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Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/14/alpaca-fundraise-series-d-brokerage-infrastruct…

Brokerage tech firm Alpaca raises $150 million in push to compete with trading giant Interactive Brokers
Drive Capital led the round, with participation from Citadel Securities and the crypto exchange Kraken.

Cryptomator estš muy bien. Me fastidia bastante el hecho de que no lo haya para todas las plataformas. Hace un tiempo empecé a trastear con Age, un software de cifrado de ficheros super potente que admite tanto llaves simétricas como asimétricas. Me hice un pequeño script cutrillo para poder cifrar de forma recursiva directorios y todo su contenido y poder desencriptarlos en un directorio. La cosa es que voy a intentar hacerlo funcionar en 9front y como tire me voy a poner muy contento. Sólo…

from my link log —
Testing ECC NMI in a cubesat boot loader: intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers.
https://blog.010.one/Dont-snipe-me-in-space-intentional-flash-corruption-for-stm32-microcontrollers

Don’t snipe me in space - intentional flash corruption for STM32 microcontrollers
Almost one and a half years ago I joined MOVE, the Munich Orbital Verification Experiment, a student club focusing on practical education in the area of satellites at the Technical University of Munich. MOVE has launched three CubeSats to date (First-MOVE in 2013, MOVE-II in 2018 and MOVE-IIb in 2019), and we are currently preparing two future missions. These missions require reliable software, and the ability to update in orbit.

"Old-school computing has a term 'molly guard': it’s the little plastic safety cover you have to move out of the way before you press some button of significance.
Anecdotally, this is named after Molly, an engineer’s daughter who was invited to a datacenter and promptly pressed a big red button, as one would.
Then she did it again later the same day."

Molly guard in reverse – Unsung
A blog about software craft and quality

Ekonomia w sieci P2P #torrent jest zepsuta (pewnie w innych jest podobnie)...

Nagradza się seed (udostępnianie) popularnych rzeczy i w pierwszych chwilach walczy o leechers (pobierających), potem de facto można po zdobyciu odpowiedniego ratio porzucić seed i przejść do kolejnego. Długie udostępnianie, czy trzymanie rzadkich rzeczy się po prostu nie opłaca.

Software do prywatny…

Expert systems are inevitable
Don’t get left behind, Flash is the future
Java Applets will replace all other software
Cryptocurrency will obsolete fiat currency
Better claim your stake in the Metaverse
By 2015, we will all have self-driving cars
Pen computing is going to end keyboards on laptops
You’ll look so stupid if you miss out on NFTs

Best talk so far on day 2 at #LaraconEU was Pete Heslop on how to apply real world UX from restaurants, airports, and hospitals to create better software.
Pete runs this great agency: https://steadfastcollective.com

I’ve had this contingent of the language police show up in my replies a few times now over the word “cosplay,” and look…
OK, I get it, I get the instinct to say “Don’t drag me into this!” and I applaud the effort to push fascists out of communities, yes to all that…
…and also we need to recognize that what ICE is doing absolutely •is• cosplay. The word means “costume play.” It refers to assembling and wearing costumes that are not necessarily functional, but show affinity for a particular subculture by reproducing characters from that subculture’s popular narratives.
ICE are cosplaying Call of Duty. That is an accurate description of what’s happening. (Listen to “Gear.”)
I make software and I make music. I don’t think either one of those things •should• be about violence. I don’t •want• them to be about violence. But both are used in the service of violence, like it or not. I shout the violence out whenever it shows up. But would be ridiculous for me to point at what Palantir does and say “That’s not software!” Unfortunately, it •is• software. To deny that would be beyond self-defeating; it would be irresponsible.
ICE •is• doing cosplay, and we hate it. It’s an insult to the cosplay subculture. It is an insult to the whole of humanity. Fascism creeps into all of our spheres, into every beloved craft and community, and the response is never to pretend it’s not there. The response is to drive it out.
@…
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115956545807535535

One of the [to german or english native speakers] more cryptic signs put up at various locations of #39c3. I had to use cyrillic OCR and a ukranian to english translation software to make sense of it. Very nice, congrats to whoever did that.

Vibe coding provides a tantalizing answer in that situation: maybe it’s too varied to •abstract•, but not too varied to •plagiarize• and call it good.
This is something subtly different from abstraction. It’s not “do this in the standard way.” Instead, it’s “just rip off whatever other people are doing right now.”
A lot of people really want that — and tbh, a lot of them are not wrong to want it. I personally love the craft of programming, but let’s face it, a lot of software out there just needs to look like everything else and be done with it.