gerowen

gerowen, 13 days ago to gaming

Why fight everybody when you can make them fight each other?

#Gaming #PCGaming #SteamDeck #HorizonZeroDawn

A video clip where I override a Sawtooth and let it kill a couple watchers.

gerowen, 17 days ago to privacy

If you use Dropbox you should probably change your password.

Headline: #Dropbox Hacked! Threat Actor Accessed Passwords and Phone Numbers

Snippet: A quick analysis revealed that a threat actor had broken in to access customer information such as emails, usernames, phone numbers and hashed passwords, as well as general account settings and certain authentication information (API keys, OAuth tokens, and multi-factor authentication).

https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/dropbox-hacked-threat-actor-accessed-phone-numbers-and-passwords/

#Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity

gerowen, 25 days ago to Steamdeck

I don't think it comes thru in this compressed, tone mapped JPG screenshot, but #HorizonZeroDawn with HDR enabled on a #SteamDeck OLED looks and runs way better than it has any right to on a handheld device. This has got to be one of if not the best looking game I've played on the Deck yet. With the "original" graphics preset (PS4 equivalent?) and HDR enabled on a 90hz OLED display it's holding 50+ fps, looking and feeling great. Really looking forward to this, 🙂

#Gaming #PCGaming #PlayStation

gerowen, 27 days ago to privacy

This is why it's important to use good passwords and not plug things like your camera directly into the internet without a router or other hardware firewall in line.

VPN servers are an easy and secure device that takes minutes to set up and would solve a lot of these problems. Many routers even have one built in.

If you have a device that you need to access from the public internet there are secure ways to do so.

#Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity #Censys

https://youtu.be/QPjeTSFhfP4?si=ItFWzLlDZm5W5JaH

gerowen, 1 month ago to privacy

Be careful what you post online, especially if you have kids. You might think nobody would target you, but not only is that not necessarily true, it's not just about you, it's about all the other people around you, even if they're just in the background of your photo or video.

Title: What Your Photos Reveal!

#Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity

https://youtu.be/VaUsJvUMUgE?si=7yFNpYxHyhYES4CM

gerowen, 1 month ago to kentucky

Just captured this in eastern #Kentucky before clouds covered it up.

#Eclipse #Eclipse2024

gerowen, 1 month ago to privacy

The #PiVPN project has ended. For those who don't know, this project was a suite of scripts that make it easy to set up your own #VPN server.

The good news is that it's basically just a collection of scripts that draws from your system's package manager. If you're currently hosting a VPN that you used PiVPN to set up, I see no reason why you can't just keep using it like normal.

I've cloned the repo for potential future use.

Source: https://github.com/pivpn/pivpn/discussions/1829#discussion-6465928

#Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity

gerowen, 1 month ago to linuxmint

Anybody know how financially stable #LinuxMint is? I am considering recommending it to people like my mom as support for #Windows 10 winds down, but looking at their sponsors page looks like they only bring in between $3k and $4k per month. That's not a lot of money for several developers to maintain an entire operating system. What happens if they lose one of the 2-3 big sponsors they have? Does the whole project cave or just stop getting timely #security updates?

#Linux

gerowen, 1 month ago to debian

Today I discovered the "debsums" package for #Debian #Linux. If you want to make sure a file hasn't been modified, you can do:

debsums packagename

It will compare the checksums of your local files against the checksums provided in the MD5SUMS file within the .deb file for that package.

It does just use MD5, which is known to be broken in terms of #security, but it should suffice for most folks who just want to make sure something hasn't become corrupt.

gerowen, 1 month ago to debian

Anecdote: None of my systems are affected since I stick with #Debian stable. So if you use any of the services I host on my home server, we're still all good here.

Headline: #RedHat warns of backdoor in XZ tools used by most #Linux distros

Quote: "PLEASE IMMEDIATELY STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA 41 OR FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES for work or personal activity," Red Hat warned on Friday.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-warns-of-backdoor-in-xz-tools-used-by-most-linux-distros/

#Security #Cybersecurity #Privacy

gerowen, 1 month ago to random

Headline: Opinion | Will the #MAGA faithful actually read #Trump’s bible?

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/28/trump-bible-2024-grift/

gerowen, 1 month ago to technology

I'm at Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY for the state STLP (Student #Technology Leadership Program) championships. Students present their projects which describes using technology in productive and engaging ways.

I made this observation a month or two ago when I taught a class to the STLP kids, but now that I'm here I'm even more convinced that #Microsoft #Windows has lost the next generation. My kids use #Linux at home and Chromebooks at school, and almost every kid here is using a Chromebook.

A poster board from one of the projects after the kids had walked away. It describes how they used technology to make mental health resources available to other students in the aftermath of a student death.

gerowen, 1 month ago to gaming

You know why people pirate stuff? Because even when you pay for it, you get hit with garbage like this. Was reading thru the EULA for the #MetalGear Master Collection bonus content on Steam, and this little paragraph jumped out at me.

