hexmiles (u/hexmiles)

hexmiles commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes

skeaker · a month ago

Definitely not all games, and for games that do have it cracking it is in most cases as simple as swapping out a Steam .dll (so very easy). It's primarily there as appeasement for devs who would be reluctant to engage with a platform with no copy protection, or in otherwords is mostly theater.

hexmiles · 25 days ago

Do you know of any games downloaded from Steam that work even once Steam is removed? I tried to search a bit, but I couldn't find any.

I would like to test it for myself to confirm it.

hexmiles commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes

dpoloncsak · a month ago

I see, but there is Steam DRM there. So, I guess as the other commenter was alluding to, if Steam goes belly up so does your collection, regardless of the dev studio's intention (Or atleast, locked behind a DRM bypass).

I understood this in terms of Live Service games, but did not consider Steam's ability to shut down their own platform and kill my locally installed single player games with it (Again, I'm seeing its possible and seems easy to bypass usually, but the principle of the matter)

hexmiles · 25 days ago

I tried to search if it's possible for a dev studio to release a game on Steam that works without it, by which I mean that if I uninstall Steam, the games keep working; I wasn't able to confirm, but it seems to be theoretically possible...

None of the games I have in my library work like that, but online some people suggest that some games work even without Steam, once installed.

Your point, however, still stands.

hexmiles commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes

dpoloncsak · a month ago

Can't I still just run the .exe of the game? Or DRM nightmares?

hexmiles · a month ago

All (most?) Steam games have a very simple DRM that is extremely easy to bypass, and you can find examples on github.

However, a lot of games add their own DRM and/or protection scheme that complicates things.

EDIT: technically there are two distinct component: the actual DRM, called steamstub, and the steamwork library, that does not work without steam but it is not considered drm. Both can be easily bypassed/emulated.

hexmiles commented on 'A black hole': New graduates discover a dismal job market nbcnews.com/business/econ... · Posted by u/koolba

aydyn · a month ago

> but you can pay much better

Yes

> for them and give them more respect socially

How? You can't dictate social behavior.

hexmiles · a month ago

You can't dictate it, but you can influence it.

Imagine if we teach from primary school student to clean their own classroom and bathroom so that everyone must do at least once every x days/week, it think it would help reconsider how we view this jobs. This is just an example, but I think there are plenty of ways for a government to incentivize desirable behavior (even social).

hexmiles commented on Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the world qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/danielhanchen

pyman · a month ago

This is what software engineers need to be more productive:

- Agentic DevOps: provisions infra and solves platform issues as soon as a support ticket is created.

- Agentic Technical Writer: one GenAI agent writes the docs and keeps the wiki up to date, while another 100 agents review it all and flag hallucinations.

- Agentic Manager: attends meetings, parses emails and logs 24x7 and creates daily reports, shares these reports with other teams, and manages the calendar of the developers to shield them from distractions.

- Agentic Director: spots patterns in the data and approves things faster, without the fear of getting fired.

- Agentic CEO: helps with decision-making, gives motivational speeches, and aligns vision with strategy.

- Agentic Pet: a virtual mascot you have to feed four times a day, Monday to Friday, from your office's IP address. Miss a meal and it dies, and HR gets notified. (This was my boss's idea)

hexmiles · a month ago

In case of holiday/sick leave do i need to find someone to feed the agentic pet from my ip address? Or is my manager responsability?

hexmiles commented on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns zola.ink/blog/posts/a-tec... · Posted by u/znano

hexmiles · 2 months ago

How easy is detecting a transmitting starlink terminal? I assume is pretty easy but i don't know if the phased array antenna and beamforming make detecting from ground harder. Could i detect it with a SDR while driving around, wardriving-style?

hexmiles commented on Qwen VLo: From “Understanding” the World to “Depicting” It qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/lnyan

hexmiles · 2 months ago

While looking at the examples of editing the bear image, I noticed that the model seemed to change more things than were strictly asked.

As an example, when asked to change the background, it also completely changed the bear (it has the same shirt but the fur and face are clearly different), and also: when it turned the bear in a balloon, it changed the background (removing the pavement) and lost the left seed in the watermelon.

It is something that can be fixed with better prompting, or is it a limitation of the model/architecture?

hexmiles commented on Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw

buserror · 2 months ago

Well apart from tinc, which has been doing that for decades [0] :-) -- and has been doing that since Linux was something that still ran on 8MB of RAM.

[0]: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/

hexmiles · 2 months ago

I also did use tinc in the past, and while it was very robust it was not as reliable/fast on roaming as wireguard, BUT to be fair it may have been user error.

hexmiles commented on Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw

hexmiles · 2 months ago

In addition to been faster it is also the only vpn that reliably handle roaming, without interrupting active connections.