nym

primal.net/nym

I am a Bitcoin contributor and privacy enthusiast

Public Key

npub1hn4zhxzsd5w4m5kvq326gqnsrc6zcakhparw8pee4tw7wlxw70ysawhtl5

NIP-05 Address

nym@nostr.fan

NIP-57 Address

connectivitylevitating538097@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqste63tnpgx682a6txqg4dyqfcpudpvwmts73hrsuu64h080n808jgqw47xs

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2025-01-28 18:39:50

The Human Brain
https://m.primal.net/OElL.png

2025-01-27 02:14:22

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1. Foreign Cinema
2. Kokkari Estiatorio
3. Nopa
4. Liholiho Yacht Club
5. Cotogna
6. Zuni Café
7. The Progress

2025-01-25 07:53:44

https://m.primal.net/NzJX.jpg

2025-01-24 16:43:47

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Save my cat!

2025-01-24 00:04:11

A QR code that sends you to a different source based on the angle
https://mstdn.social/@isziaui/113874436953157913
Playing with the idea of "different perspectives on the same story"!
A QR code that sends you to a different source based on the angle.
![](https://m.stacker.news/74376)
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/861849

2025-01-23 08:24:38

API Size Matters
https://apichangelog.substack.com/p/api-size-matters
One-size-fits-all doesn't apply to APIs. Instead, they come in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Even if it's true that during design time people try to come up with small APIs, over time they tend to grow. By size, I'm referring to the number of paths that REST APIs have, and not any other measure like the number of parameters, or the length of the responses. So, what can you consider a "normal" size for an API?
![](https://m.stacker.news/74196)
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/860964

2025-01-23 07:33:42

A Look Back at 2024: F-Droid's Progress and What’s Coming in 2025
https://f-droid.org/2025/01/21/a-look-back-at-2024-f-droids-progress-and-whats-coming-in-2025.html
With 2024 now behind us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the growth and achievements we accomplished as a community last year, and celebrate the incredible support we received from the FOSS community throughout the journey.
This year has been a milestone for us, with significant strides in decentralizing app distribution, expanding the F-Droid ecosystem, and solidifying our infrastructure. All of these advancements were made possible thanks to donations, grants, our volunteers and regular contributors. So thank you again to everyone who helped make 2024 another great year for F-Droid. Now let’s take a closer look at what we accomplished.
One of the most important initiatives we worked on in 2024 was the continued development of our app decentralization efforts. Our aim is to make F-Droid a more robust and accessible platform, making further in-roads into the hold Big Tech currently has on app distribution. Building on the work we started in 2022, as a part of the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web grant, we continued to make substantial progress this year in providing developers and end-users with more options to distribute their apps through a decentralized, equitable and privacy-oriented process. The goal for this project is to enable individuals and organizations to mirror and distribute F-Droid apps in a community-driven fashion, reducing reliance on centralized services. This work ties into a larger vision of creating a truly open-source ecosystem for Android apps that is not governed by proprietary companies.
In 2024 we completed the following infrastructure upgrades:
- Broke out and overhauled core client logic around publishing and consuming repositories.
- Made client logic into libraries to make it easy to embed repositories in any app that needs it.
- Added support for mirroring repositories onto both IPFS and Filecoin.
- Added support in F-Droid client to use mirrors and repositories hosted on IPFS and Filecoin.
- Improved F-Droid client “whitelabel builds”.
- Enhanced F-Droid client’s existing “nearby” and “app swap” capabilities.
- Updated F-Droid’s Repomaker tool (for easy “point and click” curation and publishing of app repos) and add support for IPFS publishing.
- Supported iOS apps and progressive web apps (PWA) as packages that can be shipped via repositories.
2024 marked the end of this grant period, however the tools, features and policies established within the scope of the grant, will continue to be developed thanks to donations and other funders who are committed to further decentralizing app distribution.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/860938

2025-01-23 03:00:16

$47M Bitcoin wallet linked to Silk Road founder re-surfaces after a decade
https://cryptoslate.com/47m-bitcoin-wallet-linked-to-silk-road-founder-re-surfaces-after-a-decade/
Conor Grogan, a Director at Coinbase, has identified 430 BTC distributed across various wallets potentially tied to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace.
These Bitcoin holdings, untouched for over a decade, are estimated to be worth $47 million based on current market prices.
In a Jan. 22 post on X (formerly Twitter), Grogan pointed out that these funds are not among the more than 100,000 BTC seized by US authorities during Silk Road’s 2013 shutdown.

