Sunday assorted links:
Discover Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software – OpenAlternative
OpenAlternative is a platform that helps you find open source alternatives to popular software. We’ve curated some great open source alternatives to tools that your business requires in day-to-day operations.
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How We Bypassed Safari 17's Advanced Audio Fingerprinting Protection
Learn how Apple Safari 17's new anti-fingerprinting techniques impact audio fingerprinting methods. This article will cover how audio fingerprints are generated and provide a step-by-step breakdown of how to adapt traditional audio fingerprinting techniques for improved browser differentiation.
🔗 https://fingerprint.com/blog/bypassing-safari-17-audio-fingerprinting-protection/
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Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize awarded to three students
The contestants of the Vesuvius Challenge used artificial intelligence to read ancient scrolls damaged by a volcanic eruption.
Saturday assorted links:
Why does Bitcoin use energy?
Bitcoin uses energy to build a better world.
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What are Bitcoin covenants?
Let’s explore how Bitcoin covenants, CheckTemplateVerify (CTV) and CheckTXHASH could make your Bitcoin transactions more powerful.
🔗 https://bitbox.swiss/blog/what-are-bitcoin-covenants/
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csprng.xyz
Request randomness from Cloudflare's edge servers
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Harnessing chaos in Cloudflare offices
It has been about four years since we last wrote about LavaRand and during that time the story of how Cloudflare uses physical sources of entropy to add to the security of the Internet has continued to travel and be a source of interest to many. What was initially just a single species of physical entropy source – lava lamps – has grown and diversified.
🔗 https://blog.cloudflare.com/harnessing-office-chaos
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I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train – I've travelled 310,000 miles so far
Lasse travels 600 miles a day throughout Germany aboard Deutsche Bahn trains. He travels first class, sleeps on night trains, has breakfast in DB lounges and takes showers in public swimming pools and leisure centres, all using his unlimited annual railcard.
🔗 https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/03/spend-8-500-a-year-live-a-train-20388001/
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Astro App
Open source astrophotography tool for tracking planets and deep space objects: https://astro.sshh.io
Friday assorted links:
NilsIrl/dockerc: container image to single executable compiler
🔗 https://github.com/NilsIrl/dockerc
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Free Design Stuff
Free design resources. Find curated top quality design resources free for personal and commercial use. Accessible to everyone.
🔗 https://freedesignstuff.com/
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HeyPuter/puter: The Internet OS!
Puter is an advanced open-source desktop environment in the browser, designed to be feature-rich, exceptionally fast, and highly extensible. It can be used to build remote desktop environments or serve as an interface for cloud storage services, remote servers, web hosting platforms, and more.
🔗 https://github.com/HeyPuter/puter?tab=readme-ov-file
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Build AI bots with Zapier Central
Zapier Central is an experimental AI workspace where you can teach bots to work across 6,000+ apps.
Thursday assorted links:
nicobrenner/commandjobs: Job searching for software engineers, from the command line
🔗 https://github.com/nicobrenner/commandjobs
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We Hacked Google A.I. for $50,000 - Lupin & Holmes
🔗 https://www.landh.tech/blog/20240304-google-hack-50000/
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Generating a 3D map with OpenStreetMap and A-Frame | Programming | mary.codes
It's a proof-of-concept that I was really just using to see if I could (more or less) get accurate coordinates from OpenStreetMaps. However, the goal was never really to draw to a canvas. The goal is to draw the map in 3D.
🔗 https://mary.codes/blog/programming/generating_a_vr_map_with_osm_and_aframe/
Wednesday assorted links:
Introducing Taproot Swaps: Putting the \Fun\ Back into Refunds! 🥕🔁
Today we are stoked to announce Taproot Swaps, a long anticipated upgrade that enables more private swaps with a smaller chain footprint and finally does away with the annoying wait time for refunds.
🔗 https://blog.boltz.exchange/p/introducing-taproot-swaps-putting
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Elliptic Curve ‘Murmurations’ Found With AI Take Flight | Quanta Magazine
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/elliptic-curve-murmurations-found-with-ai-take-flight-20240305/
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Bad Money - Ancient Counterfeiters and Their Fake Coins
Ancient Counterfeiters and their counterfeit coinage has been with us and has been called the world’s “second oldest profession”
🔗 https://coinweek.com/bad-money-ancient-counterfeiters-and-their-fake-coins/
Tuesday assorted links:
BTC ATH World Map
Current Bitcoin Price vs Inflation adjusted (IMF data) 2021 ATH by country
🔗 https://sorukumar.github.io/ChartingExperiment/btcathinflation/
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The Bitcoin Course: Exploring Networks & Money
This course is now FREE for everyone. Use the code: SATOSHI. After many requests it was time to put all the educational bitcoin content I'd created over the years into a short, sharp, and digestible online course. There are many great introductory bitcoin courses out there. This however is aimed at bitcoiners who want to get better at communicating bitcoin in plain language to a broader audience (or perhaps professional network)
🔗 https://anilsaidso.gumroad.com/l/bitcoincourse/Satoshi
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Google's Culture of Fear
Inside the DEI hivemind that led to gemini's disaster
🔗 https://www.piratewires.com/p/google-culture-of-fear
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The Theorist Who Sees Math in Art, Music and Writing | Quanta Magazine
The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning a mathematical eye to literature.
