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Comment · 8 months ago
I'm not sure I fully understood your point, but about the question "how fascism if elected?": the Nazi Party won (i.e., it was the most voted party) in multiple elections in the late 20s/early 30s.
Comment · 8 months ago
The paint mixing is actually way closer to the idea of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, more than RSA.
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Comment · 9 months ago
Basically, Homelander's origin story (from The Boys).
Comment · 9 months ago
I'll be that guy: the "G" in GPT stands for "Generative".
Comment · 9 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
You can indeed use HTTPS with the end server (e.g., accessing Wikipedia). This correctly hides the traffic content from all relays.

To reach this point, though, you first need to set up the Tor circuit itself. This is done in a 'telescopic' fashion: the user connects via TLS to the first relay, then sends a message to extend the circuit to a second relay, then to the third (and usually last) relay. Finally, to open Wikipedia, you send a layered encrypted message to the last relay. All this data is link-protected by TLS on the wire, but protected by Tor's relay encryption mechanism while being processed by the nodes.

Comment · 11 months ago
That is correct. But, (in general) encryption does not necessarily guarantees integrity of the data. In other words, a plaintext can be encrypted, the ciphertext given to another party, and they can tamper with the ciphertext in a way that produces predictable changes in the message obtained by decrypting the tampered ciphertext.
Comment · 11 months ago
Relays can be malicious and try to tamper with the data. Think of Tor relay encryption like Signal's E2E encryption, where the relays are analogous to Signal's servers. You want to ensure they can neither see what you sent (confidentiality) nor modify it without detection (integrity).
Comment · 1 year ago
I 100% agree with you, but it looks like that specific, single instance is a clear example of the famous broken clock being right twice a day.
Comment · 1 year ago
Not uncommon in Norway, at least at few gyms I've been to after they reopened after COVID.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Towards the bottom, it states:

  It turns out that the Pacific Time Zone is the only one where the bug caused a user visible difference because:

    1. Daylight saving time starting or ending changes the time zone offset by just one hour.
    2. The bug only has an effect when the difference in the number of hours goes from less than a day to at least a day, or vice versa (e.g. 23 to 24 or 24 to 23).

  The only hour of the day that satisfies those two conditions is 11:00pm, and the only time zone where daylight saving time starts and ends at 11:00pm is the Pacific Time Zone.

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