Have you ever heard of the Riemann hypothesis? Since 1859 it’s yet to be solved. The generalization of prime numbers (i.e. a function f(n) that yields the nth prime) would impact fields such as Navigation Systems and Traffic Management, Communication Systems and Satellite Communication (i.e. your Internet connection could become more efficient and faster), Astrophysics and Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, AI and Machine Learning, E-commerce, Finances and Algorithmic Trading, among many other fields. (Yeah, it seems like nothing. /s)

Just a tip for the developer/sysadmins of loops.video, as a developer myself: Seems like loops.video has no DKIM or SPF configured (if that’s the domain being used to sent activation links/codes), so the tendency is for most email providers to block the mail or move it straight to Spam folder. The situation worsens when many users try to sign-up for an account, so loops.video sends a lot of sequential emails (which is something that could be seen as “spam behavior” by email providers). The developer should ensure that mail delivery is properly configured, particularly the trust headers (DKIM and SPF, as mentioned before) needed for sending emails.

Seems like loops.video has no DKIM or SPF configured (if that’s the domain being used to sent activation links/codes), so the tendency is for most email providers to block the mail or move it straight to Spam folder. The situation worsens when many users try to sign-up for an account, so loops.video sends a lot of sequential emails (which is something that could be seen as “spam behavior” by email providers). The developer should ensure that mail delivery is properly configured, particularly the trust headers (DKIM and SPF, as mentioned before) needed for sending emails.

Just a tip: always strip the si=... parameter from URLs. The si parameter is a form of tracking from platforms (particularly Youtube and Soundcloud, although other platforms use it as well), so the platforms can know who shared things and who opened the things that the former shared. When you send a clean link, without the si parameter, it’s more difficult (if not impossible) for platforms to determine who shared the link being opened/downloaded.

I wonder why disinformation and misinformation is such a problem nowadays… Maybe the access to scientific papers should be opened and democratized so everyone, regardless of social and economic classes, could read and lookup reliable knowledge? Nah, just paywall 'em all and blame those silly conspiracy theorists for online misinformation, it’ll certainly work. /s

I’m not sure if it’s a São Paulo (as in the state, not the city) thing, but I had English classes when I was in public high school (“ensino médio”). They weren’t the best English courses out there (i.e. they weren’t comparable to Brazilian schools that specialize in English courses such as CCAA, CNA, Fisk and Wizard), but they offered a good start for those who had no prior knowledge of the English language. It’s also worth mentioning that people who work in IT have more potential to come into contact with communication in English because a lot of documentation is in English. But I totally agree with you that most of the population does not have quality access to English courses.

I’m Brazilian. For personal projects and snippets, especially if I’m going to share their code publicly (e.g. GitHub or GitHub Gists), I often use English. However, when it’s a project from a company I’m working for, I use Portuguese, as every company I’ve worked for so far are Brazilian (and my coworkers were Brazilian as well).

Just a small Portuguese correction: “Bem vendos aos fediverses” should be “Bem-vindos aos fediversos!”.

Despite the lack of apps, Windows Phone was very good for me at that time, as I had two Lumias. They were quite cheap but rather powerful (again, despite the lack of apps like internet banking, but they did have Whatsapp and Telegram). I left WP and Lumia when Whatsapp ended its support for WP in December 2019 (if I remember correctly), and Nokia’s Android phones were expensive at the time, so I tried the Asus Zenfone (because I see Asus as a good PC hardware manufacturer). Two years later, my Zenfone started to drain faster because the battery started to swell, so I bought a Nokia with Android, which I still use nowadays. This latest acquisition made me realize that, indeed, Nokia is no longer the same: although it has the Nokia’s bold design (“almost indestructible”), it is a slow smartphone. I fixed my Zenfone battery and used both phones simultaneously for another two years, when the Zenfone battery stopped holding a charge again (although, this time, it didn’t swell). Since I couldn’t find a replacement battery for the Zenfone, I stuck with the Nokia, but soon I’ll try another brand like Xiaomi, or maybe Asus again since my previous experience with a Zenfone was really good.

Some examples that I remember are:

• The Berkshire Hathaway’s website (https://berkshirehathaway.com/)
• The UNIX website (https://unix.org/version4/)
• Xorg Project website (https://www.x.org/wiki/)
• Marginalia Web Search (https://search.marginalia.nu/)
• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) pages containing Standards (e.g.: https://www.w3.org/TR/controller-document/)
• Pd (Puredata) Project Website (https://puredata.info/)

Some surrealist (not exactly “gibberish” in the literal sense) ideas:

