Enabling every eligible voter, getting the word about hand delivering absentee ballots and early voting, and anything else we can to do promote massive turnout is vitally serious work. Learn more about the status of our effort in NM. If any grassroots activists from other states want to confer about voter protection and motivation, dm me. https://www.landofaction.org/new-directory-listing-news-about-free-and-fair-elections-nm26/ 3/

@willowbl00 "Ever feel as if your mind had started to erode? The two hemispheres are fundamentally at odds."

Are there any fundamental critiques of GUIs, in general/fundamentally and in practice?

This isn’t a tech bro “everyone should use CLIs” thing. I’m wondering if the trade offs, whatever they are, have been thought through.

One thing I’ve noticed recently is that speaking about GUIs is basically broken. It always seems to devolve into meaningless “No, the other thingy that’s purple, three to the left, then open the menu from the side, then …”. Ie, the collaborative aspect seems forgotten. And amidst the design process, it also seems forgotten that everyone ends up developing their own mental model for how the interface works.

And whatever you think about CLIs, I’m wondering if they can be an illustrative counterexample. They kinda use natural language, depending. You can literally speak what to do. Or record it verbatim in a document. And the essential interface is very simple: command > effect, … .

Is there a theory of all this?

@hipsterelectron
Yes but afaik they do seed the CSPRNG using data collected from timing interrupts etc right? like the RNG encrypts a counter or something with a secret key thats derived from collected data etc

10s of billions in Euros of investment have been withdrawn from megapolluter investment manager Blackrock by Dutch funds in the last year due to their failure to protect the environment.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/dutch-fund-pfzw-reduces-blackrock-ties-over-clash-sustainability-2025-09-03/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/blackrock-climate-change

#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment #investment

Winnipeg ball!! Thanks Fajardo. #ForTheW #CFL #CFLOM

@mayintoronto oh good lord

This move by USPS signals two things:
1. Trump firmly expects the Roberts Court to use the shadow docket to let him do as he pleases re mailed ballots.
2. Even if the Roberts Court doesn’t greenlight his plans, he’s prepared to entirely flout the judiciary to disrupt the election. 2/

@farah you so not lol

@hipsterelectron DH and RSA are the canonical examples of vulnerable to factoring or discrete logarithm breakthroughs and surprise, that's exactly what Shor's algorithm does.

Ozone: The fault is not in our trees, but in ourselves

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/fault-not-our-trees-ourselves

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49381542

#HackerNews #Ozone #environmentalissues #selfreflection #climatechange #sustainability

There is a lizard living in the handle of the pooper scooper.
#bushlife #lizard

@phildini @jamey @glyph The 25% was Ee's last report covering the 8 years to 2025. The infuriating number is the 40%+ growth in 2026, as most of that is presumably slop noise rather than anything that meaningfully benefits humanity.

Along with an amazing team, I’ve been putting in long hours on the Free and Fair Elections #NewMexico 2026 campaign. Tonight, Trump’s puppet USPS reminded me of the urgency of our work. USPS is further getting ready to interfere with mail voting and state election administration. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/us-postal-service-mail-in-voter-rule 1/

Ideally, the generation of random numbers in CSPRNGs uses entropy obtained from a high-quality source, generally the operating system's randomness API.

operating systems do not have a randomness "API" for high-quality randomness. the output of /dev/u?random is a CSPRNG

However, unexpected correlations have been found in several such ostensibly independent processes.

i love to unexpect some correlations

China Joins Europe In Scrapping Windows For Linux https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/08/21/2158246/china-joins-europe-in-scrapping-windows-for-linux?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#Advantages_and_disadvantages

thank you wikipedia for mentioning these are not suitable for cryptographic usage 2/3rds of the way down the page

Take a nap if you need to. Set a timer.