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  I’ll go a step further: formatting for human-readability is the job of the reader, not the writer. Hardcoded line breaks, spacing, etc. are never going to be a good solution because the idea is wrong from the start. This is a display issue, not a logic issue. It needs to be solved at the display end. Use a syntax-aware editor that formats code the way you like it. Save it any goddamn way that is syntactically valid. Anyone else who opens it will see it any way the like in their own syntax-awar...

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  I'll keep using AES 256 because why the heck not? The additional cost is a rounding error. I mean, sure, don't panic. But also, don't hit the brakes. You might as well use the best encryption that's readily available. Encrypted data does not have a short enough or predictable enough lifespan to justify using less than the state of the art.

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  Sometimes I have to wonder, what's it going to take to make people leave X? I mean, it was a shithole even before Musk bought it, *4 years ago*, and it's gotten predictably and steadily worse ever since.