Trammell Hudson @th@v.st

Sonic hedgehog is an archetypal example of a morphogen as defined by Lewis Wolpert's French flag model—a molecule that diffuses to form a concentration gradient. It controls the proliferation of adult stem cells & has been implicated in the development of some cancers. #wikifinds

Movie pitch for Michael Bay: _The Transfermium Wars: Revenge of the Unununium_
(image by https://twitter.com/blockwonkel/status/1260697956187090944)

While you're on lockdown, why not also lockdown your Linux laptop with safeboot? It adds UEFI SecureBoot + Yubikey hardware platform keys + Signed kernel/initrd + TPM sealed disk encryption + SIP-like root filesystem protection to Ubuntu 20.04. https://safeboot.dev/

Capitalists going to capitalize.

When you're the only one in the squad taking the social distancing seriously.

Booting the Linux kernel with `ro` or running `mount -o ro` might still generate writes to the root filesystem device, which will corrupt any dmverity hashes. That's problematic.

It seems that the TCG looked at the absymaly low adoption rates for TPM 1.2 and thought "maybe more people will use TPM v2.0 if we make the tools even worse?"

One of my least favorite "improvements" is that `less` by default clears the screen when you quit. So you find exactly what you want in the man page, hit `q` to return to the shell, and it erases exactly what you needed to see. Every time I move to a new system this annoys me until I fetch my dotfiles.

Parallel parking in Amsterdam

Lof der zoetheid brug entering Erasmus park

Clearly the end times are upon us.

Dear past me: please keep better notes next time so that I can remember what you were doing with this code.

That looks better! My swarm can now join jitsi and zoom meetings by using `pyfakewebcam` and the `v4l2loopback` kernel module (with `exclusive_caps=1` parameter)

Well, that's not quite right. #glitch

Unfortunately there is Arecibo message embedded in the virus... It is eight colors since there are the normal four (a,g,c,t) plus four unknowns (k,r,s,y). https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/MT344963&display=text

`xkcd` mentioned that the 29882 base pairs of the #COVID19 genome was available as a text file and it looked sort of similar to an XPM image to me, so here it is as an eight color 223x134 bitmap.

What did the IBM 360 mainframe do with them?

The original Amsterdam crosswalk signs are promoting unsafe behaviour and need to be updated.

Crosswalk hygiene in the modern era.

Looking for an artist looking for a #art #commission! I want to make a modified version of the pedestrian crosswalk sign line drawing sticker.