Quexotic
@Quexotic@infosec.pub
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 1 week ago:
Never tried. I’m a ps guy now, but the point is that there shouldn’t be region codes to begin with.
Anywhere I’ve ever seen a region code to be changeable you only get to change it a certain number of times before you get stuck in a region. This is why you’ll find TBD players that have been firmware flashed to be regionless.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 1 week ago:
Uh, we kinda tricked rocks into thinking using lightening and learned to use rocks to make AI…
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 1 week ago:
They’re the Disney of gaming, really.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 1 week ago:
So, this is a basic security principle. If the system of access is too “secure” or too inconvenient, people will create workarounds.
Need keys for all the doors every second of every day? You’ll find duct tape on all the latches.
Password is 15 characters and changes every 60 days? You’re going to find post-its under keyboards.
Spread all digital content across 8 streaming providers that cost about $180/y? Torrent time.
Nintendo wants to brick users for trying to play an out of region game they paid for? They’ll never pay again and will reverse engineering your shit out of spite.
Same thing we saw with the music industry utterly failing to embrace internet distribution. Limewire and bearshare are their fucking lunch.
When will they learn to just make access easy? People, generally, would rather pay than pirate but when you start making shit difficult, nobody wants to play your games anymore and you see massive losses.
Meet your customers where they’re at!
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 2 weeks ago:
There’s another way to egg?
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 2 weeks ago:
Huh… I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.
- Comment on Ok, thanks... 4 weeks ago:
Funny, I experimented with DDG, and they gave me a wikiHow with instructions on how to spend your final days if you know you’re dying. I guess the search engine makes all the difference.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 1 month ago:
I would like to see an email from him with a bullet point list of five things he did this week.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 1 month ago:
It’s not left and right, it’s up and down.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 months ago:
Reddit says the vast majority of users will not be affected Is that because the vast majority of users are bots? 🤔
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 2 months ago:
Welcome, internet stranger!
- Comment on Soldering/De-soldering USB flash-drive Plugs 3 months ago:
It’s a difficult enough task that I would probably be unable to suspend disbelief.
That said, if your hero has some time and a soldering kit it would be fairly doable and relatively believable. Also keep in mind that most flash drives now have the contacts for the USB port as part of The printed circuit board that has the actual storage on it and usually the actual storage would be encased in resin, at least with a good flash drive.
The cheap ones, you could totally do this though.
- Comment on I took the term "Tree Skirt" literally 4 months ago:
I love everything about this, especially the pupper. Well done!
- Comment on How would you drink from this cup? 4 months ago:
So, I have the same issue with these coffee cups that were gifted to us:
They’re almost square. They’re squircles, technically. You gotta hold it at about a 45 degree angle to drink from it. You drink at the corner
- Comment on ugh i wish 5 months ago:
Only until they’re born. After that, they’re 100% pro death. Execution penalty all the way.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 5 months ago:
I think that they’re just railing against the smoke show that would have us believe that our individual actions are more to blame than industry as a whole. You can recycle, you can drive a electric car, you can even generate your electricity and store it locally in a battery and not even use the grid but even if we all did that without change to heavy industry we are still screwed.
One small example of this is how big tobacco and big oil have used exactly the same tactics to distract us from what’s really going on and protect their profits regardless of the harm to us as a species.
Would you like to know more? eenews.net/…/big-tobacco-had-to-pay-206b-is-big-o…
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 6 months ago:
No, it wasn’t pronounced shitheeeed, it was pronounced shit head. Specifically. Different person. Loved the video though!
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 6 months ago:
Reminds me of the woman that named her child shithead because she didn’t like the experience of giving birth.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 6 months ago:
I think the author got confused, it’s not despite off it’s because of.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 6 months ago:
🎶 It’s not the best choice it’s Spacers Choice!🎶