• “Let ᚠ be the ζth factor of the ξth Pontryagin dual element from a Laplacian matrix, hence, the numerical representation from a graph, a Pontryagin duality graph. Let Σᛇ be the sum of probabilities such as ᚠ equals to zero. Determine the probabilities for ᛗ considering that sinh(ᛗ-ᚠ) × ᛟφv² + 1/log(dx) = φͲδx³ + ᚠδx² + 2x where δ is the Gompertz constant and x is the nodal variation for each parallelogram axe.”
• “Given that a conventional passenger airliner flies at speeds below Mach 1, what appears to have been the exact sequence of events that led to an Airbus A380 stalling on August 23, 2027, when a flight (whose flight recorder was recovered but was severely damaged internally) carrying 138 passengers crashed into the Indian Ocean during a strong CME that somehow caused the plane to exceed Mach 1 before its crash?”
• “Derek is wandering at the cemetery during midnight. He ate cooked rice and oat flour in the previous day. His cat, Mower, was diagnosed with pancreatitis. The entire Northern Hemisphere is announced to face severe weather due to anomalies within the Gulf Stream. Back at the cemetery, a specific grave seems misplaced: the gravedigger dug through a water pipe, now the grave is overflowing and filled with dirty water. Why those ravens seem to be following Derek?”

I’ve been using it on Android because of its seamlessly crossfade feature (i.e. the next music/replay gets faded in as the current music is approaching the end). I made some loops with Audacity and it’s the only music player that manages to play them endlessly with no gaps.

As a developer, I can foresee websites using features other than navigator.userAgent to detect Chrome, because it’s easy to change its value. For example: for now, navigator.getBattery is available only in Chromium, and it doesn’t need permissions to be checked for its existence through typeof navigator.getBattery === 'function' (also, the function seems to be perfectly callable without user intervention, enabling additional means of fingerprinting). While it’s easy to spoof userAgent, it’s not as easy to “mock” unsupported APIs such as navigator.getBattery through Firefox.

As a Brazilian, this too. Also, some PTSD from remembering recent Brazilian elections (sometimes USA and Brazil are so similar that they seem like brothers separated at birth, your Trump was our Bolsonaro, your Biden is our Lula, I wouldn’t be surprised if your Harris is our Dilma without the “stockpiling of wind” thing).

I try to find some books regarding occult knowledge. I read them until the dusk (I’ll possibly also try to find candles as well as functional matches).

When dusk arrives, I start to do something else: I’m seeing a feather pen, so it implies that there’s tint somewhere, possibly black tint as the feather’s base is slightly stained in black. I push away those chairs and the table, I roll away that carpet, then I try to draw a big perfect circle on the floor (possibly using that ladder as an improvised drawing compass. Inside the circle, I draw the alchemical symbol for Saturn, perfectly centered over a diametric horizontal line (therefore, an underlined Saturn symbol). I draw six specific letters outside and around the circle, spaced exactly 60 degrees. Then I take that red notebook over the desk, and I start writing:

“Regina noctis, Dea dearum, Thine is my soul.” along with other sensitive content that involves a red liquid.

Then I place the red covered notebook exactly in the middle of the circle. I recite a specific Enochian mantra and I wait until a shivering presence starts.

The secret society of the cryptid goatmen brotherhood (I don’t remember which prompt I used, but I used a fast SDXL model from Huggingface)

Been more of a fan of long form discussion that can bring more insight

Me too. I don’t like the 500 character limit. It forces us to use slangs and internet abbreviations. Also, it allows for less information when I post in Portuguese (I’m Brazilian, so it’s my first language besides English) because Portuguese has all these long conjugations (differently from English). Some sentences are shorter in Portuguese (for example “O rato atravessou a rua” is shorter than “The rat crossed the street”), but they tend to be longer.

I read some of your comments and you seem like an interesting person

Thanks!

I’d be grateful if you could share your poetry

I use the same handle/nickname as here (dsilverz) on Mastodon’s main instance (mastodon.social). There’s a mix of poetry types and genres (some are really dark, found under the “Content Warning” Mastodon feature), but all of them tries to fit the 500 character limitation. There are other instances as well (one where I post AI imagery illustrating the poetry I’ve written, other has a plus 500 character limit, where I posted storytelling but has no many posts because it’s not well federated) I’m yet to find a Mastodon instance that both supports over 500 characters and has a reasonable federation and user activity (so that posts gets to readers).

Problem is that newer systems aren’t compatible with “old” hardware. So to you know, these computers being disregarded are still functional machines, if it weren’t for Microsoft and other big techs bringing new requirements. What to do with lots of machines that doesn’t have TPM 2.0? Ditch em all, contributing to more e-waste? This thought almost rendered an paralyzed man unable to walk again, as an “old” $100k exoskeleton was deemed “out-of-warranty”.

Ubuntu isn’t as paid as Windows. Also, newer Ubuntu versions don’t need the user to throw their machine away because TPM 2.0 or NPUs are missing. Maybe these are two of the main reasons why nobody is complaining about its EOL.