heh yup. I think the most recent one (somewhere in the last year) was something like 12-bit rsa? stupendously far off from being a meaningful thing

I’ll readily admit to being a cryptography mutt and a qc know-barely-anything, and even from my limited understanding the assessment of where people are at (with how many qubits they’ve managed to achieve in practical systems) everything is hilariously woefully far off ito attacks

that doesn’t entirely invalidate pqc and such (since the notion there is not merely defending against today/soon but also a significant timeline)

one thing I am curious about (and which you might’ve seen or be able to talk about, blake): is there any kind of known correlation between qubits and viable attacks? I realize part of this quite strongly depends on the attack method as well, but off the cuff I have a guess (“intuition” is probably the wrong word) that it probably scales some weird way (as opposed to linear/log/exp)

those opinions should come with a whiplash warning, fucking hell

can’t wait to once again hear that someone is sure we’re “just overreacting” and that star of david passbooks voter ID laws will be totes fine. I’m sure it’ll be a really lovely conversation with a perfectly sensible and caring human. :|

ah, the novel QC RSA attack: shaking the algorithm so much it gets annoyed and gives up the plaintext out of desperation

“judge every molecule” and “simulation hypothesis” probably have a bit of a fling going

HP finding new lows to get to with printers is honestly kind of impressive. depressing as fuck, but impressive. maybe this is how the sentient printers from Gawne’s Old Guy verse start up

also, I was sent this earlier:

what pisses me off even more is that parts of the idea behind this are actually quite cool and worthwhile! just… the entire goddamn pitch. ew.

ran into this earlier (via techmeme, I think?), and I just want to vent

“The biggest challenge the industry is facing is actually talent shortage. There is a gap. There is an aging workforce, where all of the experts are going to retire in the next five or six years. At the same time, the next generation is not coming in, because no one wants to work in manufacturing.”

“whole industries have fucked up on actually training people for a run going on decades, but no the magic sparkles will solve the problem!!!11~”

But when these new people do enter the space, he added, they will know less than the generation that came before, because they will be more interchangeable and responsible for more (due to there being fewer of them).

I forget where I read/saw it, but sometime in the last year I encountered someone talking about “the collapse of …” wrt things like “travel agent”, which is a thing that’s mostly disappeared (on account of various kinds of services enabling previously-impossible things, e.g. direct flights search, etc etc) but not been fully replaced. so now instead of popping a travel agent a loose set of plans and wants then getting back options, everyone just has to carry that burden themselves, badly

and that last paragraph reminds me of exactly that nonsense. and the weird “oh don’t worry, skilled repair engineers can readily multiclass” collapse equivalence really, really, really grates

sometimes I think these motherfuckers should be made to use only machines maintained under their bullshit processes, etc. after a very small handful of years they’ll come around. but as it stands now it’ll probably be a very “for me not for thee” setup

venture capital has been very reluctant to unambiguously realise the losses

don’t believe the broadsheets / the gravy train’s a-rockin’

or how real states make it so that you can have citizenship of only one state, maybe two. there’s nothing about it there

come on we both know it’ll be github badges or something like that

yeah shillrinivan’s ideas are extremely Statisism: Sims Edition

I’ve also seen essentially ~0 thinking from any of them on how to treat corner cases and all that weird messy human conflict shit. but code is law! rah!

(pretty sure that if his unearned timing-fortunes ever got threatened by some coin contract gap or whatever, he’d instantly be all over getting that shit blocked)

But Hinton didn’t want Yu to see his personal humidifying chamber, so every time Yu dropped in for a chat, Hinton turned to his two students, the only other people in his three-​person company, and asked them to disassemble and hide the mattress and the ironing board and the wet towels. “This is what vice presidents do,” he told them.

so insanely fucking unserious

this article came to mind for something I was looking into, and then on rereading it I just stumbled across this again:

Late one afternoon, as they looked out the window, two airplanes flew past from opposite directions, leaving contrails that crossed in the sky like a giant X right above a set of mountain peaks. Punchy with excitement, they mused about what this might mean, before remembering that Google was headquartered in a place called Mountain View. “Does that mean we should join Google?” Hinton asked. “Or does it mean we shouldn’t?”

found in the wild, The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon

speaking of shillrinivan, anyone heard anything more about cult school after the news that no-one like bryan’s shitty food packs?

wat

copyright reform can’t come fucking soon enough

also often double whammies with the predation thing (finding those down on their luck who just really need something, fucking over early-career people, etc)

MAGA columnist/influencer Ashley St. Clair

ah. earlier someone linked me screenshots of the tweets and I was trying to remember where I knew the name from.

fuck, I saw their “we added a LLM weeee” post, didn’t realize it was this shittily implemented. not too surprised

the rest, ugh. fuck that implementation then

even just using this anywhere with a NDA becomes an instant violation. how little do these fucking dipshits think through their actions…

this is, in a weird sense, kind of a freeing feeling

speaking from experience, yep. once you make your mind up on a gtfo intent re a bad situation, so much other shit just falls away

it’ll definitely have hard bits, but keep at it. worth it

would’ve thought that’s more a hot air balloon situation