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  2. Posted

    1 hour ago, Kraszu said:

    So I recently found a website called itch.io that sells fuckton of indie games. Even taking in mind that 90% not really worth the time, that's still plently of good ones. Here's a few that cought my eye. Sales Pitch is a short, and by short I mean very short point and click, but it has undeniable charm, and hey, for 0 $ you might as well spend 5 minutes with it. And from the same studio there's VA-11 Hall-A. I posted it's trailer some time ago in this bread and completely forgot about it. Certainly on my buy list. The demo/prototype is available for free, so you can go ahead and try that one too. And lastly there is Doki Doki Meme Club but everyone and their mother already heard about that one.

     

    Also G A M E J A M S

  5. Posted

    2 hours ago, hugthebed2 said:

    I'm also hearing stuff about needing to update your motherboards, which is something I've never done and it doesn't look like my motherboard has an update in 2018. Are there going to be any issues there?

     

    If you don't have the latest patch from your mobo manufacturer, check their driver's page and look for any BIOS updates. I've seen most companies still release files that have to be updated from the BIOS via a flashing utility, but you might be able to upgrade from Windows or DOS as well. Your manufacturer should have exact instructions.

     

    Whatever you do, absolutely make sure you have the right motherboard when you get the drivers.

     

    The people that advise updating your motherboards are mainly referring to the fact that each manufacturer is responsible for patching their boards according to Intel's fixes. You might want to check your manufacturer's support page to see the affected boards. Keep in mind that a lot of these patches were already pushed out before public disclosure.

     

    1 hour ago, Idiot Cube said:

    I didn't know motherboards COULD be updated!

     

    And the last one for mine was in 2014. Oh well.

     

    Generally BIOS updates aren't all too important, especially since they run the risk of bricking your mobo if you do something like flash a BIOS image for another mobo or lose power while flashing. Most BIOS updates are to fix bugs in the BIOS or add more hardware support.

     

    30 minutes ago, Medic said:

    So, for the average moron like me, as long as I keep everything up to date (which I do), I should be alright?

     

    Keep updating as much as possible. Microsoft has always had a draconian update system with Patch Tuesday, but you'll want to just keep being updated with the latest security patches.

  6. Posted

    22 minutes ago, Kraszu said:

    Edit: also, INTEL SHAREHOLDERS ON SUICIDE WATCH

     

    More like all VM software developers on suicide watch. Stock price changes are typical Wall Street investors not knowing jack shit and panicking for a profit, hence why AMD and Nvidia rises while INTC is falling. The only lasting impact from this will be the hardware engineers having to redesign an entire generation, security researchers and pen testers doing incidence response once this gets exploited in the wild over the next few weeks, and VM devs who literally just get massacred by performance hits.

  8. Posted · Edited by Wing Lee

    With last year's biggest revelations being the entirety of Vault 7 and the Equifax breach, we're starting off this year with a two exploits (though divided into three vulnerabilities) ranging about 20 years of CPUs.

     

    Article Dump:

     

    Basic ways to exploit these vulnerabilities:

    • With Spectre, an attacker can put malicious JS on a website, allowing them to read all browser memory including form data such as passwords, cookies, session tokens, and encryption keys.
      • Similar approach can be used with Java in a sandbox.
    • With Meltdown, an attacker can host software in some cloud environment to read memory form the host machine. Any data hosted on that server can then be read.

     

    tl;dr:

    • Two major CPU vulns just went public
    • Exploitable CPUs allow attackers to read memory of processes currently
    • Meltdown is exploitable on Intel CPUs while Spectre is exploitable on Intel, AMD, and ARM CPUs
      • Meltdown is not yet verified to work on AMD or ARM CPUs
      • Spectre is likely to affect all modern multithreading CPUs
    • It is unclear if this exploit has ever been used publicly before now
    • Patches have been put out for the Linux kernel, Windows, OSX, and Android but only for Meltdown so far
      • LLVM have a work in progress patch for one of Spectre's two variants
        • Expect lots of recompiling soon
      • Patches are software to fix a hardware issue. This isn't going to be properly solved until a couple years down the line with a redesigned CPU generation.
    • Performance hits are expected, and further performance hits are expected when the Spectre patches roll out
      • Ballpark 5 to 30% performance decrease for Intel CPUs
        • This primarily affects system calls, not computation, meaning that things like rendering or gaming shouldn't be affected in any substantial way.
      • Expect the largest performance hits on VM software that use Hyper-V or docker containers
    • Likely not an NSA or CIA backdoor because it would still affect their own hardware as much as anyone else
    • As per usual, encrypt your data and use stuff like NoScript.
    • As long as you keep up to date with software patches, the average user shouldn't be alarmed.
      • BUT FUCKING UPDATE YOUR SHIT
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  11. Posted

    4 hours ago, TheOnlyGuyEver said:

    All hackers are shady shrouded hooded teenagers hunched over on a thin laptop. Of course.

