Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.9.1
This is mostly a bugfix release over version 1.9.0.

The main fix is the rust JID implementation that would behave incorrectly when
hashed if the JID contained non-ascii characters. This is an important issue as
using a non-ascii JID was mostly broken, and interacting with one failed in
interesting ways.

• The previously mentioned JID hash issue
  
• Various edge cases in the roster code
  
• One edge case in the MUC ( [XEP-0045](https: … ⌘ Read more

MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 Update Released with Fixes for Bugs & Security Issues
MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 has been released by Apple for Mac users running the Sequoia operating system. The update includes important bug fixes and security patches, and Apple recommends installing the update on all eligible devices. If your Mac is running macOS Ventura or macOS Sonoma, you will find an update to Safari 18.3.1 available instead … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03 … ⌘ Read more

10 People Who Are Only Famous Because of Their Death
Plenty of modern historical figures went unappreciated in their time. From Van Gogh to Emily Dickinson, sometimes it takes longer than one lifespan for people to come around. However, few famous people were only famous because of their deaths. This means that if they hadn’t died when or how they had, we almost certainly wouldn’t […]

The post [10 People Who Are Only Famous Because of Their Death](https://listverse.com/2025/03/1 … ⌘ Read more

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selsta posts February 2025 Monero dev report
selsta1 has posted a monthly CCS progress report2 for February 2025, which includes several Monero dev updates.

Milestone 3:
* v0.18.4.0 is code-ready and currently in testing phase
* Traced down a bug in a recently merged PR that is part of v0.18.4.0
* Handle the recent DDoS attempt on public nodes

Note that misc work is not explicitly mentioned in these updates. The full list of changes can be found on Github3’[4 … ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23230”>#230**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2302’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers March 2-9 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.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 and Matrix room … ⌘ Read more

On a scale of 1-10 how handsome is Hank? ⌘ Read more

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Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 17 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 17 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.

… ⌘ Read more

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Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 10 2025: 10 PRs, 0 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 (6)

monero-project/monero:

• #98261 crypto: add function sc_1() (jeffro256)
  
• #98272 crypto: add FCMP++ generators T, U, & V (jeffro256)
  
• #98283 crypto: add Ed25519->X25519 conversion functions ( … ⌘ Read more

John-Doggett releases ‘Monerod Node Setup Scripts’ v0.4.0
John-Doggett1 has released Monerod-Node-Setup-Scripts 2 version 0.4.03 with a bugfix for the certificate renewals script4 and various improvements:

This release fixes an issue with the watch_certificates_xmr.sh script that checks the certificate from caddy and copies it over to monerod. If you have an existing install using HTTPS, you must download the new watch_certificates_xmr.sh and … ⌘ Read more

SyntheticBird45 submits CCS proposal to implement native Tor support into Cuprate through Arti
SyntheticBird451 has submitted a CCS proposal2 looking to work for 2 months on Cuprate3 development with the goal of implementing native Tor support into cuprated through the arti-client crate 4:

Cuprate is currently in alpha version and a lot of features are planned on the roadmap up to beta phase. One of the features present on this … ⌘ Read more

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everoddandeven releases ‘Monero Daemon GUI’ v1.2.0
everoddandeven1 has released Monero node manager monerod-gui 2 version 1.2.0 Shadowness 3 with various upgrades, fixes and improvements:

Upgrade Electron to v35.0.0
Upgrade Angular to v19
Upgrade dependencies
TOR and I2P service
Private testnet tool
UI fixes and improvements
monerod settings fixes

Consult the Github repository2 for the complete changelog4, a demo … ⌘ Read more

MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 15 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 15th 2025 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.

The meeting’s discussion topics should be available on agenda.monerokon.org 3.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer4.

It is worth mentioning that a CCS proposal to partially fund this year’s event is … ⌘ Read more

Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 10, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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M5Stack Cardputer v1.1 Brings Upgraded Microcontroller and Improved Keyboard
M5Stack has released Cardputer v1.1, an upgraded version of its compact computing platform. The latest version introduces the StampS3A microcontroller, an improved antenna, and a more responsive keyboard, enhancing stability and usability. Additional refinements include optimized power consumption and better RGB LED control, improving overall efficiency. Cardputer v1.1 features the StampS3A, … ⌘ Read more

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Cake Wallet v4.23.3 pre-release available for testing
Cake Labs1 has released Cake Wallet beta version 4.23.32 for public beta testing:

This release brings a few minor bug fixes, migrates Quantex -> SwapTrade and re-enables them by default for swaps, and adds a new exchange called Kryptonim for buying and selling crypto in many jurisdictions.

Token whitelisting to better protect against scams
SwapTrade exchange enabled by default
UI enhancement ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/cake-wallet-v4.23.3-pre-release-available-testing/)

N1co1asB1ancon1 submits CCS proposal to develop and release ‘Monero Contract System’ v1
N1co1asB1ancon11 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 to finish developing the first version of Monero Contract System 3, a Rust web application which allows users to host their own arbitration/escrow platform:

People can create contracts like, “You will build me a website like X and Y in 1 month” or the what i think will be the most common “You will sell me 10 xmr for … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Birthright, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/06/birthright-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Výzva ÚSŽZ
Milé krajanky, milí krajania, na našej webovej stránke https://www.uszz.sk pribudla nová sekcia „Výročia”, kde si chceme spoločne pripomínať významné udalosti, osobnosti a okamihy z histórie slovenských komunít v zahraničí. Naším cieľom je postupne budovať databázu kľúčových historických míľnikov a zachovať tak dôležité príbehy pre budúce generácie. Máte tip na významné výročie pre rok 2025? Ak poznáte udalosti, spolky alebo osobnosti, ktoré by podľa Vás mali byť sú … ⌘ Read more

