Megan Woods 🇦🇺
glasswall.bsky.social
Megan Woods 🇦🇺
@glasswall.bsky.social
Programmer, owner of cat and dog, ultra-plastic Spurs fan and Bouncy Castle maintainer. Opinions are my own.
A summary of DJBs stuff.

Respectfully at some point the science side needs to move on and understand that applied side needs to get stuff built and if something new comes up then it will just need to be fixed.

it.slashdot.org/story/25/11/...
Cryptologist DJB Criticizes Push to Finalize Non-Hybrid Security for Post-Quantum Cryptography - Slashdot
In October cryptologist/CS professor Daniel J. Bernstein alleged that America's National Security Agency (and its UK counterpart GCHQ) were attempting to influence NIST to adopt weaker post-quantum cr...
it.slashdot.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Literally setting precedent..
If I were granted a one-use superpower, it would be the ability to fire a deep, complete, and lasting grasp of how legal precedent works into the brains of every single human being on this planet, simultaneously.
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Went to the, sold out, #Kalandra gig at Stay Gold in Melbourne. It rocked, it was awesome.
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My neighbor gets home from somewhere about midnight most evenings.. (I assume work)

She spends time after that singing and playing with her dog, they have debates about who is picking up a toy of some sort.

Respect..
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Imagine something with the transistor density of a modern GPU in orbit exposed to every kind of particle. I guess they could write the particle induced errors off as hallucinations.

9to5google.com/2025/11/04/g...
Google’s next moonshot is putting TPUs in space with ‘Project Suncatcher’
Google is starting a new research moonshot called Project Suncatcher to “one day scale machine learning in space.”
9to5google.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So it’s back to the 80s on nuclear testing..

I’ll be on the beach..
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel."

I hope they make Case a chain smoker..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJBn...
Neuromancer — In Production Announcement | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I can still use a chain saw, now have a big pile of branches to clean up and a spouting to get fixed because tree + wind.
October 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Please stay out of the surf if you are not a strong swimmer and if you do enter please swim between the flags.

If you come from a culture without a swimming tradition, consider getting some practice in and a bit of training in.
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
#Bunning's LLM integration provided a valid interpretation of the question..
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Honestly I just wanted to know what time it was in Prague..
October 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I wonder if they used Erlang's work for estimating heavenly infrastructure requirements while they were planning out the #rapture.
September 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Imagine having to perform risk analysis when selecting a telco in a country like Australia..
September 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Gutmann und Neuhaus, "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an
8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog"

eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf
eprint.iacr.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Imagine setting up a build that produced ramdisks compressed using LZ4 but doesn't compile LZ4 support into the kernel!!
September 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
And suddenly talk the of Ange managing at Nottingham Forest FC is very intriguing!
August 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The best type of contention is different programs hard coding access to /dev/loop0..x devices..

What a glorious thing that is!
a woman in a red jacket is lighting a cigarette in front of a garage door
Alt: a woman in a red jacket is lighting a cigarette in front of a garage door.
media.tenor.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We evolved to detect human sounding and or looking things that are not human.

We didn’t evolve to do that with text.
August 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Ok I am in.. Placed the order along with two joysticks!

#C64 #Commodore64

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fG...

See: www.commodore.net
Home | Commodore
www.commodore.net
August 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Reposted by Megan Woods 🇦🇺
"We don't sell the death beam energy, so it doesn't count."

Read more: chaser.com.au/national/won...
July 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It is a start..

They will get around it quickly enough I assume, but social media companies can't just push shit to people without consequence.

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
Australia said on Wednesday it will add YouTube to sites covered by its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the Alphabet-owned video-sharing site and potentially setting up a legal challenge.
www.reuters.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Old Rupert can taste blood in the water..
July 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I think I am officially sick of garbage collectors, especially when advice on how to deal with side effects has liberal use of the word "generally" in it.

In colloquial en_au, "generally" means, "give it a go, it'll be fun to watch you try?"
July 14, 2025 at 4:42 AM