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- Comment on Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach 2 days ago:
Related: areweanticheatyet.com
- Comment on Now that is creative street art 3 days ago:
Freaking awesome, of course…
Thank you heartfelt, dear Artist, photographer, and author of the post!
Depending on the place, it may also be of sort of a suggestion for peace or solidarity, considering the character as Lisa!
Also, seeing the hand behind the saxophone, the artwork is quite complex, presenting a whole anamorphosis, too! - Comment on How come cops who are trained in guns shoot to kill all the time? Even people who have no gun. Why not go in with your hand on the taser, and ready just in case to shoot someone in the leg? 3 days ago:
Just in case, there’s no “safe” place to get shot.
A gunshot injury to the leg is always a medical emergency and can be fatal in as little as five minutes if the bullet hits a major artery, causing traumatic blood loss.
An injury to the aorta, femoral or carotid artery can be especially dangerous because these are the main blood vessels responsible for pulling oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body. The brachial artery (which runs through the arms) is another major concern. If one of these arteries is punctured, the trauma can result in an immediate blood pressure drop and extremely rapid blood loss.
Bleeding can quickly become life-threatening. The average time to bleed out is only 2 to 5 minutes.
Yes, a taser may also cause lethal cases, unfortunately…
Although all in-custody deaths after ECD shocks are not likely a direct result of the shock, a number probably are. Taser International addressed that probability by revising their warnings from “aim at target: center of mass or legs” and “aiming at open front of unzipped jacket” before September 2009 to “when possible, avoiding chest shots…” after that date. More recently, they noted that “heart rate, rhythm, capture” can occur and that “capture” and “cardiac arrest” can contribute to arrest-related death in physiologically or metabolically compromised persons.
I’ve been in USA for 2 month only accumulated, mostly residing in Europe and Asia, and from my experience, in common civilian life, it’s rare to see an actual lethal weapon being aimed at someone in public unless it’s at zones/movements of Bank or foreign politics, including ambassadorial or consular general residences. In other words, a taser-like solution is much more frequent in civilian life from my experience.
- Comment on Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach 3 days ago:
To understand why the requirements keep escalating, follow the arms race. Cheats started in user space, so anti-cheat moved into the kernel to see them. Cheats followed into the kernel, and then below it into hypervisors - so anti-cheat added hypervisor detection and began demanding a verified boot chain. Every time the cheat drops a layer deeper, the anti-cheat has to demand more privilege and more hardware trust to keep watching. That is what TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, remote attestation, IOMMU enforcement, and now forced firmware updates actually are: anti-cheat chasing cheats further down the stack.
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Wonderful day!
Just in case, if if interested, the TPM is a specific module with its own API in modern motherboards that has inside a key pair known as Endorsement Key (EK) which is a permanent unique identifier burned into the hardware. It’s used to create signed EK certificates.
To clarify, similar to the asynchronous cryptographic we may see in the general TLS certificates in HTTP traffic ( “green” lock), the TPM , as mentioned, has API to create public keys from its private key inside.
The private key is burned-in by the manufacturer inside the module, which is also normally protected from physical damage to be self-destruct, by its standard requirements.
Systems like Denuvo may create and encrypt their own data using the public key, and send it to the TPM to decrypt, verify, and therefore identify the hardware on their servers as an identity.
The Endorsement Key (EK) is an asymmetric key pair consisting of a public and private key stored in a Shielded Location on the TPM.
The public part of the EK can be read from the TPM while the private part MUST never be exposed.
The public key of the EK is included in the EK certificate…
However, the EK provided by the manufacturer MUST be defined as a non-duplicable key.Though, I believe, the TPM specifications were actually designed by Trusted Computing Group with privacy in mind to prevent the EK from being used as a “global tracking ID”, some vendors or organizations may use it for undefined reason, and hence please do consider the opportunities your operating system and motherboard provide.
Also, if interested in experimenting, and haven’t yet, in Linux, TPM is accessed via character devices (created by the Kernel module), and normally support different operations to read/write to, and located at
/dev/tpm*, though these devices’ permissions are set torootonly in all the Kernels I’ve seen yet. There are CLI software packages as tpm2-tools for the protocol. - Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Also AI might have done better job than us…
Thank you for it. An actual artist, who believes in art and human, would never ever allow such words to fly out of their mind…
That only is enough to conclude I would never trust you, nor anyone involved in this project my love for the infinitely magnificent history of art of human…
There’s hope that some day… you will realize it… since isn’t it what art allow us to actually communicate over the infinite universe out there…
All they told me was “Just give up You’ll never be good enough”, never good enough Pushing me, pushing me…
~ The Depths - Of Mice & Men
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
I am very much sorry, but why does the website look like all the effortless, 1-day made, Codex/Claude/LLM-designed slop?
Why should anyone invest their precious priceless finite life time into a yet another slop that are being published at “AI”-related venues 50+ per day, or more?
Why not invest time into a more human-amde miracles, as gamedate.org, for example?
