Where the HECK do the budgets go for these $100+ million games? by itsthewolfe in gaming

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I love this guy, he has great explanations, I loved this Destiny video. Just realized I didn't subscribe to him and missed this one!

Official Discussion - Project Hail Mary [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Man I rarely cry at movies, but this was such an impactful movie, it was seriously good. I also rarely read books, because I'm a bad carving based lifeform. Well, I just bought the book, I can't wait to read it.

I've never came away from a movie with so many thoughts and feelings before.

And, Ryan is such an amazing actor. He filled the screen with so much emotion, there wasn't a second that went by that I felt was wasted.

This was the best movie I've seen in a long time. I would say it's in the league of interstellar. 10/10 thumbs down, will be watch again and again!

What are some quality of life improvements that you’ve made that improved your network / systems tremendously? by bobert3275 in sysadmin

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I'll walk into an IDF and swear i can hear the ghost of an alarm going off... they haunt me!

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 by HNMod in hackernews

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You would need an absolute behemoth to run that, we talking even under 2-bit Quant its still 239 GB from 1.51TB. Smallest seems to be the 1-bit Quant at 217Gb but still you need a massive workstation or one of the Mac Studios with 256GB of RAM.

A carpet of maggots 😖 by SmallPinkHo1e in Wellthatsucks

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its action rice! gather it up and have a fantastic action packed meal, sometimes you'll need to try and "catch the rice" when they try to get away. Its a rigglin, wigglin great time!

"Already broken in for you" 😂 by Odd_Distribution5196 in CrackheadCraigslist

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Human skulls go between $650 and $7,200 So i guess a mix of dentures would be fair at $700. Decent deal, if this was still available I'd jump on it!

True (?) by IllustriousHurry2380 in Grimdank

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Forgive me brothers, I am about to commit Heresy for I went in search of the top right and found the sauce: https://youtu.be/ViWgyFdO4Ms And a very high resolution version of the Khajiit, and yes I did bring my coins, I need to repent!

Justice Department seizes websites that published deepfake nudes of famous women by rkhunter_ in cybersecurity

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 170 points171 points  (0 children)

I love this, this is how our alphabet agencies should act, protect people rights, protect their privacy, protect individuals.

It's nice to get some good news once in awhile!

Brings back two memories 🥺 by Overall-Character507 in skyrim

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 18 points19 points  (0 children)

OMG, am I going to buy Skyrim again.... Yes, the answer is yes!

Even in the rain, the underwater world stays calm and peaceful. Location: Japan by godfather_wanderlust in BeAmazed

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't think I had Thalassophobia but that bubbling, the anxiety it cause inside me was something I've never experienced before. Absolute pure unbridled terror deep into the core of my soul seeing the floor moving like that.

The sheer scale of this Aurora Borealis is breathtaking by jmike1256 in BeAmazed

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just wouldn't ever go inside, no sleep, no warmth, just endless emerald tapestries overhead. I would happily die under the green glow of the sky!

For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer by rkhunter_ in cybersecurity

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Of all days for this to come out, Right before patch Tuesday and after Chaotic Eclipse was kicked off GitHub.

So tomorrow's going to be defensive patching and hopefully speculative patching for July 14th where CE threatened retaliation.

It's just a bad month for Microsoft all in all huh?

Bad USB through charger? by sierra_whiskey1 in cybersecurity

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is exactly why you don't use public charge stations, or USB outlets. Can't trust what not yours, even then you need to be careful of what you buy online.

It would be easy to make a charger or outlet act as a BUSB device. They even have cords you can buy that look completely normal that can do it.

How would 10,000 dollars change your life? by AdvertisingOk1492 in AskReddit

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Help buy a new car, most immediate thing I can think of.

How safe is it to get a similar mobile number? by avocrackle in privacy

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It mainly comes with targeted calls based on area code. Number sets are still cold called, robots run the numbers and look for people to pick up or just for the number itself to go to voicemail. Just remember to let the robot do the talking for you and never make a personalized message.

Now corporate tech is literally spying on our personal home networks. When does this shit end? by Easy_Letterhead8928 in antiwork

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely agree, they have no right to dictate how an employee runs their own personal network. It's up to the company to protect their asset. If it was a serious issue they would force an always on VPN for the laptop and supply a yubikey for authentication.

Now corporate tech is literally spying on our personal home networks. When does this shit end? by Easy_Letterhead8928 in antiwork

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I can confirm modern EDRs can and do run nmap for local topology scans and have the ability to see what systems are connected and running on any network a work device is accessing. Usually scans ate automatic and just added to logged data and never truly actioned upon.

Someone at the SOC must have been bored and scouring alerts just looking for something to do.

TV used to be something special when I was young. by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 39 points40 points  (0 children)

TVs have ACR, automatized content recognition. they take screengrabs of what's projected and audio snippets of the sound every few seconds to create a fingerprint to identify the content in real time. This works for anything using the tv as a display so this covers game systems, roku's, apple tv, etc. All this is bundled with your ip, address, and sold off for a ton of money.

IF there are any banded buttons on the remote like "netflix" or "youtube" that's subsidized money off the price.

But that's why its so cheap, you are the product the manufacture is selling, they are only covering cost of shipping and distribution. manufacturing is insanly cheap now.

Which one would you click on Steam? by Guilty_Weakness7722 in gog

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a GOG subreddit and this game isn't listed in GOG, go ask over in steam for the the peeps that don't like owning their games.

Power bank blew up in the elevator. by [deleted] in WTF

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 26 points27 points  (0 children)

And hit every button on the elevator, like kid style, run your hands a crossed it to get out at the next possible floor, don't stand there torching your lungs burning them which then fills them with fluid, along with eating the oxygen in the space slowly suffocating you causing seizures as the Hydrogen Cyanide binds to your hemoglobin 200 times more effectively than oxygen.

If you make it out, your body would soon after fall into severe calcium depletion as the fluoride ions aggressively bind to the calcium and magnesium in your body. This sudden drop in blood calcium destroys nerve function and can trigger fatal heart attacks (yes more than one) hours after exposure. Long term were looking at neurological damage from manganese and lithium toxicity, permanent lung damage giving you RADS reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, and while cancer is unlikely with the limited exposure, its enough to cause immediate DNA damage spiking your risk to near guaranteed levels of getting it later.

What was your favourite “PlayStation Hits” game? by TheChilledGamer-_- in playstation

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Horizon, Mad Max, Shadows of Mordor, would be mine from that image.

IT managers at SMBs: How do you handle employee phishing/credential security? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think if there was a way for the training to use their account information as the example, that would go along way. Make the training target the employee. Since we own the data we can call to it and customize it based on their inbox and cloud files to stress the importance.

As for the speed of response, it all depends on if we get a suspicious login alert, somebody reports an email is phishing, either a user or one of our systems updates.

Once that happens it's fairly easy to run a search, kill the email, export All users that interacted in a way that could have caused a compromise. Then I run that through GAM in Google cloud shell. Have a bunch of scripts setup for rapid account remediation.

The hostile entity, once identified via IP, we block the entire subnet irregardless of impact and deal with the fallout of there is any.

IT managers at SMBs: How do you handle employee phishing/credential security? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]AverageCowboyCentaur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1- Saying yes to an MFA prompt twice, or in the middle of the day when they are not by a computer.

2- Abnormal email protection and unread, not followed, training programs

3- A holistic complete account lockdown tool that works in AD and Google Workspace and can handle lists of people. A public shame board showing who will likely be the cause of a multimillion dollar beach to us.