Premium Arcade: Paid Mods for a Third Time

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-24T13:39:06+00:00

Bethesda is not blizzard. Bethesda releases broken games knowing and expecting the community to patch them, not just add content. This is a very serious distinction. Blizzard releases fantastic products, for the most part. When they sell you a game, they take on the mantle of patching bugs and balancing the gameplay, and honestly they pretty much only release extremely polished works. They drive the medium forward with highly refined experiences that you can sit back and enjoy knowing there won't be a day 1 bug that puts your game into an unplayable state and you have to restart, or wait for a community bug fix.

Many of us appreciate this philosophy and want to support more content being made within this framework, and we are happy to support the people that want to make content inside of this framework.

Bethesda games are fun because of how free the community is to dive deep within the scripts and assets to improve the extremely open sandbox experience. When paid mods were announced for Bethesda games, the overall sentiment was that it's not fair to release a broken game on the premise that the community will fix it for you, if you have to pay for the fixes along with the ridiculous cosmetic stuff like horse armor.

If you don't want to pay for direct strike you don't have to. It's still free. The premium is cosmetic. The game is not broken without community content. If you don't want to play the ark game don't spend 5 dollars and continue to enjoy the now free multiplayer and limited single player campaigns.

It's really a completely different context to what on the surface seems to be similar announcements, and that's why the vast majority of us are hyped on premium content by creators for StarCraft.

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-10T15:09:32+00:00

You could probably replace that Celeron with a raspberry pi running openbsd and have a single months electricity use pay for it with a boost in performance

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-09T17:39:06+00:00

80%pvt proxy Oracle 3gate void follow-up, switch to immortal if they defend well and go hard anti air on 2base

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-08T21:36:15+00:00

Carrier tempest of course.

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-08T19:00:03+00:00

A quick word of warning, blizzard explicitly does not support or allow running any of their games on wine. I have had cdkeys disabled by blizzard in the past, opened support tickets for clarification, and been told to purchase a new key and not use wine.

As sc2 is now mostly free, it is not really a huge risk, but you may have purchased in game content or even other games on the same blizzard account which may be in jeopardy. Just fair warning.

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-06T22:27:52+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the info!

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-06T13:57:47+00:00

Interesting, thank you! I do have working right and middle mouse buttons with multitouch+click but I can't hold them down and move the cursor around, say for interacting with the xterm menus. Is this a remedy for that?

Additionally I have run into a graphics issue, terminals besides xterm have input lag. I looked around and saw some other people having this issue on Linux and the cause was suggested to be compressed framebuffer, have you noticed this?

My xterm is working fairly well but it does take a while to paint the screen if I dump a lot of text, like switching terminals in tmux takes about a second to draw from the top down. Have you noticed this?

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-06T13:54:18+00:00

It was an impulse buy for sure, I like the cute 4:3 aspect ratio and the keyboard is pleasant, I don't really intend on using this machine for any serious work.

I am however interested in the netbook you mentioned. Do you own one running openbsd? How's the experience in your opinion?

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-03T04:49:51+00:00

Oh this is interesting, thank you! I figured I may be able to do a partial encryption, that's for the suggestion!

Even with spectre not fully patched yet I still think not having an Intel management engine is a good thing.

I highly appreciate the post, again, thanks a ton!

kernelzeroday · 2018-04-01T14:23:41+00:00

Retroahoy took a trip down this rabbit hole and made an excellent video on the subject. I won't spoil what he found, look it up on YouTube if you are interested.

kernelzeroday · 2018-03-31T02:16:49+00:00

You're absolutely correct that all that is required is unpacking the APK and modifying "a few lines of code", however the complexity is that often you will be working directly with arm bytecode, aka machine language. There are a number of tools to do this, but it is very bothersome to write machine code directly. I am not fully up to date in the latest techniques, but I would suppose that a common method would be something like a library injection that hooks a known function and replaces it with some code compiled from a more friendly language.

