TiL 'exoteric'

We live in a world where we don’t trust software because we inspected it and it was crap. So we “fixed” it by putting all our trust into hw that we made inspection resistant so that we don’t know it is crap.

The soap is, in fact, woke. x.com/harlo/status/1…

“Never attribute to stupidity or malice that which can be adequately explained by structural alignment of incentives.” -Hanlon's Razor as revised via Kevin Kwok

Congratulations to California Attorney General Archive - Attorney General Becerra for bringing such a huge amount of attention to a public interest document! freedom.press/news/brewing-f…

RT if you’ve gotten more radical as you’ve gotten older trying to destroy a right wing talking point

10.0.0.0 addrs look like roman columns or steel i-beams; institutional, serious, plain. 192.168 evokes the aesthetic of consumer electronics; silver paint flaking off a gracelessly sculpted gray ABS shell. 172.16.0.0 looks like someone made a mistake

This is a really fascinating paper: _Antitrust as Allocator of Coordination Rights_, by @SanjuktaMPaul papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Wait what wait what wait what wait _what?_ (via @rrmutt)

Frank Chu is back on the hoof. Not all that is good has gone.

Hey @tmobile so far this month 8 spam/scam calls (and 0 legit calls but that's on me). When are you going to give me a way to report them and what are you doing to stop this?

Nadim Kobeissi (On Bluesky) Bryan Ford David Ruescas Sarah Jamie Lewis The very worst thing we could do as cryptographers is convince people to move critical societal functions into opaque experimental-quality cryptographic systems they can’t understand or even argue with. And then implement those systems incorrectly.

I have no idea what's going on so it's comforting to see that nobody else does either

Matthew Green is on BlueSky 's wonderful analogies. Three of these were in the same thread recently, but the bacon house thing is a classic. There must be much, much more.

The bots are alright

Been off of Twitter for quite a few months. Highly recommended, folks. Do it if you can.

still off twitter. still better.