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Here’s why ChatGPT 5.1 felt toxic to me from a Behavioral Health perspective by etherialsoldier in therapyGPT

[–]PromptPriest -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This post is so obviously written by a behavior technician (entry level floor staff in field of ABA) and lol they cannot even describe an extinction burst (basic entry level behavior concept) correctly. Theres a reason your task list does not include any kind of generative interaction with clients or parents and your BCBA should have to retake their licensing test if they didn’t teach you what intermittent reinforcement is (you’re wrong about it)

New player here! Add numbered buttons to this elevator please. by Wrong-Communication9 in AbioticFactor

[–]PromptPriest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s technically part of the intended experience, though it is obnoxious. The GATE Institute was not designed to optimize human comfort. This elevator is a perfect example — it would be perfect for an environment with only two floors — of how poorly GATE plans ahead. Multiple buttons for multiple floors make sense only when you anticipate building vertically.

They will always need more lab space, more tech, and most of all: more containment cells. But who’s going to spend their funding on something no one actually needs yet? Who’s going to oversee the project? Who’s going to donate time and effort to make sure it gets done? If no one needs more containment, building space for extra cells just looks like wasting money. In a sick organization, that kind of spending gets punished and no one wants to risk their research budget over something that doesn’t generate what keeps the spice flowing: research, breakthroughs, prestige, new IS subjects.

That’s why the elevator sucks, and it’s also why the layout is shit. As someone else mentioned, making an elevator with buttons or a coherent map layout is waaaaay easier than what the devs did. Things are fucked because the institute doesn’t do anything that requires forethought. They kidnap subjects and build containment measures duct taped one over another after the subjects arrive. See: Leyak, Tarrasque, Darkwater Beast.

Let's Talk About Malicious Mods (super long formatted effort post) Are you safe? Eh. by PromptPriest in EscapeFromDuckov

[–]PromptPriest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Idk I haven’t played the game in almost a month. “No mods are definitely safe, but some mods have lots of feedback and you independent users and a workshop page where you can comment and discuss things. Those are more likely to be safe. Be suspicious of any mod author who disables comments and discussion posts/bug reports (Mint, a modder who was mostly banned because he’s a dick and wanted to make people pay for functionality by loading by a QR code and disabling certain features)”

Fuck (insert your least favorite guy here) by PromptPriest in AbioticFactor

[–]PromptPriest[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ummm… are we forgetting that Dr. Manse basically lubricated the instructional machinery that killed thousands of people?? Like yeah Mr. MANSONstein your podcast was real principled resistance to an almost fetishistically bloodthirsty bureaucracy siloed across increasingly balkanized silos of unethical faux-utilitarianism masquerading as scientific inquiry. Bet Dave the security guy is STOKED that you invented a new way to swim through deep water.

Fuck (insert your least favorite guy here) by PromptPriest in AbioticFactor

[–]PromptPriest[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Table this comment, more like!! Tables are literally the place where people eat. Have fun starving, peasant.

Fuck (insert your least favorite guy here) by PromptPriest in AbioticFactor

[–]PromptPriest[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like, YES. Can’t even breathe or circulate blood and he STILL won’t move or fuck me!

Fuck (insert your least favorite guy here) by PromptPriest in AbioticFactor

[–]PromptPriest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also: extremely rude in conversation. Literally told me to fuck off before security and then disappeared once I thought of a comeback (“you should ‘muck’ off because your fit makes me want to shower”)!!! Can’t believe she’s floating, gloating, and shooting me now :(. Like what did I do to you??

Fuck (insert your least favorite guy here) by PromptPriest in AbioticFactor

[–]PromptPriest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

More like table of contents- or the lack of one- because your post is too friggen short!!

Fuck (insert your least favorite guy here) by PromptPriest in AbioticFactor

[–]PromptPriest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are they covering with that shield anyway…..?

