Human folly for 02024-07-27

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• Details (play.google.com):

  "AVNC" is the free-software #VNC client I’m using on #Android, which rocks; it has a pretty reasonable way to deal with touchscreens which is preferable in many cases to native touchscreen interactions where you can’t see what you’re tapping on and the keyboard takes up most of your screen.

• Com (f-droid.org):

  "MultiVNC" is another free-software #Android #VNC client.

• 3936130 VNC tight encoder data compression for VNC (researchgate.net):

  the #paper about TightVNC’s new low-bandwidth #VNC encoding from 02001

• VNC tight PNG (wiki.qemu.org):

  #QEMU has added a “PNG” variant of #VNC tight encoding

• Rfc6143 (datatracker.ietf.org):

  The #VNC RFC from 02011 documenting the RealVNC versions of the #protocols at the time. Only 38 pages long.

• United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers restores nuclear transparency (fas.org):

  #USA declassifies the number of #nuclear warheads in its #weaponry arsenal: 3748 as of 02023. Plot of warhead count over time.

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of #graphics #algorithms for median filtering

• (crisluengo.net):

  #graphics #algorithms for median filtering and percentile filtering (rank filters): the histogram algorithm, binary-tree algorithm, Perreault and Hérbert’s constant-time algorithm, etc.

• Motor doping cycling (spectrum.ieee.org):

  testing Olympic bikes for hidden motors (“motor doping”) #crime

• Ie05 (cs.ubc.ca):

  #PDF of Tamara Munzner’s slides for the “15 views of a Node–Link Graph” talk #infovis

• ASCII (github.com):

  Erica Fischer’s #paper on the #history of #ASCII

• ASCII (ia800606.us.archive.org):

  #PDF of Erica Fischer’s #paper on the #history of #ASCII

• What is entropy (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com):

  John Baez’s intro page to his #paper on #entropy

• Buttplug ethics (docs.buttplug.io):

  Butts are difficult. #UX