andyburke

andyburke, 1 month ago

Fuck Google.

Hope these employees find better jobs at smaller companies that aren't helping fuck the world up.

andyburke, 1 month ago

Why were people attacking the building?

andyburke, 2 months ago

Good. Prime Directive is immoral.

andyburke, 2 months ago

No, I think that for instance when you have the power to save a civilization, probably without them even knowing, and you fail to act you have acted immorally. Having a blanket rule is the immoral part.

andyburke, 2 months ago

None of these are cases I cited as being a good call and remember that my point is the blanket nature of the rule.

andyburke, 2 months ago

I agree.However I will take a handful of unnecessary wars if it means the universe.doesnt lose the potential of entire species because.someone.at starfleet has a god complex.

andyburke, 2 months ago

Stop stealing our CPU cycles for high risk rootkits and start mitigating and detecting cheating on the server.

It's that easy.

I stopped playing games that want this bullshit. Don't need that shit in my life.

andyburke, 2 months ago

Actually, I am.

Using rootkit anti-cheat is a shortcut that reduces cost for both dev time and hosting time at the expense of your customers' security and CPU. You also have to lay your cards on the table for those who are attacking you. It is not the right solution for this problem.

Authoritative servers.
Never trust the client, especially with information the player shouldn't have right now.
Look at behaviors and group players based on if you think they cheat or not - let the cheaters play together, no need to spoil their fun and let them realize you know they cheat.

People do some or all of this on the server now, but root kitting all machines to try to solve this problem to play video games is one of the dumbest approaches ever and we will realize it one day when a state level actor pops their zero day against a big install base.

andyburke, 2 months ago

You don't necessarily need to detect the cheat itself, you can look at things like players having suddenly higher kill rates and put them into a queue for observation by either more advanced (more expensive) automation to look for cheating or eventually involve a human in the loop.

Even on consoles after a while it becomes obvious that you cannot control the hardware, let alone the software on the client side. Those are the very best argument for this kind of approach and they get cracked eventually.

andyburke, 2 months ago

I think by the end of your message you were starting to arc around a little bit to the right way you need to think about clients: as outside your security envelope. (TPM is a joke in my mind, just like client side anti-cheat.)

There are many ways to try to identify and stop cheating on the server side that have not been explored because executives have directed use of off-the-shelf anti-cheat because they do not understand why it is snake oil.

andyburke, 2 months ago

Or, if I can extract that key from the hardware, I can pretend to be that hardware whenever I want, right?

andyburke, 2 months ago

Sneakers

Maybe more relevant today than it was then.

Cosmo was right.

andyburke, 2 months ago

No worries, hope things are working now and you can get a bit of rest with what's left of the weekend!

andyburke, 2 months ago

And yet what a actually happened is that Catholics ended up generally more liberal and Protestants ended up becoming evangelicals and causing a lot of the problems currently faced in, for example, the US.

Edit' Catholicism continues to try to bleed any kind of support by protecting pedophiles in case you feel like I am being too lenient toward Catholicism.

andyburke, 2 months ago

No one cares about Trump's threats because he is a fuckin dope. We all know the only threat posed is stochastic terrorism from his indoctrinated followers.

If we didn't have first past the post and the electoral college we could all safely be laughing at how fucking moronic that dude is.

Instead, we have to have a slim chance he gets a second term of fucking the country up.

It's fucking embarrassing as a "world power." No one should trust us because our electoral system is this fucking dumb.

andyburke, 2 months ago

Used to recommend Roku to others. I will never buy anything from them or recommend them to anyone again.

Someday maybe boards will figure out that "business" people have no idea what they are doing.

andyburke, 2 months ago

As a former Roku fan, forced arbitration or a brick was the breaking point. Roku can fuck off.

andyburke, 2 months ago

Personally looking at dumb panels and building OSMC machines to run them.

andyburke, 2 months ago

I don't want my money used for shit like this so Roku and I are done regardless.of if they exercise this patent or not.

andyburke, 2 months ago

History is littered with companies that decided they should "milk" their customers instead of providing new and innovative products. They usually don't last all that long, but you're right that the current board members might not gaf about any kind of longer term existence.

andyburke, 2 months ago

The tree of liberty and all...

We have no memory.

andyburke, 2 months ago

Right? They play Riker being coerced into sex for laughs. It's the worst bit of the episode and if any other character were the target it would be very obvious why.

andyburke, 2 months ago

I didn't see whatever movie this link is about, just gonna imagine the final Indiana Jones movie was as described here.

andyburke, 2 months ago

So they're afraid of gay porn is the joke?

andyburke, 2 months ago

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