2025-01-22 02:23:28

A platform that moulds to your needs
https://xenodium.com/a-platform-that-moulds-to-your-needs
Emacs users may be known for bringing in all sorts of diverse workflows into their beloved text editor. From the outside, I get how odd this may seem. We often treat our text editor as a platform of sorts to do our email, web browsing, calendars, project management, chat… the list goes on.
Take email, as an example. Back in 2018 I thought "managing email from Emacs… surely that's crazy-talk", yet I gave it a try just in case. 7 years later and I never looked back. I still use the excellent mu4e client.
As you become more accustomed to Emacs, you may find yourself wishing you could navigate other tasks just as efficiently. But this doesn't happen right away. The editor starts moulding to your needs, initially as you copy others's code/configurations, but this can only take you so far. Emacs truly does mould to your own needs, once you start learning a little elisp.
When comparing elisp to modern languages, one may be tempted to dismiss it as a niche language from another era. While both of those things may be true, its moulding and glueing capabilities remain just as relevant and powerful today, even in the LLM era.
Take a random workflow like extracting vocabulary from a Japanese class paper handout. While it may seem far-fetched for Emacs to handle this, it's actually fairly straightforward with a little elisp glue. Often, this consists of finding some crucial utilities and glueing them up.
![](https://m.stacker.news/74054)
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/859564

2025-01-20 05:21:19

Welcome aboard!
#note1zew…2akm

2025-01-19 05:19:08

There you are.
#note1kxt…2e6a

2025-01-18 22:27:52

More than 1,100 inmates help Cal Fire battle fires for less than $30 a day
https://abc7.com/post/inmates-work-less-30-day-help-cal-fire-battle-eaton-palisades-fires/15813591/
Sal Almanza has worked 24-hour shifts in grueling terrain, cutting fire lines and hauling away brush trying to keep ahead of fires that have devastated several Los Angeles neighborhoods. But when the fires are finally out, he won't be going back to his family: He'll be returning to the prison "fire camp" where he's serving time for drunken driving that injured someone.
"I wanted to do something positive while I was here," the 42-year-old said. "Something that would contribute back to the community and just help me feel better about my situation and right the wrongs that I did."
![](https://m.stacker.news/73603)
Over 1,100 California inmates have been working around the clock in challenging conditions - including howling winds and toxic smoke - to help Cal Fire battle the Eaton and Palisades fires, the largest and most destructive of about a half-dozen fires that burned in the Los Angeles area in the past two weeks.
They become firefighters for the chance to cut time off their sentences, to get outside the prison walls and for training that might help them land a job once they're out.
But some say the inmates, many earning less than $30 a day for their efforts, deserve better after risking their lives: to be paid on par with other firefighters.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/855432

2025-01-18 19:57:47

Looking for a psychological mindfuck movie to watch #asknostr

2025-01-18 17:07:40

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Awesome, thanks!

2025-01-18 17:07:09

@nprofile…ufzv @nprofile…cvv9 @nprofile…lldz @nprofile…twce Steeleye Span 1970
https://m.primal.net/Nmib.png

2025-01-18 17:04:26

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Nice album. Steeleye Span 1970. @nprofile…cvv9 @nprofile…lldz

2025-01-18 16:57:38

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@nprofile…dvve

2025-01-18 05:39:23

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What is the pricing?

2025-01-18 05:36:51

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What is Openvibe?

2025-01-18 05:34:50

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Following

2025-01-18 04:35:45

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Never heard of it

2025-01-18 04:32:31

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You are Goma.

2025-01-18 02:34:17

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Are you?

2025-01-17 18:19:04

What are the best Nostr and Bitcoin marketplaces now? #asknostr

2025-01-16 04:47:12

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Where did you get that? Would love one.

2025-01-16 04:45:51

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Mine has a sword in the handle.

