So Naomi Brockwell TV blew my mind about how are smart TVs are spying on us with Automatic Content Recognition and other advertising profile scripts. Yikes!
https://youtu.be/jeq2m-OM53A?si=DPW7TQiDSopBdqiS

I don’t have the resources to switch to a more secure streaming device yet (I’m gonna build one with mini PC running LibreELEC with Kodi hopefully).

In the meantime, I setup a Pi-Hole on an old Raspberry Pi 3B I had laying around last night to block as many ads and outgoing unwanted scripts as I could.
https://pi-hole.net/

It is working great from what I tell! Even removed the ads from my Roku TV home pages lol! I’m sure some stuff is getting through, but at least it’s minimal.

Here is the PiHole install video I watched from Micro Center, but I also added SSH via private/public keys too. How to Block Ads Using a Pi-Hole With A Raspberry Pi
https://youtu.be/oX4NqFisC5Y?si=-AdahVN0F6UchwnP

Oh and it has a built-in Star Trek NG LCARS theme!
https://github.com/MichalSvatos/pi-hole-star-trek-picard

#pihole #pi-hole #raspberrypi #linux #adblocking #cybersecurity #homenetworking #homelab #privacy #dataprivacy #digitalrights #mydatamychoice #privacyisahumanright #privacymatters #blockads #surveillancecapitalism #optout #FOSS #startrek #microcenter

"A transcendental figure without resolution," Mr Spock on the nature of Pi

https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/54648604179/in/dateposted/

Okay, this is actually a close up of a mooring on the canal, catching evening light, but I thought it looked like a wee sculpture of the mathematical symbol, Pi, and was begging for a monochrome shot.

Since I created a #programminglanguage based on lengths of words, I've wondered if I can retool some #LLM to precisely control the lengths of each word it generates.

Here are some of my results (using digits of #pi as word lengths). More work to be done, but not a bad start!

Da DiEM25 e Progressive International campagna per bloccare Baerbock alla presidenza dell’Assemblea Generale ONU

https://diem25.org/diem25-progressive-international-campagna-bloccare-baerbock-presidenza-onu/

I think I finally got my #pi-star working. I got it, and a yaesu ft3dr a local #hamfest in May. Had to pull the sdcard and redo .htaccess. So many protocols and a new icon on aprs.fi (digipeater) #hamradio

#Crypto : Une rumeur de partenariat avec #Google #AI fait flamber #Pi #Network de +38 %

https://www.cointribune.com/crypto-une-rumeur-de-partenariat-avec-google-ai-fait-flamber-pi-network-de-38/

#ASEEAC2025 - Join me in 516B to learn about project management techniques for research. And stickers!

#ASEENE2025 #PI #Conference #research #engineering #projectmanagement #kanban #scrum

@academicchatter

Just for fun: how to fit squares of side length 1/n for n = 1 upwards in a 1 times π^2/6 rectangle (Basel problem). It's a bit tricky to avoid fragmentation of the free space left. It does not work with an initial square of sides π/√6 nor rectangles of dimensions π/2 times π/3 or 3/2 times π^2/9 (and I haven't proved it works up to infinity for my initial choice, left to mathematicians).
#Mathematics #pi #Mathart

Palestine Brings the Rebellion to the North (The People’s Academy: Ch. I, Unit 4)

https://www.youtube.com/live/BiIf7CrRvjM

In a matter of hours, the kickstarter is fulfilled.

$150K no problem.

No python allowed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGtVej1Qx5Y

Somehow only just found out @standupmaths is GOING TO THE MOON to do MATHS and wants us all to help:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/standupmaths/moon-pi-were-going-to-calculate-on-the-moon?ref=thanks-copy

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Here’s your chance:
Submit a #poster abstract
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Whether you're a #PhDstudent, #postdoc, or #PI — we want to hear from you at Health Data Science Day 2025.

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Heute kam das Kind (fast 8) früher als erwartet vom Filmabend mit seinem Kumpel zurück, während ich mit @lizzard gerade #Pi (Film von Darren Aronofsky) schaute und dann dachte ich mir: "Soll er halt mitschauen, sein Englisch reicht nicht aus, um viel zu verstehen und vielleicht nimmt er etwas Sprachmelodie mit."

Und dann kam die Verfolgungsszene mit der Kapitalistengruppe. Und ich hatte sie deutlich weniger heftig in Erinnerung.
Und dann wurde @lizzard im Tonfall so angespannt.
Und dann ist mir eingefallen, dass gleich eine nicht sehr kindgerechte Szene mit einer Bohrmaschine kommt.

Da habe ich dann doch lieber ausgeschaltet...

(Trotzdem toller Film!)

((Wir sahen dann trotz der späten Stunde noch eine Folge Avatar, damit er gar nicht erst über die Verfolgung nachdenkt))

#Surfshark проаналізував 10 популярних чат-ботів зі штучним інтелектом – #ChatGPT, #Claude, #DeepSeek, #Gemini, #Grok, #Jasper, #MetaAI, #Copilot, #Perplexity, #Pi і #Poe.

Мета аналізу полягала в тому, щоб визначити, скільки типів даних збирає кожен додаток, чи збирає він дані, пов’язані з вами, і чи використовує додаток сторонню рекламу.

https://cybercalm.org/novyny/bilshist-ai-zbyrayut-dani-korystuvachiv/

It started churning out an endless string of zeros after the first 50 digits:
Pi sayısı: 3.14159265358979311599796346854418516159057617187500000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000......
It was still going on printing the zeros when I started writing this post.
2/2
#python #Deepseek #Pi

I ran this #python code on #Deepseek:

import math
print(f"Pi is: {math.pi:.1000f}")

to see if #Pi can print with 1000 decimal places.
Answer:
"Python will print π (math.pi) with 1000 decimal digits. However, since math.pi is stored as a 64-bit floating-point number (IEEE 754 double precision), it can only accurately represent about 15-17 decimal digits. The rest will be filler zeros or incorrect digits due to floating-point precision limits.

Example Output (First 50 digits shown):"
1/2

If you have to snap a chalk line and call the decimal expansion of #pi good enough at some point, here's a nifty place to do it: #14 #Math

#PI statement during informal consultations on autonomous weapons systems in #NewYork

https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5589/pi-statement-during-informal-consultations-autonomous-weapons-systems-new-york

https://github.com/JackCuthbert/pihole-twitter

Jeder mit eine #Pi-Hole sollte die Plattform, früher bekannt als #Twitter heutzutage #blocken.
Und damit meine ich nicht nur die #Werbung oder die #Tracker sondern das ganze Ding.

Denk dran:

Ein LAN dass Nazis reinlässt ist ein Nazi LAN.