Stylus 🦉 @stylus@octodon.social

Holy cow my mother in law's college roommate's husband worked with rockets and early x-ray astronomy in the 70s

status: looks like everything works but proprietary nvidia drivers #debian #stretch

Hold my beer and watch this: Upgrading to #debian #stretch on my everyday laptop. status: fresh backup made, starting dist-upgrade

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@cnc

I'm not convinced this isn't an April 1 paper. They tabulate encryption and decryption times on an insanely powerful computer ("lattice0") with 3TB of *RAM* + 4.9TB of swap. The table stops at 256GB key size, and 100 hours "wall clock time". The same table shows that they were not able to decrypt a message with a key larger than 32GB, which took 17 hours. But, hey, they show it's probably resistant to Shor and their new GEECM algorithm. #crypto #bignumbers

status: 3d printing graduation gifts and hoping they're not lame

"It was a bright cold day in april, and the clocks were striking thirteen. I suddenly realize how silly i am. I scream, lost in the moment. Almost immediately, one of the hung cups scoots into position behind me, aligning his girth with my tightness. Do it. I command. Shove it in there." http://www.deeptingle.net/generator.html via mefi

the liquor dwarves left 1/4 bottle of dry vermouth in the fridge, which I would say was not there this morning. Sadly, there are no green olives nor a lemon to have a twist from. So:

2floz leatherbee gin
1/2floz probably stale dry vermouth
2 dashes orange bitters

it'll do

"how is the men though" -- my markov IRC bot gets to the essential questions

@emdeesee "Liar's Retreat is an underground cellar which is located northwest of Broken Tower Redoubt and northeast of Karthwasten" Spoilers if you read any further on uesp. http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Liar%27s_Retreat

@CobaltVelvet thank you for putting the wheels back on the bus

"Section 4 reports initial implementation results for RSA parameters large enough to push all known quantum attacks above 2^100 qubit operations. These results include successful completion of the most expensive operation in post- quantum RSA, namely generating a 1-terabyte public key." doesn't feel very practical, even if it is a form of RSA that is resistant to quantum factoring.