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user34283 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
b1temy · 4 days ago
> they should provide built-in anti-cheat support in the OS.

As much as I dislike anti-cheat in general (why incorporate it instead of just having proper moderation and/or private servers? Do you need a sketchy third-party kernel level driver to police you to make sure you're "browsing the internet properly in a way that is compliant with company XYZ's policies", or even when running other software like a photo editor, word processor, or anything else? It's _your_ software that you bought.) something similar is already happening with, e.g, Widevine bundled in browsers for DRM-ed video streaming.

I agree that having some first-party or reputable anti-cheat driver or system, is probably preferable than having different studios roll out their own anticheat drivers. (I am aware there are studio-level or common third party common anti-cheat solutions already, such as Denuvo or Vanguard. But I would prefer something better)

user34283 · 3 days ago
Would that not create the issue that you would only need to find one bypass for said official anti-cheat that then works for all games out there?

I heard with Denuvo reverse engineering work needs to be done for each individual target to unprotect it, but I'm not sure how this will be the case with a first party anti-cheat driver.

user34283 commented on GPT-5.3-Codex   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Rperry2174 · 4 days ago
Fair I agree that was true of early codex and my perception too.. but today there are two announcements that came out and thats what im referring to.

specifically, the GPT-5.3 post explicitly leans into "interactive collaborator" langauge and steering mid execution

OpenAI post: "Much like a colleague, you can steer and interact with GPT-5.3-Codex while it’s working, without losing context."

OpenAI post: "Instead of waiting for a final output, you can interact in real time—ask questions, discuss approaches, and steer toward the solution"

Claude post: "Claude Opus 4.6 is designed for longer-running, agentic work — planning complex tasks more carefully and executing them with less back-and-forth from the user."

user34283 · 3 days ago
When I tried 5.2 Codex in GitHub Copilot it executed some first steps like searching for the relevant files, then it output the number "2" and stopped the response.

On further prompting it did the next step and terminated early again after printing how it would proceed.

It's most likely just a bug in GitHub Copilot, but it seems weird to me that they add models that clearly don't even work with their agentic harness.

user34283 commented on Don't rent the cloud, own instead   blog.comma.ai/datacenter/... · Posted by u/Torq_boi
JKCalhoun · 4 days ago
Naive comment from a hobbyist with nothing close to $5M: I'm curious about the degree to which you build a "home lab" equivalent. I mean if "scaling" turned out to be just adding another Raspberry Pi to the rack (where is Mr. Geerling when you need him?) I could grow my mini-cloud month by month as spending money allowed.

(And it would be fun too.)

user34283 · 4 days ago
I paid 150€ for a Mini PC with an Intel N100, 16 GB of DDR5 memory, and a 500 GB SSD.

While I have no intention to scale up low spec hardware like this, it at least seems to beat the Azure VMs we use at work with "4 CPUs", which corresponds to two physical cores on an AMD EPYC CPU.

And that super slow machine I understand costs more than $100 per month, and that's without charges for disk space slower than the SSD, or network traffic.

Renting at Azure seems to be a terrible decision, particularly for desktop use.

user34283 commented on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)   nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-sw... · Posted by u/behnamoh
hn-acct · 9 days ago
Agreed. People use any thread mentioning swift to dunk on Apple for X number of reasons with vague details and regurgitated dogma. I get Xcode has quirks I use it everyday believe me I know but it's not that bad that it's unusable.
user34283 · 8 days ago
I only use Xcode rarely, and I'm unfamiliar with its quirks.

That is precisely what makes it such a bad experience compared to my work in JetBrains IDEs or vscode.

Together with an unfamiliar platform I also have to fight that weird IDE.

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user34283 commented on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers   electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/breve
breve · 10 days ago
Here's a thought experiment for you.

If I stuck my middle finger up at you while saying "my heart goes out to you", what would you think?

user34283 · 10 days ago
Probably not that you support the Nazi regime, as that would be a ridiculous thing to think.

Particularly so if a year before you visited Auschwitz and stated it was "tragic that humans could do this to other humans", and told us how you attended a Hebrew preschool and have a lot of Jewish friends.

user34283 commented on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers   electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/breve
krisoft · 10 days ago
> You don't get to throw out "fondness for throwing Nazi salutes" slander, based on an hoax immediately debunked at the time, and then act like you're doing democracy a favor.

Just to clarify. This is the video context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VfYjPzj1Xw

Are you claiming that this is not an accurate depiction of what happened on stage? (That is the video is in some form fake. A deep fake, or special effects, or an Elon impersonator or whatever.)

Or are you claiming that the gesture seen is not a nazi salute?

user34283 · 10 days ago
Yes, "nazi salute" is obviously not an accurate description of the gesture Musk performed before saying "my heart goes out to you".

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user34283 commented on Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers   electrek.co/2026/01/29/te... · Posted by u/breve
adriand · 10 days ago
I would call strong opposition to Musk a democratic responsibility, not a derangement. We are talking about a guy with a fondness for the far right and throwing Nazi salutes, and whose destruction of USAID had, by November 2025, resulted in “hundreds of thousands of deaths”. [1] Those, of course, are just a couple of examples.

If strong opposition to that kind of evil makes me deranged, count me in.

1: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...

user34283 · 10 days ago
I strongly oppose the constant slander and the litany of lies partisan commenters post about Musk.

You don't get to throw out "fondness for throwing Nazi salutes" slander, based on an hoax immediately debunked at the time, and then act like you're doing democracy a favor. Try to stick to the facts.

Regarding the journalist discussed here, I had a look at his X account, and he posted no less than 20 posts attacking Tesla and Musk in just the last day. It's virtually all he posts, and it indeed appears deranged. The flagged comment was fair enough.

user34283 commented on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app   macrumors.com/2026/01/28/... · Posted by u/pier25
cybrox · 11 days ago
Analogy =\= Precise Maths
user34283 · 11 days ago
There is a difference between paying 30% and 0.1% that goes beyond "precise maths".

It's an egregious share, and Apple is making an estimated $30 billion a year with this, at a margin perhaps more than twice as high as on iPhone sales.

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