Cryptography. It just fascinates me and I constantly want to know more about it.
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What are some of your favorite cryptography/cipher history facts?
I just recently learned that cryptography was heavily regulated, in the US at least. What I mean to say is that in the older days (80's - 90's) it was illegal to export any encryption system out of the country. This was mainly due to concerns about the potential for these technologies to be used by adversaries to encrypt communications that could not be intercepted by intelligence agencies.
Obviously, cryptography is valuable, however it was unexpected to read about all the regulations in place regarding this subject, though, now I think it makes sense.
Reading, practicing languages, drawing pictures, practicing my faith, streaming, listening to music, and playing and collecting old video games.
I have all sorts of interests.
Sort of shied away from anime and manga though, because I now have my convictions.
You have convictions that oppose manga & anime ? ngl I find it funnily specific. What are they ?
Anything that contributes to the Japanese arts is explicitly against my faith.
Eurovision
I've always been a huge nerd for geography and traveling. Every other interest I tend to hyperfixate on then fall out of, but those 2 seem to be eternal. I love learning the history and geography of new places and going to see them.
Currently:
- LBA/EIA Mediterranean history
- Early Christianity history, especially around heresies and apocrypha
- Large language model alignment and abstractions
- Simulation theory
- Tech futurism
In the past:
- Psychology
- Prestidigitation
- Photonics
- Politics
- Programming
- Computer security
- Cognitive science
- Film studies
- Marketing & Advertising
Though for as long as I can remember my biggest interest has always been video games. It's just fairly common, especially on Lemmy.
What's fascinating with video games is you can integrate all of the above within one
Science in general, plus points if it's something related to microbiology or something in the human body going wrong.
I know that it is not very original around 'ere but linux
But do you use Arch btw?
haha, no(mostly). I like what Arch is and definetly do think that there is a place for it but that place isn't one of my PC's as I have no time or effort to maintain a rolling release distro and want my pc to consistently work and not break after updates hence my distro of choice Fedora(it is a fork of fedora but it is pretty much fedors really) which is a stable relase distro. I use Arch inside distrobox to benefit from that sweet sweet AUR repo though.
I found that Arch worked the best for me as my main OS, been using it for around 3 years. True that sometimes it's a pain to set things up, but once it's done, life's just so easy!! Though, I use debian on my server.
Awesome
I've fallen out of most of my hyperfixations (yay depression) but I used to be really into:
-Words, I loved the idea you could express entire and specific meanings with a single word
-Gemstones and their mythology. More around what people used to believe and cultures rather than current day "crystal" stuff. Also, they are mad pretty
-Chemistry, I used to do backyard chemistry and loved the feeling of alchemical-like hands on stuff. chemistry feels like magic!
-Plants/Toxins/Toxic animals, what more do I gotta say? Nature is metal AF and don't give AF. It's wild the solutions it generates and how humans use them or adapt them.
What are some of your favorite 'all encompassing' words, that we might not know?
Also, fuck depression. It's not welcome but it still shows up at my 'house.'
Hmmm, well all encompassing would be something like omnipotent and panacea which most people know. To be more accurate it conveys something specific, clearly, in less words. I.E. "Draggle" - to drag through dirt and mud. As opposed to just "drag" -to be pulled along the ground. "Brontide" - a storm off in the distance. "Bombilate" -a soft buzzing noise, "Quiescent" -inactivity, at rest, akin to tranquility. ( these definitions are not verbatim, just from memory)
The problem I always have with using words like that is people always take you as arrogant, know it all, or pompous. Also, ironically, it saves no time because on order for it to be effective the other person needs to know and understand the word to get the meaning laconically.
So I rarely use the words except as "hey fun fact" stuff
Ever heard of toki pona?
toki! mi jan Jojo, mi pilin pona taso li pona tawa toki.
I have not! I haven't dabbled too much into other languages, but after reading a quick synopsis is seems pretty fun and efficient!
I was almost at the point where I could say I speak it, but I'm not really there anymore. There's a discord called "ma pona pi toki pona" (a nice place for toki pona) that I liked for a bit.
It's a fun language to play with because it forces you to be all poetical with your words since there's only so many of them.
The geek/nerd distinction.
No questions.
Are you saying you take no questions ? because I have one
Are you saying you take no questions ?
Sorry, that was one more question than I was willing to take. You'll have to take it back.
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IT service management. Technology is cool and all, but if your CMDB or your organizational change management culture sucks , you're going to have a bad time.
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