"At the time this letter was written, there were around 12,000 commits to Bitcoin’s code,” Riley remarked in a post on social media. “Today there are 47,583 commits to Bitcoin’s code. That means that 74.79 percent of the Bitcoin core development and code was committed after Jeffery Epstein took over the defacto senior management role as benefactor.”

https://futurism.com/future-society/cryptocurrency-jeffrey-epstein-bitcoin

@skial Oh well done. It's yuge

Up the proverbial creek today. I've an error in ammer, the FFI thing in the type lookup section of the macro.

It looks like I have to take the library on because the author moved to Rust, which means tooling with the logger so I can get to understand it.

However, there's still an issue with reflection throwing an error at macro time when doing type discrimination so **all** serialization is likely to fail while that's still the case.

On the upside, I'm getting to know duckdb and sql in general via it's json ingress, and stx is getting pretty mature.

#Haxe #DevLog

#Haxe Roundup 731 - The Belated Issue https://haxe.io/roundups/731/ is finally out!

Catch-up on the last 6~ months of content from around the Haxe community!

#Microsoft releases urgent #Office #patch. Russian-state #hackers pounce.

Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical #MicrosoftOffice #vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside #diplomatic , #maritime , and transport organizations in more than half a dozen countries, researchers said Wednesday.
#russia #security #privacy

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/russian-state-hackers-exploit-office-vulnerability-to-infect-computers/

Please, I beg, if you're posting about a new release of the cool thing you made, include a small description of what it is and what it does.

It's hard to boost "libencarbulator turbo++ 2.8a release is now available! Now supports configuring reticulation of splines" in a vacuum, and I want nothing more than to boost the cool thing you made

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@oalders/116013484211603433

Software should be boring. Boring is good.

Ran into an odd MSVC compiler bug today: a missing parenthesis in a specific place, in a large source file, leads compiler into allocating all my RAM, which eventually led my computer to crash. I can reproduce it reliably.
If I uncomment the extra opening brace it reports error normally.

‘VPN providers don't actually maintain a crazy amount of infrastructure in hundreds of countries. They simply fake the IP geolocation by intentionally providing wrong location data to ARIN, RIPE, and Geo DB providers via geofeeds.’

(but some do: mullvad represent)

https://ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-location-mismatch-report

Turns out, if you run psql in a script you REALLY want to pass this option:
--variable ON_ERROR_STOP=on

Otherwise it will just resume with the next statement and return the exit status 0!
#PostgreSQL #automation

Here's a question. Does it turn up in the "Request to Follow" if the request is to follow a tag?

The ReadItLater plugin for Obsidian is incredible, it parses the HTML into Markdown and drops a titled note into the vault.

Trying to get to know the vagaries of C declarations I'm stashing things which are hard to looks up.

#Obsidian #DevLog

Ok, that's a start. DuckDb C headers are yuge though.

#Haxe #DuckDb #DevLog

I thought I might give the new UK Government AI Skills Hub a go. It fails at the first step, refusing to validate Irish names.

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss

Definitely looking to make DuckDB pretty core to my Haxe work.
It's the first relational database that lives in all the places Haxe does. Web (via Wasm), Java, C-compatible (Hashlink , Neko, Cpp, Python, Php, Lua(?), Nodejs) , and in-memory (Eval, Macro-time).

#Haxe #DuckDb

We're recruiting for a new Security Architect role in BBC InfoSec:

**Location**: Remote (within UK)
**Salary range**: £75-85k + solid pension & benefits
**Type**: Permanent
**Closing date**: 2026-02-16

"The BBC reaches over half a billion people online every week. By joining this team you will help keep these systems secure. You’ll regularly collaborate with critical BBC product teams such as iPlayer, Sounds and News..."

It's a great team to work with (I do regularly)

https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Information-Security-Architect/27382-en_GB/

I am tired of being broke by the end of the month, so please help me find a job.

I am looking for a Entry Level Remote Data Entry job.. I have never really done any data entry in my life, but as I live in the suburbs in New Jersey in the United States, and do NOT drive… most other jobs are pretty much off limits to me. I have experience using Excel (and Excel like programs), word processors, and computers. If you are looking for someone to do some data entry work I am willing to send you my resume. Just direct message me, and I will email you my resume.

I'm a software developer with 40 years' professional experience, lucky enough to be considering early retirement. I love writing code and don't want to stop. I'm keen to give something back and contribute to one or more open source projects.

The questions are, to what shall I contribute, and how do I get started?

My skills are mainly C++, having spent much of the past decade programmatically dismantling and reassembling Microsoft Office files. I'm quite happy to learn Rust or Go, but don't really like webby front-endy ux stuff.

Any suggestions for a worthy project to which I could contribute? Please boost if you can.

#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareDev #OpenSource #FreeSoftware