Friday assorted links:
Abubakar Nur Khalil on X: A Bitcoinized Africa
Abubakar Nur Khalil talk, \A Bitcoinized Africa,\ from last week's Baltic Honeybadger 2024 conference \Africa will not only continue to show what Bitcoin can do but, more importantly, it is going to show what we can do with Bitcoin\
🔗 https://x.com/ihate1999/status/1829237139743355274
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Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
We discovered a serious vulnerability in the Known Crewmember (KCM) and Cockpit Access Security System (CASS) programs used by the Transportation Security Administration.
Thursday assorted links:
Fermat's Library | How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift annotated/explained version.
🔗 https://fermatslibrary.com/s/how-airplanes-fly-a-physical-description-of-lift#email-newsletter
I'm not sure if API requiring API keys are allowed.
You can add an API in the website via "+ Add API" and find out ;)
Cypherpunks don't give a fuck about dietary bullshit, tradwifes, seed oils, sunning your balls, etc.
They are too busy writing code.
Wednesday assorted links:
Free Public APIs
A collection of Free Public APIs for Students and Developers. Tested every single day.
Tuesday assorted links:
GitHub - oeo/ward
A personal file vault written in bash.
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Layer3 News
Nostr-powered AI news summaries by perspective
Monday assorted links:
CORS is Stupid - Kevin Cox
🔗 https://kevincox.ca/2024/08/24/cors/
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Hal Finney talking zero-knowledge proofs - YouTube
25-year old video shows Hal Finney talking zero-knowledge proofs
Sunday assorted links:
Bitcoin development philosophy
Bitcoin Development Philosophy is a guide for Bitcoin developers who already understand the basics of concepts and processes such as Proof-of-Work, block building, and the transaction life cycle, and who want to level up by gaining a deeper understanding of Bitcoin’s design trade-offs and philosophy. It should help new developers absorb the most important lessons of over a decade of Bitcoin development and public debate, while providing them with a useful context for evaluating new ideas (good o...
Feeling proud.
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Saturday assorted links:
Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
🔗 https://www.surveillancewatch.io/
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Being on The Semantic Web is easy, and, frankly, well worth the bother
Web 3.0 was not about the blockchain, thank god
Friday assorted links:
GitHub - baalimago/wd-41
Web-Development 41, a static web server with hot-reloads
🔗 https://github.com/baalimago/wd-41
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GitHub - wasi-master/13ft
A custom 12ft.io replacement.
🔗 https://github.com/wasi-master/13ft
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GitHub - CEREBRUS-MAXIMUS/Surfer-Data
Surfer is the world's first personal data scraper.
🔗 https://github.com/CEREBRUS-MAXIMUS/Surfer-Data?tab=readme-ov-file
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LangCSS - The AI Assistant for Tailwind Designs
Tailwind Designer, Online IDE with AI Assitance. Includes a vast library of built in controls, designs. Free demo.
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Mastering Typography In Logo Design — Smashing Magazine
Finding the right typeface for a logo is a challenge and can be a very time-consuming process that requires both creativity and a practical approach. Levi Honing provides the essential background and tools to enhance your typography journey and apply this knowledge to your logo design. Let’s dive deep to learn how to create a logo that is not only expressive but also purposeful and well-thought-out.
🔗 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2024/08/mastering-typography-in-logo-design/
Thursday assorted links:
Discrete Mathematics - An Open Introduction
🔗 https://discrete.openmathbooks.org/dmoi4.html
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Euclid's Proof that the Square Root of 2 is Irrational
Learn how Euclid proved that the square root of 2 is an irrational number.
🔗 https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/euclid-square-root-2-irrational.html
Interesting, according to this, every Norwegian citizen indirectly "owns" about $27 worth of bitcoin through their sovereign wealth fund.
Probably nothing.
https://bitcoinnews.com/adoption/norway-sovereign-wealth-fund-bitcoin/
Wednesday assorted links:
Wafris - Open Source Web Framework Firewalls
Wafris is a free and open source Web Application Firewall that identifies threats and stops attacks from within your favorite Web Framework, HTTP Server or Kubernetes Ingress Controller
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modern unix tool list - llimllib notes
🔗 https://notes.billmill.org/computer_usage/cli_tips_and_tools/modern_unix_tool_list.html
Tuesday assorted links:
.:: Phrack Magazine ::.
Issue 71 is out.
🔗 http://phrack.org/issues/71/1.html
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World in Dots | Dotted Maps Generator
Create vector dotted maps with custom options and download them as SVG or PNG files
🔗 https://www.worldindots.com/
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Introduction | Huddlers
Huddlers is a tool that dramatically simplifies the process of building high-performance Nostr apps. Huddlers is a caching service for Nostr that any developer can use in their client apps.
Exactly, it's interesting.
I don't intend to use it, for me code is free (and neutral), for the good and for the bad.
But it could be interesting for someone else.
Monday assorted links:
The Hippocratic License: An Ethical License for Open Source
The Hippocratic License 3.0 (HL3) aims to confront the potential harms and abuses technology can have on fundamental human rights. It empowers open source communities to establish a clear set of ethical standards that licensees must abide by in order to adopt their code.
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Animate.css | A cross-browser library of CSS animations.
Animate.css is a library of ready-to-use, cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and attention-guiding hints.
Sunday assorted links:
mpv.io
a free, open source, and cross-platform media player
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ElevenLabs: Free Text to Speech & AI Voice Generator | ElevenLabs
Create the most realistic speech with our AI audio in 1000s of voices and 32 languages. Pioneering research in Text to Speech and AI Voice Generation
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How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
I’ve won many marketing video contest promotions over the past decade using my proven techniques and tactics. This particular haul, however, was the first where I can give at least partial credit to the application of code and AI tools.
🔗 https://davekiss.com/blog/how-i-won-2750-using-javascript-ai-and-a-can-of-wd-40
Saturday assorted links:
Introduction - A Ninja's Handbook
This book is dedicated to all those good people who give their time and energy, and sometimes in some places, their freedom or even their lives, to do something they truly value. This is a book on anonymity and privacy in this lush forest full of data hunters called the internet.
🔗 https://zolagonano.github.io/a-ninjas-handbook/
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Automating my /now page | Akash Goswami
A deep dive into how I automated my now page on my personal website by creating a Go script and making use of GitHub Actions.
Friday assorted links:
Exclusive | A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage - WSJ
A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage