David Cross @david@mastodon.crossfamilyweb.com

@chuck You wouldn't need the plaintext or the key to do this, and you wouldn't gain any other information.

The goal and the hunt is to identify and create crypto systems and mathematical operations you can perform on them to do useful work.

If you can create a system where you have a full algebra available to you in a Turing compete way, then you can do 'anything'.

@chuck I can try :)

Basically with certain cryptographic systems you can perform certain operations on the crypto stream that would have a predictable effect on the plaintext stream that doesn't require you to know the key.

As a really simple example, say you had an xor based stream cipher (RC4 for a concrete example), and you have the additional requirement that everything in the cipher is alphabetic. You could toggle the case of the entire ciphertext with just XORing the whole with 0x20.

@puppygirlhornypost @stefano freebsd uses the linux graphics drivers via a KPI (kernel programming interface) translation framework that also lets it use things like wifi drivers. Think like the ndisulator

...and back after long power outage and recovery :\

@joel I have had similar experiences, there may be multiple mixer settings at play; if you open a terminal window and just type 'mixer' you can see all of them; at least on my system "vol" "pcm" "speaker" come into play, "vol" is the one that tends to be controlled by the UI,, but the others feed into it.

@joel awesome; do you know if it is just firefox (like audio output/library issue) or if ANY sound doesn't work?

How much do you drive on average?
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm

Average male in the US between about 20-54 drives 18,500 per year, average family is about ~30,000 per year.

(which corresponds to roughly 74 to 120 miles/weekday)

@dvl server? :)

@antranigv @dvl 👍

That or debug was my guess

@antranigv @dvl ok.. what does -D do?

@stefano Woah... I knew about SOME of that; like when running diskless from an NFS server.. but I never knew it was THAT easy on a system with a disk, and I've been running #freebsd for 30 years

@j @phen314 To note at least in my case the instance was primarily slow because of the concurrent number of connections; it wasn't CPU or IO or database constrained,I used up the max number of sockets allocated to the service and things had to wait in line behind slow connections; had I configured the proxy with a larger inbound connection pool I may have been fine; but that just potentially opens me up to a different kind of DDoS 🤷

If it happens more frequently I will try to tune it better.

@j @phen314 yes, if you post something that gets boosted a lot, or even just looked at a lot you'll get a LOT of traffic all of a sudden. I replied to a tech-connections post once and WOW, instance went non-responsive for a few minutes with the thundering herd of traffic

@phen314 Could I get some more context here?