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https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/06/27/0246252/is-a-sony-ps3-leak-now-leading-to-banned-consoles "Every Sony PlayStation 3 ID out there was compromised, provoking bans of legit players on the network," Threatpost is reporting, calling it "just the latest in a shocking spike in attacks on unsuspecting gamers." tlhIngan (Slashdot user #30,335) shares Threatpost's report:Sony reportedly left a folder with every PS3 console ID online unsecured, and it was discovered and reported by a Spanish YouTuber with the handle "The WizWiki" in mid-April... Now, several weeks later, players on PlayStation Network message boards are complaining that they can't sign on and are receiving the error message 8071006. After enabling two-factor authentication (2FA), one player was able to sign back in without issue, according to posts on the PS3 subreddit, which includes a link to instructions on how to opt into 2FA on the PS3. It appears threat actors have started using the stolen PS3 console IDs for malicious purposes, causing the legitimate players to get banned... Sony has not responded to Threatpost's request for comment or confirmed a connection between the PS3 ID breach and player reports of being locked out of the platform... Sony is hardly the only gaming company leaking data like a sieve. A report from January found a half a million credentials stolen from the Top 25 gaming companies on caches of breached data for sale in criminal marketplaces. In June, the "Battle of the Galaxy" mobile game leaked 6 million gamer profiles, and attackers are working out how to use gaming platforms like Steam to host or deliver malware. Looks like sony is getting their way on killing the ps3 whether people like it or not.

We always talk about the semiconductor shortage but let's be honest, we produce a lot of silicon, so the question is, where is it all ending up? How are we divvying up silicon production? What is taking the lions share to the point even computers needed for cars to function can't be produced fast enough to keep up with demand? Production hasn't changed much over the years, if anything it's only gone up, not down. I think it would be interesting to find out just what percent of silicon production ends up going into what products, this may be at the core of the issue, it may not be that we don't have enough, but simply that we are over producing for a area(s) that really shouldn't need it.

I'm wondering how low coins like bitcoin and ethereum for example have to go before most miners would theoretically not be able to break even anymore. As this is the most likely point where we will see them start to jump ship and get out before they take losses.

A friend brought these up the other day and I was surprised I hadn't heard of them. https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/products/boards-kits/compute-stick.html Not quite the same power but interesting none the less.

Images from google because obvious reasons, so sorry for the size discrepancies. Tell me sorting by date/domain/alphabetically is not better than what we have with chrome.

Take for example the RTX 3060. It's MSRP is 329. On newegg and various other retailers you can find it for between that and 560, provided you can find it in stock. The GTX 1060's (6GB) relative performance to the 3060 is about 50%. According to ebay the average going price for a used 1060 (6GB) is about 200. Keeping in mind the current market situation does inflate prices of both new and used, going off just performance metrics the 1060 wouldn't be worth any more than 165 new, or taking into account the fact it's used, knocking off 30% of the price you're looking at 115 used. Do you think that's a fair way to go about pricing of older/lower spec parts? Because retailers (including newegg, just for example) are also selling 1050 ti's (which I couldn't give a comparison since the 3050/ti's are not out yet so this is the best I could do) for what appears to range between 220 and 350. Almost double what a used 1060 is worth in terms of performance on the low end and as much as more than a 3060, which is more than double the performance to costs, on the high end. Take into note the 1050 ti also launched at a MSRP of 140, 80 less than what it is being sold for on the low end, almost 5 years later.

Remember Pimp My Ride? Well how about Pimp My PC! A series where LTT takes some poor unfortunate souls PC and goes Pimp My Ride on it, and I don't mean just ROG Rig Reboot upgrading it/building a new one. Whole custom fabrication to upgrade the case (or the replacement of the case) to look like something utterly show stopping, just like they would with cars off Pimp My Ride. Of course with some component upgrades as well. This is a series that would primarily be handled by alex and the likes of those working in the shop, and not so much those who just build and benchmark. The whole focus (well main focus) would be around the looks of the PC, with the added benefit of the upgrade to the function of the PC.

TLDR Shipping anything in canada is expensive, going in or out no matter the shipping provider. 7 dollars for a deskmat is actually pretty competitive compared to what we're usually exposed to. Canada post is usually your best bet for prices, but the speed can be, variable.

Here's another in depth piece on it from him. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/05/the-bill-c-10-effect-why-canadian-consumers-face-a-future-of-cancon-surcharges-and-blocked-services/ The Bill C-10 Effect: Why Canadian Consumers Face a Future of Cancon Surcharges and Blocked Services TLDR it doesn't look good Here's a similar comment from another site on the matter.

I'm going to sound old but omg I miss when shoes had RGB.

Personally I'm of the opinion not until 2027, manufacturing can't be ramped up any more than it already is until new fabs are built, assuming we build enough fabs to counteract the high demand it will still take 5 years or so to build the fabs, you then need time to build the chips and fill the inevitable backlog of chips that will have already been on backorder for the countless products that require them.

If I manage to catch the wan show live I'll send a superchat asking what their thoughts on it are, it would be a good place to discuss it especially with luke, who's in charge of floatplane, there to air his thoughts to. Problem being there's no consistent time when it goes live and being on the east coast one time they didn't go live till after I was asleep. Here's another one from Michael Geist with what was said that the bill would be intended for, so I think you might be onto something about them having to pay in, but it would seem it's not just their floatplane endeavors that would end up costing them. Large channels with lots of views and followers would also get included. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/05/guilbeaultc10regulationusers/

Here's a deeper dive into it from a canadian law professor. https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/05/not-just-big-techbillc10/ Not Just Big Tech: Government Memo Shows Bill C-10 Targets News Sites, Podcast and Workout Apps, Adult Websites, Audiobooks, and Sports Streamers for CRTC Regulation Here's the memo for those who just want to read it. https://www.scribd.com/document/508665790/A-2020-00498-Heritage-c10-Digital-Exclusion

It really is a problem when old machines don't have enough ram to even do many things. Chrome alone has made that obvious. It also eats up a lot of vram if you're using hardware acceleration so a card with low vram will have trouble to.

