Draconic NEO

Absolutely not. While a captcha can stop somebody with a simple python script and nothing else. It is not effective against sophisticated bots which either use AI or which connect through API to a captcha solving service run by humans. Much to the chagrin of captcha operators.

From what I’ve seen the main purpose of captcha is to act as security theater to dissuade normies. If there’s anything that captcha has been successful at it’s been permeating pop culture as a trope. As far as actually stopping the malicious actors it hasn’t really done that much, mainly because these people will adapt and change their tactics. They’re not just going to keep trying the same methods that aren’t working, they’re not stupid. Many do it as a business.

Don’t apologize, it’s obvious that this user is a troll and is trying to accuse people of harassing them for calling out their bad behavior and how their arguments are wrong.

Many Russians already use matrix, they may not use it seriously but they use it.

I mean in the past few days I’ve seen like 20 Russian trolls, spamming scat porn, racial slurs, racist memes, extremist memes, you name it.

So yeah I would say that matrix is already decently popular among Russians. Maybe not for legitimate use but it’s still definitely popular among them.

Best to use the archived links bypasses the login barrier, as well as paywalls.

Why would they, Xbox uses a version Windows and an x86 core + AMD GPU, bog standard parts, bog standard system, it’s easier to tap into the windows component on an x86 system and just use that to run the games. Making a proper emulator for games that would otherwise run on the PC natively just wouldn’t make sense.

Glad to see that there’s finally some effort to hack the shitty anti-consumer printer ink DRM.

CAPTCHA doesn’t stop bots, and let us be honest, it never really did. It frustrated the hell out of people though, and caused people to waste time doing these challenges. Meanwhile even before AI bad actors and bots could get past it simply by using captcha solver services run by exploited humans solving captchas for the service.

It’s a display of security theater meant to make normies feel safe but in reality doesn’t stop most bad actors.

Captcha these days isn’t even really a CAPTCHA in the traditional sense since most of the work it does is based on filtering of IP and browser fingerprinting, with a certain level of gamification because the goal is not just to keep out the people they fight against, but to waste their time, would work great if it didn’t waste normal people’s time, while real bad actors have easy ways to get around it.

I’m willing to bet that this is one of those sketchy knockoff cables. The usb-c standard, called USB power delivery doesn’t support 10 amps. Likely it never could because it would require thicker cables and more heavy duty connectors than what USBC actually has. Anyone who knows anything about basic electronics already knows this, more specifically what happens when you put too much current through a cable that’s not rated for it.

All I can say is that I hope there aren’t devices that try and actually pull 10 amps through a cable like this, it would probably not end well.

It wasn’t even a PlayStation controller, it was a knockoff Logitech controller shaped like a DualShock but with Xbox colored buttons.

I think that WordPress integration has been added to Lemmy, so you should be able to also follow WordPress blogs right here, they show up as communities.

I mean I’m not sure how well it works, last I checked it was very glitchy.

I think brave should be disregarded as something safe and privacy respecting if they were willing to silently whitelist Facebook trackers in the past. Then there is their whole crypto obsession.

Because play protect is a piece of shit that is not very reliable. Google mostly uses it to block installation of apps or remove apps that they don’t like such as cracked apps, or apps that are used to crack other apps.

The real malicious apps are typically able to sneak past it.

It’s worth mentioning that the mod could stop working with future updates of the game, however.

That’s why it would be good if somebody had the source code, not just a backup of the mod. Available source code will allow somebody else to tweak it or more easily make a better one in case Sony tries to break it.

I blame the news outlets for making it public and screaming from the rooftops that they were bypassing it.

We should put our efforts and energy towards fighting back against the companies that do this and not against each other. Pointing fingers at each other doesn’t do anything.

These companies have their own intelligence divisions whose job it is to find out about projects like this. They don’t find out about it from the news they find out about it from their intelligence divisions long before it becomes popular.

If anything projects like this being popular is better for them because it means people like us can copy them and redistribute them faster than they can issue takedowns.

If anything I would say that this mindset is exactly what these companies want, they want these projects to be obscure and copied by very few people so when they issue the takedown, it’s not saved by anybody else. They also would prefer it over the retaliation that some people might do to them, I mean just look at what people are doing to Rockstar right now. They would rather we fight with each other, then fight back against them. They are the enemy and they always have been, the sooner we realize it the better.

I looked around and there do seem to be backups out there, would suggest people download them and reupload them. Same way was done when they tried to go after YouTube-dl.

That’s a good point. He’s probably not smart enough to figure that out.

People are against invasive kernel-level that spies on them and prevent them from playing games on their OS that would otherwise run fine.

No one here has decided that cheating in online games is fine or okay.

He could simply make his account invulnerable to it if that was his goal, no there’s a deeper reason why he’s making the change. Likely because he realizes too many people are blocking the alt-right users part of his paying simp army.

A lot of them are in-denial. I’ve seen them argue that Twitter isn’t a Nazi platform and is used by normal people. Serves them right I guess, they were told it was a problem and they didn’t want to listen.

The best way to cure network effect is with pain and suffering, and eventual forced deprivation (when the service shuts down).