Notices by Sophie Schmieg (sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange)

Important sets:
ℂ the complex numbers
ℕ the natural numbers
ℚ the rational numbers
ℝ the real numbers
𝕏 the set of fascists wannabes
ℤ the integers

To correct the common misunderstanding:
Eve (they/them), Alice (she/her), and Bob (he/him) are in a consensual, BDSM relationship, featuring Eve as service top, Alice as the bratty bottom, and Bob, who just likes to watch.

Their safe word is "indistinguishability obfuscation"

Eve only "breaks" Alice's encryption because she's super into it, not to cause harm.

@ryanc yeah, SFO

@ryanc

Never trust […] x509.

Fixed that for you.

@ryanc @tychotithonus ah, so 22 binary characters, all ending in 0x03?

@ryanc @tychotithonus hmm, 22 printable characters? Even in binary that'd be too short for modern hash functions, putting it in brute force range depending on the size of the salt.

@ryanc @tychotithonus unpadded base64 of 16 random bytes leads to 22 byte strings. They wouldn't have the same last character, though, but 4 different options A, Q, g, and w.

An ongoing debate in our household is whether or not it is worth spending the extra delta-v to shoot things directly into the sun, instead of just sending them onto an escape trajectory out of the solar system.

I love that German Mastodon sometimes calls toots Tröts. It's the correct translation, but nobody called a tweet a Tschirp.

@dangoodin @filippo 128 bit is enough, as long as you are not defending against adversaries with access to a Dyson swarm. 256 bit is enough for defense against a Kardashev III civilizations, with room to spare.

@jrconlin @tess yeah, "risk management" and "trust and safety" are the items on that list that really give the game away: "we just want to move fast and break things and not listen to you naysayers bringing up good points like 'the law' and 'mathematics'"

@soatok @rbreich Hotter take: let's make stock buybacks illegal, and cap dividends (to 0 when you're doing layoffs)

@tess @mekkaokereke @evan @markallerton @ks

Honestly, I just don't care either way about centralization as a first level property, I care about my experience as a user. If centralization improves that, great, let's go with that, if decentralization is better for it, also great.

"Decentralization" by itself is just not a moral value