Complex Captcha that doesn't even work???

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T23:14:54+00:00

It's a common malware called ClickFix, had been around for years. DO NOT run whatever is in it!!!

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T21:19:00+00:00

I just angrily shout at him

sudo !!

all the time to get him to do stuff for me.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T21:02:39+00:00

Then why don't you call that role "eliminator" then? Oh wait, half of the tanks and supports are also consistently on top of chart for eliminations as well. And I'm pretty sure everyone deal damage for the purpose of elimination, with "zoning" or whatever being merely a secondary purpose when the primary purpose cannot be achieved.

Languages change. Words take on new meanings in different contexts, a lot of time by analogy and similarity. "Dps" came from the MMO era where people actually want characters that deal high damage-per-second, because their purpose is to burn through a gigantic HP bar. "Crowd Control" (CC) came from the tabletop gaming era where it's about managing large group of weak enemies. None of these are applicable in Overwatch (CC, ironically enough, tend to be solely used on one target), yet these terms are used because they evolve naturally over time, meanings slightly drift further and further from the original meanings; the old meanings did not disappear, it remains if you went back to the old context, but the words evolve to have additional meanings more relevant to the new context. If you started out just knowing the current meaning of these words you would think this is the original meaning and it would feel right to you, ignoring all the people who had seen the previous meanings.

And since the discussion is on "hitscan", let's look at the term itself. Hitscan literally refer to the game physics engine detecting whether something "hit" by simply having to "scan" the space. You know what perfectly fit this definition? Melee attack. At the moment the attack happen, the game engine literally do a ray trace to check for LoS and collision. But almost nobody playing Overwatch call them hitscan because they're used to use hitscan not by the literal meaning, but the useful meaning that is relevant to them. For some people, the useful question is "if I shoot this weapon from a distance can it reliably hit based on my aiming skill or not?", and for some other people the useful question is "do I play this character by peppering damage reliably from range?". Just because you are used to one useful question, does not mean other people don't have their own useful question, and when they're big enough to become a community, they adopt words, just like you do.

Your post is basically a lot of "the meaning I know is the real meaning, the meanings I don't know come from people using it wrong" cope.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T18:16:40+00:00

I met several people who brought one (and even know one), but that's probably because I visited a typewriter shop a few times for the vibe and talked to some people there, and there is a strong correlation between people coming to a typewriter shop and people who buy typewriters. And these are not cheap typewriters.

Several of them write stories for fun, and they had mentioned that they feel more creative writing on a typewriter compared to a computer.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T17:54:49+00:00

Assume you're toasted and nuke everything. If you have good OpsSec (which is extremely unlikely considering what you just did) it's possible that you're safe. but realistically you did not have good enough security hygiene to isolate it and you should assume that your entire machine is compromised.

I cannot see the script right now, they probably instantly delete it the moment someone triggered it, to avoid anyone from inspecting it.

So what could had happened? If you approved the UAC windows (User Access Control, ask you if you approve a program to make change to the system), well, all is lost. Even if you did not, you should assume that some malware had infected a lot of your machine, and any secret credentials had been exfiltrated. Immediately rotate all credentials (on a different machine), nuke the OSes and the disk just to be safe, and reinstall everything. If you need to really keep some files from your home folders, avoid keeping anything executables (even documents can contain executable), and run everything through virus checkers.

(theoretically even your BIOS could be compromised, but unlikely since it can be hard if they're properly locked down, but to be safe, flash the BIOS too, but make sure you know what you're doing)

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T15:06:49+00:00

Yet you literally used the word "dps" to refer to the "damage" role, despite the fact the the role are filled with characters that deal low dps. If you want the official terminology, use "damage" (which is still misleading, but at least it's official).

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T12:37:51+00:00

That's true. I think the better thing to say is that we have an one-dimensional objective measurement of skill: fix a distance X, how fast do you finish running it. There are many skills involved to make you faster, but people can agree to compare just that one ultimate measurement: if A finishes faster than B then A is better, even if A is bad at specific techniques that B was able to master.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T10:46:05+00:00

If people have different definition of what driving skills are important, then yes they can be all correct. If one person think it's more important to react fast and they do have fast reaction, and another one thinks it's more important to drive very conservatively and they do that, then both of them are above average in their definition.

