Soatok Dreamseeker

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He/him. Gay/demi dhole (Cuon Alpinus)

Blogger, programmer, security engineer, cryptography nerd. 30+

Too spicy for Twitter (banned with all the prominent journalists on 2022-12-16)

I don't represent any company, individual, or community.

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Round 6.


Next!

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So far we've been going in the <= branch. Will this trend continue in Round 5 of searching for the Fediverse's favorite number by binary search?

You decide!


Round 6.

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Round four!


So far we've been going in the <= branch. Will this trend continue in Round 5 of searching for the Fediverse's favorite number by binary search?

You decide!

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Third round:


Round four!

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Second round!

I'm going to change up the notation a little bit. "Between x and y" is an inclusive interval of integer values.


Third round:

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@jxf It's a 20-bit number, but if the "bigger number" wins I just add a bit.


@soatok @jxf oh, it's only 20-bit. that ruins my plan to vote for Graham's Number.

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Let's find the Fediverse's favorite number, by binary search!

(I'll keep every poll up for 1 hour.)


@soatok How do you partition [524288, ∞)?

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@gsuberland Hahaha yessss



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It turns out, one of my 2022 blog posts was relevant to a NIST cipher modes announcement:

csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/38/d


@soatok now you can say "it's good enough for NIST" when someone complains they can't share your blog at work

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Oh no, what did i do?


It turns out, one of my 2022 blog posts was relevant to a NIST cipher modes announcement:

csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/38/d

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Did you know

...that, on Mastodon with glitch-soc, you can navigate to /settings/preferences/other and change your default post format to motherfuckin' Markdown??

And then your > quoteposting will actually render like this:

be me
bottomless hole inspector

The more you know



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