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New comment by drvdevd in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

drvdevd — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:37:39 +0000

also I believe it helps you track save games. I have multiple Linux boxes I play GOG games on using Heroic launcher and save game tracking is a big issue (maybe there's a way to do this with Heroic, idk). But I think Galaxy would help here.

New comment by drvdevd in "Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders"

drvdevd — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 02:56:31 +0000

If you find macro shots of their faces too they kinda look like dogs with a few extra eyes

New comment by drvdevd in "Looming Groupocalypse: The Google Groupsspaggheddon Cometh"

drvdevd — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 09:03:04 +0000

> Whether February 22, 2024 comes in like a lion or a lamb, that day will always be September 11131, 1993.

> And one thing is sure: If September is eternal, then Usenet is eternal, too.

Amazing. Love this.

New comment by drvdevd in "2024 could be the year the PC dumps x86 for Arm, thanks to Windows 12"

drvdevd — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 19:00:16 +0000

I don’t have a good list of which games I validated in parallels and which I didn’t (since I’ve stopped gaming for the last 6 months or so).

And I do heavily play boomer shooters so it’s likely I was impressed by performance of less demanding games.

Doom Eternal is one AAA game I definitely would want to play in Parallels but can’t because the Vulkan version is not new enough. I’m confident though that Microsoft could bring these APIs up-to-date on an “ARM PC” though, if it has capable 3D hardware.

New comment by drvdevd in "2024 could be the year the PC dumps x86 for Arm, thanks to Windows 12"

drvdevd — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 15:04:19 +0000

I haven’t done any objective tests but I frequently run Windows 11 on ARM via Parallels on macOS and - it’s kinda insane (subjectively) how fast it is. Emulated x86 code is pretty fast there as well - I can easily get a solid 60 FPS on some x86 steam games as well.

New comment by drvdevd in "iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices"

drvdevd — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:18:56 +0000

This appears to be an architectural vulnerability where a speculative execution side channel similar to Spectre can be utilized within Safari or any other browser. The specifics of which environment is exploitable comes down to the specifics of the JavaScript-based gadget they use to trigger/measure this side channel. It may be in the linked paper which I haven’t read yet.

New comment by drvdevd in "iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices"

drvdevd — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:15:40 +0000

From a cursory review of the FAQs on the page it appears one mitigation might be to only keep one browser tab open at a time? They appear to be using timers and a cache eviction gadget to infer the state of other browser tabs/processes so it’s unclear what they can recover if you are not concurrently having a session to a particular site outside the gadget execution context. ???

New comment by drvdevd in "Using ChatGPT to fix annoying Safari UI issue on macOS"

drvdevd — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 15:37:34 +0000

Don’t forget these systems are trained or aligned to respond to common niceties because they are meant for public consumption.

New comment by drvdevd in "OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1B from SoftBank for AI device venture"

drvdevd — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:45:54 +0000

I need a self driving Segway, yesterday.

New comment by drvdevd in "Platform that enables Windows driver development in Rust"

drvdevd — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 07:25:40 +0000

The song is Fu Man Chu, by Desmond Dekker and the ACES.

New comment by drvdevd in "Analysis of Obfuscation Techniques Found in Apple FairPlay"

drvdevd — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:42:38 +0000

So from an attackers perspective nowadays it sounds like focusing on encryption weaknesses and/or hardware issues (e.g. glitching) or firmware vulnerabilities is the right place to look?

New comment by drvdevd in "Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc"

drvdevd — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:48:01 +0000

I was wondering what the newly exposed vector of exploitation was here and I think you nailed it.

New comment by drvdevd in "How to generate tested software packages using LLMs, a sandbox and a while loop"

drvdevd — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 00:09:58 +0000

This is an interesting thought and I have to agree it’s a legitimate issue. I have also considered something similar - that in the near future, if all software is designed with AI, or “generated” rather than explicitly engineered, we would certainly reap some benefits from that but we would also cease understanding how anything actually works. Obviously no one person fully understands the abstractions we have currently engineered when considering the totality.. but at least currently we have them.

New comment by drvdevd in "New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy"

drvdevd — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 00:27:57 +0000

Yes it seems like any possible physical side channel (eg Tempest as well) is now amenable to machine learning approaches. Very interesting indeed.

New comment by drvdevd in "AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years?"

drvdevd — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 02:52:13 +0000

I share this opinion as well, I think. I’m looking at any CRUD app I’ve worked on and thinking: this is just a specification over a database. Same with most other software but the web and most mobile apps seem ripe to just become generated patterns.

New comment by drvdevd in "If We’re Not Careful, the AI Revolution Could Become the ‘Great Homogenization’"

drvdevd — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:00:34 +0000

I think I agree with you on how I felt at the end of the post, but at the beginning and most of the way through, I found myself generally agreeing. But I want to look past the “bitcoin” switch after the bait because I generally agree with the author on most points.

Especially as I have delved more into how LLMs actually function and are trained, a lot of the magic in e.g. ChatGPT has evaporated for me, but in a good way. The performance of larger models like GPT-3.5 or 4 is still consistently impressive, to me, but as I’ve increased my understanding I do believe that censorship poses a greater threat than the models themselves.

New comment by drvdevd in "If We’re Not Careful, the AI Revolution Could Become the ‘Great Homogenization’"

drvdevd — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 16:50:15 +0000

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the law or article, but wasn’t the author implying that the act of inference on an LLM model itself is a sort of “statistical experiment”:

> In probability theory, the law of large numbers (LLN) is a theorem that describes the result of performing the same experiment a large number of times.

And so the mean in this case is “perceived like a real human”?

New comment by drvdevd in "Licensing is neither feasible nor effective for addressing AI risks"

drvdevd — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 22:38:25 +0000

This is an interesting idea but is it feasible? What does “filter these vectors” mean? In the context of deep models are we talking about embedding specific models, weights, parameters, etc at some point in memory with the hardware? Are we taking about filtering input generally and globally (on a general purpose system)?

New comment by drvdevd in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

drvdevd — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:31:50 +0000

Gonna leave my footprint on this one too. Here’s my take since my favorite app on my Meta Quest 2 is actually Immersed (for virtual desktop / multi monitor setups): I’m less interested in either Apple or Meta here because I think Apples Vision Pro ideas just reinforce what we’re being told repeatedly: the industry wants to move away from screens, and the future is not screens. We have two big things on the near horizon now: AR/VR and AI. The industry as a whole will push these technologies until they are the norm. Smartphones, PCs, tablets and laptops (maybe even TVs?) will become legacy technology, but they will of course live on in emulated forms (a “window”). Conversational and ubiquitous computing will be the future, like it or not.

New comment by drvdevd in "The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated"

drvdevd — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 04:33:52 +0000

Yeah this is it. And we get to reuse the existing roads hopefully without having to build more. We can make better use of suburban sprawl.