I’d say that’s because here on Lemmy, we already don’t give a fuck about and wouldn’t touch Chrome or Edge with a ten foot pole, but some of us trusted Mozzila, which is now starting to do dumb AI shit. And having your trust broken hurts.

Astroturfing would not be recommending LibreWolf as an alternative.

If you look into alternatives, Brave is one that’s usually mentioned but there’s always someone quickly posting all of the dumb shit they did.

If you mean PhotoGimp, it’s just a config file thst rebinds keybinds and sets up UI layout, like location of tools and windows, to be similar to photoshop.

To be honest I never really looked into Budhism, but my only experience with the practice is from the amazing Mind Illuminated book, which I think is loosely based on their practice as far as meditation goes, while providing a reasonable context and arguments about why it works. Learning to consciously control your subconsius feels kind of reasonable, and I highly recommend the book to anyone interrested in that.

Tbh I’ve never really looked into or talked with almost anyone who’s into oculltism. I do know a few friends who are heavily into the unformalized new-age stuff, and they are definitely not ok to the point it controls their life, but I realize that it’s a spectrum (and I don’t mean it as “it’s autism” way, but that the way people approach even to the new-age stuff can be a spectrum of reasonable-dangeeous). I’m mostly sad because you can’t really talk to people like that, and share cool lore on a topic most people consider downright crazy, because there isn’t any or they haven’t done any research. Even astrology has some cool lore and manuscripts, but they usually don’t care.

I just think it’s cool, and reading about the practices of different cults and orders is extremely interresting.

I’d vager a guess that “chaos magick” has a similar problem to LaVeye’s Satanism, where you get a lot of edgy people researching the bare minimum, if even that, and just being edgy. Not that it wasn’t edgy, it’s one of the few movements that was downright off-puting for me due to how extremely selfish and arogant it is (IIRC it’s basically “I m a massive dick and walk over anyone”), but people who don’t even know what they are subscribing to are worse.

I never got that feeling from chaos magick, it felt just like you said - extremely rational, and was actually the first movement that made sense, as in “I can imagine this actually working”, with the argument “rituals work by nudging your subconsciousness to the direction you need”.

That’s basically the same as Budhissm does, just by hacks and symbols instead of just sheer practice and will. And we kind of have a proof that budhism works.

And even for someone who doesn’t really believe in magic, this makes sense and I can imagine it actually working.

Plus, doing rituals is fun, and a little faith gives a pretty fun amount of LARPing into your life, as long as you don’t let it control you and are reasonable about it.

I was doing cybersecurity for a few years before I moved to gamedev, and I vaguely remember that at least the older versions of GUID were definitely not safe, and could be “easily” guessed.

I had to look it up, in case anyone’s interrested, and from a quick glance to the GUID RFC, it depends on the version used, but if I’m reading it right, 6 bits out of the 128 are used for version identification, and then based on the version it’s some kind of timestamp, either from UTC time or some kind of a name-space (I didn’t really read through the details), and then a clock sequence, which make it a lot more guessable. I wonder how different would the odds be for different versions of the UUID, but I’m too tired to actually understand the spec enough to be able to tell.

However, for GUID version 4, both the timestamp and clock sequence should instead be a randomly generated number, which would give you 122 bits of entropy. It of course depends on the implementation and what kind of random generator was used when generating it, but I’d say it may be good enough for some uses.

The spec also says that you specifically should not use it for auth tokens and the like, so there’s that.

That’s actually exactly how the 70s “chaos magick” (I.e Peter J. Caroll or Phill Hine, to list some authors) occultism works. If you get past the cringy name, it was one of the more interesting occultistm movements which actually kind of make sense even to me, as someone who’s not really into esoterism (or rather - I like researching it because it’s extremely interesting - the actual formal occultism, not new age bullshit, but would feel dumb practicing since I’m skeptical)

Their core idea is that all of the other occultist movements and orders are basically all the same - through belief, rituals and symbols you affect your subconscious to manifest change (in your subconscious behavior, not “summoning money” or “cursing my ex”), and it doesn’t matter what “flavor” / dogma / lore you choose to believe in. What matters is that you really truly belive.

So, a wiccan making circles in a forest while invoicing spirits or someone making a pizza pentagram while invoking Garfield is the same,as long as he believes into it.

The only thing that matters is that it works for you, and to find what does and what doesn’t they work with “paradigm shifts”, where you decide that " I"m going to try wicca for a year", and then you delve deep into that practice, trying to trully accept it and go all in, noting your experience and results, to see if it works for you. Some even suggest throwing a dice each morning to see what you’ll do today.

After a year, you review your results, and move on to other practice, I.e “I’ll be a christian for a year”, and you really get into it, going to churches, practicing all the daily prayers and rituals, and the like.

It’s my favorite occultism movement, because it’s one of the few where I can imagine that it actually makes sense and could work for making your life better, if you have grounded expectations of course. Having an open mind and just experimenting, as long as you are safe and don’t let it control your life, should mostly be just a net-positive, plus it’s actually fun

Not mine, but svn-based JDSL is the best related story that’s always worth sharing.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-inner-json-effect

Aren’t UUIDs designed to prevent collisions, rather than be cryptographycally secure? Not that it’s doing a great job here :D

Edit: Nvm, that was guid.

