TildalWave (~πŸ‘‹)

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The elders of the Internet know who I am. Some areas of interest: #Infosec, #IoT (Internet of Tractors), obscure #programming languages, #science, #art, #music, #space exploration, #photography, animal #welfare, #philanthropy, #comedy, #fantasy, #scifi, off/road #cycling, #gardening, #mycology, secluded Croatian coastline, #food, #drinks, #books, #procrastination. Socially cautious (no automatic follow-backs). Spammers will be condemned to beasts! All content posted by me is mine unless otherwise stated. Attribution is statutory. Unless you can attribute its true authors, I do not approve the use of #AI generated content appearing in my stream in any shape or form!
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Leaf tips glow blue in thunderstorms

For the first time, meteorologists caught the shocking phenomenon during a real storm.

Popular Science
New garden flag dropped. Long live the matriarchy!
I made some variations on Montgomery multiplication with redundant representations. As an illustration, I made some codegolfed ECDSA signature verification (curve P-256) on 64-bit architectures (x86, Arm and RISC-V); I got that down to 848 bytes of code on x86 with a still usable runtime cost. Moreover, there is a comprehensive range analysis (automated) that proves that the computation cannot overflow.
AI was not used, but it was defeated.
Paper is here: https://github.com/pornin/small-ecdsa/blob/main/tex/mmul.pdf
More generally, the repository contains the paper, the code, and the proof (in Python): https://github.com/pornin/small-ecdsa

Shetland not welcoming Farage.

#Farage #AltRight #Scotland #Shetland

It's a bell πŸ«‘ curve, isn't it?
In Scotland, new rules are being introduced to require β€œswift bricks” in new buildings, a small change that creates nesting spaces and helps birds coexist with urban life.
@Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum #birds #Scotland