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-theorist-who-sees-math-in-art-music-and-writing-20240112/
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Next Block
Bitcoin transaction fee estimator to get you to the next block.
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Wallets Directory stacker news ~bitcoin_beginners
🔗 https://stacker.news/items/448888
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You can now add a comment section to your site with Bhread | Bhread blog
Free comments for personal websites
Monday assorted links:
Reclaim your focus with ~12 lines of bash — The Autodidacts
Blocking distracting websites in hosts file
🔗 https://www.autodidacts.io/coldturkey-selfcontrol-freedom-leechblock-alternative-in-bash/
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Brave Wallet now supports Bitcoin | Brave
With the latest update of Brave on desktop (1.63), Brave Wallet users can now create Native SegWit Bitcoin accounts, which offer lower transaction fees and better error detection compared to other Bitcoin account types. Brave Wallet is now also fully equipped to send and receive from all types of Bitcoin addresses, including Legacy, Nested SegWit, Native SegWit, and Taproot, ensuring compatibility with third-party wallets.
Sunday assorted links:
BookPecker.com: 14509 books summarized in 5 bullet points
Discover your next read! Browse bullet point summaries of thousands of books, find books smilar to those you already own, and add new items to your reading list.
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Browserless
Headless browser automation, without the hosting headaches
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Modern CSS Tooltips And Speech Bubbles (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
Tooltips are a very common pattern used in CSS for years. There are a lot of ways to approach tooltips in CSS, though some evoke headaches with all the magic numbers they require. In this article, Temani Afif presents modern techniques to create tooltips with the smallest amount of markup and the greatest amount of flexibility.
🔗 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/03/modern-css-tooltips-speech-bubbles-part1/
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TSDiagram - Diagrams as code with TypeScript
Create diagrams and plan your code with TypeScript.
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badssl.com
Memorable site for testing clients against bad SSL configs. - chromium/badssl.com
Saturday assorted links:
ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs
We developed the jailbreak attack ArtPrompt, which leverages the poor performance of LLMs in recognizing ASCII art to bypass safety measures and elicit undesired behaviors from LLMs.
🔗 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11753.pdf
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European banks are scared of the digital euro. Here's how their secret lobbying could torpedo it - Follow the Money - Platform for investigative journalism
The launch of the digital euro could give every European a free, universal payment account. But this grand vision is at risk of being curtailed by a well-coordinated lobbying campaign of the banking industry. Banks want to make sure you will keep needing them – and they have EU officials’ ears.
🔗 https://www.ftm.eu/articles/banks-fear-digital-euro-secret-lobby
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BTC ATH World Map
An interactive visualization of where Bitcoin has retouched its previous ATH.
🔗 https://sorukumar.github.io/ChartingExperiment/btcath/
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Fiat Market Capitalizations
Major fiat currency market cap in BTC
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As banks buy up bitcoins, who else are the 'Bitcoin whales'? - BBC News
So what other organisations or individuals are Bitcoin whales, and what does the shift in wealth mean for the digital currency that was originally created as a peer-to-peer internet money?
🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68434579
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Lissy93/web-check: 🕵️♂️ All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website
Get an insight into the inner-workings of a given website: uncover potential attack vectors, analyse server architecture, view security configurations, and learn what technologies a site is using.\n\nCurrently the dashboard will show: IP info, SSL chain, DNS records, cookies, headers, domain info, search crawl rules, page map, server location, redirect ledger, open ports, traceroute, DNS security extensions, site performance, trackers, associated hostnames, carbon footprint. Stay tuned, as I'll ad...
Friday assorted links:
Testcontainers
Testcontainers is an opensource framework for providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
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jovandeginste/workout-tracker: A workout tracking web application for personal use (or family, friends), geared towards running and other GPX-based activities
A workout tracking web application for personal use (or family, friends), geared towards running and other GPX-based activities\n\nSelf-hosted, everything included.
🔗 https://github.com/jovandeginste/workout-tracker
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Implementing RSA from Scratch in JavaScript
RSA cryptography is a fundamental concept in modern encryption techniques, especially prevalent in web development for securing data transmission over networks. While many developers are familiar with the concept of RSA, understanding the underlying mathematical principles can be challenging. This article aims to demystify the math behind RSA encryption in the context of JavaScript.
🔗 https://coderoasis.com/implementing-rsa-from-scratch-in-javascript/
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Bitcoin Explorama
Dive into the world of Bitcoin with interactive and playful content. Learn what Bitcoin is, how it works, and its significance in today's world.
🔗 https://bitcoin-explorama.com/
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Home | mise-en-place
mise is a polyglot tool version manager. It replaces tools like asdf, nvm, pyenv, rbenv, etc.
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asdf
Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool
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How to love homebrew - llimllib notes
Homebrew is a package manager which a lot of people use, and as software that a lot of people use, a lot of people like to complain about.\n\nI'm not here to tell you not to complain about it, but I do want to share why I love homebrew, and how you might grow to - if not love it - at least find it a part of a productive workflow.
