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max-m commented on How kernel anti-cheats work   s4dbrd.github.io/posts/ho... · Posted by u/davikr
cortesoft · 2 days ago
I have never worked on AAA games, but I have developed software for 35 years and play many competitive online games regularly.

I have always wondered why more companies don't do trust based anti cheat management. Many cheats are obvious from anyone in the game, you see people jumping around like crazy, or a character will be able to shoot through walls, or something else that impossible for a non-cheater to do.

Each opponent in the game is getting the information from the cheating player's game that has it doing something impossible. I know it isn't as simple as having the game report another player automatically, because cheaters could report legitimate players... but what if each game reported cheaters, and then you wait for a pattern... if the same player is reported in every game, including against brand new players, then we would know the were a cheater.

Unless cheaters got to be a large percentage of the player population, they shouldn't be able to rig it.

max-m · 2 days ago
A couple of years ago the bot situation in casual Team Fortress 2 was so bad that it wasn't uncommon to land in a game where the majority of at least one of the teams was a group of cooperating bots. In those matches you have the possibility to start a kick-vote on your team mates, and those bots would immediately vote “no” if you tried to vote on any of them and because they were the majority of the team these votes always failed. And if these batch were in your enemy team all you could do was to ask the remaining, hopefully real, players on the enemy team to try to kick them. It was especially annoying when you tried to play certain game modes these bots weren't programmed to handle, they had no idea of the objective and the match would stall indefinitely, forcing you to queue for a different match. And if I remember correctly these bots were pretty much headshotting everything they got in sight. Something the server can easily detect. But VAC for example acts intentionally slow, so cheaters don't get immediate feedback.

Out of curiosity I did a quick internet search and a couple of months ago a new wave of bots has emerged. Those bots also join as majority group but never fully join the game, they simply take up slots in a team, preventing others from joining. Makes you wonder why the server isn't timing them out.

max-m commented on Restoring the first recording of computer music (2018)   bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts... · Posted by u/OJFord
max-m · 2 days ago
In case the embedded SoundCloud player refuses to show up, here's a direct link: https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/first-recording-o...
max-m commented on Show HN: Ever wanted to look at yourself in Braille?   github.com/NishantJoshi00... · Posted by u/cat-whisperer
max-m · 2 months ago
Here's my more-or-less decade old “image to braille converter”: https://max-m.github.io/misc/braille/index.html

The source code is unminified and unobfuscated.

Another somewhat similar toy is https://max-m.github.io/InstaECB/index.html :)

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max-m commented on This website has no class   aaadaaam.com/notes/no-cla... · Posted by u/robin_reala
chamomeal · 6 months ago
It was super snappy for me. The snappiness actually stood out. In us east
max-m · 6 months ago
On my old phone (Nokia 8) the random header image takes a while to process and afterwards the content pops up. On my Pixel 8 it's basically instant. Both times tested in Firefox.
max-m commented on Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits   mattwie.se/no-sleep-till-... · Posted by u/mattwiese
max-m · 7 months ago
At this point I can't even tell reality from satire anymore.
max-m commented on Show HN: A tool to analyze Hacker News sentiment on any term in seconds   classysoftware.io/chat-an... · Posted by u/lorddustingale
bagels · a year ago
Are there any terms that don't say "neutral" as the sentiment?
max-m · a year ago
"dang" is liked by HN! :D
max-m commented on Dropbox keeps threatening to delete my files   khromov.se/dropbox-keeps-... · Posted by u/khromov
JonChesterfield · a year ago
Dropbox synced with an empty folder, i.e. deleted everything. I didn't notice for over 30 days which was the cutoff for their historical files. Thus my easy off-site copy which I was previously very attached to effectively deleted everything. I did not go back.
max-m · a year ago
Something similar happened to me once. I still don't know what exactly happened, but in Dropbox some files were deleted, I still had my local copy, but then Dropbox synced the file deletions and I didn't notice. Only when it was too late did I notice that files were gone and their support was unable to help. I think I managed to recover some files with one of the NTFS "undelete" tools, but that was probably the day I started to treat "the cloud" differently. Nowadays I don't even know what's still in my Dropbox ...

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