I wholeheartedly agree. But, I prefer the capability to donate to the open-source software developers that I love to support.
Right indeed, not sure why it was implied that open source software couldn’t be a financially viable option for developers too.
On the one hand, it’s a shame that it’s not open-source, but on the other hand, developers have to make a living from something.
I’m pretty sure most people here, at least I hope, who use open source and free software directly money donate to developers. I know of plenty of developers who do get paid writing open source through such donations or via funding, e.g. NLNet or grants. Maybe I’m misunderstanding your statement, are you saying Sublime Text isn’t open source because they believe those ways are not appropriate for them?
Doubt I can do a PR to https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/ with that yet… but that does beg the question, what other schemes could be represented tangibly without complex mechanisms?
FWIW changing ROT is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigenère_cipher as @drspod@lemmy.ml pointed out, I already learned something!
… and you’re blocked, no need for this kind of toxicity here.
Actually no I use it for CRYSTALS-Kyber /s
Yes, just joking it’s not even meant for a “replacement” but rather how to give a pragmatic affordable (the 1st one I made was literally just 2 paper strips and scotch tape) fun way to explore ROT… but IMHO it can be just a starting point. You can do that and sequence them, e.g. ROT-X where X is the date so e.g. today is 06 12 2025 so you would ROT0 the first letter, ROT6 the second, etc.
It is only meant to be fun, please don’t use this in actual serious situations.
like this
as long as there is mapping then it’s OK, it can be added as yet another filter
I use ffmpeg to record only the top left corner of my screen but I don’t have any visual for it.
I used https://github.com/ftorkler/x11-overlay/ in the past for another tool, maybe this could help you.
Could also be a short URL instead, e.g. https://lemmy.ml/post/31547467 or ideally something with keywords rather than UUID, even though here 8 digits isn’t too bad.
That’s the kind of things I expect somebody to be into deciphering to have already a ~/Prototypes/deciphers/ directory with a bunch of scripts with the basics and maybe a testing script that iterates through them sorted by probability (maybe based on popularity) and checks output against keywords, e.g. stop words of increasing length then dictionaries.
TL;DR: I bet that person had automated that process.
Neat, you inspired me to post my cryptography bracelets https://lemmy.ml/post/31555517
FWIW and even though that’s not what you implied Android is far from perfect either, just reading https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could right now and… even though Google does try, other, arguably not malware (very arguable!) do manage to go through anyway.
a majority of their computer experience is probably in the browser, with an office suite and maybe an email client.
Exactly, and for whatever is left there is
and finally, the most important “etc” namely you can have a poster on the wall with post-its where they write what they miss, you write down a matching post-it in front. You might not get 100% coverage but I’d be shocked if you don’t have 99%. You can also “seed” that poster with existing ones, e.g. https://trustonteachestech.blogspot.com/2017/06/open-source-alternatives.html
My hope is actually that standard compliant (that’s the important bit) hardware keys and passkey, e.g. WebAuthn, get more broadly accepted. This way open source and hope hardware solutions, e.g NitroKey, would allow anybody on any OS supporting those standards (which does include Linux without proprietary blobs AFAICT) to work.
Thanks for doing that.
IMHO it’s show, don’t tell. I’m assuming you have few laptops laying around here but ideally :
Few “gotcha” I would warn people who are genuinely interested in (as I wouldn’t waste time with this for people still doubting) :
Now… the actual argument I usually share with people is the browser. Most people don’t use their computer, really. They use their browser to connect to the Web THEN do their “work” or entertainment. In that case then it should be no problem because browsers are properly cross platform. I would let them potentially use Chrome (sigh) or Chromium just to show how familiar it is and hope that, as they learn more about freedom, they do consider other browsers, like Firefox or WaterFox, Pale Moon, etc but just like with distributions, starting with whatever is popular and they feel comfortable with.
I would consider that VERY sophisticated. One needs to basically conduct identity fraud, so have enough information to port your SIM via your phone company. I imagine that if you do not call your phone company with your existing number they have a few extra steps to allow anything to happen.
Anyway, beyond that, which as you shared (thanks for taking the time to put those links) is indeed not infeasible (but still requires targeted work and skills) this is only 1 step out of 2 for authentication against a bank. One still needs to know the bank and the login/password pair the Website requires.
Even once that’s done, I believe most banks do not allow large transfers, e.g. above 10K EUR, without another verification. Typically transfers have a daily and weekly limit that can be modified temporarily.
So… IMHO it’s sophisticated (in the sense that a “script kiddie” or scammer without technical skills can’t do it) and has limited economical value.
I will remember it (again, thanks for pointing it out) but I won’t lose sleep over it.
PS: I’m wondering what’s the consumer law on this actually because arguably some steps, e.g. no limit transfer or SIM porting would be on failure on the side of companies, not consumer. I wouldn’t be shocked if companies had insurance for that and might have to pay back whatever amount would be stolen. Obviously this would be regulation dependent.
solar helps that number even more
Wouldn’t that assume you are not using all the electricity coming from your panels?
FWIW I’m donating every month to CodeMirror author, donates to Vim, etc. I’m not saying they are wrong, nor right, solely that implying (but maybe I misunderstood the comment) that somehow open-source and getting paid are antagonist is IMHO damaging to FLOSS broadly.