Maybe he'll start selling red baseball caps with gold lettering that say "Make Cryptography Great Again".

A song that is breaking my heart again today: https://songsforthegreatturning.net/going-forth/we-shall-be-known-by-the-company-we-keep/

Let's just start measuring the rocket explosions in school lunches: "Jeff Bezos just blew up one billions school lunches", "Enough school lunches to feed every child in America for five years blew up today on a launchpad in Texas, say sources..."

a stalwart Man was subjected to my post with a cute girly aesthetic and he took the time to let me know how much it annoyed him that there are posts on Mastodon that are cute and girly. There is of course only one solution

The IETF on C-22: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/statement-iab-internet-architecture-board-iab-statement-with-regards-to-canada-c-22-an-act-respecting-lawful-access/00/ #c22 #cdnpoli

Today, ICANN published a new version of my "Quantum Computing and the DNS" paper at https://www.icann.org/octo-031-en.pdf This is a significant update because the position about DNSSEC in Section 5.1 takes into account the recent improvements in quantum computing that the web world is quickly […]

something no one needs: which fascist podcasts are preferred by the people shopping for the same kitchen utensils as me on Amazon

Happy 40th birthday, ZMODEM! On May 20, 1986 the ZMODEM protocol specification was posted on Usenet by Chuck Forsberg of Omen Technology. https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.sources.unix/1986-May/004372.html If you used a BBS before the Internet you might get nostalgic. Otherwise you probably […]

I'm not sure which I find worse: Google shoving AI in our faces for services where it is unwanted, or Google customers shoving "smart glasses" in our faces by wearing them on their faces.

Remember when y'all made this thread on Paulina Borsook go viral? Well, that resulted in her getting a deal to re-publish her book in the USA, the UK & Commonwealth, Belgium, France, and Switzerland! Coming Sept. 15—with a foreword by some guy named Gil Duran. Pre-order! www.cyberselfish.com

Mashup courtesy Chris Frantz (yeah, that guy in Talking Heads) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cap6A8qJXc4

Still valid: #javascript #programming #unix #meme

A suburban life first for me: a juvenile fox in my backyard.

After all these years, I am still sad that May 4 became Star Wars Day instead of Kent State Day (especially this year).

the mj estate used an nda from 1992 to pressure hbo to take down the original (at least until ~2029), but there is an official sequel that i didn't even know about: youtu.be/kytCfJVUvDo

RE: https://discuss.systems/@thalia/116463753392956545 Some other people: "We found a church registry from a small town outside Boston from 1805, so we copied all the entries into a database you can browse." My people:

If I wanted to learn a bit about wireless stuff and bought a Flipper Zero, are there good beginner learning guides with examples? #FlipperZero ers

https://youtu.be/jXO5axomU7Q Deeply speaks to me

it seems someone decided to prove you really can just publish any nonsense protocol draft with the IETF https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html

Friends, I need to go out on a limb here, that IPv8 thing getting passed around way too much... this is not a design you should take seriously. I don't think it shouldn't take reading past the abstract to feel that way, but if you kept going to the part that says:: r.r.r.r -- 32-bit ASN […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benpate/116403046724832335 Gonna be hilarious if they add e2e and don't fix "private mentioned".

I’m still disappointed that the Fediverse is so careless with internationalization that posts were about 50/50 on Orbán/Orban. That’s not a difficult diacritic to type…

before: script kiddies now: AI kiddies

"Philz Coffee" is such a weird name to pick for a nazi bar.

Very important kitchen discovery: You can use a potato peeler on a block of refrigerated cooking butter to produce thin slices of butter for toast. This is revolutionary. You can lay the slices on the toast and they soften almost instantly. Incredible. #kitchen #cooking #butter #innovation

Of interest to the "Using AI LLMs to find bugs in C code" community: https://discuss.python.org/t/systematically-finding-bugs-in-python-c-extensions-575-confirmed-so-far/106875 #python and, of course @bagder

I’ll bet folding money that there are more people inside Microsoft who think that the “free publicity” from NASA is a good thing than those who think they should apologize and fix the problem.

I forget how little fun it is to live 7 miles from the epicenter of a 4.6 earthquake

heh, Kagi's April's Fool is actually funny: https://kagi.com

The fake ads in the fake newspaper The Onion (https://theonion.com/) tell the truth.

I made the mistake of registering my three books with the Anthropic Copyright Settlement folks using my name without a middle initial. Now they are inundating me with email and letters saying that maybe I missed applying for these other books written by other Paul Hoffmans.

In this year of 2026 if you absolutely have to run your mobile, international event in America - and you choose to run it in Texas, Tennessee, or Florida, that is certainly a choice that reflects which of your members or employees you see as human.

Maybe we should just not name things for men.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116218475028046070 "Absolutely no one should use nuget", a strong statement that is fully supported by the rest of the short article. @msftsecurity take note.

Y'all know why casinos use chips instead of cash right? Using "tokens" as your new made-up currency has the same effect of removing the psychological barrier of spending money. So when AI companies bill you by different types of tokens using astronomical conversion factors, remember that the […]

I know everybody is up in the Merkel Tree right right, but PQC affects more than just TLS. Here's a quick high-level summary of some other areas where we want to pay attention: https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/post-quantum-cryptography-beyond-tls #PQC #tls

I usually prefer real history, but with apologies to Pat Nixon, this edit was right there, begging me to swap out a semicolon for the word “in.” Easy fix.

If the FIFA Peace Prize invites war, what does the FIFA World Cup invite?

I have a new conjecture about number theory: the hard problem in elliptic curve cryptography is not what you think it is, for nearly all values of "you".

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.

But what if they're wearing smart glasses while driving a Cybertruck? Which gets scratched first?

Random English language observation: one of these isn't like the other. - watch - smell - taste - feel - listen to

OVH Cloud (#as16276) is raising "additional" IP4 prices from $2 USD to $2.39/month, a nearly 20% increase, on April 1, 2026 (no joke). They stated: "In recent months, the global market has seen the cost of critical infrastructure components climb significantly and steadily. These cost pressures […]

From @gruber: https://daringfireball.net/2026/02/apple_releases_ios_26_adoption_rates Looking at the numbers differently: about 90% of all iPhones and iPads that still connect with the App Store are four years old or less.

What I would rather see is "AI slop machine develops a method to quietly transfer €500k from its maintainer's oversized coffers to https://curl.se/ so that they have the resources to develop software to successfully triage slop PRs for curl and other FOSS projects", followed six months later by […]

Were they ever here at all? But they kept on dancing.

I have co-authored yet another RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9920/ This is an important update to the RFC publication model. As an old fart, I consider it important to do what I can to make the RFC Series useful for the next few hundred years.

At a certain point, one must look at well-funded mainstream 'activist' organizations that have a lot of reach and never support anything so radical that it might actually cause a meaningful change in the causes they claim to support and wonder why.