orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es

people were talking about the millennium bug recently, well it turns out a lot of the fixes just delayed the problem to 2020

"Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option."

"Those systems that used the quick fix have now reached the end of that window, and have rolled back to 1920. Utility company bills have reportedly been produced with the erroneous date 1920, while tens of thousands of parking meters in New York City have declined credit card transactions because of the date glitch."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229238-a-lazy-fix-20-years-ago-means-the-y2k-bug-is-taking-down-computers-now/

here's the thing about telling people to CW things:
1. CWs literally, logically cannot be a one-size-fits-all, universal norm. Humans are not limited to needing warnings for "predictable" subjects, or any small/reasonable set of things, at all. any aspect of a traumatic memory can become retraumatizing; my go-to example is someone who pointed out they're triggered by schoolbuses. should everyone, everywhere CW photos of schoolbuses? I don't think so! it's impractical, and how are the vast majority of people supposed to figure out that's a thing?

But if someone in your circles asks you to CW schoolbuses, you can certainly CW schoolbuses. CW conventions CAN be effective when tailored for the needs of a specific community, but this means CW conventions Need to be different between different groups. why?

2. Attempts to be exhaustive about CWs aren't just logically doomed to fail, they're inaccessible.
a. If the rate of CWs is too high, people's ability to make decisions gets overloaded.

i guess they're NYC specific so

the Rude Mechanical Orchestra is basically a protest marching band that shows up to big demonstrations, strikes, and so on and plays leftist anthems

they rule and their website's an awesome resource for Left music and creative protest chants https://rudemechanicalorchestra.org/

i feel like i haven't seen the rude mechanical orchestra in a minute but i hope they're doing well, they fucking own

Broke: "that's Link, Zelda is a girl"
Woke: Link is a girl

Tired: a straw has 2 holes
Wired: a straw has 1 hole
Hired: a straw has 0 holes because it's made of a rolled piece of plastic which at no point has a hole punched in it

catholics 🤝 protestants
antisemitism

weird how nearly all of the major figures in Christian history were virulent antisemites regardless of which flavor of Christianity they were

I wonder what this says about "Judeo-Christian" culture

imagine thinking you're a leftist but supporting TERF ideology lmao

This post made by intersectional solidarity gang

being gay, trans, Jewish, and alive just to flex on Savonarola

This WaPo article about people who went to see Cats high reads like an Erowid trip report from a Nyarlathotep speaking engagement: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/people-are-seeing-cats-while-high-out-of-their-minds-these-are-their-stories/2020/01/05/d0ebfb3a-2beb-11ea-bcb3-ac6482c4a92f_story.html

We have computed the very first chosen-prefix collision for SHA-1. To put it in another way: all attacks that are practical on MD5 are now also practical on SHA-1.

We have reduced the cost of a collision attack from 2^64.7 to 2^61.2, and the cost of a chosen-prefix collision attack from 2^67.1 to 2^63.4.

Demo: The legacy branch of GnuPG (version 1.4) is vulnerable. We have created two PGP keys with different UserIDs and colliding certificates.

https://sha-mbles.github.io/

Cat with a hole through its body.

https://pastebin.com/rjhZrzpu if anyone is curious about why i call myself a python war criminal

this is a single python expression (you could stick it, without the comments, into an eval statement and it'd work)! it is also a valid python program. in fact, it's a tiny video game

the source is like 1.3kb when you remove all the newlines and syntactically unnecessary spaces. i might try to golf it down further someday

The cloud is made of water. The void is made of water. We are all made of water and it's really wonderful.