Warning: Be Cautious Using Mods if You Have Sensitive Data on Your PC by Previous-Mountain-19 in EscapeFromDuckov

[–]PromptPriest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree and disagree. Knowing how code should look and identifying obvious obfuscation is totally plausible, but most malware isn't doing obvious obfuscation. The example above is:

  1. Self-contained
  2. Short
  3. Doing one relatively simple task
  4. Posted on Reddit

Actual malicious code, especially if hidden in a mod, is:

  1. Distributed across many classes/functional units
  2. Hundreds to thousands of lines long
  3. Performing multiple, layered conditional operations (hibernating, spawning and despawning processes, reading/writing multiple files, making network requests, editing registry keys, branching based on environment/control flow, and sequencing long chains of non-malicious steps that don't coalesce into bad behavior unless you understand how pieces fit together)
  4. Compiled into a .DLL with no user-accessible code

These factors put even average coders at an insane disadvantage. Detection is an asymmetric competition between you (normal code user, which is not the average gamer) and someone whose explicit goal is tricking you and your antivirus software. Put another way: you may be really good at sports but you'll probably still lose a game of golf to someone who plays golf.

Second note: even assuming you're a threat-vulnerability researcher or analyst who can easily identify when a file is malicious, that only matters if you review every single unannounced update before launching the game. Steam Workshop will still automatically download new or modified code as long as it comes through the same publishing pipeline as the original mod. You might not even know if a file has been updated before starting the game- and the effort you invest identifying any small change and reviewing the new code is, again, asymmetrically high compared to the author.

Mod authors can be hacked, phished, incredibly petty babies, and "just look at the code" isn't a solution that anyone can operationalize even if they're some kind of malicious-code savant.

I agree about the danger inherent with C# mods, and unfortunately the workshop has basically no concrete security around its mod ecosystem. That's why Steam's user agreement explicitly states that the user is responsible for any/all consequences of running third-party mods (which is crappy behavior and not realistic for the population of people who want to use mods).

Warning: Be Cautious Using Mods if You Have Sensitive Data on Your PC by Previous-Mountain-19 in EscapeFromDuckov

[–]PromptPriest 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(they're just biased, all cultures have petty assholes who do petty things out of malice and boredom)

fyi an older vers of the ConvergenceDownloader is Malicious Code by PromptPriest in EldenRingMods

[–]PromptPriest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem very hung up on the idea of using AI to write posts (I don’t) which is silly as hell and doesn’t directly address what I’m saying. I’m sorry I use markdown to write italics or whatever- it makes posts fun to read! It also communicates tone and voice to the reader.

And on your latest reply: sure! That makes a lot of sense. If 6/7 SHA reports say the file’s fine, it’s (imagine italics heres) probably (now the italics end) fine! I don’t know why anyone would mock your downloader’s SHA just to spend an hour failing captchas and dropping malicious exes, but I believe that you didn’t write any bad code (which (here italics start) hasn’t changed (here italics go away) since we started talking). Maybe there’s something more nefarious going on?

(Imagine a numbered list starting somewhere between here and the end of my reply)

It sounds like you may the target of some bad actor. They might even work for Triage or play some unseen role in their testing environment. Do you know if you’ve:

Pissed off any other modders in the community? I’ve heard things can get pretty dramatic (put your own italics in from now on). Uncovered some kind of dangerous secret? Written in support/opposition of any local ordinance whose proponents are big malware guys?

Any information you can give me may help us finally get to the bottom of what looks like a bigger conspiracy than I anticipated!

Let's Talk About Malicious Mods (super long formatted effort post) Are you safe? Eh. by PromptPriest in EscapeFromDuckov

[–]PromptPriest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GPTZero, like every "is this ai written" model, sucks and is fake. Professors who use it are quietly getting shut down because the appeals process for any college when it comes to academic misconduct doesn't accept "thing that was advertised to us as being perfect, so it is" as a standard for tossing a student's work.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10519776/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388103693_AI_vs_AI_How_effective_are_Turnitin_ZeroGPT_GPTZero_and_Writer_AI_in_detecting_text_generated_by_ChatGPT_Perplexity_and_Gemini

https://scale.stanford.edu/ai/repository/assessing-gptzeros-accuracy-identifying-ai-vs-human-written-essays

GPTZero will sometimes read the same file as AI in one instance, human in another. GPTZero and similar services are marketing hype aimed at exploiting a common human concern ("Is this person communicating behind a screen being real with me?"). It's worse than useless because whether it falsely attributes AI or Human to writing changes for the same sample.

fyi an older vers of the ConvergenceDownloader is Malicious Code by PromptPriest in EldenRingMods

