Saik0Shinigami

Saik0Shinigami , 11 hours ago

He has a point though... OVERALL noise was only suppressed 2db. It's only 12db in a specific frequency. EVERY article has more or less ONLY stated the 12db value. It seems more and more these days that you just have to assume that the article headline is at best mostly false, or obscenely misleading.

2db overall... is kind of fucking pointless. I mean... as someone afflicted with hearing problems I know that every db matters. But all this hubbub for something that should just be found, then implemented without all this fanfare... the general public will not care about this, yet I've seen 3 articles on it for some reason.

And most normal people don't understand the logarithmic nature of the db scale anyway. Every 3 db is technically a doubling in power. But it takes 10db for our perception to halve/double.

Saik0Shinigami , 38 minutes ago

but it doesn’t deserve all the hate it’s getting here either.

I'm not sure I said anything hateful here... I cited facts from the actual paper and described discontent with the articles, specifically the headlines.

Saik0Shinigami , 17 hours ago

And doff it too.

Saik0Shinigami , 2 days ago

It's just a computer... Why not? As long as it cannot be running while the car is driving I don't particularly see an issue.

Would be great if I could fire up a game while waiting in cell parking at the airport for my family that comes into town for example. Gotta remember that this isn't new. We had minivans with built in n64s and shit before.

Saik0Shinigami , 2 days ago

I'm primarily a PC gamer... The only game on my phone is Bloons TD6. Which I open maybe once a month.

But why not use the computer that's literally in front of me rather than settling for the lesser experience?

Note: I should clarify, I don't have a Tesla and don't care for them at all. I just view this feature as probably one of the better ones.

Saik0Shinigami , 2 days ago

Oh it's a decent time killer. I don't really do mobile games. I only did this one strictly because of the nostalgia (Original on library computers in high school sort of thing) and because it was on a sale. I haven't regretted the purchase and they don't make the in app purchases super necessary. Overall I'd give it a thumbs up. I don't do any of the multiplayer stuff either.

And I don't know anything about Netflix in regards to td6.. I did see that Mr.Beast did a sponsorship with them...

Saik0Shinigami , 3 days ago

I mean even in that case where you think it benign, yes...

If I search for a specific product by name, and an amazon variant exists, they push their above the one I was specifically searching for.

Saik0Shinigami , 3 days ago

Exactly an example. This is the "dark pattern".

Notice that it's so perfectly crafted that the "add to cart" for the Anker is off the page. Making it 2 actions to get to the one you actually wanted, and just one for theirs. This is why the lawsuit is for "Dark patterns" and monopolization. It's super anti-consumer, but likely makes them boatloads of money and they do this stuff EVERYWHERE.

Saik0Shinigami , 3 days ago

Not the teenager's phone. The parents paid for it... and continue to pay for it through the subscription of cellular service. Unfortunately any attempt to keep the parent out would be accurately described as theft or destruction of property.

Saik0Shinigami , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

No. Android doesn't. Google does. But not everyone wants to have anything to do with Google. Some OEMs do, like Samsung. But it's not in AOSP or basic Android feature. But my point wasn't to spy on the kid. It was device ownership.

Edit: Even this gets downvoted. You guys are fucking lunatics. A Child... using a phone given to them, can't even consent to the shit Google does to you legally. But you want their data "protected" from their parents so that a parent can't at least enforce decent digital hygiene. Ya'll fucking dumb. Your kids are going to do dumb shit and you want the parents who are supposed to be responsible for raising the kid to have no power to actually raise them even though it's literally the parents device.

Saik0Shinigami , 3 days ago

What shitty logic is this?

If the coroner shows recognizable body parts to parents... You think the parent doesn't recognize and notify the coroner of that fact?

"Yes, I recognize that birthmark. That torso is my daughter."

or

"No, that's just a torso, that isn't Billy!"

How far does this go? Billy cut his pinky off... It's no longer Billy! That must be some new kid I've never seen before. Let's call him Bill!

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago

Steam is not anticompetative at all. On every device steam works on you can download and install a game outside of steam's control with no concern. Hell even on steams actual devices (steam deck) you can install whatever you want.

PSN on the other hand. There is no other source of software outside of the PSN network available digitally for the consoles.

