Whoa that's really neat! Seeing this in person must've been trippy.
I can definitely relate to some of the points you've made here. Regarding things feeling the same day-in-day-out, I get this feeling when I fall into a rut. Like get home from work, play the same game I've been playing for a few weeks, watch the next episode of a show I've been watching, tidy up etc. When I notice this happening, I realise it's time to shake things up a bit; go for a walk, draw something, alter my schedule and try a new game. Variety is the spice of life and all that.
I think it's pretty normal to move on from old friends after a while - life kinda just gets in the way and you get out of rhythm with them as you say. Maybe you need to find a new community to involve yourself with, one that reflects your current social needs. I might get downvoted for this, but on a personal level I'm quite glad I found the furry community after I moved away from my hometown. There's a lot of hate online for the group, but at the end of the day it's filled with cool nerdy people who don't take life too seriously, and this feels especially valuable at a time when we're bombarded with depressing news of politics and war. Obviously you don't have to join this group in particular, but having any kind of community around you I think is really useful.
And like someone else has said, try to step away from social media if you use it at all. The algorithms usually steer towards negative, controversial topics that gather the most clicks. It's not a healthy thing to consume.
I recently started The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I'm a 100 or so pages in, and slowly getting a feel for the characters. It's a large book, but I've got some long flights coming up so hopefully I'll make a good dent in it :)
Ehhhh it's cool that this is a feature, but boy did it look laggy.
Just had the Dune Spice Opera album on in the background whilst at work. Damn, what an amazing soundtrack.
Have you played Ace Attorney or Danganronpa? It's definitely going for something similar. I was a bit disappointed by it after the hype I'd seen, but it's still a decent game. If you want something along the same lines of 'weirdness' I'd recommend Hypnospace Outlaw - I think that's a better game overall.
Oh that's actually really neat, I had no idea! But it makes a lot of sense
You're already (dead) :(
Ah I think of sort of get it!
The public key is used within a function by the person sending the message, and even someone that knew the function and the public key wouldn't be able to decrypt the message, because doing so would require knowledge of the original prime numbers which they couldn't work out unless a computer spend years factoring the public key.
My only other bit of confusion:
- If someone used a public key to encrypt the message "Hello", maybe it would spit out something like Gh5bsKjbi4
- If someone else sent the exact same message I assume the outcome would also be identical, and therefore it would be possible by using common phrases to work out what was sent? I could type messages like Hi, Goodbye, Hola until I got to 'Hello' and realised it was the same output.
- However I assume that a message like 'Hello, how are you?' would result in a completely different output (despite Hello appearing in both) and thus trying to work out any messages in a brute force way like this would be pointless.
That sounds like quite a messy and inefficient process! But I guess as long as it can be done quickly enough, it doesn't really matter?
I'm glad to see console and PC sectors growing. But damn, the revenue from mobile games is insane! Is that mostly from micro-transactions? I don't like that trend, but provided it doesn't impact console/PC games I'm not overly concerned.
Sure, you have plenty of free to play games with cosmetics still but it feels like the ubiquity of loot boxes is slowly dying down on console/PC (at least in the games I play).
Lmao that's amazing. If I were that person I'd had found it funny. Hopefully it's not too embarrassing a memory for you!