jarkhen

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by jarkhen 5y ago
I can't really speak to the first part of your message, since I've never really tested anything like that, but at least anecdotally I've never really noticed any additional click latency in Linux compared to Windows. For the
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by jarkhen 5y ago
Believe it or not, League of Legends actually works pretty well on Linux (I run it through Lutris). It takes a while for the launcher to initially load on startup, and the launcher is a bit of a slow/laggy mess, but from what I hear fr
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by jarkhen 5y ago
With all the work that's gone into Proton over the past few years, the vast majority of games Just Work and there's very well-documented tweaks for making the vast majority of the rest work as well. It's relatively rare to ha
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by jarkhen 5y ago
> I'm not sure how one could avoid dressing to express oneself, to at least some degree, unless you exclusively wear work uniforms or hand-me-downs. Exclusively wearing work uniforms (outside of work) or hand-me-downs is still, in i
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by jarkhen 6y ago
> My company doesn't even hash passwords... I understand this is somewhat my privilege speaking here, but I don't think I could continue working at a company that didn't do something as basic as hashing passwords (and refu
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by jarkhen 6y ago
That protects against an attacker reading network traffic. It does not protect against an attacker that has the hashed password from the DB. The only thing you need in order to authenticate at any given time is the hash of (hashed passwor
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by jarkhen 6y ago
Ah, right, I misread the original description of what they were doing. As is, then, it really is just making the hashed password the new password. If I can get the hashed password out of the DB, I can load the login page and simply skip the
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by jarkhen 6y ago
If the string changes each time, how could they possibly have the matching hashed password stored in the database?
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by jarkhen 6y ago
Unfortunately, your interpretation of facebook's motives require trusting that they'll only do what their PR says they'll do, and not what they're able to do. Or, even if that is their current reasoning, one then has t
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by jarkhen 6y ago
Was there no concern about an attacker being able to -read- the contents, as well?