Saik0Shinigami , 6 days ago

yeah Mick was the cornerstone of modern Doom. I'm not sure you're going to get the same response from anyone for whatever the next version of Doom is. His work is hard to replicate.

Saik0Shinigami , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Edit: turns out there are brainwormed redditors out here. Ignore their downvotes and you will be fine following advice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kaspersky

Yeah... No. Pick any other reputable company.

Kaspersky is one of many Russian "oligarchs"

Edit: I think this paints the picture pretty clear... So worth adding to the discussion. Note the domains that are voting for this post vs not.

https://lemmy.saik0.com/pictrs/image/89d04d72-8996-4055-9b47-668606404349.png

Saik0Shinigami , 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Any serious security expert is not a Russophobe

Categorically wrong. One of the core focuses many security experts care about IS government overreach/interference. Governments are one of the leading pressures for software vulnerabilities/backdoors. Doesn't matter that it's Russian, because this isn't a "Russophobe" stance. However, Russian and Chinese interference is usually on a much larger scale than other countries and typically has a much higher amount of scrutiny than other countries because of this fact. Due to those countries policies it's hard to trust code that comes out of either country.

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-us-government-national-security-faq/

"The case against Kaspersky Lab is overwhelming," Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, said in a statement. "The strong ties between Kaspersky Lab and the Kremlin are alarming and well-documented."

Isn't it funny that many other Anti-viruses don't seem to have these issues?

Case and point from other countries on the government pressure argument.
https://www.wired.com/story/australia-encryption-law-global-impact/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/

Many countries have these issues documented when interference happen. You know which ones don't? The ones that you lemmy.ml shills usually defend. That's not because they're not doing it by the way.

Damn... And you're a mod here? Anyone know of another community that is privacy focused and isn't on lemmy.ml? A mod that doesn't understand that closed source software with known ties to government entities is a problem.

Hell this isn't even a "Dumb American" stance either (forget that I hold an eastern EU citizenship). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_bans_and_allegations_of_Russian_government_ties has a whole section of "Concerns raised by other governments". Virtually all of the EU also has this concern with Kaspersky. Additional countries included... It's at the very least ODD that a company has such ties to a government. And the sheer PARANOIA that all "serious security experts" hold would immediately bar most of them from using the software due to that fact alone.

Hell it's even typical for a security professional to outright block ALL Russian and Chinese internet traffic for their platform. Just because it's not worth the effort to deal with those countries and all the risks that come with them. But right! This must be "Russophobe" and no "serious security expert" has a problem. You're full of it dude(tte).

You are not one of those serious security people.

News to me... I guess I should turn in my CISO position. Who's going to tell the R1 college that I taught at for years? All those thousands of students, many of which still reach out to me regularly and have made it quite far in industry?... Hmm... Oh and it's not an "appeal to fallacy" or any other logical fallacy when it's me defending my own status from a bullshit claim.

Edit: for any non-admin 3rd parties wondering who downvoted me... 100% of those votes at the moment is lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml. Take with that what you will. To me that screams "How dare you talk facts about the motherland" vibes.

Edit2: Oh they also edited their post to seem more normal... Their original post said

Any serious security expert is not a Russophobe and regards Kaspersky as the best commercial tool provider for malware analysis, based on merit and not on nationality. You are not one of them. I do not trust Bitdefender, Norton, McAfee and other western companies with CIA backdooring, and since CIA does use metadata to kill people (just like Yemen or Palestine), it is a clear cut choice.

So basically ANY software not Russian, you seem to not trust. Claim it's on merit... But only point out nationality. Don't you find that odd that Russia can't do no harm either? Even though other companies do not have as clear cut ties to their governments?

Also lol at abusing one man instance to try and be a snitch on people. This tells a lot about you.

Edit3, after your edit:

Also lol at abusing one man instance to try and be a snitch on people. This tells a lot about you.

Activitypub is open by nature, kbin users can see everything that I've published. There's no abuse happening here. Nor is my instance just one person/user. But you do you man.

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago

This nonsense is largely invented by Democrats and people at Washington

Didn't know my own analytics is Democrat/Washington run. I guess I should go yell at the people OPNsense (Suricata), WAZUH, and Crowdsec. They must be injecting false notifications about my networks being targetted by shit from Russia and Chinese owned IP space!

