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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2025-01-27 at 17:25

TIL that Itchykoo Park was a real place.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2025-01-10 at 19:25

When you manage a mail server, you sometimes see the strangest phishing attempts. This seems legit in a PDF.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2025-01-10 at 08:20

I was born in Santa Monica, and my parents lived in Topanga at the time. It's a different place now.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2025-01-08 at 19:37

We are now more than 30 years into the quantum computing hype. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/190616.190617 OMG it's the end of cryptography! zzz😴

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2025-01-06 at 17:40

The deadline for submissions to volume 2, issue 1 of Communications in Cryptology is a week from today. See https://cic.iacr.org/

We continue to make improvements to the user experience for copy editors and authors of accepted papers. It's clear to me now that the pipeline could easily support a throughput of all IACR articles.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-12-25 at 16:38

I wonder how long Google Gemini will last. For some reason I have zero curiosity to try it.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-12-10 at 21:33

Sofía Celi joins as new co-editor of eprint.iacr.org. The core of IACR is volunteer effort, and it's always good to welcome someone new. @claucece

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-12-07 at 03:15

I manage a mail server for a small organization. Ordinarily it just runs perfectly, but one thing it does is forward email to private lists, and an increasing number of sending email services are using a "hard fail" setting in their SPF record, which interferes with DMARC and SRS forwarding. This isn't really a problem in the standards - it's a problem in the knuckle-dragging administrators who set up their mail servers incorrectly. https://www.mailhardener.com/blog/why-mailhardener-recommends-spf-softfail-over-fail

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-11-20 at 16:57

I've spent the last week writing a #TeXLatex package. I've written in many different programming languages, starting with basic and fortran back in the 70s. LaTeX always feels like the crudest language I've ever written in. The output looks nice, but the programming language is utter crap.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-11-06 at 23:57

I wonder if the movie "Idiocracy" is on any streaming service. Just saying...

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-11-06 at 16:15

The good news is that the political ads by SMS will now slow down. They might have been better off with less money.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-11-02 at 00:08

Turns out that Springer Nature had an IPO about a month ago. https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/SPGG.DE #academicchatter

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-11-01 at 18:21

I had previously worked on a research project to try and quantify response to page that had too much real estate devoted to ads. It was complicated by the fact that dynamic sizing was becoming more common (ads that pop up or expand). We had to use a headless browser to run the page for a few seconds to see if the ads changed size. Later on it occurred to me that identifying pages with ads was a lot easier than calculating how big and obtrusive they were.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-11-01 at 18:19

I should probably stay away from graphic arts.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-11-01 at 18:18

i was working on badges for IACR to issue for artifacts when I came up with this idea.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-11-01 at 18:10

Happy half price candy day

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-11-01 at 03:44

About ten years ago I had a thought that maybe I should start a search engine that would only returns results if the page didn't have ads or a shopping cart.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-10-28 at 00:23

Is it just me, or is #discord just a jumbled mess of user interface?

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-10-26 at 22:18

TIL that \forksnot is a thing in LaTeX.

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Written by Kevin McCurley on 2024-10-22 at 03:52

The inventor of auto-correction died. May he rust in peas. err I mean jest in grease. Or was it roast in piss?

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