Is there a #Mastodon instance dedicated to amateur #running? Races, training, etc.
I need to get some thoughts and opinions on training and racing out of my head. I could post them here, but this instance is primarily dedicated to Free Software. Most of my followers are probably either expecting posts related to that or cybersecurity, math, science, cryptography, etc. IE, not running.
Posting to a fitness-dedicated instance probably makes the most sense. Or setting up a blog.
@oliviersaraja If you search my timeline, you'll see I've posted intermittently my training and races. But there are some other things I want to discuss that would come up a little more frequently than in the past.
This would possibly turn my timeline into less of a security and software focused timeline, to a more "general" microblog.
Maybe mastodon.social would be the place to set up that account now that I think about it.
Instead, this "game" isn't educating users about why randomness is critical to password security, Instead, it's spreading common misconceptions about password strength through an entertaining game.
As demonstrated, it's not difficult to find trivial 3-word phrases that are obviously weak, but your game says are strong.
Got some push back on my kernel patch, which I expected, so I argued my position. Curious to see if others chime in and where the discussion goes, if anywhere. So far though, I would say my patch looks like it probably won't get implemented.
Shor's algorithm (1994) is a #quantum speedup for finding the prime factors of a composite number, applicable to asymmetric keys.
Grover's algorithm (1996) is a quantum search speedup against symmetric key spaces.
Chen's algorithm (2024) is a new and not yet peer-reviewed quantum speedup for solving a couple shortest vector problems in lattices, previously thought to be quantum-safe.
Curious if his approach gets improved upon in coming years.
A bug has been found, the author updated the paper:
"Step 9 of the algorithm contains a bug, which I don’t know how to fix. See Section 3.5.9 (Page 37) for details. I sincerely thank Hongxun Wu and (independently) Thomas Vidick for finding the bug today. Now the claim of showing a polynomial time quantum algorithm for solving LWE with polynomial modulus-noise ratios does not hold."
TIL Richard Stallman stole source code from Gosling EMACS, replaced the license headers with his own, and integrated it into his #GNU#EMACS. Over time he eventually replaced all the original code, but only after initially replacing the license headers first.
Why wasn't he sued? How do you sue a homeless man? What do you sue him for?
I was doing speed work interval sessions on my run and the watch crashed in the middle of one of the recoveries. At least it wasn't during the interval itself.
However, it hard reset the watch. I had to go through the watch introduction, set my language, re-enter my age, weight, and sex, etc.
I no longer had the workout programmed, so had to press the lap button manually, keeping an eye on the time. Then stitch the activities together post run.
This isn't the only irritation I've had with this watch.
Setting watch displays can only be done through the mobile app, and they don't define the difference between "laps" and "intervals".
When snowboarding, it doesn't ignore vertical ascent (usually on a chair lift), so it records high TSS for the activity. It also fails to accurately count the number of runs you made down the mountain.
When lap swimming, it also can't count pool lengths reliably, over-counting by dozens.
It's not as simple as proving sqrt(2) is irrational, but it could be a lot worse. If you know you integration from calculus class, you can learn it without too much trouble.
I get that they're more environmentally friendly than bleached, but have you tried them? I need to really rinse them before use, or your coffee tastes real weird.
So, even though they require less processing by the manufacturer, it requires more water use for the consumer.
Further, again, even though they require less processing by the manufacturer, they cost more. Weird.
You could break it down to one about passwords and another about password managers. Passkeys are technically different from passwords, although the end goal is the same, so you could make that a 3rd sub I guess.
Something like:
r/Passwords
r/Passkeys
r/PasswordManagers
Everything else is a duplicate. But I guess some people really want to be mods?