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jospeh554··on Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
Cryptography goes BRRRRR, with a proper implementation of cryptography you'd need to do things like patch out the keys in memory in order to "spoof" messages.
jospeh554··on Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected
Im not a big gamer, but playing GTA Online, and getting taken out as soon as you spawn. Or items just spawning in front of you, like ramps. REALLY ruins the experience
jospeh554··on Donating Agent Payments Protocol to the Fido Alliance
AI Shopping? A waht now?
jospeh554··on GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown
I'm not there, but we use it at our place. It triggers on entirely innocent things I do.

And yet when I do something a bit dodgy (like query a DC with a cli, and reset credentials) it's silent...

jospeh554··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Most places I've worked I've had the autonomy to re-install my machine to whatever OS I worked with, so was always Debian Linux.

Then I joined some mega-corp, with it's structures and set systems, so opted for a Macbook.

Worst mistake of my life, OSX is horrid, I'd rather use Windows.

jospeh554··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
I don't miss the days when every project had it's own SVN server....
jospeh554··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
And it's just a host of git, you can just jump platforms...

This is like crying that your favourite IRC network goes, then you just jump onto OFTC

jospeh554··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Malware goes BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
jospeh554··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Last 5 Years: ~12.5% Last 10 Years: ~14.0% Last 50 Years: ~11-12% (reflects performance since the mid-1970s) Last 100 Years: ~10.4%
jospeh554··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Exactly, and the fact that friendster failed was because nobody was going onto it anymore, so there's nobody going to be hitting ads, other than bots.

The WayBack machine shows the redirect to the ad page offering the domain for sale.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231018214628/https://friendste...

So doesn't seem like it was serving ads anyway

jospeh554··on AI's biggest critic has lost the plot
Saying something is a "bubble" doesn't mean it'll go away entirely when it pops...

Which seems to be a lot of this article

jospeh554··on An update on GitHub availability
It's because they are your standard PowerPoint graph that just shows "thing goes up" rather than actual data, or the meaning of the data.