Springtime (u/Springtime)

Springtime commented on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass age-verifier.kibty.town/... · Posted by u/JustSkyfall

relma2 · a day ago

Alright, how long until they patch this? Anyone takin' bets?

Springtime · 18 hours ago

Sounds like it may already have been[1].

Edit: might only be a minor API call issue[2]

[1] https://github.com/xyzeva/k-id-age-verifier/issues/7

[2] https://github.com/xyzeva/k-id-age-verifier/pull/6

Springtime commented on GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client xda-developers.com/gog-ca... · Posted by u/franczesko

gamesieve · 14 days ago

Galaxy can be required for multiplayer aspects in games, but if what you say is true for the singleplayer part of the game, GOG will consider it a bug, and will get it fixed.

There's nothing in the Crime Cities GOG forum about this, nor in the various tracking threads in the main forum, and generally GOG users are extremely sensitive about anything which even reeks of forcing Galaxy, so I'd strongly expect any issue to be known.

I've seen cases where the developer implemented a bad online check, so that if you blocked the program from accessing the internet while the OS reported being online, the game would hang or crash, but being fully offline would work. Could it be that something like that was at play here? Oh, or that you simply picked the wrong installer for the game, and thus ran the Galaxy-installer rather than the offline installer?

Springtime · 14 days ago

I think too it can be misleading since on Windows the default LNK shortcut that is created after the game installation launches Galaxy with arguments instead of being a path to the direct game EXE (which works entirely without Galaxy and how I run games).

They do this to push Galaxy for convenience I suppose as most are used to clients that handle updates but it can be confusing if some wonder why for instance their offline installer shortcut opened Galaxy instead.

Springtime commented on Prism openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

syntex · 16 days ago

The Post-LLM World: Fighting Digital Garbage https://archive.org/details/paper_20260127/mode/2up

Mini paper: that future isn’t the AI replacing humans. its about humans drowning in cheap artifacts. New unit of measurement proposed: verification debt. Also introduces: Recursive Garbage → model collapse

a little joke on Prism)

Springtime · 16 days ago

> The Post-LLM World: Fighting Digital Garbage https://archive.org/details/paper_20260127/mode/2up

This appears to just be the output of LLMs itself? It credits GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 exclusively as authors, has a public domain license (appropriate for AI output) and is only several paragraphs in length.

Springtime commented on cURL removes bug bounties etn.se/index.php/nyheter/... · Posted by u/jnord

Springtime · 23 days ago

Outside of direct monetary gain like bounties are efforts to just stand out, in terms of being able to show contributions to a large project or getting say a CVE.

Stenberg has actually written about invalid/wildly overrated vulnerabilities that get assigned CVEs on their blog a few times and those were made by humans. I often get the sense some of these aren't just misguided reporters but deliberate attempts to make mountains out of molehills for reputation reasons. Things like this seem harder to account for as an incentive.

Springtime commented on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app xdaforums.com/t/discussio... · Posted by u/Magnusmaster

Havoc · a month ago

I get what you're saying about general purpose computing. I do a bunch of selfhosting flavoured stuff so we're on the same wavelength in a way.

...but I don't think that's the lens legislators look through here. I think it's more like "Last week and upset constituent lost all their savings". This politician cares more about protecting gullible constituent than a hypothetical stallman-esque freedom argument.

Not saying I agree, but rather that I can see why a politician might land on that conclusion

Springtime · a month ago

In the given scenario though it's less likely such a user would be using a rooted or replacement OS. It's an involved process to do this in the first place.

Ie: the much larger percent of users affected by this news would already be more technically savvy and one would assume be less susceptible to known scams.

To your parent point though, sideloading apps per se OTOH is something most Android installs can do without rooting or a replacement OS. Google is already rolling out developer verification requirements for sideloaded apps on GMS Android installs (most devices) to mitigate impact of malicious apps, so there is already action being taken for regular users.

One could imagine other reasons Vietnam may want to dissuade more tech savvy users from running AOSP-based installs (such as GrapheneOS, which is known to be robust against Cellebrite) and using banking is a decent place to start.

