@mttaggart I just came across this recent article about the 1990s "thin clients" that Oracle was pushing.
@riverpunk We will need to deal with some of the more problematic issues of corporate personhood.
@infosec this paper provides good evidence and analysis for migration timelines. The stated timelines for FTQC at the scales needed for defeating RSA-2048 or ECC 256 or the like, seem like an unsubstantiated fantasy.
@alice Do you believe Pluto should still be classified as a planet?
@datadef as well, continued expansion and adoption of identity federation for and between service providers.
@mcc This is an insightful take, one that needs more attention, something like 18 years after the original paper and its spores since landing and blooming into a convoluted ecosystem. All the complexity of these designs begin with a very specific assertion, which most of society would reject. From the 2008 paper:
"What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust,
allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted
third party."
The premise itself is flawed, and there are endless social and technical criticisms. If you start from this, you end up needing to solve the byzantine general problem (or something like it) with complex mathematical primitives and game theory. But of course, these systems exist in the real world, with real people, and real settlement behaviors, who have learned over a very long time how to build working financial systems. Now, the "crypto" industry is re-implementing these "legacy" financial systems on top of their cryptographic growth medium, which then brings them right back to invalidating the very premise that they started with.
Just some thoughts on it.
@JessTheUnstill I see around me mostly people looking out for one another, but I fear we are allowing the “dark triad” personality types to rule over our society and poison our wells. I do remain hopeful. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-rich-people-tend-selfish.html
@alipunk the good life!
@fortyseven Ring (Amazon) is now getting in on the mobile security trailer action: https://ring.com/jobsite-security
@zydrate every text editor has something another doesn’t. I wanted to devote myself to one, but there’s joy in each. My top two vim features that differentiate are visual block edit and macros.
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We're getting a lot of questions about Signal group chats, and how to use them as safely as possible. Share widely! https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-group-safety/
@44 Apologies😆
@bebop Helm values.yaml at 3500 LoC.
@retech we are surrounded and outnumbered.
@ai6yr Will they be removing the parts of Windows written by Copilot?
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/microsoft_meta_autocoding/
@44 I was able to try this out tonight for bread, and I like it, for the same reason I like a single dial microwave control.
I love the feel, I still jump in, but I used to not measure at all, and then I ended up making what I would imagine Nutraloaf might be.
@dashremover they should have their markdown agents swipe right and make up. https://clawmatch.ai/
@hell security circumvention device marketing is so much more interesting than most other ads, I’ll still take it. One from the historical record. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FDKOEKQi604
@Soozcat @georgetakei Oracle was ahead of its time on enshittification, as I recall they were early thought leaders of renting computers via “thin clients” in the 1990s. Now they are playing catch-up. #enshittification
@z_everson @Forbes goodie
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