AI generated code is just automated cargo cult programming.
See me. I speak words!
www.youtube.com/live/00zvMSW...
All those years of photography and photo editing paid off!
I definitely did better than expected, especially since I'm on my phone and not my monitor. (Though I haven't actually had a calibrated monitor in almost 20 years.)
What's My JND? 0.0034
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
I have a thought about the ambient conversation.
Performative support for marginalized groups is a good thing, but it is mostly to let fuckheads know that they need to reexamine their assumption that fuckheadedness is commonplace.
Those signs, which I personally am not a fan of, serve an important purpose. They signal what is considered acceptable behavior in a neighborhood. It makes it *easier* for people to do the right thing and applies social pressure against the wrong thing.
FLOE!
eprint.iacr.org/2025/2275
#realworldcrypto
Next up, 'Random-Access AEAD for Fast Lightweight Online Encryption', presented by Andres Fabrega and Gregory Rubin
#realworldcrypto
My mom's advice remains generally good and wise for all couples.
Queen sized bed, king sized duvet/blanket.
Truly, words to love by.
Signal Lost (Integrity): The Signal App is More than the Sum of its Protocols (Kien Tuong Truong, Noemi Terzo, Kenneth G. Paterson) ia.cr/2026/484
Just finished presenting this work at Real World Crypto in Taipei :)
TL;DR: We found 2 attacks on Signal (Android, Desktop) where a malicious server can inject messages in conversations.
Super fun project! Thanks a bunch to Noemi Terzo, @kennyog.bsky.social, and @cryptojedi.bsky.social
We are proud to share that Professor David Basin and Dr Ralf Sasse from D-INFK, together with Professors Cas Cremers and Jannik Dreier, have received the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography. Congratulations! 🥳
Read more: inf.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...
Off to #RealWorldCrypto to present my work on online (streaming) and random-access encryption!
Taipei, here I come!
None at all.
Smooth, safe, interfaces. If they need to think about the tool at all it means there is room for improvement.
The United States if it was an Oregon donor
I once, accidentally, did a headstand in fire.
It's only a man trap if it's from the Isle of Mann. Otherwise it's just a sparkling vestibule.
Yeah. Reads fine to me (programmer/cryptographer).
I think that along with their beliefs in eugenics and pre-germ theory, they've also brought back phrenology.
Honestly, I'd support prescriptive phrenology in their cases.
Haha, this one was written about 5 years before chatgpt launched. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conver...
The greatest offense to being presented with LLM generated text isn't just them thinking it coul be helpful to me, it's specifically that they think I'd be better off from *them* being the ones doing it despite their lack of context and lack knowledge about my process
Context: soatok.blog/2026/02/17/c...
One nice thing about Instagram as a host for my short form vidya is you don't need to post every day to maintain momentum. That was really wearing me down on Tiktok.
Also check me out here for the curious: www.instagram.com/jabrassey/
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
the nazis have once again forgotten one of the most important rules in combat: never get involved in a logistics war with the americans
It's on broadcast in the Seattle area. NBC 5.1 looks to have it.
