I don't understand argument (1) here. She said Israel is an ethnostate and that it's bad for it to be that? Also has Sanders not also been critical of sending arms to Israel? Like what's the argument?
No one has mentioned the thing they're doing right here:
This led to a shift in hiring strategy. "We had focused almost entirely on software engineering, but we had no one who actually understood this data," he recalled. "We completely pivoted our hiring toward data scientists, and today we spend far more effort analyzing data than reverse-engineering programs."
A huge part of the argument from us Linux users has been: These companies say a bunch of stuff, but from the words it seems pretty clear that the maths is off. It would be nice if they actually shared some of the maths, but actually having someone who studied statistics on the payroll is at least some measure of trust.
Having said that, the inflated sense of importance of these companies thinking they deserve root is pretty astonishing:
Kernel-level anti-cheat operates at the innermost layer of the operating system, allowing it to inspect the entire PC. While this offers a broad detection scope, it presents significant privacy and security concerns for users. Introducing this topic as a "controversial slide," van Dijck acknowledged, "It is invasive, and we agree."
However, he argued that it is an unavoidable necessity at present: "Cheat software is already doing the exact same thing, reaching the point where cheaters boot via USB drives to hijack the system before the kernel even loads." He also noted that while Microsoft is enhancing platform security, those measures do not apply to older Windows versions used by many players.
OK, but people who aren't cheating aren't doing that. They have banking information on their computers. The kernel code could be exfiltrating that in the normal telemetry (which makes servers a target), or be hacking your invasive kernel module (which is a honeypot). The fact that they're not even considering that some other game's anti-cheat could be used as a vector for cheats is, like I said, astonishing.
The cherry on top is the admission that this highly risky kernel module is vibe coded.
He also noted that AI coding assistants influenced their approach. "Thanks to tools like Claude and Codex, solutions that used to take years can now be built in a short time," van Dijck explained. "The barrier to building custom solutions in-house has dropped significantly."
Cheats today aren't like the TF2 cheats some people imagine. The way modern cheats are described is "cannot distinguish from high level play". To use a hardware cheat as an example, you have a mouse and capture card, and connect that to a raspberry pi, put some software on the pi, then make the pi imitate a USB mouse. Then, whenever aiming near a target, have the pi "lock on" to that target (the pi uses object detection to find targets). You can also make it more or less accurate to make it less detectable. In this example, it's literally a mouse moving around. Doing something like confirming aim on the server side doesn't help here.
To explain a (hardware) wallhack, you can plug in a USB-C device into the PC. Now USB-C devices can also use thunderbolt, which is just PCIe, which means it has DMA access to the PC's RAM, no OS required (the OS needs to permit the device but after "trusting" the device, the device can do whatever it wants). So, you do a similar trick. Capture card + DMA access to the PC RAM. The Pi finds the place where the game tracks objects, finds targets, and places a box around them (so you see the game from the capture card with the box over all targets, including behind walls). Now you might be saying "well the server shouldn't send targets behind walls", but even if the server doesn't do that, it needs to send them a little bit before they'd be visible, and that's enough of an edge.
Kernel hacks are basically the same thing, but without the expense. You can see a target a fraction of a second before they're visible, and the mouse can be told to move to the target. This is the same as high level play because people can often predict where someone is going to be, and are very, very good with tracking targets, so it just looks like a good player.
It sucks because apparently we do not extend this to people fighting in Ukraine. It's technically illegal for an Australian citizen to fight for another country IIUC.
It's fear. I don't think they're lying about why they are doing this, as absurd as it seems. They (being the administration, just to be clear) believe that they must wipe out Islam (and I guess Christianity) to prevent being genocided themselves. It's a weird outcome of the Nazi genocide, that the attitude in Israel is basically "it wouldn't have happened if I were there", but the corollary to that is "because I'd do it to everyone else".
That's not how we live. I can't plan to kill my neighbour because I'm reasoning that they're planning to kill me (because I'm planning to kill them, after all). That's insane.
Btw, that's also the Nazi train of thought. That's what "the great replacement" theory is about, that Jews are planning to dilute the white race or whatever, and the only solution is genocide. It's a concocted fear.
