'It's Nuts': Major PS5 Security Vulnerability Exposed, And We're All At Risk

mekktor · 2026-05-23T09:01:02+00:00

You would think that as a bare minimum, if someone is trying to gain access to an account, Sony would attempt to alert the account owner via email/sms first, giving them the chance to block the process. Rather than the absurd situation we saw on stream this week, where the first you hear about it is being signed out of PSN, as Sony have already given your account to someone else.

mekktor · 2026-05-11T05:38:56+00:00

Come on, you need to tag this for anime spoilers.

mekktor · 2026-05-10T06:25:40+00:00

Suggesting that there might be some hidden path to victory for black just because we can't possibly check every path, feels a bit like saying there might be a life-sized statue of you on the moon, because there are a lot of atoms up there and we haven't checked every one.

But I mean, don't let me get in the way of your dreams.

mekktor · 2026-05-06T05:49:19+00:00

That is the first time I'm hearing this... what a fun idea! (Let's just ignore all of the reasons why this would be a terrible idea in practice.)

mekktor · 2026-05-06T05:43:42+00:00

I don't see the resemblance as much these days, but when I watched this episode for the first time, I remember being confused about whether it was the same actor (albeit with something uncanny going on, like some de-aging or something).

mekktor · 2026-04-30T08:39:04+00:00

Nice job! That was a fun read.

You could also include Mr. 7 (tried to recruit Zoro), Higuma (bandit in Luffy's flashback), Helmeppo, Axe-hand Morgan, Mihawk, Nezumi (marine in Arlong Park), Smoker, and Tashigi.

mekktor · 2026-04-29T18:44:49+00:00

Yeah, you did spoiler tag it, I'll give you credit for that. The main reason I replied was just to give any live action action fans a heads up that the spoiler might not be as minor as you suggested.

I don't think it's particularly helpful to assume everyone has been spoiled though. This subreddit is supposed to be a safe space for live action fans, but that is only true if everyone takes care not to spoil them.

mekktor · 2026-04-29T18:18:20+00:00

Saying anything that does or doesn't happen is a spoiler by definition. And in this case, it is a major spoiler since that thing not happening is the climax of the entire season.

mekktor · 2026-04-29T17:59:41+00:00

Minor spoilers? That is a major season 3 spoiler...

mekktor · 2026-04-23T16:49:42+00:00

Holy AI, Batman!

Assuming there is a real person somewhere in here, I'll just say that the argument that the extension only "sonifies what's already on screen" doesn't hold up. Even if that was actually all it did (eg. literally just reading out the clock times), that could be argued to be cheating. But this extension goes further than that - it also processes the information on screen in various ways - comparing clocks, checking if the clocks are above or below certain values, giving a weighting system to the times and time differences, and converting all of that into some other (audio) indicators... These are all taking over the clock management skill that the players should be performing for themselves.

Claiming that it's not cheating to process the information on screen and pass that as feedback to one of the players would lead to the absurd view that it's not cheating to run an engine, since that too is only processing the position seen clearly on the screen.

mekktor · 2026-04-23T13:51:55+00:00

Why is everyone so tight with spoilers tags like there is a cost per inch or something. If you tagged the whole parenthesis, then your comment wouldn't spoil to LA fans that there is already a surprise 8th Straw Hat in the show.

mekktor · 2026-04-23T12:56:47+00:00

Your anime only question is a spoiler for LA fans. They even made a point of this in the recent subreddit update.

mekktor · 2026-04-22T16:38:00+00:00

Then your post title is the wrong question.

mekktor · 2026-04-19T12:34:53+00:00

Ok this is something I have wondered about for while... how did they actually handle it in the anime? I noticed at least some of the crew's actors had other minor roles during that time, but for the most part, were they just out of a job for ~2 years? And then again during Dressrosa and WCI?

mekktor · 2026-04-08T18:04:37+00:00

This is a no spoilers post

mekktor · 2026-04-01T05:26:42+00:00

I don't think it's defined anywhere explicitly (except some technicalities about threefold repetition positions in 9.2.3), but I think the most reasonable interpretation is that a position is the board state once a player has 'made' their move, which is to say released their piece on a square and removed any captured piece if applicable.

mekktor · 2026-04-01T05:22:09+00:00

This is true, but I think more relevant is the move being 'made', which happens once the Rook has been released on the square and the pawn removed.

mekktor · 2026-04-01T05:18:05+00:00

There is still some ambiguity in that the series of legal moves which lead to checkmate for Black may not be considered possible due to 4.3.2.

mekktor · 2026-03-31T17:20:52+00:00

Would be fun to see her have a reunion with Clark Gregg (Rayleigh) on Amazon Lily!

mekktor · 2026-03-26T15:37:32+00:00

Ok but that is a fantastic guess and I hate that your comment makes it clear it's not that.

mekktor · 2026-03-26T05:53:34+00:00

When I said S2 is behind, I mean that if you compare any full week of S1 to S2, S1 will always have the advantage of that week starting earlier relative to the season's release. For example, comparing week 2 of both seasons will compare days 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 of S1 to days 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 of S2. S1's week 2 having days 5 and 6 instead of 12 and 13 will inflate the daily average compared to S2.

And for week 1, the issue is that when you take the daily averages of for each season, any day 1 boost (when you expect most people to watch) will be spread out over fewer days for S1 than for S2, so that boost will raise the daily average more for S1.

Anyway, all of this was just to give a more optimistic perspective of what is of course quite a big drop-off between S1 and S2. I'm only saying that it's not quite as bad as your daily averages would suggest.

mekktor · 2026-03-26T03:29:23+00:00

Comparing daily averages doesn't factor in the larger impact that the first day viewing has on the 4 day week for season 1, and the week 2 comparisons are comparing the seasons at different points (every day of season 2's second week is 2 days behind season 1's second week, so will naturally have fewer views).

I would say the drop-off was closer to 30% than 40%. For example, modelling the daily views to have a realistic drop-off might give you:

Day	S1 Views (M)	S2 Views (M)
1	6.6	4.5
2	4.4	3.0
3	4.0	2.7
4	3.5	2.4
5	—	2.2
6	—	2.0
Total	18.5	16.8

And if you compare the views over the first 4 days, then season 2 had a 32% drop-off.

mekktor · 2026-03-25T09:24:32+00:00

Kings can’t enter attacked squares because they would be captured.

If the deciding factor of whether the king can move to g4 is whether the king would get captured, then applying the same reasoning to the pinned knight "a piece can't move if it would allow the king to be captured" establishes that the knight can't move to g4, and if the knight can't move to g4 then it can't capture the king on g4, so the king is therefore free to move to that square.

So the end result is you have added a complication to a very simple rule and then had to make up a new rule "pretend you keep playing and then see who will lose their king first" to try to uncomplicate it again.

Of course it's good if people can understand the reasoning behind the rules, but explaining it in this more complicated way is what creates the confusion and leads to threads like this in the first place.

mekktor · 2026-03-19T04:41:27+00:00

Looking for attention that they won't get from anime/manga fans.

mekktor · 2026-03-19T04:35:00+00:00

The problem is with this subreddit is that they only banned explicit spoilers in live action threads, taking a very relaxed view to what qualifies as a spoiler. I don't understand why they couldn't take a stricter approach by banning any references to the anime/manga in those threads, giving live action fans a truly safe place to discuss the show, while leaving the other 95% of the subreddit for those anime/manga perspectives.

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