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- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
it simply wouldn’t trust the client with anything the player shouldn’t know, to minimize cheating potential. valorant does this, and made a blog post about it. also, player movement could be analyzed server side to attempt to distiguish between cheating and legit.
I think client side invasive anti cheat is likely more effective than this, but its a cat and mouse game. if the anticheat was server side and good, there isn’t anything to attack
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
server side anticheat is the only ultimate solution.
all client side anticheat measures will have vulnerabilities that will be found and people will cheat. (look at DMA pci cards, for instance)
- Comment on New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity 2 weeks ago:
sure yeah, we need sand for erosion control, but getting it from glass that has already been manufactured (a carbon intensive process) and turning it back into a raw material, instead of remelting it into more useable glass, is a strange idea.
normally we take a raw material, and (with effort) turn it into a product people use, and if it can be reused after its first use, it makes a lot more sense to work on that, rather than turning it right back into raw material.
- Comment on NHS charter to stress biological sex when placing patients in wards 2 weeks ago:
such a stupid thing to whine about. what if they got surgery and they are externally identical to a cis woman, do they still need to go in the ward for men? just let people be.
- Comment on New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity 2 weeks ago:
this is not a very good idea for the enviroment. recycled glass CAN BE remelted into more glass products, and crushing usable glass (that took lots energy to produce) and literally dumping it into the ocean is hilariously counterproductive. I like the sentiment though, just not what they are doing.
- Comment on Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, although that example kinda is one of the older, not very commercialized, tech demo uses of ai. It still could be misused, but the harm that could come from that specific app is very very minimal, compared to most uses of ai now.
- Comment on Teen Girls Confront an Epidemic of Deepfake Nudes in Schools 5 weeks ago:
Feels like the advances in AI are generally bad for everyone except nvidia and cloud providers. (You could argue its great for someone who can’t code, but chatgpt and others are quite misleading, and I think they might be better off just learning to code.) AI was interesting when it was a bunch of researchers showing off cool demos, now its just horrifying.
- Comment on does this mean I'm getting in???? 1 month ago:
allen pan. looks like him though, and allen almost became a mythbuster!
- Comment on "looks inside, individually packaged" 3 months ago:
i think that might be a suicide prevention measure, i remember something about blister packaging helping reduce suicide rates.
- Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked 4 months ago:
oh interesting. kinda impossible to ensure all the contributors have never seen it though.
- Comment on Will youtube eventually run out of storage? 8 months ago:
lol you can store petabytes in one rack, much less an entire data center.
- Comment on We RECREATED the Nuclear Explosion from Oppenheimer with ZERO CGI 8 months ago:
yeah, for nuclear explosions I don’t think practical effects will ever look right. CGI can look incredibly realistic if they have the money for it.