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by gnull 4y ago
A few months ago I met a teen (maybe 15 y.o.) who was trying to withdraw money from an ATM that had a non-touch screen. He kept failing and trying to tap on the screen. He was doing it for his grandfather, a wheelchair user, who was nearby.
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by gnull 4y ago
You could extend the decoding procedure to tolerate errors. Shamir's secret sharing is the same thing as Reed-Solomon code, so you can reuse the error-correctimg property of the latter.
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by gnull 4y ago
> Also, I would never try to "trap" my manager into a conversation with the Product Manager Would that be OK to directly propose that? Something like, “I think you're wrong. Let's take this to our superiors or get a t
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by gnull 4y ago
> As ever, your role as the employee (triply so as a contractor!) is to stay professional and follow directions The company is your employer, not the manager. If you see that the orders you get are harmful, it's your responsibility
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by gnull 4y ago
> Do you want to own product X? It's the team's decision. > Maybe the intern can learn the ropes This is what I hate about work environments that pretend to be all caring and non-hierarchical. Like the author, I worked in Sw
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by gnull 4y ago
It's still very unclear (having spent a few minutes on the RFC) what it does exactly. It sounds like a mechanism to detect accidental errors (say, user copy-pasting encrypted data incorrectly or passing some garbage in place of ciphert
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by gnull 4y ago
Access to the vault ≠ access to unlocked vault. This is the whole point of storing anything encrypted on your disk. The password managers don't protect against a malware running on your laptop with root privileges and attaching to your
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by gnull 4y ago
1. What did you try exactly? 2. How is this “regular integrity protection” defined formally?
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by gnull 4y ago
> then I'll be sure to change my password manager. And change all your passwords as well? I don't think you can import your passwords into a new manager if the old one gets broken.
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by gnull 4y ago
> An attacker could replace the whole file so they don't have to mess around with trying to modify the encrypted material. Replacing is one way of modifying. If the passwords storage is authenticated, it can't be replaced. (An
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by gnull 4y ago
Can pass be unlocked using login password without entering it once more? For example, like Gnome Keyring does.
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by gnull 4y ago
https://rot256.dev/post/pass/ Make sure you understand how exactly it encrypts your data, and what are the things that are still exposed by it.
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by gnull 4y ago
Notmuch backend doesn't allow saving sent messages to the maildir. Gpg encryption produced an error when I tried it just now. Scripting is limited: actions that you can assign to keybindings can do only very simple actions (which might
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by gnull 4y ago
I've moved to Aerc from Neomutt a few months ago and never regretted it. Aerc has filters and builtin terminal support. This allows cool syntax highlighting for displayed emails and also support for previewing unusual formats. Aerc has
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by gnull 4y ago
Aerc can display a thread in a tree-view of a directory, yes. Run :toggle-threads to see it (I'm using Maildir backend). Using notmuch backend, one could also have a key to display all the emails that are in the same thread as the curr
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by gnull 4y ago
Aerc has rolled out signing and encryption support recently. I've tested signing, seems to work fine. And now it uses normal GPG keystore, not its own.
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by gnull 5y ago
And one-way functions are not necessarily the hardest to invert. They are, in some sense, "hard enough", at least as hard as certain threshold (speaking informally).
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by gnull 5y ago
Yes, I realized I made some rushed conclusions there.
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by gnull 5y ago
> I think the article also mentions this My bad, I didn't read the article carefully enough. > I don't get what is the significant difference between this finding and Levin's. I think it's generally very important
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by gnull 5y ago
Identifying the connection between one-way functions and Kolmogorov complexity is truly impressive. But the article oversimplified a few things that may be misleading for someone. 1. One-way functions are not all cryptography. Some construc
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 13(understandingwar.org)
5 points by gnull 5y ago|0 comments
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by gnull 5y ago
As a side question, how similar is Putin's war in Ukraine to the numerous wars started by U.S. (say, in the middle East, Yugoslavia)? Are these fair to compare? I'm trying to understand the scale of Putin's decision, not to j
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by gnull 5y ago
https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=%28%21%3D%29&scope=set%3A... Using Haskell is one such situation. Haskell's inequality operator is /= which someone could expect when they see ≠. Some people redefine != as a
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by gnull 5y ago
The ligature ≠ for != is very C/C++/Java-specific, which is kind of annoying. Is there a way to selectively disable ligatures like this one?
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by gnull 5y ago
Oh, really? What's the pattern? (I'm not in Almaty, so I can't see it myself.)
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by gnull 5y ago
(It was a joke.)
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by gnull 5y ago
Yes, the "foreign actors" part is an obvious lie to justify the Russia's help.
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by gnull 5y ago
The fuel prices caused protests in one region. The others joined in solidarity. But after seeing how much support the protests have, more people started joining and the protest became political, demanding to change the regime. In Almaty, th
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by gnull 5y ago
https://novayagazeta-ru.translate.goog/articles/2022/01/05/v... I found the explanation of this article quite convincing. The key takes is: Tokayev, the Kazakhstan's president, does not completely t
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by gnull 5y ago
We could distribute the mining farms to people's homes to warm them up, this way everyone wins.

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