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2026-05-14 17:47:51 CEST

Few organizations actually care about information security beyond compliance checkboxes.

2026-05-11 19:16:17 CEST

being Meguca is suffering

2026-05-11 19:09:34 CEST

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It's just the right thing to do

2026-05-11 18:43:14 CEST

Some people seem to have no trouble sleeping at temperatures above 60°F and I find that somewhat baffling.

2026-04-28 17:23:27 CEST

Auto-updating video game launcher that updates another auto-updating video game launcher that updates another auto-updating video game launcher that...

2026-04-25 15:41:29 CEST

Part of the problem why people won't hire lawyers when they obviously need to is that it'd mean admitting the problem is big enough they can't just wing it on their own anymore. People are notoriously bad at admitting they have problems.

2026-04-20 20:19:19 CEST

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Incidentally, if anybody reading this has a made serious attempt at power-analysis mitigation for ML-KEM, please recommend me your therapist.

2026-04-20 20:17:01 CEST

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https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/fips/203/final this 56-page PDF is the kind of thing where it gets actually bad... then you need to do it all timing-safe (while both the compiler and the CPU are actively hostile to your attempts). Falcon is so hopelessly bonkers to implement that four years after selecting it as a post-quantum algorithm, there's still no standard for it.

2026-04-20 19:50:54 CEST

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I looked at the spec. This doesn't look too bad. It's definitely weird but not too bad.

2026-04-20 19:09:29 CEST

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Why do you even want that?

2026-04-08 20:51:53 CEST

I saw a comment on Lobsters with over 100 votes.
It's past getting too big, the cozy phase is officially over.

2026-03-07 11:13:14 CET

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Unfortunately, one of the most important websites is YouTube. Good luck with that.

2025-12-28 12:03:57 CET

You're in your "projects" folder.
```
$ mkdir
```
You are now agonizing. What should it be called? Do you even want the responsibility of having to start?

2025-08-03 08:40:19 CEST

I've reached the point at which it is surprising when a search engine *actually* returns the results strictly matching the keywords I put in.

2025-07-26 14:50:57 CEST

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**Disclaimer:** This is just what I remember. I might be completely off.
First and foremost, back then, things were a lot more laid-back. Lots of semi-novices making things that went into production.
For a long time, people defaulted to it because it had better usability. The silent type conversions and warnings weren't considered a bug but a convenience. The tooling was just better (phpMyAdmin unironically was a selling point). Autoincrement was more intuitive. People got started on things like XAMPP, which packaged MySQL, so there was a lot of inertia as well, which led to all the introductory guides and (heaven forbid) tutorials focusing on it.
The PostgreSQL replication story was simply non-existent. PostgreSQL generally had this irrational feeling of being a "big, clunky database". The elephant logo probably didn't help that perception. The role system seemed bizarre and counter-intuitive (seriously, "login role"?). You still had to pg_dump across major releases for a long time.
We all know that today the correct answer is Azure SQL Database and not running your own database at all, but hindsight is 20:20, plus the kind of SaaS cloud environment just kinda didn't exist back then.

2025-05-18 09:40:51 CEST

Password manager's password generator puts `<` in my password.
Web application firewall rejects the request as malicious.
God forbid somebody use special characters in a password that aren't `!?+`.

2025-01-12 10:43:43 CET

Dual_EC_DRBG unironically got people to distrust elliptic curve cryptography wholesale and I think that's hilarious.

2024-12-29 20:20:32 CET

Starting to think some of y'all might not be ok

2024-09-11 20:34:39 CEST

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Imagine if there was a system for sorting and searching. Something kind of like a base for data, a data base if you will.

2024-09-11 20:30:27 CEST

I wish I could search my own posts. That would be wildly convenient.

2024-09-08 18:35:15 CEST

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Same with the irrational hated of arbitration, there are valid reasons for it

2024-09-08 18:33:17 CEST

Kinda disliking the "non-disclosure agreement about the contents of the rest of the agreement" culture but I get why it's there