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coronavirus ableism death etc 

disabled people are like, hey we're the ones at risk of dying from the pandemic and the restrictions are the bare minimum precaution keeping our fellow citizens from casually killing us en masse.
and abled people are like, i hear you, and i'm very sorry, however i'm also bored

ugh cycling to the hackerspace this afternoon but it's very fukin wimdy

“The password generator included in Kaspersky Password Manager had several problems. The most critical one is that it used a PRNG not suited for cryptographic purposes. Its single source of entropy was the current time. All the passwords it created could be bruteforced in seconds.”

donjon.ledger.com/kaspersky-pa

They used math.random() on the web version y’all. This is a “security” company. I’m speechless.

uni + 

randomized group work at this study (industrial design engineering) is sooooo much better than it was at computer science... the people are so much nicer and everyone does the work

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uni grades + 

nice nice 8.5 out of 10 for our scientific group report

why did i just go "oh i wish it was Friday"

i have vacation

every day is weekend

my new monitoring setup just works so well now aaaa

gonna put some big thought into a motion control camera rig that would transfer from jib/slider/curved slider

I can still make sure everything is perfectly ready though, so I just have to copy data when it's ready

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me: i wish i was a programmer!

monkey's paw: oh uh.. haha uh.. let me check with my supervisor (yeah boss? yeah he added the curse himself.. so i.. ok.. ok) looks like this wish is on the house!

but installing that will cause quite some downtime... so I will have to wait with migrations till that's done...

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well, ordered a bunch of things but somewhere this summer should have a working github.com/pikvm/pikvm#diy-get remote KVM setup for the new homeserver

really going into techgore territory here.. it'll fit something like this. That VGA will go into a hdmi converter which goes to a capturecard on the pi-kvm

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they publish .step 3d models on the site <3 time to print out and see how it fits in the case.. I screwed off the mounting bracket from the gpu because it'll be backwards in the case lol

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after looots of mental rotation/translation visualization on how this would fit in the case + with the motherboard, I found that the R43NR is perfect aliexpress.com/item/1005001631

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still hate crypto mining but at least they made some weird hardware available now (FPGA's and cursed pcie adaptors)

@Anarkat like, yeah it's a problem that 58% of fireworks fires occur during this one week (i didn't check that figure, let's assume it's true) but consider that by actual total number of fires, there is over 10x more arson for example

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