I swear if this doesn't turn out to be one of their secret give away things I'm actually going to be surprised, that's actually kind of amazing.

Nice to see my little bit of helpful info is actually going to use.

At what point, is it so old and so outdated, so underperforming, do you just consider it junk. It just can't keep up anymore (or in some cases couldn't keep up to begin with).

What are some monitors that allow you to do multiple inputs at once, so you can have like splitscreen, input 1 on the left being by one system and input 2 on the right being another system.

2-4 million gallons of pure water per day per fab, holy crap I knew it was a lot but I didn't know it was that much. All for cleaning? I wonder if anybody could create a process to recycle even more of that water than already is, if we're going to be ramping up chip manufacturing in the coming years we're either going to need to find a way to recycle that water or start looking for other sources of water, considering how much water people use in general per day. https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/total-water-use-united-states?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects

There was a post a week or 2 back from a whistle blower employee from CC about how they were taking GPU's people had already pre ordered/back ordered and putting them into prebuilts to try and make more money by forcing people to buy prebuilts for the GPU's, they're likely just canceling those pre orders/back orders now to prevent another headache like that. The lawyers probably said something about holding peoples money and never delivering a product.

Does anyone have a TLDR on this? What components of manufacturing require so much water.

Linus mentioned the LTT kids books on the WAN show and it gave me a idea, it would be interesting to see if the community could put together a (tech) kids book. Obviously it would never be sold, but just like a way for the creative part of the community to flex their creativity. People who are good at writing could do the text and people who are good at doing art/drawing would do the visuals. Like a different person(s) does every page sort of thing and it all comes together into a single book that people can just be like "yeah I made part of that".

I think you missed the point. The whole point of the VAG (yes we all know it's a stupid acronym, that was the point, it could have been "verified actual person" but VAP doesn't get giggles out of people) program was about equalizing the playing field, instead of the average shmoe having to compete against a army of a hundred thousand bots and hoping by some miracle they come across a card, they can catch a video alert and get a chance to get a card by verifying he is not a bot, but a actual person and charging them MSRP, not some giant markup. It was s system designed to help people like you, who can't get a card. Does ltt get something out of this? Of course, this is without a doubt boosting their view numbers on videos which results in a overall boost in revenue, having staff manage all this has gotta be payed for somehow. Nvidia has moved 30 million in 2020 alone, and AMD 10 million, LTT has moved less than a thousand into the hands of people they knows are individuals that either need or want the cards, this is less cards than a typical bot operation picks up in a hour. If you want a card so badly, set up your own bot or turn on notifications for LTT videos, all honesty you're more likely to get a card through the bot than the videos because of how many people are clamoring for them, but undoubtedly you will be paying more, a lot more depending on your country (here in canada some shops are selling them at almost double MSRP).

Your free speech is at risk with Ottawa's push to regulate online content, experts warn https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c10-user-generated-content-1.6007192 New broadcasting bill could regulate all your Facebook, Instagram and YouTube posts, experts say https://globalnews.ca/news/7816226/facebook-instagram-youtube-canada-crtc-canadian-content/ Ottawa's move to regulate video posts on YouTube and social media called 'assault' on free speech https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ottawas-move-to-regulate-video-posts-on-youtube-and-social-media-called-assault-on-free-speech Opinion: Trudeau’s plan for the Internet: More patriotic propaganda, less choice for users https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/29/canada-trudeau-c-10-bill-internet-jj-mccullough/ NDP open to supporting controversial broadcasting bill amendment: Singh https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/ndp-open-to-supporting-controversial-broadcasting-bill-amendment-singh Not Just User Generated Content: Liberal Government Also Want the CRTC to Regulate Apps Under Bill C-10 https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/04/not-just-user-generated-content-liberals-also-want-the-crtc-to-regulate-apps-under-bill-c-10/ Uploads to social media could be regulated under proposed changes to Canada’s broadcasting law https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2021/04/26/uploads-to-social-media-could-be-regulated-under-proposed-changes-to-canadas-broadcasting-law.html

Moved to the megathread to accommodate. How we can help the Verified Actual Gamer program by getting more AIB's on board and getting more cards. These are the AIB's that have partnered with the Verified Actual Gamer program. Asus, MSI and EVGA. AMD isn't a AIB but also are partnered. These are AIB's that aren't. Gigabyte https://www.gigabyte.com/Contact Asrock https://www.asrock.com/general/about.us.asp?cat=Contact Power Color https://www.powercolor.com/contact Sapphire https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/contact-us XFX https://www.xfxforce.com/support/contact-us ZOTAC https://www.zotac.com/ca/support#contact PNY https://www.pny.com/company-footer/contact-us-company Palit https://www.palit.com/palit/contact.php?lang=en INNO3D https://www.inno3d.com/static.php?langid=1&refid=2 Colorful faq.en@colorful.cn If even a few of us asked them to join on, they may actually consider it. All it takes is a few requests making it up the line to pique interest. If even a handful of these see the potential for some good PR and join on it could significantly boost the Verified Actual Gamer program and the amount of cards available.