Shit like this is the reason I built my own home server to keep backups of everything, including the installation files of all my Steam games. "No CD" or "No Steam" cracks are a thing, should worse come to worse.

#Gaming #PCGaming #Cloud #Piracy

gerowen, 2 months ago to Facebook

So #Facebook put a little prompt at the top of my page asking me to take a survey to give them feedback. Besides calling them out on removing the option for encrypted messages in Messenger, while at the same time advertising that they were actually expanding E2EE, I gave them this little blurb on the last page.

#Meta

gerowen, 2 months ago to politics

This whole "both sides are bad" nonsense is getting really old, and I'm to the point that I'm just done protecting people's feelings on important issues, lifelong friends or not. You have to be willing to stand up for your principles, and this tendency towards fence riding will be our downfall because intelligent people are too afraid of being divisive. Even if you disagree with me, take a position and defend it.

Just posted this reply in a debate about American #politics.

Cont... 1/

#Trump

gerowen, 2 months ago to Nintendo

Fuck #Nintendo.

Makers of #Switch emulator #Yuzu quickly settle with Nintendo for $2.4 million

#Gaming #NintendoSwitch

https://www.engadget.com/makers-of-switch-emulator-yuzu-quickly-settle-with-nintendo-for-24-million-203204698.html?src=rss&utm_source=press.coop&guccounter=1

gerowen, 2 months ago to random

Thought on #COVID19 . It's still a thing, and still deadly, but it's my impression that it's tapering off and becoming our new influenza. Just like the Spanish flu killed everybody and their dog and now we just have an annual shot and relatively low risk of serious illness, so too has Covid weakened and become less of a threat. It killed all kinds of people here during the #pandemic, but my son has it right now and he's croopy, but I'm still allowed to work and nobody around here wears masks. 1/

gerowen, 2 months ago to Palworld

My wife is playing #PalWorld on our living room desktop that runs #Debian #Linux, so I thought I would use SSH to check and see how hard it's actually working. It's doing pretty good at 1080p high settings, staying pretty close to 60fps, but it's pushing our old AMD RX-480 pretty hard to do it.

#Gaming #PCGaming

gerowen, 2 months ago to linux

So today I volunteered to teach a class introducing technology club grade school students to programming. Showed them some basic examples in python, then did some exercises on scratch and let them play around on scratch for a while. First time I've taught anything officially.

One observation. My laptop I used for the demo runs Debian #Linux. The kids all used school provided Chrome Books. The teacher said her personal machines at home are all Macs. #Microsoft has lost the next generation.

gerowen, 3 months ago to art

One of the greatest animators and storytellers of our time.

#hiyaomiyazaki #ghibli #art #ai #anime

gerowen, 3 months ago to Sony

Honestly I feel like the visual fidelity of games has kind of stagnated in recent years. Sure, they look better, but I haven't been wow'd in a long time. You can still have an enjoyable experience on things like the Steam Deck which is roughly on par with a base PS4, so a lot of people I know who used to get excited for console launches still have last gen hardware.

Headline:
#Sony misses #PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’

#Gaming

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/14/24072692/sony-ps5-forecast-cut-q3-2023-earnings

gerowen, 3 months ago to RaspberryPi

YouTuber breaks #BitLocker #encryption in less than a minute using $5 #RaspberryPi Pico

#Privacy #Security

https://www.neowin.net/news/youtuber-breaks-bitlocker-encryption-in-less-than-a-minute-using-5-raspberry-pi-pico/

gerowen, 3 months ago to privacy

The greatest threat to online #privacy and #cybersecurity is no longer bored teenagers, it's governments.

"#Google says spyware vendors behind most zero-days it discovers"

#Security

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-says-spyware-vendors-behind-most-zero-days-it-discovers/

gerowen, 3 months ago to random

So my brother has been giving #Crossover from #Codeweavers a try on his M1 Mac Mini and his wife was able to install the x86 Windows version of Steam and has been playing Sims 3 for an hour or two with no problems.

So that's kinda cool.

gerowen, 3 months ago to DadBin

Through some network monitoring and research, I've discovered a dangerous website that #children are visiting, watchpeopledie(.)tv .

My kids haven't discovered it, but I have blocked it on my personal #PiHole.

Parents, stay vigilant. This isn't an "app" that I've found, so controlling app installs won't stop it; it's a website they're visiting in their phone's web browser.

It's exactly what it sounds like, graphic pictures and videos of murders, suicides, etc.

#Safety #Parenting #Security

A screenshot of the front page of "Watch People Die". Some of the note-able topics are: - 10 Suicide Methods At Once - Man masturbating next to a woman on the bus ends up dead - British base jumper says "Three, two, one, see ya!" before jumping off building and dying after his parachute doesn't open. Thailand, 28 January 2024 - Drunk man throws grenade at wife during argument
A screenshot from a PiHole showing various DNS requests that were blocked and allowed. I have circled the domain "i.watchpeople.tv" in red. It was new and unfamiliar to me, which is what triggered the investigation.