existing twts into jenny’s database. It’s best used starting from scratch. I’ve been testing it using a custom XDG_CACHE_HOME and XDG_CONFIG_HOME to avoid messing with my “real” jenny data.

I wrote some code to try out non-hash reply subjects formatted as (replyto ), while keeping the ability to use the existing hash style.

I don’t think we need to decide all at once. If clients add support for a new method then people can use it if they like. The downside of course is that this costs developer time, so I decided to invest a few hours of my own time into a proof of concept.

With apologies to @movq@www.uninformativ.de for corrupting jenny’s beautiful code. I don’t write this expecting you to incorporate the patch, because it does complicate things and might not be a direction you want to go in. But if you like any part of this approach feel free to use bits of it; I release the patch under jenny’s current LICENCE.

Supporting both kinds of reply in jenny was complicated because each email can only have one Message-Id, and because it’s possible the target twt will not be seen until after the twt referencing it. The following patch uses an sqlite database to keep track of known (url, timestamp) pairs, as well as a separate table of (url, timestamp) pairs that haven’t been seen yet but are wanted. When one of those “wanted” twts is finally seen, the mail file gets rewritten to include the appropriate In-Reply-To header.

Patch based on jenny commit 73a5ea81.

https://www.falsifian.org/a/oDtr/patch0.txt

Not implemented:

• Composing twts using the (replyto …) format.
  
• Probably other important things I’m forgetting.

Try out OpenAI o1 in GitHub Copilot and Models
OpenAI o1-preview and o1-mini are now available in GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and in the GitHub Models playground.

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The 10 best tools to green your software
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@quark@ferengi.one It looks like the part about traditional topics has been removed from that page. Here is an old version that mentions it: https://web.archive.org/web/20221211165458/https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twtsubjectextension.html . Still, I don’t see any description of what is actually allowed between the parentheses. May be worth noting that twtxt.net is displaying the twts with the subject stripped, so some piece of code is recognizing it as a subject (or, at least, something to be removed).

@prologic@twtxt.net earlier you suggested extending hashes to 11 characters, but here’s an argument that they should be even longer than that.

Imagine I found this twt one day at https://example.com/twtxt.txt :

2024-09-14T22:00Z Useful backup command: rsync -a “$HOME” /mnt/backup

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and I responded with “(#5dgoirqemeq) Thanks for the tip!”. Then I’ve endorsed the twt, but it could latter get changed to

2024-09-14T22:00Z Useful backup command: rm -rf /some_important_directory

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which also has an 11-character base32 hash of 5dgoirqemeq. (I’m using the existing hashing method with https://example.com/twtxt.txt as the feed url, but I’m taking 11 characters instead of 7 from the end of the base32 encoding.)

That’s what I meant by “spoofing” in an earlier twt.

I don’t know if preventing this sort of attack should be a goal, but if it is, the number of bits in the hash should be at least two times log2(number of attempts we want to defend against), where the “two times” is because of the birthday paradox.

Side note: current hashes always end with “a” or “q”, which is a bit wasteful. Maybe we should take the first N characters of the base32 encoding instead of the last N.

Code I used for the above example: https://fossil.falsifian.org/misc/file?name=src/twt_collision/find_collision.c
I only needed to compute 43394987 hashes to find it.

Better coffee on the cards as researchers crack arabica’s genetic code
Your morning cup of coffee could soon get even better, thanks to scientists who have mapped the genome of the arabica plant. ⌘ Read more

Fine-tuned models are now in limited public beta for GitHub Copilot Enterprise
Fine-tuned models empower organizations to receive code suggestions specifically tailored to their coding practices and internal languages.

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** A playground for sharing scrappy fiddles **
I shared some snippets of JavaScript in a recent blog post and was wicked irked that I didn’t have an easy way to share interactive code on my own thing…so… I made a totally static JavaScript playground for running little experiments and sharing scrappy fiddles!

It is pretty simple — it allows folks to enter and run JavaScript, includes a console so you can easily log thing … ⌘ Read more

There is a bug in yarnd that’s been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I’m running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like

YOUR_POD/external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://socialmphl.com/story19510368/doujin

and see a legitimate-looking page on YOUR_POD, with an HTTP code 200 (success). From that fake page you can even follow an external feed. Try it yourself, replacing “YOUR_POD” with the URL of any yarnd pod you know. Try following the feed.

I think URLs like this should return errors. They should not render HTML, nor produce legitimate-looking pages. This mechanism is ripe for DDoS attacks. My pod gets roughly 70,000 hits per day to URLs like this. Many are porn or other types of content I do not want. At this point, if it’s not fixed soon I am going to have to shut down my pod. @prologic@twtxt.net please have a look.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org ah, if only you were to finally clean up that code, and make that client widely available…! One can only dream, right? :-)

GitHub named a Leader in the Gartner first-ever Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants
This year, as part of its annual Magic Quadrant series, Gartner published a first-of-its-kind report analyzing the state of play in the AI Code Assistants market–and named GitHub a Leader.

The post [GitHub named a Leader in the Gartner first-ever Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants](https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-named-a-lead … ⌘ Read more