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Lapo Luchini 2 weeks ago Friendica

The Polygons of Another World

I found this article mind-blowing, just to start the game was coded on Amiga in only 6000 assembly instructions and on PC in only 20 KiB, as that was implementing a specialized virtual machine where the core of the game was really implemented.

The polygons of Another World

^{fabiensanglard.net}

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hoergen on Friendica 1 week ago Friendica (AP)

Amiga was nice.

@Lapo Luchini

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Lapo Luchini 5 months ago Friendica

@zachtronics delivers, yet again.
I'm halfway thru the chapters and loving #Eliza so far!
http://www.zachtronics.com/eliza/

#Eliza

Lapo Luchini 7 months ago Friendica

#SQLite #Telegram JSON backup import, now updated to use the recently available group ids in the dump. Runs on #NodeJS.
(originally group id was generated sequentially during import)
https://github.com/lapo-luchini/tgsqlite

#SQLite #Telegram #NodeJS

Lapo Luchini 7 months ago Friendica

I was just hit by a (trivial) truth:
#node is the new #perl.
(except i love it)

#node #perl

Lapo Luchini 7 months ago Friendica

NERV Cannarsi-style

Dopo la lettura dell'articolo di Doc Manhattan sul nuovo adattamento di #Evangelion curato da Cannarsi io e Mauro e Mattia non potevamo esimerci dal produrre quest'immagine.

(English brief: Evangelion was re-dubbed in Italian, and it's so bad)

#Evangelion

Lapo Luchini 7 months ago Friendica

How does Apple (privately) find your offline devices?

I quote from the article:
How is this system going to avoid being a massive privacy nightmare?
The good news is that Apple claims that their system actually does provide strong privacy, and that it accomplishes this using clever cryptography. But as is typical, they’ve declined to give out the details how they’re going to do it. […] an incomplete technical description that Apple provided to Wired […] provides many hints. Unfortunately, what Apple provided still leaves huge gaps. It’s into those gaps that I’m going to fill in my best guess for what Apple is actually doing.

A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: How does Apple (privately) find your offline devices? (Matthew Green)

Lapo Luchini 9 months ago Friendica

The sad sad state of e-mail encryption

PGP/MIME is 18 years old and we still haven't got it right. 😒
(and S/MIME is 17 years old and isn't any better)
#email #crypto #PGP #SMIME #MUA #security #bugs

Over Dozen Popular Email Clients Found Vulnerable to Signature Spoofing Attacks

OpenPGP and S/MIME Email Signature Spoofing Attacks Affect Popular Email Clients, including Thunderbird, Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail

^{thehackernews.com}

#email #crypto #PGP #SMIME #MUA #security #bugs

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Lapo Luchini 9 months ago Friendica

«There is a weird belief amongst policy makers that hacking an encryption system's key management system is fundamentally different than hacking the system's encryption algorithm. The difference is only technical; the effect is the same. Both are ways of weakening encryption.»

G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors - Schneier on Security

From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document": Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including data that is encrypted, for law enforcement and competent authorities to access digital evidence, when it is removed or hosted on IT servers located abroad o...

^{www.schneier.com}

#security #crypto #policy #backdoor #escrow

Lapo Luchini 9 months ago Friendica

Creality Ender 3

…so, after a couple of years of trying to leave the idea aside, I finally bought a 3D printer.
I'm really amazing how good is a cheap printer (€217) nowadays, and how easy it was to set it up.
In the first concave prints I had lots of stringing, which I solved as suggested by CHEP.
So, yes, now I own a 118dB whistle and I don't even know why. :P

You can follow my experiments in this Google Photos album:

Creality Ender 3

Album by Lapo Luchini

^{photos.app.goo.gl}

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Lapo Luchini 9 months ago Friendica

Hearing passwords

Turns out a mobile phone’s microphones can be used as a side-channel attack to “read” your PIN (or stuff).

Could a gaming app steal your bank PIN?

Lapo Luchini 9 months ago Friendica

We need to choose either #security or #surveillance.
Fuck surveillance.

Quoting a recent post from Bruce Schneier:
Either everyone gets to spy, or no one gets to spy. And I believe we must choose security over surveillance, and implement a defense-dominant strategy.

