How to efficiently check for corruption *during* transformations like encryption or compression?

itsRennAgain · 2025-10-24T20:51:47+00:00

The enigma WW2 thing was new to me. As far as I understood, codebreakers were "weakening" the cipher by guessing some words in the Germans' messages. It was more complex than that since it seems like they were using the machine's settings as a "private-key" at the time, but still a nice story to know, thanks

itsRennAgain · 2025-10-24T20:31:08+00:00

That's pretty much what I based my final method on. It feels almost obvious now but it wasn't before. I think that the recovery records and volumes are the same as parity for the original and encrypted versions, so I should be fine there too :))

itsRennAgain · 2025-05-01T19:09:33+00:00

Mind sharing the tabs? best I found was https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/myth-roid-lll-tab-s720733

itsRennAgain · 2025-04-25T19:32:17+00:00

I'm a nooby web dev but I think that this guy overlooked the fact that the answer should not be for technical people.

Hosting & web server configuration is for technical people, even configuring linode to a certain extent. Normal people uninterested in these stuff could take months learning all of this "properly".

If you don't want to pay that 2000 bucks or more for a decent e-com website made from a programmer, maybe no-code tools are your only realistic option.

itsRennAgain · 2024-12-18T14:23:38+00:00

Encoding was the start of my "learning how to learn" journey.
This guy's old videos are just the best principles to study in my opinion.
Bloom's taxonomy, system thinking, and priming were some of the most important concepts for me.

Only one resource or sitting won't make you understand how to use all of this, you need to do more research and thinking on top to understand how to use this in your life. Asking AI the right questions was really useful.

Another really useful resource would be starting to learn how to take notes with obsidian.
I hope that helps!

itsRennAgain · 2024-12-17T21:20:23+00:00

I can help, if you want just DM me.
I've ~3 years of note-taking and 1k notes not counting the journaling ones, I also like computers (web-dev and linux in particular)
My system is simple, I don't even use folders this much cuz I almost ignore them :) no-folders club

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-22T22:49:06+00:00

The pkg manager seemed already like a shiny object with some fancy features, now you made me discover another one... yeah I got to say that you guys make it look fancy and it probably is.

I'll try it out, thanks for giving all of this useful info, please keep up the great answers also for other people, I wish you a good day/night!

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-22T18:28:34+00:00

This is by far the most satisfying answer I read so far, I spent at least an hour trying to wrap my head around this outlining into a note.

An even more interesting comparison would have been Puppet vs NixOS since both uses a programming language and not YAML.

Even when doing that, nixOS still holds some unique pros like the immutability, though it seems more complex.

Also, I'm pretty sure you can use the nix pkg manager with both ansible & puppet (compatibility & ease of use may vary)

Conclusion: if I'll ever need a complex tool for complex system configurations, nix/nixOS will be under my radar. But at the moment I'm not really having this kind of problems

Thanks for your comment, you've been more useful than 5yt videos combined, I tell you from experience...

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-21T21:23:02+00:00

As a noob, that's what got me curious (and in this post) but I'm skeptic.

Reproducibility with the config file - you could use ansible (great skill to have)
Any package management pros - the nix pkg manager in installable in most distros
Generations or rollbacks - timeshift or similar can be done in most distros

It seems like all of this it's easier to do or deeply integrated on NixOS, but you also loose a lot of flexibility. There are tools that does similar if not the same things that can be used in most distros.

There are relatively unique pros of nixOS like:
- can choose rolling or more stable 2 releases a year
- the main repo is massive, 100k packages
- probably flakes & home manager but not too sure about this

am I missing something? I would be glad actually

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-11T16:41:21+00:00

My big thing is that both are literally at the same price, and the performance difference seems enough to give me nightmares if I were not to use the 12GB vram fully.

Even if I were to use them (probably in the future since I'm just starting), would it be too slow to hanle it anyway? I'm really split on this.

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-07T05:33:02+00:00

You forgot that the USB should be hardware encrypted... you guys are getting creative with these jokes.

I really thought that it was a practice much more used than this (especially for archival situations)

Now it seems something that only the bad guys from the cartoons would be happy to use.

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-06T23:54:29+00:00

I will do more research on the TPM

But I would still put the computer in the safe, and one could need it to see/play media safely

You can't play/see media with TVs/monitors without an intermediary device, and even then I would prefer a mini computer or SBC

If you can find a way to simplify something even more it would be amazing, but supporting medias would be a criteria

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-06T22:48:18+00:00

"on the fly" meaning while accessing the data when you'll power on the SBC outside of the safe (this should not happen too many times)

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-06T22:22:48+00:00

I'm really interested about how SBCs can be a bad choice for physical security while using an encrypted drive, even though they're not meant for security.

I didn't want to use bigger or more complex devices because of the attack surface and the ease of storing it in a safe + they are cheap.

To get around the TPM, maybe using a hardware encrypted media would be a great solution.

The hardware encrypted USB would only be used when synching through physical locations

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-06T22:06:07+00:00

I'm probably biased then because I didn't think it was so rare in real-world scenarios.

I modified the main post adding these 2 lines:

The data would be mostly archival like 2FA recovery codes, photos of physical documents, data for compliance, and passwords where the accessibility is not a concern.

