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so this password manager paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058 starts with:
> We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane
with

Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers
Zero Knowledge Encryption is a term widely used by vendors of cloud-based password managers. Although it has no strict technical meaning, the term conveys the idea that the server, who stores encrypted password vaults on behalf of users, is unable to learn anything about the contents of those vaults. The security claims made by vendors imply that this should hold even if the server is fully malicious. This threat model is justified in practice by the high sensitivity of vault data, which makes …

Playing around with MiniMax 2.5 a Chinese model, especially impressed with it’s ability to generate an office file with the contents you desire.
#ai

MiniMax M2.5: 更快更强更智能，为真实世界生产力而生

volume 2 of the 7th edition of the unix documentation has the long-form tutorial and reference material (vol 1 has the man pages)
the table of contents lists each paper with its title, author(s), and a brief blurb
for instance
UNIX Assembler Reference Manual.
D. M. Ritchie.
The ultimate dead language.

'xxd' is a command that is both a hex dumper, and an undumper - i.e. it can turn the hexdump back into a binary.
Being able to go both ways makes it good for being able to edit a hex file in your favourite editor. Other tricks it can do are to generate a C array declaration with the contents. It defaults to hex numbered address (unlike 'hexdump' which confusingly uses octal!)

If you'd like to search the contents of our magazine from the comfort of your terminal, here's the "s" tool.
https://gitlab.com/akosma/s

Adrian Kosmaczewski / S Search Tool · GitLab
GitLab.com

check out how quickly #GitPages (and #Grebedoc) can check out a giant git repository without any changes!
if supported by the server, it retrieves only a single tree from git (no other branches, no tags, no history, no file contents), backfills it from the existing site contents, and then p…

I often find myself in this position -- checking whether there are any files in an old folder not in the new location, before deleting the old folder -- and generally re-invent the wheel. Here's a 1-liner that checks (works in Julia, similar in Python, R, other langs likely):
setdiff(
readdir("./lumber/oldfiles"),
readdir("./stuff/newfiles"))
Obvs, not checking timestamp or contents.
Edit: Julia doesn't interpret "~/"

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes, astrophysicists have for the first time found firm evidence that a companion is disrupting the atmosphere of Betelgeuse.
Like a boat moving through water, the companion star creates a ripple effect in Betelgeuse’s atmosphere.
Astronomers now see direct signs of this wake, confirming that Betelgeuse really does have a hidden companion shaping its appearance and behavior.

NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

from my link log —
Keeping secrets: Diffie-Hellman and the NSA.
https://stanfordmag.org/contents/keeping-secrets
saved 2020-10-17 https://

Keeping Secrets
Four decades ago, university researchers figured out the key to computer privacy, sparking a battle with the National Security Agency that continues today.

Back in the day, we called this sort of thing a "Chaos Monkey" and it was an essential part of testing backups.
https://www.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of…

Dear @… ,
I’ve just finished your latest #book “Moral Ambition” with that intimidating back cover text as my first one this year. I found the table of contents populistically appalling and the actual content really

People say tar is hard but off the top of my head here are 298 ways to make a gzip compressed tar archive of a directory and its contents with GNU tar.
https://gist.github.com/ruario/ac0c6a15369853df2c698aa6fe595135
There are more but I got bored. 😜
P…

I got the CM4 NAS going, but I don't know why it didn't work until I gave up. My kernel panicked as soon as loaded-- fuck! So I reflashed the CM4 eMMC with a fresh Raspbian image, copied the kernel module tree and contents of /boot over from the eMMC to the SATA root disk, updated SATA:/etc/fstab with the partuuid of the reflashed eMMC:/boot/firmware, and changed the cmdline to point at the partuuid of the SATA root disk. Presto! System bootstraps original OS install, loading new ker…

