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I’ve taken to using “US/Eastern” or “US/Central” for clarity. The normal folk understand this format perfectly and they are part of the IANA standard time zone list (aliases for America/New_York or America/Chicago). Also avoids confusion when working with folks in Europe for whom EST means UTC+N depending on the country and time of year.

> We'll probably never convince end-users to "vote with their feet" and use Privacy-focused products.

I’m not so sure. The iPhone is the most popular in the USA despite the cost premium.

Still a fan of Hover. No crap, no scams, just works.

I know it has no security impact in this case, but isn’t it odd a bunch of cryptographers would choose a weak PRNG seeded by the date for a task like this?

Even state lotteries back then used physical ping pong balls and a nothing-up-my-sleeve show after the evening news.

The prolonged conspiracy theories until this discovery make some sense… not having a ceremony around anything supposedly “random” is unexpected, even back in the 1990s.

Based on the features and design, did Anthropic just re-invent and vibe-code Subversion?

> log parsing

There’s your problem right there. You’re lighting money on fire using an LLM to do a token-intensive deterministic task.

To minimize annoyance I’ve set my password manager to generate 16 character random passwords by default. This seems to be the sweet spot for the USA; I don’t recall recently encountering a site with a min >16 or a max <16. Assuming 85 chars that’s ~102 bits of entropy so plenty strong and compatible with almost every site (excepting the rare idiots that ban repeating characters or some subset of symbols).

General Magic failed with all the talent and all the resources. Cautionary Tales podcast featured General Magic in a recent episode; the basic argument was no constraints led to no focus.

My kids stopped saying “six seven” about a year ago. I still have no clue what that was about.