Since your last post here, a new rule has been introduced. You must disclose AI usage in both the title and in the post body.

Inevitably there would be some incels who claim that speaking to women like normal human beings is an attempt by the matrix to emasculate men.

Four… Fucking… Pixels?

The working hypothesis is that this was some sort of debug or test key that was never meant to be used in production, being used in production.

The encryption that SSL/TLS provides (that puts the “secure” in HTTPS) uses a public–private key pair and a specific mathematical function. Generating the key pair requires a cryptographically secure random number that is impossible or very difficult to guess, which must be kept secret at all times. If this random number is leaked or guessed by a malicious actor, the private key can be reconstructed and used to impersonate a website or break the encryption.

The security of the encryption comes from the fact that the function is easy to calculate one way, but difficult to calculate its inverse. To demonstrate: multiplying the prime numbers 88117 and 44543 is easy, but the inverse, factorizing the semiprime 3924995531, is extremely lengthy in comparison.

One of the factors that determine the security of the key is the size of the number, i.e. the number of digits. In this case, a proper key should’ve had a length of 384 bits (or 116 decimal digits). In reality, the keys that eMudhra used had eight bits, which can only represent 256 possible values, and can be easily guessed even by brute force. The specific private keys were the numbers 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237.

Currently having a very fun day at work.

Fortunately our own certificates are unaffected, but it’s the autumn break and most of the staff are absent and incommunicado.

No, we were taught about HTTP, the fundamentals of hypertext and how it gets rendered, how embedded code (Flash at the time; yes, I’m old) runs in the browser, and the concept of the digital footprint. The cybersecurity implications were obvious.

Actually, I have to correct myself. Some of this was taught in the 7th or 8th year of primary school, around ages 12-14. I was fortunate to be born in a country, at the right time, where the public education system was still worth something. My heart bleeds when I hear of what goes on across the ocean.

Not me. Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer organic.

Literally none of that should be surprising for people who have a basic understanding of how the WWW works.

Which, I’m starting to realize, is a depressively low fraction of the general population. I was taught this in middle school, for fuck’s sake.

They removed almost every basic networking feature with a firmware update. Even in “expert mode”, all I can do is set up the wifi and pick a single /24 network from 192.168.0.0/16. I can’t even pick a goddamn DNS server. Unfortunately the other ISPs that serve my area are at least twice as expensive.

One obstacle you might encounter is carrier-grade NAT or CGNAT. Some ISPs put residential subscribers behind an additional layer of IPv4 NAT, which makes your public address inaccessible from the internet. In that case, you’ll either need Tailscale or a similar service, or a VPS to act as a relay.

Then there’s Vodafone who have unilaterally removed both the port-forward feature and bridge mode from their residential cable modems, and I hate them, and wish them a hammer to balls.

It’ll completely fuck up your joints, though.

Source: am fat, lifelong cyclist, starting to get knee pains.

Does it really surprise anyone that a story by Emil Pagliarulo has poorly written factions?

i3-4160 running Proxmox (OPNSense VM and a couple of containers) with 3 spinny drives and no GPU, TP-Link 8x GbE switch, ASUS AX1800 as a Wifi AP, ISP’s own manky cable modem, plus a UPS eats about 66-72 watts at the wall socket. If I install a passively cooled GT-710 for transcoding, it adds 10-15 watts at idle.

SCIENTIST FOUND EVIDENCE THAT THE MULTIVERSE IS REAL

New experimental observations regarding macroscopic quantum mechanical systems are found to be consistent with the many-worlds interpretation.

This will have dire consequences for the trout population.

It’s easy to build a well-designed language when you don’t have to work around the mistakes of the past that were too difficult to solve then and too deeply entrenched to change now.

It would be the single most active gambling economy.

There’s no way in hell a Galaxy-class starship has enough delta-v in its cargo bays to meaningfully affect its trajectory, not to mention that the thrust vector wouldn’t be aligned with the ship’s center of mass and most of it would be wasted. All that would achieve is the starship going out with a fucking fart_reverb.mp3 while gently turning to port.

I’d love to know what you think this “commentary from the beginning” is. Please, elaborate.

I broke my entire OS just tochown the /lib/*s