Tomte an hour ago

Starts interesting, then veers into the usual "true random number" bullshit. Use radioactive decay as source of your random numbers!

  • zeroxfe 15 minutes ago

    > usual "true random number" bullshit

    What's bullshit about it? This is how TRNGs in security enclaves work. They collect entropy from the environment, and use that to continuously reseed a PRNG, which generates bits.

    If you're talking "true" in the philosophical sense, that doesn't exist -- the whole concept of randomness relies on an oracle.

  • amelius 39 minutes ago

    How do we know it's truly random?