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I don't think the author was presenting this as an alternative to a CSPRNG. (Or rather, I hope they weren't.) It seems like more of a fun hack than anything else. I wish they explicitly warned people not to actually use this, but it's still an interesting side project.


[author here]

You're correct. It's a horribly bad idea, and the thought I put into it was pretty minimal. Just a fun hack, really.

I'll put a note in the readme.


keep it up. How many good ideas started as a result of a fun hack


Right. As an amusement, this is great, and I can hardly improve upon the visual aid of monkeys frenzying over a lego structure.

And indeed even as an educational opportunity to explore how very much not-random CPU scheduling over unguarded memory is, this is also probably a gem.

But I should hate to see anyone mistake this concept for useful.


I've added a note in the readme.

Sorry to have been misleading.




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