Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.
That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.
I fear it only seems like myth making because we’ve spent the last twenty years killing the kind of local journalism that provides deep and nuanced takes on these complex subjects. OPB tried out here but there’s a long complex history to cover. www.opb.org/article/2026...
What if you could collect Wikipedia articles and make them battle?
Wikigacha, created by Japanese developer Haruki Sugiyama, turns every Wikipedia article into a collectible trading card.
🏘️Suburbia: Home is where the car is.
Evict people from city homes to make room for more parking lots.
Wishlist my game: store.steampowered.com/app/3031880/...
As someone who, while growing up, had measles, rubella, and many other horrible illnesses now preventable by vaccination, I simply cannot fathom why people want to revert to that time. I spent a lot of time in bed or at the hospital as a child. Yes, I survived, but not by much.
Why go back there?
Come work with me!
We now have an open position to join my team @oxide.computer.
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
AI driven RAM pricing forcing developers to get better at resource use is a very funny outcome
Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more agents than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries.
It does this by stripping food away from children, the disabled, and the working poor.
Not one more penny.
I only use organic software that hasn't been developed using computers
True. I’d blame our government tanking our economy before AI, but tech leaders love to say it’s AI. 🙄 Sucks out there for folks regardless, and I have no idea what it will take to change that.
Yeah and the numbers and timing of my proposition are hard to guess as well. If it’s just sr-attrition-driven then jr hiring may suffer badly in the near term. However if our incompetent government keeps tanking the economy and layoffs continue, then who knows who gets to suffer the most.
I mean *I* think you’re right, but I’m a filthy sr eng so of course I want to believe I can’t be replaced. 😅
The only person’s opinion that really matters here is my boss’s.
To be clear I don’t like this or necessarily think it’s likely, but I do think it explains the C suite appetite at bigcos to mandate ai adoption. Same output at 1/4 the cost? What’s not to love. Big tech salaries and lack of unions have made us sr folks really appealing to replace.
I am not a betting man but I think the big software companies are hoping for the opposite: that ai will make a new grad as productive as a sr engineer. Headcount may stay flat as companies try to replace sr attrition with jr at 1/4 the cost (Claude costs the same whether you’re Jr or Staff)
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
You weren’t born on January 1st 1911? Everyone in my family was.
There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.
I would love an explainer on why data centers aren’t required to recycle 99.999% of their water.
I suspect the answer is: it’s cheaper to more or less buy off local governments who control water allocation.
Semi analysis has good coverage of the fossil fuel plants being built as part of data centers.
I think the water issue is manageable but only with strong government regulation and that’s a laughable fantasy these days.
www.opb.org/article/2026...
While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
Which brings me back to only using LLMs for code I don’t *want* to write. I want to write Nomad code. I enjoy it thoroughly and learn something new every time!
I suppose I’m missing the opportunity to re-learn SQL because I let LLMs write it for me, but I’ve never found joy in SQL anyway.
To make it even harder to quantify, my Nomad work these days falls into 1 of 2 buckets:
1. PoCs where exploring tradeoffs as I code is the whole point.
2. A few line changes here or there to fix edge cases.
I haven’t gotten an LLM useful in Nomad for those 2 cases yet.
LLMs write 0% of my Nomad work. It hallucinates kubernetes, consul, other parts of nomad. Between my 10 years on Nomad, Nomad’s size, & Nomad’s relatively small presence in training data, it’s rough.
I let LLMs write 100% of the code I would not otherwise write: Experiments, one offs, scripts, etc.
At the gpg.fail talk and omg #39c3
You can just put a \0 in the Hash: header and then newlines and inject text in a cleartext message.
Won’t even blame PGP here. C is unsafe at any speed.
gpg has not fixed it yet.
