Mastodawn

DMA May 3

Scooter 🏳️‍🌈 ⚽ 🚴‍♂️ 🐻May 2

Too soon?

DMA Apr 11

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jimniels/116381090816669954

an extremely traditional answer

DMA Apr 7

We've started getting spam pull requests on the Papers We Love repo from agent-driven github accounts shilling 'personas' you can buy for your agents. Their MO is to target every single "awesome-*" link-collection repo on github with slop PRs, trying to drive traffic to their repos with "previews" of the personas that are for sale elsewhere (gumroad a common choice, presumably because setting up and managing a shop entry is something API-driven enough that an LLM can pull it off).

Of course, looking at something like https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills/pulls it's hard to see the line between "snake oil" and "spam". Like, you have to be pretty bought into AI's horseshit model to think that some of these "skills" are anything other than ELIZA with a thesaurus.

Aside: I've always thought that the entire "awesome-*" repo model was a kinda grimy scummy enterprise to begin with.

Pull requests · ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills

A curated list of awesome Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows - Pull requests · ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills

GitHub

DMA Apr 7

Filippo Valsorda Apr 6

Two papers came out last week that suggest classical asymmetric cryptography might indeed be broken by quantum computers in just a few years.

That means we need to ship post-quantum crypto now, with the tools we have: ML-KEM and ML-DSA. I didn't think PQ auth was so urgent until recently.

https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/

A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines

The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.

DMA Feb 22

Natasha

🇪🇺Feb 22

How far back in time can you understand English?

It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.

"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

#english #language