2026-04-01T08:21:33Z https://yabu.me C. https://yabu.me/npub1tsa6e35egxn7ct0tdwvxcn9pa9zacee3ezw4nn29daql9qt4awwsgfqgs4 https://a.mindlycdn.com/accounts/avatars/109/314/751/759/220/747/original/0f68fdbbfd257b21.jpg https://a.mindlycdn.com/accounts/avatars/109/314/751/759/220/747/original/0f68fdbbfd257b21.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgwgywsrqmnmcafs0ge8r0hm70dlnjk02w5svung9dpjvr5vd3h9gzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6agf23d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqzytk642j3c0alf5vgyv7mejvyjzq0v47d733h6ttqea3tfxd42cjgtpy7'>nevent1q…tpy7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I hadn&#39;t considered telling him he&#39;s an astrobun. Professor Skye might approve! 2025-09-28T05:53:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg0j4z7l0fftlk5gp8yaxveg7tcsqw8etef3drxx9uc2jt3psag2gzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6wuxymc A little reminder / tip about how sharing on Mastodon works.<br/><br/>Remember, there&#39;s no algorithm. Nothing is &#34;selected&#34; for you. Everything you see in your timeline is things that you specifically follow - people, hashtags, etc. You see the posts of people you follow, plus things from others that they boost.<br/><br/>Hitting the &#34;favourite&#34; button doesn&#39;t contribute to this at all. It&#39;s a silent nod towards the author of the post you favourited - nobody else sees it, and it doesn&#39;t affect who sees the post.<br/><br/>If you liked something - share it! If you hit the &#34;boost&#34; button instead of, or in addition to, the favourite button, then that will share it with people who follow you.<br/><br/>The fediverse runs on boosts - without them, there would be virtually nothing in your timeline to see.<br/><br/>So go ahead and boost more stuff! Your followers will thank you.<br/><br/>#favourite #boost #favorite #Mastodon #Fediverse #share 2025-07-19T05:19:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfk2rfmkyac5rvy44ykt4n5txschdd864syrh3na5dxjwv7vzlargzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e65jqhyl Daniel J. Bernstein (#djb, to those who know and love him [1]) has a new blog entry about the NIST post-quantum #cryptography standardization process that&#39;s been ongoing for some years. Also, follow him <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1h8qejnzct95uvytsgw2wm2cc2k20uwkdfxwxlljk24q68djrqmxssp7w6x" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Daniel J. Bernstein</span> (<span class="italic">npub1h8q…7w6x</span>)</a></span> .<br/><br/>If you&#39;re not aware of some of the controversy about how NIST is running this process, it&#39;s a must-read.<br/><br/><a href="https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250423-mceliece.html">https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250423-mceliece.html</a><br/><br/>My $0.02: it sure looks like NIST is backstopping an attempt by the NSA to get everyone to standardize on cryptography #standards that the #NSA knows how to break.<br/><br/>Again.<br/><br/>Yes, they did it before. If you read up on the Dual_EC calamity and its fallout, and how this time it was supposed to be different - open, transparent, secure - then prepare to be disappointed. NIST is playing #Calvinball with their rules for this contest, yanking the rug out from under contenders that appear to be more #secure and better understood, while pushing alternatives that are objectively worse (#weaker encryption, less studied, poorer #performance).<br/><br/>Frankly, I think organizations outside of the #USA would be foolish to trust anything that comes out of #NIST&#39;s current work. Well, those inside the USA too, but some of those may be forced by law to use whatever NIST certifies.<br/><br/>[1] Some people think djb is &#34;prickly&#34;, not lovable. Oddly, it seems that the only people who say this are those who are wildly incorrect about code/algorithms and are being gently but publicly corrected about by djb at the time<br/><br/>#quantum #PostQuantum #PostQuantumCryptography 2025-04-24T05:40:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw40xd70u3j83xsmz7j9sft8qh5vxrcq34zkxtv086zezpgfs6hlqzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e65hcmm0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs97275djyt2pkqd6auu6kcwp6es7p50qdxfxh37rv92clyva0zedg7yn2ea'>nevent1q…n2ea</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh! Oops. It was pinned at the top, I just assumed it was recent. My bad. 2025-04-15T19:29:38Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsql7g0z0twr6ma733h6vjhc6gpkefmw2v207t59rpvxa8hc5qhnvczypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e67ughsu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszqqsyswph9khqk8l7k6j8lf0sjdw4tg34fqapyzs5yyky9aprpngcyzvn2'>nevent1q…zvn2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thank you all for the extremely interesting discussion of this - it&#39;s way above my pay grade, but I at least know enough to see that you&#39;ve pointed out a significant number of oddities in their writeup that aren&#39;t justified in the paper itself.