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  1. 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

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    Genuinely really impressive and fun. I was afraid we would have to set those Minecraft seed hunters on the job but I'm glad we used machines for the menial repetitive jobs for once.

    Genuinely really impressive and fun.

    I was afraid we would have to set those Minecraft seed hunters on the job but I'm glad we used machines for the menial repetitive jobs for once.

    11 votes

  2. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I am doing... almost exactly the same thing except my focus is 2 toolkits. One for Azure Infrastructure and one for conditional access. Other than that the similarities are uncanny...

    I am doing... almost exactly the same thing except my focus is 2 toolkits. One for Azure Infrastructure and one for conditional access. Other than that the similarities are uncanny...

    1 vote

  3. Comment on The people holding up the internet in ~tech

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    To extremely oversimplify. Its pretty much just a setuid binary whos job is determining if you are allowed to do a thing based on config files. The "escalation" part is pretty much just the setuid...

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    To extremely oversimplify. Its pretty much just a setuid binary whos job is determining if you are allowed to do a thing based on config files. The "escalation" part is pretty much just the setuid handled by the kernel. So yes its pretty portable.

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out in ~tech

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    If you have used any of the frontier models over the past 2 years, this list reads as incredibly mundane and obvious. I could ask claude to order me mcdonalds from the closest shop to my home...

    If you have used any of the frontier models over the past 2 years, this list reads as incredibly mundane and obvious.

    I could ask claude to order me mcdonalds from the closest shop to my home address but only on days that are overcast and when my smart scale indicates I am not gaining too much weight and it would figure out the required API's, credentials and whatnot it needs to do that. It may ask me some clarifications but it could reliably get this working with no real help from me.

    20 votes

  5. Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp

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    You are reversing the roles in the scenario. I also believe non-AI code will still exist. I mentioned as much above. It will however must likely become niche. Not worse, maybe better, but niche....

    You are reversing the roles in the scenario.

    I also believe non-AI code will still exist. I mentioned as much above. It will however must likely become niche. Not worse, maybe better, but niche.

    Like an artisinaly crafted closet versus an ikea wardrobe. There are certainly more of the latter in existence, and the quality difference in the example is more profound in the furniture example than in the coding one.

    In this case, the owners of the project decided to loosen their AI restrictions, and this contributor disagrees. Like you mention. He is free to fork it, "shut up about it" and run his own project.

    But I explicitly wanted to frame this not as a pragmatic "get with the times" post, but as a genuine emphatic response to seeing someone lose something, a project, a community, that they were pasionate about. I genuinely feel the dread that goes with such a loss, and even if I believe it is mostly inevitable for the majority of software development, I think we should at least pause and aknowledge the human impact it has on those involved.

    20 votes

  6. Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp

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    I feel really sorry for this person. This is purely my own view of the future, and I am no fortune teller. But the reality he is desperately clinging to is just gone. AI in software development is...

    I feel really sorry for this person. This is purely my own view of the future, and I am no fortune teller. But the reality he is desperately clinging to is just gone.

    AI in software development is here to stay. Denying this is genuine mental denial. I wont say that non-AI code will disappear, and hands-off vibecoding is still genuinely reckless, but I believe the amount of AI generated code is certainly already outpacing humans, and this is just the beginning.

    30 votes

  7. Comment on That book you remember some details but can't recall the title in ~books

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    This is part of the Sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind. Specifically, its the 6th book in the series. Faith of the fallen. It is one of my favorite books of all time even though the Author...

    This is part of the Sword of truth series by Terry Goodkind. Specifically, its the 6th book in the series. Faith of the fallen. It is one of my favorite books of all time even though the Author has his head up his arsehole.

    Its pretty much a very thinly vailed "Communism bad" propaganda book. But it is a very nice book if you manage to let go of the obvious political messaging...

    9 votes

  8. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    Tildes is just built based on server page rendering. Not API driven. This is generally fine but its terrible for interopability. The 3 cheers app needs to effectively parse HTML to function.

    Tildes is just built based on server page rendering. Not API driven. This is generally fine but its terrible for interopability. The 3 cheers app needs to effectively parse HTML to function.

    9 votes

  9. Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes

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    Having done a bit of work on this for Tildes. Let me tell you that there is effectively no API...

    Having done a bit of work on this for Tildes. Let me tell you that there is effectively no API...

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life

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    Where I'm from, any company that exceeds xx employees is forced to facilitate the creation of a union. Not "forced to allow", they need to actively facilitate its creation.

    Where I'm from, any company that exceeds xx employees is forced to facilitate the creation of a union.

