Notices by Ricardo B�nffy (rbanffy@mastodon.social)

How Public Key Cryptography Really Works | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-public-key-cryptography-really-works-20241115/

Phison intros 'world's fastest' high-capacity 128TB SSD — Pascari D205V hits 3 million IOPS and 14,600 MB/s with PCIe 5.0 | Tom's Hardware https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/phison-intros-worlds-fastest-high-capacity-128tb-ssd-pascari-d205v-hits-3-million-iops-and-14-600-mb-s-with-pcie-5-0

The Deep History of Your Apps: Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and Early Object-Oriented Programming - CHM https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-deep-history-of-your-apps-steve-jobs-nextstep-and-early-object-oriented-programming/

@VintageProject I would, and when someone asked, I'd ask back "What year is this?"

@VintageProject Add a RPi and a battery and use it on an airplane.

@VintageProject sadly, all these around me seem to have been recycled into toothbrushes. There is zero vintage computing (and instruments) scene in Ireland.

@europlus @Ange CR without an LF was used for things like bold and underlines (faster and more precise than single backspaces) on teletypes and printer. I guess LF without a CR makes much less sense as a printer trick. Apple IIs and classic Macs used CR, Unix used LF and both would need to add the missing character when printing something out on anything but a screen.

@cstross @Menhit My daughter these days noticed calico cats are land-koi and koi fish are water calicos.

@VintageProject This is beautiful. It's the next cutest thing HP ever made after their Munchkin terminal.

@cstross @HairyChris I can't wait to see what Bigelow(Boeing?) can fit inside a Starship cargo bay. Or, even cooler, a Superheavy-launched expendable second stage.

@gamingonlinux I really don't get the attachment people feel with Discord.

Astronomers Watched a Massive Star Just... Disappear. Now JWST Might Have Some Answers - Universe Today https://www.universetoday.com/163473/astronomers-watched-a-massive-star-just-disappear-now-jwst-might-have-some-answers/

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech | Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/yanis-varoufakis-technofeudalism-capitalism-ukraine-interview

Unlike conservatives, who never learn despite having brains.

No brain, no problem. Jellyfish learn just fine | Science | AAAS https://www.science.org/content/article/no-brain-no-problem-jellyfish-learn-just-fine

@mos_8502 @living8bit Python is *very* easy to learn if you already know another language. And comes with a number of useful constructs that aren't easily expressed in C. It has its uses - what you do is what informs the choice of language.

@thomasfuchs I still have hope that, with AGI, we’ll be able to build a better human.

@belmikey @thomasfuchs Thanks, Uncle Mikey. That's the best compliment I received this week.

It was satire, but it kind of rings true.

IIRC, Gorbachev once commented the Soviet Union failed because it failed to create a better human.

@belmikey @thomasfuchs Also worth noting I already made three humans that, I hope, are better then me. Only time will tell.

@lxo I think you should apply for access to the machines and do more research on the protocols around the voting machines - from handling to data transmission.

There are attack vectors we can't really address - what if Intel puts malicious silicon inside the processor or the TPM? Data exfiltration by malicious code and ultrasound modulation? Once you compromise the hardware or the bootloader, anything goes.

@lxo the vote disclosure you mention was caused by a poorly chosen RNG seed, that allowed the attacker to duplicate the shuffling sequence of votes for that individual machine.

That specific flaw was, AFAIK, fixed.

As to independently verify and attack the machines, the parties and many other organizations and independent testers have access to the code and can request voting machines to be tested in realistic environments.