Post-quantum cryptography right answers, 2026 edition: all you need to know when you need to recommend the right cipher suite for whatever project is thrown at you. (h/t Filippo Valsorda) Full details here: words.filippo.io/right-answers/
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Infosec Swiss Army Knife. Tec diver. Occasional (but published) travel photographer. Opinions are all mine and usually wrong.
In C23 variables have pronouns and misgendering is undefined behavior. And no you can't just always use they, smartass. It literally won't compile
Oh aye, wildlife on British coinage "is a denial of history", is it now?
The only thing I have to add to the insane Englishness debate that is currently happening in the UK is that I never found anything that described the strangeness and, dare I say randomness, of identity better than this Peter Grant quote from @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s River of London series:
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...
Immediately filed under "things I will probably never need but I am happy I have stumbled upon"
So yeah, elision! It's stylometric GOLD. Just one example, the Consolatio Liviae was considered a genuine work until last century (the language is a GREAT match), but as soon as people did stats on the elisions it was instantly busted, and now everybody agrees it's not Ovid. ELISIONNN! 🫳🎤
A Japanese Zero, in the cargo hold of the Fujikawa Maru, Chuuk, Micronesia.
Kathi Zellweger made ~70+ trips to North Korea over decades, and even lived there for five years. She has a book out now — MISS KATHI — and this CNN segment shares never-before-seen footage she captured off her camcorder over the years. 🔗 bit.ly/cnn-kathi
What North Korean life is actually like beyond Pyongyang
A Swiss aid worker’s never-before-seen footage reveals decades of life inside North Korea. Kathi Zellweger’s rare access allowed her to capture famine-era hardship, private moments and a side of the country few outsiders have witnessed. 0:00 The secret lives of North Korea 1:02 Who is Kathi Zellweger? 5:01 Former CNN Beijing bureau chief on Kathi Zellweger's unusual access to North Korea 8:32 Inside a Catholic church in North Korea 10:00 Driving in North Korea For more of this, subscribe to stream on the CNN app: https://cnn.it/4zpecHE #NorthKorea #Korea #News
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Dear Bluesky, I am pleased to introduce you to Bat-tholomew the Batfish.
Diesel engines of the Yamagiri Maru, a Japanese military transport ship that was sunk in 1944 during Operation Hailstone. Not easy to find better wreck diving than in #Chuuk, #Micronesia. #scubadiving
on Markku breaking bad crypto from China www.bfswa.blog/p/cryptograp...
Cryptographic mass murder
China’s cryptography standardization project
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Ok, hear me out. You get a 75% discount on your flight ticket, but there is a 3% chance that you get tricked to board a different and completely random flight, and you find out only after takeoff.
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Here’s a thread of some of the more unusual or obscure aircraft to fly in Britain during the Second World War. Some were only intended as experimental or proof of concept designs, while others never progressed beyond the prototype stage.
CATTE VERSIOUN (speculatyve! not based on real attested textes!) • OLD ENGLISH: Miæow • MIDDLE ENGLISH: Myeaue • EARLY MODERN ENGLISH: Meowe
I met a new friend during my first dive today. Bluesky, meet Tulsi the Turtle. #Philippines #scubadiving
Mathematician Paul Erdős had a fantasy that he'd die giving a lecture. He'd prove a result, someone would ask about a generalization, he'd respond "I'll leave that to the next generation," and then he'd die. He passed away at a conference in Warsaw #OTD in 1996, just after proving a new result. 🧪 🧮
Roughly speaking: the reason they are good at hacking isn't because they learned how to hack from the modest amount of hackers explaining how to hack on the internet, but because the models are large enough and code prolific enough that they understand code well.
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
