Laser
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- Comment on I suppose it's better to find this out 35 years later than never at all. 47 minutes ago:
Yeah a couple of ROMHacks actually require you to do this (mostly puzzles)
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 days ago:
I think an Apple machine will set you back slightly more than a League capable Windows 11 machine
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 days ago:
Yeah, this wasn’t about whether they’re screwing the customers - they are - but about whether this has any negative financial implications for them
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 3 days ago:
Lol yeah the naming was incredibly bad. But I’m pretty sure it was 360 -> one -> series. I only owned the original one (not the One one) and a 360 which luckily was unaffected by RRoD.
I think the 360 was really good all things considered, it was a good console at the time and MS actually helped getting smaller studios their stuff into the store with summer of arcade. It also captured a lot of interest from third party studios. All in all pretty solid. Damn shame that the RRoD tainted the console so much.
Segmenting the market after into S and X was a really dumb move in my opinion. The other one was trying to turn it into an entertainment machine instead of a game console (TV, TV, TV, sports…)
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 4 days ago:
unless you’re running one of the Enterprise/IoT SKUs…
That is the whole point. They’re squeezing the users they don’t give a shit about. But personal users almost never buy Windows licenses from Microsoft I’d bet. So what if they switch away? And how are they or their kids going to play Fortnite or League after switching?
The money for Windows non-Enterprise is made with OEM deals. They probably wouldn’t even notice if nobody bought personal licenses anymore. Might as well make actual money from selling data about them.
Enterprise is a different story, once you squeeze too hard, companies will find ways to replace you; they are somewhat resilient to pain, but it does have limits.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 4 days ago:
Just because it doesn’t offer features a database has doesn’t mean people aren’t trying to use it as one
I support your argument, but unfortunately there are some real monstrosities out there that have carried small businesses since decades
- Comment on Ibuprofen 2 weeks ago:
Do these generic painkillers even do a lot for migraines? I thought tryptamines were what helps most people
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
And they said AI wouldn’t boost business. Who’s laughing now, haters?
The whole thing is just embarrassing. Anyone with a bit of understanding knew that the technology comes with huge risks (after all, there is no understanding, just the imitation of it). Billions have been poured into a glorified autocomplete in one of the biggest corporate FOMOs I can remember. Nvidia is (as much as I hate them, rightfully) laughing all the way to the bank. Crypto and now this allow them to practically buy Intel - back when AMD bought Ati, people speculated it’d be Intel buying Nvidia! Granted, Intel did their part too, but Nvidia selling cards that will be completely outdated in two years in unthinkable amounts is wild. And the best part is, except for them, everyone else lost money, like not even OpenAI themselves are making any, and this is with Microsoft subsidizing them. Absolutely insane!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yup because negative consequences weren’t a thing before the guy was shot
since hes now going to be a rallying cry for action against “the left”.
If you haven’t heard any before, you might want to check with your ENT physician.
In the famous of words of John Wick… “Consequences.”
Consequences indeed
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
When I hear Nazi I think of concentration camps and killing Jews. Kirk was a big supporter of Israel.
Well, Israel didn’t exist when the NSDAP did, so if you apply the literal meaning of each, a Nazi couldn’t support Israel. But fascism was also something that only applied to the party in power in Italy from 1922 to 1945. The terms have somewhat evolved since then; fascism generally meaning authoritarian, ultranationalistic and antiliberal. The same applies to nazism, but usually with some racist ideology with hatred for other religions.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s the same playbook every time. You have dangerous right wing rhetoric justifying violence (as seen in this thread, even by Kirk himself) that leads to political violence and the right is just “this is deserved” (see J6 or the attack on democratic lawmakers), but when it hits themselves, suddenly political violence is the worst and collective pearl-clutching starts. These people have created a dangerous atmosphere that they can’t control and it’s backfiring, there was never an attempt from them to defuse it.
People like Kevin Roberts who threaten revolutions with thinly veiled violence etc… btw my personal theory is that Kirk was shot by a right wing lunatic who was disappointed in Kirk’s 180 on the Epstein files which went from something like “this is the biggest conspiracy in history, never trust the government” to “I trust my friends in the government” over a weekend. They have created an atmosphere of “you need to fight those in power by any means necessary” and now they find themselves in an awkward spot.
Anyhow, everybody in the thread you replied to just did what Kirk ask them to. Not show empathy, not let the victims emotionally hijack the narrative. He made the world a worse place, I don’t know if it’s gonna be better without him but I have no reason to believe otherwise.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
The 4k you find on streaming services can’t really be compared to the 4k you find on Blu-ray. It’s a different league. Turns out bitrate actually matters
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
Maybe if we curve the TV?
- Comment on How to selfhost with a VPN 5 weeks ago:
Client data absolutely is encrypted in TLS. You might be thinking of a few fields sent in the clear, like SNI, but generally, it’s all encrypted.
I never said it isn’t, but it’s done using symmetric crypto, not public key (asymmetric) crypto.
Asymmetric crypto is used to encrypt a symmetric key, which is used for encrypting everything else (for the performance reasons you mentioned).
