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/...
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
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/...
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/...
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
Literally setting precedent..
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..
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
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..
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..
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...
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
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...
9to5google.com/2025/11/04/g...
So it’s back to the 80s on nuclear testing..
I’ll be on the beach..
I’ll be on the beach..
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So it’s back to the 80s on nuclear testing..
I’ll be on the beach..
I’ll be on the beach..
"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...
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
"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...
I hope they make Case a chain smoker..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJBn...
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
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.
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.
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
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.
If you come from a culture without a swimming tradition, consider getting some practice in and a bit of training in.
#Bunning's LLM integration provided a valid interpretation of the question..
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 AM
#Bunning's LLM integration provided a valid interpretation of the question..
Honestly I just wanted to know what time it was in Prague..
October 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Honestly I just wanted to know what time it was in Prague..
Imagine having to perform risk analysis when selecting a telco in a country like Australia..
September 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Imagine having to perform risk analysis when selecting a telco in a country like Australia..
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
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
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
8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog"
eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf
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
Imagine setting up a build that produced ramdisks compressed using LZ4 but doesn't compile LZ4 support into the kernel!!
And suddenly talk the of Ange managing at Nottingham Forest FC is very intriguing!
August 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
And suddenly talk the of Ange managing at Nottingham Forest FC is very intriguing!
The best type of contention is different programs hard coding access to /dev/loop0..x devices..
What a glorious thing that is!
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
The best type of contention is different programs hard coding access to /dev/loop0..x devices..
What a glorious thing that is!
What a glorious thing that is!
We evolved to detect human sounding and or looking things that are not human.
We didn’t evolve to do that with text.
We didn’t evolve to do that with text.
August 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
We evolved to detect human sounding and or looking things that are not human.
We didn’t evolve to do that with text.
We didn’t evolve to do that with text.
Ok I am in.. Placed the order along with two joysticks!
#C64 #Commodore64
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fG...
See: www.commodore.net
#C64 #Commodore64
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fG...
See: www.commodore.net
Home | Commodore
www.commodore.net
August 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Ok I am in.. Placed the order along with two joysticks!
#C64 #Commodore64
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fG...
See: www.commodore.net
#C64 #Commodore64
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fG...
See: www.commodore.net
Reposted by Megan Woods 🇦🇺
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...
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
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...
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...
Old Rupert can taste blood in the water..
July 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Old Rupert can taste blood in the water..
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?"
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
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?"
In colloquial en_au, "generally" means, "give it a go, it'll be fun to watch you try?"