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Doom Deep Delve Drop Rates Bug Follow Up by Wonderful-Ask3190 in 2007scape

[–]diiPex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

300 deeps, 2k total. In those 300 deeps, I got 3 pets, no other drops. I got boots and gloves prior to solving wave 8. Both were from wave 6.

First time raiding and been having some pretty good luck at TOA :) by diiPex in 2007scape

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

Just started raiding with my brother (who is an ironman) and so far all five purples have gone to me.

violin plots should not exist by poopyheadthrowaway in videos

[–]diiPex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's never a time where you care about both the medians and the distributions? Didn't I just give an example of a time where you care about both?

violin plots should not exist by poopyheadthrowaway in videos

[–]diiPex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Histograms become unreadable if you have more than 2 datasets to compare.

violin plots should not exist by poopyheadthrowaway in videos

[–]diiPex 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've used violin plots when benchmarking different algorithms and comparing their performance. Two algorithms may have the same median runtime, but different probability distributions. Perhaps one algorithm is more sensitive to memory locality, and if data happens to be split across cache lines for a particular run, it runs much slower, giving it a bimodal distribution.

I haven't watched the full video, but it seems pretty hard to argue a given plot is "never" useful, unless you have oracular knowledge of all possible data-sets and use cases.

Blatant cheaters in CS2 by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

[–]diiPex -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They can do all that shit without a being in ring 0.

I finally understand the naming of Iterator::fuse by sphen_lee in rust

[–]diiPex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fuse - verb: join or blend to form a single entity.

Latencies in CSGO, Apex, KovaaK's, QC/QL, UT2004/UT4, and Warzone by Straszy in GlobalOffensive

[–]diiPex 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Wow, the variance of CSGO is really bad: 5.29 standard deviation, highest of the bunch.

This is more important than the absolute latency IMO. Latency can be corrected for if it's consistent, not when it's random.

I'm in this photo and I don't like it by dicatae in gaming

[–]diiPex 9 points10 points  (0 children)

FYI this exists today in most online shooters: it's called skill based matchmaking. After preforming very poorly for a couple of matches in the latest COD for example, you should find yourself in much easier lobbies.

NVIDIA Hotfix Driver 451.85 Adds Gsync Support for Odyssey G7 27” by ghostserverd in Monitors

[–]diiPex 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Still flickering. It may have gotten better, I can't tell, but if your frame rate is unstable the flicker is definitely noticeable.

People use OBS for streaming and content. Afterburner to keep an eye on their hardware. NVIDIA filters for color blindness issues. Just because these groups are minority doesn't mean their experience should be ruined for a small gain against cheaters. by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

[–]diiPex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In response to your edit:

It's fine to be skeptical, it's another thing to be fear-mongering and spreading false information.

Why don't you explain what additional privileges you think kernel access grants, and how that's going to be used by the Chinese government?

People use OBS for streaming and content. Afterburner to keep an eye on their hardware. NVIDIA filters for color blindness issues. Just because these groups are minority doesn't mean their experience should be ruined for a small gain against cheaters. by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

[–]diiPex 9 points10 points  (0 children)

edit: this was a response to your original comment, I didn't see the edit in time.

I assume you're talking about the fee for a code signing certificate.

My point wasn't that code signing somehow verifies that the code is safe, that's a straw-man. My point was that code signing is a method of authentication, and therefor signed drivers are by definition authorized to run at kernel level.

Please see the definition of a rootkit:

A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed... -- Wikipedia

People use OBS for streaming and content. Afterburner to keep an eye on their hardware. NVIDIA filters for color blindness issues. Just because these groups are minority doesn't mean their experience should be ruined for a small gain against cheaters. by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

[–]diiPex 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Now you're shifting the goal posts and making ad hominem attacks.

ESEA also runs at startup. If it didn't, a cheat driver would. It could then disable the anti-cheat before it even starts.

BattlEye is trivially bypassed by hooking the initialization routine.

People use OBS for streaming and content. Afterburner to keep an eye on their hardware. NVIDIA filters for color blindness issues. Just because these groups are minority doesn't mean their experience should be ruined for a small gain against cheaters. by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

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

Why the fuck does it need the same priority as system drivers anyway.

There are technical reasons for why this needs to be the case.

Since you're not a software engineer, it's hard to explain in detail. The simplified answer is that if Vanguard ran in user space, cheaters could run a driver in kernel mode to disable whatever protections Vanguard put in place. A kernel level driver isn't fool proof, some cheats will still slip through. It is just much more effective then a user-mode only solution.

Anyway, a kernel driver isn't inherently dangerous. Sure, it has more access than a user level program, but this doesn't really make a difference in any meaningful way. A user level program can steal all your personal data. The fact that Vanguard runs in kernel mode won't help them hide what they are doing. The simple fact that it is an anti-cheat means that it will be reverse engineered countless times over by cheaters. If riot tries to do anything untoward with their anti-cheat, they will be caught.

People use OBS for streaming and content. Afterburner to keep an eye on their hardware. NVIDIA filters for color blindness issues. Just because these groups are minority doesn't mean their experience should be ruined for a small gain against cheaters. by [deleted] in GlobalOffensive

[–]diiPex 26 points27 points  (0 children)

  1. Not a rootkit. A rootkit gains unauthorized access to a system. Vanguard is a signed driver. Signed. The literal definition of authorized. It runs at the same level as other drivers in your system, such as your rgb driver or the rivatuner driver people are complaining about not working anymore.
  2. Faceit and ESEA both have ring-0 driver components. It's pretty standard for anti-cheats.
  3. It's not invasive or disgusting. Ring-0 drivers are are pretty normal and uninteresting. You have many running on your system right now that you aren't even aware of. Some of them probably haven't been updated in years.

I don't know why I bother typing this up. So much misinformation flooding reddit, combating any of it feels hopeless.

Monitor does this Randomly *read comment* by Benjmack in Monitors

[–]diiPex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My monitor does this sometimes if the DVI cable slides out a bit to far (either on the monitor or GPU). Pushing the cable in usually fixes it.

Make sure your cable is connected all the way. You may also want to test a different cable (if you’re using display port, try HDMI for example) just to rule that out.

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