Yes I edited the post, but you also seem to abuse powers as an admin of your one man instance to see unedited content.

It's an abuse of power to read the post that's sent to my email? Well shit! Even for a moderator you seem to not even understand how lemmy works. Let me enlighten you. I got an email with your post in it because you responded to me. What an abuse of Administrative power!
Forget that 100% of activitypub network is openly published and thus viewable by anyone... Ooops.

Lmfao... you reported my post... and likely blocked/"moderated" it on your instance. Don't really care. To the point though, when 100% of downvotes on a comment is strictly from lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml instances. Yes, you're shills, not a single opposing opinion between you. No discourse. No actual thought process occurring. Just "Russia/China good, rest world bad". No nuance at all.

You also failed to address your stance that you published. Why is it that every other platform you originally listed was a problem where Kaspersky isn't?

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Activitypub information is public by design. Kbin users for instance can see this information openly. There's nothing poor form here. My instance also isn't 1 user. But whatever floats your boat.

Edit: It's also well known...

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/77983/Interesting-difference-from-Reddit-Upvotes-Downvotes-are-not-anonymous
https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14s1qki/psa_your_lemmy_activities_including_votes_are/
https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/post/142436

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago

And that includes a lot of the netsec people who see this stuff.

Wait a second! I though NO serious security people are Russophobe? Are you changing your story now?

Your own little vote charter shows one dbzer0 user upvoting as well

You have the evaluation backwards... Outside people are coming to different consensuses based on opinions and experiences that's normal... It's lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml that don't. I would EXPECT that results were mixed, but for your instance it never is. You seem to have missed the point.

What if China and Russia started treating .us or .ca or such domains like this and demonise countries?

They literally do. Have you not heard of the great firewall? The vast majority of the internet is unusable to China... and requires a VPN to access anything. Hell, I'd say the lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml instances acting as hiveminds downvoting anything critical of Russia/China is also evidence of this. It's OKAY to be critical of a government.

It is you people who project the hate you possess onto others, and you even manage to be proud of it like an absolute idiot with no merit based judgement capabilities.

Not even close. I evaluate everything as I see it. You seem to be making a lot of assumptions here. Kaspersky has strong ties to the Russian government that is sufficient to warrant any "serious security" person to evaluate a different solution.

I did not fail. It is too clear to me how you are parroting US propaganda, even quoting a Democrat (Russia hater party) about it.

Yet bitdefender is a problem... And you can't address why Kaspersky would be any different... Talk about parroting.

What room is there for reasoning with a crow like you, shitting everywhere happily?

Crows (Corvid family) are the smart birds... You mean pigeon.

Edit: Actually come to think of it? Why the ravenous defense of Kaspersky at all? It's just an anti-virus software no? Why does me disagreeing with the use of Kaspersky in this instance warrant "makes you look like the worst slurs I could summon for an incompetent clown." Don't you see how unreasonable you look? How you look like a frothing lunatic?

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago

Others seem to disagree.

That's fine. You/them can disagree all you want. Just realize that they're using it too. I just disagree with the default Lemmy stance that users can't see something that everyone else on the fediverse(including moderators and admin on any federated instance) can. And if they want to defederate me for that. I'm not sure I care. I've been defederated from one instance so far... it's not been a major loss and definitely doesn't weigh on my conscience at all.

My sincerest apologies: three user instance 🙄

I have no interest in disclosing how many users are using my instance. They can post things if they want. That's up to them. Many are just lurkers though.

Saik0Shinigami , 5 days ago

I'm sorry, where did I repeat anything?

This would be the first time in this thread I've said anything about it.

If "we all know this" then why state "I think this is poor form"?

Who's de-federating kbin then? Nobody? Well then...

Saik0Shinigami , 6 days ago

All data sent through protons mta is also unencrypted. That's how mail mtas function.

Saik0Shinigami , 7 days ago

Right... you talked to one person... has it possibly occurred to you that the one person could have been wrong?

Saik0Shinigami , 11 days ago

I was under the assumption that the Constitution applies to all within the sovereign territory of the US, not just citizens.

Corporate entities though? I'm not sure we should be onboard with giving companies constitutional rights (just the people), let alone foreign companies.

