Today’s date, 24.12.24 (using the German date format, DD.MM.YY), is special in a quirky mathematical way! Notice how 12 (the month) is exactly half of 24 (the day and the year). This symmetry adds an extra layer of charm to an already magical time of the year. It’s a rare alignment that makes this Christmas Eve uniquely memorable. ⌘ Read more

10 Adaptions of “A Christmas Carol” That Missed the Mark
Since the book’s release in 1843, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has been adapted over 300 times. With that many versions to choose from, there’s a tale that suits everyone’s needs. Whether you want your Scrooge to be a duck or a puppet, a cartoon or a human, a woman or a man, the list […]

The post [10 Adaptions of “A Christmas Carol” That Missed the Mark](https://listverse.com/2024/12/24/10-adaptions-of-a-christmas-c … ⌘ Read more

Btw @mckinley@mckinley – You may be interested (not sure if have the time though) in mbox.blue 🤔
Btw @mckinley – You may be interested ( not sure if have the time though) in mbox.blue 🤔 ⌘ Read more

My 400th Twtxt Post will be about you: wishing you, reader of my Twtxt feed, all the best for the coming year and most of all love, health, and that your projects and work may contribute to the greater good of all mankind. I will be taking a social-media break for a couple of weeks to enjoy this special time with my family. I hope you will be able to do this with your family and friends too.

If there hadn’t been a better time than now to leave the hatred filled cesspool network of right-wing craziness, aka X - then I wouldn’t know when would be.

Google Tells Courts How Google Should Be Punished (and Tried to Hide it)
Released Friday before Christmas – the ideal time to hide any announcement – in response to losing an antitrust suit, Google proposes no real changes to their company or search business. ⌘ Read more

tobtoht submits CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Feather Wallet and Monero core dev work
tobtoht1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 to continue full-time dev work on Feather Wallet 3 and Monero core codebase4 for the next 3 months:

I want to start off the year by clearing out a good chunk of the small-to-medium size issue/feature backlog for Feather. At the same time, making sure pending build system PRs5 for Mon … ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: ejabberd 24.12

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Here comes ejabberd 24.12, including a few improvements and bug fixes. This release comes a month and half after 24.10, with around 60 commits to the core repository alongside a few updates in dependencies.

Release Highlights:

• XEP-0484: Fast Authentication Streamlining Tokens: Reduce the time it takes for authentication. This helps with a faster start for cl … ⌘ Read more

How to Check Battery Life of iPhone
The iPhone has pretty great battery life, especially when they’re brand new devices, but like all electronic devices that are battery powered, over time and with usage the battery on iPhone will drain down. If you are new to iPhone, you may be wondering how you can check the remaining battery life of iPhone, and … Read More ⌘ Read more

Accelerate Your Docker Builds Using AWS CodeBuild and Docker Build Cloud
Learn how integrating Docker Build Cloud into a CI/CD pipeline using AWS CodeBuild can dramatically reduce build times and improve release frequency. ⌘ Read more

9fans is now a moderated list. It’ll take time, but I’m hopeful we can get it back to being a good source of discussion. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T124eb3ec9c594189-M83bd6a0d97304a9b5cffd91d/9fans-now-moderated

(#smk5x3a) @funbreaker The value is being able to communicate openly with one another and form social connections across the globe whilst at t …
@funbreaker @we.loveprivacy.club The value is being able to communicate openly with one another and form social connections across the globe whilst at the same time, avoiding all this centralized or even distributed networking bullshit. ⌘ Read more

j-berman submits CCS proposal for 4 months of Monero dev work
j-berman1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 to continue full-time development work on Monero (FCMPs++ integration) for 4 months:

Proposed funding: 360 XMR (0.25 XMR/hr + $65/hr).

ETA: 4 months (640 hours).

• Work towards a test network that includes Full-Chain Membership Proofs++
  
• Misc. high priority tasks as they arise
  

To learn more about Justin’s work consult the asso … ⌘ Read more

I’ve talked about how I do backups on unix a bunch of times, but someone asked again today and I realized I didn’t have it written down where I could point to. So I wrote a lab report: http://a.9srv.net/reports/index.html#vac-unix

sec-t 2024
[This has been in my draft folder since September. Sorry! It’s been a
few months with ups and downs, mostly downs. Energy to spend time on
blogging has been low. Hell, energy to do much of anything has been
low. I’m trying to clean out the drafts folder and will post more
stuff.]

