Dran_Arcana

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[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Of course it was published in the penis nexus journal XD

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think that holds true in this case... but I'll be damned if the ltt screwdriver isn't the best hand tool I've ever owned.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

When ML training farms run out of new text to train on, "they" may very well want your original writing too...

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Me too brother, but I disagree with your assessment on value

An non-blacklisted residential IP address with reasonable throughput is valuable in and of itself. DDOS botnets, proxies to bypass geo blocks or to obfuscate illicit traffic, etc. Also your gaming PC could be used for distributed compute workloads of compromised, usually crypto mining.

Any hardware/connection has value if it's "free". It's just a numbers game beyond that.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For now, ctt winutil does a pretty good job at removing the cruft. I've long since switched to debian for my daily driver, but as a remote-access sunshine host for games that require kernel level anticheat, it's surprisingly usable.

For anyone looking to keep windows around in some capacity, I strongly recommend it. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Every packet you send/receive relies on passive security. Your nic drivers, the driver kernel model, all of the userland applications that sit on top of it. I get that in practical terms, your firewall will do a lot of the heavy lifting but there are passive rce vulnerabilities in previous unsupported versions of Windows that are trivially exploitable today.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Even if you trust their intent to not misuse your data, there are now a lot of live rpc hooks into your operating system, controllable by anyone who can compromise their azure implementation, which has happened at least twice in recent memory. If the data never leaves your device, and they didn't have a way in, they wouldn't have those things to lose in the first place.

The interdependency itself, regardless of intent, is inherently more dangerous than the previous separate paradigm that used to exist.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Your dad probably got lucky, and your router's firewall probably did a lot of the heavy lifting. If you were to connect a win 2000/XP computer to the internet today without a firewall between, it would be compromised in minutes (there are loads of videos of people demoing this).

While I don't have proof that 7 would be the same, I strongly suspect it would be the same. 10 will get there soon too. Firewalls will stop most of the low hanging fruit, but an application that bridges connections through the firewall are that much more vulnerable to exploitations that won't be integrated by your running kernel.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (7 children)

They won't brick it, but you can bet that a lot of people are sitting on unreleased 0-days for win10. It will likely be dangerous to connect to the internet on day 1.

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Thank you for letting me know what software not to use; good bot

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Crossfading and normalization would both independently be dealbreakers for me. I can't go back

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would be genuinely surprised if fair use draws the line on format-shifted, legally purchased media, at "remote watch-together", leaving format-shifting and local watch-together in-tact.

If it were up to the studio's interpretation of the law, you'd need to purchase a license for each person during local watch-together.

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