Nibodhika

@Nibodhika@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would I want to use the multi-desktop functionality in Windows 11?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know how it’s implemented on Windows, but I have been using and loving this feature for decades on Linux, it allows you to have several workspaces and assigning different shortcut, so for example regardless of where I’am, if I hit Super+1 I get taken straight to my browser, and Super+9 takes me to Spotify, no need to be alt+, tabbing until I get the window I’m looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you speak more than one language? Fluently? I speak 3 languages fluently, and know a few others to certain degrees. How long do you think it takes to learn a language fluently enough that you can use it for most stuff you might want to write? And even if you choose a weird or obscure language that will make it harder for you to learn, and if someone wants to read it all they need to do is pay any person who also speaks it.

  If on the other hand you want to invent your own language and writing system there won’t be any other speakers to consult, however inventing your own language will take you thousands of hours, and if you only speak english languages your created will likely just be code words for everything because you don’t know about things like declinations or gender. As for the writing it’s easier to create a hard to crack writing system, however at the end of the day your system will either be semantic or phonetic, i.e. a symbol will represent either a meaning or a sound, if each symbol is a meaning you’ll need thousands of them which means thousands of hours to create and learn just a basic setup, if on the other hand you use phonetic symbols it’s almost a guarantee your language will be cracked simply because of repeating patterns. So the best case scenario is that you spend the next 5 years developing and learning a new language, and it would take a couple of months, best case scenario some years for someone to break it.

  Let’s compare that with cryptography, you only need to remember a master key, if that master key is complex enough, e.g. 12 random dictionary words (which you can use several tools to generate), it would take all of the computer power in the world a couple of billion years to crack. Quantum computers might speed that up, but there are algorithms that work around that. How long does it take you to memorize 12 words? A couple of hours maybe, and you have something which is, in any meaningful use of the word, unbreakable. That seems like a much, much better deal.

  And this comes back to an idea in computer science which is “don’t reinvent the wheel”, whatever you think is your great idea to encrypt your messages is likely already been thought of and discarded by the people who understand the most advanced cryptography algorithms today, and if you understood them you wouldn’t need to think on writing foreign languages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people say good morning (or something like that) on chat after a night?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like, when I was a kid, having internet access to all human knowledge, anywhere, would have been a divine gift. Now we all have computers in our pockets and some people still argue about basic facts that can be resolved instantly. We treat technology very strangely.

  That reminds me of a quote: Do you remember in the 90s when we thought the issue was lack of access to information? Nope, that wasn’t it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people say good morning (or something like that) on chat after a night?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the thing, it is weird for today technology, because you never truly go away from the chatroom. But back in the IRC times joining a chatroom was very similar to entering a room, you would only see messages sending from then on, so if you wanted to keep track of a chat you were having after you left you needed to leave your computer connected and online, so it was impossible to know when someone was online and when they just had left the computer on to follow up on a thread that was happening when he went to sleep, so it was a common courtesy, just like saying hello when walking into a room. It was a way of telling people “I’am here now”, but most chatrooms today have an away status you can set.

  I agree it doesn’t make sense on discord or whatever, which is why I don’t do it there. But it might be one of those things that people just keep perpetuating because it’s what they always did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Others have explained to you why it’s different, and that that happened 2 years ago and a lot of things health related can change in that time. But even if he had done that yesterday, even if it was the same, he should be able to choose to attend remotely, he’s not asking to be excused, he’s not asking to change anything, all he’s asking is to be able to do it from his home, and I wouldn’t deny that to anyone unless there’s a reason to be physically there, which there isn’t.