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[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Here's a decent quote from Linus semi-regarding the topic of people debating over tiny things

One final note: the reason I'm so negative about this all is that the random number subsystem has such an absolutely horrendous history of two main conflicting issues: People wanting reasonable usable random numbers on one side, And then the people that discuss what the word "entropy" means on the other side.