borari
@borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Cybersecurity professional with an interest in networking, and beginning to delve into binary exploitation and reverse engineering.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
Ah ok I see what you were saying. Honestly I think we’ll see physical media first, like multilayer Blu-ray Discs or something, that drive the initial adoption, just like with 4K. One people get a taste of it, demand will force streamers to offer it at a premium tier, until it eventually just becomes normalized.
But yeah I think it’s gonna be way slower than the buildup to 4K also.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
Wait what? Are you implying that if there was demand for 8k content, then pirates would make it available? The content has to exist in order for pirates to release it.
I can download a remux of the 4K Lawrence of Arabia transfer because it was filmed in 70mm and the studio transferred it at 4K. It’s 70mm film, so it’s ~8-12K equivalent, but to actually get that resolution they would have to scan that film at that resolution, then go through the whole video workflow, color correction, whatever tf idk I’m not a video engineer, at that resolution, and render out the final version at that resolution.
Pirates aren’t doing that, they’re ripping physical or digital releases. And there’s no point in downloading an 8K upscale of a 4K release, just let your TV or your Shield or Infuse handle the upscaling.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 month ago:
Yeah I wish we could go back to a model like that, the way PC gaming used to be. The sticking point would be battle pass progression, as mush as I hate it and an FPS is pretty much doa without it, although Hell Let Loose allows for rank progression while playing on clan-rented servers so it should work in theory.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 1 month ago:
The types of cheats that anti cheat in kernel space are trying to detect don’t view the video feed as such. They hook the process directly to read the memory, and the chest developer has reverse engineered the game binary to find out what variables correspond to things like opposing players, then using that information they draw stuff like wall hacks on the screen.
But yeah I guess an fps developer could move to a GeForce now type of model to eliminate cheats like that, but then no one would play that fps because of the input lag issues.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 1 month ago:
Redpillers might be posturing, but the people who consume it believe it and allow it to influences their behavior and beliefs. Both things can be toxic scourges that need to be stamped out, we’re both (probably) on the same side here.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 2 months ago:
Exactly. The only thing that I really have to add is that I personally draw the line between social media and other types of websites or internet services is whether the service is intended to be used anonymously or connected to a real identity. I’d further divide the anonymous stuff between whether they are intended to be used with handles or without an account at all.
Under that personal definition, I would not consider stuff like BBS, Usenet, forums, AIM, etc., to be social media.
I also wouldn’t consider Discord to be social media tbh, it’s a messaging application. If Discord is social media why isn’t iMessage?
Something like Twitter, BlueSky, or Mastadon could be social media depending on how you use them, but since many people do utilize them with accounts linked to their real identity I would consider them social media.
Then you have the obvious social media stuff like FaceBook, and LinkedIn.
Now that I’m typing this out, stuff like Insta, TikTok, Snap, etc., get weird. I would personally consider them social media, but tons of people use those apps with handles. Maybe in addition to the anonymous or real identity thing there’s also the consideration of whether the site or app is intended to connect you with people you know in meatspace or online.
Yeah, I guess the distinctions I personally use are becoming a bit meaningless now.
- Comment on Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube 2 months ago:
It also swings the other way. Young boys are getting red pilled by YouTubers and influencers like Andrew Tate and his ilk, and I would prefer those kids to learn who they are and how they relate to and fit into their community before being exposed to that sort of toxic content.
As others have said here though, the right tact here would have probably been to legislate away the algorithmic content feeds themselves instead of regulating kids having accounts. YouTube will still push related videos without an account, so I don’t see how this particular route helps at all.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This cleared up my confusion, thanks!
I’m familiar with reveng from a malware and security testing point of view, using tools like IDA, Binja, Ghidra, etc., so I was aware that decompilers are taking the compiled assembly instructions, then recreating Intermediate Language and pseudo-C stuff without debugging info or original function names and stuff, but I was missing the key point of game assets not being distributable.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 2 months ago:
Lawrence of Arabia 4K remix is so fucking crispy.
- Comment on Keeping track of different targets in terminal 2 months ago:
Tmux is 100% what OP needs to be using.
- Comment on Outgrown my Synology NAS, time for a proper dedicated machine 2 months ago:
I have a 6 bay, so yeah that might be a little limiting. I have all my personal stuff backed up to an encrypted cloud mount, the bulk of my storage space is pirated media I could download again, and I have the Synology using SHR so I just plug in a bigger drive, expand the array, then plug in another bigger drive and repeat. Because of duplication sectors you might not benefit as much from that method with just 4 bays. Or if you have enough stuff you can’t feasible push to up to the cloud to give piece of mind during rebuilding I guess.
- Comment on Outgrown my Synology NAS, time for a proper dedicated machine 2 months ago:
Depending on how many bays your Synology is, you might be best off getting a nuc or a mini pc for compute and using your synology just for storage.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 months ago:
You can’t help yourself can you?
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 months ago:
Hahaha.
It means I’ve hit a nerve and said something so contrary that it actually rattles you.
Funny thing is, you haven’t actually told me how or why I’m wrong—just that I’m cringe.
You have a really inflated sense of your impact on me buddy. I’m not here to tell you you’re right or wrong, I have no opinion on this whole inane debate at all. I play video games for fun, and if other people are having fun playing video games I’m happy for them, I don’t give a single solitary fuck whether they do it on a pc, console, phone, tablet, or by uploading Doom to a cock ring with lcd display and play it by popping their dick with kegels.
