evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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That cleverclogs @eligrey has a font which encrypts text.
https://eligrey.com/blog/rot13-dejavu-fonts/
Yeah, OK, it is only ROT13. And any substitution cipher can probably be broken using frequency analysis.
It's possible to use font ligatures to obfuscate the text even more. See Bullshit Sans as an example - https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/
So, there you have it. A way to *sort of* encrypt a statically served HTML file without using Javascript.
HAPPY SUNDAY!
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🎶 when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie 🎶
*serious voiceover*
You may have a claim
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The stages of playing with GPT-3:
- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete
(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)
@VOLEwtf damnit, now I'm hungry again
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On maps of Ikea, slime mould ‘found the exit, more efficiently than the scientists who set the task’
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/francis-gooding/from-its-myriad-tips
@AMinorMuddle *boik*
they were unpleasant
@AMinorMuddle still worth it...
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I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.
@stavvers awesome! humungous pockets rule. also, if you're lucky a netbook may fit inside one :)
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I am going to be stripping out my print store and trying a different approach. If you want any of the existing signed pictures, order them now. 20% off A4 and 8x6s. When those designs are gone they're gone. www.happytoast.co.uk
@mattround @IamHappyToast ooooh
Crisps-on-toast?
* with crisps
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swearing about satellites
Oh god I redid the math on re-entries:
Each Starlink v2 sat weighs 1250kg. They plan to have 42,000 of them in orbit.
Each satellite has a planned lifetime of 5 years. That means they'll be de-orbiting and replacing ALL of them every 5 years.
That comes to 23 sats per day, which is 29 TONS OF SATELLITE every day.
It doesn't go away, it gets added to the upper atmosphere. Most of the mass is aluminum. What the hell is that going to do?
WHY THE FUCK IS THIS OK?!
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
