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This polyextremophile bacterium could survive an interplanetary trip The post Watch How Planet-Hopping Microbes Can Survive Asteroid Strikes

We’re living in a wonder-world with the great Brian Cox. Tempura salad, resting bewildered face, and doing it like a goose. Is it the AC? Nope. It’s an all-new SmartLess. Subscribe to SiriusXM

The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection chief discussed the agency’s embrace of age verification and how industry should think about data privacy enforcement under his watch.

Say hello to the new version of kycnot.me!

KYC regulations, intended to combat illicit financial activities, inadvertently compromise individual privacy, security, and freedom.

KYCNOT.me got an update, here's what has changed.

Celebrating 4 years since kycnot.me had its first commit

Originally published by @theragetech here: therage.co/keonne-rodriguez-letter-skinwalker/ Dear Reader, It has been a while since we last spoke. My last letter was written on the anniversary of my first month of

Nick Ferguson is a Permaculture Designer, Ecosystem Engineer, and international consultant with over a decade of professional experience designing resilient properties coast to coast in both the

Uh? (http://userstyles.org/styles/6371) Some folks apparently don't have much respect for my web design skills -- and I always considered myself the Malevich of web design! Pfft!

#nocomments y So I wanted to hack proper channel mapping query support into libsndfile (http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile), something I have had on my TODO list for years. The first step was to

The JACK (http://jackaudio.org/) folks and I have agreed on a little specification for device reservation (http://git.0pointer.de/?p=reserve.git;a=blob_plain;f=reserve.txt) that allows clean

Eduardo Lima (http://etrunko.blogspot.com/) just added a couple of more videos from one of the best conferences in existence (http://www.bossaconference.indt.org/) to the OpenBOSSA

Andre Klapper (http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/) just informed me that GNOME is now officially esound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esound)-free: all modules have been ported over to libcanberra

If you live in Berlin and are a GNOMEr of some kind then please feel invited top drop by tomorrow (Fri 29) at 4 pm at the Prater Biergarten (http://www.pratergarten.de/d/biergarten.php4) (Weather

The Call for Papers (http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/submit/) for the Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) (http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/) in September in Portland, Oregon is ending soon

#nocomments y Kinda fun watching this video (http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Elliot-H-Omiya-Larry-Osterman-and-Frank-Yerrace-Inside-Windows-7-Audio-Stack/). As it seems the big new

#nocomments yes <rant> So in the past Ubuntu packaged PA in a way that, let's say, was not exactly optimal. I thought they'd gotten around fixing things since then. Turns out they didn't. Seems in

India is a weird and beautiful country. And I am too lazy to retouch my photos.

Everyone and his dog seem to call libxml2's xmlCleanupParser() at inappropriate places. For example Empathy (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532307) does it, and Abiword does it too.

It's easy to get lost in /sys and not much fun typing long udevadm info command lines all the time. Today, when I had enough of that I sat down and spent an hour to write a little UI for exploring

If you are into computers and live in Germany I am sure you know the c't computer magazine. The current edition 13/2011 (p. 172) contains two articles contributed by Thorsten Leemhuis, Kay Sievers

The Desktop Summit schedule for the talks and presentations (https://desktopsummit.org/program) has been published a couple of weeks ago. Now it is time to open the 2nd Call for Participation, this

GNOMErs, the Desktop Summit in Berlin, Germany is approaching quickly! Submit your BoF for the Desktop Summit BoF days NOW! (https://desktopsummit.org/program/workshops-bofs) Deadline is July 3rd,

It has been way too long since I posted the first episode (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html) of my systemd for Developers series. Here's finally the second part. Make sure you

Tickets for systemd 2016 Workshop day still available! We still have a number of ticket for the workshop day of systemd.conf 2016 (https://conf.systemd.io/) available. If you are a newcomer to

systemd.conf 2016 is Over Now! A few days ago systemd.conf 2016 (https://systemd.io/) ended, our second conference of this kind. I personally enjoyed this conference a lot: the talks, the atmosphere,

The All Systems Go! 2017 Call for Participation is Now Open! We’d like to invite presentation proposals for All Systems Go! 2017! All Systems Go! is an Open Source community conference focused on

This dish features marinated salmon with a blackened crust served over turmeric pearl couscous and topped with quick-pickled carrots.

Die absolute Knappheit ist etwas was wir Menschen bis jetzt noch nie hatten. Wir reden oft dass etwas knapp ist, aber was bedeutet absolut knapp?

Updates on both projects

In today's update we cover ephemeral gift wraps, which have been recently merged into the protocol with CEP-19. This feature introduces an optional convention for CVM servers and clients to exchange encrypted messages using an ephemeral gift wrap kind. We also present the latest release family, v0.6.x. We also discuss the latest news from the ecosystem, with a new MCP server to query Wolfram Alpha over Nostr, and the new feature being implemented in the CVM protocol, namely CEP-15, for common t...

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I built something. A Nostr signing extension that focuses on UX.

Issue 5

Architecture and security review status update with current blockers and decision asks.

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KYC in dating apps in particular is a very confusing example. But more generally, what's wrong with various kinds of verifications? How to properly solve this without putting privacy at risk?

Here's (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/security.html) the (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/inetd.html) thirteenth (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/instances.html) installment

And (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemctl-journal.html) here's (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/security.html) the (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/inetd.html) fourteenth

Most consultants sell advice layered on fragile infrastructure. This piece explains how a self-sovereign identity model — built on Nostr authentication and cryptographic signing — can become the backbone of a high-trust consulting practice. This is not theory. It is a practical blueprint for turning architecture into revenue.

Email/password authentication is insecure and liability-heavy. This article outlines a practical model for implementing Nostr-based cryptographic login in consulting environments.

OAuth centralizes identity in Big Tech providers. Nostr decentralizes identity to the individual. This article explains how to integrate Nostr authentication without rewriting enterprise systems.