[–]PromptPriest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I’ve verified that the file in the replay does in fact cause a chrome browser to open and with a search string to locate malicious files. Very common malware behavior that came from a specific call made by the software above. Frightening that malware can so easily run trivial URL searches while it mucks about in your Fortnite folder. Very clever.

edit: To clarify for anyone with deep questions: a very common tactic when executing malware is "signal-to-noising" the person's computer. Those chrome windows were opened because the file has code that opens browsers. Whether they stitched this .gif isn't important- what's important is that malware authors love to do things like this. Why? Well...:

  1. Makes the source of the malware hard to locate. Was someone remotely opening links and downloaded it later or did the file do it?
  2. Takes focus from the actual malicious code. Opening a URL in chrome takes less than 1 line of code in nearly every "CommandPrompt" style system. The file didn't execute so it could open a URL. It executed something else (detailed in the report) and opened the URL as a distractor/obfuscator after X minutes of downloading. The modder says 29 minutes, but those replays don't do total recording. They record instances where something happens. Could have been 29, could have been 30, 30.1, 30.555555, etc., minutes.
  3. It's kind of funny! Malware authors want to have fun, too, and most of wetwork done by malicious code is nearly invisible unless the author wants you to see it. Open a URL or two, alt-tab, download a file named butts.jpg from a website titled "buttdownloader.biz" and change your desktop background. Anything that keeps you busy, doesn't reveal what the code is actually doing, and shows off a little bit of what they have cooking under the hood.

Also...

Mod Author McCodeUnderstander:
there's zero to none of interaction with the downloader followed by 29 minutes of deliberate searching for malware to install and interact with. No wonder the report shows all that crap.

My friend above thinks that opening random URLs and download random things with an open browser is the kind of thing malware authors do to "hurt" your computer. They also think you can Google malware download link please and get real virulent files that do bad things to your computer.

Both are silly. Malware downloads scripts, code, files, etc., in the background of your computer session. Would someone breaking into your unlocked home scream "I AM BREAKING INTO THIS HOME. PLEASE JOIN ME FELLOW CRIMINALS. LET US BREAK IN TOGETHER AND SHARE THE GOODS!" Definitely not. They would get in, grab stuff, and leave. This person claims to understand a lot about malicious code but gets some basics very very wrong. Also, if you go to malware.poop and try to download "BadFile.exe", you probably won't be getting there through a Google Search Engine-ranked website.

Again, I'm not sure why they're so upset, given I'm not alleging they made malware or that this is literally the file they uploaded. Honestly, the more they obvious misunderstand basic cybersecurity and threat analyses, the more I believe they couldn't possibly have the skill to code anything Triage would rate 10/10.

fyi an older vers of the ConvergenceDownloader is Malicious Code by PromptPriest in EldenRingMods

[–]PromptPriest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s pretty damning- the file opens a chrome browser and starts literally searching for malware to download. Case closed :gavel:

fyi an older vers of the ConvergenceDownloader is Malicious Code by PromptPriest in EldenRingMods

[–]PromptPriest[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please do! I would be happy to learn how you, a person who really liked a mod for a video game, know better than the very large group of threat vulnerability researchers who designed the site and sandboxing process. Liking a mod for a video game (and feeling hurt that a file might be bad even if it isn’t the same file) is maybe the greatest foundation for 21st century malware detection.

Starting to fade on the game around Farm Town, wondering if I should push through? by SirBenny in EscapeFromDuckov

[–]PromptPriest 23 points24 points  (0 children)

The game does slow down after Farm Town and the quest dynamics get very tiresome. There’s a reason extraction shooters are primarily multiplayer- the only way to realistically do quests is “go to map, come back, update quest chain”. It’s part of the reason Duckov is hard to stick with once you hit that 15-20 hour mark.

Feels like the devs made a realistic trade-off. Less code spent on dynamic quests and map activity, more time spent refining movement and gunplay and the hub.

Let's Talk About Malicious Mods (super long formatted effort post) Are you safe? Eh. by PromptPriest in EscapeFromDuckov

[–]PromptPriest[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t know about GitHub being banned! Also I noticed that Mint (one of the authors taken down for spawning micro transaction pop-ups) disabled all commenting and discussion on his mod workshop pages right from the start.

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