Taylor Hornby

>ducted fans
>im a turbofan
>her: eww i want jet
>turbofans are jets
>i am a fucking jet aircraft

I will be alone forever

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

You have never been cyberd until you've been cyberd by a cyber security professional

To Come Home To Yourself May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquilities. May all that is unlived in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.

Friend gave me a John O’Donohue book recently. It’s quite good.

“To Come Home To Yourself”

an illustration that shows a caterpillar, then a moth, then The Mothman text: GIVE YOURSELF TIMEA

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

I found more joy in life this way.

In the foreground is Saturn's giant moon Titan, its hazy, peach-coloured atmosphere extending into space. Behind is Saturn itself, its upper hemisphere crossed by the shadows of its vast ring system.

Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.

This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans

Frog and Toad ride a sled down a snowy hill. Toad is in front, looking terrified. From "Down the Hill" In *Frog and Toad All Year*

The sled began to move down the hill.

“Here we go!” said Frog.

ChatGPT is probably the biggest honey pot of willingly-turned over highly confidential information that has ever been created in human history.

There are

* 0 valid JSON strings of length 0
* 10 valid JSON strings of length 1
* 183 valid JSON strings of length 2
* 1,116,690 valid JSON strings of length 3
* 1,241,178,737,201 valid JSON strings of length 4
* 1,382,769,886,828,373,987 valid JSON strings of length 5
* ...

I have up to N = 350

phrack.org/issues/72/19...

I hate that I can’t use the emdash anymore. Thanks AI.

The Zcash Foundation’s Q2 2025 Report The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the Zcash community and our other stakeholders. Today, we are releasing our Q2 2025 report, which provides an overview of the work…

The Zcash Foundation is committed to transparency and openness with the community and our stakeholders. Today we released our Q2 2025 report, highlighting our engineering work and other key activities from this quarter. zfnd.org/the-zcash-fo...

Oh look, the iOS vulnerability is yet another weird subcase of image decompression, who could possibly have predicted.

Excursion Listen to Excursion by Taylor Hornby #np on #SoundCloud

If you need to test a subwoofer... soundcloud.com/earthrise5/e...

Improving Geographical Resilience For Distributed Open Source Teams with FREON In a recent blog post, I laid out the argument that, if you have securely implemented end-to-end encryption in your software, then the jurisdiction where your ciphertext is stored is almost irrelevant. Where jurisdiction does come into play, unfortunately, is where your software is developed and whether or not the local government will employ rubber-hose cryptanalysis to backdoor your software.

Improving Geographical Resilience For Distributed Open Source Teams with FREON

In a recent blog post, I laid out the argument that, if you have securely implemented end-to-end encryption in your software, then the jurisdiction where your ciphertext is stored is almost irrelevant. Where…

This cannot stand. I ethically cannot comply with this fascist violation of our fundamental rights. The only way to defeat it is mass protest.

Look I went on /r/ChatGPT and some of this stuff is genuinely sad to read and upvoted hundreds of time by people deeply emotionally connected or feeling assisted by 4o, not even relationship stuff. Damn.

Figure from a paper with three cubes: a) A cube with a rectangular cube connected labels "mouth" and "anus" b) A cube with double the edge length The tube inside spirals around. c) Another cube with all linear dimensions doubled, including straight tube. Caption: Fig. 1. (a) Idealized model of an animal. (b) Model from (a) increased in size while keeping the gut surface : gut volume ratio constant. (c) Model from (a) increased in size with identical effects on the surface : volume ratio for the whole body and for the gut.

This is the idealized model of an animal. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

🎢⚛️🧪

A document announcing the "Fourth ITU-T X.509 Day (2025) event" on September 5, 2025, from 13:00 to 16:00 (Geneva time). It details ITU-T X.509 as a foundational standard for public key infrastructure and digital certificates, outlining its history and applications. The event's objectives include reviewing X.509 progress, assessing post-quantum cryptography readiness, exploring decentralized PKI, discussing cross-border digital identity, strengthening AI trust, showcasing real-world adoption, and identifying future directions.

TIL that the ITU has an annual "X.509 Day", wheeee www.itu.int/md/T25-TSB-C...

My favorite thing about social media is the weird people who emerge when you’re talking about basic privacy, and accuse you of having things to hide.

Hey crazy person: *of course* I have things to hide. We all do. Being human means being embarrassed about personal stuff.

This is also why "accept Zcash / crypto as an alternative" is necessary but not sufficient: as long as credit card companies are a major channel for a site's revenue, they are a major source of coercion.

"If you sell NSFW content via any payment rail, you can't use ours" is the barrier to overcome.

If you're a seller who wants to accept Zcash to both improve your customers' privacy and provide resilience against coercion by credit card companies, I will happily answer any questions you have.

My goal for the rest of 2025 is to make my art worse

And, for fuck's sake, take a first aid/CPR class. You will never, ever regret doing that. These are basic skills that will serve you always and makes that first aid kid more valuable. There's a lot of stuff in there and most people can't do much more than apply band aids.

I'm looking for great math textbook recommendations—literally any subject as long as it's an enthralling read. Ideas?

As I go through this book I’m trying to keep a list of recommendations for cryptographic engineers. It’s short so far, but I expect it’ll get longer as this goes on. Open to suggestions!

There is no Diffie-Hellman but Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman When I first learned about Diffie-Hellman and especially elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman, I had one rather obvious question: Why elliptic curves? Why use this strange group that seems rather arbitrar…

Sophie Schmieg + ayahuasca =

keymaterial.net/2025/05/23/t...

i enjoy all news but this quote is cool

Self-love is self-unity.