Dark_Arc

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Your weather app should be using your location services which should be based off GPS not your IP address?

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Huh, that’s really interesting!

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Never trust the client, especially with information the player shouldn’t have right now.

This is a big part of the problem, but it’s not the only problem. If you do all of that stuff right, you can’t build a responsive first person shooter. There’s some level of trust you need to put in the client.

Disclaimer: This is based on my experience playing shooters and as a programmer. I have not worked on anticheat systems hands on.

We see less and less of the “god mode” hacks where players can send the packet for a carpet bomb and the server just blindly trusts it. Or the ludicrous spinbots that spin at an extreme speed and headshot anyone that comes into line of sight.

What we’re seeing is increasingly sophisticated cheats that provide “buffs” to a player’s ability. An AI enhanced aimbot that when you click gently nudges your hand to “auto correct” the shot and then clicks is borderline impossible to detect server side. It looks just like a player moved the mouse and fired.

The “best” method to prevent these folks from cheating seems to be to detect the system or the game has been tampered with.

Maybe the way to deal with that is to just let it happen and deal with smurfs down ranking… So these “soft” cheaters just exist in the “pro tier” where the pros can possibly stand a chance.

One strategy I have seen that I wish more developers would do is sending “honeypot” information to the game client (like a player on the other side of the wall that isn’t really there but an aimbot or a wall hack might incorrectly expose).

Maybe the increasing presence of hardware cheats will result in new strategies that make these things unnecessary. I keep wondering if a TPM could be used to solve this problem someday… But I’m not sure exactly how/we may need faster TPMs.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

I think a part of it is the difference to losing to something “reasonable” vs “unreasonable.”

If you’re clearly really bad at the game when we are in a fight with line of sight but somehow you keep picking off my teammates through walls… That’s the kind of thing where cheating really starts to get annoying.

You may still be on the same skill level overall, but for specific parts of the game they have super powers, and it just feels ridiculous.

Smurfing is also a real issue because cheaters seem to overlap with trolls that just want everyone else to have a bad time, so they’ll spend a bunch of time down ranking, so they can spend a little time giving a lot of players a bad day.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

That’s all very fair

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

TPM is a joke in my mind

I thought this at first as well, but they have an interesting property.

They have a manufacturer signed private key. If you get the public key from the manufacturer of the TPM, you can actually verify that the TPM as it was designed by the manufacturer performed the work.

That’s a really interesting property because for the first time there’s a way to verify what hardware is doing over the network via cryptography.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

You don’t necessarily need to detect the cheat itself, you can look at things like players having suddenly higher kill rates and put them into a queue for observation by either more advanced (more expensive) automation to look for cheating or eventually involve a human in the loop.

That’s true, if the player suddenly has higher kill rates. However, that doesn’t work if they’ve been using the cheat from the start on that account. A sufficiently advanced AI powered aim bot would also be nearly indistinguishable from a professional player. Kind of similar to how Google created the CAPTCHA that uses mouse movement … but had to go back to (at least in some cases) the additional old school captcha.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Hmmm… I was going to say no because it’s asymmetric crypto, but you’re right if you are somehow able to extract the signed private key, you can still lie… Good point

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

This is my take as an Akron resident:

1. We have a new community controlled local police oversight board.
2. The officer was called with the pretext that someone had been brandishing a firearm / pointing a gun at houses.
3. You can’t see very well what the officer could see because the view is obstructed. It’s entirely possible that the kid complied but accidentally pointed the gun towards the officer.
4. The officer shot exactly 1 time and shot in a non-lethal manner (the hand was shot). This was not a murder attempt, this was in a way the extra mile, the kid will hopefully make a full recovery.
5. The fake gun is not an orange tipped fake, it’s very similar to a real looking gun. The kid also was not with friends “playing pretend” or anything like that.
6. As soon as the kid started yelling the officer immediately deescalated the situation and moved towards first aid.
7. The officer does have a messy history, particularly when alcohol is involved and when off duty, but was entirely sober at the time of the shooting and has never been known to be drunk while on duty.
8. We have had issues in the past few years locally particularly with teen violence. They’ve been trying to solve it, but some kids are carrying guns and robbing people, some kids have been carrying guns to protect themselves from the other kids, and evidently some kids are carrying fake guns too.