2025-01-16 01:27:20

US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal And Other Foods
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-15/us-fda-to-ban-red-dye-no-3-rfk-went-after-due-to-cancer-link
US health officials banned the artificial food coloring Red No. 3, which has been linked to cancer and is currently in scores of products from candy to cold medicine.
The dye will no longer be allowed in US food starting Jan. 15, 2027, according to a Food and Drug Administration document posted online. Drugmakers who use the artificial coloring will have until Jan. 18, 2028 to reformulate their products, the agency said.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/852003

2025-01-15 21:07:40

UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
https://fortune.com/2025/01/15/ftc-pbms-unitedhealth-brian-thompson-cvs-caremark-cigna-pharmacy-benefit-managers/
UnitedHealth Group is charging patients a markup for key life-saving drugs that could easily exceed their cost by a factor of ten or more, according to findings from the Federal Trade Commission.
The report, which levels the same allegations at CVS and Cigna, is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system and comes on the heels of last month’s shocking murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The U.S. is notorious for incurring the highest costs per capita of any wealthy nation, yet failing to achieve an even remotely equivalent improvement in patient outcomes versus Europe’s social market-based economies.
Critics argue that is due largely to the highly opaque manner in which needless markups are hidden to conceal inefficiencies that serve various vested interests. These include, but are not limited to, the big three drug middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
According to the FTC report, UnitedHealth’s OptumRx, along with Cigna’s Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, were able to collectively pocket $7.3 billion in added revenue above cost during the five year period of the study through 2022.
“The Big 3 PBMs marked up numerous specialty generic drugs dispensed at their affiliated pharmacies by thousands of percent, and many others by hundreds of percent,” it concluded.
A thousand percent increase in the price of a drug that costs $10 wholesale would result in a retail price of $110.
This markup rate applied to 22% of the specialty therapies examined, including Imatinib, a generic used to treat leukemia, or non-oncological Tadalafil for pulmonary hypertension. Others such as Lamivudine needed by HIV-positive patients were nearly quadruple the price of their acquisition cost.
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been conducting Congressional hearings in an attempt to shed light on the problems posed by these drug middlemen as well as drugmakers themselves.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/851739

2025-01-15 14:13:54

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GM Big D

2025-01-15 03:48:55

#Icomeinpeace https://m.primal.net/NhHT.png

2025-01-15 03:44:30

The slow death of TuxFamily
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1004988/ac2c9efe030ffed6/
TuxFamily is a French free-software-hosting service that has been in operation since 1999. It is a non-profit that accepts "any project released under a free license", whether that is a software license or a free-content license, such as CC-BY-SA. It is also, unfortunately, slowly dying due to hardware failures and lack of interest. For example, the site's download servers are currently offline with no plan to restore them.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/850794

2025-01-15 02:41:14

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GN Joe

2025-01-15 02:39:06

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Thank you

2025-01-15 02:38:46

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Thanks!

2025-01-15 02:32:40

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Me too! Thanks for the zap 😉

2025-01-15 02:29:36

The Great Unpermissioning
https://primal.net/sooly/The-Great-Unpermissioning-vjw1o5
It starts with a click: “Do you agree to our terms and conditions?”
You scroll, you click, you comply. A harmless act, right? But what if every click was a surrender? What if every "yes" was another link in the chain binding you to a life where freedom requires approval?
This is the age of permission. Every aspect of your life is mediated by gatekeepers. Governments demand forms, corporations demand clicks, and algorithms demand obedience. You’re free, of course, as long as you play by the rules. But who writes the rules? Who decides what’s allowed? Who owns your life?
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/850753

2025-01-15 02:21:44

Good evening, Nostriches.
https://m.primal.net/NhCY.png

2025-01-13 23:43:01

@nprofile…0ajg you mentioned on your latest pod you could just use a Coldcard Q, three batteries, and tap-signer for a completely air-gapped Colcard. Do you have a guide or video using a high security setup like that, or air-gapped computer, could be in the same video. #asknostr

2025-01-12 01:24:06

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That looks good! What is Olas?

2025-01-02 18:05:26

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If not #replyGuy , someone else would have tested the system.

2025-01-02 17:51:25

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Engineers love fiddling and exploring settings menus.

