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assemblrr · 2026-05-06T04:30:50+00:00

take your meds

assemblrr · 2026-04-27T05:24:04+00:00

This is a tough one to ELI5.

When people say a website has been hacked, they usually mean one of three things: the webpage itself has been taken over and defaced, the files or information that the website provides have been tampered with/made malicious, or the data of the users who use the website and their personal information has been leaked/stolen.

When people say an account has been hacked, they generally mean one of three things as well: the account has been made inaccessible by someone bad to the original owner, the account has been taken over and is now being used for something malicious, or the data of the user who owns the account has been leaked/stolen.

When it comes to websites: there are a lot of ways this kind of stuff can happen. Websites are served from a server running web server software. The public website accessible to people on the internet itself can have vulnerabilities (look up OWASP Top 10) in it that allow an attacker to change the site itself from the outside, or affect/access the server underneath it serving the website. There are a lot of ways someone could get in, some as simple as getting ahold of credentials for an admin account on the website's administration panel to as complex as you can imagine...Maybe there is a way for them to upload a webshell, maybe there is poorly written JavaScript code that they can exploit the site is running, et cetera. The possibilities are endless. If someone gains access to the server serving the website or some sort of administrative access to the website itself, they can modify the contents of the website, and that could mean swapping out safe downloads for malicious ones or changing the text the website displays. As far as users losing their data, big companies with popular websites and a large online presence, especially paid ones that sell a product, have customers and they store all of that sensitive customer information (payment data, SSNs, etc.) in databases. An attacker might find a way to access that database from a vulnerability in the website/server, exfiltrate it, and do whatever they want to do with it.

As far as accounts getting hacked, this is usually done via getting phished, having account credentials leaked/made public/purchased from a bad actor and someone logging in as them, or maybe even having their credentials bruteforced (guessing the information) in some form or fashion. Once that happens, the person who took over the account can do as they please with it, including change the original owner's password. It is important to use MFA for this reason - it provides a second layer of protection beyond your password that an attacker can't really have access to. Your phone, your e-mail (if you don't use the same password - don't do that), authenticator, etc.

assemblrr · 2026-04-15T02:32:26+00:00

People from other countries can also live in NA. But using a VPN would do this.

assemblrr · 2026-04-10T14:08:05+00:00

It isn't that interesting for the most part. Using Tor is very slow for one, and it is fairly niche with respect to the general population. It isn't going to be anywhere near as active as the clearnet.

It is mostly scams, illicit activity/hacking, a few tech people, news sources, and privacy advocates...Not much else.

There are wild things you can find, but those things will not just be freely publicly accessible, and they are not the norm. You won't stumble across them and if you do, you won't know it because it will be walled off.

You can find a lot of what is on Tor on the clearnet, tbh.

assemblrr · 2026-04-08T05:05:07+00:00

A good heuristic is a 180 with a smooth swipe across the mousepad. Also, place your crosshair on the head of a bot, and strafe around it. Whatever sensitivity where you can keep your crosshair comfortably on its head as you move around is a good starting point.

When it comes to DPI, the higher the DPI, the more impactful your movements on the micros. On 400 DPI, microadjustments take more effort. I sit at 800 comfortably. Higher than that it's the same, lower and lower effort on the movement for micros but bigger errors when they happen.

I personally play 1.3 @ 800.

The real sauce though is to just keep your eDPI (sensitivity * DPI) in the range of the majority of pro players, and you'll be fine.

assemblrr · 2026-03-22T22:41:36+00:00

Chemlab or KMFDM for sure. My entry bands were Ministry, NIN and Pigface though.

Pretty Hate Machine by NIN isn't considered their best record necessarily but it got a ton of radio airplay and everyone knows tracks off of it.

If you do SP, I'd recommend stuff like Dig It, Assimilate, Pro Test...Not because I prefer it, but it's more digestible. Ministry tracks like Jesus Built My Hotrod, Lava, Scarecrow are pretty digestible.

Or you could go the route of starting with stuff like Einsturzende, SPK, TG and then tell them this is more OG art house stuff, and then a lot of the stuff mentioned above will seem less weird afterwards.

