lmao omg

Pseudorandom Bit Generation

they specifically have "subtly broken sources of randomness" as a research field

https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/ggong

the name attached simply goes to their home page

@michaelbrien Do you think it will run SimCity 2000?

This isn't my problem, and it isn't my country, but within about 2 and a half minutes of listening to this man talk, he became my mortal enemy and the mortal enemy of all that is true and rational. I don't know that I could have left that studio without assault charges.

And he didn't get into his now doubt MYRIAD of other odious views. This was just me watching someone bullshit freely about something they knew absolutely nothing about, for political advantage. Infuriating.

@grishka i've pretty much been suffering from this my whole life 😃

Wann wird die #republica zum BigTech-freien Safe-Space? #rp26 erneut mit problematischem Sponsoring

Die re:publica versteht sich als Ort für kritischen Austausch über Digitalisierung, Demokratie und Macht. Deshalb ist es problematisch, dass BigTech-Konzerne als Sponsoren und „Partner“ vertreten sind. Dieses Jahr sind es Google und Meta. Das normalisiert deren Macht und trägt zum Ungleichgewicht zwischen Monopol-Plattformen und Gesellschaft bei.

Das Sponsoring vermittelt den Eindruck, als seien diese Konzerne einfach nur „Teil des Diskurses“ oder "Stimme der Industrie" und nicht zentrale Treiber von Plattformmonopolen, Überwachungskapitalismus und Abhängigkeiten in unserer Gesellschaft.

Nach Angaben der #republica machen die Sponsoring-Einnahmen von #Google und #Meta zusammen nur rund 1,6 % der gesamten Sponsoring-Einnahmen aus. Die #republica könnte auf dieses Geld verzichten. Dass sie es nicht tut, ist eine bewusste Entscheidung.

Deshalb: Die nächste #republica muss ein BigTech-freier Safer Space werden.

@StarkRG @quixoticgeek Back in WW1 in the UK lots of men's football teams were disbanded as the men went to war. Meanwhile women were coming to work in factories and started forming teams. And since people still wanted to go to watch football, they were getting big crowds. And even after the war ended and men's teams started up again, the women still drew big crowds. This made the men nervous and in 1921 women's teams were banned from FA affiliate grounds. This only changed in the 1970s.

@astronomerritt
I recommend the William Morris museum in Walthamstow if you haven't been already! :)

@quixoticgeek Well, it's don't fly, or die. If we, as a global population, prefer to die, then by all means keep flying.

But when 10% of the population, by flying, dooms the whole population to dying, expect serious trouble.

Yesterday I replied to a toot someone posted. Their toot was boggling at how trans women were excluded from the challenging physical sport that is darts. My reply pointed out that chess is also gender segregated, at least at lower levels.

Lots of people replied to me asking why. And the reply is simple.

Men don't like being beaten by a girl. Chess is gender segregated to protect fragile men.

@StarkRG @quixoticgeek Back in WW1 in the UK lots of men's football teams were disbanded as the men went to war. Meanwhile women were coming to work in factories and started forming teams. And since people still wanted to go to watch football, they were getting big crowds. And even after the war ended and men's teams started up again, the women still drew big crowds. This made the men nervous and in 1921 women's teams were banned from FA affiliate grounds. This only changed in the 1970s.

I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it. «Rejectionism» thus is framed as an unwillingness to engage with the technology. But nothing could be further from the truth. Left-wing critique of AI, which takes many forms, is based on an empirical assessment of the impact and implications of the dominant model of AI development.
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We somehow went from "script kiddies are bad" to giving any random office worker the power to launch hundreds of programs that will hammer unknown servers across the web to make mediocre power point presentations.

Not to mention the massive usage spikes that are now hitting public software and data repositories.

What a world.

Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

Iran's claim over subsea chokepoint pushes US tech companies to overland fiber.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/iran-demands-big-tech-pay-fees-for-undersea-internet-cables-in-strait-of-hormuz/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Bezüglich des Kaufes von Berief durch den Fascho-Sympanthistanen, habe ich mal alle meine Quellen und infos gemerged, wo überall Müller sein Finger drine hat und eine Liste erstellt. Auch mit non-vegan und non-food Produkten.

https://www.open-sauce.de/productnfo/

Miguel Andujar homered Monday night for the game's only run and Michael King won ⁠a classic pitcher's duel with Yoshinobu Yamamoto as the San Diego Padres blanked the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/05/19/baseball/mlb/padres-dodgers-yamamoto/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #baseball #mlb #yoshinobuyamamoto #losangelesdodgers #shoheiohtani #sandiegopadres

Stealing land through force isn’t a “war strategy, it’s a war CRIME.