2025-01-02 17:19:07

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What is #31days

2025-01-02 15:11:27

6 AI-Related Security Trends to Watch in 2025
https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/6-ai-related-security-trends-watch-2025
# Generative Artificial Intelligence and Security: Key Trends and Concerns
Most industry analysts expect organizations will accelerate efforts to harness generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) in a variety of use cases over the next year.
Typical examples include customer support, fraud detection, content creation, data analytics, knowledge management, and, increasingly, software development. A recent survey of 1,700 IT professionals conducted by Centient on behalf of OutSystems had 81% of respondents describing their organizations as currently using GenAI to assist with coding and software development. Nearly three-quarters (74%) plan on building 10 or more apps over the next 12 months using AI-powered development approaches.
While such use cases promise to deliver significant efficiency and productivity gains for organizations, they also introduce new privacy, governance, and security risks. Here are six AI-related security issues that industry experts say IT and security leaders should pay attention to in the next 12 months.
## AI Coding Assistants Will Go Mainstream — and So Will Risks
Use of AI-based coding assistants, such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and OpenAI Codex, will go from experimental and early adopter status to mainstream, especially among startup organizations. The touted upsides of such tools include improved developer productivity, automation of repetitive tasks, error reduction, and faster development times. However, as with all new technologies, there are some downsides as well. From a security standpoint these include auto-coding responses like vulnerable code, data exposure, and propagation of insecure coding practices.
> "While AI-based code assistants undoubtedly offer strong benefits when it comes to auto-complete, code generation, re-use, and making coding more accessible to a non-engineering audience, it is not without risks," says Derek Holt, CEO of Digital.ai.
The biggest is the fact that the AI models are only as good as the code they are trained on. Early users saw coding errors, security anti-patterns, and code sprawl while using AI coding assistants for development, Holt says.
> "Enterprises users will continue to be required to scan for known vulnerabilities with [Dynamic Application Security Testing, or DAST; and Static Application Security Testing, or SAST] and harden code against reverse-engineering attempts to ensure negative impacts are limited and productivity gains are driving expect benefits."
## AI to Accelerate Adoption of xOps Practices
As more organizations work to embed AI capabilities into their software, expect to see DevSecOps, DataOps, and ModelOps — or the practice of managing and monitoring AI models in production — converge into a broader, all-encompassing xOps management approach, Holt says.
The push to AI-enabled software is increasingly blurring the lines between traditional declarative apps that follow predefined rules to achieve specific outcomes, and LLMs and GenAI apps that dynamically generate responses based on patterns learned from training data sets, Holt says. The trend will put new pressures on operations, support, and QA teams, and drive adoption of xOps, he notes.
> "xOps is an emerging term that outlines the DevOps requirements when creating applications that leverage in-house or open source models trained on enterprise proprietary data," he says.
> "This new approach recognizes that when delivering mobile or web applications that leverage AI models, there is a requirement to integrate and synchronize traditional DevSecOps processes with that of DataOps, MLOps, and ModelOps into an integrated end-to-end life cycle."
Holt perceives this emerging set of best practices will become hyper-critical for companies to ensure quality, secure, and supportable AI-enhanced applications.
## Shadow AI: A Bigger Security Headache
The easy availability of a wide and rapidly growing range of GenAI tools has fueled unauthorized use of the technologies at many organizations and spawned a new set of challenges for already overburdened security teams.
One example is the rapidly proliferating — and often unmanaged — use of AI chatbots among workers for a variety of purposes. The trend has heightened concerns about the inadvertent exposure of sensitive data at many organizations.
Security teams can expect to see a spike in the unsanctioned use of such tools in the coming year, predicts Nicole Carignan, vice president of strategic cyber AI at Darktrace.
> "We will see an explosion of tools that use AI and generative AI within enterprises and on devices used by employees," leading to a rise in shadow AI, Carignan says.
> "If unchecked, this raises serious questions and concerns about data loss prevention as well as compliance concerns as new regulations like the EU AI Act start to take effect," she says.
Carignan expects that chief information officers (CIOs) and chief information security officers (CISOs) will come under increasing pressure to implement capabilities for detecting, tracking, and rooting out unsanctioned use of AI tools in their environment.
## AI Will Augment, Not Replace, Human Skills
AI excels at processing massive volumes of threat data and identifying patterns in that data. But for some time at least, it remains at best an augmentation tool that is adept at handling repetitive tasks and enabling automation of basic threat detection functions.
The most successful security programs over the next year will continue to be ones that combine AI's processing power with human creativity, according to Stephen Kowski, field CTO at SlashNext Email Security+.
> "The key is achieving the right balance where AI handles high-volume routine detection while skilled analysts investigate novel attack patterns and determine strategic responses."
## Attackers Will Leverage AI to Exploit Open Source Vulns
Venky Raju, field CTO at ColorTokens, expects threat actors will leverage AI tools to exploit vulnerabilities and automatically generate exploit code in open source software.
> "Even closed source software is not immune, as AI-based fuzzing tools can identify vulnerabilities without access to the original source code. Such zero-day attacks are a significant concern for the cybersecurity community," Raju says.
## Verification, Human Oversight Will Be Critical
Organizations will continue to find it hard to fully and implicitly trust AI to do the right thing.
> "Trust in AI will remain a complex balance of benefits versus risks, as current research shows that eliminating bias and hallucinations may be counterproductive and impossible," SlashNext's Kowski says.
The practical approach is to implement robust verification systems and maintain human oversight rather than seeking perfect trustworthiness, he says.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/833647

