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Barbarian

@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works

Linux server admin, MySQL/TSQL database admin, Python programmer, Linux gaming enthusiast and a forever GM.

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Animal welfare standards in the meat and dairy industry, for one. Well, harmless for the consumer at least.

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I wish I could experience the Stanley Parable for the first time again. That was a great game.

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Yup, played through it. Especially loved the dig at AAA game companies with the sequels in the main menu xD

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Every software project, without exception, has a testing environment.

Some even have a separate production environment too.

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https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/6eb244b5-8f00-4121-9399-8ffe148c08e1.jpeg

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I agree with everything you say here, but I thought the setup-payoff joke structure and the fact I intentionally swapped testing and production for comedic effect made it obvious enough. I guess Poe’s law strikes again.

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Yup. As someone who’s worked a little bit on GDPR compliance, it’s not some magic wand you wave at your data. Any data they receive after the request is also not covered by that request. Also, only EU citizens and residents are legally entitled to make a request. A company may choose to comply with non-EU users, but that’s purely their choice.

Comments that contain any info about where you live, your ethnicity, disabilities (cognitive or physical), gender, where you work, etc must be deleted as part of a forget request, so that might impact LLM training data.

Personally identifying information can be somewhat of a grey area in some situations as well. If I were to say I’m from New York, that’d be personally identifying. If I were to say I’m a fan of a sports team in New York, that’s not (even if that implies my location). If I were to say I’m a fan of a New York sports team, my favourite pizza place is in New York, my favourite park is in New York, etc etc, that might arguably be identifying, even if each of the pieces by itself is not.

EDIT: Oh, and I forgot one of the most important parts: it’s not like there are any spot checks or anything. You’d need someone to actually lodge a formal complaint, with some kind of evidence they haven’t done what they’re supposed to, and the procedures are different for every EU country. They are normally very involved and complex. Essentially, you’d need to lawyer up and care enough to slowly and painfully shove it through the legal system.

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The original game that Monopoly is based on (The Landlord’s Game) was a tool for teaching how bad landlords and owning land privately and permanently is. Monopoly is still a great tool to show how an early advantage leads to an ever-growing monopoly that will inevitably crush all the other players with no modifications necessary.

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They have leverage now. Previously the deal was Moldova provides food & utilities in exchange for Transnistria keeping the power plants running. Now that Moldova is linked up with the EU electrical grid, they’re in a position to play hardball without the risk of Transnistria plunging the country into darkness.

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You can always refund it. Even if you’ve gone over the 2 hours for an auto-accept refund, if you explain the issues in the ticket Steam will always accept it in my experience.

Even got a refund for a game after 20 hours of game time due to them adding aggressive client-side anti-cheat.

Magician David Copperfield Accused of Grooming, Groping, and Drugging Women (www.rollingstone.com)

Magician David Copperfield is facing allegations of drugging women before sexual encounters, groping women during live performances, and behaving inappropriately with women who were significantly younger than him — including under 18 — in a new investigative piece in The Guardian....

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I saw a Penn Jillette interview a long time ago where he explained that quite a few other magicians fake their recorded stage performances. They’ll perform a simpler trick, get the audience reactions, and then use camera trickery to make the trick look far more impressive for TV. This was in the context of him claiming that he absolutely doesn’t do that.

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My completely uncorroborated gut feeling is that it’s because each celebrity caught doing horrible shit causes a massive media frenzy, so even if (and I don’t know if this is true) the numbers of horrible people are proportional to the overall population, there’s a bias because each one is named and shamed unlike non-celebrities.

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I can somewhat understand if it’s an online game

Absolutely not. Experts in the field of anticheat are normally very skeptical of the efficacy of these methods, and in exchange the user has heavily compromised security.

There’s nothing stopping a determined cheater from running the anticheat rootkit inside a hypervisor. Even if the cheater doesn’t want to go through all that hassle, the latest stuff is cheating hardware. Mice that send legitimate-looking signals to the computer based on camera information for shooters, that kind of thing.

The only realistic methods to tackle cheaters are server-side heuristics, sending as little information as possible to the client, reviewing suspicious matches manually, and keeping tabs on the latest cheat developers by infiltrating their communities as customers.

Unfortunately for legitimate players, the best way of removing cheaters is in waves so that they have as little information as possible on how exactly they were detected. You don’t want cheat developers to be able to test anticheat evasion in real time. This means there’s always going to be known cheaters in games until the next wave goes through.

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Tbf, blocking Romania wasn’t about Russia, it was drumming up support amongst xenophobes for political gain.

EDIT: Tocmai am vazut numele tau :))

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(going to reply in English for the benefit of other users)

Croatians don’t have the same stigma in western Europe that we do. In the minds of German/Austrian/French/etc racists, the Polish, the Bulgarians and us Romanians are lazy, criminal welfare thieves.

Insofar as Russia is involved in the Schengen decision-making, they’re likely just attempting to deepen existing fault lines and create more instability. In that context, I completely agree with the pro-Russian eurosceptic angle.

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Why do that militarily when they already own half the country economically? Not really their style.

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If you want something useful, maybe some more info on what you use your computer for? Advice for a glorified web terminal would be “Click the Firefox icon”. Advice for learning bash would be a massive rabbithole.

App suggestions are also very dependent on what you use your computer for.

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So on the gaming front, pretty much any mainstream Linux distro would work for that. Proton is pretty damn stable and great on any distro that supports Steam. If you like Bazzite though, you do you.

For pen testing, must-have skills are nmap, bash, sqlmap, wireshark and the burp suite. If you know how to use all those, you’ve got basic coverage of most common attack vectors (password cracking is also covered by bash, there’s 101 different password cracking algorithms in various CLI spps).

I’m a lazy ass who doesn’t care much about customization, hopefully someone else can help you with that :))

A quick Google shows that someone got sharex working on Linux: github.com/ShareX/ShareX/issues/6531

Might take some effort and learning bash and WINE + winetricks to get that running, but hey, you’re gonna need to do that anyways for the pentest stuff :)

Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? (slrpnk.net)

A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I’m not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn’t see much juice on the topic, so thought I’d spark it up....

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Should be an option to allow/disallow non-instance users to vote. That’d be really useful here in sh.itjust.works for the Agora.

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I was actually very unsure which of you was right, but the best source I could find was this, and software on an online store is specifically exempted from the 14 day cooling off period.

I guess it would depend on whether remote deactivation would be considered a faulty product?

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Smecherie generala

Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game (twitter.com)

Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game. Every time you play a game a function is called to screenshot your PC’s screen, in case Vanguard thinks you might have something suspicious, it screenshots your ENTIRE PC screen (all monitors)....

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It depends. There’s 2 different methods that I don’t think they’re doing that would make it legal:

  1. Explicitly tell the user what data the anti-cheat collects when you install it, and what other companies have access to it.
  2. Anonymize the data. Crop the screenshots in storage media to just the game screen, and have a list of which games need what sections of the screen blurred to remove usernames.

The first is far more useful for them than the second, but it also undermines it’s functionality as an anti-cheat because you’re telling the cheat creators what to guard against.

Of course, the real answer here is stop doing user-side anti-cheat at all, do it server-side, and trust nothing the client says. That’s more difficult than user-side, but it also has the benefit of working, while also respecting the user’s privacy.

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Honest question, is there no dead time during the work schedule to do at least a little bit? There’s a lot of exercises that don’t need any equipment. You might look like a bit of a weirdo to your colleagues, but health > social awkwardness imho

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I’m sorry man. I hope things get better for you.

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Damn, this is really recently updated. Romania and Bulgaria just got into Schengen last month, and they’re already in the right spot on the chart.

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