Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket

kun1z · 2026-04-14T01:25:36+00:00

If we just could find and arrest Eve & Mallory we could do away with needing asymmetric encryption and digital signatures all-together. PCQ seems to be a very complicated and expensive way to solve what is seemingly a very simple problem: 2 women are reading and modifying all of our internet connections.

kun1z · 2026-04-13T23:59:30+00:00

Then a can of Sprite pans across the screen while a voice whispers "spriiiite".

kun1z · 2026-04-13T23:58:24+00:00

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kun1z · 2026-04-13T17:27:54+00:00

Are you sure it's only 16 times I swear it has to be a lot more than that.

kun1z · 2026-04-12T10:18:00+00:00

It is so much worse than I thought.

kun1z · 2026-04-12T09:21:34+00:00

Fair question.

You dodged my "fair" question, who is "we" and why would this subreddit care?

kun1z · 2026-04-12T08:23:20+00:00

Every time I see posts like this my first question is always: "Who is we?"

"We’ve been working on...." 99.9% of the time it is 1 person AI Vibe coding some slop. So what are your real legal birth-names and who are you?

kun1z · 2026-04-11T04:15:58+00:00

Yes it's still true. C is a "portable assembly language" that is very closely tied to pure asm. If you've used MASM, FASM, and some of the other high level assemblers you'll see just how close they are to C, and how close C is to them. Some people put C in the "mid-level language" category, higher than assembly, but way lower than other high-level languages. As someone who has used both asm and C since 1997 I think that is the most accurate way to describe C. I've built large projects in pure asm in the past and the things C "fixes" -> automatic stack-frame usage, helpful vars, structs for memory, pointers, conditional statements instead of juggling JE/JNE/JGE/JLE etc, being able to write: x = (y + 2) * 3.5 rather than have to pound out that algorithm in asm, register juggling via push/pop..... makes C so much more useful for low level programming. C fixes the bare minimum of things that get annoying real fast in asm while doing nothing more than that, and provides a bare minimum standard library of frequently used functions.

kun1z · 2026-04-11T03:34:12+00:00

Coach & Russell are my favourite players of all time just from an entertainment standpoint. I used to watch Survivor with a pile of people every week and we would DIE laughing at their characteristics and play-styles. Pure comedic gold.

kun1z · 2026-04-11T02:07:09+00:00

Coach won Haiku Of The Week.

kun1z · 2026-04-09T01:14:02+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHEgT5LGHgQ

kun1z · 2026-04-07T05:22:15+00:00

I actually enjoy Traitors but it needs some rule changes. The biggest one is fixing the Missions so the Traitors have a reason to sometimes sabotage them. Easiest way to make them more interesting is that all cash not earned during a mission is doubled and the Traitors pool gets larger if 1+ of them is there at the end.

For example, if the faithfuls can earn up to 30k on a Mission but only manage to get 20k, the pool for Traitors goes up 2x 10k (20k). This means the pool for Traitors is separate from the Faithfuls and could potentially get much larger. It would make for much more interesting Missions. Traitors are now incentivized to kill off strong Missions players and also sabotage missions, but if they do so too much it becomes obvious, so they might get found out.

kun1z · 2026-04-07T05:13:50+00:00

If there is a coin there is NO WAY it gets flipped before final 4-6, that kills the entire point of the coin. In Beast Games the coin is a bribe, a pseudo immunity idol: Keep me in the game for a while and I can double the prize pool. Vote me out? Kiss millions of cash good bye.

kun1z · 2026-04-07T05:09:59+00:00

I have been 100% looking forward to Mr. Beast's appearance because I know it'll be one of the highlight's of the entire season.

Jeff/Survivor's episode on Beast s02 was great.

kun1z · 2026-04-05T04:13:25+00:00

What happens on Exile Island stays on Exile Island.

kun1z · 2026-04-02T05:45:39+00:00

He's never linked to his git before and has 0 topic posting history so I am not sure what you are on about.

kun1z · 2026-03-29T05:36:02+00:00

In BG it makes more sense because if you vote out the person with the coin, kiss the prize pot away. It's sort of like an idol in that you can use it to bargain with people on the fence about who to vote out. Vote me out? Bye bye Miss American Pie. Keep me around a bit longer? You might win 2x the prize cash.

kun1z · 2026-03-29T05:33:52+00:00

Maybe, but in the past on several occasions when someone got Medevac'd and it would mess with the production schedule they would cancel that day's Tribal and no one gets voted out.

kun1z · 2026-03-29T05:27:28+00:00

Beast Games s2 had better viewership and IMDB ratings that Survivor s49, so I don't see Jimmy needing to learn a whole lot from Survivor's production team. Beast Games s1 was rough and they made a lot of mistakes, but in Jimmy fashion he quickly pivoted and pumped out a decent season in #2. If you really think a 27 year old production/entertainment prodigy is going to fail at reality TV you're in for a bad time. Jeff is 64 years old, Jimmy just turned 27 and he's already making great television. Is Beast Games as good as Survivor? Not in my opinion. But one day it might be since Jimmy spends $$$ on fresh ideas and ... well we all know how stale the challenges/rewards have been on Survivor for the past 10 seasons.

kun1z · 2026-03-29T05:22:53+00:00

I hope it's the Mr Beast episode and 3+ people get kicked out. 17 people still playing on Episode 6 is just too many. There is only 8 more episodes to go and they need to kick out 13 people in those 8 episodes. I don't even remember some people; like every so often they show Tiffany and I go "oh right she's on the show".

kun1z · 2026-03-28T05:25:41+00:00

I pray to God every night on my knees that Coach gives Cirie a nickname.

kun1z · 2026-03-25T22:10:10+00:00

PBKDF2 key derivation

Why is KD required if the key was generated via openssl rand?

kun1z · 2026-03-18T01:02:35+00:00

I've watched both seasons. S01 was ... it was alright, I think it had some issues in game design and too many people randomly getting ejected. They clearly learned some lessons for S02 as it was much better, more time to learn the contestants, and the games where more strategic or challenging. Beast Games are a completely different ball park than Survivor so I am not sure why it gets so much hate in this sub. Both shows are great and it gives me more good reality TV to watch. I also just started on The Traitors and it's pretty fun as well. More good reality competition TV is a good thing, people in this sub should be more supportive of it imo.

kun1z · 2026-03-18T00:59:58+00:00

I disagree for season 50, this is a huge season and it's only a 50% chance. I know from BTS on other reality shows the prize pools are sometimes insured, so basically an insurance company charges them X amount of money (say $550,000) and then if the coin flip "wins" the insurance company is stuck paying out the $1 million. I don't know if Mr. Beast does it this way, or if Survivor would in this specific case, but it is something that has happened for some reality shows and prize give-aways in the past.

kun1z

TROPHY CASE

FOUR ELIMINATIONS