Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 6 days ago:
You can do much better than a ledger with a commitment scheme and transparency log.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 6 days ago:
You’re forgetting about the traffic analysis and key distribution problems
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 week ago:
No, copyright isn’t relinquished from any of that (not even any effect on damages if you still require players to have bought the game to use the private servers), and trademarks wouldn’t be affected at all if you simply require that 3rd party servers are marked as unofficial
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 week ago:
Only applicable if they run the servers themselves, not if they let others run their own servers.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 week ago:
And “would leave rights holders liable” is completely false, no game would have offline modes if it did
- Comment on It's still captivating 1 week ago:
The outer chains are purely for stability of the top. The center one holds all weight.
- Comment on 4D Salmon 1 week ago:
I can see a few ways to nudge people, like a puzzle that’s more linear than it looks like, or selecting the tasks in the next version of the encounter based on the events in the previous version of it to match (you wouldn’t see clearly what the “enemy” is doing so you wouldn’t notice that those actions the second round weren’t fixed, the game is just trying to replicate the interactions between past/future self and the rest of the stage is completely arbitrary). Basically treating it as a choreography problem.
Maybe even make it feel more “wild” by recording how the player controls the character during the game before that point, use something like generative ML to make the “enemy” AI act as the game think you would respond to your past self, then when you’re the future you returning to the stage the game nudges you into using your abilities in the same way (altering how you have to use your powers to solve puzzles to match how the previous “predicted AI you”, making you face other enemies and use your abilities in similar ways to win fights)
- Comment on 4D Salmon 1 week ago:
I have some similar ideas about a story driven time travel game where it’s set up so that at one point you face an anonymous enemy, which forces you to trigger certain conditions in the stage and then they escape.
Later in the game you return to this stage at the same point in time, expecting to face that enemy again, but you are this “enemy”, and the game nudges you into replicating the exact same sequence of events so that you take the actions which the “enemy” did so your (NPC) past self can replay the exact steps you previously took.
But the game doesn’t show this clearly to you the player until you completed the stage - while your character is shown to have noticed something strange, the game doesn’t show you the player (or you character’s party) that you faced yourself until the end of the stage, using different positions and camera angles to hide it from you and the party. And if you manage to replicate the event chain perfectly, you’ll get to see your party members being visibly stunned when you see them realize it was a time loop (your actions in the stage breaks the loop), and hopefully the player can be made to feel like they experienced a time loop, as if they really faced off with themselves twice (“how did the game know I would do it that way?”)
- Comment on 4D Salmon 1 week ago:
In practical terms, Braid is probably closest. You have time rewind mechanics, in some stages it’s selective where rewind applies to specific objects AND/OR specific areas (so it’s not just try/retry, but actual time manipulation and setup)
- Comment on 4D Salmon 1 week ago:
A Link through time (Zelda), and some more like it.
It’s 3D, but there’s a Portal 2 mod with time travel
- Comment on EVERYBODY IS DOING SOMETHING 1 week ago:
That’s just arbitrage
- Comment on Cursed 1 week ago:
It’s kinda hilarious when the best formula only handles large numbers, not small. You’d think it would be the reverse, but sometimes it just isn’t (something about the law of large numbers making it easier to approximate good solution, in many cases)
- Comment on Cursed 1 week ago:
He’s saying the same thing. Because it’s not an integer power of 2 you can’t have a integer square solution. Thus the densest packing puts some boxes diagonally.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 1 week ago:
OTOH I only have a PS5 because of Sony’s marketing budget, lol (non-slim version included with a Sony phone on contract, so technically also a way for them to clear stock, lmao)
But yeah, I don’t know any people with a recent Xbox here in Sweden. In the original Xbox era and the 360 era I think they had a big lead here, but after that I’ve seen much more Sony represented.
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 1 week ago:
I’ve heard stories of clients giving gifts getting pissed when the wrong person claims them, so it’s risky for not just legal reasons
- Comment on Chickenslap 2 weeks ago:
This assumes both have the same amount of heat capacity * mass. A hand with heat insulating gloves would also significantly reduce heat loss.
Better do it in a vacuum though, you’ll lose energy to air resistance
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 3 weeks ago:
… And feed the credit card issuers?
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 3 weeks ago:
A reminder that “cashback” credit cards are paid for by big fees on transactions which the store pays, forcing them to raise prices. It’s literally anticompetitive
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 3 weeks ago:
The other Red Hat
- Comment on Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening 3 weeks ago:
“freeing up space on the user’s device”
- Comment on Anon finally gets a gf 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t prevent deletion though
Need ACL for that
- Comment on just beat it 4 weeks ago:
Punching over IP
- Comment on You have my consent to kill me 4 weeks ago:
You should look at higher than 4D renderings, like high dimensional hypercubes, as don’t forget non-euclidean geometry
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 4 weeks ago:
But not inwards like the not so hygienic Dyson ones.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 4 weeks ago:
You could do something clever with UV light possibly, but still. There’s going to be plenty of traces of crap on them even if all bacteria is dead
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 4 weeks ago:
I’m a millennial that has seen them in Sweden, but probably at least for not a decade or more by now.
- Comment on Anon wants this 4 weeks ago:
It wasn’t even unusual with female vikings.
- Comment on Splitgate 2 Director Refuses to Apologize for ‘Make FPS Great Again Hat’, Then Apologizes Anyway - IGN 4 weeks ago:
When the tribe which they’re appealing to is a death cult with a huge body count then that’s just being reasonable
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 4 weeks ago:
Next issue (?) is that there’s a million types of plastic. Different compositions, different structure. Plastic eating bacteria won’t touch every variant.
- Comment on All this produce is going to spoil at the food bank where I volunteer 4 weeks ago:
Get somebody else to take a truck to you?