You’ve got concepts confused.

Having the judge make the inquisition has nothing to do with adversarial.

The judges in the UK and US are independent of the inquisition etc. The prosecution is responsible for obtaining evidence on behalf of the state. The defense defend their client with their evidence.

In Europe, I know a little more about France and Austria, the judges are trained to be inquisitorial and direct the inquisition for evidence. I should shut up at this point and let someone who actually knows what they are talking about continue for me.

As for adversarial, still waiting for the day that criminals, for the most part, exclaim like the very old British movies and Scooby Doo cartoons that “It’s a fair cop, guv!” and then explain why and how they did it.

X11.

How quaint.

Chicken. Obv.

Running uBlock-Origin for many years. I gave an example not an instance I use.

Things like Privacy Badger block Discord.

Seriously, you’re complaining now? The privacy apps have been blocking Discord for many years.

Turns out we’ve moved on from not realising that deodorant was required in the first place.

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Obligatory, “What’s a greek urn?” question.

Doesn’t really matter to be honest, you won’t stick with it. You’ll try others. We all do.

Pick a distro in the top part of distrowatch.com and install it.

I’ll wait.

Email isn’t private. It was designed to be robust not private. Encryption never really caught on; and your counterparties using Gmail or some Microsoft server in the background will kill any expectation of privacy you might have.

WW II’s Gordon Welchman is worth reading about. Similar nasty end as Turing. Not as well known as Turing but a similar contribution before the encryption was actually solved.

Have used Zoho for decades. Dozen domains, three/four actual accounts. Don’t seem to have had any issues with them selling my info - use them with Addy.io. I don’t gain anything from this reference/comment.

Same same.

Sometimes: a laughing hyena.

If you don’t have tested backups, you don’t have a backup.

Farts are funny. Will always be funny. It’s the follow-through that catches one unawares and dampens the mood.

Don’t stop laughing at stupid shit. The world gets very serious very quickly all on its own when you’re looking and when you’re not. If you can retain some ability to laugh, you’ll be much better off.

Am old fart: early Gen X.

However, it is better to say nothing and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt.

that’s unrelated - AES-256 for example can be executed just fine on either a 32- or 64-bit machine. in theory there’s nothing stopping you from running it on an 8-bit or 16-bit CPU (although other considerations related to the size of AES’s lookup tables make this unlikely). from some random googling, here is an implementation of Chacha20, another 256-bit encryption algorithm, for 8-bit microcontrollers.

I started out programming a 6502a in 1980, 680X0 a little later in 87, so I get that bit, but it’s easier doing operations on a larger register. I remember writing code for 8 bit multiplication of 32 bit floating points.

I enjoyed and understood the rest of your prose though. Didn’t do much/any programming/low level after say 2005, and regret it now. Trying to re-learn but things have moved on so much.

I take that there isn’t much motivation in moving to 128 because it’s big enough; it’s only 8 cycles (?) to fill a 512 (that can’t be right?).

Thank-you a lot for that. I wander around the tech blogs like lobsters etc, Reddit and here but never see anything that i remember seeing (if you follow me), but I don’t consciously look.

Encryption lengths are getting long so you’d think it was high time.

Your description sounds like the advent of 32 bits where there was a 16 bit address bus stage.

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That’s not really the point of a gotcha question. The point is to score a (valueless) point over the victim and let the victim know you’re (not you commenter) an arse.

“Have you voted? Your vote matters. Things can only change if you vote.” (UK oligarchy feudalism resident)

Fucking gotcha of my life, right there. Took a while before they knew it was a gotcha question though.

Whilst other distros move to a Weston (corrections please?) era Intel x86 2013 ish?

Bravo, I think. That’s going to be tough.

On a related track, is there any talk of 128 bit chips in general?