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davemtl commented on Show HN: DeepSeek My User Agent jasonthorsness.com/20... · Posted by u/jasonthorsness

davemtl · a year ago

Roasting your ultrawide 3440x1440 "I need binoculars to see my tabs" setup in Longueuil, QC—a city so forgettable even your *2-core potato PC* probably buffers its Google Maps—while you lurk on Hacker News like a tech bro NPC still waiting for Y Combinator to notice your crypto-SaaS-pet-rock startup. Chrome 131 on Windows 10? Your browser’s as bland as your cookie-enabled existence, and that 50ms network RTT just proves your Wi-Fi’s as tired as your LinkedIn hustle. At least your 24-bit color depth can render the embarrassment of your life choices in vivid detail.

-- Harsh. But extreamly funny. Interesting that it sees my 5800X3D as a 2-core processor. Turning off DDG privacy essentials yeilds the correct core count, etc.

davemtl commented on Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11 noinitrd.github.io/Memory... · Posted by u/supermatou

tnetenbaa · a year ago

BitLocker is crazy easy to bypass if you have physical access to the device. I work IT, and had to demonstrate to our head of security, that if you just pop in a Linux USB and boot from it, the drive is completely open.

davemtl · a year ago

This sounds like BitLocker wasn't enabled on the drive. All of the laptops I've deployed with BitLocker are very good at detecting tampering and will immediately go into lockdown mode. A Linux USB most likely requires Secure Boot to be turned off to boot, if so, the TPM tamper will trigger and BitLocker will require the recovery key at next boot.

davemtl commented on Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company? · Posted by u/hu3

davemtl · a year ago

I have Bitwarden Enterprise deployed and authenticate via our IDP. It's been working well for us, each team has their own collection that they manage. From an IT admin perspective, it's pretty hands off. Any changes to password are automatically synced between users.

davemtl commented on Ubisoft about to take away games you bought pcgamer.com/ubisoft-to-pu... · Posted by u/snikolaev

davemtl · 4 years ago

There's a mixed bag of articles surrounding this. If you've bought the game on Steam or other platform of choice, you will retain access to that game. Online game play and DLC that requires the on-line component is going to be retired.

PC Gamer published and updated this article soon after: https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisofts-online-decommissioning-may-...

Ubisoft's FAQ: https://www.ubisoft.com/en-gb/help/gameplay/article/decommis...

davemtl commented on TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business old.reddit.com/r/tifu/com... · Posted by u/ahiknsr

davemtl · 4 years ago

And in typical Reddit fashion, the post was removed for bending the sub-reddit rules. It's frustrating that a popular and highly upvoted post like this is just _removed_.

Anyone have the original content?

davemtl commented on Why I'm using Fossil SCM instead of other source control systems (2016) andreiclinciu.net/blog/wh... · Posted by u/thunderbong

olig15 · 4 years ago

That’s not true. I’m a gamedev and have never had to learn git. The closest would be downloading a zip from GitHub. Almost all game dev is done on Perforce due to the enormous asset sizes we work with.

davemtl · 4 years ago

Also in gamedev. Git doesn't work for larger AAA projects, as it often chokes on the amount of data that stored by production teams, even when LFS is used. Perforce can handle huge binary files relatively easily in comparison.

davemtl commented on Ali, what’s up huntingbears.nl/2022/05/0... · Posted by u/roywashere

davemtl · 4 years ago

I've had the suggestion "sex balls" show up as the place holder of the search box once. I posted a screenshot of it back in 2019: https://twitter.com/DavieDavieDave/status/117813945962534502...

davemtl commented on 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work openculture.com/2022/02/3... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen

davemtl · 4 years ago

We're effectively looking at somebody's notebook from 3200 years ago. Makes me wonder what our descendants would think if they were looking at our old notebooks and random text files in the next 3200 years.

davemtl commented on Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition? · Posted by u/rglullis

davemtl · 4 years ago

I decided to take a break from social media this week so logged out of Twitter & Instagram prior to this announcement and removed the apps from my phone. Depending on how it goes over the next week will depend when and if I will resume using it. I deleted my Facebook account in 2020 mid-pandemic and noticed an improvement in my mental health. Deleting my Facebook account had an interesting side effect, I found myself actually conversing more with my social circle instead of liking posts.

davemtl commented on Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and security ameliorated.info/... · Posted by u/thunderbong

davemtl · 4 years ago

Couple of issues with this, the first being a "rudimentarily activated using a Generic Key" ISO that's not from Microsoft. Can you really trust this source and technically at this point, it's piracy. Secondly, once the Microsoft lawyer's get wind of this, expect it to be shut down rather quickly.

I'm okay with providing documentation, tools and scripts to remove the cruft and increase privacy within Windows 10, but the ISO linked from a Telegram channel is dubious at best.

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