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  • The “biological reason” is “societal preconditioning”. Its Disney movies, toys marketed towards small girls, television, social media…

    Despite many advancements in equality, marrying a rich man is still seen (and marketed) as a live goal for women.

    Also, wedding and princess are pretty mutch the same thing for a girl. Pretty dress, center of attention, presents, etc. Its not about “getting married”.





  • Addresses change all the time. Especially big websites will have many addresses for the same name and depending who (or from where) someone is asking for the name, they will tell them a different address. That way someone from Europe will connect to a server in europe and someone in the US to an american server. And cloud providers will have hundreds of addresses that they reuse and rotate for many customers.

    Also to reduce the number of name request, the DNS system will cache answeres (save the answer and use it again later). If I ask for the address of Lemmy.org, they then change their address and I ask my DNS server again, I will get the old outdated address again.

    There is also the question of who is actually in charge of answering DNS requests to a specific name.

    All in all there are a lot of moving parts and for some reason people seem to be bad at managing their DNS records so when something breaks, very often it is because of DNS. (But also because DNS is very fundament so any problem with DNS will have a big effect so it is more noticeable)


  • There is a big difference between “not keeping logs” and “dont have a way to check what you are doing right now”.

    No logs just means they can’t check what you did last week but they can always check the traffic you are producing in that moment. If they see traffic from a torrent protocol they know you are torrenting.

    Edit: they do claim they do “No Monitoring” so yeah by their own words they should not be able to tell you are torrenting.

    No Monitoring

    We don’t monitor your activity and have no way of seeing what sites you are visiting. We do store when you last used Windscribe as well as the total amount of data used in a 30 day period (to enforce free account limitations and to prevent abuse).


  • Everything should be encrypted, always. We live in a time where hardware for en/decrypting is so fast and cheap that they can be included in any device. If you send somethig through a it should be encrypted. If you send something over the air, it has even more reason to be encrypted. I see no scenario where it should not be.

    HOWEVER! For law enforcement and other official governmental agencies I think all communication should have to be recorded. And failure to do so should have very high penalties. Transparency should happen after, not during the communication.







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    If you want to calculate the cipher on paper everything that works on binary will be a huge overhead and basically require you to write stuff down for the calculations. So you need to burn sheets of paper for every en/decryption. So no XOR or anything.

    I would go for a stream-caesar-cipher. Find a mathematical formula that you can calculate in your head and that gives you a numbers between 1-35 (or something similar depending on how many different characters you need). The formula must be pseudo random so f(x)=5, f(x+1)=1, f(x+2)=28, … and not loop for a looooong time. Calculate a new value FOR EVERY LETTER OF YOUR TEXT!!! and use that as your Caesar cipher for that letter only (x is the position of the character in the text)

    You need to keep track which letter in your cipher text was encoded with which x (write the x of the first letter of each page down) and keep the formula a secret. Never ever under any circumstance reuse an x. So you need to keep x going for every page/message and can’t restart at 1 each time.

    If x becomes to large and the calculations to complicated, its better to change the formula than to restart x. Never ever ever ever reuse the same cipher because then you get all the drawbacks of Caesar ciphers (probability of letters, length of words (position of the space character) etc).