I’m glad this kid got to walk away with their life. I hope their hand isn’t too messed up and I hope they don’t have too much mental distress. They never should’ve walked around in public with a toy gun and “showed it off”, and I hope they never do this again.

If the officer really did something wrong, I’m sure we’ll get to the bottom of it, but as it stands, I think the officer reacted reasonably.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

I don’t know why you give someone with a history of violence, that includes brandishing a firearm at their own girlfriend the benefit of doubt?

Because I try and give everyone the benefit of the doubt; even people who reply with a condescending tone. I also acknowledge that people make mistakes and people’s personal lives and professional lives are different things.

Essentially saying that he panicked and has poor aim. No one is taught to shoot “in a non-lethal manor”, you always aim for center mass.

Plenty of people go to a range and practice shooting. You’re making a lot of assumptions about skill here that are entirely your own bias.

I’m sorry, is it illegal for him to be carrying a toy gun, or even a real gun? This is America, we are allowed to open carry, or conceal and carry with proper licensing. Did the officer ask if he had a weapon on him? Did he ask about licensing? Or did he just give a vague command for him to raise his hands?

You are not allowed to go around and point a gun (real or not) at buildings. It’s called public menacing and it’s illegal. That is what the call was about.

And all police officers should know that witness testimony is more often wrong than not.

There is a big difference between eye witness testimony (i.e., remembering the facts and identifying people) and inaccuracies in reporting (I saw a car driving way too fast, I saw a person rob my grocery story, I saw a person shoot someone – these aren’t things people often get wrong).

The rest of this I’m not touching it’s loaded with biases, condescending tone, and disregard for the particulars of the situation.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

I stated what was going on, and what my take on it was with the local context. Have a nice day. You’re clearly not interested in an intelligent or otherwise nuanced conversion.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

It’s hard to tell if the shot was intentional. The office is talking to the kid and exiting his vehicle when he shoots him. Cops aim at your center, not your hands.

It would be one heck of a coincidence if this kid just so happened to get shot dead in the middle of the hand that was holding the fake gun.

Orange tips haven’t stopped police from shooting people in the past.

The point isn’t that they haven’t stopped it. The point is this toy gun wasn’t one of those toy guns; the officer had no clear marking to go off of. You can go on to say “he would’ve shot him anyways” but that’s your bias, not anything we can know for sure either way.

I’m not seeing anywhere that the cop had his BAC tested

The point is that wasn’t an allegation against the officer by the kid, any other officers, or in any of his prior incidents/suspensions; i.e., there’s no reason to believe that was the case here based in reported facts.

I’m not sure what your point is. Should police treat teens in your area as threats because some are carrying real guns?

The point is that this isn’t Mayberry and there was reason for the officer to believe that this teenager they’d never met, in an area that’s had problems with this, posed a real threat to them. People under 25 are (sadly) responsible for the majority of violent crime in the city currently.

This cop has already proven he’s a danger and hasn’t faced any real consequences.

Well, we’ll see. The citizen oversight board is new and untested. The mayor is similarly new and untested (but passionate about the issue). The office of chief of police is in transition and currently unfilled.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

I’m not surprised either but I thought folks would appreciate the local context.

This is an issue our community is truly trying to address (it was something the new mayor was quite passionate about in his campaign and the community police oversight board was something he pushed for/got done when he was a city council member).

I (personally) have found that while Akron has made national news for police related shootings, the shootings often are far more nuanced than say, those out of Columbus, OH or what happened with George Floyd.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

It would be incredibly hard to intentionally shoot someone in the hand in this type of situation.

Yes, but the fact of the matter is that he was shot in the hand. It’s entirely possible this cop has spent a lot of time at the range and intentionally made that shot.

