m0darn

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[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Previous owners that gave money to Musk can distance themselves from him, while new owners that believe Teslas are good can buy one without giving money to Musk.

I'm in the market for a car and there is an amount of money I would spend for a used Tesla despite the potential for vandalism etc. I don't think there is an amount of money I'd spend on a new one

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do American companies that operate Canadian subsidiaries get their earnings out of the country?

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

I'm sure many "private conversations" are occurring, we shouldn't discount the possibility (as slight as it may be) that they were serving Canada's legitimate interests and not just their own.

I mean it is possible that conservative Americans would take Conservative MPs more seriously, and they had a unique opportunity to advocate for us....

I mean I wouldn't wager much money on the proposition, but it's possible.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Totally, FPTP is bad.

On further consideration I think the best move for Canada is to explore membership in the EU, which I believe would entail some level of PR and would be more difficult to criticize from a legitimacy stand point, and would be beneficial in terms of reducing our economic dependence on a now notoriously fickle trading partner.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I agree that FPTP is bad. I wrote to Justin Trudeau to criticize the liberals decision to mothball electoral reform.

But if we change systems while facing annexation from south of the border, and it results in conservative "under performance" (by which I mean the conservative party loses the structural advantage that's baked into the current system) conservatives in Canada and the USA will cry foul and insist we be "liberated".

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Our system is pretty different. It is FPTP, and I support reform, but to say that our system is just as bad is untrue and a political mistake at this time.

In fact I think electoral reform is a bad idea until the USA is more stable, I think it would create an opportunity for them to coup us.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

So how does generating a one time pad from mutually accessible data fit into this scheme. Is the pad the cipher or the key?

If two people agreed that the pad would be the output of a particular pRNG given the 3rd paragraph of the second article on the third page of that day's newspaper as a seed.

The attack vector would be shortcomings in the pRNG I guess? Which could result in the possibility of some sort of statistical language attack?

Or the attacker could guess the newspaper text & algorithm.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Neat, yeah Wikipedia says steam cipher approximate one time pads but can also be completely insecure.

I think it would take one hell of an effort to crack, it would be like 3MB encryption right? Or if they guessed the scheme they could try all mp3s ever torrented XOR'ed in every possible combination.

Idk I think there's something workable there but I only having a casual knowledge

Also I think OP wanted pen and paper so maybe use a book instead digital files.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm certainly not an expert.

But could you generate pads from mutually accessible data sources?

Like use hit_me_baby_one_more_time_not_a_virus.mp3 appended with a password, as a seed in a pseudo random number generating algorithm, then do the same thing with another data source, repeat however many times, then XOR the generated numbers together, and use the result as a pad?

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

Does this make the game non- vegan?

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

You should read the article.

But also here is a link to a video of the game the foul mentioned is at 1:07:50.

I don't watch a lot of basketball but can anyone think of a reason other than transphobia that the white team coach (right end of the bench) would clap at that time?

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I always go pat down. I prefer to understand the scope of the privacy violation also I think it's good to have a physical reminder of the ways our privacy is invaded.

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