sotolf

sotolf , 10 months ago to nim in Nim v2.0 released

I don’t think the jupyter kernel is made by the core developers of nim, it’s kind of weird to call the language pain in the ass because of one weird niche usecase being hard to set up :)

sotolf , 10 months ago to technology in Google’s Web Environment Integrity project raises a lot of concerns

How likely do you think it is that even with the heavy push anything more than a small percentage of people will switch.

sotolf , 11 months ago to askscience in How does a signing a post with a pgp key prove that you are actually the person behind the post?

So they are not excrypting it, but do we agree that with signatures the author uses their private key + the clear message to generate “something”?

Yeah sure, and I think the person you are arguing with is saying as much as well, it’s just that this is not encrypting it, when you encrypt something you obfuscate it in a way that is possible to deobfuscate, think the caesar cipher as a simple encryption, a hash/signature on the other hand is something that is generated from the clear text using your private key, which is not possible to decrypt, think very simplified that the person would just put the amount of each letter of the alphabet used in in the text, then add the length of the thread, and then multiplied by your private key. This way it’s proven that the holder of the private key is the person writing the text, and that the text hasn’t changed since the signature was generated.

… so then anyone can use the author’s public key to check that “something” against the clear mesage to confirm the author’s identity?

They can confirm that the person holding the private key (not identity, just that they have the key) and also that nobody changed it since they signed it (like the person adminning the forum or a moderator or something)

If that’s the case, then my error is that the operation to generate the signature is not an encryption. So, may I ask… what is it? A special type of hash?

It’s basically a hashing function yeah.

sotolf , 11 months ago to askscience in How does a signing a post with a pgp key prove that you are actually the person behind the post?

Look at the words you used, encryption is not the same as a signature, with a signature you can prove that a person with access to the private key wrote the message.

What you’re talking about in your message is encryption, and you have it the wrong way around, messages gets encrypted with the public key, and can only be read with the private key.

sotolf , 11 months ago to reddit in "Teddit is Shutting Down. Lemmy is the New Reddit"

Yeah, I am really impressed about it, at first I was thinking about what the use of it would be, kind of wouldn’t make much of a difference. Then I tried it out, and it just feels like home, it’s so much more compact, I really love it, and I’ve used it for a couple of weeks by now :)

sotolf , 11 months ago to reddit in "Teddit is Shutting Down. Lemmy is the New Reddit"

The content is the same, as it federates with lemmy, but the server and the code that runs kbin is completely different, it’s written in php while lemmy is written in rust. Kbin also has support for microblogs (like mastodon) so it’s not lemmy at all really, but it can talk with it :)

sotolf , 11 months ago to memes in Catholicism

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Picture of A wildlife photographer marked “The rest of the church” taking pictures out of the frame towards a text marked “Women getting abortions” While prominently in the backgrounds there are two rhinos fucking, the fucker is marked “Priests” and the fuckee “Children”

sotolf , 11 months ago to programmer_humor in Cold dark place filled with sadness and despair

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An image of a social media post:

Linus Torvalds @torvalds 10 hours ago

I’m clearly a master of SEO.

When I google for “cold dark place filled with sadness and despair” right now (with the quotes), google gives me exactly one result - my Linux kernel github repository.

I will call my new hobby “Reverse Emo Googlewhacking”.

You’re welcome.

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sotolf , 11 months ago to fediverse in Will there be a fediverse app anytime in the future?

I think they want one that can interact with the whole fediverse, so lemmy, kbin, mastodon, peertube, friendica, hubzilla, pleroma, akkoma, calckkey, misskey etc.

sotolf , 11 months ago to fediverse in Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads

Poor moderation certinly has something to do with it.

sotolf , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in What would be the problem if Threads federated with Lemmy&co in the future?

The problem that I see at least is moderation, from what I’ve seen from screenshots and stuff from over there, there are a lot of bad people over there, and many of us at least joined the fediverse to get away from toxicity and people like that.