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No surprise a hungry cat will eventually be found inside the bin.


Maybe it is time to consider INvers, irrational number versioning, as used in eg TeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX

In TeX the version approaches Pi, every new version adds a decimal. Elegant, will hold forever!

TeX 3.141592653 is 45 years old. Its companion Metafont has version number 2.71828182, you can see where this is going.


Donald Knuth intentionally chose this versioning scheme to point out how much he trusts his software to never change.


Remorse maybe?


Question: How large is the largest star in the universe?

Answer: The largest known star is Earendel, which is 1,500 times the mass of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the diameter of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the luminosity of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the temperature of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the pressure of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the density of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the gravity of the Sun. It is 100,000 times the speed of light. It is 100,000 times the speed of sound. It is 100,000 times the speed of rotation. It is 100,000 times the speed of revolution. It is 100,000 times the speed of escape. It is 100,000 times the speed of light.


Well, at least it seems to be more current than me on some things. I was going to mock it for thinking a mythological figure transformed by Tolkein into a fictional star is a real star, but it turns out someone really did name a real star Earendel 8 months ago, though it is nowhere near the largest known star and no star is anywhere near 100,000 Sun radii, which is an order of magnitude greater than the maximum distance of Pluto from the Sun and a totally ridiculous number well beyond the maximum possible star size.


Sounds like a description of a magical artifact from anime, but is substantially more poetic.


It is common knowledge that rabbits stack rather naturally.


Don't stack your rabbits. That's how you end up with extra rabbits.


Totally +1 this. Buy a domain (= "rent" it long term) and be free.


Then you don't use that service.


It is a modern version of displaying the current first page of a newspaper to prove something has not happened earlier than the displayed reference.


That's probably why QRDate has a news headline in the footer of the opening screen.


Yup, I'd love the old way better. As long as it's human-readable. I hate barcodes in a way because they require tools to read. And circumstances vary a lot!


I like what the Qubes developers have done with a short script adding current headlines and bitcoin block hash to their warrant canaries:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/canarie...

edit: and the script itself: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-secpack/blob/master/utils/p...


This is why it is much more natural to use RPN. Solves all these problems: 1 2 / -9.8 * Or 1 2 -9.8 * /


So you store the password and the TOTP in KeePass? Seems that you have 1FA, hacking your KeePass is enough to own you.


No, that would be silly. They're stored in separate databases with different passwords.

If I was really paranoid I'd keep the TOTP database on a separate device but, frankly, I don't anticipate being the target of a motivated attacker so that's more than I feel is necessary given the threat models I'm concerned about, those being untargeted hacks (service breaches, driveby attacks, etc) and social engineering.


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