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Comment on Sweden's national broadcaster SVT suspects some of the 4,077 songs submitted for Melodifestivalen 2027 were generated using artificial intelligence in ~music
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Comment on Origin of ECDSA curve seed provided by NSA to NIST in 2000 without explanation turns out to be simple PRNG output with UNIX timestamp as seed in ~comp
AndreasChris LinkIn case you don't know what this is about: Simply put ECDSA is a signature algorithm standardized by NIST in 2000 and used in all sorts of places to secure digital communication in day-to-day...In case you don't know what this is about:
Simply put ECDSA is a signature algorithm standardized by NIST in 2000 and used in all sorts of places to secure digital communication in day-to-day applications. Hence the ability to break it, would have huge implications for IT security.
The algorithm uses a magic seed value that has been provided by the NSA (who generated the curve parameters) without explanation. Over the years this lead to a number of conspiracy theories, that the seed may have been chosen to contain a secret backdoor.
One day an anecdote surfaced, that the seed may have simply been a SHA-1 hash of some english sentence chosen by a NSA employee. Huge efforts have been made over the years to find out how the seed may have been generated, and there was a five figure cash prize to be paid out to the first person to find it.
Then yesterday, anthropic posted this blogpost, announcing that some research model of theirs found the actual origin of the seed. Turns out it was just the output of several iterations of a standard PRNG from some 1990s C library seeded with a timestamp. I.e. as basic as it gets when it comes to generating pseudo random numbers.
This mostly debunks the conspiracy that the seed is part of some grand conspiracy to backdoor ECDSA, so good news I guess. But for the most part I can't help but find it very funny how a large online community spent years and loads of resources hashing random english sentences in the hopes of finding the seed's origin, only for an LLM to reveal it's been the output of a non-cryptographically-secure pseudo random number generator from an old C library all along. :D
Or in other words (joke): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOQfNT6Jdkg
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Origin of ECDSA curve seed provided by NSA to NIST in 2000 without explanation turns out to be simple PRNG output with UNIX timestamp as seed
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Comment on Jet Lag Season 19: Japanorama | Trailer in ~hobbies
AndreasChris Link ParentDunno, the pacing of... ...the final ten minutes of the episode was quite well edited in my opinion, so I don't really mind the 'early' conclusion. I found it much more frustrating how some veeery...Dunno, the pacing of...
...the final ten minutes of the episode was quite well edited in my opinion, so I don't really mind the 'early' conclusion. I found it much more frustrating how some veeery lucky last-minute draws kinda decided this season on pure chance. After this much back-and-forth I really would've preferred a tie in this one.
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Comment on Jet Lag Season 19: Japanorama | Trailer in ~hobbies
AndreasChris Link ParentI've only watched the beginning of episode 8 so far, but the first few minutes... ...went as I expected/feared. It would've really surprised me if they did a random draw, actually lost their...I've only watched the beginning of episode 8 so far, but the first few minutes...
...went as I expected/feared. It would've really surprised me if they did a random draw, actually lost their Shinkansen card, and still made the penultimate episode end on that cliffhanger. -
Comment on Jet Lag Season 19: Japanorama | Trailer in ~hobbies
AndreasChris LinkEpisode 8 (finale) is now on Nebula -
Comment on Jet Lag Season 19: Japanorama | Trailer in ~hobbies
AndreasChris Link ParentEpisode 7 is now on YouTube -
Comment on Jet Lag Season 19: Japanorama | Trailer in ~hobbies
AndreasChris Link ParentYeah, they already 'apologized' for... ...the cliffhanger in the layover podcast xD: But yeah, that ending was absolutely wild. I kinda want to believe "Team Fight" makes a miracle-comeback and...Yeah, they already 'apologized' for...
...the cliffhanger in the layover podcast xD:
Ben: And look, we formally apologize for this cliffhanger. It was to good to not do. We had – we had to do it.
Sam: Right, we get ooone –
Ben: We get one mean cliffhanger, and its before the finale, and its to good.But yeah, that ending was absolutely wild. I kinda want to believe "Team Fight" makes a miracle-comeback and manages to win, but given how much content is left my feeling tells me that Sen&Bam won't lose their Shinkansen card prematurely.
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Comment on Jet Lag Season 19: Japanorama | Trailer in ~hobbies
AndreasChris Link ParentEpisode 6 is now on YouTube -
Comment on Jet Lag Season 19: Japanorama | Trailer in ~hobbies
AndreasChris LinkEpisode 7 is now on Nebula -
Comment on ‘Woman Unknown’ wins Golden Lion in Venice in ~movies
AndreasChris Link ParentThat sounds... counterintuitive. Especially given that one of the two deadlock candidates now won the 'silver lion' (i.e. second place I suppose), and the other one won the 'special jury prize'...That sounds... counterintuitive. Especially given that one of the two deadlock candidates now won the 'silver lion' (i.e. second place I suppose), and the other one won the 'special jury prize' (whatever that is). Shouldn't the scenario you cited give rise to a second place deadlock as well?
