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Too bad … Nice interface …

If you are referring to MEGARAND, no. There is no need for that since all of that has already been done over the years for the underlying primitives:

/dev/urandom … b2sum … shuf … chacha20 …

These primitives have been run through the gauntlet for years and are known to produce or use very good entropy. Chacha20 is especially prized for this and taking already random data and running it through the chacha20 cipher with random keys and/or salts is a very nice hedge against patterns and biases. Megarand stretches these primitive outputs to build a much larger pool for wherever you might want a big initial pool for pads, tokens, seeds, whatever.

If you’re paranoid you can run dieharder tests on the output, but it would just be placebo at this point.

Thanks for the link. I see you’re not far from the home of Iris DeMent. She’s a treasure.

Any southerner with a CamelCase SurName usually is special.

Nice cat. You caught the blue eyes with just the right amount of laser vision.

How about a link to that podcast? If it has a RSS feed so much the better.

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“I’m probably going to get downvoted to Hell and back, but someone’s gotta say it: that’s a git problem, not Windows.”

Beware neckbeards with pitchforks.

Before Internet: chop wood, carry water.

After Internet: chop wood, carry water.

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Excellent. Two birds with one stone.

Elementary OS

I just now discovered this. I think I will have a gander.

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Wise choice. Debian is upstream of the lion’s share of Linux desktop distros.

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Spot on. The thugs in black robes re-define the meaning of words to suit the agenda of the moment. Some version of this will emerge from my quotations collection.

I like seeing cool things done with BASH. Hat tip to the Greek letters.

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Same garbage in USA. A group of shell companies owned by one umbrella company controls access to legal case rulings. If you try to use Pacer at a courthouse you risk being harassed and treated like a terrorist–especially if it is a case you are working on for yourself. And let’s not even discuss transcripts. It can cost arm, leg, and firstborn to get a transcript of a case. The legal profession and the courts are a racket designed to serve the rich.

The only bogus thing here is your baseless insinuation and false comparison.

You are insinuating that MEGARAND is built upon Fortuna or a copycat thereof. That insinuation is false. By calling my work, ‘bogus’ you are casting a baseless barb, or a slander against my work.

You are attempting to dissuade readers from examining the work by labeling it with a negative label. And you are also attempting to promote Fortuna instead, when Fortuna has nothing to do with my work. Anyone taking your false comment at face value would be dissuaded from reading my work.

One of the newsgroup moderators probably knows the answer.

- lilypond
- denemo
- musescore (has chord symbols and playback)
- songwrite
- tuxguitar
- chordii
- nted
- sweep
- rosegarden

It is not bridged. Info here: http://9srv.net/comp.os.plan9/index.html

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They are explicitly not running it via 9fans bridge. Access is via NNTP only.

Thunderbird sports a very mature NNTP interface if you have a newer computer. Claws-Mail also has a very good and fast NNTP interface, even on older computers. SLRN is available for a terminal-based interface.