2025-01-01 00:50:56

Here's Your Guide to The Must-See Astronomy Events of 2025
https://www.sciencealert.com/heres-your-guide-to-the-must-see-astronomy-events-of-2025
| Date(s) | Event | Description |
|-------------------|-------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| January 3 | **Quadrantid Meteor Shower** | Peaks with up to 120 meteors per hour; favorable viewing conditions expected. |
| January 13-14 | **Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon)** | Earth's shadow causes the Moon to appear reddish; visible from various regions. |
| February 28 | **Planetary Parade** | All seven other planets align in Earth's sky; a rare visual spectacle. |
| March | **Saturn's Rings Disappear** | Saturn's rings appear edge-on from Earth, making them seem to vanish; occurs every 13-16 years. |
| March 13-14 | **Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon)** | Second total lunar eclipse of the year; Moon appears reddish due to Earth's shadow. |
| July | **Solar Maximum Peak** | Increased solar activity leads to more intense Northern Lights, potentially visible at lower latitudes. |
| August 11-12 | **Venus and Jupiter Conjunction** | Venus and Jupiter appear very close in the night sky; visible to the naked eye. |
| September 7-8 | **Total Lunar Eclipse (Blood Moon)** | Another opportunity to witness the Moon's reddish hue during Earth's shadow. |
| October 7 | **Supermoon** | Full Moon appears larger and brighter; first of three supermoons in 2025. |
| November 5 | **Supermoon** | Second supermoon; largest and brightest since 2019. |
| December 4 | **Supermoon** | Final supermoon of the year; offers spectacular lunar views. |
| December 14 | **Geminids Meteor Shower** | Annual meteor shower peaking with up to 160 meteors per hour; clear skies enhance viewing. |
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/831785

2024-12-31 21:39:11

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Did you use OpenTimeStamps to timestamp your work?

2024-12-31 21:21:56

Vitalik Buterin donates $170K to Tornado Cash developers’ legal fund
https://cointelegraph.com/news/vitalik-buterin-donates-tornado-cash-developers-alexey-pertsev-roman-storm
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has made a significant contribution toward a legal defense fund for Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Alexey Pertsev.
According to a Dec. 31 X post from the Juicebox project Free Pertsev and Storm, Buterin donated 50 Ether (ETH) — roughly $170,000 at the time of publication — to Storm’s and Pertsev’s legal aid.
Storm reported that the contribution was roughly 25% of the total $650,000 available to the Tornado Cash developer through JusticeDAO ahead of his trial.
In 2022, Dutch authorities arrested and charged Pertsev for his involvement with the cryptocurrency mixing service. In May 2024, he was found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to more than five years in prison, though Pertsev will appeal the verdict.
United States prosecutors later charged Storm and fellow developer Roman Semenov with money laundering, sanctions violations, and fraud related to their roles with Tornado Cash.
Storm was given bail conditions ahead of his trial, scheduled to begin on April 14, while Semenov remained at large at the time of publication.
Many of the criminal charges against the Tornado developers seemed to stem from the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control adding the mixer to its Specially Designated Nationals list in August 2022. US officials said at the time that bad actors, including North Korean hackers, had used Tornado Cash to launder more than $7 billion worth of crypto since 2019.
The sanctions against the mixer and criminal charges against the developers have drawn outrage from many in the crypto industry.
Buterin donated 100 ETH — roughly $240,000 at the time — to the Free Pertsev and Storm Juicebox in October, but GoFundMe shut down a similar fundraising effort in February.
The US Treasury Department faces two lawsuits filed by crypto advocacy group Coin Center and a group of Tornado Cash users backed by Coinbase.
An appellate court said in November that the Treasury had “overstepped” in sanctioning the crypto mixer’s immutable smart contracts, but the ruling did not appear to have affected the criminal case against Storm.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/831636