<br/><br/>Sabine apparently posted a brief first-look video:<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk_NjIPaZk4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk_NjIPaZk4</a><br/><br/>I haven&#39;t watched it yet, but plan to. It sounds like she&#39;s unimpressed too. 2025-04-15T19:02:54Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs05w5x2tnegjgear96ur40hlphp85e0j4jx3watg0tedv3clu0ccqzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6v4046d Unifying general relativity and the electromagnetic force? (I presume this also includes the weak nuclear force at sufficiently high energies, but this summary doesn&#39;t say)<br/><br/><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-einstein-field-theory.html">https://phys.org/news/2025-04-einstein-field-theory.html</a><br/><br/>I&#39;m pretty much at the limit of my understanding of field theories and such just in this summary article, I don&#39;t think I&#39;ll even try their full journal article.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1c4lcc3r850a67tj46jvl2jd3tgpmf9k0fx5kw9l4wq6xwphh5s2sd3wjmw" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cenobyte :abunhdowohop:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1c4l…wjmw</span>)</a></span> - Does Professor Skye or her research assistant have any comment on the matter?<br/><br/>#relativity #GeneralRelativity #electromagnetic #force #field #TOE #GUT 2025-04-15T05:28:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr3pgqcxztdk0f9v3vvy0gpft2t2l0quqw4egd7mapr29uy7zvddczypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6rragxp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstvs75ya9tgnphllk2st5dezaf9z40vx69q2egy8x70jvwuydsqeqt9cjuu'>nevent1q…cjuu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I would love for him to get down on his knees with Charles III holding a sword at his neck.<br/><br/>#knight #oops 2025-03-23T01:02:34Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyql3e2ee7dcsnh4hpa5d2nhsmmd9rxr40e4md63hmjrzmw3rmw3szypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6rvll9h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9u0ukmaksll52s6pqs9myfsxsf7hv8z5d55fnmp3qem0r9d7yr7gduzuqx'>nevent1q…zuqx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Does he know why the USA has a constitution, and why you fought a bloody war two hundred and fifty years ago?<br/><br/>#dunce #FirstDunce 2025-03-23T00:55:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8njzzhhs3z38qtt0xct8p6lrstnnw37x2j6ytt4xmsvy94afgr6czypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6ekrxk2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9l0k0sxn9hhhz76vufntnt98rrgmuh553xgu8r5xvpzuv028tj0gaccvz8'>nevent1q…cvz8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Maybe their AI thinks I&#39;m lonelier than you are. 2025-03-15T03:39:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2cd4a578yzp7zswda6nfewcegh5ealxah6nmt8ttq25v740wcengzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e63c3hvk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz8v604cnf52awqhjp0ppuwpf0yexgq6wqtfwfkumdh3yf76flq5cuh625e'>nevent1q…625e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve had a few bursts of them. Reported, blocked, the accounts disappeared.<br/><br/>They&#39;re really telling on themselves with the sheer number they send to a single person. My bursts were each 40-50 PMs in a minute or two. 2025-03-15T03:15:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvul726vk8fv8e8clcd8u0plqwmqcw2zs53pwwfvk7z976zn7qv3qzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6qg0kp0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstr03ajeexh769y5x7vhdsxdzvjuamx4dmpqc6l8ftyqugeqr7kkcc9ex5r'>nevent1q…ex5r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wonder if this was a subtle jab at current events by someone at YouTube - the Nazi clowns in this are, well, spectacular. 