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I just found while English is a strict SVO language, Polish is not, and makes use of it. On the example of one of Henryk Krzyżanowski’s excellent translation samples: The brass section was apparently approaching. Orkiestra dęta najwyraźniej się zbliżała. But, as it appeared to me this morning, if we change ’the’ into ‘a’, the natural translation would differ by order: A brass section was apparently approaching. Najwyraźniej zbliżała się orkiestra dęta. ...

Well, not exactly custom, but you can basically put any string there. This is a Javascript snippet that makes it possible to change a :hugging_face: into :people_hugging:. You can of course change it to turn nearly any emoji to any other emoji. You can execute it for example by pressing F12 and pasting it in the command line. WARNING: read the code before pasting! if I was a cybercriminal I could take over your account; this technique is called Self-XSS. ...

The idea came to me after I read two books one after the other, and they had unexpectedly many observations in common. Hejtoholik (“Hateaholic”) by Michał Wawrzyniak, a Polish artist-mentor-entrepreneur, written using psychological language, and Fear Fighters by Jentezen Franklin, an American pastor (polish translation: “Zwycięstwo nad strachem”) written using christian language. I am going to describe my observations about religion in general, but I will focus on catholic faith, which I believe in, although I suspect most of what I write here will still hold concerning many different denominations, especially those christian and middle east. ...

I like modern cryptography. I quite understand some bits of it, since I had an excellent university course on that, and while the rest feels pretty magic, these are my thoughts that should be understood by anyone. My general opinion is that encryption is a mistake in most cases, but digital signatures make true sense to me, and I will focus on them. If someone gives you much data, they know more than you. This is true especially for big integer numbers. Remember RSA? This is the (still widely used) encryption algorithm that assumes that while it is trivial to know n = pq when you know two primes p and q, it is really unlikely and/or computationally expensive to guess p and q from n. ...

IPv4 has been invented in the eighties. IPv6 has quickly followed in the nineties, exactly after fourteen years of IPv4 practical application. It’s been nearly 30 years since then, and we’re still stuck with IPv4. Stuck? The main problem with IPv4 is its 32-bit addressing. It limits the Internet to 4 billion true participants (in practice even less, because of reserved address ranges, broadcast addresses, masks, and so on): less than half the world population! All its shortcomings come from this single problem. ...