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Cake day: January 6th, 2023

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  • Good to know! I’ve been using local testing and fortunately haven’t run into a case where the tests pass local and fail on their servers. Yet.

    My most intense solution so far had been a very multi-core Knapsack solution. The tests they provided are pretty minuscule, which probably helped.



  • The article that changed your mind really shouldn’t have. It’s mostly full of hyperbole. Like this:

    “PGP does a mediocre job of signing things, a relatively poor job of encrypting them with passwords, and a pretty bad job of encrypting them with public keys. PGP is not an especially good way to securely transfer a file. It’s a clunky way to sign packages. It’s not great at protecting backups. It’s a downright dangerous way to converse in secure messages.”

    Literally none of this is true - the author is presenting their particular opinions as general fact. I use AES through PGP, knowing that even future quantum computers can’t break it.

    I wish they’d cut out all the 90’s references and pointless exaggerations, and stuck to facts. Then again, the facts-only version of this article probably wouldn’t make a strong case against PGP.

    (Also, one of the links in the article, with the dodgy-and-harmful link text “Full disk encryption isn’t great”, includes advice to use PGP in it. Maybe the author should have read the references they were citing.)









  • It’s more “which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg”. It’s a useful phrase to describe a situation where two things necessarily depend on each other. Chickens must come from chicken eggs, and chicken eggs must come from chickens, and one had to precede the other.

    (In the actual case of chickens, it can be resolved easily - by defining “chicken egg” as either an egg laid by a chicken or an egg which contains a chicken, you will obviously and quickly draw a conclusion.)