ErLounge 10-MAR-2016: Use rand module (on Erlang/OTP and Elixir)

A public service announcement of soliciting use of the rand module, which is available since Erlang/OTP 18.0, and requesting termination of using the legacy random module

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1. We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming to Bring You A Public Service Announcement 1 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016
2. Use rand module now1 1 Unless you stick to the older Erlang/OTP or Elixir versions before Erlang/OTP 18.x 2 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016
3. The random module is obsolete and will be compromised by a brute-force attack in 9 hours!2 2 https://github.com/jj1bdx/as183-c 3 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016
4. Still many examples use random:uniform/1 This is not good 4 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016
5. Stop using random module now3 3 Unless you stick to the older Erlang/OTP or Elixir versions before Erlang/OTP 18.x 5 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016
6. Use rand:uniform/1 or :rand.uniform() 6 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016
7. Alternatives → exsplus116, equivalent to rand module's default algorithm, for 17.x or older versions of Erlang/OTP → sfmt-erlang (hex.pm: sfmt) → tinymt-erlang (hex.pm: tinymt) 7 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016
8. I repeat: use rand module right now4! 4 Unless you stick to the older Erlang/OTP or Elixir versions before Erlang/OTP 18.x 8 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016
9. random module will be deprecated in OTP 19 removed from OTP 20 (Officially announced by Kenneth Lundin on Erlang Factory SF Bay 2016 Day 1) 9 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016
10. Thank you 10 — Kenji Rikitake / ErLounge 10-MAR-2016