mxk⛰️ @mxk@chaos.social

For years, Mattel marketed a Barbie typewriter. When they switched from mechanical to electronic typewriters, they chose to license from a Slovenian manufacturer, Mehano, who readily supplied their E-115 (and later 116-118) model.

But these typewriters had a secret: hold SHIFT and LOCK, and press one of the first four keys on the first row, and the typewriter switches into substitution-cipher mode, encoding whatever you type:

http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/mehano/barbie/

From https://twitter.com/LockPickingLwyr/status/1007613178249965569/:

"The company that sent me the pictured fingerprint lock has provided the security quote of the year: “...the lock is invincible to the people who do not have a screwdriver.”"

boost if your gender is the USB logo

The ".cab" extension in Windows stands for "cabbage"

I love cryptography fight club. :D

Linux Cryptography — [PATCH v2 0/5] crypto: Speck support

https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg33291.html

"I left Mastodon yesterday"

In fine Mastodon storming-off tradition, I've written a flipping long Medium post.

https://medium.com/@cassolotl/i-left-mastodon-yesterday-4c5796b0f548

#mastodon #meta #ForkOff #ForkOffTogether

i already knew that TeX packages are big but this is rediculous

Ohai. Sucht wer WG in Wien? Ist ziemlich fluffigkeits-zertifiziert. Ab Juli-ish. 6 Menschen und 2 Katzen, awesome Hochbetten, zwei Terrassen. ✨

https://www.jimmbo.net/privatimmobilien/252

A valid post-left criticism of Futurism is that the idea of "progress" is not necessarily good and in many ways can actually be harmful.

In my opinion, this is because the idea of progress is currently married to and believed to shown by constantly expanding growth of consumption and productions. Social progress is shown by different groups' ability to perform as worker-consumers.

We can and must decouple technology - as a practice and body of knowledge - from the dynamics of Capitalism.

@mxk I think that stems from the American fetishization of the military. We understand that Russia is a threat, and the military is how we express our dominance in the world, so dealing with a threat must require deployment of our military. Other countries which fail to deploy their militaries in response to those threats must either be ignorant or weak. The idea that there may be better or at least alternate tools to dealing with threats simply doesn't register here.