Around 2 weeks ago, after this post, I really got interested in bio hacking, especially implants.
I kinda wanted a magnet, to gain a new sense, but I didn't find a magnet that fits my requirements: to be a round, well tested, small, magnet implant with thin and biosafe coating.
There are plenty of magnets out there, I'm sure after some time, there will be a nice sensing magnet for me.

So, I had to get something else. When looking for implants (incl. magnets), you'll quickly find 'Dangerous Things', I trust them, so I preferred something from them for my first implant.
There is a lot of info on their biohacking forum, I took my time and around a week after reading posts about people who think they have been chipped by someone I decided to get a NExT.
Like most people, I'll use my implant for convinient access control. Opening doors and stuff like that.

I got the package yesterday, got it implanted today.
I also started taking vitamins yesterday, it's recommened for faster healing, but I should have started sooner.

The Installation

The installation should be easy, even alone, but I let a professional do it.
It shouldn't be too painful, but since I had the chance, I numbed the area. I hate big needles.
It works like shown in this video and is described in detail in this 10 page guide.

I'll probably make another post about this, but I'll just let my hand heal and hope everything stays clean. I think the positioning is ok, but I'll see where it ends up in about 2-4 weeks afaik.

Today is Pizza day. Some time ago I wrote a python program to visualize pizza transaction. 

You can find it here

https://qxzlog.blogspot.com/2020/04/visualization-of-bitcoin-transaction.html

The visualization traces back all the inputs until their coinbases. There are few coins used in pizza tx witch were mined in 2009. 

You can see them here, although the text is in Polish, sorry for that.

https://qxzlog.blogspot.com/2020/04/najstarsze-transakcje-coinbase-zakup.html

The problem with community payouts at 0:00  is, that some have an advantage over others because time of posting impacts the payout (afaik).

If there was a random delay of up to 24h on each payout, this would be cancelled out

The Thought Emporium is probably my new favourite yt channel.

I don't know if I'd do something like this if I had the chance. If anything I'd probably get a RFID/NFC implant to unlock doors and stuff like that.
Tho' feeling/hearing electromagnetic waves does sound interesting and is probably easier to do... I'll guess I'll decide what to implant when it's time to do so.

To share some other awesome stuff from this channel:
- Meat Berry
- Growing Human Neurons Connected to a Computer
- Sonoluminescence

Zero Width Shortener [...] is a URL shortener that shortens URLs using spaces that have zero width, making them invisible to humans.



It seems like this url shortener doesn't store your url, but encodes it into an invisible path in its url. I think this is a very interesting application of zero width / invisible chars, which itself is an interesting topic. I've read about zero width spaces being inserted into posts to detect and track copy pasting.
Back to the topic, I think this is a nice idea, but it's not usable on all services, because some just show the url encoded version of those chars.

Don't know about you, but to me stuff like a twitter bot that wins giveaways was very inspiring. When I saw this some years back I was amazed and motivated to do some cool stuff!

In this talk, I'll share how I won 4 Twitter contests per day, every day, for 9 months straight.

Your message is 0.000071% of the way to Tau Ceti. Tau Ceti is the closest solitary yellow dwarf. It may possibly have five planets in orbit, two of which are thought to be in the habitable zone. However, due to the large amount of space dust around the star - ten time that of our own system, any planets in the system would face a higher chance of impact events than we do on earth.

I just found this website, it allows you to send a message to space. Pretty neat.

Your message is 0.00013% of the way to Gliese 876. Gliese 876 is a red dwarf in the constellation Aquarius, the water-bearer. At just over 15 lightyears away, it is the closest star with a multiplanet system.

Those distance updates are the most amazing part about it, Just realoaded the page and my message is 191,671,138 km away.
This site is from 2013, i'm sure many of you already know it. But I am amazed by this, think about it: You can spam aliens!

"Imagine I write the following bash script and call it delay.sh. What do you suppose happens when I run ./delay.sh?

#!/bin/bash
sleep 30
#rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
echo "Time's up!"

It looks like it will wait for 30 seconds and then print a message to screen. There are no tricks here—that’s exactly what it does. There’s a dangerous-looking command in the middle but it will have no effect because it’s commented out.

Imagine I run it again and I’m getting bored waiting for the sleep. Thirty seconds is far too long. I open a second terminal, change sleep 30 to sleep 3, then save the file. What do you suppose happens now?

Well, after the 30 seconds elapses, the running script deletes all of my files."

Read the original post here.

That's an interesting thing I just learned about editing running bash scripts. In this example the programmer edis a sleep in a script so he won't have to wait next time, but since the file is now smaller and the shell saves a byte offset as "instruction pointer" it ignores the 'theoretically next' char (#) and executes the comment.

I actually coudn't reproduce it, but whatever: still interesting!

PoC||GTFO=("proof of concept or get the fuck out") is another huge collection of awesome hacker/computer stuff.

I'd compare it to Paged Out! (btw, issue 3 comes soon!). Actually I'd compare Paged Out! to PoC||GTFO because it's older.

As with many good books, I haven't read it completely (yet?). But I am sure you'll find at least 1  in this huge pack of articles.
Maybe it's "ELFs are Dorky, Elves are Cool"?

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Snipers are tools that "snipe" auctions on ebay for example.

Auction sniping is the practice, in a timed online auction, of placing a bid likely to exceed the current highest bid (which may be hidden) as late as possible—usually seconds before the end of the auction—giving other bidders no time to outbid the sniper.

I'm working on a similar thing and it reminded me of a talk I wanted to share. Btw, there are 10K sats in the community jar.

As far as I remember this guys "botnet" was sniping cars, then suddenly russian hackers were sniping them too, so he had to improve his strategy.
I think he ended up predicting the latency of his votes (like NTP). You'll laugh when you hear how simple things seem, I mean, that was some javascript dealing with millions of $.