voynich
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Comment · 3 years ago
Glad to see that paper airplane culture is still alive, haha. I was looking forward to this day for a while!
Comment · 3 years ago
I was just thinking about that. In my opinion, this find is sorta useless if these aren't digitalized and shared publicly.
To my knowledge, digitalization can be expensive, because they need hardware for high quality scans, and they have to be careful not to damage these books any further. I guess it all depends on the situation.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah, whether necessary or not, it's still nice to have such a level of detail in a transparency report.
Comment · 3 years ago
Nice to see some more buttons. I've been adding fun ones to my site, and while I don't use Emacs, I might start so I can sport some of these, lol.
Comment · 3 years ago
Right. People have been killing eachother since the beginning of time, no guns needed. I think it boils down to a societal ill that makes people want to kill eachother, weapons or not.
Comment · 3 years ago
Lol. MS Notepad is HN-bloated.
Comment · 3 years ago
I had a similar idea, at least in terms of resilience. It was, basically, to compress each piece of content just so that the compressed version would be theoretically uncensorable.
Jon Lech Johansen did this with DeCSS back in the day [1], and the compressed version of the program was a prime number, which gave it a sort of "untouchable" quality.
Obviously, doing this for much larger content (i.e. movies and general videos) would be a challenge, and this technique might not be the best choice. Still an interesting concept, though.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number#Illegal_primes
Comment · 3 years ago
I always find this a more entertaining way to learn about these topics, because they're questions which we might have had before, but never thought much about.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is a good idea, much like the usage of Bitrex in certain household items, mainly cleaning solutions.