I think we will see the rise of human verified and curated social spaces and information sources.
Honestly, oldskool encyclopedias sound pretty good right now. 100% human curated info.
Its getting to where I would pay for that …

Not again!?!

You are close. The original Adblock extension was mid-2000’s. Before that, we traded host files online in forums and shit. So I’ve been filtering the internet since Windows XP.

That was a grim, difficult read. The last paragraph is quite good, bringing the ideas together.

I really hate modern media. The advertising in it is the worst part, and being ingrained in every aspect of the media itself just makes it worse. I don’t watch TV, and I’ve been blocking ads since I had to curate my own host files in order to do so, well before the introduction of extensions that would do it for you. I find using today’s unfiltered internet just about as odious as watching TV.

It was hard just to read about that shit. Every word was a true, ugly reflection of the culture I live in.

Do ya think this guy is actually a replacement?
Like, they got him. He’s on life support somewhere, having his brain sucked out.
This is a droid. He’s gonna go join some subversive movement and report them to Google.

I’ve chewed on Gidney’s ‘Falling with Style’ paper.
I recommend reading it if you would like to understand Shor’s Algorithm.

I’m somewhat unclear if the following applies to Shor’s Algorithm in general, or just the modified version used for the experiment.
But I’ve come to understand that the algorithm is a recursive series of steps, structured such that it will eventually factor anything.
Like … it could take longer than the age of the universe for some numbers, but the algorithm will do the job if you got enough cycles to spare.

What we are looking for here is quantum supremacy, and once Gidney has explained this much, its obvious from the graph above that we are not seeing it. Pure random noise outperformed the quantum computer.

I guess the thing I’ve not absorbed yet is, why was the quantum computer expected to not work? I know it was much too complex a system, and internal noise would overwhelm any processing. Gidney described being amazed that the IBM quantum system even let him configure his experiment and run it. Why did it lose so completely to a random noise generator, as in how could you possibly get worse than random noise?

Yes. Exactly.
Also, heres those two numbers in binary.
15 = 1111
21 = 10101
So, those are special numbers. Its straight up cheating.

Scribble understands the importance of evidence-based science. :]

Technocrit buried the lead when they posted this. Here it is with the actual paper highlighted.

Here’s another paper describing the issues at play. This one is a bit more serious.
Craig Gidney - Why haven’t quantum computers factored 21 yet?
https://algassert.com/post/2500

And apparently this field is ripe for humor. And Buzz Lightyear graphics.
The prior author did his own joke paper, which is too much for my head.
Falling with Style: Factoring up to 255 “with” a Quantum Computer
https://sigbovik.org/2025/proceedings.pdf#page=146

Yes, its a distro with a bunch of tools. The tools are deployed together into a web app suite.
Security Onion is firstly an IDS. Intrusion Detection System.
The base install needs 2 NICs, a management NIC and an operational NIC. It’s a probe.
It also supports an army of Elastic Agents installed at sites or subnets.

The package allows you to flag events via Suricata (I think that’s what’s behind Hunt), escalate Cases to track them, search the data in a surprising amount of ways, and drill right down to the packet level (that’s Wireshark). There’s a bunch of InfluxDB graphing. A thing called CyberChef that is a fukin badass on-the-fly decoding and decryption tool to open up the packets you gather.

Honestly, I’m just getting started. But if you hired a security analyst to watch your network, you’d want them checking this every day, digging in shit, sending you reports, escalating cases to you.

This doesn’t actually make sense, but it has the feel of truth.

What a great little site. It reminds me of istheshipstillstuck.com. I’m bookmarking that shit. Thanks, OP!