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1. muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jan-2022 18:42:22 UTC muesli

   You know how docker containers get a random name assigned when you don't specify one yourself? Names are randomly generated and look like "inspiring_pike" or "competent_darwin".

   Turns out there's a special check in the code that prevents it from ever generating the name "boring_wozniak" 😄

   https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/pkg/namesgenerator/names-generator.go#L844

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jan-2022 18:55:04 UTC muesli

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     • ekvin

     @ekvin

     For that "feature" and that feature alone 😆

   • ekvin (ekvin@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jan-2022 18:55:05 UTC ekvin

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom

     An actual GOTO statement?!

   • Benjaminlj (benjaminlj@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jan-2022 06:17:24 UTC Benjaminlj

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     I love that page, thanks.
     My faviorite line so far:
     // Emmett Brown invented time travel.

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 14-Jan-2022 11:05:04 UTC Wolf480pl

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     • muesli

     @fribbledom looks like a great way to leak RNG outout through a side channel... though a good RNG shouldn't care about its output being known

   • muesli (fribbledom@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jan-2022 11:05:04 UTC muesli

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     • Wolf480pl

     @wolf480pl

     Looking at the code, they use the non-crypto RNG for this particular use-case anyway.