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  • m0darn@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.caelbows up
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    22 days ago

    I don’t understand the posture you’re describing. How is it fighting dirty to use your elbows in a fight? Or are you talking about preemptively elbowing somebody in the jaw during a struggle for the puck? Like a sucker punch but with an elbow…?

    I thought elbows up was about positioning your elbows to occupy space while digging for the puck in the corner. I don’t think it’s about fighting dirty but about asserting your entitlement to space. “This puck is mine, you’re going to have to go through me to get it” …but I haven’t played hockey in 25 years or so.

    It’s all a bit moot because if somebody twice your size corners you and demands your lunch money, it’s not fighting dirty to use your elbows while trying to get away.

    I don’t think the graphics are great. I think they get the posture wrong. I think the slogan is more about determination than strength. I don’t think Canadians should feel superior to Americans. But also I think it’s gross to see someone insisting we ought to feel shame about the suggestion we should protect ourselves.


  • Jesse Brown from Canadaland had long lamented Canada’s inability to define itself except in contrast to Americans. He’s right that we ought to have more positive identity markers but I think it has inadvertently resulted in a very robust independence sentiment. Ie because so much of our identity is defined as differences relative to America the idea of being American is offensive to the core of our identity.




  • m0darn@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldPlanting mint
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    My buddy warned me about the mint the pervious owners planted, and I pulled it right away. It was right by our basement entrance so I frequently peer in and inspect for mint shoots. I think there must be a buried barrier or something (like landscaping cloth) preventing it from spreading outside the bed it was in. I found a small sprig 4 years after pulling everything I could find.









  • So how does generating a one time pad from mutually accessible data fit into this scheme. Is the pad the cipher or the key?

    If two people agreed that the pad would be the output of a particular pRNG given the 3rd paragraph of the second article on the third page of that day’s newspaper as a seed.

    The attack vector would be shortcomings in the pRNG I guess? Which could result in the possibility of some sort of statistical language attack?

    Or the attacker could guess the newspaper text & algorithm.


  • Neat, yeah Wikipedia says steam cipher approximate one time pads but can also be completely insecure.

    I think it would take one hell of an effort to crack, it would be like 3MB encryption right? Or if they guessed the scheme they could try all mp3s ever torrented XOR’ed in every possible combination.

    Idk I think there’s something workable there but I only having a casual knowledge

    Also I think OP wanted pen and paper so maybe use a book instead digital files.


  • I’m certainly not an expert.

    But could you generate pads from mutually accessible data sources?

    Like use hit_me_baby_one_more_time_not_a_virus.mp3 appended with a password, as a seed in a pseudo random number generating algorithm, then do the same thing with another data source, repeat however many times, then XOR the generated numbers together, and use the result as a pad?