Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli  40

This game was mind blowing to Ciro Santilli and all kids. It felt so real. The perfect contrast between peaceful town work and saving the world. OMG.

Has the best opening scene of all time.

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There's nothing like seeing the hypocrisy of the "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité" people destroyed.

Interesting how Algeria now supports China's Xinjiang policy in 2019. But of course, dictatorships tend to work together

Ciro Santilli's father, an avid history reader, and in particular interested in the military dictatorship in Brazil through which he lived, once told Ciro how the French torture doctrine was directly adopted by Brazillian military, e.g. then even invited general Paul Aussaresses who had served in Algeria, to help them out with intelligence operations and give courses. Bro, fuck that.

But of course, the Americans weren't too far behind in Guantanamo.

Respect, big respect to those people.

There aren't any 2020, except in the trivial one-time pad case where the key is as large as the message: crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/10815/how-do-we-prove-that-aes-des-etc-are-secure

The only perfect cryptosystem!

The problem is that you need a shared key as large as the message.

Systems like advanced Encryption Standard allow us to encrypt things larger than the key, but the tradeoff is that they could be possibly broken, as don't have any provably secure symmetric-key algorithms as of 2020.

Or in other words: symmetric groups are boring, because they are basically everything already!

TODO who was he talking about? Robert Noyce or Gordon Moore feel likely candidates:

But do you know what, Cirism is totally fine with taking indulgences to absolve someone from their past sins, so long as they have repented. Everyone deserves a second chance.

OMG, the second half of the game where the world becomes quite open and all backstories are revealed, is one of the best gaming moments ever.

Ciro Santilli likes Magic: The Gathering and he was pleased when he learned that Steve Wozniak does too, and has an expensive collection: redsunsoft.com/2019/03/how-a-post-to-play-magictg-turned-into-an-afternoon-with-the-woz/

SGML predecessor.