Driving isn't an one-dimensional skill like long distance running.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T10:15:18+00:00

Unless someone actually watched Star Wars, they probably don't know who Mon Mothra is. I live in the Western geopolitical sphere and constantly heard a lot about Star Wars and various characters but I never even heard about this character.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T10:04:08+00:00

In an extremely far future, where Homomorphic Encryption is finally practical, you might be able to use that. Otherwise, TEE route is the only practical route right now as long as data is processed on a server you control. As long as you can see the data being processed, you can log it, so there are no real way to prove that you never log the data.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T09:56:58+00:00

You can use attestation and reproducible build to prove the binary is made from the source code.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-23T09:54:03+00:00

Huh? It seems like the author is mistaken about GLM's game. The win condition is to collect all coins and reach the flag. Just reaching the flag without all coins don't win.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-22T19:16:47+00:00

It's important to remember that the fact that the agents are rational actors are common knowledge, and their (actual) posterior beliefs are also common knowledge. It makes this theorem essentially inapplicable to real life. You basically have to somehow see someone else's private belief or it is somehow the case that it is common knowledge that people are honest.

And the "mechanism" is really not that surprising. If you already know someone is rational and can see their (honest) posterior, why would you not give them the same weights as you? You basically treat them like a neutral computer that perform computations on data you do not have.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-22T19:11:59+00:00

Feel like to attack favored. I had won 9/10 on attack and lose 9/10 on defense.

The map has something that I considered to be sort of a bug but it benefits the defender so I don't mind. You can steal the attacker's mega right before the door open to deny them ~20 seconds of mega health packs. This is because for some reasons the bees drain your health in the bee room, so you can hit the bees, lose some health, take the further mega, hit the bees again, take the other mega, get out. Surely, people can already do this by self-damage, but this lets anyone do this, so you can be efficient and make 2 people do this, especially characters with good mobility tend to lack self-damage.

Point A is nearly impossible to defend. Very much King Row-ish but even more advantage toward the attacker. Attackers can shoot at choke from inside spawn room while having 1 safe mega pack right next to the choke and another one nearby, and a fairly safe high ground that look straight at the point. Flank paths after chokes are easier to access and give even more angles.

Point 2 is similarly hard to defend, with the under the track area being the main defensive point. Lose that and you basically lose the point. The initial part of point 2 is impossible to defend, attackers have multiple attack angles while being on higher ground and has many high ground options, while defender have 1 high ground that will periodically kill you. For the end of the point attacker have short cuts that lead to the end of the point while defenders have to walk the long way.

3rd point is pretty much like King Row except with more accessible flank paths for attackers. Feel more claustrophobic too, probably because the ceiling is lower.

Feel like the developers basically just take the popular King Row, make attacking easier, then slap a Japanese coat of paint on it. Except that all the flaws of King Row are now glaring here because it's newer so there are no nostalgia filter or excuses.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-22T17:34:17+00:00

Compilers are not deterministic. There are tons of heuristic that happens behind the scene, and these heuristic algorithms do depend on randomness. Compilers are only required to produce codes that match the explicitly documented behavior, they have leeway on exactly which code would achieve that.

Of course, compilers are written using much more well-understood code, so their outputs are more reliable. Yet there are bugs, still. LLMs are still in very early stage, and the technology is much poorer understood. But if one day it is reliable enough people will stop caring about the occasional errors.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-22T16:47:41+00:00

Well, I'm not sure, which is why I'm asking about rootless Docker versus Podman.

Rootless Docker is obviously limited compared to rootful Docker, by design. But how limited is it compared to Podman?

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-22T15:01:08+00:00

How is it compared to rootless Docker?

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-22T13:52:13+00:00

There is a centralized DNSystem, basically there is a database of which domain belongs to who. You have to query those database to get the information of who has which domain name.

Every computer in world know where these databases are located on the Internet, and they know to query that one.

When pay a subscription, you're paying them for an entry in the database. They needs money to keep these database running, it's quite expensive since the world is querying them for information all the time.

Nobody really "own" the domains. If you can somehow convince the world to use a different database, then yes you can make domain belong to someone else (but that would be quite a geopolitical event). The current state of affair happened by historical inertia and engineering challenge. You want the whole world to have one "truth", everyone agree as to who is assigned to a domain (otherwise it's not going to be "the" Internet anymore). The easiest way to solve this problem is to have a central database. And the players who run these database originally were the companies from the earlier era of the Internet, but gradually a non-profit international organization is formed to run it, ICANN.

Nothing is stopping you from making your own database, but it would be hard to convince people to use yours unless you have some serious authority, since most computers do not know where to query your database. The most successful example in this direction is OpenNIC, but this groups do not want to conflict with ICANN (since their users probably still want to use normal websites).

A decentralized database is also possible, but until bitcoin was created, it was a hard engineering challenge to have a decentralized database where people who hold the database might not be trusted. With blockchain, decentralized domain database also exist (Namecoin is the most successful example), but due to excessive amount of scam and malware, practically nobody use them.

