vince

@0x56
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looking after old computers, breaking new ones

music; math(s); games; words; brains;

always learning new things, usually taking the long way (adhd & autistic)

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Show threadvinceJul 8, 2023
@jevinskie https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/ giving the official "Profile move" flow a try, it seems like the cleanest option to re-home without entirely starting fresh
Moving or leaving accounts - Mastodon documentation

Take your information and do what you want with it.

vinceJul 8, 2023
alright, time to try this instance migration thing... catch you on the flipside 🤞🏼
Show threadvinceJul 8, 2023

@djcapelis oh hah, i think we stopped by yoshinoya and you dropped me at home one evening after work in the honda, like, days before Everything shut down? didn't realize it gave out so quickly, bummer :/

agreed though, i can absorb the potentially higher initial cost of an EV, and by all other metrics it seems like the obvious choice in 2023 (and starts to enable other really cool stuff, like V2H :)

Show threadvinceJul 8, 2023

@djcapelis almost went ahead with internal combustion ~3 years ago, and having the ability to get around more easily arguably would've been a better choice for my mental health, but the idea didn't sit well with me (and then you just couldn't buy a car for a while)

asked the landlord this year about installing a charger, he didn't blink, now he's basically just waiting on confirmation & scheduling with utilities to upgrade the main service 👍🏼

Show threadvinceJul 8, 2023
@siguza @retr0id yeah, i took a bit of a leap here, sorry. tl;dr if my understanding of/intuition for quantum mechanics is worth anything, i suspect RSA is already broken, particularly if the asset a given key protects is worth 8-9 figures to somebody (tho most secrets would not hold up to an adversary with this kind of budget, in many less-scientifically-interesting ways)
Show threadvinceJul 8, 2023
@infosecdj tbh this was one of the most compelling aspects of tinkering with Collapse OS for me a couple years back... i don't particularly share (tho am sympathetic to, given *gestures vaguely at the world*) the author's view of the future, but am 100% on board with a robust technological ecosystem that can be rebuilt from "trash" that's been accumulating everywhere since the 70s 😄
vinceJul 8, 2023
dunno if this is an a(u)dhd thing, or just a bad habit... feels like when trying to contribute to a conversation, it's often a tossup whether my reply is actually on topic or a tangent to something adjacent that i'm passionate about (and it's really hard to tell sometimes until after the words are out, and i reflect on others' responses to them)
Show threadvinceJul 8, 2023
@retr0id @siguza i'm talking out of my depth, i could be very wrong on all of this... but i'm glad that efforts are well underway to move past RSA heh
Show threadvinceJul 8, 2023
@retr0id @siguza i can't really back this up, but as i get more familiar with implications of quantum coherence and relativistic squeezing, i'm increasingly convinced that today's qubit coherence times aren't a showstopper for quantum computation, provided you can play tricks with spatial coherence and reference frames, and optimize for solving a specific equation with known inputs rather than trying for universal computation (and where a specific key could be worth billions to the right folks)
vinceJul 8, 2023
Greg EganJul 8, 2023

Yeow. Apparently replying with a thumbs-up emoji to a photograph of a contract can be as legally binding as *signing the contract*, at least in some circumstances.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-08/canadian-farmer-pay-92k-fine-after-emoji-confusion/102579514

Canadian farmer ordered to pay more than $92,000 after confusion over the meaning of a thumbs-up emoji

The judge ruled that a thumbs-up emoji the farmer sent in response to a photo of a contract was enough to agree to its terms.

ABC News