kuroguro

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by kuroguro 4y ago
I can see how it _technically_ turned into one when they started collecting data. But yeah the PR is strong w/ this one.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
I think throwaway40602 from the previous discussion had it right - there's a variable that clients can't normally set (dota_use_particle_fow) that allows seeing some particles/spells and allows guessing where the enemies are
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by kuroguro 4y ago
> one of the most plain and boring consumer users of PayPal ever Yeah it seems kindof arbitrary. I've abused my account doing weird stuff for years and it's still fine.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Well they collected data for "the last few weeks" and banned them all at once. Total unique player count would be more accurate to calculate the %
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Ah, yeah sounds plausible then. I somehow don't buy the guard page/hw breakpoint explanations. This also lines up with "[information] that wasn't visible during normal gameplay".
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Hmm, well I wouldn't permaban people for using a known... built in setting, even if it gives an unfair advantage. _edit_ To whoever downvoted me later - I would consider it a bug if it was user settable without cheats. Similarly you co
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Do the particles alone w/o any cheats give an advantage?
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by kuroguro 4y ago
You can, that's correct.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Imagine if google's app store ended up with a similar system to yt's content ID - fingerprinting binaries to check if they comply with licensing lol
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Used the exact same trick when researching dumb ways to break AV signatures at uni :) You can also abuse the displacement math with eiz: ff 34 24 push DWORD PTR [esp] ff 34 e4 push DWORD PTR [esp+eiz*8] Or some useless prefixes
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by kuroguro 4y ago
I doubt it's intentional. Less popular software often gets punished by AVs. Likely some malware samples that used the language (or included some tool/library written in it) got used to make a signature/heuristic automatically
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by kuroguro 4y ago
And we do get bored sometimes
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Picked up zig a few days ago - similar experience. The build system and c-interop is amazing, targeting any arch/os from such a small toolchain makes me never want to use makefiles or even cmake again. The language itself definitely ha
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Marginally related (software?) rant: every time I want to learn how something specific works or I want to do something oddly specific I keep running in the same phenomenon. Google mostly returns vague abstract fluff and Stack Overflow tells
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by kuroguro 4y ago
> There are no locals on the Transfagarasan, just tourists :) Ah, that makes sense > No local in our mountain area is happy that bears come Yeah, I was afraid to exit the car. Just a weird experience seeing others feeding the bears or
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Was passing trough Transfagarian when a downhill bicycle race was happening. Some police officers were revving their motorbikes and throwing rocks at a bear to keep it away from the contestants. Lots of bear cubs along the way too. Everyone
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by kuroguro 4y ago
And that's when I learned some real world IPs overlapped w/ Hamachi's and random sites/services stopped working! Wtf! Took me forever to figure it out.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
It's also possible some of the writings have grammatical errors.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
What I don't get is why you'd want a signed int for an id.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Capturing DNS requests is a low effort way to list all the sites you visit. Using TCP destination IPs is harder to tie to a particular website as there is shared hosting and CDN proxy-ing among other things.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
I wasn't expecting much and entered 'increase your [junk] size' as a business description for the lols - got some good results like SuperInches.com and ManlyGain.com :D
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Maybe we were the GPT guessing the next token all along.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Eh, just link everything against the "old" "unsupported" msvcrt.dll that comes with the system and Bob's your uncle! /s
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by kuroguro 4y ago
I don't really mind a clickbaity joke as long as the contents are good. Found the hack itself pretty cool.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
HN is also text only and it's the way I like it.
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Heap Exploitation courses on Udemy by Max Kamper. Had no problems with stack overflows or other concepts but had a hard time reasoning about the heap. https://www.udemy.com/course/linux-heap-exploitation-part-1/
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Not sure if they have that https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by kuroguro 4y ago
It was also possible to bypass the "give us your phone" nag screen by messing with the url after login. I've been doing it for years now. I think they "fixed" it sometime this year and I had to give them my number :
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by kuroguro 4y ago
No worries, HN has a way of making me jump on the band wagon of criticizing things. Figured that's probably the case shortly after posting the comment. Best of luck w/ the project, looks awesome from the videos :)
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by kuroguro 4y ago
Yep, one of my favorite places to grab a coffee on the go changed their lids from plastic to something that resembles egg carton (pulp?). By the time a third of the coffee is gone the lid turns into a soggy mush. It doesn't fall apart.

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