The really shocking thing is just how different the economics are compared with what I thought they were. This ABC article talks about truck economics. What I was originally lead to believe was that basically all trucks needed to be diesel and very few could be viable as EVs. Some companies were interested in the EV trucks but more as a marketing exercise than as a cost saving.
But the video (and article) show a very different economics. It shows that most trucks (though not most emissions) can actually be switched over pretty easily, and there are new businesses which are trying to take advantage of the cost savings enabled through EV trucks.
And for the remaining trucks, it might be harder in the engineering, but it's actually easier in the rollout (and still saves money), because only a few companies deploy trucks like that which take up a lot of emissions. Even just hybrid trucks or similar might make the difference, bringing down emissions a lot.
It's kind of interesting that the entire conversation, the cost, the technical difficulties, all lies around people having to not change their behaviour. You get entire questions around batteries being expensive but then the power infrastructure is also expensive, etc. Like you say, maybe some sort of surge pricing is needed, but then costs go beyond equivalent petrol costs (though I guess it's not a problem in the real world as the costs would only really grow when petrol already becomes niche).
But yeah, overall there are solutions, but it's kind of interesting in terms of what challenges each country faces which are pretty fundamentally different despite the old infrastructure being the same, because the technicals of electricity are different.
A good opposite example is the really, really remote areas in Australia, which could just be set up with a small solar install + battery, and that would probably easily beat out having to drive out there every few days with petrol / diesel.
There's definitely queuing depending on the time of day, but most of the stations on the arterial roads seem to be able to manage their tanks. Part of the reason I think queues aren't too bad is that if you have, say, 10 stations, a person is mostly just filling up then paying, so the stations don't have a lot of downtime, and flow rate is not an issue.
With Electric, you'd only be able to have enough stations to match the electric flow rate, so let's say you have a megawatt coming in and 100kW chargers, you'd be able to do 10 at full speed, and you'd probably overprovision by 2 or something, so maybe 20 chargers because not all cars at all stages will charge at that speed, and a hot day might change things etc. Each of these is taking like 20 minutes nominally but that's enough for some snacks and a toilet break, not to mention some people would want to charge to 100%, so people would probably be on them for closer to 30 mins?
My guess is the stations would need to do things (announcements etc) to get people to move their cars.
I don't understand argument (1) here. She said Israel is an ethnostate and that it's bad for it to be that? Also has Sanders not also been critical of sending arms to Israel? Like what's the argument?
No one has mentioned the thing they're doing right here:
A huge part of the argument from us Linux users has been: These companies say a bunch of stuff, but from the words it seems pretty clear that the maths is off. It would be nice if they actually shared some of the maths, but actually having someone who studied statistics on the payroll is at least some measure of trust.
Having said that, the inflated sense of importance of these companies thinking they deserve root is pretty astonishing:
OK, but people who aren't cheating aren't doing that. They have banking information on their computers. The kernel code could be exfiltrating that in the normal telemetry (which makes servers a target), or be hacking your invasive kernel module (which is a honeypot). The fact that they're not even considering that some other game's anti-cheat could be used as a vector for cheats is, like I said, astonishing.
The cherry on top is the admission that this highly risky kernel module is vibe coded.
Just use the data scientists bro.
Cheats today aren't like the TF2 cheats some people imagine. The way modern cheats are described is "cannot distinguish from high level play". To use a hardware cheat as an example, you have a mouse and capture card, and connect that to a raspberry pi, put some software on the pi, then make the pi imitate a USB mouse. Then, whenever aiming near a target, have the pi "lock on" to that target (the pi uses object detection to find targets). You can also make it more or less accurate to make it less detectable. In this example, it's literally a mouse moving around. Doing something like confirming aim on the server side doesn't help here.
To explain a (hardware) wallhack, you can plug in a USB-C device into the PC. Now USB-C devices can also use thunderbolt, which is just PCIe, which means it has DMA access to the PC's RAM, no OS required (the OS needs to permit the device but after "trusting" the device, the device can do whatever it wants). So, you do a similar trick. Capture card + DMA access to the PC RAM. The Pi finds the place where the game tracks objects, finds targets, and places a box around them (so you see the game from the capture card with the box over all targets, including behind walls). Now you might be saying "well the server shouldn't send targets behind walls", but even if the server doesn't do that, it needs to send them a little bit before they'd be visible, and that's enough of an edge.
