- Paperbot, the channel’s open-source DOI-resolving bot, was restored after fixing a missing Sci-Hub credential; it now fetches papers via LibGen and Wiley but still fails on ScienceMag.org URLs due to SSL issues.  
- Participants dissected blockchain hype, citing Ilya Grigorik’s “Minimum Viable Blockchain” post (http://www.igvita.com/2014/05/05/minimum-viable-block-chain/) to argue that most “blockchain for voting/identity” proposals ignore simpler centralized databases.  
- A crowdsourced CSV of “human modifications” was pruned of medically implausible entries (e.g., wings, spinal orgasmatron) and merged into the diyhpluswiki’s curated genetic-modifications.mdwn page.  
- Debate over on-demand orgasm implants concluded that peripheral pelvic-nerve stimulation is safer than spinal cord targets and that real deep-brain-stimulation patients do not exhibit the feared “press-until-death” behavior.  
- The concept of a TASP (wireless pleasure-induction device from Niven’s Known Space) was explored as a potential non-lethal incapacitating weapon that could overload a target’s nervous system.  
- Evernote’s handwriting OCR was judged unreliable on cursive and marginalia, prompting discussion of vector-based Latin-character recognition as an under-researched alternative.  
- Tools and resources shared include pycparser (pure-Python C99 parser), ZMap (45-minute IPv4 port scanner), Haifu Medical’s commercial ultrasound tumor-ablation systems, and OSVehicle open-source car CAD images.  
- Participants lamented the absence of an “AWS for manufacturing” API that would let users rent and directly control robotic machine cells, contrasting the human-mediated workflow of mfg.com.