#TodayILearned that today was the launch day of an Audemars Piguet/Swatch collaboration #watch called the “Royal Pop” and there were lines outside Swatch stores worldwide. It was so chaotic at so many locations that stores closed down for the safety of their staff. Fights broke out, lines were cut, police was called. Masses of people were herded out of malls.

All this for a pocketwatch (yes, it’s a pocketwatch/lanyard watch, not a wristwatch) that sells for $400, and is a mass-market, non-limited-edition product.

I guess I just don’t get it. Why? Wait a month and get it online, maybe?

#swatch #chaos

#MuddyWater hackers use #Chaos #ransomware as a decoy in attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/muddywater-hackers-use-chaos-ransomware-as-a-decoy-in-attacks/

#cybersecurity #Iran

- a neat hack for the properly paranoid -

Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and whitened for use in cryptography.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2026-March/039388.html

#Random #Entropy #Cryptography #Crypto #Hardware #Hacks #Sound #Audio #Chaos

@cypherpunk@soc.octade.net @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org @cryptography@lemmy.ml

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Source code screenshot for harvesting entropy from a sound card. Follow the link to read the source code text.

Spanberger’s speech — & the selection of her to deliver it — signaled how #Democratic leaders want the party to be viewed in Trump’s second term: sober & serious officials who understand voters’ economic plight.

A #moderate who is coming off a landslide election victory in #Virginia, #Spanberger gave a safe speech that struck the political notes #Democrats are aiming to press — that #Trump has hurt the economy & sowed #chaos with his policies.

#SOTU #USpol

Hot here, but cold there...
Heat brings turbulent chaos,
Denial's fuel.

#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateDenial #weather #turbulence #chaos #heat #cold #ClimateChange #denial #fuel

Du mode de production au mode de destruction : le cœur hypercapitaliste bat désormais en périphérie

Le #capitalismeDuCentre produit encore, mais ne suffit plus à faire #système. À sa #périphérie s’installe un #modeDeDestructionHypercapitaliste : #guerresRégulées, #extractivisme, #instabilitésEntretenues — le #chaos devient rentable. De #Joxe à #Amin, en passant par #Quijano ou #Harbulot, on découvre un basculement systémique. #capitalisme #géopolitique #guerre…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/du-mode-de-production-au-mode-de-destruction-le-coeur-hypercapitaliste-bat-desormais-en-peripherie/