alt Hacker NewsThat the FOSS bazaar broke off into megachurches while still maintaining a healthy small scale and independent bazaar [0]. That FOSS sustainability is much more complicated than just "throw money at it".
That there's "metal paste" [1].
That the zodiac killer's messages have been cracked for five years now (I didn't know they were cracked to begin with) and that it was a shift and substitution cypher [2]. The telltale clue was that the symbol frequency was uniform but under shift it become non-uniform.
How to solder those pesky connectors that come on the tiny servo motors you can get from Aliexpress [3].
That Firefox only has 2.3% market share [4].
Multiscale 3d truchet patterns are freakin complicated [5].
That prioritizing tasks by the linear combination of priority and effort remains a good strategy.
[0] https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-cathedral-megachurch-b...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys-RMVJ89dk
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CJsKJ0XKP4
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHulZtR2Qkg
[4] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
[5] https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2018/bridges2018-39.html#...
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Whoa. Via Grok:
Solved Zodiac Killer ciphers:
• Z408 (July 1969): Solved in days by Donald & Bettye Harden.
Message (with misspellings): “I like killing people because it is so much fun it is more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all to kill something gives me the most thrilling experence it is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl the best part of it is thae when I die I will be reborn in paradice and all the I have killed will become my slaves I will not give you my name because you will try to sloi down or atop my collectiog of slaves for my afterlife ebeorietemethhpiti”
• Z340 (November 1969): Solved in 2020 (after 51 years) by David Oranchak, Jarl Van Eycke, and Sam Blake; FBI confirmed.
Message (with misspellings): “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me that wasn’t me on the TV show which bringo up a point about me I am not afraid of the gas chamber becaase it will send me to paradlce all the sooher because e now have enough slaves to worv for me where every one else has nothing when they reach paradice so they are afraid of death I am not afraid because i vnow that my new life is life will be an easy one in paradice death”
YT served up the Zodiac video to me a few days ago, too. Interesting stuff!