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Hobox

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  1. How much does something like this cost? Did I miss a mention in the video? Didn't see any rough numbers when googling
  2. Is there any plans for reasonably priced cards like reference 3060's or 3060 Ti's?
  3. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ektg8u/chinese_spyware_preinstalled_on_all_samsung/ A reddit user discovered that the Storage section of the Device Care software that Samsung uses in their Android distribution is made by a shady Chinese company named Qihoo 360. This company is well-known to use shady tactics and trickery to install adware and spyware on users' products. Using Wireshark, the reddit user was able to confirm that the company does indeed send data back to chinese servers, under at least two domain names: 360.cn & 360safe.com. To make matters worse, Device Care and its individual sections cannot be disabled by the user without Root privileges. Yet another worse detail is outlined in the comments of the original thread, from which a user discovered that this company is sending sensitive data back to the Chinese servers over standard, unencrypted HTTP. The sensitive data includes details like your device's IMEI number and MAC address. ----- Given how this topic is rapidly blowing up on Reddit, I hope it can have enough outreach for media sites with actual contacts at Samsung to pick up on this. Maybe Samsung would be willing to work on shutting down these oversights and support their users.
  4. Jesus fucking christ, look at the comments on that article. It's fucking pathetic the lengths people go to defend Apple. The term sheeple is real for a very evident reason.
  5. Hasn't AMD said, multiple times, that Navi is still based on GCN and is their last one that will be? Why are people saying it isn't now, I haven't seen any indication of this anywhere.
  6. And people defend them in the US, lol. It's almost like US intelligence committees have research and information they don't release to the public when deciding companies like this might be spying! Wow, shocking!!!
  7. GPU cracking can very much be done, no server hardware necessary. Hashcat is definitely the best password cracking program available right now, it definitely seems to do some magic with the hash rates it achieves. It all comes down to hash algorithm anyway. GPU resistant algorithms will actually run better on a CPU and hashcat can do it too. But yeah, websites that don't do things properly may be hashing passwords in MD5 or SHA1 for example and those can brute force passwords of like 12 characters, even more when the character space is smaller than it should be.
  8. Maybe I didn't read the article closely enough and I'm kind of tired at the moment, but your assessment of the article seems completely opposite of what their overall point was. They say the Natural color profile is accurate, not Saturated. Saturated is tuned for DCI-P3 which will only look right specifically for content tuned for it.
  9. This is really stupid and entirely missing the point. Sure Intel had a 12 core on Xeon. I said 6. Half of their server offering would have been more than easy. Either way, you're missing the obvious point here. It's not to have higher core counts, but have software that takes advantage of it. Yeah, it's not mainstream right now. I pointed that out myself already, if they WERE for sale 5 years ago, it WOULD BE mainstream by now.
  10. The real damage done here is to all the software we use. Had Intel at least had REASONABLE releases, like 6 cores around 2012, 8 cores around 2015, and 10 for 2017 to now sort of match where we ended up anyway, developers would be programming with increased thread count in mind all the more. Optimization would be nearly a decade ahead of where it is now. Intel essentially held the world back a decade in computing with their greediness. Makes my blood boil. Remember, developers target hardware that's already mainstream, they don't target future hardware.
  11. It's not about users seeing phone numbers. Companies sell personal information all the time. Like I said, Discord is FREE service, and had no monetary option until Nitro released. They have to make money through other methods. There's a reason they refuse to use end to end encryption: if they did they wouldn't have access to all your chats, voice data, shared links, files, etc if they (properly) encrypted it all. So I'm just giving everyone a reminder/warning: Be careful linking your phone number to discord. There's no telling who it gets shared with. Edit: Secondarily, you can't take what Discord reddit mods say as word of God. Discord claims they encrypt all station data but their support has told users multiple times in emails that they store all data unencrypted for "speed and ease of access", contradicting each other.
  12. Alright I'll post a different issue that is very on topic. My intent was never to argue, it just always gets to me when people disregard real issues and try to pass them off as "it's only me" or other nonsense. I apologize for my side of it. BE WARY LINKING YOUR PHONE NUMBER TO DISCORD. Personal friends of mine have had a sharp increase in spam calls after doing so for other communities they are a part of. I refuse to do it personally. @ LTT Staff - I hope you guys can look into replacing the phone number requirement with something else eventually, but I understand the need for a serious restriction on accounts joining the channel as it is a huge community. Remember! - Discord is free, they had no income until they released Nitro, but that can't sustain them - they make money through other methods. And they have access to everything you ever say, type, or share through discord. Draw your own conclusions from that.
  13. This is incredibly stupid. It doesn't matter what field of science or math they focused on. It's basically a way of honoring their work. Besides, all those fields ARE related to computing. Processors are basically the culmination of all branches of physics, engineering, and math.
  14. Synergy turned to complete shit after the devs turned into complete asshats. It's a shame Linus has been advertising for them so much lately.
  15. Lol, sure thing bud.
  16. Their new outlook on xbox actually makes me want one. I love the whole W10/XB cross-ownership thing they have going where buying it on one platform means you own it on both. It makes me want to get an xbox one x for the living room for couch lounging gaming and can switch at any time to my PC for more serious stuff, even for the same game.
  17. Hobox

