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Monday assorted links:

VASA-1 - Microsoft Research

TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.

πŸ”— https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

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Cindy Lee Might Be the Future of Music | GQ

The buzziest indie album of the moment is a folder of files you can only get from a janky Geocities website. Drake is dropping new music on something called Krakenfiles.com. Chris Black wonders if the post-streaming era will look like Web 1.0.

πŸ”— https://www.gq.com/story/pulling-weeds-with-chris-black-cindy-lee-might-be-the-future-of-music

Sunday assorted links:

Quill - Your powerful rich text editor

πŸ”— https://quilljs.com/

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GitHub - conduition/lnaddrd: A self-hosted server to provide yourself with a Lightning Address.

A self-hosted server to provide yourself with a Lightning Address, by generating invoices from a remote LND instance. No third parties, at all. Just you, your machines, and your money.

πŸ”— https://github.com/conduition/lnaddrd

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GitHub - bordalix/helm-wallet

The lightning wallet even your grandma can use.

πŸ”— https://github.com/bordalix/helm-wallet

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cohost! - \DO NOT BUY HISENSE TV'S LOL (Or at least keep them offline)\

This time the problem was not DNS, it was the TV.

πŸ”— https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisense-t

Replying to Avatar Moel

Functionality wise, you copied nostr:npub1ajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36sswpzx3q , right?

Are they open source? Maybe there is more to learn from looking at their code πŸ€”

Well, I'm been doing submarine swaps way before Aqua πŸ˜‡

https://joaobordalo.com/articles/2023/11/30/buy-tbc-with-liquid.html

Yes, the code is open source and public domain. You can do whatever you want with it.

Announcing my latest pet project, Helm Wallet.

I believe there’s a huge gap between the ease of use of Wallet of Satoshi and the self-custody of Phoenix. To minimize this gap, I created a new web app, a wallet that has the self-custody of Phoenix and is easy to use as WoS.

Helm is a Liquid wallet that uses Boltz submarine swaps to disguise itself as a Lightning wallet that even your grandma can use.

But it has a cost.

All transactions must go on the Liquid chain and also Boltz must earn something for the service they provide, so there are fees to be paid:

- The minimum cost for sending a payment is around 200 sats;

- The average cost for sending **or receiving** a payment is around 400 sats plus 0.1% of the amount;

- Transactions between Helm wallets don’t pay Boltz fees but can take up to 1 minute to complete;

- Amounts are limited between 1.000 and 25.000.000 sats.

You can try it (testnet if you want) on https://helm-wallet.pages.dev/

Code is available at https://github.com/bordalix/helm-wallet

The web app is completely independent, no server required. You can clone it, build it and run it from your own computer. Everything runs on the browser.

Critics and suggestions are welcome.

Saturday assorted links:

Finney Freedom Prize - Human Rights Foundation

πŸ”— https://hrf.org/finney-prize/

Friday assorted links:

The Revolution of Money

The Revolution of Money delves into the captivating journey of money’s evolution, a narrative that unravels the intricate relationship between technology, history, and society at large. This book explores the pivotal role money plays as the backbone of our society’s most significant challenges and opportunities.

πŸ”— https://therevolutionofmoney.com/

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Top WHO Official Testifies: Vaccine Passports Were a Scam to Push Fake Covid Shots - Slay News

πŸ”— https://slaynews.com/news/top-who-official-testifies-covid-passports-scam-push-fake-mrna-shots/

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Visita virtual ColecciΓ³n 2023 - Museo Nacional del Prado

Pasea por el Museo recorriendo las plantas Baja, Primera y Segunda a travΓ©s de las panorΓ‘micas 360ΒΊ que permiten apreciar las obras y su disposiciΓ³n en las sala...

πŸ”— https://www.museodelprado.es/visita-virtual-coleccion-2023

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Fair Mints: The Mexican StandoffΒ  - The Bitcoin Manual

Be careful with scams and rug pulls

πŸ”— https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/fair-mints-mexican-standoff/

Thursday assorted links:

MarkdownDown

Convert any webpage to a clean markdown with images downloaded

πŸ”— https://markdowndown.vercel.app/

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GitHub - vulpemventures/docker-bitcoin-cat

Docker image for Bitcoin Core with OP_CAT enabled.

πŸ”— https://github.com/vulpemventures/docker-bitcoin-cat

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Safety Net - The ultimate protection against loss

Safety Net allows a Liana user to add a custodian key (or a multisig of custodian keys) that will only become valid AFTER all their other recovery options have failed.

