I agree with this article fully, but there is a problem that most blog posts about identity don't talk about before telling you what do with your own. What is identity actually for? This is the only article I know of that talks about this:

https://danielkeogh.com/blog/post/On%20not%20being%20miserab...

Thanks for sharing. I truly enjoy the author's definition of identity as optimisation to decision-making. It does make a lot of sense, and explains why big identity crises (midlife crisis, for example) can have devastating effects and take a long time to resolve. Questioning your identity is akin to going through an ego death, and many developers that do not want to accept this AI-driven future are going through some very painful feelings with large ramifications to their lives.

I can only recommend people going through these phases to treat it (seriously) like any midlife crisis. You can't sweep it under the carpet. Carl Jung has written a lot about those, start there.

(5 years deep into mine, and the timing of the AI revolution certainly made my quest much more difficult than I would have wished)

What a fantastic article. Lately I came to the same conclusions but never could put it in words. Thank you!

If you are brute forcing passwords, knowing the length only reduces the number of passwords to try by like 1 hundredth.

Drats, you're right. I thought it'd be worse, but the ratio seems to only depend on the number of letters in your character set: 1/count(letters in alphabet).

For ascii at 95 printable chars you get 0.9894736842. Makes intuitive sense as the "weight" of each digit increases, taking away a digit matters less to the total combos.

Maybe I'll start using one Japanese Kanji to confuse would be hackers! They could spend hours trying to brute force it while wondering why they can't crack my one letter password they saw in my terminal prompt. ;)

I’ve occasionally contemplated using some non-ASCII character like • or š in a password, but have backed off for fear of needing access from a device that doesn’t support input of those characters.

Its funny how a single japanese symbol would be harder to crack than the anglicized name for it

Do we know if the asterisks count Unicode code points rather than bytes?

Doesn't really matter, the IME shows the input until you confirm which kanji you want.

When the IME inserts the character, it'll be made up of multiple bytes because of the nature of UTF-8, so it may appear as multiple asterisks regardless.

Most software, traditional sudo included, would respect the LC_CTYPE being set to an UTF-8 (or any of the older multi-byte encodings), and do proper character counting.

At the very least, all GNU tools put a lot of focus on localization support, and I hope sudo-rs is the same.

Having LC_CTYPE bit set to utf8 would be my worry. Would suck to not be able to logging because the LC* lang changed.

Hmmm, hopefully sudo-rs respects LC* env vars. I recall reading a few years back that some Rust Unix tools skipped that and won big on benchmarks until folks realized they weren’t handling NC localization properly.

It also give you the possibility of filtering out which ones are worth cracking and which ones not

It could also give useful priors for targeted attacks, "Their password is 5 characters, and their daughters name is also 5 characters, let's try variations of that".

Some system accessible to hackers who can see the length of the password /and/ having a single 5 char password has a security of a key under a doormat.

Maybe this is far fetched, but you could get an LLM-based auto-research system to extract these potential relationships

I mean if it didn't make the gambling organizations more money they wouldn't do it. Gambling industry has always been about how much wealth it can extract from the punters without being regulated for it.

Hopefully this research ends up being used to justify more gambling regulations, but governments are addicted to the gambling lobby donations so who knows what will happen.

I don't think we can know whether or not this is the case in our own lifetimes, because we are so immersed in popular culture that we can't be objective about it. Enough of our historical great composers weren't venerated until after their deaths, and to describe composers as "hiding" within the most popular media of our era is a great disservice to the many composers that don't have the fame, connections and reputation to be hired to write for these.

I would also point out that composing for a medium like a game or a movie places a great deal of constraints upon the composer, in terms of theme, cost of instrumentation, duration and most importantly: what is safe and palatable for an executive to approve of.

Do you think that composers of the past did not also face real-world constraints?

They didn't. The point is that they stop you from giving covid to other people.

It's a distinction without a difference. Masks served to reduce the herd from spreading covid. Including other people giving it to you.

The distinction is important! The mechanism by which surgical masks prevent you from getting COVID-19 is peer pressure: it's important for people to know this, so they know how to protect themselves. (And there are fitted masks that protect the wearer: there was just a shortage of them, because despite all the warnings we were not prepared for a pandemic.)

You do realise that surgeons don't wear those masks to stop them from catching something right?

> Some people thought that surgical masks wouldn’t stop you from getting Covid

You do realize that masks would help prevent you from getting covid if other people are wearing the masks, right?

The comment just talked about masks, not whether you are the one wearing the mask.

I predict that this will not exist, given the existence of lying.

Looking at their ASX release though, seems like they've made record profits again.

wonder why their share price is worth a fraction what it was a couple years back

For all we know 30 percent of users on that site are now bots.

What incentive does the Rapiddata website have to even use any humans? How would customers even know?

The Internet has became a big mafia game.

It probably depends on who likes it and why.

Some people can't tell if the note they're singing is the same as the note they just heard. This is also learnable but it's not as simple as just muscle control