rdri
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- Comment on Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive 1 week ago:
The title seems off. What does it mean to be kept alive for N64 games if you still need assets to play those games in this form, and assets are basically illegal to share the same way roms are?
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 1 week ago:
I wonder if it means something for handheld devices like Steam Deck.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
“We will repeat in every sentence that we are not a for-profit emulator, we’ll be fine!”
Yeah.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 1 month ago:
I think AI doesn’t need consciousness to be able to say what is on the picture, or to guess what else could specific details contain.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 1 month ago:
They don’t reconstruct anything and they have no understanding of what the image contains.
With enough training they, in fact, will have some understanding. But that still leaves us with that “enhance meme” problem aka the limited resolution of the original data. There are no means to discover what exactly was hidden between visible pixels, only approximate. So yes you are correct, just described it a bit differently.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 1 month ago:
I mean if we consider just the reconstruction process used in digital photos it feels like current ai models are already very accurate and won’t be improved by much even if we made them closer to real “intelligence”.
The point is that reconstruction itself can’t produce missing details, not that a “properly intelligent” mind will be any better at it than current ai.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 1 month ago:
How is guided pattern recognition is different from imagination (and therefore intelligence) though?
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
The company is called Valve.
- Comment on Command & Conquer™ The Ultimate Collection now available on Steam 2 months ago:
Is better than Red Alert? But is it better than Renegade?
- Comment on Looking for emotional game recommendations 2 months ago:
Immortal Defense.
- Comment on Xbox Next-Gen Console Confirmed, Will be 'Largest Technical Leap in a Hardware Generation' 2 months ago:
30/60fps is always a developer choice
Yes, a choice to code and optimize the game properly or not is always the creator’s choice.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 2 months ago:
You’re not actually following what I’m saying and just keep going.
This is false.
If you want to believe there are zero Russians with basic opsec knowledge
This was never assumed in my comments.
Though if you want to believe actions of Russian army like “buying Starlink terminals and using them on the front lines” can’t be opposed, I wish there would be enough people around to point out this fallacy publicly.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 2 months ago:
It’s not about what I want. It’s about what Starlink can do to make sure their help to Ukrainian army (which is paid by the US department of defense) goes only to Ukrainian army.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 2 months ago:
lol SSL does not make a VPN redundant, good lord.
I said it about what you described, not about actual VPN. In context of Starlink it’s like proposing to wear a mask while your neighbor still sees you from your window in your room.
And it doesn’t matter where they currently are.
Check the Starlink availability map. Starlink is able to command what each satellite does, and surely they can see the list of connected modules for each satellite, with accounts. Wether they use VPN or not is irrelevant.
Unless you think starlink employees are going to be analyzing the location data of every device in and around Ukraine in an attempt to figure out which devices are potentially under Russian control?
They could, it won’t take much effort, and it will be in everyone’s interest to analyze what can be done about it.
Have them delivered anywhere in Ukraine, wherever improves their chances of it actually arriving, and then transport it north.
North - where? Europe? Then to Russia and to the front lines? Then there is no point in involving Ukraine at all. Ukraine bashes EU for not controlling export with Russia properly, why would it not strictly control its own exports anywhere?
They aren’t going to have it shipped to the front lines
Where they were shipped before getting delivered to the front lines is not much of an interest, as it will still be different from batches that Starlink directly shiping to Ukrainian military as per agreement with the US government.
You keep approaching this like the people involved would be idiots.
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I know a lot of people involved are not educated good enough to understand that they should not help Russian aggression.
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What approach do you recommend? All I see is nasicay “Russians control everything and we are powerless”.
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- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 2 months ago:
insuring the direct operator(s) stay in UA
The key point is right here. Staying in UA is not the same as using Starlink modules on the front lines. The UA territory is devided and it’s visible on Starlink’s availability map.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
A VPN would prevent anyone from being able to tell what the data was, where it was going, what it was for. The moment a VPN is introduced, there’s no way to tell what the device is being used for.
VPN will not let the module connect to a satellite outside of the current location. Starlink is the service operator, not the website you connect to. Also SSL makes the VPN you describe redundant.
Russian operatives can still purchase things in Ukraine.
… And get them delivered them how exactly?
