I just remembered about “David’s Sling” by Marc Stiegler. It was written in 1988. When I read it, probably a decade later, the political setting was embarrassingly obsolete and the tech was ridiculously speculative. But now I’ll bet they are both juuust right.

omg this is so great! Thank you, Apple! Now can I can work on my laptop in the car without getting nauseated.

if you for some reason think this is useful: 1) why. why would you use this and not something like ChaCha20Poly1305. 2) this is an exceedingly bad toy impl written by someone with no cryptography training. there seems to be better constructions of BLAKE3 AEADs than.... this bullshit

keyed blake3 XOF is basically a stream cipher, keyed blake3 is literally a MAC, I can make an AEAD out of this, so I did just that gist.github.com/vgskye/6253a...

I like this essay. Global namespaces are attractive to software engineers and businesspeople, but not because they are good for users. We need instead to work for the opposite goal: to increase the user’s illegibility. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/soulbindin...

There’s an idea that is widespread among software engineers that goes: “Sure BLAKE3 is faster in software, but CPU makers put dedicated hardware for SHA256 into their CPUs so SHA256 is faster than, or at least as fast as, BLAKE3 practice.”. This argument is mostly mistaken. …

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If you like cryptographically hashing lots of small things at once — and who doesn’t? — Rüdiger Klaehn’s patch to BLAKE3 can give you a substantial speedup on Apple Silicon! Speedups on other platforms expected but not confirmed. x.com/klaehnr/stat...

We've built ML-DSA-B, ML-DSA powered by BLAKE3 instead of SHAKE. Up to 20% faster signing, 30% faster verification, 60x pre-hash. Code & details: github.com/PQC-Suite-B With @zooko.bsky.social @aumasson.jp @conordeegan.bsky.social from Project Eleven

I'll be in Bucharest next week, talking about @iroh.computer and BLAKE3. There will also be a rust workshop.

folks, hear me out, the best long-term trading strategy is privacy itself. Those who build and hold it are shaping the foundation of a free economy. And guess what, its yield is true sovereignty: the _only_ return that truly endures.

wtf Anthropic

One of my little pleasures in life is drinking coffee in bed while submitting useful bug reports to open source projects. ☺️ github.com/bazhenov/tan...

Hey, I've written a new heap allocator for Rust code, and I'm looking for a Rust codebase to test it on. Ideal candidate has either tests or benchmarks (I don't care which) that do *not* spend time waiting for a timer to go off or for network traffic to happen. Know any? Thx.

Whoo-hoo! A bunch of improvements to Zebra CI/CD to make it easier for other teams (like Shielded Labs) to test forks of Zebra. Way to go, Zcash Foundation folks! zfnd.org/making-zebra...

downsides of other platforms: psychological manipulation via algorithms openly fascist leadership lack of portability/walled gardens user hostile design no jerry downsides of bluesky: the CEO refuses to smite my enemies

Bluesky needs *someone* to take the heat for moderation decisions. Perhaps they could look to the great state of Albania for inspiration

Somebody asked me in person “Why is Zcash going up so much?”. I said, because people care about unstoppable private money.

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Sup frens I have a DHT protocol now: www.iroh.computer/blog/lets-wr...

If the water and energy usage of data centers dropped a thousandfold feelings probably would not change much. Actual argument is something else entirely, which makes arguing against the secondary argument very frustrating.

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Benchmarks of Binius64 vs Polygon Plonky3 and Starkware Stwo and Plonky3: www.binius.xyz/benchmarks/

It feels really great when an expert sees your work for what it is. A lot of the work we do is illegible to most folks, but to my eyes -- and the eyes of a few others out there -- it is art. :-) x.com/bryan_gilles...

The "Shai-Hulud" supply chain attack has pushed people over the tipping point where now they are talking about how to defend against supply chain attacks. "Exclude malicious code" is unsustainable and unscalable. We need instead: "Safely use malicious code". github.com/LavaMoat/Lav...

Things I’m excited about in wasm 3.0: 64-bit address space, multiple memories, relaxed vector instructions, deterministic profile. 👍👍👍👍 webassembly.org/news/2025-09...

This is so cool. aphelionz.github.io/crosslink-ec...

"The iroh-lan UI is designed for zero-friction, ephemeral networking: no accounts, no central servers, no device lists. Name a network, choose a password, and you’re on a private L3 LAN with anyone who does the same, created out of thin air and gone when you leave." yup. github.com/rustonbsd/ir...

Listening to x.com/LadaleLowo/s..., I just heard that projects that want to submit a request for a retroactive grant from the Zcash community have until October 12!

Crosslink Economics Simulator!! forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/crosslink-...

The recording of today's Zcash Arborist Call is now available! These bi-weekly protocol development meetings track upcoming protocol deployment logistics, consensus node implementation issues, and protocol research. youtu.be/2tENS3Sb_jM

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A perfect clarion call: x.com/arjunkhemani...

To be clear, the authors of that blog post are saying that their pure-JavaScript implementation of BLAKE3 is almost 15 times as fast as the JavaScript implementation of SHA256 that they benchmarked against.

I don't know if there is a more efficient implementation of SHA256 for JavaScript they could have used. If you do know, please benchmark it against this BLAKE3 implementation and post your results. :-)

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

Phishing attack against maintainers of Rust packages: github.com/rust-lang/cr... HT Zancas

I finally watched a movie that came out when I was 16 years old, in 1990, and that I’ve never watched but always disdained: “Pretty Woman”, starring a young Julia Roberts and a less young but extremely handsome Richard Gere. I love chick flicks now!

A good read. www.projectglitch.xyz/p/announcing...

Anyone here use a different Bluesky client and have recommendations?

Whoa

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News from the Avalanche<->Zcash Red Bridge! Sounds like good engineering for both safety and time-to-market: forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/zcash-elas...

finding an idiot saying cruel things tells you next to nothing about the populace you sampled that person from

*taps the sign*

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