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
To have it fair, there are peaceful online video-games, or Artworks, too, I believe, and I’ve been contributing and participating in one ineffably magnificent miracle… The Elder Scrolls Online… since 2016…
I have already more than 240,000 screenshots and hundreds of video recorded for all the years, or more…
Currently, I’m also maintaining a few add-ons at ESOUI (to dim or hide certain GUI elements only).Yet, indeed, usually, a single-player Artworks allow you to actually hear more, see more, notice more… to actually listen to the Universe adventured… where no fear exists to be suddenly disconnected or interrupted…
Once this city pulsed with energy. It was dirty and dangerous, but alive and wonderful. Now it’s something else. The changes came slowly at first. Most didn’t notice, or didn’t care. They chose a comfortable life. Some didn’t.
Order. Purpose. Direction. No more than that. It’s your lot that means to confound with this nonsense talk of freedom. Time was, the Assassins professed a far more sensible goal, that of peace.
It’s true that our organization stretches back to the Order of the Assassins, or Hashishim, but not in the way you might imagine. The order hasn’t so much lasted as been continually revived… It’s the Idea that has lasted. The System. Or the Desire, every thinking person’s desire to give the world some decent organization.
~ Deus Ex
Vlad was right. There are no choices, nothing but a straight line. The illusion comes afterwards, when you ask “why me?” and “what if?”. When you look back, see the branches, like a pruned Bonsai tree, or a forked lightning. If you had done something differently, it wouldn’t be you, it would be someone else looking back, asking a different set of questions.
Image Source: Personal screenshot backups of The Elder Scrolls Online
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Wonderful day! Though, I am not into this kind of meal, or the vendor/brand even, mostly residing/traveling around Europe and Asia, but once I noticed your share, I tried searching about it, and found the following:
- Then we opened the box and found the sticker. I’m assuming they produced the boxes with the misprint and then create the sticker after to fix their mistake?
- Maybe it’s because people like to throw out the box to save freezer space?Source: redd.it/1trlw03
- Comment on To whom it may concern. I found your glove. 2 weeks ago:
It seems like the glove likes it! And is actually in peace… on the very top, sees marvelous miracles at far, and breathes fresh crystal clean air… of wind of freedom…
- Comment on Why do people get mad at you for using Wikipedia, but treat Google and AI chatbots like they're gospel? 2 weeks ago:
Nonsense, sorry. The most people I know like Wikipedia, and hate and distrust anything even remotely related to LLM/“AI” if there’s no sources.
And, if by Google you mean the Google Search, then may I ask, how is it wrong to use a search?Yet, wait… sources you say? Let’s send a prompt to the dead machine:
- Comment on I see your frog, and match you a forg. 2 weeks ago:
No, but I had tears, and cannot even look at it right now, so I just respond to your comment.
A human with defects may at least be carried/supported by someone else, as another human…
This creature? The frog is alone… somewhere out there… and is captured in its defected body…
And… dear no one will able to help it… where you just hope… it has a family, and/or friends around… - Comment on Why? 3 weeks ago:
Oderint dum metuant, indeed.
- Comment on Why? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why? 3 weeks ago:
They do not, normally, unless you specifically allow that. Yet, indeed, many services enable/require quite permissive scopes by default.
- Comment on Why? 3 weeks ago:
Because it’s significantly harder legally and financially to process Email (even via outsourced services as MailChimp) and store someone’s personal information as Email if compared to a social account ID, in long term.
Not only that, but OAuth providers have APIs to get sufficient User information as Name, Email (yet, by requested/allowed scope only), activity on that social network as posts/channels/followers count etc.
- Comment on How to indentify false positives 3 weeks ago:
Wonderful day!
Depending on the anti-malware, it may be either a known signature, or heuristics.
- In case of the former, the signature may be a just a single use of function inside the safe program that matches with a malware that uses the same (e.g., in a thread or memory range the anti-malware probed);
- The former, may just be a too restrictive local security settings;Yet, if you don’t have enough time to investigate in locally in isolated environments as virtual machines/containers, debugging syscalls and activities in file-system, memory, network etc., there are less manual or outsources, options, including the common know ones: - opentip.kaspersky.com
- opentip.kaspersky.com/requests
- virustotal.com/gui/
- any.runPlease stay safe!
- Comment on I see your frog, and match you a forg. 3 weeks ago:
Holy moly… such a… so so so poor creature…
I just… what to so carefully hug it so much…
It’s so heartbreaking to see… no words…Please… please… if reincarnation ever exists… I so hope you will appear a healthy, beautiful, and magnificent one… in the future…
Please do stay safe… dear wonderful creature… you do good, and will manage it! - Comment on I built Kothba - King of the Hill Battle Arena game 3 weeks ago:
I am sorry, but I do not know what else to tell you at this point…
Please do stay safe… - Comment on I built Kothba - King of the Hill Battle Arena game 3 weeks ago:
At this point, it’s not technological progress, by far. Considering your response, it’s the human degradation even I see.
