Thanks for that rabbit hole. My former colleagues and I have just started a new conversation thread in our WhatsApp group about the differences of (non-) cryptographic hashes and encryption. And all because I was confused why you’ve chosen to reference the public key file in your original comment. Well, at least I’m learning something.
Sorry for the confusion about “encryption”. I meant “signing” which is encrypting a hash of the commit with your private key, so that others can verify that your the author of the commit using your public key and the hash.
I think, the only confusion here was the original comment that referenced the public key for signing, but this was resolved, as it is just telling git which key pair to use. Probably, all people here understand the basics of asymmetrical encryption and signing and it was merely misunderstanding of how the command for signing git commits can be used.
OH! Now I see! Thanks for pointing that out.
Yeah, sorry, I meant signing, not encrypting. I know about asymmetrical encryption. That’s why I was confused by the original statement. For signing you use your private key so that others can verify your identity by using your public key for checking the signature. For encrypting data you use the public key of the receiver.
The original comment used the public key for signing, which is not what you want to do.
I now read the explanation.
But why? Public is public. People can take my public key. The can encrypt my commit, making it indistinguishable from my commit.
Isn’t the idea to use your private key for encryption so that everyone can use your public key to decrypt your signature and to verify that it’s you who actually did the commit, because no one else has access to the private key?
Aren’t clock tattoos like such a cliché that tattoo artists role their eyes when you ask for one? Are a bunch of millennials and gen-x deemed gang members because they followed a trend?
Are you using your public ssh key for signing? Wouldn’t it make more sense to use the private one as people can then verify your identity by using your public key?
I work for a kind of data provider/dashboard/planing tool for energy grid providers. There is an issue with the “sudden” rise of solar panels and heat pumps and electric cars. Our grid isn’t made for this and there needs to be modernised.
That being said: Yay abundant clean energy!
Oh yeah, I remember the good ol’ “Our whole business Logic is within this 30 tables spread sheet, that only one person can read, and don’t you dare restarting that computer” times.
One person. Sitting in front of three monitors. In front of a spreadsheet that maxed out every resource of that computer. It was glorious.
When I was a kid, Chernobyl happened. We weren’t that far away and although I was very little I still remember the fear and uncertainty in my parent’s faces. The following years were marked by research about what we can no longer eat, where our food comes from, etc
I also remember the fights about where to store nuclear waste.
I don’t want to burn coal. I am pretty upset about what happened to our clean energy plans. But I will also never trust nuclear again. And I think, so do many in my generation.
The question is, why does it run on Linux and not Apple
And here I am with my brand new niche zero that I was so proud of until like three minutes ago.
I want that on a t-shirt! And I’m definitely going to steal it for my slack tagline.
The one where she tries to talk her boyfriend down from uprooting their life to start a podcast career in LA is even better.
Don’t you think that vegans know, that rice is a plant? That marketing is not aimed at us.
There are also a couple of reasons why someone might want to use a substitute for rice.
Growing rice is very water intensive. Rice contains traces of arsenic. And of course it’s full of carbohydrates.
The packaging is marketing and uses the same plant-based stick that is conflated with healthy food.
The thing is, I also want to query all possible colors. And that would then be in a different function so I’d have to change two functions whenever I add a new color and I don’t like that.
I heard about this, but I wasn’t sure it was the right way. Or if Rust developers just straight up avoid situations like this.
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