This was one bullet in a (relatively rare) case of firearm discharge by an officer in Akron. The chances of that one bullet being fired and one bullet accidentally hitting exactly where it needed to are pretty low.

It was also pretty close range (which makes this easier), if he was aiming for center mass and hit this kid’s hand, he would have to be an incredibly bad shot.

He didn’t observe from a distance, or seek cover, or call for backup. He needlessly put himself in danger if he thought this kid was going to try to kill him.

It’s pretty clear he either didn’t think this was the kid or wasn’t expecting to have (what looked like) a gun pointed in his general discussion.

It’s also pretty clear that backup was not far away based on there being other cops on the scene within seconds of the shooting.

That was still plenty of time if it was a real gun for that officer’s family to be attending a funeral right now.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

“People like you” are the reason why I have to block people and get disgusted with social media.

There’s nuance in everything, which is something you clearly don’t understand, and I have no interest in discussing anything with you further.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Rule #4.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

news.harvard.edu/…/chevron-deference-faces-existe…

Me too… Me too…

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

There’s some definitive “do it, you won’t” energy here.

Which to be fair, it would look really bad for Boeing if this guy “committed suicide” too. To the point it might actually be safer to be the second guy.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

There’s no way whoever ordered the hit the first time (assuming it really was an ordered hit … and it probably was) individually is going to want that heat.

It’s one of those things that “if one of your acquaintances dies, it’s plausible it really was an accident like you said. If people who hangout with you keep dropping … a lot more eyes are looking at you.”

It’s probably not a true “company” position to murder whistle blowers, but somebody presumably thought it was in their own best interest.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

That seems plausible

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

This just feels like a random hit list; how did you come up with it?

Why zoom? It’s based out of San Francisco.

I also object to the Telegram inclusion. Unless you want to include Discord, and various other server side encrypted communication apps. The founders may be Russians by birth but they have Ukrainian roots, are no longer Russian citizens, had their first company stolen from them by the Kremlin, etc. Also I always like to note, Einstein was a German by birth but he was no Nazi.

What’s the FileZilla connection? Tim Kosse (which as far as I can tell it’s still the primary author) is a German.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

I mean… That’s fair, I don’t recommend zoom, but those reasons have nothing to do with Russia and everything to do with a company that was willing to lie that they had E2EE and didn’t.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

It’s crazy. We had full kitchens in our elementary/middle school and high school. I can’t remember them ever actually doing anything other than reheating precooked frozen food.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

They did say “similar kits/products” implying it much not be lunchables, which feels an awful lot like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

They said those were tested and several (not all) of the things tested were found to contain “bad stuff”

It’s actually pretty vague wording.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Quality never improved, my comment was more intended to read “they had full kitchens they didn’t use”

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

With a domain as valuable as Twitter.com it’s very unlikely it would be sold to a phishing group.

I still don’t ever see this happening.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Usually they’re not so big they became a verb.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Maybe if you give them a chance. They’ve had power with a significant majority for like 2 years in the last 20.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

See that part you missed about significant majority.

The bill now faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has expressed major concerns over a variety of elements of the plan.

…cnn.com/…/h_0af24a9fd95acb76899d64f67d4f517d

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I can believe I’m going to get eaten by a talking meatball when I go to dinner tonight.

The talking meatball obviously isn’t going to eat me, it isn’t real.

The impact the talking meatball has on my decision making remains a real observable thing.

Nobody is blaming god here, they’re blaming the concept of god/gods, and how that concept has resulted in many people treating others poorly.

Note, that’s not a judgement on you (presumably) having beliefs, I believe there’s probably something out there myself. The talking meatball is purely illustrative.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

The loudest atheists I know off also happen to be white supremacists

That tells me a lot about the (supposed) “rationality” of liberal atheism

I’m really inclined to believe that you’re a troll… Liberal atheists that are white supremacists? I’ve never met anyone that fits that description. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt a little longer…

If you want a great example of how religion has been quite negative, see the crusades, salem witch trials, the Spanish inquisition, ISIS, 9-11.

