https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/

Any k generation and subsequent signature generation are going to be impacted.

https://ericrafaloff.com/your-putty-generated-nist-p-521-key...

At least treatments are starting to come out. It's nice to know that there is relief if I ever need it.

https://www.aon.com/cyber-solutions/aon_cyber_labs/an-analys...

It seems like the Push standalone was designed for performers in mind? Would be pretty sweet to not have to bring a laptop up on stage with you, I’d imagine, especially if your setup is modular and otherwise DAW-less.

There’s a lot of optimism to be had here, I think. Let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good — maybe we can’t eradicate COVID, but we can make it a lot more tolerable to share this planet with it.

I’ve worked for companies that do this with mental health too. Everyone is burned out and unhappy? We’re bringing in a professional on workplace happiness! We’re partnering with non-profits! We’re doing everything! Except, you know, addressing the actual cause of the burn out and unhappiness. Because that requires a hard, sober look at our own behavior and wrongdoings. It’s so much easier to look outward instead.

I don’t identify as a minority in tech, so I won’t even pretend to understand exactly what that’s like. But it seems like being gaslit constantly. It sounds so painful and invalidating and exhausting and outright maddening to be told to look at all of this progress when you know they know it’s all the cheapest version of it and it’s mostly just for show.

Edit: And here’s a link to the paper discussed in the article for anyone who is curious:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10254

As for GME, there’s fundamental analysis and financial experts telling us it is only a matter of time before the price free falls. But there’s a serious behavioral dissymmetry here. The market is rich with GME stock buyers who don’t care to listen to any of these traditional buy/sell signals. I’m not sure you’re wrong, but I’m personally a little bit less certain that the price will drop — at least soon — due to this reason alone. As this article points out, feedback loops can be extremely powerful. And I suspect they can play out over longer periods than we expect.

We still barely understand Covid. No public health official with an ounce of ethics and concern for their career is going to be in favor of letting a poorly understood virus just rip through entire communities. The death rate is only one part of the equation. As this article points out, scientists are now concerned about the growing number of cases in which severe symptoms stick around or even develop long after infection. When compared to the cold or flu.

We also just recently learned that antibodies only stick around for a few months.

There are reasons that public health officials are being so cautious. It’s not just to be “draconian” for the fun of it.

Public health officials needs to adapt to the latest understanding and work with data and statistics accordingly. It’s extremely boring and un-sexy (i.e., it’s not like scientists in the movies making a sudden breakthrough), which is I suppose why so many jump to conspiracies. We crave clear and spectacular reasons for the things we fear and have no control over.