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How to have doas insult you (with insults straight from deraadt@):

https://jo.ie/doas-insults.html

#OpenBSD

Success! After wrangling with radeondrm/EFI issues, I finally managed to get #OpenBSD 6.3 running on my old iMac with multiple monitors fully supported (thanks to some manual modeline work with cvt and xrandr)

#RUNBSD

#reintroductions #introductions

Update/expansion of my intro last year. I'm now going into fourth year maths rather than theoretical physics, having switched degrees. (That's assuming I pass some exams this week that I deferred due to illness).

I brew beer as a hobby, and code when I have spare time. I enjoy writing science fiction, but I'm a long way away from publishing anything.

I have 111 characters spare so: My favourite equation is \(\int_M \mathrm{d}\omega = \int_{\partial M}\omega\)

My ISP seems to be hijacking all DNS requests, regardless of server, so that they can blackhole facebook traffic (facebook.com is being routed to 127.0.0.1). I can run DNS queries against example.com and still get results:

Przyblyski's Star: A star with more praesodymium in its spectrum than iron. Is it aliens? Maybe, but unlikely. Is it a measurement error? Probably not. Is it evidence of the island of stability? Surprisingly, this might be the most likely outcome. Is it weird as fuck? YES.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybylski%27s_Star

I've think I've got a new favourite paper.

"The Meanderings of a Weapon Oriented Mind When Applied in a Vacuum Such as the Moon"

Obscure-ish topic, but does anybody here have any textbook / expository paper recommendations for contact geometry?

It's been a while now since my degree, but I've had to help out a sibling with some thermodynamics homework, and it's sparked my interest in the geometric side of physics again.

#BeagleV beta board arriving tomorrow! (According to DHL. So it might be another two weeks)

#riscv #beagleboard #osdev

TIL that the Kama Sutra recommends that women learn crypto:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mlecchita_vikalpa

#crypto #cryptography

@EdgarMartinezMoro Hey, welcome to Mathstodon. What's your favourite finite simple group?

I have had a small length of CAT-5 cable in my coat pocket for at least the last two years. It has followed me across the Atlantic and back. I don’t think I’ve ever used it, and can’t for the life of me remember why I put it there.