Blockchain Blasphemy and the Technological Antichrist

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There’s a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz ( here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called “The Akashic Records” using blockchain technology.

This random aside not just shows the attention to detail Leonardo gives what would otherwise be silly videos, but articulates something deep … ⌘ Read more

Blockchain Blasphemy and the Technological Antichrist

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There’s a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz ( here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called “The Akashic Records” using blockchain technology.

This random aside not just shows the attention to detail Leonardo gives what would otherwise be silly videos, but articulates something deep … ⌘ Read more

@eaplmx@twtxt.net This exact thing happened to me last night. I happened to be watching some random Youtube video, then this Ad came on, normally they are short 3-5s ads and I just tolerate them (sometimes) – But this particular ad was 20+ mins long! Somehow I kept listening to it too, despite my daughter telling me I could hit that “Skip Ad” button.

What was it you ask?! 😅 It was one of those testimonial-style, hyped up marketing videos of some product called “Gemini 2” (a currency trading app, allegedly), I kept watching all the way through, it was fantastic! 🤣

Then I went and read up on it! …

Short answer: TOTAL FUCKING SCAM 🤣

Random numbers aren’t truly random!
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Blockchain Blasphemy

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There’s a meme YouTube video by Leonardo of Biz ( here) where the villainous Bogs refer to their desire to attain something called “The Akashic Records” using blockchain technology.

This random aside not just shows the attention to detail Leonardo gives what would otherwise be silly videos, but articulates something deeply troubling about a war unfoldin … ⌘ Read more

Arnaud Joset: Updates: chatty server and HTTPAuthentificationOverXMPP
It’s been a long time since I updated this blog. It will be a short update post about two projects.

The first is chatty_server, a small XMPP bot I use to interact with my server. It allows me to get information about the CPU load, traffic, weather etc.
It also has a small feature to get reminder messages. There was a bug that allowed anyone to spam reminders. Anybody can add the bot to their rooster and could create random reminders t … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN.
OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN. ⌘ Read more

I believe the benefit/risk calculation is that a passphrase is more memorable to users then a random string of alnum + symbol. i can remember the 20-30 chars in a passphrase quicker and longer than a 8-10 random.

ultimately they hold nowhere near the benefit of passphrase + MFA

I believe the benefit/risk calculation is that a passphrase is more memorable to users then a random string of alnum + symbol. i can remember the 20-30 chars in a passphrase quicker and longer than a 8-10 random.

ultimately they hold nowhere near the benefit of passphrase + MFA

Q: Are passphrases really more secure than cryptographically random passwords? 🤔

I have to wonder… It should be possible to do “passphrase” attacks just like “dictionary” attacks? How is a “phrase” any different to the character set you can type? Sure there are more possible “words” (at least) in the English language, but I’m not convinced.

Liven up your Linux Shell with random colorful ASCII art
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📚 Finished reading A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing by Burton G. Malkiel

📚 Finished reading A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing by Burton G. Malkiel

Linguistics Degree
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ethanjsummers00/OutfitGen

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A randomized outfit generator

Language: JavaScript

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oliviersm199/Tweet-Generator

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The Tweet Generator uses a Markov chain to generate random tweet based off of past tweets. It uses Python and the Twitter API to obtain the last 200 tweets from a particular user, organizes them into a JSON tree structure and then executes a random walk on that tree structure. This results in sometimes hilarious sometimes nonsense tweets that mimic the Twitter user’s past tweets.

Language: Py … ⌘ Read more

Good weekend for random tech projects: this rackmount server I got free boots Plan 9 without issue, and my ttl adapters and wii nunchucks just arrived. Now where can I find a serial modem?

@prologic@twtxt.net, who calls me name when I am busy profiting? 😂 In a less serious note—because nothing is more serious than making profit, of course—yes, it seems your avatar issue has been fixed. I am kind of sad, I looked forward each day to see which random one was going to show. LOL.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org there was an old tool for encrypted volumes that you could use random files as the unlock keys. And you could havemultiple hidden volumes that would unlock depending on the files supplied

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org there was an old tool for encrypted volumes that you could use random files as the unlock keys. And you could havemultiple hidden volumes that would unlock depending on the files supplied

On the blog: So You Need an Image of Random Images… https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/06/collage.html #programming #techtips #linux #blog

new algo in #sndkit @!(sndkitref “sparse”)!@ is a sparse noise generator, similar to velvet noise, that produces a random series of impulses at a specified rate in Hz.

