Ever heard of the Erdős number? There should be an Epstein number. And a project to calculate it for everyone. The bigger it is, the more likely you are to be a decent person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_numberReally looking forward to this one:
https://bsidespyongyang.com/BSides Pyongyang
🇰🇵 \#BSidesPyongyang2025 - A community cyber conference on Nov 18 2025 (Missile Industry Day)
BSides PyongyangBah...the preview sort of ruins it. Is there no way to prevent that?
Qualcomm is buying Arduino. Arduino was already so great. I don't understand what Qualcomm can do to make Arduino better but I know there is a lot they could do to make it worse. Major corporations buying up beloved small brands and products ends poorly more often than not. There's plenty of competition in that part of the hardware world but it's the openness, community, and all of the support that really matters.
After reading about the NPM hack today I'm beginning to think that maybe this cryptocurrency stuff is risky and prone to abuse.

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply
: Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages
The RegisterGetting it right within 3 orders of magnitude is pretty good for an astrophysicist. Pretty bad for an accountant.
If you know what a shibboleth is, you may be one of my people.