[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 5 points 6 months ago

Huh, now that's a classic I never thought would get a remaster/re-release! I played this a ton when I was a little kid in the 90s on my Sega Genesis.

Though I'll probably stick to purchasing on Steam. I'm steering clear of Nintendo where possible.

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 5 points 11 months ago

They’re probably okay for most users, especially the gamer kind.

Eh, IDK - the amount of breakage I got simply trying to upgrade the system after a few days would probably be incredibly hostile to a less technical user/gamer.

Sure, if most things worked out-of-the-box and upgrades were seamless, I'd agree - but as it stands, it seems like you need to know Arch and Linux itself fairly well to get the most out of Garuda Linux.

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 5 points 11 months ago

A similar thing happened to me as a kid!

One of my favorite substitute teachers saw me trying to play a homebrew RPG with typical d6's - all because I couldn't afford the actual D&D books. After a few times, he came with his old 1st edition AD&D stuff and gave it all to me.

Now, sure, it was the early aughts and folks were playing 3.0/3.5 and he gave me 1st edition books, but still!

He also gave me all of his dice. Every single one. I still have (most) of them.

I've already had a couple of chances to pay it forward a few times myself!

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 7 points 1 year ago

As a man who grew up with one foot firmly planted in yeehaw and the other in yuppie, I think this is brilliant!

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree. I think 1440p+HDR is probably the way to go for now. HDR is FAR more impactful than a 4K resolution and 1440p should provide a stable 45ish FPS on Cyberpunk 2077 completely maxed out on an RTX 3080Ti (DLSS Performance).

And in terms of CPU, the same applies. 16 cores are for the gentoo using, source compiling folks like me. 8 cores on a well binned CPU from the last 3 generations goes plenty fast for gaming. CPU bottlenecking only really show up at 144fps+ in most games anyways.

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 7 points 1 year ago

As somebody with autism. I find this take lacking nuance. You see for me these tools represent a huge leap and accessibility for me. I can turn a wall of stream of consciousness text into something digestible and represents myself.

I find myself constantly exhausted with the societal expectation that I review, edit, and adjust my own speech constantly. And these tools go a long way to helping me actually communicate.

I mean, after all nothing changes for me. People thought of me as a robot before. And I guess they can continue to think I'm still a robot. I've stopped giving a crap about neurotypical expectations.

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 6 points 1 year ago

Lived there for 7 years - I think I got it.

Step one, do not be in downtown, inner SE, inner NE, Gateway, or anywhere near a Max line or bus station after dark. Step two, carry mace and a stun gun. Step three, leave Portland for good and only return if I must << We are here.

We got a lot of hate from certain left leaning folks in Portland for leaving "because of the homeless". It's like, "No, dude, I'm leaving because my wife was assaulted by homeless no less than 3 times (twice physically, once was almost a rape), and that's even when she was "safely on TriMet. You can 'but not ALL homeless' all you want. My wife is traumatized and we want nothing to do with this shithole of a city".

Yeah, after the 3rd one we left, and we can say with certainty that we'll never ever come back to live in PDX.

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 7 points 1 year ago

Hmmm, I'd check the following:

  1. Do the emails follow a pattern? (randouser####@commondomain.com)
  2. Did the emails actually validate, or do you just not see bouncebacks? There is a DB field for this that admins can query (i'll dig it up after I make this high level post)
  3. Did the surge come from the same IP? Multiple? Did it use something that doesn't look like a browser?
  4. Did the surge traffic hit /signup or did it hit /api/v3/register exclusively?

With those answers I should be able to tell if it's the same or similar attacker getting more sophisticated.

Some patterns I noticed in the attacks I've received:

  1. it's exactly 9 attempts every 30 minutes from the user agent "python/requests"
  2. The users that did not get an email bounceback were still not authenticated hours later (maybe the attacker lucked out with a real email that didn't bounce back?). There was no effort to verify from what I could determine.

Some vulnerabilities I know that can be exploited and would expect to see next:

  1. ChatGPT is human enough sounding for the registration forms. I've got no idea why folks think this is the end-all solution when it could be faked just as easily.
  2. Duplicate Email conflicts can be bypassed by using a "+category" in your email. ie (someuser+lemmy@somedomain.com) This would allow someone to associate potentially hundreds of spam accounts with a single email.
[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 6 points 1 year ago

Well I am making a distinction between creating a newer implementation and rolling back to an older, known implementation. It's why I find it bizarre when folks point out that there's a new feature request and a PR is guarenteed accepted - yes, but that will take more time than reverting some commits and maybe retrofitting if needed. The entire point I was trying to make is that they could just roll back, and when the new feature is ready, we can go right to it. I'm not (at least intentionally) asking for grandiose work and assuming going back is quicker and more readily available than waiting for a new solution to be implemented.

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 6 points 1 year ago

Look, you keep returning back to a point I'm not making, and it seems like its in bad faith.

You keep saying how captcha's aren't perfect. They never needed to be and any sufficiently advanced attacker can bypass them. We've gone over that at length, you returning to this argument just shows how little else you have than "Mondays always suck" / "Evil shall persist" mindset.

Your entire position of chasing me on "oh, but captcha doesn't solve ALLLLLL bots". Yeah, and laws don't deter ALLL crime either.

Shall we remove these pesky laws of civil society? I mean, after all why abide by rules that any one person can chose not to follow the laws? What good are they anyways?

You know it's an inane point that has no logical conclusion, but I think you probably already know that and I'm done assuming good faith in your trolling.

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 5 points 1 year ago

That assumes that the fork would be mCaptcha rather than a simple reversion to the existing captcha. But yeah, the fork would initially be a roll back until mCaptcha is implemented either in our own or in the base repo.

[-] th3raid0r@tucson.social 5 points 1 year ago

Back to my original point, it's fantastic that the work is planned, but unless they roll back the removal, v0.18 is going to be a huge headache, and not just for the admins of servers running v0.18, but everyone else too.

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