Good to hear. It depends how deep you dive into the configuration, it can get very frustrating setting some things up. If you stick to what's popular, it should be easy.

This is my pet peeve. This is one application that should be paid for. It hugely lacks features. Non-destructive editing with gradients, adjustments, masks. Better selection tools, CMYK would be nice. But that's not the worst part, it doesn't have the entirety of Adobe Illustrator, which you can work between. Affinity has the Designer equivalent, which I use a lot.

I don't think you have used Affinity of Photoshop much.

Cool and gross, dam capitalism, allowing Canva to buy the only competitive Adobe alternative and kill it.

Yoooo, how you finding it? Freeing?

Why would you upgrade, it's worse.

If they go public I'm changing distros

The cutting edge/novel techniques was what I was looking for, this is really cool. I'll look into it more.

Why don't we have an open source anti-cheat protocol that is a demon-level service. Everyone hates kernel anti-cheat, but only because they're close source, so why don't we have one that's open source. Seems like a simple solution.

I still use VirtualBox with Windows 10 to launch all the Affinity products because GIMP is so bad. And for browser fingerprint protection, e.g. chrome (ungoogled) on windows, because no browser fakes it. Not mullvad, Tor or Brave.

Yeah, it's much harder to completely hide the fact you're using encryption.

Oof 😅 0.59 nanoseconds. I dang messed up. This would be a good project for students to identify the weaknesses. Like the Theprimeagen says the problem with the tutorials is they're neatly packaged, refined end products and you miss out on all the learning and debugging. You sound like you know what you're talking about and the 1-byte block size is a huge mistake. I think I'll do some more research into the different algorithms. Thanks for having a look, and weighing in.

I hear you, XOR is bad 💀 I should just use the crypto library.

Hey, thanks for the thoughtful breakdown. I probably should label it: warning random IT grad project. I mistakenly believed I could make something that was good, well it's a lot more difficult. You're right that this doesn’t provide the kind of plausible deniability I initially hoped for, the decoys were just a workaround, because I couldn't find the type of algorithm I wanted.

The query parameters are masked with HTTPS so you're not revealing any extra data, it would just look like any other redirect if you were packet sniffing. And when visiting the destination links, your normal OPSEC still applies, like changing your DNS, using a VPN, etc. I was just seeing if this project would find some sort of use, but I only spend two days on it and it was a fun learning experience.

fr, windows hides the file type by default.

Om, AppImage is portable exe. Has it's uses.

dpkg doesn't? I sometimes use apt install command but didn't think it mattered if the deb package was configured right.

I'm not so sure about those beginner-friendly distros, they seem a little doggy and miss out on the massive work that the Debian and Ubuntu teams do that a smaller team can not. Snap is good for small, one time use or untrusted apps. But most of the time, its performance is really slow. It needs some work.

It's a useful shortcut.

That's awesome. Thank you.