      

    
        Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers.  "Teenager
Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
        Damn kids.  They're all alike.

        But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain,
ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker?  Did you ever wonder what
made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
        I am a hacker, enter my world...
        Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of
the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
        Damn underachiever.  They're all alike.

        I'm in junior high or high school.  I've listened to teachers explain
for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction.  I understand it.  "No, Ms.
Smith, I didn't show my work.  I did it in my head..."
        Damn kid.  Probably copied it.  They're all alike.

        I made a discovery today.  I found a computer.  Wait a second, this is
cool.  It does what I want it to.  If it makes a mistake, it's because I
screwed it up.  Not because it doesn't like me...
                Or feels threatened by me...
                Or thinks I'm a smart ass...
                Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...
        Damn kid.  All he does is play games.  They're all alike.

        And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through
the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is
sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is
found.
        "This is it... this is where I belong..."
        I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to
them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
        Damn kid.  Tying up the phone line again.  They're all alike...

        You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at
school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless.  We've been dominated by sadists, or
ignored by the apathetic.  The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

        This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the
beauty of the baud.  We make use of a service already existing without paying
for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and
you call us criminals.  We explore... and you call us criminals.  We seek
after knowledge... and you call us criminals.  We exist without skin color,
without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us
and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

        Yes, I am a criminal.  My crime is that of curiosity.  My crime is
that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like.
My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me
for.

        I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto.  You may stop this individual,
but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

     

  12. Posted

    5 hours ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    Which is currently the bigger buzzword: blockchain or machine learning?

     

    hacker

     

    hacker has been and always will be the biggest buzzword

     

    2 hours ago, Razputin said:

    Whenever I hear blockchain I think of this pic

    And I always thought a blockchain was something like what you use to stop a crossup in a fighting game

     

    a blockchain is when you use great magic shield on havel's

  16. Posted

    the blockchain is possibly the most overinflated and overrated piece of technology right now. its essentially the tech world's equivalent of saying donald trump or loot box and its really disgusting to see companies gloat about the blockchain and have investors sperg out whenever the word blockchain is uttered. the blockchain in and of itself is an interesting technology that should overshadow crypto, but really both of them arent that useful. crypto would be useful if it werent treated as a commodity. its sad to see all these big altcoins like monero and ethereum be invested into like bitcoin or litecoin just because its another crypto. it really just defeats the whole purpose of having a currency if no one is actually using it to make transactions. that being said, the blockchain is cool but there is seemingly no real use for it besides decentralized currencies/commodities. there is little reason to use that infrastructure over any other one unless you specifically benefit from being decentralized, relatively anonymous, and completely public. as much as i like decentralized networks, almost all actual applications of the blockchain would be better serviced with a centralized database rather than the blockchain. the blockchain is being misused in so many different ways just because its a dumb buzzword and investors love the word blockchain. the blockchain is cool but poorly implemented and people should really think again before trying to implement it into whatever retarded hedgefund startup they're trying to make. i bet the next big thing will be an internet of things self-driving solar powered water cooler that processes transactions with a blockchain to deliver fresh water from local rivers.

     

    also i turn around and look down and theres just some melted chocolate thats been sitting there for over 12 hours.

  17. Posted

    i like the system of using the blockchain and leaving messages with each transaction as a post. the entire ledger would be all threads with each transaction to a person being a message in some arbitrary fashion. this gets away with the typical topic and comment format with purely just branching reply chains from a single epoch. all transactions are hence reasonably anonymous but still publicly accessible.

     

    this still goes to say that the blockchain is a pretty cool technology that is much more important than retarded cryptocurrencies but i still cant think of a single good implementation for them because very few systems benefit strictly from being anonymous and decentralized in this way while not being better made with some other system.

  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, Gyokuyoutama said:

    If you were to intentionally design a discussion system that was guaranteed to lead to the most horrendous discussions and communities possible, what design choices would you make that Reddit hasn't already done?

     

    Left aligned and optimized by 4:3 aspect ratio with the entire right side being dedicated ad space.

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  25. Posted

    4 hours ago, Razputin said:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/6xqtgz/an_insightful_thread_where_game_developers/dmhz7fa/?st=j74vov4h&sh=94577080

     

     

    There was some Twitter discussion about hidden game mechanics and someone compiled them all into a reddit thread. Some of these are really cool

     

    Most well made platformers give you extra room to jump after you go off the ledge. Goes back to Mario and its painfully obvious that the game isn't well made if it doesn't have this and/or if it doesn't give you a dead zone where you can move without the camera moving.

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