Sunday, December 15, 2013

[aywlxggn] RNG desktop background

Create a live desktop background or widget or screensaver which constantly slowly displays random values.  Entropy is always available at a glance.

Digits.  Coin flips.  Samples from a standard normal distribution (suffixed with sigma).  32-bit hexadecimal.  Syllables or words.  Base 12 annotated with a month name.

Number the lines and overwrite from top instead of scrolling.  This enables finding the value again after glancing away from the screen.

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