Five-Eyes Intelligence Services Choose Surveillance Over Security - Schneier on Security

The Five Eyes -- the intelligence consortium of the rich English-speaking countries (the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand) -- have issued a "Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption" where they claim their needs for surveillance outweigh everyone's needs for security and privacy. ...the increasing use and sophistic...

^{www.schneier.com}

#security #surveillance

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Lapo Luchini 9 months ago Friendica

CNN article.
Katie Bouman
#women #science #womenInScience #space #blackhole

#women #science #womenInScience #space #blackhole

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Lapo Luchini 10 months ago Friendica

3×3RPGs

Please reshare and reply:
#3x3RPGs
#GplusRPG

3 most recent RPGs:
• Polaris
• Kagematsu
• Dogs in the Vineyard

3 favorite RPGs, ever:
• Monsterhearts
• Kagematsu
• Dogs in the Vineyard

3 most want-to-play RPGs:
• Monsterhearts
• Shock: social schience fiction
• Bliss Stage

#3x3RPGs #GplusRPG

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Lapo Luchini 10 months ago Friendica

…and this is but one of the reasons I dislike DRM

Dmitri Sotnikov ⚛️

2019-04-02 22:46:37

Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers' libraries. Just another reminder that DRM is hostile towards users.

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/02/burning-libraries.html

Lapo Luchini 10 months ago Friendica

T.I.E. by theam Thumos

It's been a long time since I binge-read a #webcomic … and it's time to do it again, this time with my friends' noteworthy «T.I.E. — is the love on Mars?». =)
https://tapas.io/series/tie

TIE - Is There Love On Mars? | Tapas

Welcome to the Royal Academy TIE on Mars! Vika is ready to fight to be the best, Minerva wants to lose her V-card with David, while Miranda's emotions are her worst enemy. Meanwhile, the senpai Faith and Samantha (best frenemies forever) watch over all of them. Be ready to answer the question: is there LOVE on Mars?

^tapas.io

#webcomic

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Lapo Luchini 10 months ago Friendica

Electronic vote fail (in Switzerland)

As predicted by xkcd (and, well, most security professionals), critical flaws were indeed found: Bruce Schneier's article, mostly citing Cory Doctorow's.

xkcd: Voting Software

(CC-BY-NC 2.5) There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.

^xkcd.com

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Lapo Luchini 10 months ago Friendica

I hope I can change my profile photo soon enough. :/
https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/6914

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Lapo Luchini 10 months ago Friendica

Yay! I found and fixed the bug.

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Patrick Marchiodi 10 months ago Friendica (AP)

Nice to *see* you, finally xD

@Lapo Luchini

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Lapo Luchini 10 months ago Friendica

Windows' windows position

Do you hate when Windows® happily decides the position of your windows isn't so important and scrambles them all around (e.g. after a resolution change, launching a full screen game, or attaching an extra monitor)?

Now you can use this, a public domain software I found on GitHub and improved to fix Win10 support some time ago.

lapo-luchini/WindowsLayoutSnapshot

Windows app to remember + restore window positions - lapo-luchini/WindowsLayoutSnapshot

^github.com

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Lapo Luchini 10 months ago Friendica

Windows 10 + ISO 8601

The more you know: using «English - Sweden» regional settings I can get all the dates in Windows 10 exactly like I want. #iso8601

#iso8601

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Lapo Luchini 10 months ago Friendica

Surreal Numbers

A video with Don Knuth himself, about my favorite book of him, seeing this video (and reading the actual book) highly suggested if you love #math (or would want to), as Surreal Numbers (invented by Conway) are one of the most neat and elegant construction than I ever knew.
#numbers #science

YouTube: Surreal Numbers (writing the first book) - Numberphile (Numberphile)

Surreal number - Wikipedia

In mathematics, the surreal number system is a totally ordered proper class containing the real numbers as well as infinite and infinitesimal numbers, respectively larger or smaller in absolute value than any positive real number. The surreals share many properties with the reals, including the usual arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, mu...

^{en.wikipedia.org}

#math #numbers #science