I've never met a DAW that didn't have a nightmare UI.
Audacity does not.

If I just want to futz with a audio clip, Audacity is the first choice.

That sounds like a fine solution for a working network situation. My needs are more in line with putting Pis in places the network is spotty and I need them to survive for a while on battery and restart from local storage and keep on doing the thing when power is lost for too long. So a UPS hat and NVME seems to do the trick.

> random number generators replaced by domestic designs.

Do you have any information on that? Like which domestic designs? Is there a link?

I've designed the RNGs in several chips including the RdRand/RdSeed one in Intel CPUs. The AMD one was a bit weird but I have no information on it. In my current role we sell a couple of RNG silicon IPs to whoever wants one (a big fast one and a small slow one) and I've left behind a trail of RNGs in other places.

A thing I've noticed is that a number of the RNG IPs out there are not great, but they are for sale and people buy them, including national bodies looking for their own national secure silicon designs, but they're getting the RNG from a chop shop in Bangalore, except for India who's getting theirs from outside India.

>Just don't use SD cards for the OS on the RPi.

This. An MVME riser on a pi is a fine thing.

It's the universally local option.

The are really pushing hepatitis C++ these days.
 

Ludus Latrunculorum was popular for a while.

Klarna sounds like a crypto scam.

Yes. You do.

>we don't have any other means of recognising who is allowed to work and who is not.

Yes we do. It's called a share code. Get a visa and you no longer get a big sticker in your passport. You get status on a government computer. When someone asks you to prove that you are legit to work, you log in, get a share code and give to the person asking. They can log in, enter the share code and it will confirm or deny that you are legit to work based on you visa.

I'm British. My wife is American. That is how I know.

Downloading anything from Epic is the last thing I would do.

Yeah, we get it: Trump is a troglodyte & a cockwombling ass-hat, but in the grand scheme of things, any president is wonderfully temporary. Congress on the other hand creates spending agencies & budgets that outlast... empires. They need term limited or purged much more frequently in some sort of Roman Colosseum grudge match to the death. Tenured professors should probably face the same fate... up to and including facing every fresh batch of incoming freshmen themselves - no TA's, noone to run interference. That'll either drive them to become ax murderers or they'll have an aneurysm & twitch out - both acceptable outcomes for the shit-hole endowed universities these days.

There are too many low quality participants at all levels of academia, engineering, science, hell, any technical discipline, really - from the professors/executives themselves all the way down to the incoming freshmen/new hires. Maybe, just maybe, better screening & admission standards will result in higher quality professors _and_ students, resulting in fewer 'publish or perish' bullshit papers, less grade inflation, and more accomplishments due to much higher quality talent that isn't perpetually treading water just to keep from drowning in all the stupid of their peers.

It is surprising how often I encounter strings with NULs in the middle. Bytes have 256 different values, and sooner or later someone wants to transmit all 256 values in what was an ascii text-based conversation. HTTP is a good example. The conversation starts as a normal group of strings, until the header says "Content-Length:" and a bunch of binary data follows later.

Another issue in C is that strings are used for both immutable strings and for string buffers. Java makes it clear that string buffer is going to be something that grows, and a string is immutable. This allows optimizations like keeping the string length and maximum buffer size handy when the buffer is being appended too. C does both functions with the ever present char * type, for better and worse.

The M4 lacks a some important security instructions that are in X86 chips. So I have to use my old Intel Mac to compile certain code. The M4 can't do it.

You are heading down the right path.

A book that made things more clear for me is "Non uniform random variate generation" by Luc Devroye (https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~mascagni/Devroye.pdf).

The generation of different distributions can be done algorithmically, but the algorithms get to the core of the processes making the noise. E.G. 1/f noise can be made from summing many exponential decaying functions. Electrons falling in holes in silicon - same thing. So we have 1/f noise in silicon. The type of process determines the type of noise whether quantum electron events or rain or insects chirping.

While noise does emerge from quantum things, it also can emerge from higher level processes.