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MadameMinty
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MadameMinty
10mo ago
I imagine the random person, if they were to accept, would likely find themselves out of depth and simply outsource most of the job to whoever convinces them they're the right choice. The system would then morph into a variant of repre
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MadameMinty
10mo ago
I see it. Overworked special effects artists, I suppose. It's funny how well some movie CGI from the 90s holds up in comparison.
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MadameMinty
10mo ago
Yes, but that doesn't potentially waste your opponents' time.
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MadameMinty
10mo ago
I'm extremely picky and Atkinson Hyperlegible was my favorite variable-width font. Never knew there's a "Next", so +
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MadameMinty
10mo ago
I remember a protocol which required the text to be replaced with random-length output of a Markov chain text generator, and only then pixelizing. Oh, you've spent hours on unpixelizing my secrets? Well congratulations, is the last tel
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MadameMinty
10mo ago
You should be blacking out information, to be sure, but credit card numbers are one of the very few examples where cracking makes sense, given that otherwise you don't know the pattern nor the font. Assuming it's text at all.
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MadameMinty
10mo ago
Please move on, then.
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MadameMinty
10mo ago
That reminds me when I got a server-grade Xeon E5472 (LGA771) and after some very minor tinkering (knife, sticker mod) fit it into a cheap consumer-grade LGA775 socket. Same microarchitecture, power delivery class, all that. LGA2011-0 and L
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1y ago
The idea matches, but 2019 is a far cry from, say, 1930.