You do you, yet please don’t call your empty mind, lack of tokens, and dependency on your mighty vendor in the end. - Comment on I built Kothba - King of the Hill Battle Arena game 3 weeks ago:
Apologies, but here some should consider it serious, when a headline is read “I build a thing.”
At this moment, everything tells it was you who built it but an LLM you used, and it seems like Claude based on both your website and the game design, which look as almost everything Claude models do.
Therefore, may I ask why do you call it as “you” did, and why should be called “slop”?
- Comment on I weighed my stool today... 3 weeks ago:
Wait what?! I’ve always believed it weights a single Drum Throne!
- Comment on Does anyone know what this is 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for more details? Where and when did you saw the event you tried to recreate in the animation, if I may ask?
- Comment on Does anyone know what this is 3 weeks ago:
I am sorry, but “creating a file” may literally be anything, too, including just recording, downloading, renaming it etc.
Is it possible to share the actual source of the file, and what were the circumstances you’ve got one? - Comment on Does anyone know what this is 3 weeks ago:
As mentioned by more context is required, but the first idea that came is the Orrery or some atom/planetary system:
Related: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrery (…is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of…)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
May I ask what instances you’ve found the most reliable and informative?
- Comment on [PlayStation] [DRM] Licenses now requires an online check-in every 30 days. 2 months ago:
I am not sure nowadays about the limit from Steam/Valve side.
Cached license ownership Steam App tickets data is indeed stored locally, including a property
appticketsin encrypted state in file…/Steam/userdata/${steamUserId}/config/localconfig.vdf.The data is to be eventually mapped to the interface
EAuthSessionResponsewhich may be used to implement the value fork_EAuthSessionResponseNoLicenseOrExpired.k_EAuthSessionResponseNoLicenseOrExpired- 2 - The user doesn’t have a license for this App ID or the ticket has expired.Source [web-archive]
This data is normally used by the Steam client only, and is available for explicit requests via Steam API, including launchers.
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# App Ownership Ticket
This part of the ticket is signed by Steam and is valid for a longer period of time, usually a couple weeks. It proves to your peer that you own the game you’re trying to authenticate for. It can be reused many times with different GC tokens.
It contains things like your SteamID, the ID of the app it was assigned for, your external and internal IP addresses, the times when the ticket was generated and when it expires, the licenses you own which grant you this game, any DLC you own, and a signature.
Since this part of the ticket is signed, has an expiration date, and can be reused, there’s no need to send it to Steam for validation, so it’s validated locally.
If I do recall it correctly, previously, the Steam client debug console command
licenses_printreturned local “expiration times” for next checks with the remote API (as “handshakes”) within the 14 days limit.The encrypted tickets data is considered signed, and I do recall reading about its signed “expires at” was set to 14 or maximum 30 days only. The 14 days matches out with the discounting limit:
Launch discounts start once your title is released on Steam and can be staged to run for between 7 and 14 days, ending at 10am Pacific on the applicable day…
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Steam is an online service offered by Valve.
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This is not actually true - Offline Mode is designed to be indefinite… Looks like Kotaku decided to link to this post from six months ago, and every game blog has copy-pasted it. The “two week” timeout issue has been fixed for months now, along with several other bugs. We’re still working on improvements, and you might catch them if you read the patch notes carefully, but we don’t bother to post on the forums every time we fix something (maybe out of fear that it will get posted as front-page news six months later?).
Source [web-archive]Yet, still, I wish I had more time… to investigate it myself. It feels like the signature time depends on the title. considering the following article:
I constantly see people unknowingly spreading misinformation about how Steam Offline Mode operates and most of it dates back to 2004…
This post exists to explain how there is no time limit on Steam offline mode and Steam isn’t going to prevent you from preserving your games forever, assuming you take steps to back up your installation (which you should do anyway for any digitally downloaded games.)Backup your Steam install folder, make one registry key, and you can play your games offline forever on any computer.
Source: redd.it/xt3xec (Steam Offline Mode has no time limit: an explanation…) [2022-10-01] - Comment on what is this??? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on I would write something extensive, but I don't wanna end up writing incoherent stuff, especially since I sometimes rely on AI to write stories for me. What should I do? 2 months ago:
If you do want to write an leave in the history a coherent work, respect your readers, and develop your self-confidence:
- You don’t use AI for writing as a… writer;
- You read others writers/artists works;
- You temporary focus on works on writing coherently;
You should actually consider what you want to tell to the world, and why other people would choose your book and how it would support them in their adventures, solutions searches, and realize your idea… you message you actually wrote…
AI will not help you as a writer but devalue your work.
AI is not you or your hand. It’s someone else, and is limited. It’s noise.
Are you sure you want to listen to noise? I believe you should read and listen to people. - ‘Seeking connection’: the video game (Arc Raiders) where players stopped shooting and started talking...www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 45 comments
