eleijeep
@eleijeep@piefed.social
- Comment on Birmingham man fined over £140 for stealing sandwich and cookies from Greggs 1 day ago:
Do you think that hungry people only need food once?
- Comment on Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens 1 day ago:
Free-range humans have a worse impact on the climate than caged humans.
Has anyone asked the chickens for their opinion?
- Comment on "We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of discs 6 days ago:
DREAMCAST 2 OR WE RIOT
- Comment on MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux 6 days ago:
Oh yeah of course. Pack it up everybody, let’s not even try. We’ll just accept rootkits on our systems.
- Comment on MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux 6 days ago:
When a player does something super-human over and over I’d say that’s pretty easy to detect server-side.
- Comment on Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe 1 week ago:
If it’s using factual sources to generate its answer then you should find those sources and quote those instead. The fact that it will just make stuff up that sounds plausible means that you have to do the legwork to verify every single word it outputs. If you are verifying it then presumably you’re finding sources that you can link.
- Comment on Man, 28, charged with murder of former UK MP Ann Widdecombe 1 week ago:
You’re posting grok output as if it somehow contributes to the conversation?
- Comment on Train Surrounded by Flames in Armstrong, Ontario 2 weeks ago:
Filming in landscape mode is for PIMPS and COOLS. 😎
Right on.
- Comment on Train Surrounded by Flames in Armstrong, Ontario 2 weeks ago:
We have the same idiom in British English too.
- Comment on 'We decided not to limit VPNs': UK government U-turns on age-gating privacy tools 2 weeks ago:
“We decided not to limit the tide’s encroachment upon the shores” - King Cnut
- Comment on I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan 2 weeks ago:
Don’t get your hopes up.
- Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award 2 weeks ago:
Odyssey only came out like 5 minutes ago. What year are we in?
- Comment on Scrapping early release for sex offenders could leave no capacity in jails, says David Lammy 2 weeks ago:
Maybe stop locking up protestors who are trying to bring awareness to genocide and the literal destruction of the planet.
- Comment on There Is No Reason To Buy Another PlayStation Or Xbox 3 weeks ago:
Well they bought all the game studios and then closed them, so there won’t be any games to play anyway.
- Comment on Any signed GitHub commit can be copied, without the author's secret key, creating a distinct commit with an identical tree, metadata, a valid signature, and a "Verified" badge 3 weeks ago:
This is the opposite of a hash collision (where two different inputs have the same hash), it’s instead a case where the same input can produce two distinct hashes. I’m struggling to think of an actual malicious application of this.
You would need to have a malicious commit (eg. as part of a supply chain attack) which is signed by a maintainer (because their keys were stolen), and then when the project finally reverts the malicious commit, another attacker (without needing the signing keys) can recreate the malicious commit with a new commit-hash, which might trick automated tools into thinking it’s a new commit, but the tree and metadata would be identical to the malicious commit, and it would be signed using the old (stolen) signing key that would since have been revoked.
Is that their point? Or is there some other attack that this enables? This just means that we can’t blacklist git commits, since an attacker could produce a new commit hash that represents the same tree. But if an attacker already has the signing keys, then they can do this indefinitely even without this signature malleability. The signing keys would get revoked in both cases, and that’s what needs to be checked.
- Comment on Neverness to Everness has patched out a character’s shorts in favor of panties following complaints 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Resetting XBOX - Compulsion Games and Double Fine to go indie again, Ninja Theory and Undead Labs "to join new ownership" 3 weeks ago:
Those middle managers won’t middle manage themselves.
- Comment on Andy Burnham backs under 16s social media ban and wants 'urgency' in delivery 3 weeks ago:
Clap your hands! Throw a chair! Peel a parsnip! Iron your trousers! Sieve the greens! Strangle a fox! Pipe the buttercream! Stub your toe! Cancel your Netflix! Andy Burnham!
- Comment on Andy Burnham backs under 16s social media ban and wants 'urgency' in delivery 3 weeks ago:
Are you in favour of all adults having to provide ID to access the internet? Because that’s the policy that you’re supporting.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 3 weeks ago:
On the retro consoles that I play, I can fit the entire library onto an SD card and put it in a flash cart or ODE. And yet I still buy physical games and put them on my shelf.
People want to have a physical game collection. It’s tactile and it helps with choosing what to play when you can see all the boxes. It also feels more permanent, and for a lot of media types, it is more permanent than the NAND flash in SD cards.
- Comment on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999 4 weeks ago:
Are you really going to shit on a PC because it’s not a Steam Machine? What kind of weird console-gamer brand loyalty is this?
- Comment on Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff 5 weeks ago:
More of the same, then.
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 5 weeks ago:
It sounds simple when you’re not a mathematician or cryptographer, but the academic study of these systems reveals that it’s probably intractable:
Privacy-Preserving Age Verification and Its Limitations - Steven M. Bellovin
Cory Doctorow wrote an article shortly after this paper released that explains the situation quite well: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/#wont-someone-think-of-the-cryptographers
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 5 weeks ago:
Just think, we could have had Rebecca Long-Bailey or Lisa Nandy instead.
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 5 weeks ago:
Whenever you see the words “social media ban” you need to substitute them for “mandatory ID checks for adults to use the internet,” because that’s the only solution they have to enforce the ban for children.
We don’t want to provide our IDs so that we can be associated in perpetuity with every brain fart that we post to MySpace or whatever people are using these days.
Online pseudonymity is important for a functioning democracy. When people fear consequences for expressing their political opinions, this leads to the chilling effect.
The ban is not about children, it’s about everyone, and it’s about our freedom to speak freely online.
- Comment on Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies In Plane Crash 5 weeks ago:
Why are you still posting?
- Comment on Brexit voting areas have seen faster growth in foreign workers since EU referendum 5 weeks ago:
I just did the dirtiest laugh. I didn’t even know I had that noise inside of me.
- Comment on UPDATE: I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title appeared on another Steam game as they plan to release before I do. 5 weeks ago:
Happy to hear you worked it out. Good luck with your game!
- Comment on UPDATE: I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title appeared on another Steam game as they plan to release before I do. 5 weeks ago:
everything went better than expected
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 1 month ago:
Before the internet was widespread, that’s exactly how they worked.