2025-03-02T04:45:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrhcnal2uwcturty5wkzdugs7m9n5tvmse5cr53zc92w2saxdqnhqzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e656rec0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrtftyufpx6sq5kf3mnf6h6pg663amnzcuhx53u8mrgm2h8lw835c82ayzg'>nevent1q…ayzg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Early stuff that gets forgotten...<br/><br/>First transmission using IP.<br/>First transmission between different sites/cities.<br/>First use of &#34;@&#34; to separate username and machine name in email (which predated IP).<br/>First use of DNS because of exploding complexity of managing a hosts file internet-wide.<br/>First internet site outside of USA.<br/>First internet site outside of North America.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1lq68asmanu3etxax9hvrj8au4h585lq8zgzujmufqsewtsz85mkskknf7e" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Lauren Weinstein</span> (<span class="italic">npub1lq6…nf7e</span>)</a></span> probably has some better suggestions. 2025-01-17T15:02:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgtz0zxd7p9hedxnnwyg23hs2e84tkz5vrwvswazerptytw23e4pszypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e695x9us In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdfl28sm84terywx9mm98qzrh8ewkluhhca6cjzjtpzv62xu088rckfcu6q'>nevent1q…cu6q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To me, the whole &#34;H1-B is for when you simply cannot find a qualified citizen/green-card candidate&#34; problem could be solved with what seems to me to be a missing requirement.<br/><br/>If you &#34;can&#39;t find&#34; a matching candidate, clearly you&#39;ve already tried recruiting with generous compensation etc. So if you&#39;re forced to go outside the national labour pool, it should obviously be that anyone you hire on an H1-B is right at the top of your compensation, right?<br/><br/>i.e. hire an H1-B engineer, they had better be the highest-paid (or tied for highest) engineer in the company.<br/><br/>If you enforce that, the cheap-labour abuse just goes away...<br/><br/>But of course, every complex problem has a simple, easy to understand wrong answer, so maybe I&#39;m missing something.<br/><br/>#scam #abuse #visa #employer #labour #labor #CheapLabour #CheapLabor #cheap #H1B 2024-12-30T02:44:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0k68n77ts42p0jpkcnnft0u8nj4cha327ksrpvdt4j0uz9hqnqkczypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6samsp9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq43qv4r5chq7tluxljuqk7tytf0kw6tr0rt74zejpmxvzh695k9csl04vu'>nevent1q…04vu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>#Biden could, and perhaps should, prevent this from happening, by issuing a pre-emptive #pardon to all #military #personnel involved (for their actions in the withdrawal, not for everything they&#39;ve ever done).<br/><br/>The #Democrats really need to be thinking more aggressively about doing some preventative damage control in the 2 months they have left.<br/><br/>#DamageControl 2024-11-17T03:35:04Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8z9r2qx3z92k8ruetpll39lrr4yxd27cqcjpndu7dqhh4kdmsrpgzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6vkka0l This column (worth a read):<br/><a href="https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/paul-graham-and-the-cult-of-the-founder?r=eeyg&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true">https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/paul-graham-and-the-cult-of-the-founder?r=eeyg&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true</a><br/><br/>... reminded me of how much I dislike Paul Graham. Not personally; I&#39;ve never met him. I read a bit of him online way back when, and then bought his book &#34;Hackers &amp; Painters&#34;, which was a collection of #essays that everyone was fawning over.<br/><br/>It struck me as an enormous pile of #obvious #generalities in which he spent WAY too much time trying to sound #Serious and #Important and that they were Novel Ideas. It&#39;s #garbage.<br/><br/>1/2<br/><br/>#PaulGraham 2024-09-14T01:15:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsde0gacwx2f5qjwtkg40hg6pg29vnf5cvc8tm06d58pwftlm4pqggzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6fsndcy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspa6450fktgvp6z22evthp84fzfc9np0kd45vd4l4xuwe795kr6vgqlsuax'>nevent1q…suax</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Where I live, they added a second, overlaid area code a few years ago because &#34;we&#39;re running out of numbers&#34;. The entire population is ~1M... how can ~10M numbers be in use?<br/><br/>Is #NANP now run by methheads?