matheusmoreira (u/matheusmoreira)

matheusmoreira commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

rightbyte · 3 days ago

You could read obvious shilling here pretending to like or pay and use the boringest B2B SaaS products way back too.

Trying to get a proper grasp of consensus on open forums is hopeless.

matheusmoreira · 3 days ago

I wouldn't say it's entirely hopeless. Just gotta know who's behind the posts. Checking for conflicts of interest is essential. HN is valuable due the fact many notable hackers post here. Makes it easier to know who we are interacting with, what they stand for and who they work for. Invite only communities like lobsters are even better in that regard. Less random accounts adding noise. Some degree of elitism is a good thing.

matheusmoreira commented on I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded vespalec.com/blog/tower-o... · Posted by u/svespalec

matheusmoreira · 3 days ago

I really don't like how the author minimizes the kernel anticheat situation. It's not "a lot of noise online".

It doesn't matter that user mode software is also vulnerable. We actually have mitigations against many of those user mode problems. Separate user accounts for example. Games can't exfiltrate your browser data if they can't read them.

Obviously kernel mode software can bypass all sorts of operating system controls. Bypassing those controls is the whole reason why they implement anticheat in kernel mode. If they can't bypass these controls, it means the operating system is more powerful than the anticheat, which means it can be defeated.

Yes, proprietary software is inherently untrustworthy and could be malware in disguise. Nobody disputes this, it's happened before and will happen again. It's a good idea to invest in a properly virtualized system where all those games are contained and kept completely separate from the real system. Yet another reason why we don't need idiotic anticheat software bitching about the fact it's been virtualized.

matheusmoreira commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf

elashri · 4 days ago

We should assume that all ads in general are scams. The noise to signal ratio is too large to care. Word of mouth and maybe trusted communities like HN is the only way to reliably discover new things.

matheusmoreira · 3 days ago

> We should assume that all ads in general are scams. The noise to signal ratio is too large to care.

Completely agree.

> Word of mouth and maybe trusted communities like HN is the only way to reliably discover new things.

There is no evidence that HN is not being actively astroturfed though. Sadly community filtering cannot replace trust in individuals.

matheusmoreira commented on Zig Libc ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#... · Posted by u/ingve

xrd · 7 days ago

"Abolish ICE" at the bottom. Obviously a Bad Bunny fan, as I am.

matheusmoreira · 7 days ago

I too am sick of intrusion countermeasures electronics. Think of all the poor netrunners out there.

matheusmoreira commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd

Tade0 · 8 days ago

> Smart people don't fuck around and find out.

Of course they do. Some of the smartest people out there are habitual risk takers. We wouldn't have organised crime if it weren't for people smart enough to not get caught or killed early on.

Your method doesn't take into account that the person you're targeting also has a brain and they will use it against you and also that they have as much power as you do.

Overall you're describing a power fantasy, not reality.

matheusmoreira · 8 days ago

> the person you're targeting also has a brain and they will use it against you

Never claimed otherwise. As I said, things tend to escalate until someone discovers their limits and backs down.

I discussed this in more detail in a sibling comment thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851795

matheusmoreira commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd

jstanley · 8 days ago

But don't you see that if you solve your problems this way, the obnoxious neighbour can also solve their problem this way?

"Stop making a noise or I'll beat you up"

vs

"Quit complaining about the noise or I'll beat you up"

Your position just means every disagreement comes down to a physical fight. Is that how you want to live?

Willingness to use violence to get what you want is not inherently linked to being in the right.

matheusmoreira · 8 days ago

> Your position just means every disagreement comes down to a physical fight.

> Is that how you want to live?

The threat of violence is always present. It's just that in "civilized" societies it's often indirect and abstracted. People don't usually get violent, they pay lawyers to complain to the courts which have the power to order police to commit measured amounts of violence on their behalf if necessary.

When negotiation fails and police is unlikely to help, people quickly revert to taking matters into their own hands.

matheusmoreira commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd

wiseowise · 8 days ago

That’s how things are done in Eastern/South hemispheres. There’s a lot of things about respect from those parts of the world that Westeners don’t understand.

matheusmoreira · 8 days ago

It's definitely done in "civilized" societies as well. It's just a lot more indirect and delayed. Instead of punching someone, they might sue them or sabotage them somehow. It's violence all the same, just a different flavor. The violence is so thoroughly abstracted away that people don't even view it as violence proper.

matheusmoreira commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd

tolerance · 8 days ago

Who hurt you?

matheusmoreira · 8 days ago

It's not about me. It's about the author of TFA, the person who was hurting him and how he made him stop.

Just two people exercising their freedoms. Officially, nothing happened. It's just two guys randomly using their TV remotes at roughly the same time. If police had been called, they wouldn't have been able to do anything about it.

Yet a game was played. One turned up the volume, the other remotely turned off the TV in response. On and on it went until the volume would no longer get turned up. Victory.

Note that the neighbor never figured out who was doing it. There's no way to know what he would have done in that case. Maybe nothing. Maybe something.

I'm just saying hackers should probably think twice before liberally applying their boundless ingenuity to social problems like these. It can work wonders. It can also escalate things so far beyond their control that it's not even funny. They could easily end up on the receiving end of some serious conditioning of their own.

matheusmoreira commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd

matheusmoreira · 8 days ago

I don't disagree with your general intent. Let's not put cocaine and amphetamines on the same level as caffeine though. Some drugs are orders of magnitude more harmful than others. Alcohol would have to be erased from human society before caffeine ever entered our crosshairs.

Also, you should remember my comment was about the route of administration. A drug you take is your choice. An airborne drug works its way into your system whether you want it or not.

matheusmoreira commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd

tolerance · 8 days ago

> If anything they should be glad the punishment was as civilized as this. There are many places in this world where it could easily escalate to actual violence.

Agreed. But there’s a reason that guy apparently felt no worries about closing the door in OP’s face. Perhaps the likelihood of it escalating was slim. And there’s a reason why OP didn’t knock again.

In the resolution you propose in another comment, deviance doesn’t cease. It transfers to the guy who thinks he can correct people’s behavior with technology. But I need to remind myself where I’m saying this at.

matheusmoreira · 8 days ago

> Perhaps the likelihood of it escalating was slim.

Not as slim as he had hoped.

People feel free to close the door on others because they are used to a life without violence. Their implicit thinking is "I'm not even gonna consider what this other person wants because what's he gonna do about it? Nothing." They think there is no way they will be held accountable for their actions. That's magical thinking.

People really shouldn't ask that question. There are a lot of things that can be done about virtually any situation. People would do well not to forget that.

"What are you going to do about it?" is a challenge. It's refusal to negotiate and a direct challenge to escalate the situation. "If this matters so much to you, then you had better do something about it". Not only does it escalate, it insults the other person. They have no choice but to escalate because the alternative is to be seen as weak which costs respect, especially if the exchange happens in front of peers.

> It transfers to the guy who thinks he can correct people’s behavior with technology.

Yes. The situation has escalated. The other person can either submit or escalate even further. Perhaps into physical violence.

Hope the hacker has a gun and is able and willing to use it. You know. Just in case. Plenty of people out there willing to die over real or perceived slights.