Wrote a quick note about the latest Times "Satoshi" article. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4769...

Happy Easter! Christ is Risen! Great news from MIT - 12 people received first sacraments tonight. 3 Baptisms, another 6 First Communions, and then 3 Confirmations.

Absolute gem from Nature archive.is/yAdmQ#select... Biologists had all the time in the world to establish IACR, USENIX, ICML, etc. Cutting funding is one thing, paying to publish in legacy "prestige venues" is a travesty. Just do an overlay over bioarXiv and call it a day.

Let's gooooooooo www.ncregister.com/news/catholi...

Arch Linux: "Guys, trust me -- systemd is the future. It's clean, fast, and modern, and look at those boot time gainz!" systemd: "Thanks! Anyway, here’s a mandatory birthDate field for your local login." Arch Linux:

https://x.com/Math_files/status/2035264585629147538 I'm impressed that Qwen 35B was able to figure this one out. (took 15k tokens, a little under 3 min on my laptop) Anyway, the way that you can use trigonometric… https://firefly.social/post/ff-06158f292d0a405b87f3d296b7702907?s=bsky

The board thinks Nelsons works for the BSO. Superficial take. Does the BSO exist for what Nelsons does?

Berkshire Eagle: If Andris Nelsons' dismissal is a matter of conflicting 'vision,' then BSO should state what its vision is.

BSO board: "play 'who lives in a pineapple under the sea' OR ELSE!" Andris Nelsons: "no."

Big news! The former Electric Coin Co team (now in a new company named “ZODL”) has raised $25m from a good group of investors to advance privacy as a principle and Zcash specifically! zodl.com/zodl-raises-...

A lot of people have asked me for my LaTeX setup. I finally got around to extracting (thanks, coding agents) and open sourcing it: github.com/madars/tex-h...

Pope nails diagnosis: chatbots as "hidden architects of emotional states", anthropomorphizing, cognitive atrophy. But prescription is, unfortunately, weak: "dialogue" is wishful thinking when builders build and engagement algos print money. Hard answer: out-build. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Some quick thoughts on IACR - Chrome downloads quite often fail for Advanced Protection Program users, enabling silent failures. But Helios probably wants extra safeguards. e.g., you must open a file in Notepad and say what are the secret words 11, 17, and 35 in some 3-wise independent encoding.

To cryptographically prove that I am who I am: Dogs are the best animals and that is a fact