Random Numbers with LFSR (Linear Feedback Shift Register) - Computerphile ⌘ Read more

Random follow-up thought: “On a scale from 7 to 14, how basic am I?”

@movq@www.uninformativ.de “Random thought: Would be great if you could do for i in ...; do something "$i" & done ; wait in a Shell script, but with the Shell only spawning one process per CPU.” -> Interesting which annoyances stay in the back of the head – I’d never articulated this, but it’s absolutely true that this would be great.

@darch@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Technically it should be at the start.. Though the parser doesn’t currently care where it is. Though that leads to artifacts like any random string inside perens becoming a subject.

@darch@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Technically it should be at the start.. Though the parser doesn’t currently care where it is. Though that leads to artifacts like any random string inside perens becoming a subject.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Speak of lang… Do you think we could detect the user’s lang by what they write? Probably just inspect a random subset?

One should probably have a bunch of hard-drives with random content (not some files, but really random) lying around to being able to believably glomarize towards law enforcement

I need a loom for all my random woven literate programs. #halfbakedideas #literateprogramming

Monal IM: Some usage stats for a random day ⌘ https://monal.im/blog/some-usage-stats-for-a-random-day/

Using shuf and $RANDOM for randomization in the command line ⌘

New repository: aquilax/hrana.rimichka.com - Random food generator [BG]

@von@tilde.town: I stole the idea from a random webpage that listed a finger address for contact information. I would assume it’s pretty effective against spam ;)

@johanbove@johanbove.info a random question from someone who’s used Gopher clients a little bit recently but doesn’t quite understand all the memes: Why are numbered directories like “/0/” common on Gopher holes (but not websites)?

Today’s fun: pastel random -n 2 | pastel gradient - -

Cute. wget --mirror --random-wait didn’t.

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A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card · GitHub https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070a22b604

A Survey of $RANDOM « null program https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/12/25/

New repository: aquilax/wiki.bazadanni.com - Random Stuff Wiki

80: innocuous-looking, but refuses to output anything. instead, random things in my room go bump. ‘u’ reliably closes the curtains, while the first ‘del’ the made my room shake with generator hum. have yet to figure out where it is. help I can’t sleep

23: battered, but has actual any key. produces random character when pressed, useful for generating passwords. shift+any produces •, have yet to find a password box that didn’t accept it. useful, will keep.

KEYBOARDS FOUND IN DUMPSTERS:↵2: great to type on. return randomizes the keyboard layout.↵4: black and white keys in weird arrangement. produces sound but no letters. may not be a keyboard.↵7: has a ticklish ‘a’ key and tries to edge away when I come near it↵10: enochian alphabet

Bad idea of the day: A full performance of Smoke on the Water built by remixing clips of people at Guitar Center failing to perform Smoke on the Water & random words spoken by people in Guitar Center

GitHub - jimkang/random-internet-archive: Gets a random Internet Archive resource, in URL form with some metadata. https://github.com/jimkang/random-internet-archive

Bad idea of the day: a bot that posts random joke punchlines but not the actual joke

Kinda okay generated text https://blog.ftql.pw/posts/random-text/

warnings of the end appear in the stars, in randomness streams, on the insides of banana peels↵↵the last day goes by, the last night, and then↵time freezes, stutters, the sun smears across the sky like a video glitch

@mdom@domgoergen.com Or limit the the amount and use random 10 followers or so…

@sdk@codevoid.de a random mix into the the twtxt file seems less clean to me. The former would be easier to implement and simpler for another program to get and parse.

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: It’s just an idea. Not a clean one thoug, as clients would not know upfront who serves such a fiele and who not. Another idea would ne to mix a number of random followers into the twtxt file, which are updated when a person tweets.

you might want to consider whether you really want your decisions to be based on what random people on the internet say.

PoundArt – about Random Computer Comics http://www.poundart.com/art/randcomix/about.html

Shuffling algorithms and randomization to improve algorithm‘s runtime. - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/s_awdesh/everyday-im-shuffling-im-a-card–fire-1f8b

Just Randomness? “ Real Life http://reallifemag.com/just-randomness/

Hot take: in a system where both success and failure compound themselves & affect later likelihood of success & failure respectively, even extreme outcome variation is best explained by random fluctuations early in the process