JC Brand @jcbrand@mastodon.xyz

This is interesting.

'Law firm serves anonymous hacker a restraining order via #NFT"

Hacker hacks crypto-exchange, steals crypto and starts laundering it. Law firm doesn't have his identity or address, so issues a restraining order via NFT, which is approved by the New York supreme court.

https://btcpeers.com/law-firm-serves-anonymous-hacker-a-restraining-order-via-nft/

@furgar

I thought you might like this one.

Scientist trolls Twitter by posting image of a sausage and claiming it's a star.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akeemk/chorizo-james-webb-space-telescope

My favorite song at the moment. Love the melancholy vibe and awesome production quality.

Best listened with headphones.

https://open.spotify.com/track/5xLMEWHeDNNP4RsTkpt4fH?si=6ZKzbj5pR8u-GCGNv837BQ

If I can give one piece of advice to new programmers.

Being willing and able to read source code written by other people is a superpower.

Many newbie devs are too intimidated to jump into the functions and methods that they're calling from their own code.

It can be uncomfortable at first, but going through code that you didn't write, but rely on, is one of the best ways to gain a proper understanding of what's really going on.

Reading the code of other people also makes you a better dev.

Loving this song

https://open.spotify.com/track/7HiKQJaqIq2iEODIG3tzKq?si=Ybom4MoMRV-OFXfz_9nlSA

Back in high school in the 90s, I used to listen to a lot of Korn.

Then a friend turned me on to Pantera.

He told me, there are two types of metal.

"Oh God I'm being bullied" (e.g. Korn)

"I'm going to kick your ass" (e.g. Pantera).

I still chuckle thinking back at that.

The crypto primitives are compiled from C via emscripten.

One cool thing is that emscripten now compiles to WASM which is much faster than normal JS.

libomemo.js is still very much a work in progress.

I'm still busy updating it to use the latest protobuf.js which has a completely different API.

Once that's done, I'll make the OMEMO-related protobuf changes to the lib.

I'm also considering migrating the codebase to TypeScript.

Eventually is should be possible for all other JavaScript XMPP clients to use libomemo.js for the crypto part of OMEMO.

I was involved in an #XMPP OMEMO sprint this weekend with devs from Dino, Conversations and Gajim.

We decided to focus on modifying the various libsignal libraries used by the clients to make them compatible with the latest OMEMO version (which AFAIK no client yet fully supports).

I forked libsignal-protocol-javascript into libomemo.js

https://github.com/conversejs/libomemo.js

A lot of time was spent updating ancient dependencies and getting tests to run. I then started making changes for OMEMO compat.