Pdfcast.

This document was drafted in OneNote, productionised using LibreOffice Writer, post-processed in Audacity and hand-tuned using a derivation of qpdf, before being glued together with bash, sed, and python. The coverdisk is a 1.44MB FAT-12 formatted floppy disk image.

Lab6 Issue 1

Erdreistaunliche Deutredlichkeit.

Aber weil ich doch irgendeine dunkle Vorstellung habe, die mit dem, was ich suche, von fern her in einiger Verbindung steht, so prägt, wenn ich nur dreist damit den Anfang mache, das Gemüt, während die Rede fortschreitet, in der Notwendigkeit, dem Anfang nun auch ein Ende zu finden, jene verworrene Vorstellung zur völligen Deutlichkeit aus, dergestalt, daß die Erkenntnis zu meinem Erstaunen mit der Periode fertig ist.

Heinrich von Kleist (1805): Über die allmähliche Verfertigung der Gedanken beim Reden

Pandendic.

4. An epidemic, in general, comes to an end, before the susceptible population has been exhausted.

William Ogilvy Kermack & A. G. McKendrick (1972): A contribution to the mathematical theory of epidemics. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1927.0118

Ineffective and harmful.

Today, 11 May, is a worrying day for every person in the EU who wants to send a message privately without exposing their personal information, like chats and photos, to private companies and governments. The European Commission has adopted its “Regulation laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse” material online, including measures which put the vital integrity of secure communications at risk.

EDRi: European Commission’s online CSAM proposal fails to find right solutions to tackle child sexual abuse 

Lean.

Is it still a proof if it takes 4 minutes on a 4 GHz 12-core CPU?