Zamicol

Developer @Cyphrme Author @CozeJSON
Pro-liberty. I tweet about tech.
Information is fundamental; the universe is informational. g'=γg

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@nrdqed Turing completeness was a phase transition. It is emergent.

Something that didn't exist with the pieces suddenly exists.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@cremieuxrecueil People I interact with on the daily cannot read very simple statements while understanding what is being said. It terrifies me.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

Fantastic work Paul.

[Paul Miller @paulmillr]

The qr NPM package is now faster than zxing-wasm for reading. For encoding, it’s 4x-65x faster than other JS libs.

There are also two new demos below. First creates cool qr codes in different styles. Second one visualizes decoding in real time.

https://t.co/gzUqliRtN7

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@morallawwithin It does indeed add numbers, and in the most fundamental way possible.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@C2IRIS A few years ago we were tagging your sentiment with #nocrypto, the point being that systems aren't secure if the cryptography isn't actually secure. You're better off not using cryptography then using it and falsely thinking your secure.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@C2IRIS I see in other tweets concern with quantum. Quantum doesn't attack the encryption itself. The concern is with key agreement/exchange.

The actual encryption (symmetric cipher) is not expected to be affected.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@C2IRIS The one-time pad birthed information theory itself. So no, encryption isn't illusion, it's one of the most fundamental truths humanity has discovered.

And that by "accident" by someone working for the phone company working on a seemingly independent problem.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@nrdqed Higher the nuance, the more information is communicated.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@nrdqed Good find!

https://t.co/JMh4bNElbo

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@C2IRIS The one-time pad birthed information theory itself. So no, encryption isn't illusion, it's one of the most fundamental truths humanity has discovered.

And that by "accident" by someone working for the phone company working on a seemingly independent problem.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@ClosedNtwrk 🤣

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@nihilunbounded What damages?

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@LexerLux I would love to use their code as a demo with people.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@_patrickogrady @zooko Nice.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

Just because something is an RFC doesn't mean it's good.

There are plenty of terrible ideas that have been implemented as RFCs. (UTF-16 being used for canonicalization is a really good example.)

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

I would replace that whole RFC with this:

hash://SHA-256:oDBDAg4xplHQby6iQ2lZMS1Jz4Op0bNoD5LK3KxEUZo

That's it. That's all you need.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

Just found out about RFC 6920.

These guys must be huge Monty Python fans to name a URI scheme "ni"

("hash" wasn't good enough for them?)

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

And the "human readable" scheme is "nih" 😬

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@Bonemantle @lindaxie Yes, exactly.

[Zamicol @zacharycollier]

@TotalPhilo Just wait until he hears about the Church–Turing thesis.

Massive betrayal to mathematics by a mathematician!