πŸ”— https://wizardsardine.com/blog/safetynet/

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Stop Calling It MEV Β· BlueMatt's Blog

πŸ”— https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/04/16/stop-calling-it-mev/

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What the heck is CatVM?

A breakdown of Taproot Wizard's recent CatVM proposal, what it actually is, and what it could be useful for.

πŸ”— https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/what-the-heck-is-catvm

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Mailvelope: PGP for Gmail & Webmail

πŸ”— https://mailvelope.com/en

Wednesday assorted links:

A brief history of the colour orange

πŸ”— https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1780394314616422657

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Learn OAuth 2.0 by Building Your Own OAuth Client

Using typescript and express

πŸ”— https://annotate.dev/p/hello-world/learn-oauth-2-0-by-building-your-own-oauth-client-U2HaZNtvQojn4F

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Excelent covenants explanation

πŸ”— https://x.com/niftynei/status/1780300489596260668?t=cc8nY_xzBcYaxCdCspP7SQ&s=09

Tuesday assorted links:

HTML popover Attribute

A native modal system via the popover attribute

πŸ”— https://davidwalsh.name/html-popover-attribute

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Runes Protocol: A Casual Primer

πŸ”— https://learn.heyapollo.com/p/runes-protocol-primer

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Nostr Apps

πŸ”— https://www.nostrapps.com/

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Watch Free Movies Online | Fmovies

Watch online movies for free, watch movies free in high quality without registration. Just a better place for watching online movies for free.

πŸ”— https://ww4.fmovies.co/home/

Monday assorted links:

Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor in XZ | Securelist

Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor recently found in XZ, which is used in many popular Linux distributions and in OpenSSH server process.

πŸ”— https://securelist.com/xz-backdoor-story-part-1/112354/

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RT News | Livestream 24/7

RT News (censored by the UE) live stream on Rumble

πŸ”— https://rumble.com/v35waq4-rt-news-livestream-247.html

Sunday assorted links:

Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet Song

πŸ”— https://www.udio.com/songs/p66uVGEgifEBLdoR5Ttyue

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mikedilger.com

Nostr Gossip model explained

πŸ”— https://mikedilger.com/gossip-model/

Saturday assorted links:

Sonauto | Create hit songs with AI

Sonauto is an AI music editor that turns prompts, lyrics, or melodies into full songs in any style.

πŸ”— https://sonauto.ai/Home

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An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries

Learn how to use CSS container queries today.

πŸ”— https://ishadeed.com/article/css-container-query-guide

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Inheritance - The Bitcoin Hole

Compare inheritance services feature by feature: casa, jinca, liana, nunchuk, unchained

πŸ”— https://thebitcoinhole.com/inheritance

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Zero Sheets

Turn your Google Sheets spreadsheets into powerful APIs to rapidly develop prototypes, websites, apps and more.

πŸ”— https://www.zerosheets.com/

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GitHub - synonymdev/beignet

An instant, self-custodial Bitcoin wallet for JS devs. - synonymdev/beignet

πŸ”— https://github.com/synonymdev/beignet

Friday assorted links:

Udio | Make your music

Discover, create, and share music with the world.

πŸ”— https://www.udio.com/

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Airbtc

AirBnB by Bitcoiners, for Bitcoiners

πŸ”— https://airbtc.online/

Thursday assorted links:

Oh My Git!

An open source game about learning Git

πŸ”— https://ohmygit.org/

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How to Check Disk Health on Mac with smartctl

πŸ”— https://osxdaily.com/2024/04/10/how-to-check-disk-health-on-mac-with-smartctl/

Wednesday assorted links:

Testing HTML With Modern CSS: HeydonWorks

πŸ”— https://heydonworks.com/article/testing-html-with-modern-css/

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Webtag - A free text-based bookmarking.

πŸ”— https://webtag.io/

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What Makes a Great Software Engineer? (pdf)

πŸ”— https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/03/Paul-Li-MSR-Tech-Report.pdf

Tuesday assorted links:

MIT License text becomes viral β€œsad girl” piano ballad generated by AI | Ars Technica

\Permission is hereby granted\ comes from Suno AI engine that creates new songs on demand.

πŸ”— https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/mit-license-text-becomes-viral-sad-girl-piano-ballad-generated-by-ai/

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Moodist: Ambient Sounds for Focus and Calm

Moodist is a free and open-source ambient sound generator featuring 75 carefully curated sounds. Create your ideal atmosphere for relaxation, focus, or creativity with this versatile tool.

πŸ”— https://moodist.app/