Paul Crowley @ciphergoth@schelling.pt
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Cryptography, personal trivia and the future of all humanity
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What happens to your smartphone when it gets stolen?
I recently had my iPhone stolen while on a business trip in London and, through the wonders of Find My, have been able to track its journey in the past few weeks. I found it to be a fascinating insight to what appears to be a rather sophisticated phone theft operation and thought I'd share!
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absence of QT function makes covering news events here really difficult, fwiw
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"You do math? You must be good with numbers"
"Oh no, the kind of math I do is different, I don't have to be good with numbers"
"What kind of math do you do?"
"Number theory"
@WomanCorn The SIKE break took SIKE from "cannot be broken with all the computing in the world" to "a laptop, one core, one hour" https://www.quantamagazine.org/post-quantum-cryptography-scheme-is-cracked-on-a-laptop-20220824/
@pee_zombie That prefix was present when I tried it, Mastodon stripped it for display.
@HollyElmore Delayed, or averted altogether? Link me to any examples or give me search terms :)
@andrew @ajvermillion They're the same if you ignore the difference I was highlighting.
The whole point of an apocalypse cult is that it offers you personally a seat on the space ship out. Those of us warning about destruction via AGI have no such offer; either everyone is saved including those who mock us, or no-one is.
While I'm on the subject: has anyone ever heard of a religion in which the apocalypse might potentially be averted altogether if we can just do some difficult task?
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What's mastodon's plan for spam once this place becomes a big deal?
@ilzo I voted "it's good" but I used it many years ago, I don't know if something better exists now.
@jbeshir I think it's the fourth or fifth I've been to, and easily the best.
@kat Hello! Yeah it's well chosen :) Hope it is run well and lasts!
@metaweta Going to their instance, pressing follow, copying in the name from the button and pasting that into search reproduced the problem. But then the problem randomly went away on a later attempt.
@Lovelybug @dfilan I'll try to take a look later but if it really doesn't have a search bar we should find you a better server!
@dfilan @Lovelybug It just weirdly worked the sixth time I tried it, after searching for another real person had failed and then randomly succeeded on a retry.
I'm trying to follow https://disabled.social/@Lovelybug but when I put that in the search bar I just get "Could not find anything for these search terms". How do I investigate further?
Scratch that, we clearly have to leave Twitter stat, so sad :(
No plans to leave Twitter but I like to cover my bases! I'm twitter.com/ciphergoth
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