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- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 21 minutes ago:
The Java and Bedrock edition came bundled together for me. Maybe theres a way to redeem it somewhere other than the store, but I am still pretty sure its been the way I described ever since Minecraft was purchased by Microsoft.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 12 hours ago:
I could be mistaken but I’m solidly sure the website redirects you to buy it on the Microsoft Store, which is also how it will be installed and launched.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 17 hours ago:
To add to this, it’s exclusively available on the Microsoft Store, which has gotten so bad lately that I refused the terms on their most recent update and haven’t had it installed on any machines since.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 day ago:
I’ve got a modpack that graphically overhauls literally everything and Skyrim runs fine. It came out over a decade ago and made on the same engine as FO:3, it’s probably hitting the upper limits of its resource requirements if it hasn’t already.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 day ago:
It’s an old #23rd best card in the world, complete without the faulty newer nVidia cables and sockets, but yeah theres no way people need to spend $15k.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 day ago:
I actually went with a 1080 that had more VRAM than the Ti version at the cost of slightly lower performance, but this unintentionally crashes some games and applications which are not made to handle more than the 4GB memory limit in some 32 bit softwares. It’s too powerful lmao. Someday we’re going to encounter a similar issue when cards regularly reach up to 64GB VRAM.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 day ago:
I’m certain you can build a $15K USD computer, I bet Linus Tech Tips does it regularly, but idk who tf is doing that when an nVidia 3090Ti is only $1080 and is ranked #23 on PassMark.
- Comment on Pronouns history 1 day ago:
- Comment on Pronouns history 1 day ago:
I don’t often remember tunes but this one played in my head when I saw the image.
Dun dadundadun HEMAN
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 2 days ago:
They always could, they’re just more confident these days.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 3 days ago:
VPN will effect response time and that effect on response time is easily measurable.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 3 days ago:
It is, though. It’s one thing for some random artist to condemn the current admin, a totally different thing for a massive miliatary contractor to. That is a different standard.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 3 days ago:
Yes my entire point is that what they’re doing makes sense. It would actually be strange if the did anything differently given their position.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 3 days ago:
We do have to hold Microsoft to a very slightly different standard, because they’re a Military Contractor. They’re not going to risk hundreds of billions of dollars to take a stance and make a statement. In that sense, this should not surprise anybody.
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 3 days ago:
Care to show your math on that? I found this reference for human drag coefficients when I did my math but it does not mention any spread positions.
- Comment on Feel like I'm missing out on something 3 days ago:
You have to be a special kind of desperate to only buy 1 $15 Steak Chalupa
- Comment on Anon escapes from work 3 days ago:
You would need to fall something like 1,800 feet (550 meters) to reach terminal velocity. You would be falling for half a minute. There are probably only like 50 or less buildings on earth which qualify.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 3 days ago:
Incorrect. They can test against the recieving computer and any other relays they control on the way there. They can use that along with other information like number of packets, size of packets, and response time to determine, not with any certainty but with probability, where it comes from.
- Comment on You're so predictable 3 days ago:
Why did you write rnillion and not million?
- Comment on You're so predictable 3 days ago:
Jokes on you, I read the number and still went back to look for the letter.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 4 days ago:
If you can prove where people aren’t then you can prove where they are.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 4 days ago:
Yeah there was a cool paper on Delay Response method by AbdelRahman Abdou with Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University called “CPV: Delay-Based Location Verification for the Internet”.
The other method I mentioned, checking packet size and general direction, would require accessing data along multiple stops before reaching the other endpoint with which to compare the sizes of encrypted data packets and use that to identify what is traveling where, which either has not been demonstrated or the companies utilizing it haven’t admitted to it, yet. It’s not a stretch to think it’s happening, though, with massive companies like AWS and CloudFlare or telecom giants like AT&T.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 4 days ago:
You say what I described is impossible but it’s been demonstrated by researchers such as “CPV end of VPN identify location” by AbdelRahman Abdou with the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University Ontario.
Furthermore, on top of that method, if a company has access to data from servers in multiple places along the chain between endpoints, then they can see that a series of packets of specific size are traveling in a specific direction, narrowing down the location of the other endpoint. A company like Amazon, whose AWS servers make up almost 30% of the internet.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 4 days ago:
Another thing that only very large companies can do is see the response time and compare packet size from different servers to narrow down your location, effectively defeating the VPN in a lot of cases.
Hypothetically, a specific amount of bytes gets sent to server B, response time indicates it was received 300 miles away which matches the response time of going from Server B to Server A where the user lives.
Of course it’s still important to use a VPN, if only because those big companies don’t want us to.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
By saying its only use is in Icelandish.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
That’s great except for the fact that it doesn’t answer the question and also in a way calls the person asking a liar.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 6 days ago:
You gotta be trolling, right? I guarantee you “women” aren’t the reason people disliked Velma. The Golden Girls ran for 7 seasons from 1985 to 1992, I personally really liked watching the reruns even in a seemingly random order.
The reason Velma upsets people because the entire show is meant to upset those people. It’s not a real show. It’s a shitpost that targets racial and sexual majority groups. I’m sure they could have made a show if they wanted to and instead they made a shitpost. It’s got the same appeal to the people who like it as white hoods have to the clan.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 6 days ago:
If you told me the creator of that show didn’t get the equation right because they had no idea what it was even called to look it up, I would believe you.
- Comment on Fight me 1 week ago:
I always like to muse that in terms of electronics the heat is caused by resistance to current and that heat is usually considered inefficiency, and since no other load exist or work is done that means heating elements are about -100% efficient.
- Comment on Moon talk 1 week ago:
Mb, your right, must have been in a daze earlier today.