#rng — Public Fediverse posts

#COLDCARD wallet #RNG flaw likely linked to $88 million #Bitcoin theft

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coldcard-wallet-rng-flaw-likely-linked-to-88-million-bitcoin-theft/

#cybersecurity #crypto

Bezpečnostní výzkumník na blogu tmctmt přišel na zajímavou věc o Mullvad VPN, jednom z nejoblíbenějších providerů mezi lidmi, co řeší soukromí. Mullvad totiž nepřiděluje uživatelům exit IP adresy náhodně, ale deterministicky podle WireGuard klíče. To znamená, že se stejným klíčem dostanete na konkrétním serveru vždycky tu samou IP.

Autor si napsal skript, […]

Do your tabletop buddies accuse you of using loaded dice?

☢️ Fear no more! ☢️

GameMaster Dice now comes with True Nuclear Randomness powered by RadPro!

#RadPro #radiation #RNG #DSA #RolePlayingGamesRPGs #TableTop

... but how will they learn otherwise!?

https://piefed.social/c/grimdank/p/1973014/but-how-will-they-learn-otherwise

https://youtu.be/pMnqN2stzOc

Our new plug-in is now available on Itch.

Tired of manually creating randomized sounds AudioStreamPlayer nodes? Well, its automatic now. We wasted a lot of time building this, to save yours! #godot #godotengine #plugin #sfx #rng #audiostreamplayer #randomizer #gdscript #gamedev #indiegamedev #audio #opensource #FOSS #GPLv3

https://youtu.be/pMnqN2stzOc

GUNDAM – Flirtation
#Cuts #Electronic #Grime #RnB #RnG #Stealyogurl #Wifey #bangers #booty #grime #wifey #London
CC BY (#CreativeCommons Attribution) #ccmusic
https://gundamgrime.bandcamp.com/album/flirtation

I added a random number generator (a LFSR using polynomial for n=16 from XAPP052) and a subroutine for PRINT AT to my ZX81 "game".

#zx81 #rng #lfsr

Just finished up final polish on first release of my anarchy RNG library in Lua! Have you ever wanted an incremental or reversible shuffle? I've got one for you :)

Lua REAME page w/ links: https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/anarchy/lua/

Main version docs: https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/anarchy/lua/docs/index.html

Interactive online examples (using equivalent Javascript library): https://solsword.github.io/anarchy/js/examples.html

C, C#/Unity, Python, and Javascript versions are also available.

#coding #rng #random

I absolutely love this one, though I can't remember where I got it from:

Think of a word related to your current number (e.g., "7" → "lucky"), then think of something connected to that word ("lucky" → "horseshoe"), then pull a digit from that new connection ("horseshoe" → 8 letters). This chain of ideas creates unpredictability because each link is unique.

#fedifriends #math #random #rng #entropy

Hey #fedifriends, I’m back to this rabbit hole.

How would you generate a random number using only your mind as a pseudo RNG? Imagine you are going to bed, so you can’t do complex math.

You should be able to keep creating new numbers.

I know various ways to do it, but I trust that you are all smarter than I and will show me something amazing. Please boost!

#math #random #rng #entropy

Random Numbers from Hard Problems: LWE Toy RNG

https://blog.s20n.dev/posts/lwe-rng/

#HackerNews #RandomNumbers #LWE #RNG #HardProblems #ToyRNG #HackerNews

Randomly selecting points inside a triangle
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/09/11/random-inside-triangle/
#ycombinator #rng

I made a simple dice roller for web!

You can roll A LOT of dice, of whatever size you need, and then examine all the results and reroll or add new dice.

https://sophiehoulden.com/dice/simple/

#TTRPG #Dice #RNG

I get that lava lamps looks cool, I own one too but… seriously?
"The Randomness Crisis Threatening the Internet"?
… in 2025???

(please note that I have nothing particular against this video, this was mainly the straw that breaks the camel's back and finally led me to rant on the interwebs 🤣)

This problem has long been solved for good, and Yarrow in 1999 put a nail in the coffin for most practical purposes, and Fortuna again in 2003 even removed the need for entropy estimation.

#CSPRNG are real. Are here. Are working. They are fundamentally indistinguishable from real #random numbers (#RNG) for every possible purpose.

“Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.” (John Von Neumann, 1951)

This is still a cool quote, but it's just that. Funny. Nice. Interesting from an historical point of view. (and only technically still true, not in any practical way)

This year's International RNG Day landed on this Friday, July 11th.

I decided to celebrate this year by building a new random feature to my blog and blogging about it – coming out Friday morning.

https://rngday.com/

#InternationalRNGDay #Random #RNG

Very nice:

"Where Did <random> Go Wrong?", Martin Hořeňovský, CPP Prague, June 2024 [PDF] (https://codingnest.com/files/What%20Went%20Wrong%20With%20_random__.pdf)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKk6J3CgE80

Via Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/l8y8gg/where_did_random_go_wrong

#Random #CPP #STL #Programming #API #RandomNumberGenerator #RNG #Ergonomics #Math

Sometimes the #rng name generator makes me giggle #gameDev