Hi, This will actually be quick. My friend told me that you could easily design a virus to target specific people. All you need is their genomes. That’s crazy. Definitely should work into world building idea. It is like a spell you can cast. Take a bit of lock of their hair or drop of their blood and make them fall in love with you. Or die. Or get sick. (curse them). In this world what are spells and spell casters. They have some deep knowledge that and they use some setup to affect the world...

Hi, This will actually be quick. My friend told me that you could easily design a virus to target specific people. All you need is their genomes. That’s crazy. Definitely should work into world building idea. It is like a spell you can cast. Take a bit of lock of their hair or drop of their blood and make them fall in love with you. Or die. Or get sick. (curse them). In this world what are spells and spell casters. They have some deep knowledge that and they use some setup to affect the world...

Hi, I love SciFi and fantasy worlds. To be honest, I enjoy fantasy more. I’m not quite sure why. It may be I like the stories more. It might be a fascination with magic systems. Regardless of the reason, I tend to read and watch more fantasy stories. All that being said, the way technology plays a crucial role in creating new SciFi worlds fascinates me. This is especially true as I’ve spent more and more of my life learning about technology. This eventually got me thinking: could technology b...

Hi, I love SciFi and fantasy worlds. To be honest, I enjoy fantasy more. I’m not quite sure why. It may be I like the stories more. It might be a fascination with magic systems. Regardless of the reason, I tend to read and watch more fantasy stories. All that being said, the way technology plays a crucial role in creating new SciFi worlds fascinates me. This is especially true as I’ve spent more and more of my life learning about technology. This eventually got me thinking: could technology b...

Why Hello, Just watched Thor: Love and Thunder so I’ll be doing a movie review today and pick up on post-quantum cryptography tomorrow. tldr I enjoyed it. It was funny and a good time. There were some flow issues and I’m not sure how well the message hit. Would recommend watching with a group of friends.PlotWe start by seeing a man in the desert with his daughter, ravaged by the heat. His daughter dies and he hears a voice calling to him. He follows the voice to a lush jungle and confronts hi...

Why Hello, Just watched Thor: Love and Thunder so I’ll be doing a movie review today and pick up on post-quantum cryptography tomorrow. tldr I enjoyed it. It was funny and a good time. There were some flow issues and I’m not sure how well the message hit. Would recommend watching with a group of friends.PlotWe start by seeing a man in the desert with his daughter, ravaged by the heat. His daughter dies and he hears a voice calling to him. He follows the voice to a lush jungle and confronts hi...

Yo, Tonight, I got to writing too late to go in-depth so I’m going to use this post to help plan out my writing.Resourcescall to action by NIST https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography NIST summary https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms chosen NIST https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/selected-algorithms-2022 Really good post summarizing everything https://blog.cloudflare.com/nist-p...

Yo, Tonight, I got to writing too late to go in-depth so I’m going to use this post to help plan out my writing.Resourcescall to action by NIST https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography NIST summary https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/07/nist-announces-first-four-quantum-resistant-cryptographic-algorithms chosen NIST https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/selected-algorithms-2022 Really good post summarizing everything https://blog.cloudflare.com/nist-p...

Hey, Thought I was going to do a quick quantum section and a quick world building. Turning into just quantum computing about why symmetric keys are safe.Quantum ComputingGrover’s AlgorithmQuick tldr: Can search an unstructured list of N elements for a specific element in root(N) time. This is the theoretical optimal solution. (tried to quickly understand in 10 minutes but couldn’t quite get it. here’s my best guess of how it workds) Grover’s algorithm does this by “guessing” the best element ...

Hey, Thought I was going to do a quick quantum section and a quick world building. Turning into just quantum computing about why symmetric keys are safe.Quantum ComputingGrover’s AlgorithmQuick tldr: Can search an unstructured list of N elements for a specific element in root(N) time. This is the theoretical optimal solution. (tried to quickly understand in 10 minutes but couldn’t quite get it. here’s my best guess of how it workds) Grover’s algorithm does this by “guessing” the best element ...

Hey, Another sick, late night. I want to quickly write about why I like privacy. To me there’s something really profound when we are able to make the digital world mimic the physical world. In the physical world I can talk with my friends and know someone else isn’t listening, pay someone cash without someone tracking it, and express myself without someone bringing it up years later. In the physical world, things can last only for moments then be completely forgotten. But that’s not what got ...

Hey, Another sick, late night. I want to quickly write about why I like privacy. To me there’s something really profound when we are able to make the digital world mimic the physical world. In the physical world I can talk with my friends and know someone else isn’t listening, pay someone cash without someone tracking it, and express myself without someone bringing it up years later. In the physical world, things can last only for moments then be completely forgotten. But that’s not what got ...

