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by advael 2y ago
This is amazing, well done, no notes, would love to buy when available I think it's been rightly pointed out that you aren't beating commodity parts on price, but you're also not a manufacturing operation with scale and there
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by advael 2y ago
I mean this scenario as described is not a huge stretch given it happens to people using stuff like artistic software already. Shitty technology adoption curve for tool dependency and occasional rugpulls of it through bans has hit lots of c
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by advael 2y ago
I swear it's insane that anyone's this obtuse. Read better. I said companies do not have an incentive to respect users' privacy and autonomy. They have anticheat solutions that work for their customers willing to take that hi
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by advael 2y ago
I think game companies could totally solve this problem a different way, but their incentives are not aligned to do so. Of course anti-cheat that backdoors a bunch of people's computers is good for the company . They get anticheat an
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by advael 2y ago
I agree it's a skill, but I actually think hear this analogy a lot and think it's not a great one A feedback loop with an LLM is useful for refinement of ideas and speeding up common tasks. I really even think it can be a massive
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by advael 2y ago
I'm legit not seeing where that is. You say some games, or "game protocols" require client-side protection... why? Just saying it's the only way doesn't explain anything at all. You have confusingly tried to give me
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by advael 2y ago
Dang you sure are great at saying nothing really confidently. I'm not even being stubborn here, you just refuse to explain yourself. Not only do I have no reason to care what you think, I don't even know what you think, except f
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by advael 2y ago
Yea, nice as it is to hear that they're nice to their dev marketshare, there's probably never going to be a sanctioned iphone the end user actually gets to control. Bread and butter and such
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by advael 2y ago
> Yes, the tech industry loves to copy Apple :) Yes, most technology is built on other technology ;) > This seems to imply that normal PCC nodes are bare-metal. I realize that, but there's plausible deniability in it, especially
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by advael 2y ago
Ah, word. Probably not applicable to my use case (It's a laptop that's remotely administrated for a job, and I avoid proprietary stuff for my personal devices where possible) but it's good to know it exists
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by advael 2y ago
I really want to see this OS, and have cautious optimism that this could be the first time we'll see a big tech company actually provide an auditable security guarantee! I think depending on how this plays out, Apple might manage to ea
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by advael 2y ago
And as soon as independent sources support that they've made good on this claim it will be more than a claim. I actually am impressed by the link I missed and was provided elsewhere in this thread, and I hope to also be impressed when
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by advael 2y ago
Woa, good catch! Maybe they're doing better about at least being concrete about it, though I still have to side-eye "Users control their devices" (Even with root on macbooks I don't have access to everything running on i
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by advael 2y ago
No, they said they did. Huge difference
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by advael 2y ago
I'm disappointed that they make the fundamental claim that their cloud service is private with respect to user inputs passed through it and don't even a little bit talk about how that's accomplished. Even just an explanation
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by advael 2y ago
I actually listed three threat models for cheating in video games that I think matter, and then explained that for those broad classes as I described them, one was a solved problem (If players can change the state of the game in unintended
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by advael 2y ago
With autism but really any neurological variation in humans, it's often said but seldom fully grasped that most variations exist as spectra. This is hard for people to reason about because thinking in hard-line categories seems like it
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by advael 2y ago
I view self-identified "gamers" as a cult at this point. If my goal were to persuade them of anything, I'd probably fail. I'm not in marketing for a reason. But the fact that a bunch of fools believe in something doesn&#
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by advael 2y ago
So you're saying that the sole concern in anticheat software is macroing? Alright, do you need to control every peripheral connected to the computer as well? How can you guarantee there isn't a SoC on someone's keyboard that
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by advael 2y ago
That's ridiculous. A server only needs to be capable of running a single authoritative copy of the game and handling dead simple network requests to prevent every kind of cheating that matters except input automations, which you can&#x
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by advael 2y ago
I looked back on that and yeah, I went in a little hard there and made some assumptions. I think I'm on edge because I've been dealing with some family members who are getting taken in pretty deep by this conspiracy stuff, and it&
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by advael 2y ago
I mean actually nearly any resistance to an extremely oligarchy-friendly neoliberal idea of "free markets" is considered a fringe extremist position in at least the US and the UK, both in terms of the attitude of the culture at la
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by advael 2y ago
Cool analogy didja learn it in middle school english? Seems everyone and their grandma wants to hold the torch of "rationality" and declare anyone who has an actual belief about something "dogmatic." It's intellectu
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by advael 2y ago
Limiting contamination is a good first step, but I'm of the mind that anything that doesn't need a cloud service shouldn't use one. To each their own though
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by advael 2y ago
Popular nutrition science has basically been advertising since both have existed. I view real health information as complicated and full of caveats and individual differences Basically any medical advice you get from a headline or even a si
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by advael 2y ago
You should be angry at people who try to hack your computer with the express intent of spying on you or controlling your behavior. I am angry that people will waste my time trying to defend this behavior to me, whether it's about phone
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by advael 2y ago
Trickly cost center a corp that's already betrayed me multiple times gets to set the price on. Also I have a hardline policy that I won't interact with Microsoft in any capacity for less than $80/hr, and that's the frien
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by advael 2y ago
Cool hardware project and idea, but I'm not touching an OpenAI API with a ten-foot pole, especially for an always-on device Maybe when I need a fun project I'll make a version that uses OpenStreetMaps + LAN-hosted Stable Diffusion
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I just gave an in-depth breakdown of why that's not true. Your reply amounts to saying "nuh uh!" with no justification. There is nothing to engage with in this reply. It doesn't even attempt to have any substance
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by advael 2y ago
Gamers will believe anything a company they like tells them. The fact that these companies can attract arguably the most insufferably delusional audience of frothing bootlickers to ever walk the earth to defend them doesn't justify the

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