Saik0Shinigami , 12 days ago

When presented this way, it reads like some arcane incantation to summon some demonic monster...

Or I guess in this case to summon pirates.

Saik0Shinigami , 12 days ago

If Buying Isn’t Owning, Piracy Isn’t Stealing.

The vast majority of the new content cannot be obtained on blurays anymore. So the only way to "Buy" the content is "licensing" digital copies of it that still has the verbiage of "buy" on the "store" that you purchase it from.

Yeah, no pity for the piracy.

Saik0Shinigami , 11 days ago

That’s why nobody got charged with theft, they were charged with criminal copyright infringement.

Copyright infringement is the act of SHARING it. Not the act of downloading it. That's why they were charged with that. Has nothing to do with the act of obtaining pirated content.

And if you don’t like it, fuck you

Nah, fuck you.

Edit: /s on the last part in case it wasn't clear, cause... well text.

Saik0Shinigami , 11 days ago

It's my library. I only approve shit that I want to be on there.

My users know this (including family). If they want to be picky they can run their own shit. I've denied plenty before.

An alternative answer is to "approve" it in overseerr, but remove the request in radarr. Or setup a blacklist for the name. Then just say that the tools can't find the movie, nothing you can do about it.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

Email in transit is not encrypted. At least not encrypted by anything that the government can't compel the company to hand over. Your password as best can only lockdown the mailbox itself. Not the receipt/sending of emails.

Edit: The point being is that if you're a person of interest, the government can just watch your activity until they get what they want. And Proton doesn't really have anything they can do about it other than a canary page I suppose.

Edit2: to make it even more clear, I'm talking about MTAs communicating with each other. Proton being one party would have the keys to their side of the communication which is sufficient to decode the whole lot.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

Proton would have the key. A government that is already compelling them to hand over your account can simply be compelled to provide the TLS keys. The point is that government doesn't have to compel proton for at rest storage, but can compel for in transit interception.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

"read up on pfs"
"Pfs doesn't matter"

Literally this post.

Saik0Shinigami , 12 days ago

This whole discussion is about a government forcing Proton mail to take actions. Telling me to "read up on pfs" is irrelevant by your own admission. ProtonMail can be compelled to give up their keys, or to hand them over for all current/future transactions.

So once again...

“read up on pfs”
“Pfs doesn’t matter”
Literally this post.

You cannot rely on MTAs to transmit ANYTHING securely in the context of this discussion. Period. There is no E2E when there's an MTA involved unless you're doing GPG/PGP or S/MIME. Nobody does this though... Like literally nobody. I've got both setup and have NEVER had an encrypted email go through because nobody else does it. It doesn't matter what Proton claims to support.

That's it. Telling anyone to read up on anything when they're 100% correct is asinine.

Email in transit is not encrypted. At least not encrypted by anything that the government can’t compel the company to hand over.

Edit:

Email in transit is not encrypted. At least not encrypted by anything that the government can’t compel the company to hand over.

This is what I originally said. It was clear. I don't know why you're arguing otherwise.

Saik0Shinigami , 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

the reason the console market is another duopoly

hmm...

Sony... Microsoft... Nintendo...

Duopoly...

I feel like you've made an error even if we're only talking about the major 3.

Also wonder if you're blind.

New consoles should pop up here and there yet they dont (very small opening for steamseck likes)

They do. You just don't hear about them all the time because the main 3 are so present in the discussion. Atari released the VCS (2021) for example. Oculus I would argue should count at this point too. There's many examples we could go on about. But I have a feeling you don't actually care about this discussion since you want to discount the obvious forefront contender of the SteamDeck.

A new console should be able to run xbox games and/or ps5 games

This is not at all the problem. You need to compile the game for the platform. That wouldn't be IP laws, that would simply be development... except in the case of console exclusives. Which would still not be IP laws, but instead would be contract law between the developers and the console company. The developers of the game 100% have a right to the source code of their game and to compile it for whatever they want.

Disclaimer: trolls will be blocked immediately.

Can you block yourself on Lemmy? I've never tried.

