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?
Most efficient random integer generator by random bits consumed
Discovered in 2013 by then-UPMC-student Jérémie Lumbroso, and independently re-discovered by an Apple programmer last Fall (with much ado on Twitter and Hacker News), the basic idea is as follows: Take your (infinite) random bitstream as the binary digits of random $r\in\left[0,1\right)$…
Clearing the DNS cache on Ubuntu 20.04
Yeah, lots of people out there saying "leenucks doesn't have a dns cache!!1!" — well, recent versions of Ubuntu do ootb, and just restarting NetworkManager doesn't clear it for some ungodly reason… flush it with sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved
A very tiny bitmap font
Could be useful for very small LCD displays, or for fitting an entire movie script on your monitor at once. TODO: convert to OpenType Bitmap…
mcomix system-level requirements
Say you don't want sweeping system changes for something idiosynchronous like an unstable build of a comic book viewer…
X25519 original specification
Adapted from the original specification