I love this, so I
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which way should the mac wear a scarf?
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/
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thanks for the keyboard tips all, I think the keycap is just broken. 😞 (There is another key that is exactly the same size and the keycap fits onto the Tab switch fine without any stabilizer or anything.) I'll see if replacement keys aren't too expensive. ⌨️
*sulkily switches to trackpointless keyboard* 🔴
Why did it need to be plural?
@Alice ask his dad, disgraced NY governor Andrew Cuomo
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I do like that people are now going through all the pictures of Donald Trump out in public and playing Where's Waldo with Natalie Harp
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/donald-trump-extremely-close-aide-37579124
The People‑First Platform: Hannah Aubry on Mastodon and the Fediverse - E74 - Livestream 2026-02-11 12-12-23
IMPORTANT! Can we all talk about how weird it is that the lead singer of Weezer's name is RiverS?
Why did it need to be plural?
IMPORTANT! Can we all talk about how weird it is that the lead singer of Weezer's name is RiverS?
U.S. Says Canada Has Declined a Trade Deal to Stave Off Tariffs
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/world/canada/trump-tariffs-trade-deal-carney-canada.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Home Page @home-page-newyorktimes
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/
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/
I just watched Repo Man for my first time ever. WTF. I enjoyed it, and also how is this a part of the Criterion Collection?!
@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?
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
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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
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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.
Lol! Dianne Saxe dropped out of her riding's race to run in Toronto Danforth so she won't have to compete against Layton.
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/today-is-the-last-day-to-register-to-run-in-the-toronto-2026-election-heres-what-you-need-to-know/article_5a22d834-5d85-456f-8d75-a5ae17b10cfb.html
(Saxe is awful.)
@mayintoronto oh good lord
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/
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/
@codeofamor Sowwy
@farah you so not lol
i still don't get why people use elliptic curves instead of diffie-hellman since you can use it for public keys too. the index calculus cryptanalytic method appears to apply for the usage of F_q where q = pn for some prime p. it appears that if q is a large prime and q - 1 is divisible by a large prime, that covers the two biggest error cases
@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.
