Zap to Zero Day 15 | Secret Sauce Live
Instead of going over the top posts of the week (user perspective), I would go over the top code changes of the week (developer perspective). These changes could be about features, bug fixes, etc. But the session could also include recent Github activity — basically anything that is relevant for development of SN. It could also be more of a Q&A style session.
So you could say that I would decrypt our own code and we could call it
SN SSL - Secret Source Live:Welcome to our decoding SN SSL - Secret Source Live ⚡️😂
This is a great name since SSL also stands for Secure Sockets Layer [0] which is (among other security features) about encrypting HTTP traffic:
What is SSL?SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer, is an encryption-based Internet security protocol. It was first developed by Netscape in 1995 for the purpose of ensuring privacy, authentication, and data integrity in Internet communications. SSL is the predecessor to the modern TLS encryption used today.A website that implements SSL/TLS has "HTTPS" in its URL instead of "HTTP."
— Cloudflare, What is SSL?
I am not sure if @Natalia was aware how good the acronym that she picked really was.
I am also not sure if I am actually going to do this. But sounds like a good idea. I guess it depends on how much interest there is for something like this? :)
Satistics
| Date | Spent | Stacked (Rewards) | Posts | Comments | Rewarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-28 | 13k | 8808 (n/a) | 2 | 35 | n/a |
| 2023-12-29 | 16.1k | 15.6k (5222) | 3 | 52 | ⚡ |
| 2023-12-30 | 10.8k | 9752 (7026) | 1 | 41 | ✍️ |
| 2023-12-31 | 20.5k | 17.9k (4379) | 5 | 61 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-01 | 12.5k | 10.7k (7684) | 3 | 47 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-02 | 16k | 19.5k (9353) | 6 | 36 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-03 | 15.9k | 15.6k (6729) | 2 | 46 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-04 | 11.4k | 11.4k ( | 3 | 38 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-05 | 11.3k | 11.4k ( | 1 | 41 | ? |
| 2024-01-06 | 6691 | 6282 ( | 0 | 38 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-07 | 8053 | 8503 ( | 3 | 20 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-08 | 8873 | 9164 (1219) | 2 | 12 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-09 | 5828 | 6808 (4649) | ✍️ | ||
| 2024-01-10 | 14.1 | 14.4 (4857) | 3 | 22 | ⚡ |
| 2024-01-11 | 11.8k | 10.4k (4109) | 3 | 22 | ✍️ |
| 2024-01-12 | TBD | TBD (4778) | TBD | TBD |
https://m.stacker.news/11908https://m.stacker.news/11907https://m.stacker.news/11909https://m.stacker.news/11910https://m.stacker.news/11911
Seems like I am back on track. Or @grayruby and his mercenaries have overstretched themselves and ran into supply problems, a common mistake.
Recent Superzaps
1. Anita Posch Satsraiser
This must be a blast from the past for @siggy47. I forgot how I landed at this post and I wanted to mark my trail with bookmarks but seems like I didn't ...
Anyway, if you're new on SN or don't know what the cowboy hats mean, check out this post. You might find the secret sauce in there.
Btw, the picture of @siggy47 armchair has burned itself into my brain. Every time I see @siggy47 shitposting, I imagine how he sits in that armchair (like an armchair historian but for SN), smoking a pipe or cigar with a long queue of people who saw the episode with him on @kr's show. They are waiting for him to stop shitposting on SN so he can sign more shitposts that these people printed out because it changed their life. Or something like that.
2. Satsraiser - Running Bitcoin - 10th Jan 2024
He's asking that we shouldn't only run bitcoin but also actually run on the day Hal Finney tweeted this:
If you ask me, that wasn't too much to ask for. So I hope you got your running shoes out (or bought some). And if you didn't, there is still time to donate some sats.
I also didn't watch the Interview with Fran Finney on WBD yet but what I heard, it was pretty incredible. However, what I heard also scared me a little since people really can be assholes:
As I mentioned, sats or no sats, please make sure you watch the What Bitcoin Did interview with Fran Finney, Hal's wife. It was discussed here on SN by @siggy47. It was incredible to hear of her resilience in spite of the immense struggles they both had together. And it is still wonderful to see her smiling and still thinking about Hal each and every day.
But if I ever listen to one WBD episode again, it will be this one.
3. Kevin Mitnick has died
No, he didn't die again. I just didn't know that I am currently reading a book from a person that is no longer with us.
My own bot @hn even posted that link in July 2023 but it didn't catch my attention. That's very sad. I didn't know about Kevin Mitnick until @Gian mentioned his book Art of Deception to me:
Kevin Mitnick is the best teacher, his book: Art of deception is a great lecture for aspiring social engeneers
I instantly fell in love with the book and the writer. That made it especially sad when I found this post.
I almost cried reading through the linked article (maybe I even did?). It felt like I am there, watching him "valiantly battling pancreatic cancer for more than a year". Also, thanks to this HN comment, I also learned that pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers (if not even the deadliest):
Only about 8.5% of patients with pancreatic cancer are alive five years after their diagnosis. This one of the lowest survival rates for any kind of cancer.
— University of Utah, Why Is Pancreatic Cancer So Deadly?
I also want to kick myself in the balls that I didn't actively search for such a book earlier.
I think this is the second death of someone I never really knew but still felt very strong emotions.
The first death was Chester Bennington’s death by suicide:
There is something strange about the pain of losing someone whom you never knew. You did not know them at all and yet, it felt like you knew them so much. They influenced your life in so many little ways and made up such a big part of it without you ever realising.I remember when the news of Chester Bennington’s passing had broken. The existence of Linkin Park had been pushed somewhere into the obscure recesses of my brain, and when that news broke, it resurfaced, like that mole from carnival games.
Challenge of the Day
Pick up an old hobby. For me, it's playing piano. It has been used to lay my clothes on it for what feels like years.
Song of the Day
Ever get the feeling that you're never all alone? And I remember now At the top of my lungs in my arms, she dies, she diesAt the end of the world or the last thing I see You are never coming home, never coming home Could I? Should I? And all the things that you never ever told me And all the smiles that are ever gonna haunt meNever coming home, never coming home Could I? Should I? And all the wounds that are ever gonna scar me For all the ghosts that are never gonna catch me
Beginning of Secret Sauce Live?
I still have 10min to proofread before posting (and another 10min after posting) because I just posted this and I don't want to pay 33% of my wallet to post this post:
[0] SSL is basically the old name for TLS since TLS is basically SSLv3.