It’s also that writing complex 3-dimensional characters is hard. It’s much simpler to write a straightforward “good guy” or “bad guy” than it is a nuanced character who does some good things and some bad things all connected to core motivations that drive their reasoning.

He is actually British. Apart from that, agree with the rest. Especially D.

As someone physically capable of playing games with the blinky shiny lights, they aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. My top two games atm are Manor Lords and MENACE, both of which should be perfectly accessible to you.

That would rely on the contact of that user using the admin’s public key. In most systems I’ve seen that’d result in a big flashing warning that the user’s key has been changed. So, dangerous for people contacting you for the first time, much more obvious if the 2 users have been talking before that point.

Other people have raised the much more interesting and potentially dangerous point that it’s very difficult in this context to make sure that a particular public key corresponds with a particular user. I’m way more used to sysadmin style issues where you have a small number of known keypairs, while in this context it’s a large number of mostly unknown keypairs, so you need some way of confirming that. I’m starting to understand why this is a much thornier issue than it appears on the surface.

How much do you know about cryptography?

I’d describe myself as a relatively knowledgeable layman. Essentially I know enough to use it effectively in a sysadmin/dbadmin capacity, but not got a good grasp of the underlying math.

This was my earliest blog post on the topic, if you want a place to start.

Thank you, I’ll take you up on that.

As long as the admin doesn’t possess the private key, that solution still prevents the latter issue. If the admin swaps out your public key for one they control, they could technically impersonate you and read messages after the swap, but not read any messages from before. The user would be unable to use E2EE as soon as the key is swapped, so the only real issue here is impersonation.

An admin could theoretically take over a user’s account today, so there’s not really a new vulnerability here. And with E2EE, there’d be a big clue about something funky happening with the public key changing.

EDIT: Oh.

These aren’t encapsulation keys (a.k.a., asymmetric or “public key encryption” keys). Encapsulation keys belong to the MLS KeyPackages, which are NOT planned to ever be logged in a key transparency system. The KeyPackages will be signed by the keypair whose public component is stored, however.

That seems… strange? Not sure why that approach was chosen.

Not if you have pets. You’ll need a screen to stop hair getting into the case if you have cats/dogs.

My cat used to do that all the time. Burrowed under the blanket and then turned around and stuck her head out.

These antibiotics are awful though. So big I had to break in half just to swallow and they gave me an awful tummy ache even though I ate with yogurt like the Dr suggested.

Sounds very unpleasant. Get well soon.

Cat bites are really nasty, like losing a limb or worse

Not that bad, but yeah. Cat scratches heal just fine. Cat bite? Instant course of antibiotics, and also a rabies shot if it’s not your own cat.

The next time, throw a glass of water into the fight or slam some pot lids together to make a scary noise to interrupt the fight

Absolutely. Throwing water at fighting cats is a great method of getting them to disperse. By far the safest and most reliable method.

The vast majority of that final paragraph is just good advice for cat owners generally, not even specifically for cats that hate each other. Neutered cats have much better health outcomes as there’s just less that can go wrong. Giving them plenty of routes to move around the room just generally results in more active, happier cats. Also, scratching posts are mandatory if you don’t want them attacking your furniture. They have a physiological need to scratch, give 'em somewhere to do it.

The way some US citizens engage with their government really reminds me of the good tsar, bad boyar phenomenon common in Russia.

Trump/the tsar couldn’t be doing the thing that’s hurting me, he just doesn’t know about the situation! If only the state governor/boyar wasn’t so horrible, corrupt and hiding the situation from the federal government, then Trump/the tsar would obviously step in and fix the issue.

Oh, ok. Sorry, I’ll stop reading the future ones then, didn’t realize all the slots were taken.

It depends on what you mean by “charge money”. Subscription monthly payment? Not affected. One-time purchase? Affected.

Essentially, if your average consumer would understand that you “bought” the game, then that game cannot be rendered completely inoperable. When the studio shuts down their servers, they must provide either a version of the game with multiplayer and server connection disabled, or provide a means for players to run their own servers.

Gonna echo what others have said here from my general programming experience: you need to start WAY smaller. Build, for example, a top-down sprite art single-player extraction shooter. Once you’ve gotten the hang of the general problems with real-time gameplay, then move on to the next project.

I don’t think you’re wrong in starting with a particular focus and expanding the scope as you gain experience, but you’ve set your starting point aggressively too high.

What profits? AI companies are burning through money like crazy.

There’s lots of countries that ended slavery without a war. Some via external diplomatic pressure, some via internal societal pressure.

As far as I understand it (I’m not a historian or American) the confederacy being economically weaker than the union was a significant factor in the civil war.

I am not quite in that demographic but getting pretty close. I’ve bought maybe a game a year for a very long time now. Most non-indie stuff is complete and utter trash. If I see a AAA publisher logo, I take it as a sign that it’s not worth my time or money.

In general, it’s true that Linux doesn’t need to restart for most updates. However, if you get a power cut right in the middle of an update, that could leave your OS in a really bad state. Therefore, for safety reasons, some distros (apparently including CachyOS) do updates in a ‘safe mode’ on boot, so that if there’s a power cut it just rolls back cleanly.

In short, how exactly distros approach updates differ slightly. A tradeoff between safety and convenience.

Seems pretty normal for an orange cat. There’s something about that colour that causes extreme stupidity. They’re normally good fun though.

If you’re an EU citizen, just paying taxes does a lot.