Namaste! Sunday assorted links: Taproot | Technical Explanation 🔗
Buenos días! Friday assorted links: Flipper Zero DarkWeb Firmware Bypasses Rolling Code Security Affected vehicles include Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Ford, Hyundai, Jeep, Kia, Mitsubishi and Subaru. As of yet, there appears to be no easy fix for this, other than mass vehicle recalls. 🔗 --- Not in The Prophecies: Practical Attacks on Nostr This paper presents the first in-depth security analysis of the Nostr protocol and its popular client implementations. Our research methodology combined specification-level analysis of the Nostr NIP documents, manual code analysis of leading client implementations, dynamic testing of encrypted DM and profile handling flows, and development of proof-of-concept exploits to validate each discovered vulnerability. 🔗
Bonjour! Wednesday assorted links: Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025 Node.js has undergone a remarkable transformation since its early days. If you’ve been writing Node.js for several years, you’ve likely witnessed this evolution firsthand—from the callback-heavy, CommonJS-dominated landscape to today’s clean, standards-based development experience. 🔗
Bonjour! Tuesday assorted links: Offline Kids – Screen-Free Activities for Kids Discover simple, screen-free activities to enjoy at home, outdoors, or on the move. 🔗 --- Is it really foss? Where projects are evaluated to see if they're as free and open source as advertised 🔗
Dobrý ráno! Monday assorted links: Use Their ID \Tim Je\ made a website that uses AI to programmatically generate fake IDs of United Kingdom politicians. This was done to mock the United Kingdom Online Safety Act 🔗
Good Morning! Sunday assorted links: Make any website load faster with 6 lines of HTML | DocuSeal Discover how to significantly boost your website's loading speed by adding just 6 lines of HTML. Simple steps for faster websites. 🔗 --- Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks - Schneier on Security Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper that makes the argument that we shouldn’t trust any of the quantum factorization benchmarks, because everyone has been cooking the books. 🔗
Nǐ hǎo! Thursday assorted links: Wicked Smart Bitcoin Bitcoin Visualizations Updated Daily 🔗 --- Literature Map - The Tourist Map of Literature 🔗 --- GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps - 9001/copyparty 🔗 --- Dumb Pipe Iroh connections are dumb pipes: easy, direct connections that punch through NATs & stay connected as network conditions change. 🔗
Nǐ hǎo! Wednesday assorted links: Monochromate - Smart Greyscale Browser Extension | Reduce Screen Time & Stop Doomscrolling Transform your browsing with Monochromate, the smart greyscale browser extension designed for digital wellness. Reduce screen time, prevent doomscrolling, and boost productivity with customizable intensity, smart scheduling, and site exclusions. Built with WXT framework for Chrome & Firefox. 🔗 --- maru - Your phone is your PC Maru is a context-aware, lightweight, and open operating system that unites mobile and desktop computing. 🔗 --- peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies Over the past few years, I’ve been working on monitoring tools for the Bitcoin network. One of these projects is peer-observer: A tool and infrastructure for monitoring the Bitcoin P2P network for attacks and anomalies. This post describes the motivation for starting yet another Bitcoin network observer. It details how the tool works, what my honeypot infrastructure looks like, and finishes with an idea for a decentralized Bitcoin Network Operations Collective and incident response team. 🔗
Ohayō gozaimasu! Tuesday assorted links: Explore Trusted Cashu Mints - Cashumints.space Find and compare trusted Cashu mints. View supported NUTs, user reviews, and wallet compatibility. Discover how to safely use Cashu. 🔗 --- Bitcoin Mints 🔗 --- Mint Auditor A Cashu mint auditor 🔗
Namaste! Sunday assorted links: It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA - Jono Alderson Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites. 🔗 --- Book Saboteur Poetically sabotage your electronic books 🔗 --- Why Facts Don’t Change Minds in the Culture Wars—Structure Does Why do facts bounce off some people? It’s not about logic; it’s about structure. Your worldview isn’t a list of opinions—it's a living network. And right now, it's at war. 🔗