I get that coding cryptography is fun. I did it in university for the relevant classes where we had been given specific exercises, test vectors, in the second one even automatic testing with thousands of test cases, and speed mattered too. For education, that’s pretty amazing, but if you do your own Crypto and put it in production you’re just asking for trouble.

This really is just an AES GCM case. And don’t understate the beauty of using a well formalized and thought out crypto primitive for actual applications. Cryptography is fucking cool.

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What do you mean, the XOR Algorithm?? For this case, an AES-256 GCM AEAD (Authenticated Encryption, possibly with Associated Data) seems like the perfect use case. AES GCM is usually the most secure mode.

I hope you didn’t literally use XOR, so like you have some key stream the length of your data, XOR the key stream with the data to get some output. This is what some modes do internally, like AES CBC, but for an application you should just use something from a stable crypto library.

If anything, keep to Rule Number 1: Never do your own Crypto.

The sad thing about forgejo servers is that our stuff might be popular if the projects were not so isolated. I want federation so bad but I feel like I was waiting for years now

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All the Japanese language resources for a lifetime you need and then some more for lessons if you want.

• Wanikani and Bunpro might be about 300€ together for a lifetime.
• A few grammar books with extra exercises, like Genki, would be less than 200€ I think.
• Writing supplies, a computer, Internet access etc is assumed.
• 500€ Could likely get private tutoring for quite a few lessons I think. You may also want to look at courses by the nearby university or language school, or get additional support resources.

Japanese learning resources are really amazing nowadays. Tons of good free content too, like articles on grammar or YouTube Videos by people explaining stuff. If you cut Wanikani and Bunpro and go with Anki (FOSS) instead for SRS, you can go really cheap.

That is, the price you pay for learning the Japanese language is also that it takes a fuck ton of time to get anywhere. But then again, you understand Japanese after that, how cool is that??

What? No, the framework 12 is the thing the had before the 13 one. Nowadays, they call that model always 13 it seems. I think you’re confusing something, I’ve got mine since a few years now.

You can’t even label these fuckers as “I lost the game because of that idiot”, because then you lose every time you see them

The “bug causes death” thing can be ticked for everything safety critical. Starts with the small electronics in an elevator.

Got a Framework 12 and have all sorts of tiny annoying but somewhat manageable problems with it.

It used to overheat and then throttle to 400 Mhz every few seconds on high load. Overheating meaning 100°C. After a long time being annoyed and thinking “did I do something wrong” I reached out to support, and eventually got a new motherboard. It’s better since then, but it still gets hot quickly. Also, if I just idle, like maybe a few Browser tabs and that’s it, it will get somewhat warm ~65°C and I just don’t get it.

For some reason, it sometimes does not find my hard drive on boot. Works the second or third attempt, and is no software problem.

The light detection thing has to be disabled in software to be able to use the brightness buttons.

At the start, my wifi sucked really bad, just on this device.

Having some more ports than just the audio jack and the extension cards would be neat too.

Also, it was really expensive.

So yeah, I sadly wouldn’t buy it again, I think. The concept is really neat, but I’ve had too many annoying little problems. I still do use it as my main computer, and it works reasonably well, is light and well transportable, works with my docking station easily, etc, but those issues are annoying.

Well, we do air conditioning more and more nowadays…

Why JK though? There are many financial options to at least get more returns than inflation, working for people without fuck you money too. It takes some financial education that we likely have to learn ourselves, but there are options. And it’s possible to reasonably lower risks and costs enough by selecting the right financial products.

Though obviously, if you just buy what the bank guy says, the bank will make the profits, not you.

X11 is the display server. Your desktop environment, like gnome, has a window manager managing your opened applications and tells the display server “please render this stuff on the actual screen”.

X11 is ancient and sucks, because for example, it can’t do fractional scaling well, which is important for screens that have a higher resolution, since everything appears tiny otherwise.

The display server also offers some functionalities that the desktop environment can make use of, like global hotkeys, or screen sharing.

I’m not an expert or anything, but I think it’s about right like this.

Tronald would likely abuse the fuck Out of it to do more “emergency measures”. We’ve seen this in Germany in the 30s with the Ermächtigungsgesetz after the Reichstag burned.

Ado, first time seeing her live next week.

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Green arrow has a decent and relatively new series.

Ebird/ Merlin bird id does this wonderfully.