• [[A Tweet Before Dying]] by [[Paul Ford]] in [[Wired]]
• [[Paul Miller]] new elliptic curve cryptography library, via [@paulmillr on Twitter](https://twitter.com/paulmillr/status/1606628502140325888 pull)
  • Announcing [[noble-curves]]: the culmination of work on elliptic curve cryptography.
    • Pkg defines ed25519, ed448, secp256k1, P384, P521, bls12-381, bn254, pasta, stark curves.
    • Edwards, Weierstrass, Montgomery primitives, hash2curve & pairings are also in.
    • https://github.com/paulmillr/noble-curves
  • [[Pedro Gomez]] in the Twitter thread asks why the new library, some great background from Paul

    • Supply chain security: no dependencies, or minimal dependency on a package from 1 author. If you use something like elliptic, you're exposing yourself to rogue dep updates

    • JS, not WASM: js can be audited easily, wasm cannot. You may be executing malware when using wasm lib

    • Auditability, readability: much easier to read code based on native bigints, instead of something like bn.js

    • Correctness: thorough testing with wycheproof, and others

• [[Roland Tanglao]] asks [[How to publish LogSeq to GitHub Pages]]
  • My first answer was a post to the [[Tools for Thought Rocks]] Mastodon instance:
  • <script src="https://toolsforthought.rocks/embed.js" async="async">

• [[2022-12-23]] was nice.
  • met [[d]].
• today I did some laundry and some last minute shopping; now I'm writing this in the train to [[Lausanne]].
  • I'll be back tomorrow with my [[Lady Burup]].
• [[music]]
  • during the train ride I went through my old [[thumbs up]] set a bit
  • I remembered I liked some of [[Pusha T]]'s tracks, so I listened to his new album, [[it'salmost dry]].
• [[flancia]]
  • [[agora]]
    • [[agora chapter]]
      • Started changing 'we' and 'the author' to I -- the more important thing is to coalesce into one. I'll make a call later on whether 'I' or 'we' reads better?

Saturday, 12/24/2022

17:55 thinking about suburbs

An older man - worn, weathered, with dirty clothes, perhaps working class, sitting next to me in this starbucks is flipping between some sort of RTS game and a series of apple notes titled "ideas/inventions". I hope he makes it big.

having to walk twenty minutes to bethany village - the nearest shopping center with people to my family's home in Portland - is miserable. I miss Allston; I miss a city where anything is fifteen minutes away by bike, and a little further by bus. Berlin was perfect, Stockholm was almost there. I can't wait to be back and walk in a liveable city. Taking so much time to get everywhere deters me from going out and doing anything - and that sucks the life out of me!

2022-12-24

• Reading: [[Less is More]]

  • Really good opening on all the current environmental crises currently occurring as part of the [[Anthropocene]] (or more accurately the [[Capitalocene]]).
  • And a great history of [[Capitalism]]. Arguing that [[commoning]] was what brought an end to [[Feudalism]], and that capitalism, the [[Enclosure Movement]] and [[colonialism]] was the response.

• Listening: [[Trip 30: Gifts]]

  • Was listening while doing chores. Enjoyed the [[Marxian analysis of Christmas]] and Santa Claus.

• Listening: [[Benjamin Bratton on Synthetic Catallaxies, Platforms of Platforms & Red Futurism]]

  • Very interesting interview with [[Benjamin Bratton]]. Talking about [[socialist calculation debate]], [[cybernetics]]. This idea of [[Synthetic catallaxy]].

• Listening (a while ago): [[42. TECH FOR GOOD]]