Awesome news, OONI probe now has an android tool. OONI probe uses tor to map
out censorship on the internet. If you want to make the internet a much better
place I really suggest running this app.
Unrelated
, I read an awesome write up on
reverse engineering a book
cover
. It is a shame I don't read Polish, the author including something
interesting in the cover is a real draw to the book for me.
Reading:
Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon
FOSDEM is split between devrooms and booths, there are booths for a load of
different projects. The
Olimex DIY Laptop
was announced the week before,
they were showing it off at a stand at FOSDEM.
The hardware is quite nice, the case feels a little cheap, but what can you
expect for that price? The keyboard they have on it is horrible. It would be
much better served with much fewer keys on the layout, something more like a
chromebook would be good (I would settle for 40%, but the market is probably
small).
I unplugged the assembled model they had on display and they got upset and it
was quickly plugged back in. The hardware is still quite early, it looks like a
really solid start.
I don't think I would pick up the first generation of hardware, if they
continue with the project it will be really promising.
Reading:
Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon
I got this TShirt at FOSDEM, I was told that
it means something
.
First here is all of the text from the tshirt, which should make the page more
discoverable:
Xen
Project
@FOSDEM 2017
Forging the
DNA of the Cloud
AGTCTACTCAGCCGTACTTCATCGACTTAGCGTTGTCTCAGC
GCTTGTCACGTCCTGCTCGTCAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTACCTC
ACTAGCTGTGCTAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTCAATCTGTGATTAC
These three strings are a bit unweildly to work with, lets break them down into
groups of three.
AGT CTA CTC AGC CGT ACT TCA TCG ACT TAG CGT TGT CTC AGC
GCT TGT CAC GTC CTG CTC GTC AGC TAG CGT CTA AGC TAC CTC
ACT AGC TGT GCT AGC TAG CGT CTA AGC TCA ATC TGT GAT TAC
Now to
wikipedia
to get a DNA Codon Table to refer to:
Amino acid Codons Compressed
Ala/A GCT GCC GCA GCG GCN
Arg/R CGT CGC CGA CGG AGA AGG CGN MGR
Asn/N AAT AAC AAY
Asp/D GAT GAC GAY
Cys/C TGT TGC TGY
Gln/Q CAA CAG CAR
Glu/E GAA GAG GAR
Gly/G GGT GGC GGA GGG GGN
His/H CAT CAC CAY
Ile/I ATT ATC ATA ATH
START ATG
Amino acid Codons Compressed
Leu/L TTA TTG CTT CTC CTA CTG YTR CTN
Lys/K AAA AAG AAR
Met/M ATG
Phe/F TTT TTC TTY
Pro/P CCT CCC CCA CCG CCN
Ser/S TCT TCC TCA TCG AGT AGC TCN AGY
Thr/T ACT ACC ACA ACG ACN
Trp/W TGG
Tyr/Y TAT TAC TAY
Val/V GTT GTC GTA GTG GTN
STOP TAA TGA TAG TAR TRA
I poked at this for ages, I wondered if I had need to the take the codons in as
they are written. A column at a time. But even looking at that, there was
nothing obvious about the codon sequence.
After a while I started searching for subsequences from the string. This didn't
help at all, but one page on google had a related search for ['dna message
translator'][3]. Annoyingly I fed in this string:
AGTCTACTCAGCCGTACTTCATCGACTTAGCGTTGTCTCAGCGCTTGTCACGTCCTGCTCGTCAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTACCTCACTAGCTGTGCTAGCTAGCGTCTAAGCTCAATCTGTGATTAC
And got the result:
XEN HACKATHON FORGING THE DNA OF THE CLOUD
Reading:
Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon
Long journey back from FOSDEM, a train to Paris, train to the Airport and a hop
through Amsterdam before making it home.
Reading:
Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon
FOSDEM is done! I want to start writing about the things I saw, but my phone
still won't speak to my laptop. Tomorrow should be more differenter, once the
travel is done I will have access to sane computing.
It
is
Sunday, so that
makes
seven
days
of
writing
.
Reading:
Babylon's Ashes, Cryptonomicon