Jesus, Why is San Francisco trying to be so surveillance heavy? The police are using driverless cars as cameras. They are trying to use door bells are real time video feeds. And they can get access to our digital data without a warrant. This is dumb, creepy, and scary. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/11/san_francisco_police_private_security_cameras/ https://www.propublica.o...

Jesus, Why is San Francisco trying to be so surveillance heavy? The police are using driverless cars as cameras. They are trying to use door bells are real time video feeds. And they can get access to our digital data without a warrant. This is dumb, creepy, and scary. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/11/san_francisco_police_private_security_cameras/ https://www.propublica.o...

Hey There, Following up from yesterday’s post, I wanted to jump into pk, sk encryption. Why agreeing to the same shared secret and standard encryption breaks down. The tldr is quantum computers make factoring large numbers easy. For classical computers this is hard and the basis of lots of encryption. This isn’t a very satisfying answer so I wanted to dig up more.Shor’s algorithmI learned what this was in school but it flew over my head. Luckily MinutePhysics has a great video explaining it a...

Hey There, Following up from yesterday’s post, I wanted to jump into pk, sk encryption. Why agreeing to the same shared secret and standard encryption breaks down. The tldr is quantum computers make factoring large numbers easy. For classical computers this is hard and the basis of lots of encryption. This isn’t a very satisfying answer so I wanted to dig up more.Shor’s algorithmI learned what this was in school but it flew over my head. Luckily MinutePhysics has a great video explaining it a...

Hello, Got sick, so today is going to be short (just wrote it, was not short). I recently watched Thor: Love and Thunder and Dr. Strange: Multiverse of Madness. This inevitably got me going down YouTube rabbit holes and thinking about it. I haven’t watched everything, but as a nerd who has a little too much time on their hands I’ve watched A LOT. The general consensus is Marvel doesn’t really know what they’re doing in phase 4. Of course, there is a plan, but after the peak of phase 3, it fee...

Hello, Got sick, so today is going to be short (just wrote it, was not short). I recently watched Thor: Love and Thunder and Dr. Strange: Multiverse of Madness. This inevitably got me going down YouTube rabbit holes and thinking about it. I haven’t watched everything, but as a nerd who has a little too much time on their hands I’ve watched A LOT. The general consensus is Marvel doesn’t really know what they’re doing in phase 4. Of course, there is a plan, but after the peak of phase 3, it fee...

Woot! It’s officially been 1 month of writing every day. Took a couple short sections and some haikus but I made it! Let’s get to the reflectingEasy to get going once I get startedOne of the main things I’ve noticed is how the writing starts to flow once I start into a topic. It really reminds me of swimming. I rarely wanted to get into the pool. I’d stand on the edge looking down. Longing to do anything else. Then I’d jump. I’d start to swim. Everything was good. Writing is a lot like that. ...

Woot! It’s officially been 1 month of writing every day. Took a couple short sections and some haikus but I made it! Let’s get to the reflectingEasy to get going once I get startedOne of the main things I’ve noticed is how the writing starts to flow once I start into a topic. It really reminds me of swimming. I rarely wanted to get into the pool. I’d stand on the edge looking down. Longing to do anything else. Then I’d jump. I’d start to swim. Everything was good. Writing is a lot like that. ...

Hello, Today, I want to take a break from how encryption will break and jump into some world building. One of the ideas that initially got me gong was how could Ents exist but be created by technology. Here’s the idea:BackgroundRedwoods in California start to die. No one knows why but their bark starts falling off and they become structurally unsound. Eventually the bark that falls off is replaced with artificial bark. Initially, the replacement bark just mimics the original bark. It has a ri...

Hello, Today, I want to take a break from how encryption will break and jump into some world building. One of the ideas that initially got me gong was how could Ents exist but be created by technology. Here’s the idea:BackgroundRedwoods in California start to die. No one knows why but their bark starts falling off and they become structurally unsound. Eventually the bark that falls off is replaced with artificial bark. Initially, the replacement bark just mimics the original bark. It has a ri...

Hi, Did not preemptively write something so I’m going to try something new and quick. I’m going to pick a topic and write down quick thoughts.San Fransisco SurveillanceIt still bothers me how police are using self driving cars to monitor people. I don’t like how the police want to use people’s doorbells to spy. -- That idea of monitoring people is interesting. Spying is correct but sounds exaggerated. Like it’s a movie. Surveilling is exact but too wordy of a word. Watching is also correct bu...

Hi, Did not preemptively write something so I’m going to try something new and quick. I’m going to pick a topic and write down quick thoughts.San Fransisco SurveillanceIt still bothers me how police are using self driving cars to monitor people. I don’t like how the police want to use people’s doorbells to spy. -- That idea of monitoring people is interesting. Spying is correct but sounds exaggerated. Like it’s a movie. Surveilling is exact but too wordy of a word. Watching is also correct bu...