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by goku12 1y ago
How long before that option is also disabled? We have to assume at some point that everyone's into opinion and backlash management, rather than care about silly things like security and privacy.
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by goku12 1y ago
I was asking about ASCII encoding and not the word size. But this information is also useful. So apparently, people were representing both numbers and script codes (EBCDIC in particular) in packed decimal or octal at times. The standardizat
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by goku12 1y ago
I wasn't asking about word sizes in particular, and had ASCII in mind. Nevertheless, your answer is in the right direction.
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by goku12 1y ago
> It is amazing that big endian is almost dead. I wish the same applied to written numbers in LTR scripts. Arithmetic operations would be a lot easier to do that way on paper or even mentally. I also wish that the world would settle on a
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by goku12 1y ago
Yes. It's probably my personal peculiarity due to the way I originally learned and practiced it. Though, I wonder how it is for full-time practitioners of crypto design/analysis. Many of the terms are loaded and you've to be
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by goku12 1y ago
Oh! I see what you mean. In that case, the book is probably not targeted at programmers at all, though nothing stops you from pursuing it. Design of coding schemes is a discipline of its own. Sort of like writing a simulation software. Impl
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by goku12 1y ago
Coding refers to more that just error correction codes. It also includes error detection, compression, etc. And as someone pointed out, coding is a formal name that was probably established well before coding software became a thing. Anothe
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by goku12 1y ago
Same situation. I get it. But not able to relate to it personally. The term I use consistently for it is 'cryptanalysis'. I have done it for some very simple ciphers. But I don't remember using the term 'codebreaking&#x2
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by goku12 1y ago
Hmm.. I see what you mean. But I'm not able to relate to it personally. Whenever I hear enigma, the next word that comes to mind is 'cipher', not 'code'. The second word is 'algorithm' and still not '
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by goku12 1y ago
It looks like you are thinking about programming and its abstractions. As somebody already pointed out, this isn't that type of coding. This is coding from information theory - source coding, channel coding, decoding, etc. A lot of mod
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by goku12 1y ago
Just curious. I can see how anyone may confuse coding with programming. And coding is related to cryptography through information theory. But what makes you think of cryptography when you hear coding? How does that confusion arise?
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by goku12 1y ago
> On the desktop though they are a bit too stable. You're obviously correct here. But perhaps there are users who prefer stable packages on the desktop too. Corporate users most likely (yes, there are such users too). It helps with
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by goku12 1y ago
> Your explanation of the differences is excellent and eye-opening. Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. > I imagine a future where users will be able to tell a local AI to modify their software or make the comptuer do what they wan
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by goku12 1y ago
This one is a decision by the Delhi High Court. Something that can be overridden with legislation in public interest. However, I'm not holding my breath this time.
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by goku12 1y ago
I wish the courts would care about that. Especially the Delhi High Court, which is one of the most politically driven among the bunch.
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by goku12 1y ago
Weirdly, the answer is politics again. It's up to the experts who can foresee the problem to inform the general public. Lawyers must inform the public about the hidden harms in a new bill. Doctors must inform the public about the impli
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by goku12 1y ago
Build script isn't a big issue for Rust because there is a simple mitigation that's possible. Do the build in a secure sandbox. Only execution and network access must be allowed - preferably as separate steps. Network access can b
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by goku12 1y ago
Eh! I really hope that nobody forces me onto windows again.
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by goku12 1y ago
That's why most people are not on Linux. I'm not talking about people who can search the internet or kids who just keep at it till they figure out the registry in two days. I'm talking about people who have absolutely no inte
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by goku12 1y ago
> But I stuck it out, still hate Windows, but I've gotten a bit used to it. So you tolerate it. Matches what I felt. But it was more the stuff I couldn't control - like the timing of the updates and the incessant ads. > It&#
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by goku12 1y ago
> Vegan was forked to Plant based diet That's news to me! But no. Open source philosophy isn't free software stripped of its ethics question. I have written an essay/article/novel/epic here: https://ne
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by goku12 1y ago
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by goku12 1y ago
I thought that was the default understanding. That's one of the options you have to choose in many installers. For example, an option exists to install the software over ADB from within Android (eg: Shizuku). So, one of the other optio
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by goku12 1y ago
> so you're actually advocating for drm like control here. Absolutely not. I'm saying that the hardware shouldn't have that capability at all in the first place. But whatever. Don't restrict it. Those functionalities
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by goku12 1y ago
That is entirely wrong and is a widespread misconception. The difference between free software and open source software is at the core of this 'android verified developer controversy' we are discussing here in a humongous thread.
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by goku12 1y ago
This isn't a technical problem. It's a political problem. We should be fighting this with our wallets, votes, voices and influence, not technology. Politicians and industrialists should be informed in no uncertain terms that the e
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by goku12 1y ago
> Even if it's illegal? (like transmitting on forbidden frequencies) That's not relevant here. If frequencies are illegal, it should be impossible to program it in such a way. But even otherwise, it's the responsibility of
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by goku12 1y ago
> Tell that to all those assholes that are making malware and scamming society on billions. And then? I don't know how many times I've downloaded APKs, including obviously malicious ones by accident. But not once has it ever be
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by goku12 1y ago
I'm not downvoting you. But the limiting factor probably wasn't the funding at all. It was the competence and marketing. At some level, they had to deal with the hardware stack - which IMO is a very hot mess right now. The only re
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by goku12 1y ago
Mimicking the Android UI and UX is very trivial. The hard part is getting the OS to run on the mobile device in the first place. On top a tonne of custom drivers, it also requires way to either get accepted by the OEM locks or a way to bypa

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