@Tak AFAIK, no concrete plans yet. There's a broad desire to do something, but no agreement as to what exactly; the ideas are all very expensive and nobody wants to pay; and the right doesn't want to negatively impact cars, while the left don't want to spend money to mitigate the negative impact on cars.

@hatzka @dlakelan Correct. The (blank) passphrase just decrypts a key slot containing the randomly generated key used for actual disk encryption, and removing these key slots renders the partition unreadable. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/cryptsetup-erase.8.html

@mcc @mal3aby Oops, turns out my terminal is struggling with rendering these and cut the word off when I copy-pasted it. The word from the word list is actually "तु्म्हीं", which isn't listed in any online Hindi dictionary I can find.

@dpk Well, there's a reason we call them Indo-European languages… Though apparently, the more common word is पेंच (pẽc), so स्क्रू (skrū) may be a modern loanword from English. Wiktionary doesn't give the etymology and I don't have other Hindi dictionaries at hand.

@mal3aby @mcc The same list (compiled from opensubtitles.org) also has तु्म्ह ("your") at 24 (edit: no, 18) bytes, but Wiktionary lists that as "Old Hindi", so not sure that counts, even if it may have appeared in a Hindi subtitle at some point. https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords/blob/master/content/2018/hi/hi_full.txt

@mal3aby @mcc Looking through Hindi wordlists, I see स्क्रू ("screw"), with an impressive 18 bytes of UTF-8 to encode a single grapheme.

@mcc Assuming you're cloning Rc's or similar here, that is RFC 3680 (https://github.com/joshtriplett/rfcs/blob/use/text/3680-use.md#use--closures-and-async-use-blocks), part of the ongoing "ergonomic ref-counting" project goal. But that RFC received some pushback, so I believe they're currently back to the drawing board.

@otmar That "phone systems were real physical things" also meant that wiretaps were real physical things, with non-trivial expenses for each individual tap, meaning it had to be used sparingly. But with modern computing, governments (and private companies) can (and do) afford indiscriminate mass surveillance of all citizens, violating the social contract under which unencrypted communication was an acceptable default. E2EE is becoming mainstream largely in response to this government overreach.

@Tak Well, those results are just upsetting.

@xinjinmeng The words "Easy" and "Beginner" carry a stigma with many players, who'll avoid them for no good reason even if it's the perfect setting for them. The label "Easy" can also be needlessly frustrating if a player actually finds the "Easy" difficulty quite challenging.