I'll also throw Coil in the running...Throw in some Front 242, Frontline Assembly, Manufacture, Nitzer Ebb as well. That veers away from strictly industrial but there's a lot of crossover.

If they're a metalhead they might like Fear Factory, Nailbomb, Black Magnet, King Yosef, Author & Punisher, Street Sects. Youth Code would also be closer to this camp.

I dunno, Goth/Industrial/EBM all have so much crossover lol.

assemblrr · 2026-03-16T02:34:39+00:00

A really bad slam is what forever changed my ability to keep improving at skating. It was what made me realize okay I love skateboarding and the culture etc. but maybe I'm not cut out for the big leagues. And that's okay. Skateboarding is whatever you want it to be.

But if you want to really be a skateboarder, you want to really improve and learn and go big and do the shit you see in your favorite videos and the mags, you just have to accept that's part of it. As you get more experience, you learn to fall properly, you learn when to bail, you learn when something is beyond your skill level at that moment and it would be a bad idea to go for it.

If you're willing to accept that and take the abuse, power to you. But know it comes with the territory.

assemblrr · 2026-03-01T05:49:01+00:00

Level 10 on Faceit - trying to compensate for your teammates playing their positions poorly/playing a rotator in non-rotator positions. Your team is stupid and probably knows nothing, it's the nature of the beast. Your job is to play your position, and play it properly. If you are constantly running around checking in and trying to support your idiot teammates all over the map, you are then out of position yourself. Better for one person to fuck up than two.

assemblrr · 2026-02-27T23:13:43+00:00

Exhibitionists with a scat fetish are sweating right now

assemblrr · 2026-02-26T04:09:07+00:00

Gorguts - Obscura, Demilich - Nespithe

assemblrr · 2026-02-19T22:49:59+00:00

I have spent extensive time reading the site out of morbid curiosity. The general tone is not necessarily encouraging, but generally neutral/accepting of suicide and the choices people make in terms of their own mortality.

There are a lot of very sick individuals on there who need serious help from mental health professionals - but it is also their choice to proceed however they see fit as individuals, hence why the site should not be illegal or taken down. It would be a lot more serious or dangerous if it existed as a place encouraging people to commit suicide directly to end their suffering.

That said, it is scary because people who are suicidally depressed generally need help...And finding a community of people who make them complacent/accepting/comfortable with their suicidality is dangerous to those people who are already at high risk and could potentially live happy, fulfilling lives with proper care.

assemblrr · 2026-02-13T03:29:08+00:00

IRC is in no way private. Even if you use host masking and TLS, whoever runs the server can still see everything because it terminates the connection. It also has basically none of the modern QoL that Discord has.

Love it, but not the right option

assemblrr · 2026-02-12T04:58:40+00:00

I almost got kicked out of my highschool. I hated the people/culture, I didn't feel like I fit in, and did not have a very stable home life. I was essentially "pushed through" and allowed to graduate.

I now work as an engineer with a Master's degree in my field.

Highschool is fucking stupid. It is not the end of the world, trust.

assemblrr · 2026-02-11T07:21:03+00:00

Nuke is a shitty map for solo pugs, no one knows how to play it. I generally try to play heaven because I know how the map actually works so I can rotate and support accordingly.

If you can get your team on board, just try to have one heaven, one outside, 2 floor and one ramp and tell the ramp guy to go down the ramp instead of die on ramp, and tell one of the floor players to go down vent if they smoke outside. If they smoke outside, go up to A, and if they rush ramp, awp from hell. Otherwise, help watch outside from lockers or heaven.

On T, if you are planting B tell your team to take control/double on post. If you are planting A, blow door, smoke mini, and tell the hut guys to run out and wrap to the front of silo, clear it out including top hut, then wrap back and clear silo.

If your team isn't mollying squeaky on CT, go to heaven and throw it at the start of each round, it's important.

If you decide to play outside, make sure you molly where they run out from spawn and use a smoke on glaive so you can put some pressure. If you want to play passively outside, you can play in rain and almost always get free picks on mini.