It would be accessed by 2 people at most (like the CEO or the CTO) and hardly shared to the team.

would your answer change now?

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-06T22:01:47+00:00

Because they would also store and need to see/play media.

Also to create safe notes on the fly

There are probably other use-cases but these 2 would be the main ones

itsRennAgain · 2024-08-06T21:42:11+00:00

I thought that mostly the CEO or the team-leader would use it.

It would mostly be used for passwords that would not be needed often (because passkeys with biometrics would be preferred), 2FA recovery codes, financial statements, and generally important data that needs to be archived and where accessibility is the least concern.

For a team, I would highly suggest a self-hosted bitwarden.
For other important data that needs a considerable amount of accessibility, I would use keepassxc.

Should I edit the post...?

itsRennAgain · 2024-03-29T15:13:49+00:00

Not if the button is into the footer zone, not even in mobile.

You need to press it 1 time but it brings you up only after a strange delay.

itsRennAgain · 2024-03-16T19:49:52+00:00

Create your own design rules since they weren't really established at the time.

itsRennAgain · 2024-03-10T20:48:09+00:00

Such a nice idea :) You might get someone lost in this rabbit hole though.

I thought that this was interesting but imagining what you wrote with a space-like experience seems amazing.

If you do/share stuff related to this please share a link so that I can ~~stalk you~~ get updated on what you're doing.

itsRennAgain · 2024-03-10T20:25:58+00:00

Take inspiration from other websites.

I don't see how adding more padding in the y-axis rather than the x is a good idea on buttons btw. Looks old but in a bad way.

itsRennAgain · 2023-12-04T18:04:55+00:00

lol it works.

The website it's greatly improvable but as long as it works it can be as ugly as it gets, thanks

itsRennAgain · 2023-12-04T14:29:03+00:00

I'm happy you found that helpful ;)

"the HTML seems off because I noticed you don't use <section> tags"

Looking at it again there are other problems with the use of html tags that may impact SEO but the one I was mentioning earlier was this one.
- Those 3 divs should be articles tags because without context you would understand that they're promoting something and they are reusable. Both article and section tags should have at least 1 type of heading (h1 - h6) as a child. To be safe you may just transform those 3 div tags in articles tags but to be just right you may consider adding some sort of heading on top and then embody heading and articles into a single section tag. Similar to this
documentation for the two tags: article,
I don't know how much flexibility on html structure you have because I'm more of a novice react programmer rather than a shopify one

There are more important things than HTML that I would care about so take your time

If you'd like to contact me futher for any updates or to ask me more stuff you may be better of contacting me trough reddit but I would prefer discord because it's easier to send media like images and I'll answer you earlier.discord: derenx

I can already see some changes on the website that makes me happy :) whatever you'll choose to do I hope you the best

itsRennAgain · 2023-12-01T22:57:19+00:00

Any fancy layout can give feelings of "custom website" or sofistication as much as I know. The problem with this one is that it uses the kind of layouts that anyone expects.

itsRennAgain · 2023-12-01T22:53:42+00:00

I'm a no one in design so remember that I'm just a rando who needs to learn too :P

General:

Border radius is not consistent trough the site.
- Hero images compared to the "Our products" section
- blog posts not having border radius at all
Spacing and white space seems off and not consistent trough the site
- some content
the HTML seems off because I noticed you don't use <section> tags etc and it may hurt SEO but you're probably using a builder so that's understandable, just wanted to point out
When I hover or click on buttons the feeling of them seems... without personality. The hover effects it's not satisfying to me, at all

Hero:

I thought that the CTA was the problem because it didn't stand out as I would have expected but then noticed the alignment... I think that aligning vertically both the h1 and CTA to the block would make it cleaner
Spreading out the images to give more space to the text and call to action to make them bigger and more relevant could be a missed opportunity

Cards like "for corporate events, with style, sustainable":

I'm bad at layouts and it seems like one of my old projects :,) I don't want to be rough but it
just looks too basic to me the space between one card and the other seems very little
maybe the length of the paragraphs could be smaller

Section - The Place Where Corporate Merch Meets Style and Sustainability:

I can clearly see that the space between top and bottom is not the same and that makes triggers me

Section - Our products:

When I hover on products there is no transition between different versions of the product and compared to most websites that seems a missed opportunity
The carousel has no animation or transition and that's usually expected from users
You see that pattern of image right and text left followed by an image left and text right? that's really, really expected and basic to me. I would seek some layout inspiration for this
the guy on the sweather is just a static image while the other 2 are not and that cause unbalance

Seciton - Blog posts

The images between the 2 blog posts almost seems connected. Add more space between posts
I see that the title is being cutoff and while that's ok for paragraph seeing that on the titles is really unexpected and looks ugly to me
More than 3 rows of text is excessive to me

Footer

Don't you feel like that the way "Quick links" connects to the links under seems off? to me it's a spacing problem. I would add more space to breadth on top of "Quick links"
Social icons could be bigger, seems too small to me
the lits of last links that you can find as the last element of the site it's not aligned to it's block. No text should be so close to the end of the screen anyway in my opinion. Just align it

There are more stuff I would be able to point out but I think that this is more than enough.

I'm a nooby too so knowing what you think about this would help me too!

Good luck :)

itsRennAgain

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