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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
@xgranade@wandering.shop Centrist brain, basically
So far I have 5 bins stacked on top of each other on my desk, with the topmost bin containing a few heavy boxes of screwdriver and drill bits. The tower still seems perfectly stable! And I'm not seeing any kind of wear or fatigue marks on any of the stacking nets.
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I AM GONNA YELL WHAT THE FUUUUUCK
Kazakhstan’s health ministry rejects claims of ‘LGBT propaganda’ influencing teens
"According to the report, the LGBT movement does not push teenagers to change their sexual orientation. On the contrary, it helps them combat depression and bullying."
UPD: the article was taken down, suspecting an attempt to silence them. they still have it available at their IG page: kursiv.media, as far as i know.
truth will prevail.
@domo Assuming you're talking about the SUP fee, as I understand it it isn't a tax at all - places using those single-use plastics are merely required to charge customers, but do not themselves owe any kind of fee to anyone.
This seems to be driven by some neoliberal nonsense around 'economic nudging' that completely ignores how and why these plastics are actually used and selected (ie. it isn't actually customers making that choice).
Had it been an actual tax, then chances are that it wouldn't have been charged to customers at all. A lot of takeaway places were publicly lamenting how they didn't *want* to charge this fee to customers, but they legally had to.
@jornane The reason I'm asking is mostly because I don't trust myself to have a full understanding of the internal usages of the nonce.
The deterministic output is indeed what I'm trying to accomplish, but it'd suck if in the process of chasing that behaviour, I accidentally broke some other security property 🙃
The 'static nonce' point also does make sense; but I am not sure if that's *exactly* equivalent security-wise to a deterministically content-derived nonce?
@weddige The nonce in this case would be derived through a (cryptographically secure) hashing function of some kind, so different inputs would be encrypted with different nonces, but copies of the same input would use the same nonce.
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This has the somewhat hilarious consequence that it is literally impossible to order from them without having baguettes added to your order, because the order minimum is the same as the threshold for free baguette
And they're not even a French company!
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Okay, I've seen online shops before that give you free extra products if you go over a certain order total... but I have to say that it's a first to see one that automatically adds them to your cart and *you cannot remove them*
This has the somewhat hilarious consequence that it is literally impossible to order from them without having baguettes added to your order, because the order minimum is the same as the threshold for free baguette
And they're not even a French company!
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Forget all that passing in special arguments on the command line or config files or any of that. I just want a big knob that controls debug level. If I want more debugging output I turn the knob. Too much, I turn it down.
And like, we're not talking about a little trinket here. We're talking about commercially-sized boxes of food!
Okay, I've seen online shops before that give you free extra products if you go over a certain order total... but I have to say that it's a first to see one that automatically adds them to your cart and *you cannot remove them*
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@nobody (Another of the governance issues is how cozy a lot of people in the community are with military contractors and other murderers-for-hire; and again DetSys pops up here too)
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@nobody All of the things you mention are just specific symptoms - the actual governance issue underlying all of these (and it is not the only governance issue either) is the constant stream of conflict-of-interest situations against which the project and community have effectively no defenses or mitigations.
It didn't start with DetSys either; there's a similar history with various other Nix consultancies.
#AskFedi: Cryptography question: when implementing an encrypted storage system that also deduplicates (ie. the same plaintext data should result in the same ciphertext), is there any reason why the nonce shouldn't also be deterministically derived from the input data?
(I understand the security tradeoffs introduced by having deduplication, I am only asking about whether specifically a deterministic *nonce* introduces any additional issues beyond that)
@LexYeen Related tip: those colored anodized-aluminium dogtags are cheap to get, can be put on your keychain, and do pretty well at scraping off stickers!
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Hey kids, if you're removing fash stickers or other propaganda, good on you for cleaning up your neighborhood.
Just remember to always use a tool, and wear sturdy work gloves if necessary, because the tools putting that shit up sometimes hide dangerous surprises like razorblades or needles as a way to hurt anyone removing their shit by hand.
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Related observation: which camp a post gets sorted into seems to have much more to do with who made it, than with the actual contents of the post.
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Perhaps the clearest indicator that the #NixOS governance issues are not going to be resolved through discussions on the forum: the fact that for the past several years, you can reliably sort nearly every post into one of two 'camps' by looking at who hit the like button, and the exact lists for each camp have barely changed.
Likes aren't a reliable indicator for much, but it sure shows that minds are not being changed, and that it's a much more fundamental conflict that probably isn't going to be resolved until one camp just *leaves* the project.
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
