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Aside, but it's pretty neat that the author has been semi-regularly posting on their blog for over 20 years.

Neat? I would use other words. Fraudsters rely on marketing. https://danielpocock.com/en/matthias-fsfe-analogous-identity...

That guy has a history of harassment in Debian, and is not a credible source.


In particular, the Order-of-Magnitude section might be interesting: https://nathanmcrae.name/order-of-magnitude/


I would also toss differential evolution in the ring as a widely applicable and easy to implement technique.

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


How do you go about positively demonstrating such a system is air-gapped?


Speaking from past experience with the DoE (I'm happy I don't need to deal with security like this anymore), there were constant and randomized checks to make sure fiber cables (they were all fiber to make it harder to tamper with and to avoid accidental RF) were fully visible (e.g. not hidden under a desk or something) and not tampered with. Also, lots of locks and doors, both electrical and mechanical. The guy at the front desk with a big gun probably helped too.


Aeronautical charts have incredible information density. https://skyvector.com/ for zoomable charts


Nautical charts too: https://www.admiralty.co.uk/charts.

There’s an astonishing good balance of density and clarity of information needed to make these useful. This then also has to translate across both physical and screen forms.

Chart 5011 has a great breakdown on the depth of symbology too.


No, 600 megatons (~E12 kg) is closer. There are E10 humans and we weigh E2 kg. More precisely: 6E1 kg * 8E9 = 5.6E11


Numbers are to be considered about dehydrated mass, again according to the study.


Interesting. I didn’t read the study. I wonder if that favors smaller animals? Are large mammals a larger fraction water?


I've run Nextcloud for years primarily for webdav file sync and calendar+contacts. It pretty much just works. That's not to say there isn't any jank, but it's mostly if you try the more obscure apps e.g. I've set up the phone track feature and it worked for a while, but I've had trouble with it recently. Probably fixable, but I just haven't spent the time.

I would say it is the core component of my self-(vps)-hosted setup and easily the most valuable.


Even though this isn't a fully-fledged industrial system, I like the thought they put into those aspects. Particularly, I want to make a homebrew PLC myself someday and the 24V IO board they made would be a nice starting point for that.


The reason you would trust and FPGA more than a SoC is because putting in backdoors in an FPGA is much harder. If an FPGA is backdoored to the point where any soft core (whose layout kind be randomized to some degree) is compromised, then that would likely be obvious from the kind of inspections Bunnie has written about: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2023/infra-red-in-situ-ir...


What packages would you recommend for this kind of usage?


This covers most of what you need for "housekeeping" scripts in Python: https://automatetheboringstuff.com


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