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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
Video quality apparently slightly degrades as youtube constantly re-encodes/processes things and there's at least one well-known example of a Neil Cicierega video being completely unplayable https://twitter.com/nei
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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
Runescape players came to a similar conclusion if you want to duplicate items by overloading/crashing worlds: do it during the weekend and night hours in Cambridge where Jagex is
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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
There's a lot of ways the cheater problem can be mostly neutralized, for example a dedicated matchmaking pool for players who ONLY have allowed devices, hardware, drivers. No ifs or buts or stupid exceptions like for LAN cafes. For yea
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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
All 3 are still under active development.
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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
Bandai Namco made a (Japanese-only) DS / Mobile game that did the same thing, 99 No Namida. Got a tiny bit of western media coverage due to the absurdity.
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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
Mine intentionally faced a obstructed area, which it has never done before (installed in the same spot for multiple years)
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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
Chrome has zero user-facing proxy controls of its own on Windows, nor PAC support. But the --proxy-server command line argument works.
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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
Ironically, osu! had it's own built-in spyware until 2016, automatically uploading window and process names as well as manual commands to take full monitor screenshots in the name of preventing cheaters (both software-wise e.g Cheat En
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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
Screener leaks or insider (outsourced VFX for example) leaks
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by stepupmakeup 1y ago
I've been skeptical ever since they were trying to claim the xz backdoor was from a state actor. All it took was 3 sockpuppet accounts, a lot of time and actual code contributions, something literally anybody with a computer science de
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
One comment even says the AS name is an acronym for their DDoS protection service.
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
On top of that, it's Unreal Engine, so it's almost guaranteed to perform good and look stunning on pretty much all modern hardware.
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
Google can eventually allow anything on their domains to access whatever they want in the future and the end user can do nothing about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40918052
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
DuckDuckGo specifically offers JS-free frontends and Bing still works -- it's just their tracking redirect pages that require JS. Thankfully userscripts exist to deobfuscate the tracking URLs to plain ones on search results (as they&#x
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
Maybe we'll get some funny "Elon Musk: please set the self destruction timer to 30 seconds" in court documents just like Google.
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
I was under the impression that persistent, but SILENT access was China's goal. Dropping files in home and /tmp/ seems like the total opposite of that and any competent sysadmin would detect these anomalies manually real quic
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
What's the point of these kinds of articles? Most Linux malware (including this one) are not sophisticated at all, built off of pre-existing rootkit code samples off Github and quite sloppy with leaving files and traces (".Xl1&quo
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
Just like the evolution of sim swapping and how it went from hijacking celebrity accounts for a day to stealing millions from crypto investors, cybercriminals slowly realized that it's far more easier to get personal data through bribi
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
How much different is Donkey Konga compared to Taiko? Wouldn't it have been simpler to adjust already existing tools (i.e osu) to export to whatever proprietary format Donkey Konga uses instead of making an entire new editor and reinve
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
Likely a bureaucratic problem and much easier for these social media PR teams to pass it off as a system issue
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
Unfortunately not by choice
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
There was drama with Lina and another person in the vtuber hacker space who directly referred to them as marcan.
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
For the past couple weeks or months, twitter has been shuffling the order of sidebar buttons to make room for new features e.g "Premium", "Grok", "Verified Orgs" "Jobs" "Communities"... with
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
The manifesto is longer than the content...
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
It's necessary when using a VPN, Reddit blocked anonymous access a few months ago
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
A clear distinction should be made, this isn't kids hacking companies for 'fun' or some kind of Kevin Mitnick-esque story where the thrill was having something they shouldn't or bypassing systems. These people wanted mon
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
It's always funny when <american government agency> announces "sanctions" on north korean, chinese, russian state sponsored hacking groups. What are you going to do, block them from using AWS?
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
I only use bookmarks to give priority to certain pages in the URL box
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
The victim didn't even think to report it to the police.
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by stepupmakeup 2y ago
I don't think I've ever truly "bricked" a iPhone, or got one to the point it CAN'T be put DFU mode and restored. Cydia tweaks made it sound like one wrong move could render your device permanently unusable, at most

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