#getrandom
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #getrandom from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-12 21:54 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-12 21:54 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #getrandom.
Live pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-12 21:54 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 2 public posts (spanning ~4 hours).
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Avg boosts / post: 0.5
Top of the latest posts
I revisited that, AGAIN. Getting #random data in #poser now has yet another fallback, in case we don't have #arc4random and we also don't have #getrandom: read from /dev/random and/or /dev/urandom, "old style" 🙈. Still better to try this b
About the #random thingie ... I need random data in #swad to generate unpredictable #session IDs. I previously had an implementation trying the #Linux-originating #getrandom if available, with a fallback to a stupid internal #xorshift #PRNG
What “getrandom” means
WikipediaEntropy-supplying system calls are system calls in Unix-like operating system kernels through which processes can obtain entropic or random data. The first of these was getentropy, introduced to the OpenBSD operating system in release 5.6, as a refactoring of the sysctl(3) KERN_ARND approach used since 1997. Linux offers a very similar system call, getrandom, which was based on getentropy. It was first available in Linux 3.17, released in October 2014. In July 2015, Solaris introduced slightly
“Entropy-supplying system calls” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#getrandom across platforms
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