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A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been
https://zaksa.zip/blog/formal-education-is-the-answer/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49398710
#HackerNews #formaldegree #algorithmicproblemsolving #education #technology #news
A DSA comrade of my wife's recently posted this photo, taken at an anime con, to a chat group to which they both belong.
It's trying really hard to be summer, but in usual North West Highland August fashion, failing.
OH: “I write my programs in Objectionable-C”
“Objective-C?”
“No”
as well as gather certificate and connection data by passively monitoring the uplink of a German research network.
"passively monitoring the uplink" is certainly one impressive euphemism
Lenstra et al. [25] perform an analysis of 11.7M public keys from a variety of sources, including SSL certificates, PGP keys, and SSH host keys.
ah, the number field sieve guy is a collector of other people's public keys
The authors find that 4% of the public keys in certificates and PGP keys share an RSA modulus, which enables recovery of the corresponding private key.
didn't even know this was a thing. shoutout to RSA
I place a lot of value on viewpoint diversity (the real one) and on free speech (the real one). It sucks how both concepts have been hijacked to mean “everyone is under a moral obligation to elevate and disseminate discredited claims if today’s political right is into them.”
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:756gaaeewovgn4axja34ajne/post/3mtodcmpf2c2c
Why are accusations of plagiarism so damaging?
https://theconversation.com/jason-arday-and-the-new-politics-of-plagiarism-290020
…“You don’t have time or the money to dismantle every object.
When you go to recycle a car, you just crush it. You remove the tires, you remove the glass, a few things, and then you crush all the metal and plastic content.
You try to split metal and plastics. And then you try to split between ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
But when you have crushed everything – with some neodymium, rare earth, copper cables, everything – they stay together and you have no way to split them…
…“So, how does it finish? Where is this atom of of copper now? It’s in recycled steel.
So it has not disappeared, but it will never ever be possible to extract it again from the steel. It’s in there. It’s like a trace element. It’s like an impurity of the new steel.
And it will generally be used in very basic uses like in the bars that we use in concrete…
#fabulamurina (mouse story) 520
familia murina ad mare revenit, sine manu consobrinorum (The mouse family returns to the sea, without the gang of cousins). Silvius immensam testam ostreae invenit (Silvius finds a massive oyster shell). "tata! nonne scapha est?" (Daddy, is it a boat?)
2006: A 14-year-old receives a box of free Ubuntu CDs in Malta.
2026: He’s shaping regional open-source policy and digital heritage.
Meet Warren Camilleri, our newest Software Heritage Ambassador, and read how he’s building bridges across Europe + beyond. https://www.softwareheritage.org/2026/08/04/warren-camilleri-ambassador/ #FOSS #OSS
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) popularized the study of SSL infrastructure by publishing certificate data sets obtained from actively scanning the entire IPv4 address space on port 443 in mid 2010 and, again, in early 2012 [12], yielding 5.5M [17] and 7.2M [25] distinct certificates, respectively.
ah, that sounds like a completely legitimate activity completely unrelated to surveillance
as well as gather certificate and connection data by passively monitoring the uplink of a German research network.
"passively monitoring the uplink" is certainly one impressive euphemism
To clarify: it’s been another one of those shocking-but-not-surprising things, to see how little note the media have taken of what’s happening in #Gary, Indiana - a predominantly Black, relatively poor, post-industrial city with a shrinking population.
Roughly 20,000 households have now gone ten days without electric power since an unusually strong derecho tore through on August 11th. In all that time, local electric utility NIPSCO has been unable to restore service, with all the predictable consequences: spoiled food and medicines, no recourse to air conditioning or refrigeration, local businesses unable to operate, people having to spend heavily on generator fuel (and suffer all the pollution that accompanies their use), difficulty charging phones and medical equipment, and schools remaining closed.
Politieblok in klimaatmars? Wie houdt ze tegen? https://jokekaviaar.nl/2026/08/22/politieblok-in-klimaatmars-wie-houdt-ze-tegen/
TIL endorphin is short for endogenous morphine
@TheBreadmonkey Wait till you hear about endocannabinoids!
Oh, wait. I guess you have now.
Guide to happy
Embedded Swift is a subset of Swift built for tiny, constrained hardware, with far smaller binaries while keeping the language you already know. Swift 6.4 brings it closer to full Swift than ever, supporting "any" types, untyped throws, and metatypes. https://www.swift.org/blog/embedded-swift-improvements-coming-in-swift-6.4/
Due italiani condannati per vandalismo a Malta ma pena sospesa, potranno rimpatriare - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2026/08/22/due-italiani-condannati-per-vandalismo-a-malta-ma-pena-sospesa-potranno-rimpatriare_ac1a2de4-5949-454d-b41f-9dcef93a9500.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su ANSA Ultima ora @ansa-ultima-ora-AgenziaAnsa
I'm thinking of making a longer, developer oriented, video. I estimate 30+ minutes. I would start _after_ the nlnet grant is done.
The video would cover how the gesture typing project is going, what my plans are, where help is wanted, the obstacles I know about, how to get started contributing code, etc.
Would you be interested in watching a video like this?
Boosts please!
If you need to get caught up, see this thread. It has video explainers!
https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116169411669556587
Memories stick around even after half the synapses are gone
Hibernation cuts down on synapses, but mice seem to retain memories anyway.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/memories-stick-around-even-after-half-the-synapses-are-gone/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
There was a time when it was thought memories were stored in engrams -- probably small pieces of proteins or other substances. There were experiments in planarian flatworms that demonstrated this phenomenon.
Certain memories form almost instantly, which seems faster than millions of synapses could be coordinated. But chemicals could be generated nearly instantly.
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