nichch | 12 days ago | on: How kernel anti-cheats work
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nichch | 2 years ago | on: OpenVPN Is Open to VPN Fingerprinting
Mullvad uses both OpenVPN and Wireguard
nichch | 2 years ago | on: Optical or Digital: Minimum focusing distance on iPhone 15 Pro Max 5x camera
At the bottom of Settings > Camera, there is a setting called “Macro Control”.
If enabled, it displays an icon when the lenses are auto swapped and pressing it swaps them back.
nichch | 2 years ago | on: The “faces of Amazon” ex-employee stories site has mysteriously vanished
Most recent archive (2022): https://web.archive.org/web/20221024011918/https://sites.goo...
nichch | 2 years ago | on: Oracle sends legal notice to rename company over 'JavaScript' trademark
The full name of the company seems to be “Rust for Javascript Developers Ltd”
Disclaimer: I hate Oracle
nichch | 3 years ago | on: Internal Tech Emails: Mark Zuckerberg: “VR / AR Strategy”
Anecdotally, I’ve shown VR to 15 or 20 people and nobody has gotten motion sick or felt nauseous.
One person got dizzy, but only when guardian became visible.
nichch | 3 years ago | on: Google calls in help from Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. fight
> What about uploading every binary you run to their server to check if its “approved”?
My understanding was macOS only checked the signature of third party executables before first run.
Windows may let you run it first, but any unknown executable (not just a hash, the file itself) gets sent to Microsoft by default. [0]
[0] https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...
nichch | 3 years ago | on: Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
Yet those types of organizations are already scraping this data behind the scenes. Twitter’s API restrictions hurt well intentioned actors.
nichch | 3 years ago | on: Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms
I wonder how open and shut those DUI cases really are. In Michigan, they’ve recently discovered their THC test would return positive with the presence of CBD.
https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/08/michigan-polic...
nichch | 3 years ago | on: Building a fast all-SSD NAS on a budget
I was thinking the same thing, but wouldn’t these be okay if his workload is mainly WORM?
nichch | 3 years ago | on: We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
Could you elaborate on the Australian laws?
nichch | 3 years ago | on: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
I’m hoping the full API becomes open again.
nichch | 4 years ago | on: The State of Web Scraping 2022
Economic value and actual usage.
nichch | 4 years ago | on: Graviton2 and Graviton3
Unlikely for now. The ball has just started rolling with the M1.
nichch | 4 years ago | on: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
I can confirm this as recently as June 2021
nichch | 4 years ago | on: Our lawsuit against ChessBase
> Due to Chessbase’s repeated license violations, leading developers of Stockfish have terminated their GPL license with ChessBase permanently.
What do they mean by this?
nichch | 4 years ago | on: The Pirate Bay Away from the Keyboard (2013)
I’d suggest a link change to this, given the advertisements on TPB
nichch | 4 years ago | on: Valve Steam Deck
The Steam Link continues to be very useful for my girlfriend and I. It’s plug and play and we haven’t had issues with compatibility or controllers like we have trying to set steam up on a Pi 4.
nichch | 4 years ago | on: Teaching open-source software in North Korea
Wouldn’t it be the duty of the platform in this situation?
nichch | 4 years ago | on: Steam required additional 57.51 GB download for a review
Epic has no DRM. Steam’s “DRM” is non intrusive and optional. The EGS is a CEF application and is probably less resource efficient than it should be.
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They also have VM checks. I "accidentally" logged into MGM from a virtual machine. They put my account on hold and requested I write a "liability statement" stating I would delete all "location altering software" and not use it again. (Really!)