a wandering pile of shell script fragments to get the most robust—and most technically bankrupt—secure multiparty computing library working
[DRAFT] "Direction" of time?
if entropy is inherently connected to causality, and causality is inherently connected to the "direction" of time, what's that imply? TODO: read Judea Pearl
Blanket anti-hacking laws
I am not a lawyer, much less a cyber lawyer, but I was recently wondering “are there any laws—especially federal ones—that cover just plain old Hacking per se?” Say someone breaks into your blog, maybe they look at your drafts, maybe they deface the front page… is that, in and of itself, a crime no matter where in the United States your attacker is? The answer is—Yes! 18 USC …
[DRAFT] "PROTON_USE_WINED3D" explained
Explaining why the Steam launch option “PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command%” sometimes fixes things, and whether YOU are cargo-culting or genuinely need it
Transcript: Vanessa Vokey Livestream Jan '22
Archiving because I saw some online trolls trying to take down the video with a brigade of false reports; content not endorsed.
This post covers some highly sensitive material that will not be palatable to normal readers of my blog. Unless you are exceedingly bored and have popcorn prepared, or have (or care to have) a horse in the great "radfems vs transgenders" twitter race, you will not gain anything by reading this document.
a small insight on cryptography
Abstractly speaking, a hash function and a symmetric cipher are "the same thing". But, concretely, there is a symmetry between Stream cipher: map a fixed-length random input to a variable-length random output Hash function: map a variable-length random input to a fixed-length random output
Basic "while" loop in Elixir
"that's not how you're supposed to use functional programming languages" — how 'bout I do anyway?
X25519 original specification
Adapted from the original specification
[DRAFT] WHOIS: look up ASN from the command-line
Since Marco d'Itri's whois(1) v5.5.0 released in July 2019, most sysadmins no longer need to do trial-and-error or detectivework to guess which of the 5 RIRs controls the IP attacking you and then hunt down the appropriate WHOIS server—the -I flag will now do that annoying accounting on your behalf
[DRAFT] U.S. Obscenity Ban: Name & Blame
An 1873 federal bill to ban smut, abortion pamphlets, and sex toys was never found unconstitutional; instead, only the clauses that meaningfully impacted the ability of the American public to be sexually promiscuous were overturned, piecemeal, under the banner of "civil rights". I will attempt to give a breakdown (including partisan affiliation) of the people behind this bill's tortured history.