2024-12-31 14:57:06

Tangem wallet collects and exposes users seed phrase via email glitch
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tangem-security-vulnerability-fixed-private-key-leak
Cryptocurrency wallet provider Tangem has fixed a critical security vulnerability on its mobile app that collected certain users’ private keys via emails.
The fix came after Redditors repeatedly called out Tangem for putting investors’ funds at risk by exposing their private keys on email accounts and to Tangem employees.
On Dec. 29, a Reddit discussion on Tangem’s operations gained traction, which accused the wallet provider of stealing private keys using emails. The Redditor, u/areklanga, further accused Tangem of not providing “any sensible reaction” when the issue was pointed out previously.
Tangem acknowledged the issue on Dec. 30 and stated the incident arose from a bug in the mobile app’s log processing, which had now been “fully resolved.” Tangem also provided a breakdown of the situation.
Tangem’s official website, which logs all version updates of its mobile application, did not mention the details about the Dec. 30 update.
Tangem also confirmed in its Reddit response that “all logs and attachments sent to its support team were permanently deleted, ensuring no residual data remains.”
While Tangem pushed out an update on Dec. 30 to prevent further leaks of seed phrases, the crypto community members called out the wallet provider’s muted response. Tangem did not respond to Cointelegraph’s request for comment.
Tangem has not made any official announcements on its official social media channels, Twitter, Discord, or Telegram, as of Dec. 31. However, all Tangem users are advised to immediately update their mobile applications to avoid seed phrase leaks.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/831238

2024-12-28 02:37:00

IRS issues rules on digital asset reporting, says front-ends are brokers
https://cointelegraph.com/news/irs-final-regulations-digital-asset-reporting-brokers
The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued final regulations requiring brokers to report digital asset transactions, expanding existing reporting requirements to include front-end platforms, such as decentralized exchanges.
Set to take effect in 2027, the rules mandate that brokers disclose gross proceeds from sales of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, including information regarding taxpayers involved in the transactions.
The final regulation says “the only DeFi participants that are treated as brokers [...] are trading front-end service providers.”
The document does not directly apply to all DeFi applications and their level of decentralization, focusing on front-ends as a source of information and tax disclosure.
The reporting requirements apply to front-end platforms that facilitate transactions involving digital assets for customers, such as decentralized exchanges.
The definition encompasses platforms performing intermediary functions in facilitating transactions, including a group of persons facilitating transactions “whether or not the group operates through a legal entity.”
Under the new rules, if a DeFi platform is involved in facilitating the exchange or sale of digital assets — even through smart contracts — and it exercises sufficient control or influence over the transaction process, it could meet the definition of a broker.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/827198

2024-12-24 03:39:56

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!

2024-12-23 17:41:27

Get after it

2024-12-07 05:28:42

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How was he so strong in his faith and willpower?

2024-12-06 18:25:53

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How did you do that?

2024-12-05 23:17:43

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That’s so cool!

2024-12-05 23:16:15

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I thought they stopped

2024-12-02 15:16:01

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Great point

2024-11-28 14:09:55

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Hi Shawn

2024-11-28 03:52:24

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That’s spooky

2024-11-28 03:51:48

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Me too!

2024-11-28 03:51:35

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Sleep tight

2024-11-28 03:51:26

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2024-11-28 03:49:41

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lol

2024-11-28 01:11:59

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2024-11-28 01:11:02

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Can you manually select location?

2024-11-28 01:06:05

Hi Nostr, what’s new?

2024-11-15 00:23:32

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That's a good point.

2024-11-14 17:13:07

A memory leak in Apple’s Network Extension framework
https://obdev.at/blog/a-memory-leak-in-apples-network-extension-framework/
> Unfortunately that’s another new bug in the Network Extension framework of macOS. It’s a memory leak in Apple’s framework, which developers must use to create a firewall for the Mac. This bug first occurred in macOS 15.0 Sequoia.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/767783

2024-11-14 03:30:17

Debian Junior Desktop live image
https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianJr
https://www.debian.org/blends/
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/766867

2024-11-14 01:33:27

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Just taking a break for a bit.

