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There was a post recently about suspicion of NIST, specifically from Daniel Bernstein. We also have reason to believe there was funny business around Dual_EC_DRBG.

If NIST really is up to no good on behalf of US intelligence agencies, it's reasonable to believe they'd be doing everything they can to prevent strong post-quantum crypto.

Also, here's an idea I had: let's say you wrapped a plaintext in three different encryption algorithms authored in adversarial countries. Even if you assume all three are backdoored by their creators, you'd have something that could only be unwrapped if the three adversarial countries worked together. Is there anything out there that does this?

So cool, thanks.

This is kind of the plot of the third season of Sword Art Online.

Cool channel, much of it over my head, thanks.

And this is where some of the greatest, most educated minds in computing are going. What a waste.

Could this be used to build a super minimalistic Ben Eater style CPU?

I am surprised that Firefox freely allows access to the clipboard. I'm using Brave and there's an explicit permission for it that is disallowed by default.

Please no.

Go is designed to be easy to read and easy to write. err != nil is not hard to read. If you don't like the repetition, it simply isn't the language for you. I'm perfectly happy with how Go does it. I do not want the language morphing into another Rust.

2000s kid, I first used something similar to LOGO at school, if you can consider that programming. I initially taught myself programming/scripting by writing Windows batch scripts. Scratch was introduced in my teens at school but by then I was far beyond block programming.

I hated Scratch. I saw it as childish and simplistic. I wanted to play with the big boy stuff.

Shell security is a joke anyway, there's plenty of other things to be cynical about than an install script. Such as how I can elevate privileges on your machine by phishing your password with a fake sudo binary in $PATH.

Yeah, I have the same problem, I usually just end up putting everything into my backpack after I've paid. Slows things down.

>if China can ctrl c/ctrl v your idea and then pay cheap labour to churn out a clone within a week?

By being protective over our ideas we're admitting that China will do it cheaper and faster than us. Why can't we aim to beat them instead?

There's this kind of crab bucket mentality where in the West we feel like we need to be ahead of China no matter what. That's not going to last if all we have is trade secrets keeping us in the lead. Maybe we should get back to innovating. Reduce the amount of red tape and stamp out rent seeking behaviour. UK's economic growth this year is projected to be just 0.5%. China's will be ~5%.

Frankly I have lost faith in our leadership. I really don't see how we can catch up at this point. Might be time to learn some Mandarin.

I upvote things I agree with and downvote things I disagree with.

Just kidding. I only vote on comments, and pretty rarely.

The effort required to make a company IPv6-enabled is not to be underestimated.