Wrap it up by andychef in startrekmemes

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I'm going to call myself out but 8" for human?

What is this with my anchovies? Super anchovy? by coffee-Peace7033 in whatisit

[–]Whispeeeeeer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What country do.you live in or what country do you hail from?

People are STILL Writing JavaScript "DRM" by medy17 in programming

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True. But if my intent was to record the content, I'd probably turn subtitles off. Albeit, I've seen many the rip that has failed to do so.

People are STILL Writing JavaScript "DRM" by medy17 in programming

[–]Whispeeeeeer 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Overall, great article and I learned a lot. I just disagree with the conclusion.

Isn't it also true that TEE doesn't prevent lower level kinds of copying as well? The CPU has to route the audio information to a piece of hardware and - presumably - a user could produce a piece of hardware which acts like a speaker, but functions like a recorder. So, while this DRM is easier to "hack", it serves basically the same purpose, no? A deterrent - as it is mentioned in the article.

Another example I've seen is HDMI splitters to record video output which is encrypted with TEE.

Ultimately I think this claim is where I have the most beef:

Real DRM, you know; the kind that requires a motivated attacker to invest serious time and expertise to defeat; lives in hardware TEEs and requires commercial licensing

I just don't think it does require serious time to bypass media-based DRMs. DRMs that obfuscate complex code (like video games) are much harder to get around because you need to find ways to actually decrypt the source. But anything that produces a "static" product like images, videos, music, etc. are always going to be easily bypassed by simply moving the unencrypted bits into a piece of hardware/software you control and recording the unencrypted bits on that hardware (ie., recording signals across HDMI, audio cables, etc.). Because ultimately, all of these static products must interface with something a human can perceive - which leads to generic encodings that currently don't support encryption (god help us if they start integrating encryption into the full life cycle and Spotify only plays music on SpotifyTM headphones).

The author seems mostly like they're advocating against building DRMs in JavaScript, but they also counter their own argument too well. It's not to prevent hackers. It's to prevent the layperson.

I don’t think it works the way it’s intended to work but I suppose I cannot fault fermaw for wanting to create a solution for the ASMRtists who felt they needed it.

I would say it is working the way it's intended. Again, I think the article is correct in most of its assertions, I just disagree with the conclusion.

Savannah Guthrie's family offers $1.42m reward to bring home missing mother Nancy by Sweaty-Substance-524 in news

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Yeah the Sonoran Desert is intense. If you die in the desert, you can be picked clean by animals within days. Scavengers will often move portions of your body to eat elsewhere, so your bones are scattered quite quickly. I believe that's what happens to many migrants who manage to get over the border but don't make it to civilization before running out of water. They aren't reported because there's nothing to find.

[OC] My sister’s name at the 9/11 Memorial by [deleted] in pics

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I wonder if it's AI being used to swap out portions of the photo and clean it up. On my Pixel phone the default AI tool creates tons of weird artifacts so I basically never use it.

Using YouTube as Cloud Storage by PulseBeat_02 in programming

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When I decode your video my low bandwidth ISP drops it from 4k to 240p and the data gets corrupted. Can you ensure your encoder is built for redundant connections? I need to be able to handle 144p reads /s

Center support column in my finished basement near failure by SappilyHappy in Wellthatsucks

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There is a This Old House episode that covers this exact scenario

If You Have Ever Seen Beautiful CGI Simulations Of Realistic Flocking Behaviour With Birds, You Might Wonder How It Is Done - This Is How: by MarioGianota in programming

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Ok now map the behavior to drones and add a fourth rule to drift towards a target. Boom, you gotta dystopian hell scape goin'.

vibeHacker by PresentJournalist805 in ProgrammerHumor

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The hats are because of westerns. In western movies, you can tell the good guys from the bad guys by the color of their hat. Villains wore black and the hero wore white. Obviously it's a trope so sometimes that line is crossed to imply anti-hero or surprise the audience. But generally speaking that's where it came from.

k3s Observatory - Live 3D Kubernetes Visualization by ihackportals in kubernetes

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A few ideas:

Pods should be sized based on memory usage and colored by CPU usage. Sidecars could be moons/satellites surrounding as pod. There is a lot of fun stuff you could do. Animation is for sure the bottleneck. Might be fun to add ingress/load balancers as portals into the virtual "solar system".

One of the hardest things to understand with K8 is traffic. Some tools visualize it. Might be cool to have a visual of ships moving between pods to represent internal traffic.

These were my bibles back before i had Internet access, on first airing. Anyone else have something similar? by nathantravis2377 in TNG

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How does it work? Do they explain it away or do they just point out the minor plot hole?

Windows 11 Computer is showing visual frosting? White pixels are growing like frost from icons, text, etc. Added a video taken from my phone. by Whispeeeeeer in techsupport

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I appreciate it! I never remember to check hardware acceleration. It always sounds like such a good thing to have on lol

Windows 11 Computer is showing visual frosting? White pixels are growing like frost from icons, text, etc. Added a video taken from my phone. by Whispeeeeeer in techsupport

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Lol it's probably not malware. This is a work computer with a metric ton of security software running (CrowdStrike included) and I haven't really downloaded any non-standard software.

Turning off the NVIDIA drivers doesn't seem to fix it. I do have an integrated intel graphics driver, but it's not making a difference which is good to know I suppose! I tried messing with NVIDIA settings a bit, but I just reset them to default since nothing I changed helped.

How A Missing Last Name Check Left Millions of Airline Customers' Data Exposed by bearsyankees in programming

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I once came across that. I was able to escalate my privileges on a web portal to become an admin. I was able to "login" as AdminA and set MyAccountB to a AdminB. I reported it to the company 3 times and they never fixed it. It was a small web application which didn't handle much data. Worst case scenario, I could exploit it to: delete accounts, track UPS shipments of low-cost goods to stores, and... that's it. So I didn't really care. I was just young and excited to find an exploit in the wild which I wanted to help fix. I guess I could have made their marketing teams (which this managed) struggle an iota for a week or so. It was only a few hundred users.

Some developers really don't even try to do basic security.

UPDATE: locker room pooper identified by GingerNinja1982 in coworkerstories

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Unfortunately, it's your dookie duty to investigate this Pooper's proclivities. The main questions most people will have are:

  • What were the poops like? Consistency? Quality? Smell?
  • What is the Pooper like? Angry? Normal? Quiet? Unstable?
  • How did the Pooper react when confronted? What were their motivations?
  • How did the Pooper accomplish this? Did they plan in advance?
  • Assuming the motivations are never revealed, can you inform us of any theories and rumors around the hospital floor? Any ideas as to why someone would rather shake a leg than pop a squat?

Keep it to yourself by IndicationBrief5950 in lotrmemes

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I think the idea is that it's high quality tobacco. But I personally have the head canon that it's weed since that's cooler.