RE: https://furry.engineer/@charcole/115845899626698240

The solution to cheating is to build better games.

It is a fundamental principle of cybersecurity that you cannot blindly trust the client - but many game developers don't understand that. This is why client-side anti-cheat *cannot* work.

If a client can lie to the server to gain an unfair advantage, a client can lie to the server about passing an anti-cheat check too.

The proper solution to cheating is good multiplayer network protocol design and server-side validation.

aaaaa I have too many tabs

fediverse PSA

the "ph-" and "ph+" content warnings are for negative and positive information about one's physical health

these are not to be confused with the "pH-" and "pH+" tags, used to inform people as to whether one has become more acidic or basic respectively

it snowed!

happy new year!

Duuude! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 🥳🥳🥳🥳

#plan9 #9front #9phone

Licensing all my code under MIT + Trans Rights is a fun and silly little thing. I don't understand the consequences of

The above copyright notice, this permission notice, and the affirmation that TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Nor do I have the means to even bring consequences. But it's a silly little thing that might be a legal problem for someone else anyways.

Hot take: Industry should abandon HDMI.
DisplayPort is better in every single case (licensing, bandwidth, physical connection).

Every single time I need to use HDMI, I have some kind of issue. One of my monitors is connected using HDMI and I had to add aliases to my shell called "fucking-lg-on" and "fucking-lg-off" that writes values to i2c device (DDC) to tell the monitor to suspend.
Otherwise when kscreenlocker sends DPMS standby, monitor keeps disconnecting and re-connecting itself which sooner or later crashes my wayland session.... and that's just one example.

I've had issues with HDMI as far back as I can remember (likely circa 2014 when I finally could afford swapping burnt-out CRT from 1999 with 1080p LCD monitor).

DisplayPort however? Zero, nada.

Then of course there's HDMI Forum which I personally hate with burning passion (for obvious reasons).

I genuinely wonder *why* manufacturers of monitors and TVs stick with HDMI when DP is superior in every single way.

fox (different per instance):

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I hope all those devs who went “I don’t need to optimize, there’s plenty of RAM” are going to get slapped with complaints about bad performance because the software runs like shit on new computers whose RAM size traveled back to 2015

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if sec is the reciprocal of cos and cosec is the reciprocal of sin, what is dnssec?

I love how Mozart was the first music pirate, who transcribed — from memory — Gregorio Allegri’s “Miserere” in 1771.

He went to a performance of it, and then went straight home to write down the notation. The sheet music was only allowed be owned by, like, three people… I think one of which was the Holy Roman Emperor at the time.

Mozart, the badass, then published the sheet music.

His sheer gumption was so welcomed that the Pope gave him the Order of the Golden Spur.

So remember: whenever you pirate something, you are following in the footsteps of Mozart himself.

CLAs mean that companies can take open source software and privatize it.

https://github.com/minio/minio?tab=readme-ov-file#maintenance-mode

There is currently a scanning electron microscope on eBay UK for the incredible bargain price of £470. I do not have space for this.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267500902096

je m'alloc (i manage my own memory, for those who don't speak french)