Notices by fontenot (fontenot@mastodon.social)

@cwebber @danny

I like to think this isn't me, but that has to contend with the fact that I've spent a considerable amount of time making Firefox look and operate the way it did in 2007.

With RSS, I'm struck by the fact that there really isn't a "this era" replacement. Substack seems like the latest attempt, but I think most readers still subscribe via the decidedly last-era email, rather than anything newfangled. I think most people probably only read social media?

@cwebber

Shouldn't this be 20 bytes? There are 32 characters, and each character is base32, or 5 bits. So 160 bits?

I don't *think* there's a huge concern over this, because while maybe you could do a birthday collision attack in 80 bits, this wouldn't really get you much and wouldn't let you take over someone else's account. For that you'd need a pre-image attack on the whole 160 bits.

*Also not a cryptographer!!*

@andrewrk The Brits have just one wolf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_marks_in_English#British_style

I tend to use this for most of my casual writing, despite being American.