Springtime commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

komali2 · 2 months ago

I'm curious, because I've had an interest in physical media, especially videogames, but what I keep coming back to is, "why would I bother when I can just pirate it?"

What's the attraction to the physical media given the availability of these versions online?

Springtime · 2 months ago

Pirating doesn't help sustain the very thing being pirated, if you want a tangible rather than moralistic reason.

4K (Ultra HD) Blu-Ray is likely the last physical home video media generation to be produced. Disney has pulled physical out of the Asian market, Best Buy stopped releasing any physical media beside games, Target stopped selling them beside certain DVDs.

If you want any chance of actually having high quality releases continue it needs to be supported. An issue though is certain less mainstream releases in Ultra HD Blu-Ray can be rather pricey (if they get a release at all). However I still buy those I'm interested in since I don't want lower quality streaming-tier video to be the only option available in the future, apart from concerns about the volatile nature of online-only libraries (various of which have been wholly removed in the past when licensing/ownership changes).

Springtime commented on AI generated font using Nano Banana constanttime.notion.site/... · Posted by u/ebaad96

Springtime · 2 months ago

> I also found out that my friend's company got charged $2,000 per character. WTF.

Is there more context to this? I can't see anything preceding it that explains what it's referencing.

Springtime commented on Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data xda-developers.com/your-u... · Posted by u/amichail

traceroute66 · 3 months ago

I assume this blog is a re-hash of the JDEC retention standards[1].

The more interesting thing to note from those standards is that the required retention period differs between "Client" and "Enterprise" category.

Enterprise category only has power-off retention requirement of 3 months.

Client category has power-off retention requirement of 1 year.

Of course there are two sides to every story...

Enterprise category standard has a power-on active use of 24 hours/day, but Client category only intended for 8 hours/day.

As with many things in tech.... its up to the user to pick which side they compromise on.

[1]https://files.futurememorystorage.com/proceedings/2011/20110...

Springtime · 3 months ago

In the longer JEDEC overview document[1] it explains that in the ideal 'direct' testing method retention testing is only performed after the endurance testing. Which is only after the drive has had its max spec'd TBW written to it.

While if the endurance testing would exceed 1000 hours an extrapolated approach can be used to stress below the TBW but using accelerated techniques (including capping the max writable blocks to increase wear on the same areas).

Which is less dramatic than the retention values seem at first and than what gets communicated in articles I've seen. Even in the OP's linked article it takes a comment to also highlight this, while the article itself only cites its own articles that contain no outside links or citations.

[1] https://www.jedec.org/sites/default/files/Alvin_Cox%20%5BCom...

Springtime commented on The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11... · Posted by u/iamnothere

anonymous908213 · 3 months ago

> On August 20, 2013, a final article appeared on Groklaw, explaining that due to pervasive government monitoring of the Internet, there could no longer be an expectation of the sort of privacy online that was necessary to collaborate on sensitive topics. Citing the closure of Lavabit earlier that month, Jones wrote "I can't do Groklaw without your input.... and there is now no private way, evidently, to collaborate." and "What I do know is it's not possible to be fully human if you are being surveilled 24/7... I hope that makes it clear why I can't continue. There is now no shield from forced exposure."

Springtime · 3 months ago

Just on the pervasive passive monitoring aspect, I think an under-discussed aspect of the time frame covered in the material of Snowden's leaks is that sites/services by and large wasn't using encrypted protocols (HTTPS).

So much could be intercepted back then because of this. It wasn't until 2010 that various large services—including Yahoo Mail and Facebook—got a kick in their ass by a whitehat browser plugin that allowed anyone on the same network to trivially hijack session cookies of others, stimulating an adoption of HTTPS[1] during 2011-2012.

By the time the Snowden leaks occurred in 2013 the trend was heading toward encrypted-by-default and governments were having to adapt.

[1] https://threatpost.com/facebook-kills-firesheep-new-secure-b...