My latest how-to: A collapse-proof telescopic antenna mast. Erected using zero concrete.

https://ky8d.net/mast

What gives with no mask on Artemis 2 closeout crew member #3? Just only him bare faced? The other four all masked, but not him.

Because I'm getting vibes of that scene where Boris Badinov tosses a literal monkey wrench into a side hatch on Rocky and Bullwinkle's rocket just moments before takeoff.

Let everyone now claim 8 June 1949 as their birthdate!

This in response to government mandated age verification on all computer accounts. Clearly it's stage one, the narrow end of a very long wedge. A fascist first strike against online annonymity.

Diabolically clever, yes, to claim that their only aim is to be protecting kids?

Why 8 June 1949? That's the publication date of Orwell's prophetic novel 1984.

Hey rest of the world! Would you all please kindly stop coddling my country's foremost delusion? We suffer from plural, but one has long since risen high above all of the rest.

Just suppose, what if any other nation at all were to begin insistently self-identifying as an entire continent?

For instance, what if Japan should arrogate unto itself symbolic identity with the whole of Asia?

No, wait... Didn't they actually pull that off some little while back? And just look how it turned out...

Getting old sucks....

Last Saturday's ΜRI confirms neck joint arthritis: severe left sided C5-6 and C6-7 left neuroforaminal stenosis.

Cause of near constant throbing ache from left shoulder blade down to the pinkie finger that I've been putting up with the past six weeks.

Steroid pills had been helping, but Rx has run since out. Cortisone injections are now in my future.

On the bright side, I'm right-handed. Morse code I'm still able to do, if somewhat distracted meanwhile.

Hurrah! Eureka! This guy's GitHub archive is an absolute treasure trove!

https://every-algorithm.github.io

Well, drat! More than one genuine crypto guru has politely poo-pooed my 'bright idea' of yesterday morning for a pseudo-random number generator.

In its place, they several have recommend a well proven standard algorithm called Blum Blum Shub.

Herewith do I disavow all association with the hairbrained concept above and begin coding Blum Blum Shub into #Forth.

Just this morning it dawned on me how to generate a repeatable sequence of truly random numbers for encryption purposes.

1. Obtain a pseudo-random number as/per usual.
2. Permute it into a 64-element Knapsack key.
3. Obtain a new pseudo-random number.
4. Encrypt that with the key from step 2.
5. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for a new key.
6. Decrypt the result of step 4 with the new key.

I now have this working in #Forth. Looks good so far.

What say you all?