Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on Can I put a cold oxygen plasma generator in my fridge? 20 hours ago:
Those devices should just be used to clean emptied machines
- Comment on Caption this. 20 hours ago:
Lanternfish outsourcing the lantern
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 4 days ago:
Same supplier for cans / labels. Sometimes even the same packing / mixing (/ and something also brewing) plant. It’s slightly more common with mislabeled soda. Alcohol is supposed to monitored and checked more closely before delivery.
- Comment on Smart option 1 week ago:
Over here in Sweden, VAT (sales tax) applies to private consumption, while businesses can buy without VAT applied (I assume that applies to most of EU and probably USA too?). So when you’re buying stuff from companies that sell both to consumers and to other companies you’ll often set both prices listed, base price without VAT and with VAT included.
- Comment on oh no 2 weeks ago:
On the ISP end sometimes non symmetrical equipment is used, especially on copper coaxial which are used much like “wired wifi” in that data is transported by encoding it into frequency bands. Each frequency band can only be used up OR down per cable, so ISPs tend to dedicate more frequency bands to the downlink than to the uplink.
And as others mentioned, the commonly used TCP protocol will slowly ramp up bandwidth by having the server send a burst of packets, the client acknowledges, then the server sends more packets faster and the client acknowledges again, and once the client and server starts noticing packet losses it backs down and resend the lost packets a bit slower, until the connection bandwidth is stable.
- Comment on Fuck you i'm closing my eyes 2 weeks ago:
180° from white on a spherical color space is white
- Comment on salty 2 weeks ago:
Na
- 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? 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
The outer chains are purely for stability of the top. The center one holds all weight.
- Comment on 4D Salmon 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
That’s just arbitrage
- Comment on Cursed 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 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 1 month ago:
… And feed the credit card issuers?
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
“freeing up space on the user’s device”
- Comment on Anon finally gets a gf 1 month ago:
Doesn’t prevent deletion though
Need ACL for that
- Comment on just beat it 1 month ago:
Punching over IP
- Comment on You have my consent to kill me 1 month ago:
You should look at higher than 4D renderings, like high dimensional hypercubes, as don’t forget non-euclidean geometry