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Paranoid Kami

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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from Dracarris in Canadian team discovers power-draining flaw in most laptop and phone batteries   
    Says in the article many tech companies were surprised to learn this and are coming up with solutions.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from CryoZen in Gaming PC Values and the Market   
    They're trying to hassle you to get a lower price. Just ignore them. Look for more places to advertise your computers if you can.
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    Paranoid Kami reacted to ouroesa in Unreal Engine 5.1 - video game graphics have arrived at their destination   
    I dont want to be 'that' guy but your self entitled response says more about you than it does about others. All I hear is 'Me Me ME ME mE Me!'
     
    Games have graphical settings which you can change to suite your hardware (for the most part). Most game will even check your hardware and change settings accordingly Geforce Experience can do this as well). Other than that, games also generally have some presets which you can choose. 
     
    If this is above your ability, just get a console and stop complaining as everethying wont be built solely around your needs. The world has more people than only you.
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    Paranoid Kami reacted to Kisai in WAN Show Hackers   
    Half-true. If you make available the tools, or where to find them, that leads to people being "scriptkiddie's"
     
    Trust me, blackhats and whitehats basically all originate from doing this. The blackhats figure out how to get the tools onto targets, the whitehats figure out how to remove them.
     
    I can tell you from personal experience, back in the win9x-WinXP era that Windows security was a sieve that you could rip the password from, remotely without the user ever knowing, and without even having to install anything. During early versions of Cable modems, if you connected an XP computer to the cable modem (before firewall/router/wifi access point combo modems were a thing) your machine would be infected in minutes by other infected computers sharing the same node.
     
    Not everything is directly people doing it. The vast majority is unattended activity. Only spear-phishing is directly targeted.
     
    I won't name the tool, but there was a tool that the local ISP somehow got on their server, and while the temptation to dick around with the server was there, the most logical thing to do with the tool was to tell it to shut the server down. Anyways this tool, had a backdoor in it, marketed as a "security tool" whatever password you set it to have, didn't matter, because there was a second password it always accepted.
     
    So what did I do? I overwrote versions of that tool I found on peoples machines with the one I changed the backdoor password on, locking the script kiddies out. Therefor the only way for those kiddies to get back into those windows machines was to get physical access to them.
     
     
    A lot of it is situation dependent. Up until Windows Vista, it was very easy to access peoples machines. Vista, 7, 10, 11 changed how UAC is done, and the default user is no longer "admin" level access. Which of course, also broke a lot of software that expected it to work that way. However even then, if someone downloads something and doesn't give it "admin" control , it still can reach into everything that user can reach. 
     
    It used to be, From 95-XP that you could quite literately have Windows give up all the saved passwords, and it's for that EXACT reason why "save my password" should never be done. Ever. Windows shares, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox, don't do it. It's just not a smart thing to do, since anything can tell it to give it up.
     
    Even today, I don't trust the browsers on Windows.
     
     
    Seeing something simply makes it's awareness more common, and hence, countermeasures. There are, yes, some tools you probably shouldn't mention by name because people will misunderstand the nature of the tool if demonstrate by someone who also doesn't understand the nature of the tool, but that's more because the tools used "correctly" are pentesting and stress testing, and when used maliciously are "hacking, and DDoS'ing",
     
    Like, forget windows for a moment and focus on web servers. Unless you physically own the hardware and set it up yourself, you can not actually trust that the BIOS, OS or hardware is secure. If you sign up for a third party to host your servers, you don't know who else they have as customers who might "hack you" intentionally, or be compromised, leading to your data being leaked because you happen to share the same hardware (eg VPS/shared hosting.) 
     
    Part of the entire "side channel attack" problem comes from the possibility of this being viable in VPS and Shared hosting systems where there is more than one user using the same hardware. How often does it happen? We will never know. But that spectre-exploitable hardware will not disappear from hosting environments for a long time.
     
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from Demonking in Valve to start charging 1$ a month for better CSGO statistics   
    Tekken fans: We pay for frame data...
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    Paranoid Kami reacted to Vanderburg in 3 members of Team Xecuter have been indicted in the USA on 11 felony charges   
    Just because you weren't going to buy it doesn't give you a right to it and doesn't mean that the creator doesn't own it. Whether or not you were going to buy it is totally irrelevant to whether piracy is stealing.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from Letgomyleghoe. in WoW: Shadowlands delayed   
    lol I never liked the game either but always watched the trailers too 🤣
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    Paranoid Kami reacted to Letgomyleghoe. in WoW: Shadowlands delayed   
    Confession I never play WOW but I always watch the cinematic trailers for the expansions because they look dope and I like the lore.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from sub68 in What Role Do You Play?   
    In Guild Wars 2 I play roamer, duelist, support and healer. I refuse to play dps. It's boring.
     
    In Dow 2 I main a Force Commander. It's an rts so all commanders/armies can 1v1 but the FC does bring melee damage and buffing.
     
