Yup, the Titty Cat is the best part. Also a positive is she doesn't speak in Nyaa puns.
It occurs to me that our Dead Weight, being from the 1940's, has never heard of an RPG, status screens, or any of that stuff....
Shy, failure, random, and idiots
Shy 2, episode 3
Our Hot Ninja Princess exposits on the story arc while Her Annoying Ninja Boyfriend insists on dragging her home, before just giving up and hanging around. Maybe he wanted to peep on her shower scene, which was protected from the viewers by the power of Buy The Bluray. Whose shower? Oh, she’s spending the night with Our Shy Hero Shy, which makes Our Best Girlfriend so jealous that she shows up to make it a threesome. Well, Uno-playing sleepover, anyway, although Princess did invite Teru to join her in the shower…
By the way, Princess is a manipulative little minx, coaxing Teru into holding her unsheathed sword before mentioning that it will reveal all her secrets. Including her secret identity. Which is good, because the plot depends on her contacting one of the heroes.
Verdict: contrived, but 90% of the episode is cute girls hanging out together and developing their characters. It’s only at the end that Dark Sword Princess and Dipshit Monologing Head Villain ruin the fun.
(she has Teru hold the sword by the blade, and doesn’t even wipe off the sweaty handprints after; I didn’t know this was going to be a horror series 😁)
Isekai Fail, episodes 1-2
The only thing I liked about this was the nameless busty catgirl. The joke about dragging him around in a coffin wore out really fast; someone needs to introduce these gals to the concept of the wheel.
(I kinda wonder how his real-life grandchildren feel about how he’s being portrayed, but not enough to look)
Hardware true random number generators
Years ago, my long-standing interest in promoting entropy led me down the path of little USB dongles that exploit an assortment of physical processes to generate high-quality real random numbers on demand (because I don’t have room for the Lava Lamps).
The first one I bought to play with is still available, but quite slow, delivering data at 400 Kbits/sec: TrueRNG3. It’s also the easiest to use on any platform, since it mounts as a USB serial port and you can use anything to read bytes from the device.
The ChaosKey delivers at ~5
Mbit/sec, and integrates into /dev/random on Linux and
OpenBSD, but if you want to access it directly, you’ll need to build
their tools. Problem:
it’s no longer being produced. Other problem: the tools are pretty
crude; you may need to use sudo, and you should always use --cooked
to get quality output
(ent
reports that the default --raw output is 21% compressible, which is
not good).
The best current production devices appear to be from TectroLabs, and are available on Amazon. Their cheapest product, the SwiftRNG LE, promises to deliver quality random bytes at 29 Mbits/sec, and their tools are more sophisticated and better-documented than the abandoned ChaosKey code. Their API code compiles on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and you can set up the Linux device driver to poll multiple units.
The files still generated daily by random.org are fun to play with, by the way, but you need to actually store them somewhere. The disk space isn’t a big deal any more, but any code that uses them directly has to ensure you never replay an old file.
Dear Gruber,
Stick to giving Apple execs rimjobs. Gun control is waaaay outside your core incompetency, and your severe TDS showcases your allegiance to the core Leftist values of hatred, intolerance, and bigotry. (no link)
Is this really new?
As the damning facts pile up about the Secret Service’s multiple kinds of failures that made it possible for a 20-year-old slacker to come within a literal inch of murdering Trump, I’m left wondering if they’ve been that incompetent for a long time, and as with other federal agencies, we’re only finding out about it now that it’s too big to completely cover up.
I can only hope that Trump’s first day back in office is a blizzard of executive orders, wholesale firings, and release of classified documents.
Unicorn Chaser
The Pom-Pom girls have a quite appealing OP animation (even with a little bit of gainaxing), although I think Girls Generation did it better…
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I gave up on Isekai Fail halfway through the first episode. I'd rather watch Generic Isekai #34,567 than something that tries to be original and ends up just being annoying.
New season of Time Patrol Bon is up on Netflix so I'm set for a couple of days.
Mauser liked the first episode, so I gave it a shot. It is a pretty lean season, after all.
-j
It is indeed.
If you're interested in a bit of roll-your-won, many Arm Cortex M4 MCUs provide a TRNG that's generally "The True Random Number Generator (TRNG) generates unpredictable random numbers that are not generated by an algorithm. It passes the American NIST Special Publication 800-22 and Diehard Random Tests Suites. The TRNG may be used as an entropy source for seeding an NIST approved DRNG (Deterministic RNG) as required by FIPS PUB 140-2 and 140-3."
The above quote is from the datasheet for Microchip's ATSAMD51, as seen on things like Sparkfun's Thing Plus - SAMD51. It can produce a 32-bit number every 84 clock cycles and has a max speed of 120MHz. STM's got a pile of STM32s that have their own, too. I haven't played with the STM version, although IIRC it's got a similar generation rate, and you can get raw random numbers out of it with about 20 lines of C.
Doing anything more with that is left as an exercise to the reader, but it's fairly easy to do in Arduino.
It's supposedly possible to access the TRNG on a Raspberry Pi as well, and I've got several of those around here somewhere. Mostly I was just checking in on the state of the art, which seems to be "affordable high-speed hobbyist TRNGs are basically no longer a thing, unless you like to solder". Even the SwiftRNG models on Amazon are "1 in stock" for each.
-j
Fair enough, certainly. Depending on what you want to do, an Adafruit Feather M4 Express at about $20 can send text back via USB, so it's not that expensive.
Huh, maybe I oughtta spin up a simple board to do that. How do these SwiftRNG things work?
Edit: holy crap, those are expensive. Even a 600MHz teensy 4.0 is only like $28!
The general idea of a TRNG is to find create a circuit that generates unpredictable bits at a decent rate, which are then optionally hashed to ensure even coverage in bytes. Here are four hardware designs: 1, 2, 3, 4; the last one doesn't contain any sort of hashing, so it has to be done in the software driver on the host it's plugged into.
Adafruit also has a complete project for building one with Arduino parts they sell.
-j
Sorry--should've been clearer. I wondered how this hardware gets random bytes to your PC in a usable way. I know what a TRNG is. Looks like the SwiftRNG people just stuff bytes into a USB endpoint, I didn't look what kind.
The Adafruit project seems cool but I'd rather avoid their products; they've always been woke-ish, but they've gone rabid the last few years (stopping using a shipping provider named uline because they gasp donated to Bad Orange Man, for example).
Yeah, Adafruit was always a little sketchy, and I'm not surprised that they went full Penzeys.
I can't find the link right now, but I saw a TRNG that registered itself as a USB microphone, so that you didn't need custom drivers to read from it. That's one alternative to limiting itself to the BAUD rate of a USB serial port.
-j
It's remotely possible that Joe's nude swims might have driven competent sane women out.
Yet, I just don't know.
Shooter info looks weird.
Info on the defensive situation looks weird.
Of course, at this point, all the unreliable information mixed in should make everything look weird.
I'm less interested in the defensive aspects of spree shootings, or in tactics in general. I absolutely do not know how to organize a security detail.
My default analysis of that angle is that 'defensive organization failed, but defense is hard, and attackers have to be successful once'. Now, it is genuinely starting to look like someone who is making public statemetns is either an idiot, or has something to hide. Or both.
There are huge reasons to doubt me on this.
I think my takeaway is that I am glad that figuring this out isn't actually my responsibility.
I think the spokesweasels are utterly terrified of being the scapegoat, and their panic is leading them to say things that just make everyone look worse.
-j