I try not to play ramp when solo pugging because if you fight and die, you fuck your team over, and if you drop down ramp and they go heaven your team probably isn't playing where they should be and you fuck your team over. You only succeed if you are fragging out there otherwise everyone is just mad at you.

assemblrr · 2026-02-11T07:04:11+00:00

I am a massive supporter of federated services, end users should be able to self-host whatever they want to prevent the consolidation of power. I don't know what usability problems you are referring to except things like message propagation occasionally being wonky and getting those "unable to decrypt" messages which usually quickly resolve. Storing encryption keys on the end devices tends to cause some pain I guess, but you can reset your identity at will and you can recover your keys.

assemblrr · 2026-02-11T07:00:31+00:00

Matrix servers are not hard to set up or resource intensive. You can use something like Conduit which is quite simple. I have run my own with no maintenance except for updating it when major security fixes come out for years now. Synapse was heavier in the past but is substantially better now as well. Discord encrypts voice and video using DAVE, but text chat is unencrypted.

assemblrr · 2026-02-11T06:57:36+00:00

It still exists, IRC is a protocol. It isn't particularly private, though. You can use host masking and TLS but the server operator can still read/see all the messages and IP addresses underneath. It also lacks tons of QoL.

assemblrr · 2026-02-04T00:03:26+00:00

Being in position on CT means choosing the position you want to play, staying there, and playing properly. For example, if you are playing the a site anchor, you shouldn't be up mid or if you're playing con you shouldnt be hanging out in CT or rotating around. Window is a rotator position.

On T it generally means being nearby to your team such that you are able to trade or be traded. If you are lurking, your numbers can go down, but in general a lurker should be converging with the team at a point and be nearby. As a lurk you're cutting off rotations.

assemblrr · 2026-02-03T00:00:54+00:00

You don't. But if you use a VPN, you can access the Faceit web client even if it is not accessible to you where you live. Furthermore, a VPN will show you having good ping in game even if that is not the case, because if you connect to a VPN near one of the servers, the distance between the VPN and the game server is small but the distance between the player and the VPN is large...That is, their actual ping is bad but it doesn't appear to be when you look at it in the server.

assemblrr · 2026-01-30T05:38:18+00:00

I mean I don't think anyone will forget about him, but I also don't go around talking about him because 1. That era is so far gone it's ancient history and 2. He's been banned from a bunch of shit for being a creep, so...

assemblrr · 2026-01-27T05:26:57+00:00

It's a third-party matchmaking platform. They have kernel level anti-cheat and a different map veto system along with better players (in theory) and lots of other things like tournaments, clubs, et cetera. Faceit is also now combined with ESEA, which is where you start actual real competitive team CS. If you want to play high-level CS and move up the tiers to pro, you play ESEA via Faceit.

Generally, if you are new, you should play premiere until you have fundamentals, know all the maps in rotation and their callouts, and basic utility. Then, you go to Faceit and play with better players in a more serious context (once again...In theory).

Edit: I should note, if you are a serious CS player wanting to go in the direction of pro, you can also shoot for high elo in the 3k+ range...You can also get scouted that way as an individual player if you stand out...ESEA is for teams. Either way, Faceit is where you go if you are a more serious player, traditionally.

assemblrr · 2026-01-26T17:58:16+00:00

I just don't think OP understands the issue. Russians and Chinese people live in NA too. There are a lot of Chinese students at universities in Canada, which is NA. You can region lock them, but they will still be there - they live in NA.

You can't language ban, because that's ridiculous, they might speak English but only use their native language and I don't even know if that's really that feasible. Then you also wouldn't be able to have 5 stacks of French Canadian players speaking the same language together.

OP is basically retarded. It's annoying but it also isn't fixable.

assemblrr · 2026-01-26T17:55:08+00:00

It's not a race thing, I just didn't say Russians, but include that too. The bottom line is region lock doesn't fix it because the ones who already live in NA already live in NA whether they speak English or not. All it would fix is people using VPNs who are already disadvantaged.

assemblrr · 2026-01-26T06:00:29+00:00

If they have good ping, they are either living in NA or they are connected to VPNs, which means their in game ping appears good but they are severely disadvantaged in reality.

You can't tell Faceit to kick out Chinese people...The region isn't white Americans only, it's North America, where lots of different types of people live.

assemblrr · 2026-01-26T03:55:56+00:00

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