    Oh, and modern games are so boring because developers go for the 'easy to play, hard to master' route. It essentially means depth is removed to make it easy and mechanics makes it hard to master. As long as I still got options I refuse to play that garbage.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from Moonzy in Should games with high RSI risk notify their user about potential of such risk?   
    Continous strain over a long period of time causes RSI. Take breaks, get ergonomic, do stretches/exercises for your hand/wrist/forearm. It's a common sense thing and not the responsibility of the developer.
     
    It is a problem for those who don't know. It should be a basic thing you learn in a computer science class to be honest about it.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from Oswin in What Role Do You Play?   
    In Guild Wars 2 I play roamer, duelist, support and healer. I refuse to play dps. It's boring.
     
    In Dow 2 I main a Force Commander. It's an rts so all commanders/armies can 1v1 but the FC does bring melee damage and buffing.
     
    Oh, and modern games are so boring because developers go for the 'easy to play, hard to master' route. It essentially means depth is removed to make it easy and mechanics makes it hard to master. As long as I still got options I refuse to play that garbage.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in Should games with high RSI risk notify their user about potential of such risk?   
    Continous strain over a long period of time causes RSI. Take breaks, get ergonomic, do stretches/exercises for your hand/wrist/forearm. It's a common sense thing and not the responsibility of the developer.
     
    It is a problem for those who don't know. It should be a basic thing you learn in a computer science class to be honest about it.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from RobbyTheRobot in Help finding an good gaming chair   
    You can check out the Ergochair 2. Don't recommend gaming chairs with their uncomfortable cushion lumbar support.
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    Paranoid Kami reacted to mr moose in Shutterstock censorship, the woes of employees   
    In short no they can't, not in this situation.
     
    If I had an employee who kept using the tool box meeting to complain about a 1st world ideal when I needed to discuss daily running issues I would fast tell them to piss off too.  You can't waste an employers time trying to change their business model because it upsets your personal ideals.  They run the company not the employee.
     
     
    At the moment I think you will find it's the other way around, the rest of the world can't afford to not trade with china.  They manufacture the lion's share of everything (nearly everything) and when they have issues we have issues.
     
    People tend to forget that china is not an insignificant part of the global economy, The reason tariffs on Chinese imports have a massive effect (for better or worse) is because of the necessity of the Chinese market.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from Ben17 in Socks for gamers   
    It's just an overpriced "slipper sock". You can find lots of other brands on Amazon that are much cheaper.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from Bombastinator in Socks for gamers   
    It's just an overpriced "slipper sock". You can find lots of other brands on Amazon that are much cheaper.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from Zando_ in Games suggestion for 60 yr old dad ???   
    Get the Halo Master Chief Collection if you don't want a complicated multiplayer like an RTS. Halo has always been very basic and easy to play.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from amdorintel in Valve Index now available in Canada ! Here are the prices !   
    I can pick up an Oculus at Best Buy for 550. Who would buy the index for more than double?
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from cNrYJMQifDkk in I got rid of my OLED... for a GAMING TV   
    The mounts are universal.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in Steam is insane   
    The constant friend and group invites was really annoying. Glad I don't get them anymore.
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    Paranoid Kami reacted to 2SidedPolygon in US Senate Against Lootboxes and Pay2Win Micro-Transactions   
    I wouldn't call getting rid of loot boxes any kind of suffering at all.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from 8uhbbhu8 in Canadian border agents increasingly being nosey with tech   
    My parents had to go to the States(Canadian slang for 'Murica") to do some immigration work and the guy there accused them of trying to hide things because they never brought their phone with them. They wanted to go through it so they could check messages and stuff like that even though it wasn't required for what they were there for. They just automatically wanted to search them because they could and it became part of their process. Messed up.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from ne0tic in Single, Unemployed Better "Gamers”   
    I'm all for women gaming but I don't see many in esports and the ones I do aren't as highly skilled as males.
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    Paranoid Kami got a reaction from JabroniBaloney in Borderlands 3 likely an Epic exclusive   
    Everything being on Steam is a bad thing. You can add it as a non-steam game and still get access to your friends list if that's what you're mad about.
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    Paranoid Kami reacted to PorkishPig in IS G2A LEGIT   
    G2A is not safe in any regard. Sure, you can get a key that works, but most if not everything you buy from G2A is keys purchased with stolen credit cards. With that in mind, keys that come from GOG, Rockstar Warehouse, and Origin have an incredibly high risk of being deactivated after purchase. If your key ends up working indefinitely, understand that your purchase is essentially scamming the developer out of that sale and you may as well have pirated it.
     
    Please, for the love of god, stop supporting G2A. They are the scum of the earth. If you want to learn more, watch the video below.
    G2A uses their own scummy system called G2A Pay, which introduces extra fees to use PayPal and receive buyer protection. There are no guarantees with this payment method.
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