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
Like I said, purchasing anything through Ukraine is unviable at the thought level from the perspective of Russian army. Hence why it’s much more likely to came from elsewhere.
Using VPN for what purpose exactly? VPN won’t deliver you a device from Ukraine. VPN won’t change your physical location.
Russian military was using Ukraine’s own mobile operators and its talks has been recorded many times thanks to that. Yes, they are stupid enough to not know about end to end encryption sometimes.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
You literally said it in your first comment here:
At that point, you cant tell the difference.
I also don’t exactly buy the possibility of Russian intelligence agencies being able to do stuff like this adequately. As anything else in Russia, they degraded seriously under Putin’s regime. They might not even be involved - I wouldn’t be surprised if those Starlink modules were just a nice opportunity found by whatever volunteers buying stuff like drones from Aliexpress and sending it to Russian army. Reports say they were purchased from UAE.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
Since when can you not spoof any of that? Grab a used android phone from local used market. Put any rooted rom on it. Spoof the gps… Device id is irrelevant at that point.
Starlink modules are not Android devices.
Device ids should be required for pairing with the satellite from my understanding. Same with IMEI on smartphones - except it should be useless to try to fake it as the number of devices is magnitudes lower than smartphones and it should be possible to pin-point any misbehaving device.
Spoofing GPS is not exactly useful. Starlink satellites are very low-orbit so again misbehavior should be detectable. I mean you can connect to some satellite but if you report location that should be served by a different satellite then you got yourself caught.
you can just order the starlink equipment to a random address in a different country
Starlink is shipping devices to Ukraine directly for the military it seems. It should know the difference between these and others that are shipped all over the world by anyone.
Once you got the connection up and running you just use a vpn to hide everyrhing.
VPN is out of scope for this I think. It’s about locating the device physically by the provider, not about specific sites trying to watch actual internet activity.
they could do is block starlink for a whole region
They are already doing this but not the whole region. Occupied territories of Ukraine are selectively blocked according to their own availability map.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
Welp, Musk clearly isn’t even interested in exploring the possibility and just calls it fake news. I guess you won the argument by essentially saying “Nobody knows and no one needs to try”.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
They can’t be. Ukraine must have them under full control because they rely on them too much.
Also it’s much easier to assume that these modules, like any other modern tech these days are bought by Russia through other countries who it still does business with like China, Turkey etc.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
Yeah okay. Let’s say we covered the billing. What about devices id, their origin and location? Those are not purchased through Ukraine and Starlink is ought to know that.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
I don’t get such a sarcasm. It doesn’t target any specific point in my arguments, they are about how Starlink could locate the illegal use of devices, not about how justified or not Russian crimes are.
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
The idea that they aren’t able to come up with a credit card with a Ukrainian name that looks 100% legitimate to a billing company is farcical.
I see you don’t know how credit card numbers work. You may also not be aware of the fact that credit cards aren’t working in Russia for almost 2 years.
Let me just ask you point blank, do you think the CIA could manage to purchase a Starlink, activate it, and use it, without anyone having any idea it was the CIA that did all that?
Just one or two is easy to manage. A dozen is much more difficult already, provided Starlink manages some security and have access to metadata (data that ultimately can’t be faked such as location, accounts, device id).
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
What do you mean? They steal basically everything they when destroying cities and killing people. Should I mention it’s a crime to make it more obvious?
- Comment on Russia is using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite devices in Ukraine, sources say 3 months ago:
It’s just data, which can also be easily encrypted and proxied to mask the fact that they are being used for military purposes.
It’s not though. The data goes both ways. As long as the device id was not altered, its history of movement can be tracked down, provided such a data is being recorded.
Also, there may be caveats about how accounts are getting created and activated. Those devices bought by Russia may come with pre-activated accounts which can be tracked by origin.
Finally, billing. Unless Russia is not relying on stolen Ukrainian credit cards it should be easy to identify that a group of devices/accounts are being paid for by entities that are neither Russian nor Ukrainian.
Based on all of that, they could filter groups of devices by location, confirm it with Ukrainian forces and ban maliciously used ones.
- Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 3 months ago:
That’s less than optimal, for a website that is to be used as a search engine.
- Comment on Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse 3 months ago:
Thanks for your visit
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- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 4 months ago:
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 4 months ago:
Just read the article. It’s about Nintendo.