I attended the security conference sec-t 2024 in Stockholm the other
week. I held a presentation during the Community Event, Wednesday
September 11: “Verifying the Tillitis TKey”.

The TKey uses a novel way of helpin … ⌘ Read more

METAR
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0xFFFC submits CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work
0xFFFC1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 to continue working full-time on Monero development for 3 more months (480 hours in total):

The bulk of my focus will be on opportunities related to performance improvement. To find out performance improvement opportunities a performance test suite is necessary for the Monero project. [..] A special thanks to all community members who are always available to help me wi … ⌘ Read more

[LTH] Monero Talk/MoneroTopia needs your help

We’re looking for a passionate Monero fan to help us find and reach out to guests for Monero Talk and MoneroTopia shows on a weekly basis. This is a small gig (we will tip!), not a full-time job—perfect for someone who knows Monero deeply, values freedom tech, lives the “opt-out” ethos, and is already an avid fan of our shows! We need someone reliable, proactive, and excited about helping us expand the reach of these shows. If this sounds like you, email us with the subject: “Help wi … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] Istanbul meetup sponsored by WizardSwap.io, organised by OrangeFren.com

- Date: Friday the 20th of December 2024 @ 18:00 local time
- Location: CoBAC Workshop, Sarıdemir, Ragıp Gümüşpala Cd. No:29, 34116 Fatih/İstanbul, Türkiye
- Tickets: free

Link: https://orangefren.com/event/20

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METAR
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So many tokens, so little time: Introducing a faster, more flexible byte-pair tokenizer
We released a new open source byte-pair tokenizer that is faster and more flexible than popular alternatives.

The post So many tokens, so little time: Introducing a faster, more flexible byte-pair tokenizer appeared first on [The GitHub Bl … ⌘ Read more

j-berman completes CCS proposal after 483 hours of Monero and Seraphis dev work
j-berman1 has published a third and final progress report2 for his full-time 2024 ( part 8) Monero (FCMPs++ integration) and Seraphis wallet library dev work CCS proposal3:

Update 3: 483 hours [..] FCMP++ wallet tree sync (via building the tree locally) is set up and integrated into wallet2.

Completed the task to start sync from arbitrary restore height N
Did ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/j-berman-completes-monero-dev-work-2024-part-8-ccs/)

Al “Slop” Bug Reports Hurting Python, Curl, & Other Open Source Projects
“Low-quality, spammy, and LLM hallucinated security reports” taking time away from real bugs and features. ⌘ Read more

Tasmanian flower farm open for the public to pick their own for the first time
Pick your own, it’s a popular activity to do over summer  especially with fruit ⌘ Read more

We had a great weekend overall. N. loves ice-skating and we had a nice time with friends today playing a round of bowling and visiting the Dussy christmas market.

SHABAZZ PALACES – TIME KNOWS ME
An animated film by Joe Garber.

Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Added TwtHash hashes to every message on my personal Twtxt HTML renderer. Code is not yet ready for prime-time. Need to work out some kinks still.

**(#7yfkzjq) * Page size 1MB

• Median 50 pages per query
  

• 80% pages cached
  

• 200us SSD reads
  

• 100us Memory reads
  

• Query time:
  

  • (50x0.80x10 …**
    

• Page size 1MB

• Median 50 pages per query

• 80% pages cached

• 200us SSD reads

• 100us Memory reads

• Query time:

  • (50x0.80x100)+(50x0.20x200)‎ = 6,000

  • 6000us

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Go 語言中的併發模式
Go 語言以其併發性和輕量級的 goroutine 而聞名，學習如何使用和處理它們是最具挑戰性的任務。在本文中，我將展示一些併發模式及其使用場景，以幫助您識別所需場景的模式。Goroutine————package mainimport (    ”fmt”    ”time”)func main() {    go sayHello() // 啓動goroutine    tim ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Advent of Code 2024

Like every year, I start the challenge with the best attitude and love of being an Elixir programmer. Although I know that at some point, I will go to the “what is this? I hate it” phase, unlike other years, this time, I am committed to finishing Advent of Code and, more importantly, sharing it with you.

I hope you enjoy this series of December posts, where we will discuss the approach for each exercise. … ⌘ Read more

**Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served d …**
Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served directly out of memory instead of going to the SSD). The median is 50 distinct disk pages for a query to gather its query results (e.g. InnoDB pages in MySQL). What is the expected average query time from your database?

