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Comment Re:Completely wrong and misleading headline (Score 2) 42

Exactly, we would have had cataclysmic earthquakes if the summary were correct.

The poles have shifted dramatically in recent decades and the field has weakened substantially leading to bright auroras in Florida and Hawaii at low KP numbers.

Models have the North Pole arriving at the Bay of Bengal sooner than anybody would expect. Christmas will be awkward until we change our vocabulary..

Comment Re:Can someone help explain "perfect" randomness? (Score 1) 140

Yeah, but the posting said, for Linux, "We are using RDRAND, but it is being mixed in with other entropy being gathered from the system"

If you gather entropy from the environment, like noise from certain chips, start ms time since some last connection, keyboard/mouse movements, etc, that, alone, is random enough for most any use case. And since they are applying that on top of any hardware random number generator, it ensures that it is even MORE random and prevents hardware companies from cheating.

Comment Re:Tech industry is right wing? (Score 2) 67

They think center-left is ultra right-wing.

Some mostly sensible people consider themselves center-left and feel hurt that the he Valley types are calling them fascists.

It's all complicated by the 1D spectrum model of the French Parliament being applied to politics broadly.

The Left Authoritarians really hate the Right Authoritarians while the Left Libertarians and the Right Libertarians mostly get along.

It sort of makes sense becauae violence is inherent in the former while cooperation is inherent in the latter.

But the angry aren't usually educated im polisci at all and just operate on the Friend/Eny distinction of their tribe's momentary collective preferences, which can turn on a dime.

The Valley oligarchs will also switch allegiances instantaneously if they perceive advantage in profit or control with shifting winds.

Comment Re:All data should be fuzzed by the browser (Score 1) 110

They keep adding timing noise to these API's as attacks show up but this really speaks to the need to have the noise in the core I/O libraries, not inside each new API.

If it's writing to disk in any way it should go through a code path with timing noise.

It would be easier on the feature developers too.

Probably in the network API's too. Have a turbo mode in preferences at one end of a privacy slider, maybe. Default should be safe but the browser benchmark people incentivize the wrong thing. "You get what you measure" and stuff.

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