Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • I quit

    I am done, and very happy about it.

    It's such a strange feeling, I am really excited. For a moment there was only two options, whether I see her again, or I win her over or something, or I find someone else. Then it came to me, do I want anything? Can there be a third option, where I just walk away from it all.

    I don't really want anything anymore. I've had it all, I'm satisfied enough, enough to move on and not look back. I mean I will probably have sex in my life again, but I am done looking for it. It's really empowering, kind of hard to believe. But it's clear and simple, I'm not looking for it anymore.

  • New phase

    I went for coffee this morning. A group of people sitting on the table next to us. There are a few young women at the table.

    Right away I start judging. Are they pretty enough for me? Am I pretty enough for them? What game should I play to get their attention? And then I remembered, I am not looking anymore.

  • Hell Fire - Ooklah the Moc

    Hell Fire - Ooklah the Moc
    
    
    Oh, I see what you've done to me.
    The way you kill me and the way you rape me.
    But I can't wait forever for someone to come help me.
    As I can see us together, that's why I purge thee.
    
    
    So I step down Jah Hell Fire.
    Suckin up the blood of the land to change the evil ways of man.
    So I step down Jah Hell Fire.
    Send it as a warning to change your evil ways.
    We send it as a warning to change your evil ways!
    

• Technology and Free Software

  • Raspberry Pi Relaxes the Rules for Its RP2040 Hacking Challenge, $20,000 Still Up for Grabs

    Raspberry Pi has announced that it is loosening the rules for its second RP2350 Hacking Challenge, in which researchers are invited to attempt to break particular aspects of the security built into to company's second-generation in-house microcontroller — removing the need to keep memory address randomization enabled.

    "At the end of July 2025 — so almost 6 months ago — we launched the second RP2350 Hacking Challenge, searching for practical side-channel attacks on the power-hardened AES [Advanced Encryption Standard] implementation underpinning RP2350's secure boot," explains Raspberry Pi's Thomas Roth. "So far, we don’t have a winner, so we decided to evolve the challenge by removing one of the core defense-in-depth features: the randomization of memory accesses. If you manage to demonstrate a successful attack on our AES implementation without the randomization, you win!"

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Alex Schroeder’s Diary — Long Web Society