Joe Rowell

@halvarflake @is_eqv They're first class in C++ too with pmr: en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/memory/p… It's still not perfect, but I've found some uses for it in the past, especially from a traceability perspective.

@is_eqv One of the reasons I like zig is that it makes allocator choice a first-order citizen.

Thought experiment: In a microservice, allocating memory that survives past the end of you servicing the request should be *exceedingly* rare. This means that you should neither do explicit malloc/free *nor* traditional garbage collection. You should just have a bump allocator…

@ace__pace @qconlondon @halvarflake @poolsideai At some point in the next few weeks I'll write up a formal blog post on the topic; I didn't get to cover all of the minutae and I had some helpful suggestions whilst I was at the conference e.g @halvarflake asked me about cache coherency

@qconlondon @halvarflake @joerowell @poolsideai Waiting for a recording or slides :)

At #QConLondon, @joerowell, Founding Engineer @poolsideai, explores the use of unified memory on modern #GPUs, the low-level details of how unified memory is realized on an x86-64 system, and tools that can be used: shorturl.at/hlsKT #PerformanceEngineering

@halvarflake You can finally get around to distributed groebner basis algorithms! ;)

Today is my last day at Elastic. I'll take an extended break and focus on rest, family, health, writing, a bit of startup mentoring/investing, and some research - at least for a while. I'm thankful for my great colleagues and my leadership at Elastic - y'all are stellar, ...

We are looking for an ethnography postdoc (2 years) to work with us on the EPSRC-funded Social Cryptography project (…foundations-of-cryptography.gitlab.io). Closing date is 15 February 2024. Based at Royal Holloway University of London. More information here: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Registration of interest for CrossFryre 2024 is open!! sites.google.com/view/crossfyre… Official registration goes through Eurocrypt website, but if you are interested in attending, giving a 15min Talk or a 5min Lightening talk, please fill the form!

@GiacomoFenzi @CWInl That last picture is 👌👌👌👌

Was thrilled to speak about SLAP 👋 at @CWInl last Friday! The slides are now available, check them out: gfenzi.io/presentations/…! Also attached, me and my co-authors looking puzzled at some open questions, that we hope you'll solve! ia.cr/2023/1469

@RikkeBjerg wrote an ethnography focused announcement blog post: rikkebjerg.gitlab.io/me/post/2023-1… and @martinralbrecht wrote a cryptography focused one: martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/2023/12/14/soc…

Ok, shaking my Twitterverse network. I'm organising the Performance track for QCon London next year, and I want to make sure I don't bias the track construction too much. If you do performance work, please reply to this tweet or DM me :-) - would love to hear about you!

Not just me, but 70+ of us¹: haddadi.github.io/UKOSBOpenlette… ¹ established researchers and scientists working in the fields of information security and cryptography

Call for papers for the new IACR journal is out.. cic.iacr.org/callforpapers Please support this journal. It is the outcome of a many year community led effort to improve the publication process in cryptography.

The Online Safety Bill will have its third reading in the House of Lords on Wednesday. From what I can gather, it is expected to pass. This is quite worrying for online safety. A thread.

@__phw Of course!

@joerowell That's a good one! I'll add it to the list if you don't mind.

I summarized job interview questions that are helpful both as interviewer and as interviewee: nymity.ch/writing/articl… Any suggestions for additions?

@realhamed @imperialcollege @ICComputing Congrats!

OK, real talk. @telegram makes big proclamations about free speech and privacy, but their promises are mostly marketing. The app collects a huge amount of data. And like all Big Tech, when actually pressed by governments, they ultimately comply. techcrunch.com/2023/08/14/ira…

@halvarflake Do they even hold any shares in Paypal now? Yahoo seems to imply that most of Paypal's shareholders are ETFs / mutual funds: finance.yahoo.com/quote/PYPL/hol…

Weird to think that PayPal might be the more valuable part of EBay now.

📎 Congratulations to our own Erin Hales, Sean Murphy, Tabitha Ogilvie, and Rachel Player, and coauthors Anamaria Costache and Benjamin R. Curtis, whose paper "On the Precision Loss in Approximate Homomorphic Encryption" is accepted to SAC 2023 ➡️ sac-workshop.github.io/sac-2023/accep…

@inge4pres @exercism_io Wow! I didn't know this existed. Seems like a very cool idea....

I have been mentoring the #golang track for a while on @exercism_io and it's such a joy to receive feedback from mentees 🥰 exercism.org/profiles/inge4…

@alxdavids Thanks for the very high praise! It was (naturally) great fun to work with you all too, and I learned a great deal.

Just to add that @joerowell did an amazing job with developing the implementation of this work, along with some of the crucial optimisations. If you're interested in hearing about the trials and tribulations of implementing MPC in BoringSSL, then he has some very good insights!

As an aside: it has been a longstanding UK government policy to try to make the UK friendly to large tech companies. There's also been large investment in security training (e.g for yours truly). These policies push people away. It makes me question my own place in the UK.

I'm not saying traditional policing is perfect, but given that laws are often contextual, removing people from the equation seems very wrong to me.

I don't often tweet, but circumstances compel. I'm reminded of a point @tekwendell made on a podcast 10+ years ago: there's nothing that's stopping the government from doing, you know, traditional police work. They do not need the power to read messages to stop crime.