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But they're not semantically rich. People who speak the code aren't doing it to more efficiently communicate, such that a long and complicated message can be ex
by jjk166 8mo ago
But they're not semantically rich. People who speak the code aren't doing it to more efficiently communicate, such that a long and complicated message can be expressed quickly. They are taking a short simple message, stripping away all the details, then padding it such that it becomes more verbose and vapid. This makes the real message harder to decipher for the uninitiated, it removes information even for those who understand the code, and it serves as a display for people who appreciate the flourish. There may still be some meaning left, but it's semantically emptier.
Further much of it is not even code. Examples like the microsoft letter are clearly a performative act to soften the blow of bad news. No one in the know is reading such an email to discern some hidden message; it's written to not be read.
- zmgsabst 8mo agoIn exactly the sense my HTTPS packets are semantically emptier than my HTTP packets.
- thfuran 8mo agoIt's not even meaningfully similar, let alone exactly that way.
- georgefrowny 8mo agoI think it's more like that you are signalling by your use of HTTPS at all, and the packet body itself is encrypted nonsense. Hiding information in the protocol layer while the bulk content that is "supposed" to contain the meaning is present but actually meaningless. Or for a physical analogy the payload of the envelope vis a decoy and the real information is hidden in the way the flap is sealed.
- wiseowise 8mo agoWell, if your HTTPS packets are somehow more retarded than your HTTP packets, yes.
- zmgsabst 8mo agoI use HTTPS because it makes my packets “more retarded” than the HTTP version of those packets to anybody without the session key to decrypt the “retarded nonsense”. That’s literally the whole point of encryption: Your message becomes unintelligible to those who aren’t able to decode the content.
- wiseowise 8mo agoExcept encryption isn’t made to protect enlightened few from stupid masses and their “poor” understanding. If you have something secret to say to other managers then just send an email to a mailing list. Assuming that only you and your clique understand the message directed at specific people is an insult to people around you.
- salawat 8mo agoIt's called elite maintenance of the social class hierarchy. They can't help it, it's all they know. The thing that bugs me is it should be on us working stiffs to divest them of these habits. You can only lead a horse to water, however...
- jjk166 7mo agoYes, taking 16 kb to transmit what could have been transmitted in 1 kb with the express purpose of making communication more difficult. That is what semantically emptier means.