m0darn
@m0darn@lemmy.ca
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 14 hours ago:
This one is better because turnout matters and gives representative elections.
- Comment on Is it safe to assume the guy i went out on a date with, just wants to sleep with me? 2 days ago:
As a happily married 39 year old I look at the modern dating scene with horror. I think that he probably doesn’t “just” want to sleep with you, he probably just likes having someone like you in his life. People can be complex, we construct these binaries that simplify things, reality is more complicated. If you enjoy hanging out with a person, do that. Don’t lead him on just to get to go on nice dates, and also be aware that he might be a pig that does just want to sleep with you. Maybe he mentioned going on trips to try to entice you into a relationship. Don’t get into a position where you feel like you owe him anything.
The age difference is pretty big but there’s a lot of loneliness in the world. So maybe talk to your mutual friends, does he have a history of chasing younger women?
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 2 weeks ago:
On top of the fact that the gases have lower molecular weights than air, they are also at 37°C or 310K ie ~5% lighter still.
- Comment on Two Orange Mushrooms, Not Sure What Kind 3 weeks ago:
LBM
Little Brown Mushrooms, the most important guideline to amateur mushroom tasting is to only eat half of each mushroom, so that the coroner can figure out which ones are toxic.
- Comment on me irl 3 weeks ago:
Just to spell it out for people: myriad means 10,000 but has been used as a stand in for “huge variety” for so long that people don’t know that anymore.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 1 month ago:
Facebook sucks and has for quite some time.
In Canada we passed a regulation that social media sites have to pay our media companies to link to their articles. Google is paying up, but Facebook said no, and has banned news. It has made Facebook here much less terrible.
- Comment on Federated 3D print files (Manyfold) 1 month ago:
I really like that the 3d preview has a scale!
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 month ago:
Ithink you could be more charitable in your reply. Transistors were developed to replace tubes in telephone systems… Okay but the tubes had been developed to where they were because of their usefulness in radio.
And while computers don’t inherently rely on radio, it’s radio communication that’s taken computers from one in every office to one in everyone’s pocket. Right? The main thrust of the previous commenter is true.
- Comment on The city is so lively 2 months ago:
I could be convinced that there is a part of Paris that is like that. It doesn’t look like a part of Paris anyone would want to spend much time in though.
- Comment on Saint > Pope 2 months ago:
I saw a quote in the newspaper this morning:
We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China now we’re essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we’re saving hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple.
It’s just so incredibly wrong and stupid.
- Comment on Do it 3 months ago:
Smells like nirvana in my ass.
(Weird Al)
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 4 months ago:
Could you suggest alternate wording that succinctly conveys what the commenter obviously meant?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 4 months ago:
It’s a wealth tax on wealth that’s very difficult to hide.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 5 months ago:
So how does generating a one time pad from mutually accessible data fit into this scheme. Is the pad the cipher or the key?
If two people agreed that the pad would be the output of a particular pRNG given the 3rd paragraph of the second article on the third page of that day’s newspaper as a seed.
The attack vector would be shortcomings in the pRNG I guess? Which could result in the possibility of some sort of statistical language attack?
Or the attacker could guess the newspaper text & algorithm.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 5 months ago:
Neat, yeah Wikipedia says steam cipher approximate one time pads but can also be completely insecure.
I think it would take one hell of an effort to crack, it would be like 3MB encryption right? Or if they guessed the scheme they could try all mp3s ever torrented XOR’ed in every possible combination.
Idk I think there’s something workable there but I only having a casual knowledge
Also I think OP wanted pen and paper so maybe use a book instead digital files.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 5 months ago:
I’m certainly not an expert.
But could you generate pads from mutually accessible data sources?
Like use hit_me_baby_one_more_time_not_a_virus.mp3 appended with a password, as a seed in a pseudo random number generating algorithm, then do the same thing with another data source, repeat however many times, then XOR the generated numbers together, and use the result as a pad?
- Comment on TSA now offers you a choice 5 months ago:
I always go pat down. I prefer to understand the scope of the privacy violation way also I think it’s good to have a physical reminder of the ways our privacy is invaded.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 5 months ago:
What unhealthy eating habit are you indulging in at 21:45?
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 8 months ago:
I just want to point out that declaring a state of emergency to “deal with” illegal immigrants will allow the construction of large camps all over the country where undesirables can be ‘concentrated’ for ‘processing’.
After rounding up illegal immigrants, maybe they’ll invalidate the status of legal immigrants that knowingly employed, illegal immigrants. Or housed illegal immigrants. Or defended illegal immigrants. Of course these people will need to be detained in the same camps while it all gets processed.
The condition of the camps won’t be great, maybe the detainees can work in specially approved facilities while immigration status gets processed, this will help alleviate the cost of camp maintenance and improve living conditions.
Maybe the detainees can be rented out to local plantations to subsidize the cost of feeding them.
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 9 months ago:
At least there are no centrists in here claiming it’s 3.5