<br/><br/>2/2 2024-09-09T22:20:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspa6450fktgvp6z22evthp84fzfc9np0kd45vd4l4xuwe795kr6vgzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6srkj8h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2w3t9n78gmpl9hzqpnj9lvw7v79lz48yqu8juf7226ypytdg30su3vj87'>nevent1q…vj87</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t really get this. An area code featuring 7-digit local numbers gives ~10M possible phone numbers. Greater LA has a population of ~20M - why on earth are 12 area codes needed? Even if they&#39;re not all overlayed on the same geography.<br/><br/>When the initial 3 digits indicated a physical facility, maybe this would make sense. But not now; sparse allocation for this reason just isn&#39;t necessary.<br/><br/>1/2 2024-09-09T22:20:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr4qcv039903jnq68jyg4jx5j7ujrqwljwckm5tlwcydzgy6du33szypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6llkgrz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0epy9yewrkfwv7kqau9gtassyralcw602tkwgfplp0gxa62mq8nsym9quj'>nevent1q…9quj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1lq68asmanu3etxax9hvrj8au4h585lq8zgzujmufqsewtsz85mkskknf7e" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Lauren Weinstein</span> (<span class="italic">npub1lq6…nf7e</span>)</a></span> (who has deep connections inside Google and has worked with them) has been lambasting these &#34;AI&#34; summaries in search results since Google first added them. I&#39;m with him; they are utterly useless, because even if they were correct, you can&#39;t just trust them to be so - you need to go back to the original sources and validate it yourself.<br/><br/>In which case, why bother with the summaries in the first place? Just show the original sources as the search results. 2024-09-01T16:23:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvdp3r7e77m7vc28mw6rtxg9r9fzx93ucvjm8tpv6p6hy8j7exrfgzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6hp55y6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyd2zg7x26dsxz2hvv9epnzz9xmue34adtkx3jascs3tp4pyrwqxs3s28nm'>nevent1q…28nm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Have they made any explicit statements about not pulling a Dymo/HP and preventing 3rd-party filaments from working down the line?<br/><br/>Not many companies would explicitly state that for fear of legal repercussions, but I&#39;m curious. Maybe they&#39;re better than most. 2024-08-25T04:25:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp93greek6xh0jk6sfvax3wf6waufylzteslz5kz5rynngu2qcwpczypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6fqqqyr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsghk2qf3txlrgakhm2jkrl8qzxk005etrt5rhuzu2hsfx6zu26u6gthtkv4'>nevent1q…tkv4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ll take your word for it; as I said, I&#39;m not a Chrome user. And debugging these kinds of weirdo-edge-case-problems is definitely not for the faint-of-heart.<br/><br/>FWIW, I use Firefox and it seems to have no issues with my fairly complicated setup (multiple binaries installed different ways, many profiles, etc). 2024-08-22T03:14:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszx2ez3gqcn500kz44vk9mlzer25mt20xnu8dej4hfg8wjdtjhgpgzypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6q96jfv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz35d0j6qu64g8qh44tqhrnzugefkvlkxm42e50mehtuvz9w5x49qfh3yfz'>nevent1q…3yfz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I downloaded the stable one, and it doesn&#39;t appear to have any external dependencies (using objdump). Another program I use an AppImage for shows such dependencies:<br/><br/>[...]<br/> NEEDED libdl.so.2<br/> NEEDED libpthread.so.0<br/> NEEDED libz.so.1<br/> NEEDED libc.so.6<br/>[...]<br/><br/>So perhaps this particular AppImage is completely self-contained?<br/><br/>No, I haven&#39;t run it 😀 2024-08-22T03:00:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2nfwfe74kmmfpvnc4aveepwepcsx8g3gsmfk9xdn954v69lyzchszypwrhtxxn9q60mpdad4esmzv5855thr8x8yf6kwdg4h5ru5pwh4e6gmvuvp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsydf5zkacn3pq3xyusv0kvutv3wsc4zfcpq8g0de5nkpwejn892hqqdn9ra'>nevent1q…n9ra</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Is there a Chrome AppImage available? Appears an unofficial one is here:<br/><a href="https://github.com/ivan-hc/Chrome-appimage">https://github.com/ivan-hc/Chrome-appimage</a><br/><br/>That should &#34;just run&#34; on pretty much any Linux x86_64 / AMD64 system. I haven&#39;t searched for 32-bit or other architecture versions.<br/><br/>Caveat emptor, etc etc. Sorry, not a Chrome user. 2024-08-22T02:51:32Z