If anyone is unfamiliar with Louis Wain, he perfected cat paintings in the late 1800s.
@lowqualityfacts that man was obsessed.
Furry OPSEC
@catsalad
FurSEC
Michael Bacon
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ok your rapper name is lil + your primary ssh private key
I finally doom scrolled enough tonight that my brain let go and I was falling asleep with my phone in my hand.
The third time I nodded off and my phone dropped to the bed, I turned off my phone and closed my eyes...
...only to be wide awake.
So now I'm doom scrolling again trying to fall asleep again.
@tinker I hope you are sound asleep by the time this message reaches you.
Alex Akselrod
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OMG.
The electroshock gloves that DHS is buying for ICE?
Cops in Omaha have been using them for a while now IN SCHOOLS. And according to the article used them at least twice just last year. Nearby suburban cops used them twice in schools too.
On students. Children.
Nebraska school district asks ...
Michael Bacon
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![august [0x08] 🏳️⚧️🇲🇰](https://assets.chaos.social/accounts/avatars/115/808/536/641/785/421/original/2d35c1a0dc32e2f7.png "august [0x08] 🏳️⚧️🇲🇰")
affirmations when opening a stuck jar:
- I am stronger than the jar
- i know what left and right are
- smashing the jar will make a mess
- i have strong and dextrous hands
- I have opened jars before and I will open jars again
@hipsterelectron @somebody ECDH with curve25519 has 256-bit public keys. DH over finite fields needs public keys the size of the prime modulus, which is huge.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa will apply countertariffs on $20 billion of U.S. products on Sept. 8, escalating the feud rocking one of the world's biggest trading relationships. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/23/economy/canada-us-countertariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #us #canada #tariffs #trade #markcarney #donaldtrump #globaleconomy
@hipsterelectron @somebody If I understand correctly, there is no cryptographic weakness here, just coinbros doing stupid things with keys as identity and winning stupid prizes and DJB somehow considering that relevant to the real world.
Ecstatic to find my Hot Type upfront on the history table at the wonderful @labyrinth_books of Princeton. Hey nearby friends, if you're tempted to buy it, that'd be a great place to pick up an autographed copy (and get them to reorder😎... always be sellin').
@jeffjarvis As book cover designs go (and titles) that's a really nice combination. Maybe I should petition our local library to add it to their new books acquisition list.
Zack Whittaker
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How residential proxy networks are hiding hackers in your home
Security researchers say residential proxy networks present a major threat by allowing hackers to commandeer home and office networks for cybercrime.
~this week in security~
Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"
https://www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shiny-thing-cop-explains-why-he-used-license-plate-reader-to-stalk-woman/
FFS, "I saw a shiny THING"
Objectifying women much?
If the previous one is sometimes too easy, this game is brutal. I got two in the right country and one on the wrong continent.
#WhereTaken #665 (23.08.2026)
I scored 604/1000🎗️
1️⃣📍1.2K km - 🥈132/200
2️⃣📍12.9K km - 🎗️0/200
3️⃣📍150 km - 🥇188/200
4️⃣📍357 km - 🥇178/200
5️⃣📍1.8K km - 🥉106/200
Not too easy today (except the last one, the last one was very easy)
#WhenTaken #908 (23.08.2026)
I scored 775/1000🏅
1️⃣📍208 km - 🗓️9 yrs - 🥇179/200
2️⃣📍768 km - 🗓️7 yrs - 🥈168/200
3️⃣📍1.6K km - 🗓️8 yrs - 🥈148/200
4️⃣📍1.5K km - 🗓️29 yrs - 🥉80/200
5️⃣📍4.9 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200
@hipsterelectron @somebody ECDH with curve25519 has 256-bit public keys. DH over finite fields needs public keys the size of the prime modulus, which is huge.
der.hans
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12 days till the Tucson Comic-Con...
@jpm sooo many clocks
@petrillic (psst they’re mostly data lines, but you can’t buy a 1:2 buffer in 74-series logic or something)
Blacksky to the world and back 💫
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v2zokqmhtb4trssgokog5342/post/3mtpkusvxms2u
Naw headassery can be a super power - don't trust fancy lads in funny suits, only let FACTS, not PEOPLE, change your mind, and if push comes to shove block it all out and yell "I do not fucking agree" as loud as you can until they start backing away from you like you might be about to go full Dog Day Afternoon.
My headassery has kept me alive thus far.
@dalias @somebody RSA is just weird and strange to me because it decided to base its security upon the separate factorization problem. ECDH seems completely interchangeable with finite-field DH to me in terms of security for an expert implementation of a standard curve.
the concern i have with elliptic curves is this translation from bit strings to curve points [cw djb] https://cr.yp.to/papers/safecurves-20240809.pdf
Monero used Curve25519, which has cofactor 8, so there are 8 points T ∈ E(Fp) such that 8T is the neutral element; Monero’s security analysis was expecting a point P to be in the order-ℓ group, but the software was accepting P + T as a separate expenditure for each of the 8 points T .
and like yes, lol, crypto, ofc, but he immediately goes on to describe this translation of bit strings to points while capturing invalid inputs as a currently unsolved problem:
These considerations have triggered interest in ways to encode elements of the order-ℓ group as b-bit strings, with decoders rejecting all other b-bit strings.
that's something that worries me quite a bit as a very inexperienced implementer, particularly because i have not yet found any explanation of an elliptic curve in textbooks or elsewhere that explains why they're used. and polynomial factorization hurts my head
@hipsterelectron @somebody If I understand correctly, there is no cryptographic weakness here, just coinbros doing stupid things with keys as identity and winning stupid prizes and DJB somehow considering that relevant to the real world.
*nods* high-speed keyboard
@jpm sooo many clocks
