utopiah

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I wholeheartedly agree. But, I prefer the capability to donate to the open-source software developers that I love to support.

Right indeed, not sure why it was implied that open source software couldn't be a financially viable option for developers too.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

On the one hand, it’s a shame that it’s not open-source, but on the other hand, developers have to make a living from something.

I'm pretty sure most people here, at least I hope, who use open source and free software directly money donate to developers. I know of plenty of developers who do get paid writing open source through such donations or via funding, e.g. NLNet or grants. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your statement, are you saying Sublime Text isn't open source because they believe those ways are not appropriate for them?

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Doubt I can do a PR to https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/ with that yet... but that does beg the question, what other schemes could be represented tangibly without complex mechanisms?

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

FWIW changing ROT is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher as @drspod@lemmy.ml pointed out, I already learned something!

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... and you're blocked, no need for this kind of toxicity here.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Actually no I use it for CRYSTALS-Kyber /s

Yes, just joking it's not even meant for a "replacement" but rather how to give a pragmatic affordable (the 1st one I made was literally just 2 paper strips and scotch tape) fun way to explore ROT... but IMHO it can be just a starting point. You can do that and sequence them, e.g. ROT-X where X is the date so e.g. today is 06 12 2025 so you would ROT0 the first letter, ROT6 the second, etc.

It is only meant to be fun, please don't use this in actual serious situations.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

like this

as long as there is mapping then it's OK, it can be added as yet another filter

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Actually... if you flip it...

So I'd rather argue that hammer can even screw screws.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I use ffmpeg to record only the top left corner of my screen but I don't have any visual for it.

I used https://github.com/ftorkler/x11-overlay/ in the past for another tool, maybe this could help you.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think you are thinking of Collabora Online, not Collabora Office and surely not Collabora the company.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Could also be a short URL instead, e.g. https://lemmy.ml/post/31547467 or ideally something with keywords rather than UUID, even though here 8 digits isn't too bad.

 

This is for pedagogical purposes. Please do not cypher actually important messages with this.

Anyway I think it can bring with little ones, and adults alike, interesting conversations around :

  • secrecy
  • privacy
  • cryptography as counter-power
  • mathematics, starting with modulo
  • the duration a message can stay undecipherable and thus the kind of message to share
  • computational complexity, how many permutations are available

... and a lot more!

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