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.
🔗 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.
🔗 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
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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.
🔗 https://github.com/conduition/lnaddrd
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GitHub - bordalix/helm-wallet
The lightning wallet even your grandma can use.
🔗 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.
🔗 https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisense-t
I am dreaming of a time where we could put offers for liquid ₿ and Lightning channels on #nostr and earn a small % for our trouble. This way a wallet isn’t depending on a central exchange like nostr:npub1psm37hke2pmxzdzraqe3cjmqs28dv77da74pdx8mtn5a0vegtlas9q8970 🤔
That's a great idea.
Functionality wise, you copied nostr:npub1ajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36sswpzx3q , right?
Are they open source? Maybe there is more to learn from looking at their code 🤔
Well, I'm been doing submarine swaps way before Aqua 😇
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
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.
🔗 https://therevolutionofmoney.com/
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Top WHO Official Testifies: Vaccine Passports Were a Scam to Push Fake Covid Shots - Slay News
🔗 https://slaynews.com/news/top-who-official-testifies-covid-passports-scam-push-fake-mrna-shots/
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Visita virtual Colección 2023 - Museo Nacional del Prado
Pasea por el Museo recorriendo las plantas Baja, Primera y Segunda a través de las panorámicas 360º que permiten apreciar las obras y su disposición en las sala...
🔗 https://www.museodelprado.es/visita-virtual-coleccion-2023
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Fair Mints: The Mexican Standoff - The Bitcoin Manual
Be careful with scams and rug pulls
🔗 https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/fair-mints-mexican-standoff/
Thursday assorted links:
MarkdownDown
Convert any webpage to a clean markdown with images downloaded
🔗 https://markdowndown.vercel.app/
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GitHub - vulpemventures/docker-bitcoin-cat
Docker image for Bitcoin Core with OP_CAT enabled.
🔗 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.
🔗 https://wizardsardine.com/blog/safetynet/
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Stop Calling It MEV · BlueMatt's Blog
🔗 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.
🔗 https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/what-the-heck-is-catvm
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Mailvelope: PGP for Gmail & Webmail
Wednesday assorted links:
A brief history of the colour orange
🔗 https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1780394314616422657
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Learn OAuth 2.0 by Building Your Own OAuth Client
Using typescript and express
🔗 https://annotate.dev/p/hello-world/learn-oauth-2-0-by-building-your-own-oauth-client-U2HaZNtvQojn4F
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Excelent covenants explanation
🔗 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
🔗 https://davidwalsh.name/html-popover-attribute
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Runes Protocol: A Casual Primer
🔗 https://learn.heyapollo.com/p/runes-protocol-primer
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Nostr Apps
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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.
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.
🔗 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
Sunday assorted links:
Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet Song
🔗 https://www.udio.com/songs/p66uVGEgifEBLdoR5Ttyue
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mikedilger.com
Nostr Gossip model explained
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.
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An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries
Learn how to use CSS container queries today.
🔗 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
🔗 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.
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GitHub - synonymdev/beignet
An instant, self-custodial Bitcoin wallet for JS devs. - synonymdev/beignet
Friday assorted links:
Udio | Make your music
Discover, create, and share music with the world.
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Airbtc
AirBnB by Bitcoiners, for Bitcoiners
How is this leaderboard calculated?
Thursday assorted links:
Oh My Git!
An open source game about learning Git
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How to Check Disk Health on Mac with smartctl
🔗 https://osxdaily.com/2024/04/10/how-to-check-disk-health-on-mac-with-smartctl/
Wednesday assorted links:
Testing HTML With Modern CSS: HeydonWorks
🔗 https://heydonworks.com/article/testing-html-with-modern-css/
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Webtag - A free text-based bookmarking.
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What Makes a Great Software Engineer? (pdf)
🔗 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 “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI | Ars Technica
\Permission is hereby granted\ comes from Suno AI engine that creates new songs on demand.
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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.