They're also aknowledging that it already existed… It's new to windows. I don't like them either but you don't need to actively look for shit to be upset at them over.

For a moment I misread the title as something about Counter Strike somehow having something to do with gun control measures and got very confused…

The problem was more that I didn't even know what I was looking at. It just stopped at a screen with terminal output from it booting up, so I thought it was just stuck… After a bit I found something on an arch forum that mentioned opening up a new terminal instance (or something like that), and how to do it, which led me to realize that gnome got uninstalled.

Once I figured that out it only took 5 minutes to fix, but I only found that after an hour of assuming that it was frozen and trying to fix that.

I use Ubuntu and that is literally the coffee machine I use… Except I don't use the actual cups, I'm basically only using it as a source of hot water, and instead I use different cups that are reusable, and just are there to hold the coffee grounds. And similarly, I got flathub on Ubuntu, installed shit to get appimages working, and accidentally uninstalled gnome at one point, which took me an hour to fix mostly because it just stopped at a terminal I couldn't input anything on, so I had to figure out that I could open up a new one that would actually let me log in and reinstall gnome.

"Design dice" so weighted dice?

I'm using an SD card as a temporary main storage. I could technically put in an ssd, but I lost/broke the part where a screw would go to hold it in place (it's a strange laptop…), so the only option I would have is to tape it, and I don't feel comfortable letting it potentially flop around in there… As for what a swap file is (that's the name I found for it), it is virtual memory. It was reserving that space to use as RAM if need be, when I already have 2/3rds as much ram as storage.

The child already looks tired of the bullshit that happens with Linux. A few days ago I discovered that I had either a 6 or 8 gigabyte swap file. I have 20 gigs of ram already, and was running out of a 32 GB SD card…

Linux updates: here’s the whole new desktop, GUI, appstore, start menu analog, and you can now summon a demon to do your bidding (no gui yet, you have to use the terminal until next update)

So it sounds like compression before encryption should only be done in specific circumstances because it can be a security issue depending on use case, but encryption before compression should never be done because it will almost always increase the size of the file

Depends on if you’re using lossless or lossy compression. Lossless compression will usually make it bigger, because it relies entirely on data being formatted so their are common patterns or elements that can be described with fewer parts. Like, an ok compression algorithm for a book written in English and stored as Unicode would be to convert it to ASCII and have a thing that will denote Unicode if there happens to be anything that can’t convert. An encrypted version of that book would look indestinguishable from random characters, so compressing it at that point would just put that Unicode denoter before every single character, making the book end up taking more space.

Compress the encrypted data. You’re talking about encrypting compressed data, this was talking about compressing encrypted data.

And the fact that it can grow data means you should really put a test to make sure that the compressed data is actually smaller… I once had something refuse to allow me to upload a file that was well below their 8Mb file limit while it was claiming it was above the limit, and I’m assuming it was because they were testing the size after compression and that file grew from 6Mb to above the limit.

If that’s true, what’s to stop someone else from just compressing it themself and opening the same attack vector?

I thought it was referring to something being secure because few people are using it, so nobody is targeting it.

Technically all security is only possible through obscurity. If everyone had your private key, it would no longer be secure because it is no longer obscure.

But, but, but…

The nice creators won’t be getting their money… Oh wait, you have to buy from resellers…

The nice scalpers won’t be able to get their money!

Emulation?

That’s the reason emulators are great: games that would otherwise die with the hardware they run on can live forever.

I could see at least three ways this could work: In a magical setting, “I am merely an illusion cast by the real threat who is now using this opportunity to get past. My actions and words are a result of your subconscious warring with their mind, and because of your incredible will power, you are winning. You need to stop them before they can completely ensnare your mind.”

In a more general setting, just gas light them into believing that they are hallucinating due to bad/poisoned food or exhaustion, this is actually a near death experience and they never walked away from that accident 3 years ago (and if they don’t remember “the accident”, say that is part of the problem. They’re obviously repressing the memory to hold onto the notion that they still have working legs. Why do you think you became a guard, patrolling around all day on their feet?), or that they are crazy.

For all of those, the key points could be

“Would a real intruder be this calm about getting caught?”

(not for the magic one) “You’ve been at this job how long? You seriously believe that on tonight of all nights you of all people would happen to find an intruder?”

And then as a final, last ditch effort “do you really get paid enough to care about me doing whatever the hell petty theivery I plan on doing? Think about how much effort it will be if you ACTUALLY go through with capturing me.”…

You don’t need capital letters in the country name

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