Same here. It just works and works well

Oh, I did not know that. Well, it makes sense that it has a heap allocation, as it becomes more or less global. Though not sure why the atomic operations are needed when the value inside is immutable.

You mean mutex? Arc allows synchronous read only access by multiple threads, so it’s not a performance bottleneck. Locking a mutex would be one.

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

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

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

Ebird/ Merlin bird id does this wonderfully.

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

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.

If you want DNS only in your LAN, you need to self host a DNS server and register this domain locally (by putting it in some config file of yours)

Audiobookshelf is insanely good. It’s almost a perfect application. Seemingly it does ebooks too, but I haven’t used that yet.

Rust bindings for Qt would be pretty awesome.

Im studying the security stuff. The more you think about it, the more paranoid you become until you notice that your level of paranoia is far too high and try to ignore things.

Firmwares everywhere are definitely spying on us. Or at leasty they could, and we wouldn’t really know it.

Just use the god damn browser

TeamSpeak exists too