ineiti

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Working on decentralized systems at EPFL: dedis.ch.

https://people.epfl.ch/linus.gasser?lang=en

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Comment · 8 months ago
https://postquantum.com/security-pqc/cybersecurity-apocalyps...

TLDR: No

Longer explanation: guy behind a company selling PQ algorithms from a new "University" which span up 4 months ago says they're better than everybody else and writes paper about it.

Comment · 8 months ago
Very inspiring talk how to organize data for federalized systems.
Comment · 1 year ago
No ls and no cd?
Comment · 1 year ago
Wanna learn how traefik _really_ works? I summarized my two days of learning to configure traefik for simple web-services, multiple hostnames, and more advanced configurations.

Plus you can test my commenting system using Mastodon - if you have an account...

Comment · 2 years ago
Because you're in an exam, and you cannot really draw a straw. So you have to choose a number randomly, and pretend you chose the short straw if it's a 0. And then hope you're the only one.

The article also discussed how it'll work if you prepare beforehand and actually can draw a straw. Spoiler: you might want to cheat if you chose the short straw :)

Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Replace the resistor of the LED with 0Ohm and switch the LED on. Nice animation :)
Comment · 3 years ago
True - nowadays, `Eight Megabytes Always Continuous Swapping` is a feature, not a bug...
Comment · 4 years ago
Failure is relative - perhaps they decided that there is still some hope.

At least I would switch regularly between "oh, let's give it up" and "no, there is still hope" :)

Perhaps the "sunken cost fallacy"...

Comment · 4 years ago
The wayback machine has you:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220524092913/https://www.xinji...

Unfortunately the documents haven't been saved before the site went down :(

Comment · 4 years ago
Point 2 is a simplification that borders on wrong: you don't "wrap around if it's too big" - the point operation will always cross the curve (except for the zero point)!

You "wrap around" because you're using a finite field. As far as I understand, the finite field of the scalars allows you to have an inverse for the multiplication, and the finite field of the points is there to make the calculation easier.

Comment · 4 years ago
There should be a way to share our shapes/minute in Twitter :)
Comment · 4 years ago
Wow - this is a really good description of Bitcoin. Similar to the tweet that said "Whenever I read 'decentralized', I think 'unregulated'."
Comment · 5 years ago
That looks awesome! Do you have any evaluation of the speed? is this based on a paper? is there more documentation?

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