Jimmy Jim

@starchturrets
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Sci-fi fan and amateur programmer/sysadmin

Streets are reporting that Vice Ganda is joining Mama Pao as resident judge* for the fourth season of Drag Race Philippines.

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* Resident judge, i.e., replacing Jiggly Caliente in the judges panel.

Last year, my position was that we still had time to design PQ authentication mechanisms.

Now, based on the pace of progress and on statements like Google's, I believe:

1. we need to finish rolling out PQ key exchange yesterday
2. we need to start rolling out PQ auth now
3. it's too late to ship any new non-PQ design or system

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/cryptography-migration-timeline/

Quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear

An overview of how Google is accelerating its timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration.

Google
Should I get a Framework stylus or some other compatible one?
@iris_meredith I generally like your writing but it's so unreadable on a phone due to the huge text and huge margins:
I will celebrate that #ChatControl 1.0 didn't make it. But I am aware that this win for liberal and left-leaning people came at the high price of a conservative-far right ad-hoc coalition that did evil things today. The EU parliament is no longer a reliable defender of human rights and freedom for all. So a bitter taste remains.

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law and the Institute of International Criminal Investigations in The Hague have partnered on an in-person 5-day course on OSINT as it relates to iolations of international criminal, humanitarian, and human rights law.

(I am not affiliated with either institution or involved in this course, but it looks damn interesting.)

https://iici.global/courses/open-source-investigation-foundational/

Open Source Investigation – Foundational - IICI

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law and the Institute of International Criminal Investigations in The Hague have partnered to offer two comprehensive open source investigation courses focused on the investigation of violations of international criminal, humanitarian, and human rights law. Course […]

IICI

So please, all, do me a favour and send a nice and honest Thank You note to the MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) that made sure that ChatControl 1.0 didn't make it. Tell them how relieved you are that they helped to make this possible.

Update: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270 to see who voted against.

Vote results: Extension of the temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive to combat online child sexual abuse

Find out how the Members of the European Parliament voted.

HowTheyVote.eu
Most media outlets have already decided that the asylum policy story and the cooperation between Weber's EPP and the far-right is the headline story. The ChatControl story will not play a major role in the news rotation today. I expected that. Doesn't reduce my happiness that we won this round too, though :)

The difference between the tech industry and, say, Enron is that the tech industry is a cluster of very large, deeply intertwined megacorporations. They're like the 2007 era banks in terms of their interconnectedness: big tech orbiting Nvidia and smaller startups orbiting the big tech planets.

You only need fraud to thrive in one corner of this system to create a cascading risk for them all.

There has been too little talk about the expansion of photovoltaic power generation in African countries, mostly because a lot of the Western mainstream press and politicians maintain a colonial view of anything that has to do with Africa. The truth is that solar installations are advancing at an incredible speed, and the removal of market distortions will probably translate in the rise of local solar panel & battery production in the mid-term.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/24/africas-solar-boom-was-built-on-artificially-cheap-chinese-pricing-that-era-is-now-ending

‘Artificially cheap’ Chinese solar is ending – will Africa take a hit?

Solar is Africa’s cheapest energy source. Changes to price incentives on Chinese imports could push prices up.

euronews