Ran into this little quirk of (many) C-syntax languages, yesterday. Hadn't seen it before.
#PHP
```
<?php
function getApiData() {
https://example.org/api
return file_get_contents("

from my link log —
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks.
https://loriemerson.net/2024/08/31/a-brief-history-of-barbed-wire-fence-telephone-networks/
saved 2026-02-12

a brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks
If you look at the table of contents for my book, Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook, you’ll see that entries on networks before/outside the internet are arranged first by underl…

December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
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I think I started off on the wrong foot here, on my Qtile Wayland FreeBSD adventure 🤣
Getting that dd command from history, changing the iso to the FreeBSD one, and zapping it onto /dev/sda indeed did correctly overwrite my 2TB external disk. Not the contents of /dev/sdb, the USB stick where it should land.
That's what you get for inserting extra disks 🥳 🤓 😂

This is surely going to be in a future RISKS Digest.
"This aspect of Helios’ design ensures that no two trustees could collude to determine the outcome of an election or the contents of individual votes on their own: all trustees must provide their decryption shares.
Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key [...]"

Interesting. I thought there was a recommendation to distinguish links from plain text. Will need to check again.
#w3c #accessibility

Laptop backup day. I have a reminder for the last Sunday of each month. It doesn't take much time and being a Sunday I am normally not using my laptop.
Simple batch script using XCOPY. Low tech and it works. Upside is that any other machine & O/S can read the contents of the drive. I cycle between two drives (Eventually I will buy a third). Cheap insurance in case of a machine failure.
Why? Well I have the condo newsletters I write with the templates, photos and ba…

i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy

Nearly 300 years after Immanuel Kant proposed that our solar system’s family of planets condensed from a flattened disk of gas and dust,
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed that such planetary nurseries are common across our galaxy.
Now, Hubble has identified the largest known protoplanetary disk
—spanning an astonishing 400 billion miles,
roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system

NASA's Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets

It’s ridiculously funny how much the Right is convinced that there’s a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton.
There wasn’t a personality cult around Bill Fucking Clinton in 1993. There sure as hell isn’t one NOW. Most living Democrats are probably not old enough to have ever voted for him. Millennials definitively didn’t.
I would bet money that Clinton was technically prosecutable. @…

Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath.bsky.social)
In an obvious move to try to manipulate the narrative around the contents of the Epstein files, one of the few prominent figures whose face has NOT been redacted is Bill Clinton—and the Trump administration is signal boosting those images.

JOURNAL> December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
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Some City Some Nature IV 🏙️🪾
一些城一些自然 IV🏙️🪾
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Nice annotation of the US-Russia "peace plan" with regard to Ukraine.
https://samf.substack.com/p/the-witkoff-dmitriev-peace-plan-annotated?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The Witkoff-Dmitriev peace plan annotated
We now know a bit more about the process which led to the new peace plan and we now have a copy of its contents, to which I will turn soon.

Everyday #Emacs #orgmode task: merge two tables
I'm grading, and want to merge the class list with the list of assignment submissions. Include the two lists as named tables, and a tiny R-snippet will produce a merged table (also named).

December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
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It’s about this time of year I like to check my backups and download my archives.
One archive I download is the archive of my Mastodon posts. Pretty much the only one now I’ve left the corporate web really.
I also like to copy the contents of my public fediverse posts into my own diary within my vimwiki.
Keep it all in one place for easy and local search.
Here’s the script I use, it’s very short and just copies the content of every post in the archive into a new diary entry in the vimwiki diary.
If it finds something already there, it appends.
It checks if it’s already written this post into the diary to avoid duplicating it when you run it over and every again every month or year or whatever.
Paste it into a new text-file called toVimWiki.php, download and unzip your mastodon archive, and run the script with php, passing it the path to the archive’s outbox.json and the root diary directory.
My diary is honestly mostly just public posts these days. Ain’t much in it I won’t blab about on the internet for likes and lols.
#archive #mastodon #vimwiki #endOfYear

December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
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December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134374/december-2025-issue-journal-chinese-religions-now-published

JOURNAL> December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134375/december-2025-issue-journal-chinese-religions-now-published

TOC: Journal of Jewish Ethics 10.1-2 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136596/toc-journal-jewish-ethics-101-2

TOC: Journal of Jewish Ethics 10.1-2
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JOURNAL> Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies 38
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JOURNAL> Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies 38
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JOURNAL> Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies 38 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136406/journal-journal-chinese-buddhist-studies-38

Japanese Religions 46/2
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JOURNAL> Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 52
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