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- Comment on When you live in the UK and don't work for the BBC 1 month ago:
A ‘nonce’ is something used when encrypting data - it adds randomness into the data, so that identical messages will be encrypted differently. This stops hackers executing attacks where they can guess the first bit of the message, and work backwards to the encryption key (among different attacks).
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 month ago:
I’m interested! I thought both words derive from Latin prosequi/persequi and had essentially the same meaning as modern English. Which language do you speak?
- Comment on White House Faith Office 1 month ago:
Is that prosecuted or persecuted? Hmmm, actually both fit perfectly in your sentence
- Comment on Why would a UTF-8 MySQL backup contain invalid UTF-8 characters? 2 months ago:
This is the right answer. I had the job of planning a schema update to fix this shitty design.
Saying that, unicode and character formats are incredibly complex things that are not easily implemented. For example two strings in utf-8 can contain the same number of characters but be hugely different in size (up to 3-4x different!). It’s well worth reading through some articles to get a feel of the important points.
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 4 months ago:
That made my head spin. Sorry about the pun - guilty as charged.