Here's something you don't stumble across every day: There's a Chernoff face generator library for the R programming language.

It's not updating right now because the RSS feed for my website changed.  Long story short, when I had to jump CMSes (long story) the only way I could reinstate a feed was with a plugin, and I can't configure the URL of the feed itself.  So, the new RSS feed URL is https://drwho.virtadpt.net/rss/feed.xml'lex, could you please change the source URL ( Read more... )

I rewatched Tron Legacy last weekend, and a subprocess has been ruminating on it all week... for whatever reason tonight, I made the connection between The Games and core wars.

Discuss.

An inability to put constraints on your threat model is the cypherpunk equivalent of "Fuck you, I got mine."

Speaking in front of ISOC-DC tomorrow.

Nervous as hell.

Life has me too busy to post here, let alone on my own website. Day job, night job, family, Project Byzantium... it's a full life.

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Project Byzantium, a working group of HacDC, is proud to announce the release of v0.1 alpha of Byzantium Linux, a live distribution of Linux designed to fulfill a crucial role in the evolution of the Internet. That role is a rapidly deployable ad-hoc wireless mesh network which can augment or ( Read more... )

Everywhere. But you knew that.

I don't have a lot of time right now, so here's my life that's not work or moving in a nutshell.

I've been working on this since February of 2011.

I'll be going here in a few days' time and presenting on Project Byzantium as well as tools used by activists to protect their privacy and anonymity as well as organize ( Read more... )

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On Saturday, 14 May 2011 Ben the Pyrate and I will be presenting at the Northern Virginia Linux Users' Group on Project ByzantiumByzantium is an open source, improvisable, rapidly deployable wireless mesh network which can replace (or at least augment) Internet access in the event of a natural disaster or compromise of the local telecommunications ( Read more... )