Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
Reminder: TikTok is not actually important. Everyone can live their lives without TikTok, YouTube, etc. There’s an infinite amount of ways to entertain ourselves and there’s a lot of competing apps.
This isn’t the government abusing its power to shut down some small business/upstart. It’s shutting down a serious national security threat and a monopoly. TikTok has abused their position many times in many ways, refused to cooperate, and has reached the, “find out” phase.
Yes but diversity is good 👍
Why let the Chinese get all the eyeballs for propaganda? Surely we should give other nations a chance?
IMHO they should shut down every app that is both popular and has an exceedingly difficult to penetrate monopoly. Let the competitors rush in and do a it again when the same situation occurs!
Says the guy that won’t allow Meta Quest developers the same level of access to their own hardware. Example: How would someone develop a 3rd party controller for the Quest VR headsets? You can’t. They haven’t exposed that API (or the cameras fully!).
They don’t even let you set the clock on your Quest headset! Need to change timezones? Factory Reset
Tim Sweeney: They should stop pretending and be genuine assholes… Like me!
You want AI that makes chips that run AI faster and better?
You’ve fallen into its trap!
That’s actually just a silly Star Wars reference. “It’s an older code but it still checks out.”
It’s so fun! I’ve been playing every day for three years now and I’m still addicted having loads of fun with it 😁👍
Oh if I wanted to show off my BS skills I’d post this replay:
https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=20047904
😁
PLEASE! Yes yes yes!
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I just remembered that I made a gif demonstrating how to spin in Beat Saber!
Yes! I play on a hard floor wearing socks. I spin all the time! 🕺
In fact, sometimes I slide into position to play! 🤣
Have some more spinning!
https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=19582636
This is another… It’s an older replay but it still checks out:
Yeah! 2025 year of the Linux desktop (for everyone else; it was 1999 for me 😁)
Beat Saber is the best! If you use the BeatLeader mod it automatically saves and uploads replays whenever you beat your previous score on any given map.
Here’s my Christmas present to everyone to demonstrate this fantastic ability:
https://replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=20010657
(Make sure to watch the whole silly thing in all it’s glory or you might miss some of the “special moments” 🤣)
I’m 46 and I play every day 👍
Unless they run a version of Linux where I can install my own software I’m not interested.
I suspect they’ll become like OpenWRT routers where the stock firmware is total garbage but you can replace it with something open source to super power the device.
It is impossible to do these types of checks on serverside.
If the client can make a determination as to whether or not to draw a player the server can too (and refuse to send those packets). It’s not impossible, just more computationally intensive and thus, more expensive (on the server side of things).
Naive way: Render exactly what the player will see on the server. Do this for every client and only send the data to the client if the another player enters the view.
More intelligent way: Keep track of the position and field of view of each player and do a single calculation to determine if that player can see another. If not, don’t send the packets. It will require some predictions but that’s no different than regular, modern game-specific network programming which already has to do that.
Servers these days have zillions of cores. It really isn’t too much to ask to dedicate a thread per player to do this kind of thing. It just means that instead of one server being able to handle say, 500 simultaneous players you can only handle say, 100-250 (depending on the demands of your game).
If your players host their own servers then it’s really no big deal at all! Plenty of cores for their personal matches with their friends or randos from the Internet. If you’re a big company with a game like Fortnite then it’s a huge burden compared to the low-effort system currently in place.
Yes! Finally the world can maybe move on from PHP!
Excellent defense: “You sent me the packets revealing where all the other players were. If you didn’t want me to know they were behind walls why did you tell me precisely where they were?”
Yeah, doing such checks on the server side of things is more computationally intensive but it would solve that problem entirely and you wouldn’t need client-side anti-cheat bullshit anymore.
The first rule of network programming is never trust the client. How does anti-cheat software work? By trusting the client.
Even worse: It’s a compliance nightmare!
Classified information leaking in this way is a one-off situation that might get an individual in trouble. If someone at a heavily-regulated company uploads the wrong thing though, that can cause major disruptions to commercial services while the regulators investigate. Not just fines or prosecutions after-the-fact!
Here’s why it’s a big deal: Nearly every organization allows employees to use google.com. That necessitates allowing POSTs to google.com and from a filtering perspective it makes it nearly impossible to prevent. The best you can do is limit the POST size.
Having said that, search forms in general always pose a 3rd party information disclosure risk but when you enable uploading of entire files instead of just limited text prompts you increase the risk surface by an order of magnitude.
No, that’s Salty AI
Hall effect sensor expert here! No, the magnets in the joycons that are used to attach to the display/body of the Switch 2 would not interfere with hall effect analog sticks.
Two reasons:
Regardless, it would be trivial to place a tiny little piece of ferromagnetic blocking tape wherever necessary to prevent interference.