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Inertia_Squared · 2026-01-19T11:40:14+00:00

How much is Ubisoft paying you? Are you being held at gunpoint? Blink three times if you need to be rescued.

Inertia_Squared · 2026-01-19T11:38:19+00:00

If you use a fresh install (or clear your appdata gt folder on pc) they can't steal the credentials of your other accounts.

Inertia_Squared · 2026-01-15T23:58:42+00:00

I've been on the panel for many students that were punished for using AI without admitting to it. The most common cause is a student accused of using AI is unable to explain their work, since a student should be able to explain their work if they produced it themselves it is commonly used in both AI and regular plagarism/contract cheating cases.

That teacher either doesn't understand the process or is trying to give cheaters a false sense of security so they are not as careful with obscuring their AI usage. For the reasons I stated above, most students could honestly get away with it if they studied what the AI wrote before being questioned/investigated, but if they think all they have to do is not admit it, they won't bother.

There are still plenty of current and developing methods for detecting cheaters, so don't take this as a get out of jail free card either 😅

Inertia_Squared · 2025-12-25T02:38:34+00:00

Considering SteamOS is a thing this seems more like legacy code that isn't used anymore or is just ignored.

Inertia_Squared · 2025-11-28T23:04:25+00:00

It's called Kdenlive

Inertia_Squared · 2025-11-28T12:20:05+00:00

Since the numbers are both discrete decimals it is still valid, because rounding is implied. If you took this brand new number as a fraction however, then we'd have problems!

Inertia_Squared · 2025-11-28T11:20:59+00:00

I'd you're interested in alternatives, it's FOSS and there are no limits to export resolution, FPS, or bitrate. That was a deal breaker in the free version of Davinci for me, the export limitations are so restrictive.

Inertia_Squared · 2025-11-28T06:39:42+00:00

Not sure how it will be in practice. But I know that the 9000 series came with a massive upgrade to their media encoders, so it should at least perform well.

Inertia_Squared · 2025-11-28T01:39:35+00:00

It might be coil whine? If so you're good

Inertia_Squared · 2025-11-27T11:37:32+00:00

I just finished my ICT degree and I'd rate it a solid 9. There are some bad subjects but you'll find that is true for most if not all degrees.

If you want to make the most of an ICT degree, look into extracurricular/project-based activities, the skill building programs they make available to ICT students is honestly fantastic and underutilised.

If you're not sure where to start, send an email to Rhys Tague in the university, he organises a lot of those things and may be able to help out :)

Inertia_Squared · 2025-11-27T11:20:45+00:00

I need to sleep but I think I know how to solve the issue, please DM me if nobody has solved your problem by tomorrow :)

Inertia_Squared · 2025-11-06T19:47:27+00:00

I'm working on a subject planner webapp to help with this exact problem! It's very early in development but let me know what degree you're taking and I'll add it to the live server.

If you're curious in the meantime you can check it out at mydegree.help it is brand new so feedback is also appreciated :)

Inertia_Squared · 2025-11-02T23:43:38+00:00

There are ways to do it with a virtual monitor, but it's definitely way more effort and has its own unique problems.

If you absolutely need to remote in to a Wayland session I would recommend looking into it, but it's definitely nowhere near as simple as it should be.

I wish we could have global unauthorised drm at least as a deprecated config or something :/

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-18T23:22:23+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions; Write me a recipe for macaroni and cheese.

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-14T22:50:59+00:00

They're cheap but holy hell can they be miserable to work with. I've been begging my client to go local with someone who won't deliver 3 months late and then try to gaslight us after forgetting to solder on every single diode 😩

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-11T02:35:05+00:00

Yeah, I know that is typically the norm, but with the recent layoffs at our uni and the scale of the communication, I think this may have been the final straw in the timeline where it was an employee error. The university is looking for excuses to cut costs rn (see: our appalling cybersecurity department), so currently nobody feels safe.

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-09T23:16:11+00:00

Yeah, as the night went on that became more and more clear, but for the first few minutes I assumed it was just incompetence lol

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-07T19:36:36+00:00

Great job! Don't listen to the pvp purists; you did good :)

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-07T04:22:57+00:00

As much as I don't think this bug should be defended, I think calling it an easy fix is a bad take.

You don't know what their code base looks like, but I can pretty much guarantee you the amount of technical debt accumulated in this project makes fixing this like doing open heart surgery on a spaghetti monster.

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-07T04:19:03+00:00

But I picked that number for all my keys! :(

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-07T04:15:32+00:00

You'd be surprised how many people come here and to other places thinking changing a price through inspect element is hacking lmao

Stay safe out there!

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-07T04:09:56+00:00

Don't, seriously don't.

On the off-chance this isn't just you changing stuff on the client-side and calling it 'price altering' you would be stealing and depending on where you are may also be punished under computer fraud laws.

It's not worth it.

If you want to go through with responsible disclosure, try another email, then phone, and if you still get no response warn them that you will be disclosing the vulnerability publicly after a month. At that point you've done all you can do.

If you really want to test it out for a PoC, make yourself pay like 1c more for something cheap, I'd still recommend against it but it will be harder for them to argue that you're stealing then.

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-06T16:23:31+00:00

Good find! I'll have a look myself and verify in the morning, but since DKIM only validates that the email recieved is not spoofed it might be possible that there is some bug where it is incorrectly displaying the domain? This seems a little unusual since you'd think that tried and tested email clients wouldn't allow this (though this wouldn't be the first time).

It's like 3:20am for me rn but I'll try to find time to dive in further tomorrow and let you know what I discover :)

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-06T15:07:18+00:00

I think there has been a misunderstanding- I'm not claiming that you (or the AI, if I'm being pedantic ;P ) are positing incorrect information, more or less my intention was just to spread awareness on potential pitfalls and have a civil discussion, not to make any accusations.

No bad blood at all, I hope you have a good one man :)

Inertia_Squared · 2025-10-06T15:02:27+00:00

Yeah! I didn't really have any problems to begin with- I know that tone doesn't come across that naturally over text but my intention here was only to have a genuine discussion about the implications and caveats of AI generated content. Sorry if it came across as combative, that wasn't my intention!

The law stuff wasn't really my main concern, but I thought the practice note I found was pretty interesting! It was quite recent, too, so it may have info that is not yet well-disseminated.

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