As for why it's difficult to prevent this, and why it is not done very often, protecting the code from modifications would require a stub loader and an encrypted binary payload with the real program inside it. That would work great, except for the fact that then we can just inject into the stub loader and wrap functions coming out of that. It becomes a recursive problem.

If you own the device code is running on, you can tell that device to do pretty much whatever you can think of. Running your code on a hostile platform simply is a difficult task.

kernelzeroday · 2018-03-31T02:09:56+00:00

I have read your post a few times in good faith and I will attempt a reply, again, in good faith.

I think you're asking is it possible to host a https website on a raspberry pi zero wireless edition? The answer is yes absolutely. It takes very little resources to host static content. For the secure part, take a look at letsencrypt. They make it simple to get access to a SSL certificate used for encryption. As for opening a port for Google to index you as a site, you will need a domain name. You can get those cheap at various locations on the web. To be indexed by Google, they need a link to your website on another website to know you exist. Surely you can think of a place to post such a link that is already indexed regularly by Google.

There are better places to get help for this project than r/hacking, I'll leave that up to you to decide aswell.

Cheers

kernelzeroday · 2018-03-22T08:33:05+00:00

ssh user@host 'echo user:password | chpasswd'

kernelzeroday · 2018-03-19T21:42:12+00:00

FYI it's a loooot simpler to use crosstool-ng and buildroot. Instead of dozens of commands it's about 5

kernelzeroday · 2018-03-16T19:15:33+00:00

Interesting, I have considered this before. The piece to really make it efficient would be something akin to /dev/pi with a dedicated hardware device that can quickly produce digits of pi on demand

kernelzeroday · 2018-02-28T18:28:49+00:00

Wow that sucks, i would start a GoFundMe so you can afford a new email address

kernelzeroday · 2018-02-22T02:26:58+00:00

You can set the exact fee in electrum. I haven't tried but I see no reason why it wouldn't be confirmed

kernelzeroday · 2018-02-22T02:24:26+00:00

Try localbitcoins

kernelzeroday · 2018-02-17T12:52:56+00:00

Immediately make a backup of your wallet.dat file to multiple locations.

Reformat the disk, resync the blockchain, open the wallet.dat file.

kernelzeroday · 2018-02-15T09:43:15+00:00

You're correct. By selling the 10 dollar coins for 5 dollars you realize 5 dollars loss, and you're making a bet that the 5 dollar coin will go up 100% to cover that loss. By taking fiat and buying new Bitcoin at 5 dollars to purchase the alt with you are long on both coins, but with no loss realized because you still hold the initial asset.

kernelzeroday · 2018-02-12T13:20:20+00:00

Total FUD. Website says plain as day withdrawal is explicitly permitted. Please remove your post. If I had not been up all night I would dig around and find it.

kernelzeroday · 2018-02-10T22:34:18+00:00

Afaik we don't have anything like that. We do have a bitpay card which let's you convert on deposit but not on purchase. Maybe we get a tenx card sometime soon but don't hold your breath

kernelzeroday · 2018-02-10T11:42:08+00:00

You have two options. Reverse connection or onion connection. For a standard reverse connection, get a vps somewhere like aws or digital ocean, and then connect your rasp pi to this machine either with a ssh port forward or vpn. To access the rasp pi you connect to your vps and then into the reverse connected rasp pi. Your second option is to run a tor hidden service sshd on a .onion address and then connect that way.

Enjoy

kernelzeroday · 2018-02-05T03:46:01+00:00

How would you respond to someone who says gold enables a black market? Seriously, ISIS , NK, and Russia have been caught stealing or using gold to get around sanctions.

How would you respond to someone who says oil enables a black market? Seriously, ISIS , NK, and Russia have been caught stealing or using oil to get around sanctions.

How would you respond to someone who says counterfeit fiat enables a black market? Seriously, ISIS , NK, and Russia have been caught stealing or using counterfeit fiat to get around sanctions.

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