A fast, modern, cross-platform XMPP client for communities and organizations.

Mobile Verification Toolkit (MVT) is a collection of utilities to simplify and automate the process of gathering forensic traces helpful to identify a potential compromise of Android and iOS devices.

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“That’s Google’s SafeNet. HSBC picked a level that causes this. Google manages the blacklist of apps. We are rapidly losing our freedoms to the will of these companies. If they decide they don’t want to they can even if the law doesn’t forbid it.

People in Switzerland and the EU are being de-banked by local banks because of US pressure allowing them to force any bank that wants to use USD. The US has started to sanction people for free speech resulting in de-banking.

Swiss law requires one bank (Postfinance) to offer banking irregardless but if you are sanctioned you can’t use the wire system, no other currencies, no credit cards and you cant use Twint either so it’s in effect useless. You can’t pay for your health insurance or rent.”

Recently, an important series of changes have been committed, which some of our folks (and many others around the world) have been working on for many many years and which have the power to seriously speed up aggregations for basically everyone out there. What is even better is that you don’t have to change your code, there is no need to adjust parameters or anything of that sort. You can simply run your code as it is and enjoy the benefits of this important improvement.

Inspector Dangerfuck burst onto the ANSI art scene with a bang, literally.

EE-LOF01.IMP, the first of two pieces in Imperial’s July 1994 artpack to feature the character, shows him walking with a gun in hand, as a bullet flies past. “God! This ain’t safe!” he exclaims.

tl;dr: no, or at the very least, “not for every use case.” (Though I really wish it were for the use cases I have, because it would save me a lot of work.)

The post critiques a recent academic claim (by Farokhnia & Goharshady) that Bitcoin could be vulnerable to a coordinated block-reverting (majority) attack financed through the large Bitcoin derivatives market.

Researchers argued that Bitcoin’s security might be undermined because someone could use derivatives (like futures and options) to profit from causing a price crash and then mount a block-reverting attack on the blockchain.

This relies on a strategy related to selfish mining, where a miner with high hash power secretly builds an alternate chain to override the main one, potentially reversing transactions.

The original researchers claim that a successful attack doesn’t necessarily need a full 51% of mining power. Such an attacker could use short positions in derivatives to profit from the price collapse their attack causes. Because derivatives markets are huge compared to the real Bitcoin spot market, attackers could theoretically make a profit even after paying for mining hardware.

A new project focused on analyzing how the United States uses the U.S. dollar as a tool of global power and influence. The piece argues that while discussions in Silicon Valley and Washington often focus on trade controls (like chips or energy), they overlook the monetary infrastructure underlying global power: the dollar. The author highlights that U.S. dominance in global finance has allowed it to enforce policy without military force and credits this for much of the stability seen over the past ~80 years. However, that dominance is now being challenged, especially in regions of Africa, Central Asia, and elsewhere where China and other rivals are building alternative financial systems that weaken reliance on the dollar and U.S. financial control.

A drone workstation for the terminal, featuring 4x famously open sourced macro oscillator synth module whose name must not be spoken, extensive modulation capabilities, and custom tailored effects including a granular delay.

apt for fonts, the missing font manager for macOS/linux

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