Share your solution via Twtxt … ⌘ Read more

China is on a collision course with Trump. It just fired a warning shot
China has not wasted any time responding to the latest US attempt to restrain its development of a crucial industry. It was an unusual move and may be a sign of things to come. ⌘ Read more

SNeedlewoods completes first part-time Monero dev work CCS
SNeedlewoods1 has posted a Monero dev update2 after working part-time on Monero development for 1 month (~65 hours) during their first CCS proposal3:

Thanks for all the support from CCS coordinators, upvoters, donors and dev colleagues. It’s an honor to be able to work with you. [..] Will continue to work on the wallet API and will try to solve review comments ASAP, but since I’ll go take some days off … ⌘ Read more

vtnerd completes 2024 Q3 Monero dev work CCS
vtnerd1 has posted a third and final progress report2 for their full-time 2024/Q3 Monero development work CCS proposal3:

The bulk of the time was making LWS HTTP client requests asynchronous4 - the scanner, exchange rates, and /login are no longer blocked by I/O. [..] I’ve probably missed a few things, this was a somewhat busy month of work.

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• LWS /get_random_outs is also now asynchronous
  
• … ⌘ Read more”`

❤️ 🎶: FLOWING IN THE TIME by Jeon Yu Jin

Cyber Monday Apple Deals: AirPods Pro for $154, AirTags 4-pack $70, Apple Watch 10 for $329, iPads from $259, & More
Cyber Monday is a great time to get some huge discounts on popular Apple products through Amazon, who consistently offers some of the best deals out there on new Apple gear. From huge discounts on AirPods Pro, to AirTags, MacBook Air, iPad, and Apple Watch, check out some of the available deals below. AirPods P … ⌘ Read more

Every time you use ChatGPT, half a cup of water goes to waste
Tech giants including OpenAI, Meta and Google are being urged to tackle AI’s dirty secret – its massive power problem. ⌘ Read more

My November ‘24 in Review
Happy first Advent everyone! November is now over and the last month of 2024 has begun. So it’s time to take another brief look back at the past month. ⌘ Read more

@eapl.mx@eapl.mx Yes, the idea is to add User Agent support to #Timeline.
Right now it just adds every request to a growing log file, but I have also been working on a way to analyse it, so it only saves the time of the latest request.
I’m not sure how to make it part of timeline itself, since it requeses that you redirect/rewrite from twtAgent.php to the acctual twtxt.txt
Help with making Timeline send proper User Agents to others would be much appreciated:)

(#gdmjfiq) But look at the number of times it crashes back down again something chronic 🤣
But look at the number of times it crashes back down again something chronic 🤣 ⌘ Read more

@johanbove@johanbove.info Thanks, I’m glad you like it.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de There was no time for discussion just after the presentation, but I had a chat with some folks later.

(#vriijuq) @xuu I mean by the time you’ve read this book you’ll have completed all of Advent of Code 🤣
@xuu @txt.sour.is I mean by the time you’ve read this book you’ll have completed all of Advent of Code 🤣 ⌘ Read more

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

Work for 30 hours per week over the next 3 months (from December to end of Feburary) at a rate of 50€ / hour. At 150€ / XMR this makes ~130 XMR.

Total funding: 130 XMR.

ETA: (end of) February 2025.

The dev will continue … ⌘ Read more

Second Stage
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Its time to brush up on your competitive programming skills!

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf

The Time Travel Paradox You’ve Never Heard Of ⌘ Read more

Go 1-23 Timer Channel 的改變
官方的介紹。https://go.dev/wiki/Go123Timer Go 1.23 引入了一個新的實現方案，用於由 time.NewTimer、time.After、time.NewTicker 和 time.Tick 創建的基於通道的定時器。這個新實現帶來了兩項重要改變：未停止但不再被引用的定時器和週期計時器現在可以被垃圾回收。在 Go 1.23 之前，未停止的定時器在觸發之前無法被垃圾回 ⌘ Read more

Queensland’s tougher tobacco laws enforced for the first time as stores ordered to close for 72 hours
Authorities have used new closure powers to shut down three Bundaberg retailers suspected of selling illegal “chop chop” tobacco and vapes as the laws are enforced in Queensland for the first time. ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Given that I haven’t posted in so long, my lines of twtxt per unit time average is probably lower than most! I’m a bursty twtxter.