Zaki

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And while we're at it. Since 1.4 RC is live, and available to test out.
There is a feedback thread relating to it:
https://discourse.joinmastodon.org/t/1-4-rc-feedback/134

#discourse #mastodon #feedback #releasecandidate

Tonight's reading material: Bitcoin's 0.12 mempool PRs. There's a lot of new logic there which may or may not be suitable for Zcash, but definitely needs to safely interact with our z-addr mempool logic.

Backporting Is Fun! (TM)

Hey there fediverse friends! Welcome to Mastodon 😁 Have fun and remember to Be Excellent to One Another! Hack the Planet!

Announcing Rust 1.17
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/04/27/Rust-1.17.html

(submitted by steveklabnik)

Good news, rclone is not backdoored! Why reproducible builds matter, and how easy they are in Go

https://blog.filippo.io/reproducing-go-binaries-byte-by-byte/

https://mastodon.social/media/4sAGZNN6ijOiNz5oK90

Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language
http://kaitai.io/

(submitted by mpweiher)

Yussss, John Wiegley's talk from Bayhac about lenses is up. I got a lot out of this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZy4Yml3LTY

Here's the Debian Project's statement about the arrest of Dmitry Bogatov, a Debian Maintainer who worked in the Debian Haskell group and currently maintains several packages for command line and system tools. He was arrested by Russian authorities, and Debian has removed his keys from their servers in case they're compromised. https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170417