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- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
Windows IIS probably from around the time of windows 8 so maybe 2012. Probably running on either windows server 2012 (like exchange, an active directory domain controller, or if you are unlucky sharepoint) or some weirdly configured appliance running windows 8 ish enterprise.
- Comment on Installation 1 month ago:
I’m a little concerned killing the main breaker might result in a sudden temperature change that might fracture the gas line. Of course if you turn the gas off you might get fried.
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 6 months ago:
I feel like I saw this hallway on McMansion Hell
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 7 months ago:
Based on the comments it appears the prompt doesn’t really even fully work. It mainly seems to be something to laugh at while despairing over the writer’s nonexistant command of logic.
- Comment on Players Have Defeated An Entire Enemy Faction In Helldivers 2 7 months ago:
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 7 months ago:
I’m a bit concerned what happens when Gabe Newell dies
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 9 months ago:
The simple solution here is to record to flash when wifi dies. Yes wired stuff is nice but it half these are consumer installed.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
Scam Altman Freid strikes again
- Comment on Please Joe... 9 months ago:
As I have said before and will say again the president is not a dictator.
Spending bills must originate in the house which is currently controlled by the party of no. You can threaten not to vote all you want but you will only hurt yourself.
As it is this meme is just misleading.
- Comment on 2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip 10 months ago:
Anti virtualization is sometimes used in copy protection. Altering virtualization to avoid those checks might be circumvention under DMCA.
- Comment on 2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip 10 months ago:
In new games sure. I was referring to old titles
- Comment on Pray for their safety 10 months ago:
As somone who has been on a broken escaltor that was not safe, the breaks can fail and then you have a big problem. Granted I’m not dead and didn’t lose any limbs but degloving is still not something I’d like to risk.
- Comment on 2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip 10 months ago:
Getting anti-cheat that technically already works enabled on Linux has been a lot of work and Epic still won’t enable it. Piracy protection systems will also be an issue. Most EA games inspect your CPU to see if they like it on startup (I think this is using vmprotect and some non-OS x86 calls but don’t quote me on that). These kinds on anti virtualization checks are really common (not just in games ProctorU and lock down browser do them too). I don’t think valve running an open virtualization layer will be well received by companies and they will probably ban it from running games. MMOs (due to botting) and anything with anticheat will look particularly askance at this. I also suspect Valve won’t want to try hiding the VM signatures as it borders on violating DMCA.
Newer games will probably get ported if a large part of the market buys into ARM.
- Comment on 2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip 10 months ago:
The main advantage of ARM right now is that there are low power cores available. The actual instruction set is unrelated to this advantage. If Intel or AMD put more serious effort into power efficiency most of the advantages go out the window.
As for instruction set changes impacting what software you can run I think that is still a big issue. Yes porting to ARM is straitforward in more modern programming environments but most software actively developed at the moment has a lot of old cruft that won’t easily port if the engineers can even be convinced to touch it. Most businesses are dependent on old software not all of which is still maintained. Most gamers are even more tied to old software that is not going to get ported and often has annoying anti-virtualization checks (see games breaking on systems with enabled intel e-cores).
I am not sure how large the modern non gaming personal pc market is (tablets, phones, works computers, and chromebooks probably took a chunk out of it) but that could be in play.
- Comment on It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives 10 months ago:
Trilium is great. It has a copy of excalidraw with history which is nice. You can also automate things inside of it with scripting
- Comment on Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality 10 months ago:
Decades from now I will have to explain what the “3D Objects” folder is to some kid
- Comment on You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk 10 months ago:
Probably the wheels falling off their cars. But I don’t know I actually read the article
- Comment on It's canon now. And so is a certain image format. 11 months ago:
Yes but actually no
- Comment on Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin 11 months ago:
I’m not holding my breath here. People seem far too willing to put up with stuff they wouldn’t otherwise because it’s Twitter. Far too many news orgs still point people to Twitter accounts.
- Comment on The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a problem for Apple’s content 1 year ago:
The problem isn’t hosting its paying for production of content. His existing stuff will probably stay up and I find it unlikely that YouTube will take down the mean things John Oliver has said about China. The issue is shows with that amount of research and production is that they need a lot of money to produce content.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
So once a game stops selling it had better hope its player base dries up and stops reinstalling it? The way that is phrased makes it sound like you could net lose money over the long term if sales decline and people keep reinstalling it
- Comment on Hi Ricardo 1 year ago:
Just got another. Seems that still haven’t caught their intern
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