    Not "forced to allow", they need to actively facilitate its creation.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life

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    Here it's roughly: Official holidays are fixed days off. (10 this year) Minimum 20 days off (legal). Most companies offer quite a bit more (28 days is the average). Legal workweek is 38 hours but...

    Here it's roughly:

    • Official holidays are fixed days off. (10 this year)
    • Minimum 20 days off (legal). Most companies offer quite a bit more (28 days is the average).
    • Legal workweek is 38 hours but most companies require 40 hours. The difference is compensated as another 6 days
    • sick leave is completely unrelated. If you are sick you are sick and dont go to work. You are still payed. Companies are mostly reimbursed for this cost by the government. There is no real limit on number of days

    On top of that. There are a bunch of additional payed leave days related to circumstances. Marriage. Birth. Maternity/Paternity. Death. Enrolling in additional education. Etc. Etc.

    Any day off that is not consumed by the end of the year is payed out.

    All this of course includes a solid pension system, social security and so on.

    I guess mainly I am baffled by the difference in what is "normal" or "acceptable". At least from the outside it seems American companies have an inhumane relationship with their employees. In Europe, a company may attempt similar in order to increase their profit, but the pushback, outrage and consequences will be swift.

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life

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    I am too european for this thread. For once I cannot identify with any of you.

    I am too european for this thread. For once I cannot identify with any of you.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Shower thought: good RNG stoplights in ~talk

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    "So imagine a bus..."

    "So imagine a bus..."

    12 votes

  14. Comment on Watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes in ~enviro

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    That... was genuinely MUCH more explosive than I anticipated it would be.

    That... was genuinely MUCH more explosive than I anticipated it would be.

    23 votes

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  17. Comment on I love you all in ~talk

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    I may be willing to set this up for you. Though I am a bit in doubt about the potential legal ramifications of this should you use the proxy for less-nice activity than uploading beatsaber maps......

    I may be willing to set this up for you. Though I am a bit in doubt about the potential legal ramifications of this should you use the proxy for less-nice activity than uploading beatsaber maps... I also don't know you nor have I read posts by you here before. So this is all just tildes-trust and because I would hope someone would do the same for me in your position.

    I am not sure if you have consistent access to tildes, but if you do. Feel free to PM me with instructions of what you need (I have software / infra background, but am not familiar with the specific tools you mention and the obfuscation required for your censorship case). If you don't have consistent access, please be complete in your instructions and allow me some days to set this up before checking in again.

    I dont mind paying for a VPS for a couple of months.

    11 votes

  18. Comment on LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer [for browser extensions] in ~tech

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    The tracking is real, and it is actually illegal. That being said, this reads more like a job-orientied lobbying group whos extensions were blocked by linkedin. I get the idea that these people...

    The tracking is real, and it is actually illegal. That being said, this reads more like a job-orientied lobbying group whos extensions were blocked by linkedin.

    I get the idea that these people just really want Linkedin to open their API so they can get a part of the profits (and I think linkedin should be forced into operability). It seems these guys are circumventing the api limitations through browser plugins, and MS is blocking them (I think MS should not be allowed to block this). So now they try to make a lot of fuss about "religion" / "sensitive data"/ etc... but the true target of this monitoring seems much more benign.

    So yeah. Definitely not good and legal action is warranted. But it feels like a lobby group making a lot of noise for profit reasons.

    24 votes

  19. Comment on Making React ProseMirror really, really fast in ~comp

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    I read this comment first before reading your blog. There is definitely still a rendering issue somewhere. I loaded the second editor before the first one (to avoid the scenario you mention about...

    I read this comment first before reading your blog. There is definitely still a rendering issue somewhere. I loaded the second editor before the first one (to avoid the scenario you mention about having multiple moby dicks).

    Simply pressing enter on each editor (old and new) has very noticible input lag (feels like close to half a second before the enter is inserted). Doing this on android (firefox).

    I don't use either library and have no use for this, but given the effort you went through, I assume you would want to know and have another look.

    Edit: Even stranger. Typing any letter causes that letter "popup" (default android keyboard) to remain in its popup state. So I press 'g', which on an android keyboard causes 'g' to briefly flash as a popup letter in the keyboard, but on your editor, the key stays forever. Very strange stuff. Have not seen this anywhere else before

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (March 2026) — Version 1.5 can search for posts in ~tildes

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    /noise Purely out of app-dev interest. Are you leveraging AI for any of the development on 3cheers? I am curious if it holds up as well on mobile app dev as it does for web-app development.

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    Purely out of app-dev interest. Are you leveraging AI for any of the development on 3cheers? I am curious if it holds up as well on mobile app dev as it does for web-app development.

    1 vote