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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, the Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer - Schneier on Security⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The original article smelled wrong when they claimed to have broken AES. Thankfully, Bruce Schneier is far more authoritative than I ever will be and gives a short and succinct list of links to debunkings of this.

• No, the Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer - Schneier on Securitywww.schneier.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I’ll read the content, but I try to avoid interacting.

  Mind you, db0 himself is a tankie, although he doesn’t seem to insist on imposing that on the users or communities on his instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Equinunerous Sets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha. So all horses are purple?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel drops 'depleted uranium bombs' inside Beirut: Official⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Plausible yes. Painting it as if it were doctrine is not.

  DU is toxic and radioactive, but the radioactivity is stopped by a literal sheet of paper. So the article is just panic inducing propaganda intended for people who want yet another reason to hate on Israel

  EU source regarding the radioactivity of DU munitions: ec.europa.eu/health/…/index.htm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only on signup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything using Blind as a “verified industry source” is going to be skewed to the type of person who uses Blind. Beyond that, it’s low sample size, and there are suspiciously round fractions for some of the larger companies. Worse, because Blind is blind - this doesn’t represent current employees, but merely people who worked at some point in the past at those companies.

  Not saying it’s not good - just saying not to get overly excited over a badly done survey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes a lot of sense - I wonder if they also do the SIGSEGV trick like HotSpot to know when they need to JIT the next chunk of instructions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But does it run Doom? Using CMOV instructions only?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought FAT binaries don’t work like that - they included multiple instruction sets with a header pointing to the sections (68k, PPC, and x86)

  Rosetta to the best of my understanding did something similar - but relied on some custom microcode support that isn’t rooted in ARM instructions. Do you have a link that explains a bit more in depth on how they did that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expanded Steam gaming compatibility likely coming to Arm chips with hundreds of Windows games — Valve testing ARM64 Proton compatibility layer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve understood of this - it’s transpiling the x86 code to ARM on the fly. I honestly would have thought it wasn’t possible but hearing that they’re doing it - it will be a monumental effort, but very feasible. The best part is that once they’ve gotten CRT and cdecl instructions working - actual application support won’t be far behind. The biggest challenge will likely be inserting memory barriers correctly - a spinlock implemented in x86 assembly is highly unlikely to work correctly without a lot of effort to recognize and transpile that specific structure as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All images are stacked bar charts if you try hard enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨madlad⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Centrifuges spin really fast, so you need to balance out the things they’re spinning, otherwise it can fall catastrophically.

  Stick everything on one side and it will effectively explode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeking a name, from the mists of the past⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got it. From this list: bbslist.textfiles.com/408/oldschool.html

  408-336-3134 Ben Lomond, CA Pyrzqxgl (1986-1987) Tané Tachyon Pyrzqxgl tree-structured discussion BBS software

  I can see why you called it pretzel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeking a name, from the mists of the past⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plover-net perhaps?

  Do you remember the area code?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Intel, whose investment will be over five years, will pay a corporate tax rate of 7.5% instead of 5% previously. The normal tax rate is 23%, but under Israel’s law to encourage investment in development areas, companies receive large benefits.

  Usually these types of grants are never a good investment but the increased corporate tax rate alone covers a third of the grant (9b yearly taxable revenue at 2.5% over 5 years comes out to 1.125b).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2867: DateTime⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the shortlist of horrors I’ve had to deal with in my career:

  • Mixed US/ROW short date formats - DD/MM/YY, MM/DD/YY
  • mixed timezones in the same column
  • the wrong timezone (marked as PDT but actually UTC, or sometimes the other way around)
  • clock drift
  • timezones again…because timezones suck
  • historical timezones
  • NTP configurations

  Things I’ve read about but haven’t needed to deal with personally:

  • leap seconds
  • clock slew vs skip
  • hardware clocks
  • PTP
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Italy rallies to condemn violence against women draw huge crowds⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a statement marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Sergio Mattarella said: "Dramatic news stories have shaken the country’s conscience.

  Data from the Italian interior ministry shows that 106 women have so far been killed in the country this year, 55 of them allegedly by a partner or ex-partner.

  The protests take place amid a backdrop of public anger and soul-searching over the murder of Ms Cecchettin, a 22-year-old biomedical engineering student who had been due to graduate from the University of Padua last week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come ride me.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You clearly haven’t watched your forklift safety video. Warning: blood starts a few minutes in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is indeed one and the same. This is the post that triggered this article (warning: it’s long and not well organized): blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html

  Credit where credit is due, DJB is usually correct even if he could communicate it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just imagining it running the obstacle has me giggling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a tribble. Give it some food and in a few minutes you’ll need to make it double

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is basically a native version of xlwings that requires exposing your excel data?