Kernel hacks are basically the same thing, but without the expense. You can see a target a fraction of a second before they're visible, and the mouse can be told to move to the target. This is the same as high level play because people can often predict where someone is going to be, and are very, very good with tracking targets, so it just looks like a good player.
Toastie!!!
I'm not really a writer but every now and then I'll get a short Solarpunk idea that I want to post. Hoping I can just do that every now and then.
Thanks. Strange that, I'm using photon and the search didn't turn anything up. Seems browsing communities is the go.
Is there a solarpunk mini-fiction community? I was thinking of something like 365 tomorrows, but Solarpunk.
Out on the patio we sit...
Thanks for the clarification. That's a strange carve out.
Sir this is a Lemmy's.
It sucks because apparently we do not extend this to people fighting in Ukraine. It's technically illegal for an Australian citizen to fight for another country IIUC.
It's fear. I don't think they're lying about why they are doing this, as absurd as it seems. They (being the administration, just to be clear) believe that they must wipe out Islam (and I guess Christianity) to prevent being genocided themselves. It's a weird outcome of the Nazi genocide, that the attitude in Israel is basically "it wouldn't have happened if I were there", but the corollary to that is "because I'd do it to everyone else".
That's not how we live. I can't plan to kill my neighbour because I'm reasoning that they're planning to kill me (because I'm planning to kill them, after all). That's insane.
Btw, that's also the Nazi train of thought. That's what "the great replacement" theory is about, that Jews are planning to dilute the white race or whatever, and the only solution is genocide. It's a concocted fear.
The really shocking thing is just how different the economics are compared with what I thought they were. This ABC article talks about truck economics. What I was originally lead to believe was that basically all trucks needed to be diesel and very few could be viable as EVs. Some companies were interested in the EV trucks but more as a marketing exercise than as a cost saving.
But the video (and article) show a very different economics. It shows that most trucks (though not most emissions) can actually be switched over pretty easily, and there are new businesses which are trying to take advantage of the cost savings enabled through EV trucks.
And for the remaining trucks, it might be harder in the engineering, but it's actually easier in the rollout (and still saves money), because only a few companies deploy trucks like that which take up a lot of emissions. Even just hybrid trucks or similar might make the difference, bringing down emissions a lot.
Predators are warriors. The IDF and current Israeli administration is pretty fundamentally driven by fear.
Every now and then, I'll read a post like "BEES ARE YELLOW!" or something and I'll somehow know that Trump said some random bullshit.
It's kind of interesting that the entire conversation, the cost, the technical difficulties, all lies around people having to not change their behaviour. You get entire questions around batteries being expensive but then the power infrastructure is also expensive, etc. Like you say, maybe some sort of surge pricing is needed, but then costs go beyond equivalent petrol costs (though I guess it's not a problem in the real world as the costs would only really grow when petrol already becomes niche).
But yeah, overall there are solutions, but it's kind of interesting in terms of what challenges each country faces which are pretty fundamentally different despite the old infrastructure being the same, because the technicals of electricity are different.
A good opposite example is the really, really remote areas in Australia, which could just be set up with a small solar install + battery, and that would probably easily beat out having to drive out there every few days with petrol / diesel.
You have to listen to Jolene 2: Jolene got a time machine. It's basically the plot of Terminator 2 but instead of Arnie it's a redhead hottie.
There's definitely queuing depending on the time of day, but most of the stations on the arterial roads seem to be able to manage their tanks. Part of the reason I think queues aren't too bad is that if you have, say, 10 stations, a person is mostly just filling up then paying, so the stations don't have a lot of downtime, and flow rate is not an issue.
With Electric, you'd only be able to have enough stations to match the electric flow rate, so let's say you have a megawatt coming in and 100kW chargers, you'd be able to do 10 at full speed, and you'd probably overprovision by 2 or something, so maybe 20 chargers because not all cars at all stages will charge at that speed, and a hot day might change things etc. Each of these is taking like 20 minutes nominally but that's enough for some snacks and a toilet break, not to mention some people would want to charge to 100%, so people would probably be on them for closer to 30 mins?
My guess is the stations would need to do things (announcements etc) to get people to move their cars.
Honest mistake, no one could have predicted the future would have turned out this way.
Except all the people who realised something monstrous like this was obviously false and that obviously the future would vindicate the asylum seekers.
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