2024-11-14 01:27:16

FBI raids home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan
https://nypost.com/2024/11/13/business/fbi-seizes-polymarket-ceos-phone-electronics-after-betting-platform-predicts-trump-win-source/
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/13/polymarket-fbi-shayne-coplan
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/11/13/fbi-reportedly-raids-polymarket-ceos-home/
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/fbi-polymarket-ceo-investigation-75472d18
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-raids-polymarket-ceos-home-seizing-phone-electronics-ny-post-reports-2024-11-13/
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/766783

2024-11-13 19:34:27

Great show!
https://fountain.fm/episode/m5FRG6E4sawXh8dq5nTm

2024-11-13 18:25:35

Composability Treatment of Bitcoin’s Transaction Ledger with Variable Difficulty
https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1823.pdf
> As the first proof-of-work (PoW) permissionless blockchain, Bitcoin aims at maintaining
a decentralized yet consistent transaction ledger as protocol participants (“miners”) join and leave as
they please. This is achieved by means of a subtle PoW difficulty adjustment mechanism that adapts to
the perceived block generation rate, and important steps have been taken in previous work to provide
a rigorous analysis of the conditions (such as bounds on dynamic participation) that are sufficient for
Bitcoin’s security properties to be ascertained.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/766258

2024-11-07 01:56:12

BlackRock Bitcoin ETF sees 'biggest volume day ever' with $4.1B traded
https://cointelegraph.com/news/blackrock-bitcoin-etf-sees-biggest-volume-day-ever-4-1-billion-traded?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound
> BlackRock’s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) witnessed a record day of trading after Donald Trump’s victory in the United States presidential election. In a Nov. 6 post to X, Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas shared that the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) witnessed its “biggest volume day ever” with over $4.1 billion in daily trading volume on Nov. 6.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/756871

2024-11-07 00:58:15

Configuring SSH Keys for Multiple GitHub Accounts
https://stevenharman.net/configure-ssh-keys-for-multiple-github-accounts
> Managing different SSH Keys for different Hosts is well-understood. Different keys for the same host (e.g., github.com), based on which GitHub Organization we’re working with, that’s… a bit trickier. But, we have the technology! We’re going to configure our SSH and Git clients to seamlessly switch SSH keys between our personal GitHub Account and our GitHub Enterprise Cloud, EMU Account.
originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/756795

2024-10-26 15:09:08

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@npub1jlr…ynqn Does this note imply someone else had your bugsnap API key a couple of weeks ago? https://primal.net/e/note1fkehz0eskqs0et9t524vrwudulxt056kqgekqkdscqx7lakspm3sgmgk5d
"Would whoever is running whatagent.net please remove my bugsnag api key from your deployment, it's clogging up my error reporting."

2024-10-20 18:03:12

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True that

2024-10-20 16:01:01

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2024-10-20 14:17:05

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2024-10-19 17:49:26

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2024-10-19 17:38:49

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That would be awesome.

2024-10-19 17:38:29

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2024-10-19 15:35:24

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2024-10-19 10:10:56

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That girl break dancing in the Olympics

2024-10-19 07:39:44

#Nostrnights https://image.nostr.build/9b541ee683729100dc3a929f6fdefb7589999aab32a83ed81e2591e96bd4fc54.jpg

2024-10-19 06:00:04

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2024-10-19 04:57:32

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2024-10-19 04:40:27

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2024-10-19 03:29:49

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2024-10-18 05:50:59

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2024-10-17 22:26:10

A drop of Nostr https://image.nostr.build/3ab39715401f80a28e367107480b7b7411a292c1c56e192acb155d37a26812df.jpg

2024-10-17 19:03:46

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2024-10-17 15:56:00

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2024-10-17 13:41:23

#Nostrfrog https://image.nostr.build/fadd83f5c994d98a62072f27efa520e0f106c591fbe835c2aa380c560b603584.jpg

2024-10-17 12:17:43

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2024-10-17 12:14:14

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2024-10-17 06:08:19

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2024-10-17 04:32:58

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Hope you’ve been well!

2024-10-17 04:30:41

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2024-10-17 02:20:52

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2024-10-16 23:44:03

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2024-10-16 22:57:42

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