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by blintz 6y ago
About 10 minutes ago an updated preprint was published with a much more succinct and understandable abstract, that includes the sentence, "This destroys the RSA cryptosystem". https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/232.
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by blintz 6y ago
Nothing better than sipping beer and munching truffle popcorn at the Alamo Drafthouse at the SF location in the Mission. It really makes other theaters look like highway robbery; for the same money you get a dramatically better experience.
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by blintz 6y ago
There are bundles here: https://github.com/BNolet/ghostwriter/releases
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Stanford hires students to transcribe all classes that are also available through SCPD. My suspicion is that some bored student out there is having some fun.
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> Almost all of Asia and Africa accepts that requiring conformity in voluntary lifestyle and personal expression is legitimate. Everyone has a right to not be executed or go to jail for their sexual orientation or gender identity. This i
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Finishes?! I was told the study completes in 2 years...
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by blintz 6y ago
I am part of the US study for this vaccine. Any ideas on what this could mean for the possibility of an EUA in the US?
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What is the state of the art on censorship resistance right now? This cat-and-mouse proxy fight never seems to go great for the good guys. My last in-depth reading on it was the excellent 2016 SoK paper “Towards grounding censorship circumv
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GameStop Is Just a Game(bloomberg.com)
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by blintz 6y ago
Yeah, sorry, there are extra steps here. If n= 43112609 and you have some 2n-bit number to reduce, you can split it into two n-bit words and simply add the words together, since 1 = 2^n (mod 2^n - 1). You can do this very quickly (ie you c
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by blintz 6y ago
> too big to do almost any kind of practical computation with There are definitely possible (though perhaps not immediate) applications for primes of this size. For example, in 2009, researchers were awarded $100k for the discovery of th
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> I encouraged them to air their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right, the way any confident and healthy media outlet would Glenn Greenwald is advocatin
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> Earlier reports indicated that co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg had courted Apple, WarnerMedia, and Facebook to try to acquire the beleaguered streaming company earlier this year. When those efforts failed, Katzenberg reportedly tried to
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by blintz 6y ago
https://map.mta.info/ if you want to actually see the new map.
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Amazing how if you just stare at the logic gates you can kinda figure out what they mean. Makes you think maybe our meatware and the computers we use aren't as far apart as they seem.
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So happy Apple decided to go with an open standard here rather than something proprietary. This is good news for the FIDO2 ecosystem and I hope this leads to far greater support for FIDO2 authenticators of all types. There is another world
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by blintz 6y ago
I don’t understand what’s wrong with paying teachers and city managers well. Especially in a county like Santa Clara, the cost of housing is driven up by tech, so of course salaries are higher. This strikes me as an attempt to nationalize t
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by blintz 6y ago
Sorry, the phrasing there is unfortunate - what I'm trying to say is that there was an already strange moral 'ordering' to crimes (that I agree is artificial) that was slowly eroded.
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This is the slippery slope that privacy advocates have sometimes been characterized as 'paranoid' for pointing out - "The database is just for ____ crimes!": national security, terrorism, heinous sexual assaults, child e
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Does it strike anyone else as absurd that a $2 trillion company has spent 5 years and untold millions arguing over whether it must compensate employees for the 15 minutes it takes for a company-mandated frisk? In fact, Apple lawyers argued
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Yeah, I mean 12! is ~479 million, and there are 20 vertices, so that is very much within brute-force-on-a-laptop range. For some net, I think given a vertex + list of faces, there is a simple-to-get yes/no answer on whether a ray passi
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by blintz 6y ago
What's incredible is that the most basic statement can be proven with just a line: they just show a single, simple path that returns to the vertex without touching any other vertices. It's kind of amazing that we are proving this
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I think that the right legal and political concept to accomplish essentially the same goal is the “right to repair”. This is a concept that lots of people (outside of technology) have an immediate connection to, and the downsides of not hav
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by blintz 6y ago
Made a game for my first boyfriend for our 1 year anniversary. It was a knockoff off this great game “Candy Crushes Saga” (note the spelling, it’s not the famous mobile game from King). Tells a funny (and LGBT-related) story and the puzzles
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by blintz 6y ago
Recap ( https://free.law/recap/ ) is a really cool piece of civic tech to work around PACER’s absurd fees. Fantastic news that we could someday be rid of them.
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Anyone notice that the facial recognition points north of SF are errors? They contain information about programs in Nebraska and Florida. I wonder what led to the error and if there are more.
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This is so relaxing to watch. I think the lack of a 'bookmark' function actually makes me linger on certain windows longer; I know that if I hit 'next' I probably won't be able to come back to that window.
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I cannot believe that the one thing we have bipartisan consensus on is destroying strong encryption. I guess I’m biased since this is essentially my whole livelihood, but this is crazy, right?
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Is it me, or is this a rather depressing way to view oneself? > Focussing on your strengths does not imply that you need to avoid exploring other areas, but it is rather about not letting those other areas take away too much time and res
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Attestation. If a website requests it, the device will provide cryptographic proof that you used a specific vendor’s device to store the resident credential. The proof is a certificate signed with a vendor’s secret attestation key.

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