@jowolff.bsky.social Move slowly and things brake.

@sarahemclaugh.bsky.social Legendary CS professor Donald Knuth as he stopped reading email in 1990:

”…15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime. Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But…my role is to be on the bottom of things.”

www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email…

@mikeygow.bsky.social One of my greatest achievements as a kid was to actually break the supposedly indestructible TAC-2

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAC-2

@samuelwa.de Ah, OK, I see now that LLSPI has an online version, perhaps that is more cost-effective, Legentibus is a bit pricey. My bottle neck isn’t money, though, so for me it’s worth it…

@samuelwa.de I don’t want to be an enabler here but I’ve had the same thought lately (despise full-time work and full time-family) and I think you should check out Legentibus. Their course is based on LLPSI and seems, IMHO, perfect for false beginners.

legentibus.com

@jowolff.bsky.social There is no God and Christopher Hitchens is his messenger.

@bokane.org Oooh, margin notes that also works on mobile! I’ve been fiddling with that for ages. What’s your setup?

@garius.bsky.social What really boggles my mind is that intelligence agencies would buy a something named after a tool of deception.

Wikipedia: ”The stones were an unreliable guide to action […] users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palant%…

@sodrock.bsky.social This is an interesting article that discusses what it might mean to ”learn from China”

madeinchinajournal.com/2025/11/13/s…

Perhaps best read with Kuo’s original article (which IMHO more reflects US anxieties than ”the West”).

www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-gr…