🔗 https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2024/02/How_to_love_homebrew.html
Bitcoin is now the 5th money base in the world (6th if counting gold).
It surpassed the British Pound, the oldest fiat currency in the world.
via https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-is-now-5th-largest-base-money/
It took one year for Satoshi to develop the first version of #Bitcoin
Thursday assorted links:
uBlog
A minimalist blog on nostr that allows anyone to easily create their own personal micro-blog.
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cloudflare/pingora: A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services.
A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services. - cloudflare/pingora
🔗 https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora
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pico.sh
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Why Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion was the longest year in history - BBC Future
To tame a hopelessly disorganised Roman calendar, Julius Caesar added months, took them away, and invented the leap year.
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The 7 most bizarre facts about leap day - Big Think
Leap day only comes once every four years, including in 2024. But the reason we have it, including when we do and don't, may surprise you.
🔗 https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/most-bizarre-facts-leap-day/
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ECDSA Nonce Reuse Attack | NotSoSecure
🔗 https://notsosecure.com/ecdsa-nonce-reuse-attack
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nostr event deleter
Bitcoin is eating the world.
nostr:note1l8lnza7jslxqdz4nfjwjg3l84zn2uje4tmjzprxkxvae99lqea4scxsxe5
Wednesday assorted links:
AI Infrastructure Landscape
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Airfoil – Bartosz Ciechanowski
In this article we’ll investigate what makes airplanes fly by looking at the forces generated by the flow of air around the aircraft’s wings. More specifically, we’ll focus on the cross section of those wings to reveal the shape of an airfoil
🔗 https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
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Which platforms support the Liquid Network? – Blockstream Help Center
The table below summarizes all the platforms known to provide Liquid-based services, with details of the features they provide.
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Color-pair Contrast Testing
Free color contrast analysis that will display the color contrast issues of a web page per WCAG 2.1 Guidelines
🔗 https://color.a11y.com/ContrastPair/
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Tuesday assorted links:
dockur/windows: Windows in a Docker container.
🔗 https://github.com/dockur/windows
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Hidden GitHub Commits and How to Reveal Them — Neodyme
We have created a tool for GitHub that can reveal commits that potentially contain sensitive information and are not accessible via the public Git history, but that may be of interest or were intentionally deleted.
🔗 https://neodyme.io/en/blog/github_secrets/
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Generating SVG Avatars From Identifiers - MadeByMe
🔗 https://madebyme.today/projects/generating-svg-avatars-from-identifiers/
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Cap'n Proto: Introduction
Cap’n Proto is an insanely fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. Think JSON, except binary. Or think Protocol Buffers, except faster.
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A Host of Notable COVID-19 Vaccine Adverse Events, Backed by Evidence | The Epoch Times
Some are widely acknowledged, like blood clots and myocarditis. Others are less publicly discussed.
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WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
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Cypher - Sovereign Webstack Building Space
A Free Bitcoin Only Selfhosted Wordpress & Shopify Alternative\n
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TwentyTwo Devices
Just bring your smartphone close to the Portal and it will power on: you can forget about cables and batteries to recharge.
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Firsty: Top eSIM Travel App for Global Mobile Data & Connectivity
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bitcoin-digest/bip39-same-words
Script to find valid mnemonics with one repeated word
🔗 https://github.com/bitcoin-digest/bip39-same-words
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Monday assorted links:
Online CSS Code Quality Analyzer - Project Wallace
This online analyzer takes your CSS and tells you exactly which areas should be improved.
https://www.projectwallace.com/css-code-quality
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Full OSINT – OSINT Tools Directory
Full OSINT focused on the most popular web-based Open Source Intelligence and Cybersecurity Tools.\n130 Web-enabled OSINT and Cybersecurity Tools.
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console.delight – Frontend Masters Boost
Everyone knows you can use console.log() to log text and variables to the console. Did you know you could also render (limited) CSS, SVGs, and even HTML in it?!?
https://frontendmasters.com/blog/console-delight/
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mozilla/readability: A standalone version of the readability lib
A standalone version of the readability lib.\nStrips away clutter like buttons, ads, background images, and videos while also letting you customize the layout and theme to fit your reading preferences
https://github.com/mozilla/readability?tab=readme-ov-file
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Facts about CSW's Involvement in Bitcoin
https://github.com/vbuterin/cult-of-craig/blob/master/README.md
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Announcing daily assorted links.
Made a shell script to fetch my latest bookmarks from https://pinboard.in and publish them on Nostr:
https://github.com/bordalix/pinlink
From now on, every day at 9 am GMT, it will publish something like this:
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Mastering Bitcoin UTXO Management
A Beginners Guide to Cost-Effective Transactions
https://tftc.io/bitcoin-utxo-management-guide-for-beginners/
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Interview with Ray Dillinger | Great Wall of Numbers
Note: the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper is this month. Below is a detailed interview with one of the first individuals to have interacted with Satoshi both in public and private: Ray Dillinger.
https://www.ofnumbers.com/2018/10/01/interview-with-ray-dillinger/
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This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.