    you are the oldest member on the forum other th…

    Ah interesting, weird that it autocorrects it. Also I didn't realize MrWizard was the one who beat me to creation lol. He must've done the same thing I did unless he knew Luke IRL and he had told him to make an account. I had to make my account back before the forums even went online, I just tested random account creation url's like how you would add /wp-login.php?register=true or something to the end of wordpress websites.
  18. Hobox

    you are the oldest member on the forum other th…

    Cool lol, how did you check though? Just curious how you saw 4 and 5 because I've wondered what happened to them.
  19. Hobox

    you are the oldest member on the forum other th…

    Yup lol, how did you find that out?
  20. Wahh words wahh!! Actions make someone racist, not a pattern of sounds.
  21. I will never understand people complaining about stuff like this. "We don't have 8K content and barely even have 4K! What's the point!" The point is that content creation won't get pushed forward until consumers start asking for/needing it. The more people with 4K and 8K TV's, the faster its use will roll out. There was hardly any 720p content and virtually no 1080p content when HDTV's first hit the market. This was my prediction for years, all the way back in 2010. That 4K TV's would hit the market but become the "720p" of the next generation, where 8K will roll out just a few years after and become the norm. I believe that 8K TV's will be where the resolution race pauses for a while again, 10 or so years like 1080p sat as king, before companies attempt pushing it higher again. And that's a GOOD thing.
  22. It's not just about collisions, GPU-accelerated password hashing absolutely plows through them, with a Titan X Pascal able to do nearly 40 billion md5 hashes per second. There is absolutely no excuse for using an ineffective hashing algorithm, especially md5. They aren't "good enough" and that is the exact line of thinking the lazy engineers at huge companies use that end up having huge security breaches, like LinkedIn. It takes minimal effort to implement an appropriate hashing algorithm over md5 or any other bad choice. There's literally no excuse to do so. Security is immeasurably important. Don't take shortcuts or be cheap. Too many people think they know better than security experts and try to do their own thing - it always ends in failure. Don't be one of those people. Learn how to do things properly and correctly and stay up-to-date in the subject.
  23. You were right about character set in your post but everything else is basically wrong, ESPECIALLY this part. Do NOT use sha256 or even worse md5 to store passwords, EVER. It is a pathetically weak hashing algorithm. While salting and using many iterations definitely improves its effectiveness, it is too error-prone to still actually consider using. Make sure to use a good, long, unique salt and to use an appropriate hashing algorithm such as bcrypt, scrypt, PBKDF2, or Argon2.
  24. Unfortunately this new fad of picking random words to form a "statement" isn't very secure anymore for various reasons. Many times, password fields are truncated to a certain length, and I don't necessarily mean when they give you an upper limit on password length. Many times they truncate silently at some given length. Even so, it's extremely easy to use different rulesets with a dictionary attack to break passwords. It's not advisable to do this. The most secure passwords are actually the random chains of characters like OP is thinking. However, you want to use all 95 printable ASCII characters to have as large of a character set as possible. Websites tend to disallow spaces but there's no actual reason to enforce such a rule. Secondly, you can't use a standard random function. You need to use the language's cryptographically secure random function. In other words, the main 3 things are: Use the cryptgraphically secure random function, not the standard one. Use all 95 printable ascii characters Generate a length at minimum 16 characters and hope that no truncation is performed, and if so hope it is at least 12 or greater.
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