#calvinball — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #calvinball, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: #Sandman S1 light spoilers
#Sandman The fight with Lucifer has some real #Calvinball energy to it.
"I'm a planet so you can't hurt me."
"Oh yeah, well I'm a nova that destroys planets!"
"Oh yeah, well I'm a universe!"
"Oh yeah, well I'm anti-life, that beats everything!"
Sit down Lucifer, you're making all this up.
Why didn't Dream just say he's anti-anti-life? Is he stupid?
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🌀 Distro-Hopping a Weekend Fun Activity
Much like Calvinball, distro hopping has no rules—just an increasing sense of chaos.
Calvinball is a game invented by Calvin and Hobbes. There is only one permanent rule in Calvinball: players cannot play it the same way twice.
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Daniel J. Bernstein (#djb, to those who know and love him [1]) has a new blog entry about the NIST post-quantum #cryptography standardization process that's been ongoing for some years. Also, follow him @djb .
If you're not aware of some of the controversy about how NIST is running this process, it's a must-read.
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20250423-mceliece.html
My $0.02: it sure looks like NIST is backstopping an attempt by the NSA to get everyone to standardize on cryptography #standards that the #NSA knows how to break.
Again.
Yes, they did it before. If you read up on the Dual_EC calamity and its fallout, and how this time it was supposed to be different - open, transparent, secure - then prepare to be disappointed. NIST is playing #Calvinball with their rules for this contest, yanking the rug out from under contenders that appear to be more #secure and better understood, while pushing alternatives that are objectively worse (#weaker encryption, less studied, poorer #performance).
Frankly, I think organizations outside of the #USA would be foolish to trust anything that comes out of #NIST's current work. Well, those inside the USA too, but some of those may be forced by law to use whatever NIST certifies.
[1] Some people think djb is "prickly", not lovable. Oddly, it seems that the only people who say this are those who are wildly incorrect about code/algorithms and are being gently but publicly corrected about by djb at the time