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Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by adolph »

andrewzah wrote: post #347
atatatat wrote: post #335

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What do you do when the PW manager is compromised?

Cry? Realistically speaking, this isn't going to happen without physical access to your computer or malware, though. So don't leave your computer unattended and don't download sketchy things. Expecting people to simply memorize a unique, strong password for every single website that they use is unrealistic. Of course, no solution is perfect, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't improve the current situation of people r…

Password reset is easy and free. Why go to the trouble of a password manager, especially for dumb stuff like grocery coupon cards?

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by floatboth »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #161
swarnie wrote: post #75

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Kind of worrying considering my twitch is linked to my Amazon account, and all my banking credentials are linked to Amazon.

If it's any comfort, for some reason twitch uses Xsolla as it's payment processor. That is, you cannot pay for premium twitch with your amazon account.

That's just an alternative option. You get Xsolla if you click "more payment options". Amazon Pay is the default.

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Post by Vermoc »

terramex wrote: post #4

> Some Twitter users have started making their way through the 125GB of information that has leaked, with one claiming that the torrent also includes encrypted passwords, and recommending that users change their passwords to be safe. Twitch just asked me to change password for the first time, so it sounds credible.

Looks like passwords were hashed with bcrypt using a cost factor of 10. I wouldn't be too worried for people with good passwords set up even if hashes got leaked. People with common passwords should probably change their passwords just in case though.

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Post by RobLach »

NaturalPhallacy wrote: post #475
stunt wrote: post #254

https://www.twitchearnings.com/

I can't help but love the fact that PaymoneyWubby (a fat ginger nerd who makes interesting content, at least on youtube) makes more than pokimaine and Amouranth whose primary feature seems to be young, attractive, and female. Perhaps there's a tiny bit of justice in the world.

What's the justice?

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Post by mhh__ »

ketzo wrote: post #503
monkeybutton wrote: post #482

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And where do explorers like to go? On safaris.

...wow. Genuinely can't believe that has never occurred to me.

Another one that I'm not sure is true or not:

Intel get the Apple gig -> Gets called Intel Core i.e. Apple Core.

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Post by junon »

lobocinza wrote: post #510
junon wrote: post #444

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Never got as far as Remote Play or Game Streaming but would have been trivial for us to do so given the backend infrastructure we had already written. Game overlays and capture were working fine, and the controller API was designed to support any number of controllers (Steam's support is great but their interfaces are subpar, in our opinion). We were also able to pull from a well known database of controller configur…

Have you approached Valve?

We definitely thought about it, but decided against it. We've re-used a lot of it in some other endeavors we're working on so we don't really want to share the IP.

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Post by mhh__ »

junon wrote: post #450
bluedino wrote: post #298

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Amazon would have no problem releasing a 'Fire' console and they have their own distribution and store...

And then they would have to convince publishers to target yet _another_ console. That's a hard ask.

Make it run Linux and piggyback Valve.

FWIW The notion that a company like Amazon or whatever can have it's tentacles in these kinds of things at will is proof they are getting too big.

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Post by mhh__ »

zeouter wrote: post #494
NaturalPhallacy wrote: post #475

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I can't help but love the fact that PaymoneyWubby (a fat ginger nerd who makes interesting content, at least on youtube) makes more than pokimaine and Amouranth whose primary feature seems to be young, attractive, and female. Perhaps there's a tiny bit of justice in the world.

... that does sound quite misogynistic. Like the sole comparisons you raise (and insult) are women.

I see your point but it's really just a fact of online life that you can make a lot of money as a woman on twitch. That isn't to say that all women streamers are exploiting that fact i.e. aren't making actual content, but it's simply (simp-ly?) a different calculus which I can't really blame anyone who can stomach it for exploiting.

Re: Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked

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Post by mhh__ »

rasz wrote: post #479
NaturalPhallacy wrote: post #475

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't help but love the fact that PaymoneyWubby (a fat ginger nerd who makes interesting content, at least on youtube) makes more than pokimaine and Amouranth whose primary feature seems to be young, attractive, and female. Perhaps there's a tiny bit of justice in the world.

Splitting earnings by gender reveals females arent doing that hot on twitch.

This excludes donations, that probably tips the balance a bit more female although no idea how much since we have no data
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