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@nprofile1q... Protip: disable this in Advanced Folder Options and then it won't consume file descriptors like a whale shark consumes plankton.

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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Don't disagree but another developer has put their foot down on only regarding dedicated randomness hardware as "real" entropy, regardless if 10 other sources are being fed into the kernel's pool

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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Don't disagree but another developer has put their foot down on only regarding dedicated randomness hardware as "real" entropy

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They could have written: "Solutions will be chosen in a neutral manner, based on how effective they are at solving a problem". instead of... this. Really, this single sentence is the one and only thi...

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@nprofile1q... Politics is when your project leader is criticized for being abusive on the mailing lists

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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... It does do that. It just doesn't count it as increasing the entropy estimate because there isn't a scientific paper detailing how much entropy a hard disk produces.

Writing 256 bits to /dev/random should be enough to shut the estimator up permanently, providing safe shutdowns (with shutdown -p now).

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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... It does do that. It just doesn't count it as increasing the entropy estimate because there isn't a scientific paper detailing how much entropy a hard disk produces.

Writing 256 bits to /dev/random should be enough to shut the estimator up.