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Sir. Haxalot

@ SirHaxalot @nord.pub

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  • Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

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  • Nobody really argues about that here though. The context of Linus statement is whether or not experienced kernel developers should be forbidden from using AI tools or not.

  • Recommend a new TV! 📺

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  • I think the question is if any of the commercial displays actually have good image quality? As you say it’s often used for advertisements and in retail areas, and I’d expect that mean image quality doesn’t matter that much, just that it’s cheap.

    If budget isn’t an issue I would strongly recommend going for something with an OLED display (but not QLED). I have owned 3 generations of LG OLEDs now, and I have to say that picture quality is absolutely amazing. Though I have to admit that the software just have gotten worse with each generation. Mostly you can avoid it if you’re not using the built in apps but unfortunately there are quite a lot of issues with HDMI-CEC as well. It works well with my Apple TV, but sometimes there’s some weird behaviour with other devices, like a Switch or PS5. I’d live with that if the alternative is some cheap LCD variant though.

  • After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company

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  • Ubisoft stock has lost 90% of its value the past 5 years though, so I don’t think the shareholders are fans.

    Which makes it even more insane that they haven’t realized that it’s time to take a step back and evaluate their strategy, but I guess there’s a point that they are extremely out of touch with reality.

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    Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release

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  • I would guess that the key difference is that vibe coded apps can get to a more or less working state a lot quicker, while other apps are likely to be abandoned before it’s done.

    Though in either case I’d always be careful with new projects. If it’s just a single guy that’s been working on something for less than a year and only have a handful of GitHub stars, I probably wouldn’t install it.

  • Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86

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  • At least it sounds like a full escape is not trivial still

    Turning this vulnerability into a full escape is difficult work, because the primitive is tricky. The page that gets reoccupied is the spt of a shadow page that was zapped, returned to buddy, and then refilled. After it is freed, KVM installs no more leaf SPTEs on this page, so the only remaining write is the single fixed constant (on x86-64, 0x8000000000000000) that clears the orphaned parent pointer, and the guest only decides which slot (offset) to write to. Because of this, one must carefully choose a guest-side cross-cache object where that fixed write aligns to a meaningful field, and depending on how the object is allocated it can be dependent on the guest VM's RAM quota.

    Because of this tricky primitive, each architecture must be exploited in a different way, and empirically, the AMD-specific exploit is a little easier.

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    Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86

    github.com /V4bel/Januscape/blob/main/assets/write-up.md

  • [PDF]A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users IP history even with VPN, Full web activity, Video game activity and games played, Logged-in social accounts Via undocumented Windows Device ID

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  • The question here is how they were able to tie the GDID to a whole bunch of different domain visits. This is not something that is usually sent with web requests, and is not something that a typical web server config would log or be able to correlate.

    The most plausible explanation I’ve seen is that some telemetry service checked in over the VPN, allowing Microsoft to log GDID<->IP, and correlate the GDID with other check-ins, from his real IP. If the VPN provider maps one IP per customer/session this would create a quite high confidence link.

    Or he did something exceptionally stupid like being signed into a Microsoft account with enabled web history syncing enabled. Which of course would allow them to tie history

    Remember, no matter what the commercial VPN companies want you to believe, a VPN only encrypts content between two points and masks your IP. It does very little for privacy on its own as most tracking is done with cookies and other session tokens.

  • Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

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  • That would be a reasonable expectation, but I want to remember this being talked about as a revolution for internet in the US; how much better it would be compared to shitty cable providers and how you would get Gigabit speeds without having to run fibre.

    Sure, it looked impressive early on, but a wireless system like this will always degrade the more customers they get.

  • Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

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  • To be fair, the network being crushed by high demand is extremely unsurprising. Cellular networks have always had this problem in dense areas, where it’s no way you're reaching the advertised speed. This is mainly due to the available channels being shared by everyone in a relatively large area, connected to the same cell. Which is mitigated somewhat by setting up more cells with shorter range for a higher cell density in cities.

    How could a satellite based network ever scale? Where you have what, a handful available cells to cover an entire state?

  • Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”

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  • That doesn’t make much sense, how is a completely different infrastructure going to help their capacity issues? Unless the plan is to pivot from satellite to 5G or something

  • Which chaos god do you serve?

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  • E

  • Pillow [Jay-R]

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  • that’s how i learned it was half sawdust.

    Maybe that was the problem, lol. Never had any problem washing my pillows. I’ve only used basic IKEA pilllows though, not sure about the fancy memory foam or similar types.

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    Is it just me or has Windows 11 gotten way worse the last few years?

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  • No, it’s works pretty well for me. Granted I have a pretty high end computer, but even my mothers cheap i3 laptop works pretty well (granted I made sure it had at least 16GB RAM). Being able to uninstall OneDrive for example is one of the things that have actually worked in W11, compared to W10 where it would always stay in explorer.

  • What phone do you use?

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  • Going against the stream here as another iPhone user, iPhone 16.

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  • Because for the vast majority of people yet another password, or even yet another 2FA code is an anti-feature.

  • AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs, leaving users unaware that they may be vulnerable

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  • Hold up, since when did consumer Ryzen CPUs have memory encryption support? I was sure that was always a EPYC exclusive feature.

  • If you are coming from Reddit: YSK that Lemmy and Piefed have no karma. Don't delete your posts.

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  • It’s supposed to be, but people really like being able to negate the amount of likes on something they disagree with

  • When Windows users find the Threadiverse

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  • Linux users 👇

    Windows user 👆

  • [Meta] Is there a sci-fi art community across the Fediverse?

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  • Me irl

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  • I usually don't complain about re-posts, but did you really just repost this to the same community you posted it like 2 hours ago?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I accept my cute demise

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    The truth is out there

  • me_irl @lemmy.world
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    me_irl

  • NiceMemes @sopuli.xyz
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    Borb

  • me_irl @lemmy.world
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    me_irl

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
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    I support you take little guy

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Gayonnaise

  • Animals @lemmy.world
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    Geese

  • April Fools @piefed.social
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    The Emperor Protects: A Warhammer 40,000 Musical

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Now that is a little noodle

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Cast

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Tavern’s Closed

  • IT och Teknik @feddit.nu
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    Dataintrång hos CGI; källkod till myndighetstjänster läckt

    xcancel.com /intcyberdigest/status/2032171171798565311
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    🦋🧈

  • Damn, that's interesting! @lemmy.ml
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    Using hand sanitizer to stop a snake from trying to eat itself

  • Fediverse @piefed.social
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    New Piefed instance: Nord.pub

    nord.pub /c/meta/p/42248/hello-verse
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Skeleton takes 1d6 emotional damage

  • Fediverse @piefed.social
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    Ideas for making fetch happen (a mass exodus to the fediverse)

    www.reddit.com /r/fediverse/s/FnQpFRARWy
  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Chat, we need to talk...