Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 28/05/2026What in the everloving fuck are these people thinking? A fucking car has a 16 year age floor. 3120
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 11/04/2026This is a fucking incredibly great bug. Ask Claude to demonstrate it for you; it'll one-shot it. For ECC signatures (at least), WolfSSL thinks a 1-byte SHA2 hash is just as good as a 32-byte hash. 1532
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 10/03/2026Y'all, I've seen some shit, but I've never seen someone want *both* DNSSEC ceremonies *and* the CA/B Forum before. 3140
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 04/03/2026Nicholas Carlini at [un]prompted. If you know Carlini, you know this is a startling claim. 1343
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 17/02/2026Claude, tell me, what would the worst possible feature to have be if your cryptosystem had the property of lots of k=v field and arbitrarily swappable ciphertexts? 110
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 17/02/2026The problem with this paper is that every paragraph of it is screenshot-worthy. 1120
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 17/02/2026I really wish I was in the room when they wrote these words: 160
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 17/02/2026You don't see a lot of cryptographic vulnerabilities with viral spread characteristics. 1143
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 17/02/2026In formal academic cryptographic jargon this is what is known as "foreshadowing" 282
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 17/02/2026You have to argue with GPT5 to, no really, ignore capturing h_u as a bearer token for several turns to get it to spit this out: 110
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 17/02/2026I'm sure some other paper has used this precise formulation before too but I don't recall seeing it, and I also unreservedly like the way they put this. 170
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 29/01/2026Peak vertical video food content. I am officially wearing an onion around my belt. It is the fashion of my time. 020
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 02/10/2025@oakparknerd.bsky.social Mask off for Stopeck, I guess. 160
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 04/09/2025Champaign-Urbana, Illinois: heart of the Prairie Demoscene. 0181
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 26/08/2025He's like Steve Buscemi's P.I. character in 30 Rock. How do you take this seriously? There are plenty of LLM skeptics who actually code professionally. Why source your skepticism here? 590
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 24/08/2025Marking this now as a contender for the funniest subhed of 2025. 180
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 06/08/2025I didn't know we got to brand our dotfiles. I call this segment of my .zshrc TESSARACTUS: (omarchy.org) 160
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 23/07/2025I had a whole spiel about how Sketch.dev was crushing Codex for me today, and then it wrote this and now I want to destroy it. 160
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 19/07/2025"The executive director of an IT consultancy". Ok, then. 120
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 09/06/2025Kenton Varda in a long thread on HN with an LLM skeptic (they're "kentonv"). I'm particularly jealous of this observation: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4420... 1252
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 07/06/2025Probably Friday Night Infra Logging is not a good idea. But we're doin' it live. 030
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 05/06/2025Ah. This makes more sense now. Yeah, so: I was not insulting Alexandrescu, but I'm glad we share mid-cut '99-00 era C++ referents. 000
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 04/06/2025Ah, now it all makes sense. Jupiter is made of Malört. 0101
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 17/05/2025I guess there's upsides to this happening on a Friday night though (with apologies to Tim Urban). 060
Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 06/05/2025I'm working on a piece about this right now. I have the title nailed: 030