None of these events have relationships to the teachings of say, Jesus. However, they are atrocities (in cases like the crusades some of the bloodiest conflicts in history) where someone’s belief in god is ultimately what led to the conflict. In many cases the atrocities of a nation state and the religious motivation are hand in hand; the founding fathers specifically tried to separate religion from government because of this problematic history.

In the modern US religion is often used to dismiss scientific findings. Folks will say “oh it doesn’t matter if climate change is real, God will find a way for us all to continue living.” … or … “it doesn’t matter if COVID is real, God will find a way to heal me” … or … “my kid has cancer but they don’t need doctors they need prayers for God to heal them miraculously.” Religion was even used by some to justify racism based slavery in the US.

Religion has a long history of being used to incite violence or to dismiss concerns about problems where … whether God exists or not … there are concrete actions that people on Earth can take right this instant that we know will help.

I’m not going to say “we’d be better off with nobody believing in anything!” but we certainly would be better off if more people/societies didn’t listen to fanatics that have their own agenda that’s truly devoid of rational thought and the high morals most scripture seeks to teach.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

In general I feel like parents shouldn’t be held accountable for everything their kids do; but, in the circumstances surrounding this case where the parents gave a kid that was clearly mentally unstable a gun with no supervision or real steps to safeguard said gun… Yeah they should be held liable.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Ooof… Mother of the year…

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Little late www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/us/…/index.html

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

As a person in their late 20s previously educated by Ohio public schools, I know your pain, and I’m sorry.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Appreciate all the detail and the extra mile of providing the screenshot!

Have some Lemmy gold: 🥇

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

That is not the takeaway here.

The takeaway is Passkeys are great technology but as implemented by Google, Microsoft, and Apple fall short of what they could be.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Eh… That’s not exactly a silver bullet or necessarily “way better”; it’s got a lot of usability issues.

You really only want to do that for your most important sites and then you want to use multiple passkeys to make sure you retain access.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

That is not the takeaway here.

The takeaway is Passkeys are great technology but as implemented by Google, Microsoft, and Apple fall short of what they could be.

This isn’t some “owned by the billionaire class”. It’s an open standard that’s why Bitwarden and Proton both have implementations. Big tech of course provided implementations that are not as portable as possible, that’s all that’s going on here.

There’s really not some big conspiracy to kill kittens or whatever. Passkeys are far more secure (and for most people far more usable) than passwords.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Not ELI5 level but…

If you understand SSH keys, it’s basically the same thing made more general.

Whatever website (e.g. lemmy.world) has a copy of the public key, they encrypt something with the public key, you decrypt it, reencrypt it with your private key and send it back (where they can then decrypt it and verify what they got back is what they expected). By performing that round trip, you’ve verified you have the correct key, and the “door opens.”

The net effect is you can prove who you are, without actually giving someone the ability to impersonate you. It’s authentication via “secret steps only you would know” instead of authentication by a fixed “password” (that anyone who hears it can store and potentially use for their own purposes).

That’s all wrapped up in an open protocol anyone can implement and use to provide a variety of (hopefully) user friendly implementations (like the one Proton made) 🙂

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Proton, Bitwarden, 1Password, Yubico (via the Yubikey), and others (including big tech) already have their own independent implementations(?)

Even Keypass has at least a partial implementation github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/8825

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

It will get there… passkeys.directory passkeys.2fa.directory/us/

It’s still relatively new technology.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

I think you better understood their question; thanks for jumping in.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Wind Waker was an amazing game

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

I actually really enjoyed the size of the ocean it made me feel like I was really on a journey

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

Telling people they are over reacting to death threats is a take…

That’s a gross oversimplification of my comment, by a brand new account too, very cool.

Dark_Arc , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

Because it’s absurd to say that nobody would be harmed; speaking in absolutes is the antithetical of intelligent discussion for complex issues.

How many LGBTQ people were killed because Trump and all the faux Trump supporting accounts weren’t stopped in 2016? How many more will be killed if this problem of bot accounts, nation state actors, and people making threats with 0 accountability isn’t solved and disinformation and extremism spreads further?