Not anymore, this was only true for RSA key exchange, which was deprecated in TLS 1.2 (“Clients MUST NOT offer and servers MUST NOT select RSA cipher suites”). All current suites use ephemeral Diffie-Hellman over elliptic curves for key agreement (also called key exchange, but I find the term somewhat misleading).
As long as that key was transferred securely and uses a good mode like CBC, an attacker ain’t messing with what’s in there.
First, CBC isn’t a good mode for multiple reasons, one being performance on the encrypting side, but the other one being the exact reason you’re taking about: it is in fact malleable and as such insecure without authentication (though you can use a CMAC, as long as you use a different key). See pdf-insecurity.org/…/cbc-malleability.html for over example where this exact property is exploited (“Any document format using CBC for encryption is potentially vulnerable to CBC gadgets if a known plaintext is a given, and no integrity protection is applied to the ciphertext.”)
As I wrote in my comment, I was a bit pedantic, because what was stated was that encryption protects the authenticity, and I explained that, while TLS protects all aspects of data security, it’s encryption doesn’t cover the authenticity.
Anyhow, the point is rather moot because I’m pretty sure they won’t get a certificate for the IP anyways.
- Comment on How to selfhost with a VPN 5 weeks ago:
Public key crypto, properly implemented, does prevent MITM attacks.
It does, but modern public key crypto doesn’t encrypt any client data (RSA key exchange was the only one to my knowledge). It also only verifies the certificates, and the topic was about payload data (i.e. the site you want to view), which asymmetric crypto doesn’t deal with for performance reasons.
My post was not about “does TLS prevent undetected data manipulation” (it does), but rather if it’s the encryption that is responsible for it (it’s not unless you put AES-GCM into that umbrella term).
- Comment on How to selfhost with a VPN 5 weeks ago:
Right, and for the challenge, you need to have access to a privileged port (which usually implies ownership), which you won’t get assigned.
- Comment on How to selfhost with a VPN 5 weeks ago:
Let’s Encrypt are rolling out IP-based certs, you may wanna follow its development. I’m not sure if it could be used for your forwarded VPN port, but it’d be nice anyhow
It shouldn’t be because you’re not actually the owner of the IP address. If any user could get a cert, they could impersonate any other.
I believe encryption helps prevent tampering the data between the server and user too. It should prevent for example, someone MITM the connection and injecting malicious content that tells the user to download malware
No, encryption only protects the confidentiality of data. You need message authentication codes or authenticated encryption to make sure the message hasn’t been transported with. Especially stream ciphers like ChaCha (but also AES in counter mode) are susceptible to malleability attacks, which are super simple yet very dangerous.
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 5 weeks ago:
What surely is interesting is that Microsoft was somehow somewhat visionary with their usage of browser technology for the desktop. We see Windows Update running in the browser, there was Active Platform which included Active Desktop (very prone to crashes), they had ActiveX (shudder). In a way all ideas they abandoned but that were implemented somewhere else later and better. Not saying these ideas were good.
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 5 weeks ago:
Getting retroactively jealous here. I was in 56 kbit/s until ADSL hit. But hey, had full duplex gigabit Ethernet Internet at University from 2007 until 2011 to make up for it. It’s never been the same since
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 5 weeks ago:
Remember when Bill Gates made Windows 98 BSOD during a key note by plugging in a USB device? Good times
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 5 weeks ago:
2.5MB in 14 seconds, don’t think I’ve seen such a high download speed on Windows 9X in my life
I don’t miss those times, the 9X series was so bad, MS was right to ditch it after canning ME. Bluescreens, a shitty filesystem, no concept of security, dll hell, every time someone comes along with “remember how simple / great computing was back in the day” I want to scream in their face
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 month ago:
I don’t think they’re sensationalist, they just don’t sugarcoat the industry bullshit. And believe it or not, they need to make money from this, it doesn’t pay itself. It’s like saying newspapers should be free, or else informing the people isn’t their primary concern.
“A farmer wants the money. Giving the good away for free would be great if they just wanted to feed people, but that’s not their primary concern.” Can even pay that game for nurses etc
- Comment on leading ai company 1 month ago:
It’s really not that hard!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Interesting, I always thought it was the dumbest and unfunniest stuff. But I mean there’s no need to appeal to me.
- Comment on Ideal car 1 month ago:
Thanks, I immediately recognized it as a formula but couldn’t remember what it was for (in my defense, the last time it was relevant to me was about 15 years ago when I studied electrical engineering).
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 month ago:
So people from low trust score environments like Linux
Linux user here, Cloudflare hasn’t blocked access to a single page for me unless I use a VPN, which then can trigger it.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 month ago:
It’s been this from the very beginning. But they don’t fit the definition of a protection racket as they’re not the ones attacking you if you don’t pay up. So they’re more like a security company that has no competitors due to the needed investment to operate.
- Comment on monthly challenge 1 month ago:
That’s what makes it a challenge
- Comment on They took our free break! 1 month ago:
Counter-productive, if I had gotten cramps at work (because of whatever, it doesn’t matter), I’m just gonna use company time to get rid of these cramps. Hell I’m not even sure these designs are legal here. Surely there is some DIN based ISO norm regarding toilets and their dimensions
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 month ago:
Stop this slander
The N64 Pokémon games aren’t that bad