Edit: In a move that surprised no-one. They downvoted my post and didn't say anything in return. I guess they have no further argument.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

Please do. "too big to fail" is bullshit. All the equipment getting liquidated could have went to companies that could have started up for pennies. I can only imaging how many companies could have started and where they'd be today if they were allowed to do their thing.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

the Google map has so much less detail

Google maps also has bad data for many places. My home address is the wrong street name. Google maps says it's "Drive", when it's "Court". It's been that way for 22 years apparently. Google is the only one that has it wrong. I've submitted 10 tickets to fix it, they keep denying the change.

Waze, Fixed it myself. OSM, did have it wrong about a year ago (before I moved in) was corrected when apparently a current OSM board member imported a cluster of addresses from the National Address Database.

Apple has it right. Bing maps has it right... Every other source has it right. Google maps just sucks.

What's worse is that many companies use google's dataset for address validation. Since my address doesn't "exist" according to the omniscient google, I'm just screwed when I enter my address on those sites.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

and AFAIK doing so is perfectly legal,

https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2018-23241.pdf

cracking the DRM is authorized for consumers and shops for the purposes of "diagnosis, maintenance, or repair." Not because you don't like that they locked a feature.

but then your warranty is void

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty_Act

They have to prove that what you changed/did to the car directly caused the damage you're asking for a repair on. If you root the car (while technically illegal) and go in for a warranty repair on the accelerator pedal... They can't deny the warranty.

And with a Tesla, you’re probably going to wish you had that warranty one day.

Only because they seem to make it impossible to get a hold of parts... Even their own shops have issues getting parts (multi-month wait times).

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

That would wholly depend on your qualifications of "better". Plenty of cars existed that could get you to work and back. None of them were "go 0-60 in 2 seconds and kill all the children in the crosswalk automatically with autopilot!". If that's your qualification for "better" then fine, you win. But there were other EV's that I thought were wholesale better after I looked at the early Tesla's in person and just couldn't get it out of my head of how ugly and dumb the car actually is.

Saik0Shinigami , 12 days ago

a ~70 mile trip about once a week to help their mom, often in freezing temperatures.

Yes they did. Nissan Leaf. Chevy Spark. Fiat 500e... Many had sufficient range for the 70 miles you're talking about.

Please stuff the “kill all the children in the crosswalk” nonsense.

No. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/09/tesla-self-driving-technology-safety-children. Stop defending Tesla.

Saik0Shinigami , 12 days ago

and account for 70 miles in both directions.

Now you've moved goalposts from the previous post. The trip magically went from 70 miles to 140 miles. If this conversation is just going to be shifting the argument repeatedly, then I'm just going to walk away.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

Taxes are a cost.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

Oh it's a lie. Arizona has ids that don't need to be renewed until your 65 years old. The tsa here has specific training to identify those ids really quick. This would not have made it through... like at all. This doesn't look anything like any id in this state. Including the tribal stuff.

Saik0Shinigami , 13 days ago

Or just run linux. While that comes with other potential issues... Anti-cheat isn't one of them. Either the game doesn't work (and thus safe from the terribad rootkits), or the "anti-cheat" is stuck in it's sandbox(and thus safe from the rootkit).

Saik0Shinigami , 15 days ago

I disagree... I'm up to 400TB... :/

Saik0Shinigami , 14 days ago

Nah wisparr only takes up a little bit.

Saik0Shinigami , 16 days ago

Yes. That would be the banner I'm talking about.

Saik0Shinigami , 16 days ago

How do you think bans are working right now? You realize that you don't HAVE to have an account. All they do is assign a mirrored account to your steam ID on PSN. Or even just assign you a random one in general.

Nothing about this process streamlines anything any further, they're already doing it.

Saik0Shinigami , 15 days ago

Yes. Their platform, their security. Their failure to secure their users data is solely their fault. Notice that other platforms don't have this issue. You'd think after the first one, they'd fucking pony up and take security seriously. Sony didn't learn anything.

If it was just one event, I'd advocate for leniency. But Sony doesn't get that from me.

Saik0Shinigami , 15 days ago

Just like claiming that logging into PSN as mandatory would be negated by the fact that they told people to skip it in order to play when the game launched? Since you know... their servers were having problems and disabled the check for it?

But to that point. This "mandatory login" isn't in either Sony ToS on the steam store for this game.

Saik0Shinigami , 16 days ago

To best serve our customers during this time, Verizon is rolling out IPv6 address space in a "dual stack" mode – where IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are both loaded.

Seems like verizon do...