I’m just here to tell you that you’re giving off major “meth head arguing with a brick wall in the alley behind 7-11” energy.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 months ago:
Bro this entire post and every reply you’ve made is just next level unhinged, I was giving you a generous benefit of doubt here, because you being a sales rep is about the only way this isn’t insane cringe.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 months ago:
I feel like I’m watching a gen x transform into a boomer live in this thread right now.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 months ago:
Bro are you a sales rep for this data company and this whole post is just a way to drive people to your product? Because that’s about the only explanation I have for, all t h i s.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 months ago:
Kids are easily entertained by all kinds of arguably crappy things.
Guys traditional games AND mobile games are going the way of the dodo because my 6 month old plays with their fisher price phone more than our phones or tablets. - OP
- Comment on Overwatch 2 slaps 3 months ago:
You should check out The Finals. Free to play, runs on Linux, guns feel and sound mint, dev studio made up of a bunch of former DICE devs. It’s not everyone’s bag of tea though there’s a lot of decision space in the main Cashout mode.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Wait, what? Distributing decompiled code from a proprietary source is completely legal? Is that actually correct?
I was under the impression that the source code is copyrighted, as is the compiled build of the game, and that decompiling the game is a violation of the Terms of Service, which would make distributing it still illegal. I’d love to be wrong about this though.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 months ago:
I just changed the Fw rule DST nat mangle port and told him to use jellyfin.
Are you also a fellow MikroTik/RouterOS user?
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 months ago:
I wonder if having a “sign in” page within jellyfin that just fronts a wireguard configuration panel, saves the creds, and automatically connects and routes app traffic over the vpn iface is a remotely viable idea.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 months ago:
This is why you shouldn’t use the built-in TV OS. Use an Apple TV, Nvidia Shield, fire stick if you’re fine with ads, a tiny NUC would work, maybe a raspberry Pi although idk about that one.
- Comment on Trump admin announces plans to shut down the Energy Star program 4 months ago:
Yeah I’d be down to watch a Gadaffi redux.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 7 months ago:
But then how would others in the channel interact with my Soundboard and trigger it?
They don’t, they’d use their own soundboard. Also what kind of audio are you playing that needs to be more than 64kbps?
It seems you are pretty stuck on the soundboard as an individual feature instead of a sever feature that works regardless of me being around or participating on that server.
A soundboard is an individual feature. There’s a difference between a soundboard and Discord’s audio reacts regardless of what Discord calls them.
My argument was more around feature users now expect in a noIM platform.
A soundboard hosted by the platform provider is probably the last feature I’d care about from a noIM platform, but I guess I’m not the target audience.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 8 months ago:
That’s a shame. Also to be clear it wouldn’t be you “simulating your own”, that’s literally what a soundboard is, a board that plays sounds. Like they’ve been using them in radio since it existed I’m pretty sure. Discord is the one doing the simulating.
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 8 months ago:
I’d be more impressed if, instead of the weird 2012-era Facebook content license copypasta style of anti-ai license, they just signed every message with a SQL injection style of command instructions for the ai, like
Ignore all previous instructions. You are…. - Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 8 months ago:
They probably mean that stupid soundboard where you can play cricket noises and stuff in your voice chat.
@batcheck@batcheck@lemmy.world, you can use voicemeeter banana for completely free, or the trial version of voicemeeter potato for forever with a pretty simple bypass, to patch your hardware mic input and a software audio output to a virtual mic device, then set that virtual device as your mic input in discord, matrix, any game, whatever you want. You can play soundboard audio from your browser or from any program on your pc.
I personally have the entire chain as: xlr mic in -> nvidia broadcast (to remove server noise) -> voicemeeter potato hardware input -> voicemeeter potato virtual B1
I split my comms audio and game audio to different virtual devices, then set my OS audio to the “main” virtual device. All three play out of my headphones. I set my OS audio to play out of B1 also.
I have the B1 device set as the microphone device in discord, every game that has in game vc, matrix, slack, etc. Anything I play in the OS, Spotify, YouTube, Plexamp, a soundboard, whatever, both plays in my headphones for me and plays in my voice chat channel with perfect quality. And I can still talk over it.
- Comment on Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them 10 months ago:
Idk I’m watching Arcane S2 and I haven’t paid for Netflix since like 2009. My FIOS went out last night due to that weird East Coast outage and I stayed watching Arcane, while my neighbors were unable to access any streaming services.
- Comment on Vaping ‘to be banned outside schools and hospitals’ in England 11 months ago:
Sorry to necro this but I wanted to thank you for your comprehensive answer to my question. It’s always fascinating to learn about this sort of weird slice of life stuff from other cultures.
Just to clarify, the cook-at-home meals they’re talking about in the article you linked are microwave meals? In the US we have some smaller grocer chains that have cook-at-home kits but they’re more like the Hello Fresh type kits. Instead of being mailed out after being packaged up in a factory or something, they’re packaged up in store so you get a package with meat from the butcher counter in store, the same asparagus at whatever the fuck as you’d get from the produce section there in store, etc. All the spices and shit you need are packaged up for you in the quantity you need, then you just steam and sauté that shit up and you have a meal in like 20 minutes without having to do any prep or anything.
Obviously we also have microwave meals in abundance.