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    3 days ago

    Yeah measuring in diameters is pretty strange but it was the first thing that poped into my head that would yield factors of pi.

    Could also be that they a standard unit (1u) and would use both 1u radius wheels and 1u circumference wheels.

    Or its all derived measures like “the length of a wheel spoke” and “the length of a string around the same wheel” so never the actually physical wheel is used for the measuring.

    Maybe we should ask the tired archeologists?




  • If you do not set a master password for the browser (that you have to type before the saved passwords are filled in), the despite what others have written, the passwords are not really encrypted. They are, it just doesn’t matter. Because they are encrypted with the password of you OS user. So they are unreadable if someone steals your device or to any other users on your system, but any malware that runs in your user context has full access to the passwords any time you are logged on to the machine.

    Of course if you have malware on your system they can also log your master password as you type it, same with any other password manager. If you unlock the password save, it is available to malware in that moment.

    Also if you use passwords for anything other than websites you should have a password save for those passwords as well so why not have one single save instead of one in your browser and one outside of it.

    Tl:dr saving passwords in your browser is fine but you should absolutely set a master password. External password manager can be more pragmatic compared to browser only.



  • I dont think that works. If i try the 5 ingredient set and get sick, i gained no information about ingrediences 6,7,8,9,10 (if there are 10 ingredients in total). If next i try set 3 and get sick, i have made 2 tries and still have 0 information. If ingredient 1 makes me sick i will need log(n) tries until i try the set that only contains ingredient 1. After that i have only one point of information because everything i tried so far was tainted by ingredient 1. I have to try everything again.

    Anytime you get sick you gain no information. If you are very lucky and ingedient 1-x are all harmless, then you will eliminate multiple at once. But if 1 is harmless, 2 makes you sick, and the next 1000 ingredients are harmelss you will still have to try log(1002) times to eliminate ingredient 2 and then you know nothing about 3-1003.













  • There is a big difference between “not keeping logs” and “dont have a way to check what you are doing right now”.

    No logs just means they can’t check what you did last week but they can always check the traffic you are producing in that moment. If they see traffic from a torrent protocol they know you are torrenting.

    Edit: they do claim they do “No Monitoring” so yeah by their own words they should not be able to tell you are torrenting.

    No Monitoring

    We don’t monitor your activity and have no way of seeing what sites you are visiting. We do store when you last used Windscribe as well as the total amount of data used in a 30 day period (to enforce free account limitations and to prevent abuse).