something very @SuricrasiaOnline : the "hash function crisis", where some academic comes out of nowhere breaking all commonly-used hash functions at once, even being able to find collisions *by hand* for one of them
this actually happened in 2005, where Wang broke MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD, HAVAL, SHA-0, and a theoretical attack (which is now becoming practical) against SHA-1
Wang's paper was initially rejected for being completely incomprehensible, but then attended the related conference for that anyway, and gave a 10 minute unplanned talk where she demonstrated the attacks (including the by-hand collision finding for MD2)
what a strange, inverted world.
it used to be we bought expensive, underpowered hardware to be able to use this revolutionary thing called the macOS.
now, we get affordable, insanely world-leading hardware... and the worst part is the bullshit toy spyware known as the macOS. i donate money every month to a project that will get some crapware free software OS running on it simply because even that garbage will be better than what comes on it.
@smartbrain where is @verretor ?
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
Pretty big deal that the BMJ is willing to publish this.
HELP TO GET A MEDICAL FAMILY OUT OF CANADA!
THEY ARE TRAPPED.
ONLY CROSS BORDER NOW WITH ESSENTIAL TRAVEL ONLY!
YES, you can leave from nov 29 WITH TWO JABS (incl kids).
She is Pure Blood with her family.
What can we do to help her?
(besides the Moonshiners route)
HAS ANYONE AN ESSENTIAL REASON FOR?
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