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d.rift

Lessons learned on fedi: Following cryptography furries will give you nightmare fuel about _every_ chat protocol. Come for the cute ears, stay for the math fears.

2 August at 7:46 | Open on x0r.be
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Peter Bindels

@feonixrift do you have some people for me to follow? Always looking to be more scared about crypto math.

2 August at 10:04 | Open on infosec.exchange
GwenTheKween :verifiedtrans: :neofox_nom_verified:

@feonixrift ever since I started blocking T, math fears just became mah fears

2 August at 10:20 | Open on tech.lgbt
Yacha

@feonixrift follow me, I don't know what math is

2 August at 10:56 | Open on furry.engineer
d.rift

If machines are so much better than humans at captchas now, can we have the book OCR failures ones back? Please? Because there's a lot of archives out there and uh, we still can't OCR Akkadian; we can't even reliably OCR printed materials from before about 1980. Let alone handwritten. Recaptcha was a force for good before it got, ironically, captured.

14 Dec 2023 at 16:51 | Open on x0r.be
sungo

@feonixrift There’s a period from about 1960 forward where all us dot gov docs were in that awful all-caps format that we humans find unreadable. however, the fed had OCR text that could read all-caps text really well. those papers are out in the world now. I actually have a book here some place from 1959 about how they accomplished it. If US Census was involved, that tech is out there someplace open source, because that’s what they do. So we might have something to start from. Might be in cobol or something though :)

@feonixrift There’s a period from about 1960 forward where all us dot gov docs were in that awful all-caps format that we humans find unreadable. however, the fed had OCR text that could read all-caps text really well. those papers are out in the world now. I actually have a book here some place from 1959 about how they accomplished it. If US Census was involved, that tech is out there someplace open source, because that’s what they do. So we might have something to start from. Might be in cobol...

14 Dec 2023 at 17:02 | Open on emegilimma.sungo.cloud
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