r00ty

@r00ty@kbin.life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify doesn't allow podcast ratings unless you use the mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "What's the matter, don't you guys have phones?"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They forgot the LGBTQ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Settle down, chairman moe! But, just to nitpick, what he says sounds a lot more like "immigants" to me. Which when I originally saw the scene, was the icing on the cake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paramount+ unskipabble ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in the UK, I feel like a similar thing happened with cable/satellite. Originally, Sky TV was completely free. They only had 4 channels (and one of them was only kinda sky) mind you. But they were all free (with adverts). Later they brought in encryption and a subscription for the movie channel.

  I am quite sure I recall seeing one of the rationales for when they started the subscription service covering the non movie channel, it was stated that there would be less or no advertising and it would instead be covered by the subscription. Needless to say, that never happened.

  But ultimately, this is just normal business practice. If they can get away with charging you AND making money from ad views, they're going to do it. The only way to stop it, is not to subscribe to those that do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paramount+ unskipabble ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like they just don't get it. Why did I stop downloading things err "unofficially"? Because they were almost all available on Netflix, with no ads, and pretty much instantly with a decent interface.

  Then they started making 1000 streaming platforms so that the monthly bill for everything you want works its way back to what I would pay for sat/cable. And now, this?

  Then what, we'll get the Pikachu face when they realise people are back sailing the seven seas?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is anti-cheat always client-side?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the day (CS1.5/CS1.6) there was a server addon called HLGuard. Where it did some basic checks to see if you should know about another player and not send info unless you need it.

  But, it wasn't perfect, and you'd still get an advantage from wallhack and of course it cannot stop aimbot. You could perhaps "detect" likely aimbot though. But it did limit the power of wallhack.

  I actually tested it (of course on my own server with a friend who knew I was doing it). What it seemed to do was make sure you only really saw a player when they were very close to a wall where they'd become visible. But of course, close up things like needed to hear audio cues meant you'd often see them through walls anyway.

  Also I never measured it, but it must have taken a fair bit of CPU to make all these determinations for every player on every tick.

  For modern MMOs etc, they are usually VERY client authoritative because they're handling thousands of players at once and really want to spend as little CPU time on each as possible. So, they will likely want anything they have to be client side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is anti-cheat always client-side?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it's very important to separate root and kernel mode. If you run an application as root, you are still running in user mode. Drivers and other kernel modules are running in kernel mode. There are a lot of differences with serious implications for system stability and security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is anti-cheat always client-side?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I mean I understand why people use the term rootkit. But, at the same time it isn't good to dilute a term for something malicious.

  At the same time, while I hate cheating in online games I barely trust game developers that are often on a crunch timeline, access to user mode on my system. I really don't want to give them access to kernel mode just to detect cheats. Also, it just means the next level of cheats just has to do the same, or get themselves in the hypervisor instead or hardware based anyway.

  I don't play games that have kernel mode anti cheat (unless they've somehow installed kernel mode drivers without me knowing, every game installer wants admin to install these days it seems) for this reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be amazed by the uses of Tech...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was implying he was in some hard to reach location, and they were pulling the stops out to connect the last guy on earth without internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be amazed by the uses of Tech...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wake up sheeple! Gravity is an obvious lie from the NWO illuminati lizard people! We're actually all implanted with small steel sheets in our feet at birth, and everything on the planet has a small amount of iron filings in too. The flat disc we live on is completely magnetic. That's how we don't fall off.

  I thought everyone knew this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did money work on deep space 9?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How I've always seen it:

  Starfleet (and perhaps a large portion of the UFP) do not use money or valuable materials to pay their workers and other organisations within Starfleet and likely those other UFP worlds under the same philosophy.

  However, they do need to deal with many civilisations that do not subscribe to the same ideals. As such, they would likely maintain funds by trading to and from these civilisations.

  It would be possible as others suggest to either bill Starfleet directly, or for officers to be able to requisition various precious items/currency as/when needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not if the lack of grammar and education gets you first...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's hard to be sure these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Damnit chat-gpt. Who gave you a threadiverse account?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, glad you made the minutes optional because I think most people colloquially skip minutes.