On most days, I don't eat anything for breakfast. I tend to eat somewhat early lunch instead – when I'm on campus in the morning, I often go to the uni's canteen before noon, and otherwise I usually start preparing lunch early. So it's maybe a bit strange for me to include a dish in my recipe hall of fame that is generally considered a breakfast dish (unless, of course, we acknowledge that what tastes good in the morning probably also tastes good at another time).

Just a few days ago, I posted about the NSFW spam epidemic on Discord. The gist of it: bots promote servers that promise you NSFW content if you "verify your account" on a phishing site that imitates the Discord login page. I created a throwaway account, intentionally got it phished and gave it access to a single channel on one of my own servers to see what (if anything) the attackers would use it to post. As expected, it didn't take long for it to be used to promote the same kind of phishing scam. But today I saw that it got used to push something different, a scam that uses Discord horndogs to help with a different attack whose real target seems to be GitHub users.

Disclaimer: Explicit, pornographic language ahead. However, I've spared you the sight of any NSFW imagery.

Recently, I stumbled upon the idea of 'now' pages on personal websites. I was looking for things to add to mine because I was (and still am!) pretty motivated to work on something related to this site. The idea of a now page is to tell visitors about what you're currently doing – what you're working on, what music or literature you're enjoying or what's otherwise happening in your life.

I just finished reading the excellent Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy¹ (perhaps more commonly known by the name of its first entry, The Three-Body Problem), a series of science-fiction novels about humanity's reaction to an alien civilisation's plan to invade Earth. In it, the author, Liu Cixin, tells an incredibely rich, nuanced and imaginative story about the future of humankind, in a way that I have never seen in science-fiction before. I was particularly impressed with his creative and unique inspirations drawn from real-world physics and astronomy, which rarely felt arbitrary or pseudo-scientific and made it apparent that he has a good amount of actual knowledge in these fields. One of the physical concepts that play an important role throughout the entire series stuck with me: quantum teleportation.