This means you’re a Cylon

https://github.com/UltimMC/Launcher last time I had the same need having bought a never ending Minecraft license way back when.

Relevant Hossenfelder link: https://youtu.be/fRssqttO9Hg

Brought to you by (us) security researchers who will happily come in and sort out your security issues later. For a very hefty hourly fee.

So? Pubkey login only and fail2ban to take care of resource abuse.

There are a lot of hero programmers involved in enabling people in Ukraine to defend themselves.

it’s … not … a simple messenger, if that helps?

Do you even open source?

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Let me rephrase it like this instead: “If we allow manufacturers to just take public domain software and not give back their changes …” maybe it rings some bells?

Hope so. Burning the methane to CO2 is a lot better than releasing it as is for the climate.

Ah ok - thanks! I’ll check if those apps for Sweden work in regular Waydroid then. That’s always the biggest obstacle and would be something to promote.

No, not the part I mentioned. Today, yes, that’s how Tesla is still profitable.

Roadster -> Model S -> Model 3

Yes. That forced other automakers to follow suit and I’m now a happy Volkswagen ID.7 driver instead of the previous Model 3.

FWIW, regarding price: The “Tesla model” of creating a new market (EVs that didn’t suck) worked. Have the die-hards pay premium for luxury/performance enabling the profit needed to produce cheaper models too.

The pain point for a new mobile OS will always be a few critical apps like government ID, national payment systems etc. Those that you simply must have on a phone for it to be a viable daily driver.

Especially in coding?

Actually, that’s where they are the least suited. Companies will spend more money on cleaning up bad code bases (not least from a security point of view) than is gained from “vibe coding”.

Audio, art - anything that doesn’t need “bit perfect” output is another thing though.

Agree, I was just commenting on why 255 in itself isn’t “weird”. I find myself doing comparisons of the “value == variable” type even in languages where you cannot assign by mistake. Some of us old farts code from muscle memory … :)

a limit of 255 character. Why not 256? Why such a weird number in general?

255 chars + ‘\0’ = 256

Not weird at all.

No, it most definitely does not need to be private. The idea with salt is to invalidate rainbow tables. If you’re “keeping it private” it’s just another password.

The salt and the password (or its version after key stretching) are concatenated and fed to a cryptographic hash function, and the output hash value is then stored with the salt in a database. The salt does not need to be encrypted, because knowing the salt would not help the attacker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)

Sure, but when we talk about the computation then the number of rounds is by far the more important factor compared to password length.

The discussion is about whether 24 characters indicate cleartext though - not whether password lengths should be in the gigabytes.

That’s the same as “cleartext” for someone who works in security though, since that means anyone with the private key can decrypt the password.

While I’m not arguing for doing the crypto client side, the salt isn’t needed to be private - only unique.