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 co-located event deep dive: OpenFeature Summit
Co-chairs: Michael Beemer, Jonathan Norris, Thomas PoignantApril 1, 2025London At the OpenFeature Summit, we want attendees to leave with a deep understanding of the latest trends and real-world use cases in feature flagging. This event is… ⌘ Read more

Rate my company’s adopted cat 1-10 ⌘ Read more

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Zen and the art of microcode hacking
Now that we have examined the vulnerability that enables arbitrary microcode patches to be installed on all (un-patched) Zen 1 through Zen 4 CPUs, let’s discuss how you can use and expand our tools to author your own patches. We have been working on developing a collection of tools combined into a single project we’re calling zentool. The long-term goal is to provide a suite of capabilities similar to binutils, but targeting AMD microcode instead of CPU mach … ⌘ Read more

I quit the news for 1 year ⌘ Read more

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Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 12 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 12th 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
  
• Possible intermediate hard fork before FCMP hard fork
  
• Research on sub … ⌘ Read more

For point 1 and others using the metadata tags. we have implemented them in yarnd as [lang=en][meta=data]

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 co-located event deep dive: Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day
Co-chairs: Rajas Kakodkar, Ricardo Rocha, Thiago Gil, Yuan TangApril 1, 2025London Cloud Native & Kubernetes AI Day brings together a diverse range of technical enthusiasts, open source contributors, practitioners, researchers and end users, all united in… ⌘ Read more

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Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 11 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, March 11 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 reposi … ⌘ Read more

b4n6_b4n6, not-a-money-printer propose bounties to make Monero GUI, RetoSwap, UnstoppableSwap ‘Whonix friendly’
b4n6_b4n61 and not-a-money-printer2 have proposed bounties3’4’5 to make monero-wallet-gui6, RetoSwap7, and UnstoppableSwap8 Whonix friendly 9:

”`
#1 Make monero-wallet-gui whonix friendly
Total Bounty: ~0.12 XMR (to date)

#2 Make reto swap whonix friendly
To … ⌘ Read more”`

Zima s knihou v Kysáči
Tradičné zimné putovné podujatie Slovenského vydavateľského centra (SVC) a Slovenského kultúrneho klubu z Báčskeho Petrovca po zastávke v Hložanoch zavítalo v nedeľu 2. marca 2025 do Kysáča. Včerajší literárny večer Zima s knihou sa v Kysáči tešil mimoriadnemu úspechu – nezostala voľná ani jedna stolička. Tento vydarený večer bol výsledkom výbornej organizačnej spolupráce Spolku kysáčskych žien a Spolku kysáčskych starobných penzistov, ktorého novou predsedníčkou sa … ⌘ Read more

Rate my mother’s adopted cat 1-10 ⌘ Read more

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Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 10 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 10 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.

… ⌘ Read more

selsta submits CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until end of May 2025
selsta1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 to continue working part-time on Monero development for 3 more months, until the end of May 2025:

Work for 30 hours per week over the next 3 months (from March to end of May) at a rate of 50€ / hour. At 210€ / XMR this makes ~93 XMR.

Total funding: 93 XMR.

ETA: (end of) May 2025.

The dev will continue testing and reviewing PR’s, Mone … ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23229”>#229**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2292’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers February 23-2 March 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.

Join the Revuo XMPP MUC5 and M … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.1
This release resolves an issue with Gajim’s preferences window and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!

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Gajim 2.0

A note for Windows users: At the time of writing, there are some issues with emoji rendering on Windows. That’s why there is no release of Gajim 2.0 for Windows yet. This issue should soon be resolved and we will post an update once Gajim 2.0 is released on Windows.

Rate my Penelope 1-10 ⌘ Read more

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SChernykh releases P2Pool v4.4
SChernykh1 has released P2Pool 2 version 4.43 with various new features and fixes.

New Features:
* Added RPC-SSL support for Monero node connections
* Removed deprecated --config command line parameter
* Faster initial sync (0.5-1 seconds saved on verification of blocks)
Bugfixes:
* Updated internal dependencies

The full list of changes since v4.3 is available on Github4.

Before using the software, you should v … ⌘ Read more

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 9 2025: 20 PRs, 9 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 (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #98211 Fix HTTP unit tests (broken with new Boost versions) (vtnerd)
  
• #98202 Add incoming only test (vtnerd)
  
• #98233 Add incoming only test [0.18] (vtnerd)
  
• **#9824 … ⌘ Read more

MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 8 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 8th 2025 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.

The meeting’s discussion topics should be available on agenda.monerokon.org 3.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer4.

It is worth mentioning that a CCS proposal to partially fund this year’s event is cu … ⌘ Read more

** Job posting **
I don’t write about work here. Not really as a rule, but out of habit.

It is a Saturday, and this morning at around 1 AM the federal government here in the U.S. fired my entire team, and the whole group they worked out of, 18f. This means that the team I was on is now just me. I was the only one not from 18f.

Nothing about this will increase efficiency or help anyone, at all.

If any of you beautiful RSS people are hiring senior level designers or qualitative researchers, please reach out and I can make introd … ⌘ Read more

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