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Hopefully It Never Breaks!
Math Science Engineering Tech
6 days ago 3.9K views 0 shares
Hopefully It Never Breaks!
The entire global economy rests on a mathematical quirk! That giant dam labeled "Bad Actors" is preventing catastrophic flooding—and the only thing holding it together is the difficulty of factoring large numbers into primes. This is literally how modern encryption works! Your bank account, crypto wallets, and national security secrets are all protected by the simple fact that multiplying two huge prime numbers is easy, but working backward to figure out which primes were multiplied is computationally nightmarish. If someone cracks this mathematical problem (looking at you, quantum computers), our digital fortress crumbles faster than my motivation during grant application season.

Strong Passwords Require Strong Acids
Chemistry Science Academia
9 days ago 4.0K views 0 shares
Strong Passwords Require Strong Acids
The perfect chemistry pun doesn't exi-- oh wait. Chemistry students using molecular formulas as passwords is peak nerd culture. C₆H₅COOH (benzoic acid) gets labeled as "weak" because it's literally a weak acid with limited dissociation in solution. Meanwhile, H₂SO₄ (sulfuric acid) gets the "strong" security rating because it's one of the strongest acids known to corrode just about anything it touches. Security software inadvertently validating acid-base theory is the kind of coincidence that would make Arrhenius shed a tear of pride. Or maybe that's just the acid burns.

Binary Boredom: When Pentesting Gets Weird
Tech Science Engineering
11 days ago 3.9K views 0 shares
Binary Boredom: When Pentesting Gets Weird
The perfect intersection of computer science and doodling during class! This crude sketch shows the inner workings of a computer with the ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) and CPU labeled as stick figures surrounded by binary numbers (1, 0, 1) and a random "500" thrown in. The caption "i guess we doin bullshit now" perfectly captures that moment when your brain checks out during technical lectures and decides artistic expression is the only escape. It's basically what happens when your processor decides to run the "daydream.exe" program instead of paying attention to buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

The Digital Cat And Mouse Game
Tech Engineering
12 days ago 4.5K views 0 shares
The Digital Cat And Mouse Game
The eternal arms race between corporate engineers and determined users is beautifully captured here! Corporate devs spend months creating sophisticated adblock detection algorithms, only for passionate open-source programmers to demolish their work in mere hours. It's like watching a high-tech game of whack-a-mole where the moles are armed with energy drinks and keyboard shortcuts. The exhausted engineer's face perfectly captures that "I spent my entire budget on this" moment when they realize their code fortress just got bypassed by someone who did it "for the lulz." The digital resistance continues!