Gyroplast

Consider a key pair, consisting of two brutally large numbers, but otherwise pretty much identical. Magical math exists that makes it so that if you math your data with one of these brutally large numbers, you get the original data back only if you math it with the other large number. That’s basically it.

Now we slap convention onto this, and keep one of the paired, large numbers a secret, and call it our private key, the other number is disseminated and called the public key for that reason.

Now everyone can math data with your public key, so that only the paired private key, which only you know, can de-math it. This is encryption/decryption.

Signing is very similar, but now you use your private key, which only you know, to math a digest of your data, and all the world can de-math this correctly only with your public key, thus proving it was indeed your private key used to math the data in the first place, and by extension attribute the signature to your public key identity. Your private key is never known to anyone but you, which is an essential difference to “classical” symmetric encryption with a shared secret.

You may realize how easily a code signature can become a liability, if you fail to keep your private key secret for any reason. You can be trivially impersonated, with basically no chance of recourse or deniability with an SSH key, while you can at least invalidate a GPG key publicly and mark it as “stolen” that way. This is potentially very important, if there’s any legal meaning attached to your signature, and if not, why bother with code signing in the first place, if “trust me bro” is well enough.

FOR NO REASON!!?! 🔥 🔥 That “barista” 🫤 deliberately spelled the name of my 😍 daughter 🥰 Brettly wrong on the cup, and did not appreciate her 🦄 uniqueness AT ALL when I demanded them to correct their stupid mistake! The nerve of some people! 🤯

A study on 6 (six!) people? That’s not a study, that’s less than I get asking around during any lunch break. [this is worthless! meme] Wonderful trolling of some unpleasant cow-orkers, though, chapeau!

Crusty, cynical folks, entirely unlike and unrelated to myself, could be tempted to name it the Beginning of Eternal October for Linux.

yeah i tried looking up what that would even be a symbol of and how that, historically, could be justified, and found absolutely nothing. not even in their “yo, tha’s anti-semitic” claim.

I remember propaganda “caricatures” of jewish octopi ensnaring the world, promoting the myth of a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. Seeing how this conspiracy theory is somehow still going strong, I’m not surprised how sufficiently simple-minded, or ill-willed, actors pick up on the connotation, and interpret it within bounds of their very finite understanding of the world. Or twisting confabulated connotations in a weird, whataboutistic way to somehow… critique? others as antisemitic, since they’ve been labeled as such themselves all the time, and can only see and use it as a content-deprived slur anymore to silence and attack their perceived enemies.

Well, either way, antisemitic octopi were a thing in Nazi Germany propaganda. Poor cephalopods.

Probably molly-guard.

I did not need this to hit so hard right now. Time to start a new therapeutic rye sourdough.

“Cash or credit?” “Arch, btw.”

What kind of soulless psychopath leaves a window of this size unmaximized is the real question here. Also, a horizontal scrollbar in the main section, able to scroll maybe 8 pixels total to see some more of the glorious empty padding, could have been a nice touch as a consequence of the “unintended” window size.