RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116341006870383132
I coded a BPCS steganography program for my dissertation, might do a more up to date one for funsies
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I do applied applied cryptography.
Deliberately making things less easy to understand since 2015
Currently listening to the Cherry Red compilation of Edward Ball’s discography, and it’s actually cruel that he didn’t ever get big, the quality of the songwriting is phenomenal. https://open.spotify.com/album/1sujWuiZPkVM9FNrQMJfQG?si=QaDDdvHSRn6WGy9uaIOliQ
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, by which I mean AI. Some pretty notable software engineers have gone all-in on it to an evangelical level, it’s like NFTs and my favourite musicians all over again
After much contrived coding situations I’ve finally found a legitimate use case for writing lambdas in Python, as I need some test boolean methods to pass to a decorator and they are ideal for this
They are a lovely little solution/syntax, what do other folk use them for?
Another day of wondering how many big companies have depts who’s job is to actively stop the other depts from getting anything done. #BeingPassiveAggressiveIsMyOnlyJoy
I realise I’m a bit late to it, but once again Transmetropolitan is eerily prescient #Transmetropolitan #enshittification
Also, the WhatsApp news is so far just headlines and allegations, if there was anything to it surely they might have included some actual proof amidst all the publicity-seeking?
my feed is 80% strawmanning of Meredith Whittaker's AI comments taken out of context, and the other 20% are those "tap the post for a surprise" tweets