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Comment on Recommendations for noise cancelling, over ear headphones in ~tech
AndreasChris Link ParentI second the Bose Quiet Comfort. I got an earlier model of those in 2018, took them with me and used them basically every day, and they worked without a problem until I lost them a few months ago...I second the Bose Quiet Comfort. I got an earlier model of those in 2018, took them with me and used them basically every day, and they worked without a problem until I lost them a few months ago (after 8 years of constant use!). And by lost them I don't mean they broke, but I physically left them somewhere.
The only thing that I replaced a few times are the pads that go on your ears, but there are some affordable off-brand variants, so you have some choice with regards to looks and properties and don't need to stick with the expensive branded spare parts.
In fact it was such a good experience that I've since gotten the Bose QuietComfort SC headphones as a replacement. The SC simply stands for soft case. It's the same model but a bit cheaper and without the hard case, which I still have from the ones I lost.
Usually I would've done a bit more research before getting new ones, but the experience and durability of the headphones was just so nice that I really wanted to keep the same ones.
Note that back when I got the first pair in 2018 they were the 'flagship' model so to say, whereas now there's a more expensive 'ultimate' model of the quiet comfort line that looks a bit different, but I personally prefer the original design.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tildes
AndreasChris Link ParentUnfortunately when the time came, it chose the bad gateway. Just like Robert Frost put it: Two gateways diverged in a reverse proxy, and tildes tildes took the one less traveled by, and that has...Unfortunately when the time came, it chose the bad gateway. Just like Robert Frost put it:
Two gateways diverged in a reverse proxy, and tildes
tildes took the one less traveled by,
and that has caused all the errors.Or something like that.
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Comment on How I feel about LLM (AI) writing in ~tech
AndreasChris LinkOut of cutiosity: How would you define the term 'slop'? Does it encompas anything AI genrated or assisted, is there some qualitative metric to it, or where should the line be drawn?Out of cutiosity: How would you define the term 'slop'? Does it encompas anything AI genrated or assisted, is there some qualitative metric to it, or where should the line be drawn?
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Comment on Tildes Survey #3: What country were you born in? (Results) in ~talk
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Comment on “Dungeon Crawler Carl” now available to libraries exclusively on Libby in ~books
AndreasChris Link ParentI highly doubt that, but there are some shady mirrors and impostor sites out there for sure.looks like libgen requires using Discord to download any books
I highly doubt that, but there are some shady mirrors and impostor sites out there for sure.
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IETF has published an IPv8 draft
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Comment on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungary election in ~society
AndreasChris Link ParentConsidering that there are three parties ranging from right wing to extremely right in hungary's parliament now, the lack of political diversity is concerning for sure, and I wouldn't expect...Considering that there are three parties ranging from right wing to extremely right in hungary's parliament now, the lack of political diversity is concerning for sure, and I wouldn't expect overly progressive policy decisions from the new guy. He's still a conservative. But at least it looks like he's a Pro-European conservative with sound democratic values. So of the possible outcomes its the better one for sure.
Also the two-third-majority should allow the new government to more easily roll back many of the changes that undermined the rule of law and democracy under Orban, but of course this also comes with more potential for abuse if Magyar doesn't turn out to be who people expect him to be.
We'll have to wait and see how it works out long term I suppose.
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Comment on Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone | Teaser in ~tv
AndreasChris Link ParentI agree with regards to JK Rowling - what she does and says is awful. But it's also not something that just happened recently. So it's just getting exhausting that whenever Harry Potter comes up...I agree with regards to JK Rowling - what she does and says is awful. But it's also not something that just happened recently. So it's just getting exhausting that whenever Harry Potter comes up because there's some new content, the conversation is immediately burried in the same talking points about rowling's bigotry that have been already been posted the last two times something about Harry Potter came up. There is a place for people to discuss what Rowling says and does, but there should also be a place for people to discuss the content of Harry Potter books/series/movies.
Much the same it is very well possible to still like Harry Potter content and hate Rowling's actions/comments. I really dislike how some people act as if there's some moral obligation to suddenly hate anything that's been published by Rowling in the past now that she's started to publicly propagate anti-trans bs. If Harry Potter were a problematic text in itself that would be a different story, but that's not the argument being made at all. Erasing anything someone said or wrote once they fall out of favor and shaming people for interacting with it may be something that's common in totalitarian regimes, but in my ideal world that's not how things should work.
Anyway, if Rowling says something new that's despicable and awful, please post and discuss it, but please also accept that there can be discussion about Harry Potter content wise that doesn't necessarily need to include a discussion about the author's latest actions. Once the series comes out I really hope that we can somehow have the rowling discussions without reposting the same thing under every single post discussing the latest episode's content.
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Comment on Britain mandates heat pumps and solar panels in new homes from 2028 in ~enviro
AndreasChris Link ParentNice. There are already so many other good reasons to push renewable energy, but if it takes a major geopolitical conflict to make politicians/people see renewables as a strategic resource,...Nice. There are already so many other good reasons to push renewable energy, but if it takes a major geopolitical conflict to make politicians/people see renewables as a strategic resource, there's at least some positive sideeffect of those I guess.
Is this actually a step towards a major shift to renewable energy in Britain or is there some catch to it?
In the context of the ESC the song needs to be performed by a human live on stage in the end anyway. So I suppose those AI submissions are songs originally generated by AI and re-recorded by a human performer, are they? I can see how you wouldn't be able to tell these apart from a song originally conceived by a human from the recording alone.