- Pop quiz: what virus is in the smallpox vaccine? What about the monkeypox vaccine? [Nope](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220725-the-mystery-virus-that-protects-against-monkeypox). - We have cryptographically-appopriate RNGs, do we now need [medically-appropriate ones?](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2992609/) - We've talked about emoji as an encoding before but now, shockingly, [it's also an attack vector](https://github.com/RischardV/emoji-shellcoding). Presumably, they set this up after [buying a VM from a vending machine](https://twitter.com/strangepartscom/status/1558566808205987840) but before [the floods](https://twitter.com/bcrypt/status/1557963398913986560). - Turns out, [we had ignition](https://www.llnl.gov/news/three-peer-reviewed-papers-highlight-scientific-results-national-ignition-facility-record) a while back. - Query wikipedia [via sql](https://twitter.com/ftrain/status/1559385956549099520). Maybe soon via postgres [in the browser](https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/learn-postgres-at-the-playground)? - Ever [see](https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1558907737177726978) a 56k modem handshake? Good visualization of [DTMF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_signaling), too. - Very enjoyable journey to [setting the world HATERIS record](https://hallofdreams.org/posts/hatetris/). - We thought we knew how color worked for a hundred years [and we were wrong](https://scitechdaily.com/schrodinger-was-wrong-new-research-overturns-100-year-old-understanding-of-color-perception/amp/). - [Sigh](https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1558309810801631233). - Living in a van, [down by the moon pit](https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-spacecraft-finds-pits-on-the-moon-that-always-hover-around-a-comfortable-temperature/). - Eww. [Clever, but ewww](https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/robot-bugs-2657727687). - Amazing how your dreams change between [freshman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshman%27s_dream) and [sophomore](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophomore%27s_dream) year. - ["It's just metadata, what could it hurt?"](https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/) - Validate the correctness of complicated systems by [making sure it keeps doing what it was doing before](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.0-Runtime-Verification). - [We don't need no stinkin' function bodies](https://lemon.rip/w/c99-vla-tricks/). - Linux `mdraid` lets you do some [evil, evil things](https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-supercharges-network-disks-for-extreme-low-latency).