@forest heh. The fact that we're less than nice to newbies is something SE has been trying to work on for years

and there's a bit of a history behind the current focus

I think we can be better but the real message kinda get buried under a lot of different voices.

That things aren't gamer gate bad does not imply that there is no problem, or that people who experience a problem is making it up or being overly sensitive. Being better then gamer gate is a very very low bar.

@TomK. If my daughter told me that, I would not believe it without being skeptical. It could very well be that she's misunderstanding the situation.

I mean, if she went on IRC, I wouldn't be surprised if someone was rude to her, especially if it's something like DALnet. But people in general, even those we love or care about, are not perfect and sometimes do misinterpret the situation, trying to find issues where none exist (and of course, sometimes they do exist).

Jesus, 27 close votes in the queue

I had a dream that my ISP used OpenVPN to encrypt traffic between the router and their servers, rather than using the native unencrypted protocol. I was sad when I woke up and realized that my ISP doesn't give a shit about security after all. :(

Hi

I noticed, a lot of the "Which encryption is best / which to use" questions get closed and downvoted.

Where can I find advice on which algorithm to use? Why do programs like KeyPassXC offer so many options (shouldn't one of them be the safest)?

Who would have guessed browsing PHP source code history is super painful

@RaisingAgent I guess they offer that many options to be "feature-rich", and users may have religious views about which algorithms they prefer

Don't they have recommended defaults?

They recommend a key derivation function (Argon2)

But one has to choose whether to use AES, Twofish, or ChaCha20 (each 256bit)

Is it tinfoil hattery to assume that the NSA can (easily) crack AES?

@RaisingAgent I'm not a crypto expert, but aren't these 3 used for separate use cases?

well okay, twofish is kinda weird in there

but you have a block cipher (aes mainstream, twofish something else), a stream cipher (chacham) and a hashing algorithm (argon2)