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sylware commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me   boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass
ronsor · 4 days ago
They're referring to the fact that Chinese game companies (Tencent, Riot through Tencent, etc.) all have executables of varying levels of suspicion (i.e. anti-cheat modules) running in the background on player computers.

Then they're making the claim that those binaries have botnet functionality.

sylware · 3 days ago
They can exploit local priviledge escalation flaws without "RCE".

And you are right, kernel anti-cheat are rumored to be weaponized by hackers, and making the previous even worse.

And when the kid is playing his/her game at home, if daddy or mummy is a person of interest, they are already on the home LAN...

Well, you get the picture: nowhere to run, orders of magnitude worse than it was before.

Nowadays, the only level of protection the administrator/root access rights give you, is to mitigate any user mistake which would break his/her system... sad...

sylware commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me   boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass
grandinj · 5 days ago
There is a Chinese player that has taken effective control of various internet-related entities in the Seychelles. Various ongoing court-cases currently.

So the seychelles traffic is likely really disguised chinese traffic.

sylware · 5 days ago
I forgot about that: all the nice game binaries from them running directly on nearly all systems...
sylware commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me   boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass
lxgr · 5 days ago
Why stop there? Just block all non-US IPs!

If it works for my health insurance company, essentially all streaming services (including not even being able to cancel service from abroad), and many banks, it’ll work for you as well.

Surely bad actors wouldn’t use VPNs or botnets, and your customers never travel abroad?

sylware · 5 days ago
Won't help: I get scans and script kiddy hack attempts from digital ocean, microsoft cloud (azure, stretchoid.com), google cloud, aws, and lately "hostpapa" via its 'IP colocation service'. Ofc it is instant fail-to-ban (it is not that hard to perform a basic email delivery to an existing account...).

Traffic should be "privatize" as much as possible between IPv6 addresses (because you still have 'scanners' doing the whole internet all the time... "the nice guys scanning the whole internet for your protection... never to sell any scan data ofc).

Public IP services are done for: going to be hell whatever you do.

The right answer seems significantly big 'security and availability teams' with open and super simple internet standards. Yep the javascript internet has to go away and the app private protocols have too. No more whatng cartel web engine, or the worst: closed network protocols for "apps".

And the most important: hardcore protocol simplicity, but doing a good enough job. It is common sense, but the planned obsolescence and kludgy bloat lovers won't let you...

sylware commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me   boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass
sylware · 5 days ago
ucloud ("based in HK") has been an issue (much less lately though), and I had to ban the whole digital ocean AS (US). google cloud, aws and microsoft have also some issues...

hostpapa in the US seems to become the new main issue (via what seems a 'ip colocation service'... yes, you read well).

sylware commented on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me   boston.conman.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/classichasclass
grandinj · 5 days ago
There is a Chinese player that has taken effective control of various internet-related entities in the Seychelles. Various ongoing court-cases currently.

So the seychelles traffic is likely really disguised chinese traffic.

sylware · 5 days ago
omg... that's why my self-hosted servers are getting nasty trafic from SC all the time.

The explanation is that easy??

sylware commented on New Trump design chief aims to improve US Government websites   reuters.com/world/us/new-... · Posted by u/RickJWagner
sylware · 6 days ago
Finally fixing gov web interop? Aka noscript/basic (x)html browser support for critical online services (at least)?

They have to keep in mind, 99% of the time won't be writing web stuff... but keeping the sites available and safe, where the real job is for any public site... and with the current mess of software and hardware... GOOD LUCK WITH THAT! (I dropped the ball years back already, unless with gigantic-enormous resources exclusively allocated to that, which usually never the case, or does not last long)

sylware commented on Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node   hothardware.com/news/inte... · Posted by u/rbanffy
mepian · 10 days ago
Intel demonstrated a RISC-V chip called Horse Creek two years ago.
sylware · 7 days ago
If they manage to plug their microarch design on RISC-V ISA (yes, they will throw away a ton of things), they will be ready, performance-wise.

This real hard part is transitioning the software stack, including games...

sylware commented on Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node   hothardware.com/news/inte... · Posted by u/rbanffy
nullpoint420 · 8 days ago
I would say they’re smart to invest in ARM over RISC-V for the time being. It was hard enough to get the industry to support x86 and ARM64. I mean the Windows transition is still not fully complete, and they’ve been trying since Windows 8.
sylware · 7 days ago
I would say otherwise. The future, if sane, is certainly not with a PI locked ISA like ARM all over again (look at x86). Actually, it looks like a super bad move from intel.
sylware commented on Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node   hothardware.com/news/inte... · Posted by u/rbanffy
FirmwareBurner · 10 days ago
>It should be RISC-V... who is in charge at Intel??

Why should it be that? What are your arguments?

sylware · 9 days ago
oh, you are new to HN, because you would not need to ask such question if you were reading HN in the last few years...

You can start on risc-v wikipedia page and/or on the official risc-v web site.

u/sylware

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