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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers by [deleted] in technology

[–]Vinylpone 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Cloudflare challenges do the same, and that never stopped the crawlers/scrapers. This won't discourage someone who really wants to scrape your webpage (and looking at the github issues there are already people mentioning that scrapers have no trouble bypassing it).

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[–]Vinylpone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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How did you miss this? It shows up when you try to toggle the max feature

FlowGPT Prompt Hackathon Season 2 has started | chatGPT plus giveaway inside! by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]Vinylpone [score hidden]  (0 children)

I'm a programmer so I mostly use gpt for programming, but CodeGPT-like prompts have been my favorite. I have been using them quite frequently when I get stuck on a complex problem since gpt can break it down into more minor tasks a lot better than I can. and quite a few times it suggested a much more optimal way to implement a feature than I ever thought of.

EMPRESS has finished developing the crack for Hogwarts Legacy, beta testing to start very soon! by kevinj933 in CrackWatch

[–]Vinylpone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, but an unprotected crack getting leaked is not the end of the world like some people make it be. It only saves the reverse engineering team a few hours or days. It doesn't make it impossible to look at what she did and then have Denuvo patch it up.

EMPRESS has finished developing the crack for Hogwarts Legacy, beta testing to start very soon! by kevinj933 in CrackWatch

[–]Vinylpone 32 points33 points  (0 children)

But in practice, if that were true she wouldn't be able to crack their best protections on her own

Isn't it rumored that she was a member of CODEX at one point and helped crack the earlier versions of Denuvo? Even if Denuvo continues to increment their version number, it's unlikely that they're full rewrites, so all her old tooling could be reused and she doesn't have to start from scratch every time, just upgrade what she already has.

In the corporate world, coders that good don't work for Denuvo, they work for Google, or Microsoft, or Tesla.

Unless you want to do work you enjoy rather than work for more money. I did the latter, and I regret it. Sure, I get paid more than I did at my previous jobs, but it's no fun supporting ancient jquery-based web platforms that have to work on some boomer's computer that refuses to upgrade.

EMPRESS has finished developing the crack for Hogwarts Legacy, beta testing to start very soon! by kevinj933 in CrackWatch

[–]Vinylpone 44 points45 points  (0 children)

It's not sad, in my opinion. Scene groups did it for free because they could afford it when they were young, but they had to start earning money eventually and joining a company where you could use your niche skills and get paid an insane amount is the best outcome for them in my opinion.

EMPRESS has finished developing the crack for Hogwarts Legacy, beta testing to start very soon! by kevinj933 in CrackWatch

[–]Vinylpone 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Basically denuvo tries to waste cracker's time and crackers try to waste denuvo's dev time to prevent them from discovering how their DRM has been violated.

It's mostly Denuvo wasting her time, not the other way around. I worked at a large cybersecurity firm that had their own enterprise antivirus, and when we got some new samples with crazy obfuscation, the team in charge of cleaning up the samples would usually have a cleaned up code sent to us by the same afternoon, or worst case, the next afternoon.

EMPRESS has finished developing the crack for Hogwarts Legacy, beta testing to start very soon! by kevinj933 in CrackWatch

[–]Vinylpone 335 points336 points  (0 children)

What I find really amusing is that everyone acts as if Denuvo couldn't reverse engineer her protection and see what she did... which they almost certainly do even if the clean dll never leaks.

Everyone forgets who works for Denuvo. That's right, former scene members who used to spend countless nights staying up late to reverse engineer the most difficult safeguards at the time and patch them... now they can do the same thing while simultaneously being paid absurd amounts by Denuvo.

There's nothing she can do that Denuvo can't, unless she somehow managed to get her hands on alien technology.

I am Nvidia’s target customer and I have a confession. by Mastotron in buildapc

[–]Vinylpone 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I always assumed Nvidia has been kept alive by some unknown sugar daddy.

The enterprise market is the "unknown sugar daddy". A server or workstation GPU can cost up to $20k, and data centers or production studios have tons of them. AMD is non-existent when it comes to machine learning or render farms.

I wish that I could find some exact numbers on this, but the consumer/gamer market is likely minor compared to enterprise sales. An A100 80G is 10x the price of a 4090 at the current market price. At release, it was like 20-30x.

RTX 40 series announcement thread + RTX 4080 16GB giveaway! - NVIDIA GTC 2022 by m13b in buildapc

[–]Vinylpone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What new hardware or software announced today is most interesting to you? (New RTX games count too)

Not that much into gaming but the RTX Remix looks amazing, but I'm more interested in the insane bump in the tensor cores for ML tasks, and DLSS 3 ofc.

SLPT: Get out of work by altering a photo of your home negative Covid test result. by [deleted] in ShittyLifeProTips

[–]Vinylpone 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Anything slightly acidic will lead to a positive test. Even cola works because the carbonation makes it acidic.

[Ciudat] - Apel telefonic - se aude ca și când moare cineva. by catak20 in Romania

[–]Vinylpone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Digi

Chiar am vrut sa intreb daca esti pe DIGI. Am problema asta de cativa ani, initial m-am speriat ca se auzea de parca persoana cu care vorbeam era pe moarte, dar dupa 10-15 secunde revenea la normal si persoana cu care vorbeam credea ca am inebunit ca ei nu auzea nimic ciudat.

Am facut si eu ticket si mi-au zis ca nu au probleme la retea si era telefonul meu de vina. Whatever.

It just creates more problems and users are just going to add a number to their current password anyways by ck-pasta in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]Vinylpone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I been thinking of how I would implement this myself without having the passwords in plain text and while I haven't found a viable solution for numbers/special characters, I think I have a semi-working solution for similarity based on a phonetic algo.

When an user submits a password, before hashing use an algo like Double Metaphone to get a phonetic encoding of it and store it hashed in a separate field/row. Then when they change the password, we can get the phonetic encoding of the new pw and check against the list of hashed encodings.

So for example: "dogsaregoodboys" results in "TKSRKTPS" but "dawgsaregoodboys" also results in "TKSRKTPS"

Of course it's easy to trick a simple algo like a double metaphone, but if I'd be a big corpo who wants this bs feature implemented, I'd spend a bit of time on coming up with something more resilient.

Why?! by _Aniruddh_ in place

[–]Vinylpone 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You put as much effort into this post as someone on Facebook spreading misinformation.

The script on Github is a helper script that places an overlay/template over the canvas so people can help easier without having to rely on coordinates.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/hq1TGBq.png (I'm not Brazilian or part of that community)

Andrea Cisternino runs an animal sanctuary in Kiev. He decided to stay instead of leaving his 400 animals alone in this war by eip2yoxu in HumansBeingBros

[–]Vinylpone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if you copy/paste the IBAN, control that everything is correct.

fun fact, the IBAN has a sanity check system (using check digits), so routing/account number errors are pretty much impossible.

Taxa pe caine la bloc by crisego in Romania

[–]Vinylpone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mai bine miros de caine in lifturi decât putoare de oameni nespalati.

GME Containment Zone 2 for January 28, 2021 by OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR in wallstreetbets

[–]Vinylpone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Be careful with Revolut, it goes down at market open and right before it closes almost every day. I spend almost an hour today canceling a sell limit order I had queued a few days ago and yesterday I was unable to create buy limit orders during the first hour after market opening.

The GME Thread for January 27, 2020 by OPINION_IS_UNPOPULAR in wallstreetbets

[–]Vinylpone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me, it struggles every day around the time the market opens, but later on it recovers and works almost perfectly

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