catloaf
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- Comment on Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited 12 hours ago:
Management interfaces shouldn’t even be accessible from the general LAN.
- Comment on I'm moving to another city soon. What are some good apps that could help? Inventory, logistics, etc 19 hours ago:
Also agreed. OP is going to find they’re spending more time setting up some system, entering data, and stopping to use it instead of just putting everything in a box labeled “kitchen” and unpacking it in the kitchen when they get to the new place.
- Comment on NGOs say Israel targeting Gaza police helps looters of aid 1 day ago:
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 1 day ago:
Plus, you still get the Proof of Purchase in TF2!
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 1 day ago:
It did. Still does.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 1 day ago:
They each stand completely on their own. Start with 1 if you want the whole lore and like 90s PC games. Start with 2 if you want a slightly more modern experience.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video 2 days ago:
I don’t really either. Once it gets fast enough it’ll be common, but we can do really good approximations right now.
The thing that really hurts HL2 in terms of looking less dated is the old low-poly BSP geometry. Modern games and engines use landscapes and models because they can do it fast enough now. But I don’t think Source can handle that level of detail.
- Comment on French court blocks Google project to limit news content in searches 2 days ago:
Yeah. They said they didn’t want Google to do anything without paying, so Google is removing them. Is that not what they wanted?
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
Looks like it’s been down since January. Do you think people are still trying it?
- Comment on French court blocks Google project to limit news content in searches 2 days ago:
I’m confused. They said if Google wants to use it, they have to pay, so Google went to remove it, and now they’re saying Google can’t remove it?
- Comment on Innocent Israelis, Bad Arabs? How the Media Scripted Amsterdam's Soccer Violence 6 days ago:
You must use very alternative sources, because all the mainstream coverage I saw was six paragraphs of “poor Israelis attacked by Arab mobs” and one paragraph of “prior to these attacks, the Israelis went around doing hate crimes”.
- Comment on Astronauts tight-lipped about reason for hospital visit after 235 days in space 1 week ago:
One of the crew, who has not been identified, was “briefly detained” at the hospital but was released “in good health” to continue what it called post-flight reconditioning, the US space agency said at the time.
This is not news. It was probably not even space-related.
- Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans 1 week ago:
Yup. The media is framing this as antisemitism, but it’s not, it’s anti-shitheadism. It’s in this article, but they’ve buried it:
Amsterdam’s police chief said that Maccabi supporters set a Palestinian flag on fire and attacked a taxi a day before the match was set to take place.
Ahead of the game, a Palestinian flag was ripped off a building in the city centre and riot police blocked pro-Palestinian supporters from marching toward the stadium, according to Dutch broadcaster NOS.
Yeah, that’s what started it.
- Comment on GameSpot staff endure another round of job cuts 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I did the same thing, we can be idiots together
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 2 weeks ago:
They were one of the first players, especially for business.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
Nor in person. Just let people be, right? If it doesn’t harm, let people do it.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 2 weeks ago:
The Wikipedia article says historically wet nursing was available to all social classes, so that doesn’t really jive.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 weeks ago:
That’s because your PC is faster than the drive. You fill the cache quickly, then wait while it writes to flash. It’s not a big deal.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
You have to be a really, really big company with an established connection with Microsoft to actually talk to the real engineers. Any tier of regular support only gets you the “sfc and clean boot” garbage.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
You actually paid for Windows?
- Comment on Minecraft server and reverse proxy 2 weeks ago:
Regular nginx does this just fine docs.nginx.com/nginx/…/tcp-udp-load-balancer/
Keep in mind that you can’t route tcp by hostname, because hostname is not a property of tcp. It only knows IP addresses. Host routing requires a protocol like HTTP.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
It’s trust that a hacker won’t ever learn how to sign their code in a way that causes it to be respected as part of the game’s code instructions.
That’s not an accurate description of the exploit you describe. It sounds like the attacker bundled a signed and trusted but known vulnerable version of the module, then used a known exploit in that module to run their own unsigned, untrusted code with high privileges.
This can be resolved by marking that signature as untrusted, but that requires the user to pull an update, and we all know how much people hate updating their PC.
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia says malware is
any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, deprive access to information, or which unknowingly interferes with the user’s computer security and privacy
It does not do any of these things. Like any software, it may have vulnerabilities, and being a kernel module it can be high risk. But that’s no different from any kernel module, like your graphics driver.
- Comment on Siemens to buy Altair for $10.6 bln in digital portfolio push 2 weeks ago:
Siemens has their fingers in an extreme number of pies, and they’re buying other companies all the time. And not just physical parts, they own a large number of engineering software brands too.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I prefer Romeo and Juliet, act 1 scene 1 line 41. Just because the exchange is so silly.
- Comment on Ukraine is now struggling to survive, not to win 2 weeks ago:
The Economist can fuck alllllll the way off with their right-wing agenda
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need to modify the files to modify data in memory.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure any reentry from orbit is going to involve high enough speeds to generate heating.
- Comment on AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish. 2 weeks ago:
Word generator generates words according to its training data. In other breaking news, the Pope is still Catholic.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 2 weeks ago:
If it didn’t do a reentry, how did it get down from that altitude?