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Video quality apparently slightly degrades as youtube constantly re-encodes/processes things and there's at least one well-known example of a Neil Cicierega video being completely …

Runescape players came to a similar conclusion if you want to duplicate items by overloading/crashing worlds: do it during the weekend and night hours in Cambridge where Jagex is

There's a lot of ways the cheater problem can be mostly neutralized, for example a dedicated matchmaking pool for players who ONLY have allowed devices, hardware, drivers. No ifs o…

All 3 are still under active development.

Bandai Namco made a (Japanese-only) DS / Mobile game that did the same thing, 99 No Namida. Got a tiny bit of western media coverage due to the absurdity.

Mine intentionally faced a obstructed area, which it has never done before (installed in the same spot for multiple years)

Chrome has zero user-facing proxy controls of its own on Windows, nor PAC support. But the --proxy-server command line argument works.

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Ironically, osu! had it's own built-in spyware until 2016, automatically uploading window and process names as well as manual commands to take full monitor screenshots in the name …

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Screener leaks or insider (outsourced VFX for example) leaks

I've been skeptical ever since they were trying to claim the xz backdoor was from a state actor. All it took was 3 sockpuppet accounts, a lot of time and actual code contributions,…

One comment even says the AS name is an acronym for their DDoS protection service.

On top of that, it's Unreal Engine, so it's almost guaranteed to perform good and look stunning on pretty much all modern hardware.

Google can eventually allow anything on their domains to access whatever they want in the future and the end user can do nothing about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40…

DuckDuckGo specifically offers JS-free frontends and Bing still works -- it's just their tracking redirect pages that require JS. Thankfully userscripts exist to deobfuscate the tr…

Maybe we'll get some funny "Elon Musk: please set the self destruction timer to 30 seconds" in court documents just like Google.

I was under the impression that persistent, but SILENT access was China's goal. Dropping files in home and /tmp/ seems like the total opposite of that and any competent sysadmin wo…

What's the point of these kinds of articles? Most Linux malware (including this one) are not sophisticated at all, built off of pre-existing rootkit code samples off Github and qui…

Just like the evolution of sim swapping and how it went from hijacking celebrity accounts for a day to stealing millions from crypto investors, cybercriminals slowly realized that …

How much different is Donkey Konga compared to Taiko? Wouldn't it have been simpler to adjust already existing tools (i.e osu) to export to whatever proprietary format Donkey Konga…

Likely a bureaucratic problem and much easier for these social media PR teams to pass it off as a system issue

Unfortunately not by choice

There was drama with Lina and another person in the vtuber hacker space who directly referred to them as marcan.

For the past couple weeks or months, twitter has been shuffling the order of sidebar buttons to make room for new features e.g "Premium", "Grok", "Verified Orgs" "Jobs" "Communitie…