"#GabrielRockhill’s polemic against #WesternMarxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as #HerbertMarcuse. Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a show trial than a serious political indictment."

#RussellJacoby's withering review of #WhoPaidThePipersOfWesternMarxism

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/review-rockhill-western-marxism-cold-war/
#Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #NewLeft #snitchjacketing #hacks #campism #Rockhill #books @bookstodon

#jouRapNal #book18 day 88

20260311Wed

#3goodThings #carCamping #Library #OSAP #threeGoodThings

#queensPark? #ev? #hacks

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(illustration of a plugged in wagon) Ma said ½ the school were protesting recent cuts to education funding WPL helped me find a book with tips for boondocking found a potential solution as long as key people are ok but either way enjoying new ideas & innovative solutions that are within reach

- 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.

@magnetic_tape nodds in agreement

Ideally some #EEPROM without the write-enable pin exposed necessitating a clamp and manual flashing.

• OFC in an applianced solution one would do it like the #Xbox360's #ODD (#DVDROM) and encase that in a chip and make it #OTP...

Necessitating dangerous #hacks like the #KamikazeHack which are still possible but visible to the naked eye if a case design accounts for that.

• This would certainly be an option for "applianced" setups like an #SSH #terminal running @OS1337 ...