Mike Agrenius Kushner

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I need to steal this expression, but @hyperelliptic.bsky.social on the latest White House EO on PQC: “Painting the pink bike shed purple”.

@infinitescream.bsky.social

Just sat on a panel sandwiched between Let's Encrypt and Chrome.

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Endless Screaming

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@emilymbender.bsky.social

Headed down to Prague for OpenSSL – going to be an eventful week. Hanging out with the BouncyCastle crew up from Australia is a sweet bonus though.

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Emily M. Bender

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

Replaying Beneath a Steel Sky. So many jokes I didn't pick up on when I was 12.

There are similarities in the true believer and those claiming ”a new paradigm” (it never is), but the difference is that this one is being pushed with the help of weaponized grift.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

The AI bubble looks a lot like the dotcom bubble including the naysayers. My advice to friends: 1. Valuations will eventually crash. Manage your finances accordingly. 2. AI usage will keep growing and permeate every facet of life. Figure out how it’ll affect your career and plan accordingly.

For reference I use Claude when I code, and if you burn enough tokens it’s absolutely useful – but we’re not yet in the bait-and/switch part of the enshittification cycle. VC cash is only going to pay for my unit tests for so long.

@itsdanthomas.bsky.social

And my honest opinion – Claude is useful in the same way as an IDE and code completion. It makes a good developer faster, but it doesn’t make a senior out of a junior, and it only increases the amount of damage a poor developer can do to a project.

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Dan Thomas

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

I’ve done my share of traveling for work, but last week’s cabf F2F being hosted at the Austrian parliament was probably peak fancy.

One more week until OpenSSL in Prague, and I’m doing my first panel discussion at a major conference. What will I wear? 😭

johnpaulbrammer.substack.comThe Most Unlovable Man in New York CityOn being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic

Insomnia has its perks. This is the most brilliant thing I’ve read all night.

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social

I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...

@infinitescream.bsky.social

22 Sept

People really, really need to learn to turn off calendar popups while holding external presentations.

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Endless Screaming

12 Sept

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Niko Stratis

@nikostratis.com

8 Sept

why does everybody that gets really into ChatGPT or Claude or whatever immediately start talking like that one friend that went to Burning Man one time

Yes. Yes, indeed.

How we ended up where we are today: 0: A bunch of proto-tech-bros read Cryptonomicon. 1: A bunch of proto-tech-bros make millions based on being in the right place at the right time, convince themselves themselves of their inherent superiority. 2. Tech-bros decide that society doesn't deserve them.

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6. Tech bros pivot – instead of fiefdoms, why not just take over society? 7. Enter another round of money, influence and grift, this time pumping money into AI, with GPU manufacturers backing now that they can unload their stock into another scheme.

8. Reuse a popular template: enshittification. 9. Go for broke, with the aim of making companies reliant on subscribed services while fully controlling the information sphere. 10. ? 11. Profit

3. Crypto currencies are realized. Tech bros leverage the powers of money, influence and grift in promoting them with the ambition of creating independent fiefdoms outside of society. 4. Fiefdoms fail because it's stupid.

5. Crypto currencies (and fucking NFTs) remain in the domain of separating the gullible from their cash. The ones making mint are the GPU manufacturers. 6. Air is going out of crypto currencies, GPU manufacturers reel in the face of having tons of unmovable stock.

ISO Audit: You're environmentally responsible, right? Me using AI prompts to generate PKI memes:

31 Aug

Ah yes, the good 'ol days. When too much/too little rain in a year would wipe out entire regions. Good times.

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social

it's really important to me to point out that in fact the medieval peasant did in fact run out of food, every year lots of them did starve, and less often but still often enough the peasantry in general ran out of food causing well known historic events

10 Aug

The cabf mailing lists are just the gift that keeps on giving.

10 Aug

Shower thought: every galactic map we have is incorrect, being more so the further from Earth you go.

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@nome.bsky.social

22 June

Question for followers who are both A) Jewish and B) Nerds What extra barriers could you imagine for an alien in Star Trek converting to Judaism?

22 June

20 June

Funny how much I miss phone catalogs. I used to be able to simply look up an unbiased listing of all plumbers in my area. Now the only search method is SEOd beyond usability, and the only way to find someone is word-of-mouth.

9 June

Remember that time Matt Damon did a crypto currency commercial?

@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social

2 June

It's 2026 and I'm still seeing new ways people misuse SCEP. Or use SCEP, period.

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Emanuel Maiberg

1 June

Amazon tokenmaxxing leaderboard seems to have backfired and shut down. www.404media.co/amazon-shuts...

404media.coAmazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees CheatedEmployees admitted to 404 Media they had cheated to climb the leaderboard's ranks.

25 May

I went into parenting thinking about my own childhood and swore to be the best parent ever. Wakeup call when it turns out that my kids are actually not little clones of myself, and have their own sets challenges and experiences entirely separate from my own. It was a good lesson in humility.

Frankie Huang 黄碧赤@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social

I’m so sick of former bird app takes, I want to hear everyone’s parenting hot takes

19 May

Popsci Youtube short: Have you ever wondered about this remote corner of Russia? Me: Yes. Yes, many times.

The fact that Google Trust Services and Chrome apparently don't have a common post quantum TLS strategy is nothing short of hysterical.

SignServer team got bored.

keysha-256 is making me giggle uncontrollably.

Watched The Northman last night. Thought it was a gorgeous retelling of the Nordic Sagas.

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Growing up in Sweden, I was always fascinated by the sagas, though it kills me of the many ways that modern people, in particular the far right, tend to misunderstand and misappropriate them.

Going that extra mile in truly trying to understand what formed these stories and trying to understand the people who told them is worth the effort.

Watched The Northman last night. Thought it was a gorgeous retelling of the Nordic Sagas.

Because don’t be confused, it’s not set in any true history, nor is it setting out to be – it’s told in the style that the oral tales of the day. Entertainment around the fire.

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