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Chap. CCCLXIV. — On the Judgment of Painters.

When the work is equal to the knowledge and judgment of the painter, it is a bad sign; and when it surpasses the judgment, it is still worse, as is the case with those who wonder at having succeeded so well. But when the judgment surpasses the work, it is a perfectly good sign ; and the young painter who possesses that rare disposition, will, no doubt, arrive at great perfection. He will produce few works, but they will be such as to fix the admiration of every beholder.

Leonardo da Vinci, "A Treatise on Painting.", p. 225

https://archive.org/details/davincionpainting00leon/page/224...

The legislations for the 35 member countries of the CBCDG can be viewed here:

https://rulesforuse.org/en/about-cbcdg

e.g. for the US dollar:

https://rulesforuse.org/en/currencies/us-dollar

Information on the CDS developed by the CBCDG is sparse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_Counterfeit_Deter...

Replacing 'twitter' in the URL by 'xcancel' can be helpful:

https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

Patrick Tierney's "The Highest Altar" [1] develops a very similar thesis, with first-hand experience by the author.

Wikipedia provides some material on child sacrifice by the Incas in e.g. [2] and [3].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-08-bk-201-st... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plomo_Mummy [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Llullaillaco

Additional info on the station's web site, only in French, unfortunately: https://www.rts.ch/info/sciences-tech/medias/13976194-les-in...

Non-western publications of possible interest:

https://asiatimes.com/ in english, mostly free

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/ in french, subscription

Threema doesn't require a phone number.

The behavior of the United Kingdom looks incoherent: it wants to become a surveillance state [1], but without using cameras manufactured in China, on the grounds that China is a surveillance state.

[1] <https://www.cctv.co.uk/how-many-cctv-cameras-are-there-in-th...>

Were you using Tor Browser ? From Switzerland, I can create free Proton accounts by solving a captcha, if I'm using Safari or Firefox. But if I use Tor on the same computer, the only option is to enter a phone number.

No, I didn't. And I just tried with Tor Browser, but the captcha option is not available.

Between 2019 and 2020, I've created a few free one-time ProtonMail accounts, which I used for creating throw-away Apple IDs.

In fact, I just created one to verify. It's still possible. See for yourself:

user: [email protected]

pass: testdonotuseforseriousstuff

All I had to do was to solve a captcha with bicycles in order to prove I was human. And the dialog for recovery e-mail / phone had a "Maybe later" button.

I live in Switzerland, maybe the impossibility of anonymous account creation is a legal issue in some countries ?

The conductor took your passports for the cross-border check, since you'd likely be soundly asleep at the time when it would happen. You can view this as a service.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. -- George Bernard Shaw

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6809999-old-men-are-dangero...

508 pixels/inch = 200 pixels/cm, exactly. The resolution unit in PNG is either the meter, or it is unspecified. 1 inch = 25.4 mm, 25.4 * 2 = 50.8. 508 is close enough to 600, and 600 dpi is a resolution commonly found in desktop printers.

If you've worked with PNG files under Photoshop, you may have noticed that a picture saved with exactly 72 dpi has 72.009 dpi when you close it and open it again. Using an integer multiple of 254 for the dpi prevents such a drift.

This interesting analysis was written in 2016. Is there a more recent version ?

French expression is "chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin". First known use is 1652, source:

https://www.expressio.fr/expressions/chercher-une-aiguille-d...

(also provides equivalent expressions in several other languages).

Some map makers seem to have indulged in this for fun:

For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-...

This is a very useful list. Information on mac OS defaults is not easy to discover.

In backward Wallis, I've been receiving a single folded A3 page for at least 5 years. And since last year, I could even snapshot the substantiating documents with my mobile and attach them to my digital tax form if I wanted to.

That was my rationale for voting "no". The task of deciding who is swiss and who isn't shouldn't be entrusted to some AI running on a facebook server.

Maybe Diplomacy ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_(game)

"1830: The Game of Railroads and Robber Barons" is an enduring classic.