@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 @small-tech/syswide-cas v7.0.2 released
Enables Node.js to use custom Certificate Authorities (CAs) alongside the bundled root CAs.
https://codeberg.org/small-tech/syswide-cas#readme
• Drops legacy Node support
• Is now ESM
• Improved code quality
•…
@pre@boing.worldBit root is explaining why there will only be 21 million bitcoin.
Block rewards every ten minutes halving every for years is an infinite sum tending to that 21m supply. In fact a few sats less due to rounding errors.
She explains why bit shift in the code is the same as halving due to the way binary number representation works.
The code stops shifting at 64 halvings , despite the fact the reward will be zero after 32. This is since c leaves 64 bits shifted off a 64 bit number as undefined.
But could the code just be changed? No. The source code maintainers could try, but node runners would refuse the update, it being against their financial interests to do so. Even if some nodes did do, you on your own node can resist.
When people created forks with more supply, the market sent it's price to zero.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@aral@mastodon.ar.alNode.js devs, so picture this: you run `npm install` and you get a bunch of packages with audit errors.
The only thing I want to know at that point is what’s the root package that these dependencies belong to? (Running npm audit fix is a last resort as I don’t like it fiddling around with the dependencies of nested packages.)
It’s also not a straightforward thing to do, but it’s nothing jq and a bit of piping can’t fix:
```bash
npm audit --json | jq -r '.vulnerabil…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caSo I was at node 22.9.0 and mastodon's compiler was complaining that I needed to be at least 22.14 or something… I've used the command at root:
n latest
and
n stable
The first installed v25.2.1
The second installed v24.11.1
now when I do node --version it reports:
v24.11.1
So hopefully the next time I need to do a mastodon upgrade it won’t complain anymore? 🤷♂️
#selfhost #mastodon #nodejs #debian
