interesting, YouTube channel Veritasium just published a video on how Enigma was broken during WWII. at the very end they also give message that has yet to be decoded, although apparently they're different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsBZOcqZerk

WRT the timing, Veritasium maybe looked at the last few weeks and decided there's a fast-closing window in which to report on any famous messages yet to be solved.

It is a private equity channel, so this is surely the reason. They have a team whose job is finding the most engaging content topics.

I just finished watching that video, and thought to myself "I'm sure someone else with Chat GPT tokens to burn has already done that"

And then I come to hackernews and well, not quite, but I'm sure that one will be done shortly too.

Maybe both watched Tom Scott a month ago about Bletchley Park?

This is a much more interesting video than the Veritasium one IMO. I mean, if you don't already know anything about Enigma then, sure, the Veritasium one is decent. But it's been done so many times and who doesn't know it at this point? Somehow, though, I hadn't understood the scale of the operation at the Park and how it was kept secret that whole time. The bits about compartmentalisation of knowledge were particularly interesting.

"not an expert in zig" but you can't even look at the documentation to find the `@tagName` builtin to do exactly the problem posed?: https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.16.0/#tagName

i can literally google "zig enum to string" and the first result is a reddit post where the given solution is `@tagName`. i'm ready to write this post off as a low-effort ad for C3

C3 has an even simpler way than Zig: `Color.RED.description`.

From what I can see the example started from C++, and then comparing how each language would look building it in userland instead.

If it's for debugging purposes, you can use `{any}` as the format and it will print `.BLUE`

  std.debug.print("{any}\n", .{color});

Agree, the post was extremely low effort.

in my experience this is only an issue when headsets are unbalanced between the front and back, since this results in the weight going on your nose/face rather than straight through your head to your neck. the frame's battery is on the back specifically for this reason in addition to the whole thing being relatively light anyway

from en.action.md:

> Redirect or block "Cloudflare Warp" users from accessing your website. And provide a reason if you can.

come on, really? what does this achieve? only thing i can think of is trying to get the user off of WARP, but i can pretty confidently say that before doing that i'll just not use the website. or if i really care about the content i'll turn it off until i'm done and back on it goes

Tangentially related, the archive.is / archive.today / etc site host used to block anyone using 1.1.1.1 DNS because 1.1.1.1 doesn't send an eDNS subnet to the authoritative DNS server. It accomplishes nothing except annoying actual users.

just sort of a general complaint about how much the internet relies on cloudflare and what that means. massive point of failure, erratic browser checks & outright blocking, surveillance

seemingly hugged, unless they're doing overzealous IP blocking

regardless of the validity of the claim, why post a link to Reddit when the Reddit post is just a link to a document? why not directly link to the document

There's also an alert on the MIT emergency page, though it doesn't mention the substance by name: https://emergency.mit.net/

Latest update reads in part:

"Emerging information calls into question whether this compound was in fact synthesized. We are also able to disclose, with the student’s permission, that while the student remains under medical supervision, their initial blood test result, which was received today, shows no sign of exposure to mercury."

can people publish blog posts (and other things) literally anywhere else? especially now with nitter/xcancel/etc getting taken down

Seriously, posting to the same site owned by the Creator of DOGE, who is ethically responsible for mass death now and future deaths too.

Using the site supports him and his efforts.

i wonder if them saying

> Due to our strict security protocols and the terms outlined in the Microsoft Services Agreement, we are unable to modify or restore the security settings once they've been updated.

and

> Additionally, if you had files stored in OneDrive, those files are no longer accessible. Due to encryption and privacy safeguards, even our engineers cannot retrieve them.

is actually some vague way of them saying that the person with unauthorized access enabled some setting in OneDrive that encrypts with secrets now only known to that attacker, and their policies disallowed them from storing any of the previous unencrypted data or a way to undo that encryption. i don't use OneDrive so i don't even know if that's possible