FordPrefect @mobius@qoto.org

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

GNU Terry Pratchett

Our pediatrician has something to say about people who refuse to wear masks.

I worked a bit on some ideas for a 2021 #calendar, raiding the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences #OEIS for inspiration.

Implemented the basic algorithm of one so far: the sum of all the parts of all the partitions of 43 into 9 primes is 2021. (There are 47 partitions, 2021 is the product of two adjacent #PrimeNumbers 43 * 47). Making it prettier is a task for later.

#maths #algorithms #haskell #art #TwentyTwentyOne

Someone said "is that still a thing?" when I announced I was on Mastodon. Is it?
Boost this so we actually get a few votes maybe? How far can it go?

Tolkeins original first page for the lord of the rings... Look at that hand writing!

Chauvin charged with 3rd Degree murder

#GeorgeFloyd

Fuck people who show up early. I wasnt planning on putting on pants for another 2 minutes and 17 seconds!

>We still don't know what will achieve self-awareness first: Mathematica or Stephen Wolfram

Overheard on HN

"We find that Zoom has “rolled their own” encryption scheme, which has significant weaknesses. In addition, we identify potential areas of concern in Zoom’s infrastructure, including observing the transmission of meeting encryption keys through China."

Move Fast & Roll Your Own Crypto: A Quick Look at the Confidentiality of Zoom Meetings - The Citizen Lab

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto-a-quick-look-at-the-confidentiality-of-zoom-meetings/