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Chelsea Komlo @chelseakomlo.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 14:05 UTC

After 3 years & 12 drafts, the RFC for FROST is complete! We hope this makes implementing FROST easier with fewer bugs 🐛

Thank you to everyone who helped by reviewing FROST security, submitting comments, and implementing the draft, this was a team effort 🙌💪

www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9591....

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:14 UTC

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 01:12 UTC

Accept

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:52 UTC

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social duel @samuel.bsky.team 4

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 23:51 UTC

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social stats

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:17 UTC

Labour holds the first declared constituency, but that swing to Reform is *bleh* #ukpol

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 13:08 UTC

Happy Bindependence Day!

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 02:54 UTC

Just rediscovered a partially-complete spec I threw together 2.5 years ago for what I was code-naming "Guerilla Secret Storage". I should probably hack on it some more! And also add these things to my task list so I don't forget they exist!

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:09 UTC

An analogy I literally just came up with, so take it with an appropriately large grain of salt: The earth's atmosphere filter out harmful solar radiation and cosmic rays. You can wear your choice(s) of sunglasses, sunblock, etc. to get additional protection or change your view.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:04 UTC

Working now 🤷

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:01 UTC

For some reason the service backing @eprint.bsky.social stopped shortly after I last deployed it. I did wonder why it was a bit quiet in here!

Re-deploying now, let's see what happens...

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:18 UTC

The internet gremlins are definitely pulling shenanigans; CloudFlare is only partially working

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:16 UTC

Wait, 1.1.1.1 is now resolving it again for me.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:15 UTC

Interesting; I also see that with 1.1.1.1 and 4.4.4.4, but not with 9.9.9.9. Weird thing was that the app settings showed it as validating correctly:

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

@jaz.bsky.social, is this the same issue as the handle cache invalidation you've fixed recently, or a different problem?

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

Approximately yes. What Bluesky has currently deployed for DMs is a central server entity that hosts unencrypted DMs (exactly what Twitter does), and it has the same issue: works as long as Bluesky PBC exists and cooperates. Signal protocol would add E2EE but keep limitations the devs want to avoid.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 19:01 UTC

There are ways you could make it work, but the main limitation is around group messaging. Here the cryptographic ecosystem movement is generally towards MLS, and the Bluesky devs are keeping an eye on that:

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:58 UTC

The Signal protocol design presumes a central server entity (for Signal messenger it is the Signal foundation; for WhatsApp it is Meta). This central entity is not easily replaced. ATProto's current public protocols are designed specifically around enabling replacement of the central server entity.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

For email encryption, the decision guide is usually "don't", because in most cases it gives a false sense of security. In particular, email encryption can never be end-to-end encryption (E2EE) due to how email works.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:06 UTC

To their credit, there are excellent cryptographic engineers working on WhatsApp, doing good work designing new features with E2EE in mind (for example, their backup protocol). But keep in mind there's only so much individual engineers and managers can do to push back against top-down directives.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

WhatsApp is much better than SMS or Telegram, as it uses the Signal protocol. This is one of the biggest wins of the Signal team TBH: getting E2EE deployed to Billions of people. But the client app is controlled by Meta, so it's fair to assume your data there may end up linked to the Meta datapool.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:36 UTC

Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?

What about burning a disk?

@benjojo.bsky.social is surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories. If you know what a CD/DVD is, please help them (and maybe others) out by answering ~10 questions here:

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 12:19 UTC

Good to know, thanks. I can't parse meeting minutes etc yet, gonna need persistence to cache the results so rendering is not horribly slow. As long as the current graph is close enough to the Go ecosystem's expectation, it will do for now.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 03:41 UTC

Okay, first pass is up: go.rfc.observer

"Implemented" is any issue closed while labeled Proposal-Accepted, other closures are "Closed".

Did the Go Proposal workflow change in late 2015? There's very little label data prior to then.

Also, y'all have a lot of proposals! Data fetch takes a minute.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:39 UTC

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:08 UTC

I can totally set up go.rfc.observer. Where do Go proposals live and what is their evolution process?

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 22:54 UTC

Bleh *socially distanced hugz*

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 03:19 UTC

And to cap off the snipe, a barebones website to host and render the Rust RFC tracking issues graph:

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 02:18 UTC

(which tells me I have an off-by-one somewhere in my extraction logic, because I count 96 issues not closed, and no open issues without either label 🫠)

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 02:16 UTC

Close! In the above graph, 74 issues currently have B-RFC-approved and not B-RFC-implemented. 23 issues have B-RFC-implemented (and may or may not have B-RFC-approved).

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

After being thoroughly nerd-sniped 😅 here's what the Rust RFC tracking issues look like over their history. Caveats: there exist multiple tracking issues for some RFCs due to subtasks being split out, and there are 9 tracking issues with RFC labels but no obvious associated RFC that I've omitted.

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 23:39 UTC

I do be sniped:

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 23:38 UTC

The comment was commited on July 25th 2005. It was authored by Jan Hubicka from SUSE and Hong Jiu Lu from Intel, while updating the ELF linker script with large section support.

github.com/bminor/binut...

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 13:38 UTC

The vibes will be indistinguishable from random

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str4d @str4d.xyz [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 13:26 UTC

If the rng output is indistinguishable from a uniform distribution, then due to you using XOR (which means the random bit acts as a blinding factor), the output will also be indistinguishable from a uniform distribution.

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