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New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "We Will Not Be Divided"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:20:35 +0000

I'm not sure I fully understood your point, but about the question "how fascism if elected?": the Nazi Party won (i.e., it was the most voted party) in multiple elections in the late 20s/early 30s.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Story of XZ Backdoor [video]"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:58:58 +0000

The paint mixing is actually way closer to the idea of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, more than RSA.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:50:44 +0000

It's also possible to create dedicate entries for each of the other KeePass vaults and set the URL field and password to the respective paths (i.e., "kdbx://PATH/TO/OTHER/DATABASE.kdbx") and passwords, then you can simply double click on the URL field to automatically open and unlock the other vaults.

The URL field in KeePass has lots of convenient features [0], but unfortunately they're quite "obscure" and not very discoverable.

[0]: https://keepass.info/help/base/autourl.html

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:26:02 +0000

Basically, Homelander's origin story (from The Boys).

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:53:45 +0000

I'll be that guy: the "G" in GPT stands for "Generative".

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:08:20 +0000

Duplicate?

Submission about the arXiv pre-print: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46821360

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:54:45 +0000

You can indeed use HTTPS with the end server (e.g., accessing Wikipedia). This correctly hides the traffic content from all relays.

To reach this point, though, you first need to set up the Tor circuit itself. This is done in a 'telescopic' fashion: the user connects via TLS to the first relay, then sends a message to extend the circuit to a second relay, then to the third (and usually last) relay. Finally, to open Wikipedia, you send a layered encrypted message to the last relay. All this data is link-protected by TLS on the wire, but protected by Tor's relay encryption mechanism while being processed by the nodes.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:09:08 +0000

That is correct. But, (in general) encryption does not necessarily guarantees integrity of the data. In other words, a plaintext can be encrypted, the ciphertext given to another party, and they can tamper with the ciphertext in a way that produces predictable changes in the message obtained by decrypting the tampered ciphertext.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:34:24 +0000

Relays can be malicious and try to tamper with the data. Think of Tor relay encryption like Signal's E2E encryption, where the relays are analogous to Signal's servers. You want to ensure they can neither see what you sent (confidentiality) nor modify it without detection (integrity).

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Accountability Sinks"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Sat, 03 May 2025 10:35:30 +0000

I 100% agree with you, but it looks like that specific, single instance is a clear example of the famous broken clock being right twice a day.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:35:37 +0000

Not uncommon in Norway, at least at few gyms I've been to after they reopened after COVID.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:40:06 +0000

As someone who moved to Norway (not Oslo) to pursue a PhD in computer science, I highly suggest everyone who might be interested to give it a chance. High quality of life and supportive system and society. Vacancies for University of Bergen: https://www.uib.no/en/about/84777/vacant-positions-uib.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "FFmpeg by Example"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:48:00 +0000

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1168/.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "The 1 Hour per Year Bug, but only in Pacific time"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 09:01:19 +0000

Towards the bottom, it states:

  It turns out that the Pacific Time Zone is the only one where the bug caused a user visible difference because:

    1. Daylight saving time starting or ending changes the time zone offset by just one hour.
    2. The bug only has an effect when the difference in the number of hours goes from less than a day to at least a day, or vice versa (e.g. 23 to 24 or 24 to 23).

  The only hour of the day that satisfies those two conditions is 11:00pm, and the only time zone where daylight saving time starts and ends at 11:00pm is the Pacific Time Zone.

Approval of Three FIPS for Post-Quantum Cryptography

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 06:46:44 +0000

Article URL: https://csrc.nist.gov/News/2024/postquantum-cryptography-fips-approved

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41243240

Points: 2

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New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Swift Homomorphic Encryption"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 08:18:42 +0000

While it might not provide a direct answer to your question, this paper could be an interesting read: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1624.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian farmed salmon annually"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:27:42 +0000

"Veganism in the form of religion that thou must not deviate from" is entirely counterproductive because it tries to get people to completely stop eating meat. Large majority of the population doesn't want that so they continue with the same meat consumption, while we could eat less meat that we currently do without giving up on some BBQ/steaks here and there. It creates a false dichotomy, putting people on the defensive because they don't want to give up meat.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Nearly 2M metric tons of wild fish used to feed Norwegian farmed salmon annually"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:24:14 +0000

No, the critic was only that "Veganism in the form of religion that thou must not deviate from" is counterproductive in getting people to eat less meat.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Antarctic English"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:46:12 +0000

A similar thing happened/is happening in Europe, as a lot of non-native speakers interact with each other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_English.

New comment by MzxgckZtNqX5i in "Sorry, but a new prompt for GPT-4 is not a paper"

MzxgckZtNqX5i — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:24:08 +0000

"Articles" on arXiv are not peer-reviewed, they just check whether it looks like it belongs to one of the categories they hosts:

"Registered users may submit articles to be announced by arXiv. There are no fees or costs for article submission. Submissions to arXiv are subject to a moderation process that classifies material as topical to the subject area and checks for scholarly value. Material is not peer-reviewed by arXiv - the contents of arXiv submissions are wholly the responsibility of the submitter and are presented “as is” without any warranty or guarantee." [0]

They are commonly known as pre-prints, in a similar fashion to IACR ePrint [1] for cryptography.

[0]: https://info.arxiv.org/about/index.html

[1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/