cahoot_bird (u/cahoot_bird)

cahoot_bird commented on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games github.com/electronicarts... · Posted by u/Klaster_1

evanjrowley · 6 months ago

Emporer: Battle for Dune was their first 3D RTS and I personally loved the gameplay, story, and soundtrack. I very much hope it will eventually be open-sourced.

cahoot_bird · 6 months ago

I really liked that game, it had a lot of strategy to it and a decent story.

The multiplayer had a common key bug that made it hard on some maps. The atreides airdrones could fly at the edge of the map and not be targeted, and take out the harvester carryalls / and other air units There were claims of a flame tank bug that could target any unit that was mentioned on the forums much much later, but I don't know if the details were ever revealed, I never figured it out so I guess its just theoretical..

cahoot_bird commented on Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work? · Posted by u/throw81398475

cahoot_bird · 6 months ago

2023 had a lot of trouble finding a tech job and even local meetup devs told me of layoffs, got into restaurant work where I had worked several years ago in college, because they remembered me. Mostly physical job, I don't have to work the fryers which in some ways is kind of nice, and it's super low stress, just takes a lot of energy and leaves me drained in most of free time

In my experience It's very hard to get back in once you've been out of tech a while. Not because you can't code, but it becomes harder if not impossible to convince someone you can and current oversupply.

cahoot_bird commented on 0x01 – Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations wetw0rk.github.io/posts/0... · Posted by u/neilwillgettoit

wetw0rk · 9 months ago

If you’re following my Windows Kernel Exploitation series the time to bypass modern mitigations is now.

We’ve learned how to exploit a Stack Overflow in Windows 7 (x86) but what has changed since then?

Truthfully a lot, but the core fundamental problem exists and as such we as hackers will always find a way to exploit them.

As part of this tutorial, I will be releasing my technique on bypassing SMEP and VBS I have dubbed Violet Phosphorous. I personally have not seen these mitigations bypassed in this manner so I’m claiming it.

To prove its effectiveness, I installed the latest Windows 11 (x64) build (24H2) and successfully elevated my privileges to NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM.

The king is dead, long live the king!

LONG LIVE THE STACK OVERFLOW!

cahoot_bird · 9 months ago

Super interesting. At one point thought control flow guard + DEP/ASLR was suppose to prevent this stuff, guess it can't be prevented nearly completely by now. Sounds like this took a lot of work to figure out, well done.

Any comment on reporting to Microsoft or perhaps motivation for this research?

cahoot_bird commented on My second year without a job shilin.ca/my-second-year-... · Posted by u/true_pk

cahoot_bird · 9 months ago

Problem is lack of money catches up eventually. If you can't figure out some way to get it, and the longer without a job, the harder it is to get one. I think a lot of people struggled because the economy and job numbers. Supply and demand..

I had contract work, then couldn't get a tech job a couple years ago after a lot of applications. Completely broke. Drove down the road and felt kinda foolish seeing people paying less but decent money for non-tech. got fast food / hospitality worker. Low stress, physical work. Can't imagine where I'd be if I didn't.

I kind of get it though, you start doing something else then you don't have much time and energy to improve on what you want to do (such as tech) for a while, a recipe for people to get trapped, unless you can save money and reclaim time somehow to improve, or the supply/demand shifts..

anyone could fail at anything, all I know for certain is the worst thing a person can do is nothing.

cahoot_bird commented on Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006) archive.org/details/far-c... · Posted by u/KomoD

mediumsmart · 2 years ago

:) me too - guiding trigens towards the mercs from a patrol boat with rockets.

Coming out of the bunker was amazing and then the realization that it would be a guided tour because "Doyle" :|

cahoot_bird · 2 years ago

The game is riddled with small bugs, like you can knock the phone off the rock in the first level bunker then the cut scene will have him picking it up.

Having the trigens fight the people throughout the game was fun, and stealth aspect as well.

It's funny how the game emphasis seemed to be on the realistic mode, but it's like it was only tested on medium - the trigens would die very quickly and easily on realistic if the guards shot them, if I had to guess probably the bullet damage is turned up on that mode.

cahoot_bird commented on Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006) archive.org/details/far-c... · Posted by u/KomoD

cahoot_bird · 2 years ago

I remember there is a bug with the hang glider that if you move down and up you gain momentum

Back in the day far cry 1 was ultra realistic graphics.

The game was fun to play, the most annoying thing is if you throw a rock or grenade where they can see if your stealth meter in instantly goes to zero and they start shooting you.

I played it a lot, hehe.

cahoot_bird commented on Can GPT pass my programming courses? lemire.me/blog/2023/03/22... · Posted by u/greghn

devjab · 2 years ago

For the past 6 or 7 years I've had a side gig as an external examiner for CS students, and I've gotten GPT to pass most of the programming questions they ask the students in the programming exam. It's things like building a double linked list, sorting a binary tree and so on, and it's very good at it. On the flip side, I've yet to get it to do anything useful for me in my real job that isn't writing documentation. It's likely because it has a lot of data on how to pass CS courses, but not so much data on how to get entity Framework, Asp Versioning and Odata to work together. Probably because very few people have been crazy enough to attempt the latter.

I think it will be very interesting to see what the teachers, and institutions, do about it though. It's not like students couldn't find these things on the internet before GPT, but it's so much easier now. Over all I personally think that a nice shake-up of the way we educate people might turn out to be a good thing though. That is of course easy for me to say, as someone who doesn't actually have to do any of the shaking-up.

cahoot_bird · 2 years ago

It's an interesting and legitimate question. But just as it takes business time to pick up on new technologies and adapt, it might take institutions as well. I've seen reddit posts of people getting writing flagged as AI written when it wasn't. The question is, how long until they start embracing it as a tool to use to write with?

Many of the institutions have billions of dollars put back. Harvard for example google tells me 53 billion. So I don't think they are just going to go away, they will adapt somehow.

cahoot_bird commented on I got a job as a Waffle House server that pays $2.92 an hour businessinsider.com/what-... · Posted by u/mooreds

gamesbrainiac · 2 years ago

I really don't understand tipping culture in America. Are you required to tip? Why do restaurants not pay their staff enough to live?

cahoot_bird · 2 years ago

It has a complex history but a lot of it started with the Prohibition historically, when alcohol sales ended some restaurants started allowing tips and it became more commonplace.