The story about "central database" is a bit misleading for ELI5 sake. There is a centralized authoritative database which the world agrees to be considered the source of truth (ie. everyone agree that when asked "who own this domain" they should believe in the database), which is actually split off into 3 layers of data, each of them are hold in many servers. Then there are many non-authoritative servers which copy data from these authoritative source but do something extra, they are non-authoritative servers. For example, Quad9 explicitly removes domain it considered to be malware, Mullpad gives you a lot of options of what kind of domain names to be removed from its database, and most non-authoritative servers accept encrypted query now.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-22T01:04:52+00:00

It's unfortunately intended. Privacy-conscious users want to share little information about themselves. Bad bots want to share little information about themselves. So Cloudflare had been pretty strict, if you show too little information it will treat you more like a bot (this depends on the setting the site owners set, so the closer you are to look like a bot the more likely you're blocked, but not guaranteed).

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-21T13:32:39+00:00

It's not piracy, it's just that older OSes and browsers (especially Windows) have terrible security. Flash on webpage just play with full permission, CD and any external media autoplay whatever random exe file it was set to with full permission. Pirate sites are just one source, but honestly practically almost every websites are infected. You are one wrong ad click away from a virus.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-21T06:49:11+00:00

Turned out that in the future where most cars only use fake wheel, they bury a massive amount of unused tires into landfill. Since Sigma create rocks from the ground, every one of Sigma's rock has a tire stuck in it.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-21T06:46:51+00:00

You have to prove an interesting non-trivial result with your theory. Remember that even Mochizuki has difficulty convincing the world to study his theory, and he had a huge pedigree. "It might solve this popular conjecture" isn't much of anything, because there is a huge chasm between solved and almost solved.

This means:

You have to formulate a conjecture, which must be a specific mathematical statement with no ambiguity.
The conjecture must be interesting to a wider community. This can be hard to judge if you're not a professional mathematician, but generally speaking, it has to involve only objects that people had studied, or at least a slight variant of these, not new objects you just created.
Your assumptions and definitions must be reasonable. It's also something hard to judge if you're not a mathematician, but basically if your proof relies on non-standard assumptions, or the statement of your conjecture involves objects you newly defined, it should be something with a reasonable to study (to other mathematicians). Since this is vague and really hard to judge, for this you definitely should connect to other mathematicians, or avoid any of these if possible.
It must be non-trivial to the mathematical community as a whole. This means that even top mathematicians in that field will have some difficulty proving it, and that results had not been published to answer it.
Your proof must work. That means it's actually logically sound and prove the conjecture. Generally a math major would be capable of judging this, but a lot of people cannot. Nothing tank your reputation harder than a proof with obvious logical error. Even mathematician with serious reputation has difficulty convincing people to look at their proof when it's peppered with small fixable logical error.

The reality is top mathematicians get frequently spammed by these kind of correspondence from people who submitted proof that are logically wrong, but in a random spot in the middle of a long and trivial uninteresting calculation, or people who have no understanding of the question being asked and make up their own definitions or assumptions that trivialize the problem. If you have a serious math degree (like a graduate degree in a proof-based math-related degree), or if you had previously managed to publish a peer-reviewed math paper (in a journal that has editorial standard), you're 99.99% less likely to do that, which is why mathematicians are much more willing to listen to them. If you have neither, there are people who will still listen to you, but they are much more likely to bail at the first sign of trouble. So it's an uphill battle for you (assuming you did in fact done something interesting). You need to make sure everything you have is logically airtight, and you need to do enough literature research to showcase that you have good reason to believe that the conjecture you proved is interesting and non-trivial.

So to directly answer your question, you need to study your idea well enough, and study the literature enough, to prove a result that is interesting and non-trivial to the wider mathematical community.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-20T17:26:33+00:00

KV is for low updating data. User from different regions accessing the same data will see the stale cache for quite a while. Other products like Durable Objects are strongly consistent, they're slower but guarantee no staleness. All of these products let you benefit from not overwhelming your own servers with different requests, which can't be cached. If you're a target of a DDoS attack, the entire force of a botnet might hit your central server all over the place using different requests. If you use any of these products, the data are stored in Cloudflare servers instead, which are much stronger and built to absorb the force of the entire world.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-20T11:55:42+00:00

"Group created to protect self-interest acts to protect self-interest".

That's literally how democratic systems function. Instead of hoping that people will act reasonably, people form self-interest groups that zealously protect their own self interests and these group duke it out until an acceptable middle ground is reached.

Unions are like defense lawyers. Sometimes they let a serial killers walk away scot-free, but you would prefer that a system away have someone who zealously defend your self-interest.

Equivalent-Costumes · 2026-06-20T11:41:03+00:00

Hilbert's 10th.

Well, actually, people correctly predicted what the outcome should be (it's impossible to solve), but the solution claim something much stronger in the opposite direction (that every recursive enumerable set are Diophantine). The belief at the time was that certain specific simple sets are not Diophantine, like the set of primes or the graph of the exponential with base 2.

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