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The next move would be to run a complaint at the local Data Protection Authority - eg. for Austrians https://www.data-protection-authority.gv.at/.

Sounds like Token Ring...

Well, with the remaining trust available at this point you might just as well use something cryptographically secure, like encrypted ones, twos, or simple HMACs of the block number.

A too-simple scheme is likely to be detected (and bypassed!) by the firmware a nearly no time.

HackFu 2021 was held there: https://hackfu.at/

This is already possible in Austria.

The "eAusweise" app allows people to "prove" others their age without giving away any more data:

https://www.digitalaustria.gv.at/eng/services/eServices/Proo... (German only:) https://www.oesterreich.gv.at/eausweise/haeufige-fragen/haeu...

I often use RHEL7-compatible binaries on RHEL8 and Debian (testing) machines, with no problems.

Wouldn't a (3-D) cube have eight corners?

And 3 length dimensions plus time gives a hypercube, with 16 corners.

For 11 dimensions, 2048 corners... for 26, 2^26 ;)

> By the way, does anyone know of a VNC-like solution that can use MPEG compression?

You want xpra.

Try http://xpra.org/ - that's a "gnu screen" for X11, but bandwidth-optimized, can also relay USB, audio, ...

Just to give you an idea: I used it for forwarding a Firefox window across an UMTS connection when sitting in a train. (Long story: 32bit Java required to remote desktop into a client's environment across the Atlantic, ugh.)

Even some on the Danube - in the middle of Europe...

Well, a simple solution is to only have one middleware that uses database connections, and have all other things around it be purely functional. (Though that may mean using their own databases, of course).

That's "Odysseus of Ithaca" in "A Perfect Vacuum"[1], by Stanislav Lem.

Ad 1: https://stanislaw-lem.fandom.com/wiki/A_Perfect_Vacuum

Even just a random process might give better results - sometimes.

From THHGTTG:

> To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

That's even _necessary_, as there are a few flag bits in the MAC address - broadcast, user-administrated-address, etc.

Just using a random value might give you "interesting" effects and lot of fun debugging those.

Well, using "himem.sys" you could make use of RAM above 1MB... I used it to write a sort utility that only uses temp files when RAM was exhausted.

On my 386 with 4MB total RAM I could use about 3.7 or so, the rest was a shadowed BIOS copy. (Never tried to deactivate that, perhaps it would have been relocated and then made available?)

Yes. See "libaa" and the "bb" demo.

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/

It might not be on purpose...

You may want to read some Stanislav Lem, about Trurl and Klapauzius. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad

That's not so tiny... 256 Bytes RAM, 4K Flash, that's quite a bit bigger than the smaller ATtiny25 (128B RAM, 2K Flash, 6 I/O, much less hardware on board)

I guess what was meant is "reduce cognitive overhead for editing, so that the brain can keep the actual programming task in short-term memory".

There's an bug - the base64 value is being hex-encoded, not the binary SHA1 result. So the hex values are wrong, and the rest as well.

Another interesting article here is "MCS locks and qspinlocks": https://lwn.net/Articles/590243/

Would you mind talking a bit via email?