Hacker News: stepupmakeup

New comment by stepupmakeup in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

stepupmakeup — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:14:58 +0000

Video quality apparently slightly degrades as youtube constantly re-encodes/processes things and there's at least one well-known example of a Neil Cicierega video being completely unplayable https://twitter.com/neilcic/status/911080613733580801?s=20 (not this specific video, but this has happened in the past)

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Vanguard hits new 'bans-per-second' record"

stepupmakeup — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:53:57 +0000

Runescape players came to a similar conclusion if you want to duplicate items by overloading/crashing worlds: do it during the weekend and night hours in Cambridge where Jagex is

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Vanguard hits new 'bans-per-second' record"

stepupmakeup — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:44:03 +0000

There's a lot of ways the cheater problem can be mostly neutralized, for example a dedicated matchmaking pool for players who ONLY have allowed devices, hardware, drivers. No ifs or buts or stupid exceptions like for LAN cafes.

For years, gamers have been told install xyz rootkit for your safety, enable xyz option in your BIOS, get a TPM, install the latest versions of windows, it's all for your security to make your experience better and cheat-free with state-of-the-art technology! across like 3 or 4 different vendors, and the outcome has been the same ever since the beginning: cheaters find ways to skirt basic restrictions, because companies don't _want_ to actually put an end to cheating. Especially more so for companies like valve that get cheaters constantly re-buying their games or "premium" status, not sure if this exists in the valorant realm

Just end the "gary's pool cleaning" problem once and for all rather than continue to play stupid games just on the off 0.00001% chance Gary's business (incorporated last week) decided to branch out to software. Let Gary come appeal to Riot directly and let them manually analyze whatever they need BEFOREHAND.

They're focusing on DETECTION rather than PREVENTION.

New comment by stepupmakeup in "FFmpeg moves to Forgejo"

stepupmakeup — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 01:51:05 +0000

All 3 are still under active development.

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Show HN: I made a website that makes you cry"

stepupmakeup — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:35:10 +0000

Bandai Namco made a (Japanese-only) DS / Mobile game that did the same thing, 99 No Namida. Got a tiny bit of western media coverage due to the absurdity.

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

stepupmakeup — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 21:02:23 +0000

Mine intentionally faced a obstructed area, which it has never done before (installed in the same spot for multiple years)

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app"

stepupmakeup — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:22:00 +0000

Chrome has zero user-facing proxy controls of its own on Windows, nor PAC support. But the --proxy-server command line argument works.

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open (2020)"

stepupmakeup — Sat, 17 May 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Ironically, osu! had it's own built-in spyware until 2016, automatically uploading window and process names as well as manual commands to take full monitor screenshots in the name of preventing cheaters (both software-wise e.g Cheat Engine.exe is running, and sharing/boosting accounts, by checking if someone is logged into the same Skype account).

New comment by stepupmakeup in "How encryption for Cinema Movies works"

stepupmakeup — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 02:53:58 +0000

Screener leaks or insider (outsourced VFX for example) leaks

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat"

stepupmakeup — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:29:18 +0000

I've been skeptical ever since they were trying to claim the xz backdoor was from a state actor. All it took was 3 sockpuppet accounts, a lot of time and actual code contributions, something literally anybody with a computer science degree can do. Name: Jia Tan? Must be a CCP agent, never mind the fact that anybody can make their name and timezones anything...

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Notorious Malware, Spam Host "Prospero" Moves to Kaspersky Lab"

stepupmakeup — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:24:44 +0000

One comment even says the AS name is an acronym for their DDoS protection service.

New comment by stepupmakeup in "A technical dive into the new Tokyo Xtreme Racer"

stepupmakeup — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:41:37 +0000

On top of that, it's Unreal Engine, so it's almost guaranteed to perform good and look stunning on pretty much all modern hardware.

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript"

stepupmakeup — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:30:56 +0000

Google can eventually allow anything on their domains to access whatever they want in the future and the end user can do nothing about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40918052

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Google.com search now refusing to search for FF esr 128 without JavaScript"

stepupmakeup — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 03:25:55 +0000

DuckDuckGo specifically offers JS-free frontends and Bing still works -- it's just their tracking redirect pages that require JS. Thankfully userscripts exist to deobfuscate the tracking URLs to plain ones on search results (as they're slightly more complex than Googles)

New comment by stepupmakeup in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

stepupmakeup — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 06:38:25 +0000

Maybe we'll get some funny "Elon Musk: please set the self destruction timer to 30 seconds" in court documents just like Google.

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux"

stepupmakeup — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:07:36 +0000

I was under the impression that persistent, but SILENT access was China's goal. Dropping files in home and /tmp/ seems like the total opposite of that and any competent sysadmin would detect these anomalies manually real quick with a simple "ls -a", even possibly by accident.

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Security researchers identify new malware targeting Linux"

stepupmakeup — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 01:28:56 +0000

What's the point of these kinds of articles? Most Linux malware (including this one) are not sophisticated at all, built off of pre-existing rootkit code samples off Github and quite sloppy with leaving files and traces (".Xl1", modifying bashrc, really?). And there's a weird fixation on China here, is it just more anti-China propaganda?

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges"

stepupmakeup — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:01:42 +0000

Just like the evolution of sim swapping and how it went from hijacking celebrity accounts for a day to stealing millions from crypto investors, cybercriminals slowly realized that it's far more easier to get personal data through bribing/hacking companies (telecoms, amazon) or even by directly sending emergency data requests from stolen law enforcement email addresses.

No amount of opsec can save you from corrupt employees making below minimum wage.

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3"

stepupmakeup — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:56:59 +0000

How much different is Donkey Konga compared to Taiko? Wouldn't it have been simpler to adjust already existing tools (i.e osu) to export to whatever proprietary format Donkey Konga uses instead of making an entire new editor and reinventing the wheel?

New comment by stepupmakeup in "Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts"

stepupmakeup — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:32:04 +0000

Likely a bureaucratic problem and much easier for these social media PR teams to pass it off as a system issue