It’s sad to see that we’re heading towards a future where people can’t read a text longer than one summarized paragraph, and write anything longer than a sentence without using LLMs.

Children are already skipping learning of very important skills by offloading it to AI in school.

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That sounds kinda cool tbh. I’m mostly intrigued about the class system, although I’ve bever really looked into it.

It sounds pretty similar to Fellowship (although with an RPG part), though, and I’m loving that game.

If I’m getting back to a game with gear treadmill, I can just clean uo my inventory and start the next exoansion with a clean slate.

I have around 70% of the world cleared, several characters leveled to max, but I got through kike half of HoT and a bit of Path of Fire. I opened my full inventory that had a lot of random crafting stuff, consumables a a gew gear sets and I had no idea what’s anything for, or what am I even supposed to do next. Did a few quests then gave up in trying to sort it out, since it was just too overwhelming.

I’ll probably give it a try again, love thw game.

I’ve hear good things about GW1, but never got to play it.

GW2 is my top favorite MMO, although I haven’t really played much recently, because due to the lack of gear treadmill it’s soo confusing to pick it up again when you stopped playing for a few expansions.

Will probably give GWR a try.

one that would be poorly maintained by both us and EAC due to the low user base.

I’m sure I’ve been playing a lot of games with EAC, because it’s actually one of the few ones that support Linux.

If I’m not mistaken (judging entirely by the RAC popup/loading), from the games I’m playing, Hell Let Loose, Fellowship, Helldivers 2, I think even The Finals used it.

Hell Let Loose wasn’t working at first, because you have to check a checkbox and enable Linux support when building, which did take them a while.

So, unless I’m misremembering/confusing it with another anticheat, this is bullshit.

Also “unless you have an in-house anti-cheat team”

You made millions out of your player base. You can afford it. You’re just lazy.

Oh, cool, so if I understand it right, you have a hardware that directly reads the physical memory, so you can access it unrestricted and undetectable from another PC, where the cheat runs, and then you use a HDMI fuser to merge the output of the game and the cheat that runs on the second PC on a single monitor.

That’s actually really clever, I love solutions like this. Not that I approve of cheating, I have 0 respect for people who (unconsesualy, as in all involved parties agree to it being allowed) cheat. But from the hardware/security point of view, it’s amazing.

Oh, cool. Tbh I haven’t really looked into cheats much, but I did briefly work in cybersecurity where I was doing malware development, where AV avoidance is basically the same problem as game cheats are dealing with, so I just extrapolated what I assumed works the same.

This is a cool piece of tech, I’ll look into it more. I like seeing new exploits, thanks!

It’s just a skill issue on the part of the developers.

Making anti-cheat properly is hard. Writing a spyware that watches everything that happens on your PC and blocks any attempts of touching the game is way easier, but bypassing that is easy with solutions that have higher privledges, thus being invisible even for the anti-cheat. You can just fake calls or hide memory from the anti-cheat, or just edit the anti-cheat in itself.

The solution for that is to run anti-cheat in the highest possible permission - the kernel.

Now, you could just make another kernel-level program that would have the same permissions to defeat that, or just edit your OS (i.e Linux, or a VM) where your cheat lives outside and has even higher privileges than the anti-cheat.

This is where Windows comes in - the only way to run kernel code is to have it signed by Microsoft, and that certification process is extremely difficult and annoying, which puts a pretty big hurdle in front of cheat developers. It’s the easy way out.

You could also somehow reverse-engineer Windows and run a custom version to bypass this. And that’s where TPM comes in, which (if I understood it right) validates that your Windows is the official signed one, and thus the kernel anti-cheat is safe. You can’t have this kind of affirmation on Linux, and the lazy developers who don’t want to invest into actual moderation and proper anti-cheat solutions just resort to kernel anti-cheat rootkit and require TPM to be enabled.

There’s not much Steam can do about this, aside from locking up their OS with signign keys and certification for priviliged software, along with setting up the whole TPM so you can’t run modified versions, which isn’t really possible since they are based on Linux.

Aren’t neural networks AI by definition, if we take the academic definition into account?

I know that thermostat is an AI, because it reacts to a stimuli (current temperature) and makes an action (starts heating) basted on it’s state. Which is the formal AI definition.

Wait. That actually means transformers are not AI by definition. Hmm, I need to look into it some more.

EDIT: I was confusing things, that’s the definition of AI Agent. I’ll go research the AI definition some more :D

You’re right, I used a wrong word there. It wasn’t science, more like public perception maybe? I’d consider lack of research as a part of science, though.

I’m not sure what better word would fit there instead. I wouldn’t say it’s the fault of marketing, I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt that they thought it’s actually healthier to use this kind of filter.

The comparison that sparks to my mind are vapes. There’s AFAIK lack of research that can tell us anything about long term issues, but a lot of people consider it as healthier. But in this case, common sense is also not correct - because it kind of makes sense that it probably isn’t, and it’s just marketing.

But in the case of an asbestos filter, I can see why people (and common sense at the time) would asume that it helps.

So, I guess common sense is the word that I should’ve used, because that’s what was wrong at the time.

While I get where are you comming from, and I’m also not fan of smoking, isn’t asbestos extremely worse?

I remember my friend had a roof over his summer house that was using asbestos, and it was extreme problem. Like, you can’t even take it down without investing heavily into protection, or hiring a company that specializes in it’s diasposal, because it’s just that much toxic to handle.