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.

The free operating system Debian is based on the Linux kernel and various other softwares, while Arch is an architectural concept through which people and goods can be brought into or out of a building.

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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

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.

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.

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.

Gnome 3

Yeah, but that is gone if you literally forget it.

Is 4.0 out yet? One of my favorite games, but late game often gets unplayable

Problem is you need a way to decrypt that shit with memory loss and a burned down house.

I recently started a “backup ring” with my buddies who have their own servers too. It’s just folders synced over sync thing, each has their own folder, and we put stuff there that we want to access even in case everything I own burns out. Works pretty well so far.

Same, but wsl exists (and is where I do pretty much everything else than necessities)

My tip: Linux distributions have games. Debian has vitetris and bad games (air traffic controller/ATC)

That’s just the hardware. The human brain also just has tons of neurons in the end working with analogue values, which can in theory be done with floating point numbers on computer hardware.

I’m not arguing for LLM sentience, those things are still dumb and have no interior mutability leading to us projecting consciousness. Just that our neurons are fundamentally not so complicated that a computer couldn’t be used to do the same concept (neural networks are already quite a thing after all)

At least you can look at how it works under the hood I guess

Just install the docker engine in wsl like anywhere else and avoid docker desktop if you can

Their CI is FAST and free. And nobody can contribute to my random but neat projects if they neither know they exist not have the ability to interact with my forgejo instance.

This person is insane