Hacker News: unforgivenpasta

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

unforgivenpasta — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:31:55 +0000

I wonder if big companies will now start paying shadow libraries like annas archive for direct access, to minimize publicity of how training data was acquired, like Nvidia supposedly did?

Few tens of thousands of dollars is a rounding error in Meta's bottom line but if this case goes anything like the Anthropic one, I would see it likely.

Of course it wouldn't prevent authors from asking LLM's for content from their books and suing Meta again but I imagine authors would be less likely to with less evidence.

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "EA Javelin Anticheat job listing mentions future support for Linux and Proton"

unforgivenpasta — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:15:53 +0000

Looks like SteamOS and the accompanying hardware are enough of a success that they're at least spending _some_ resources to try and figure out anticheat on Linux.

What can competitive games even do in the long run against cheating on Linux since cheaters can re-compile the kernel to hide away things like memory reads, mouse movement and rendering?

I also wonder if Apex Legends will re-enable Linux support in the near future to test this anticheat.

Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support

unforgivenpasta — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:49:34 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/web3isgoinggreat.com/post/3mcn26h32wp2q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46664865

Points: 26

# Comments: 12

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Tachiyomi developers threatened with legal action"

unforgivenpasta — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:28:44 +0000

Tachiyomi[0] is a FOSS comic reader app for Android which has support for extensions to source comics from different sites which are unrelated to Tachiyomi

Tachiyomi already removed their extension list which contained both unofficial and official sources for comics[1]

[0] https://github.com/tachiyomiorg/tachiyomi

[1] https://tachiyomi.org/news/2024-01-09-extensions-removal

Tachiyomi developers threatened with legal action

unforgivenpasta — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:18:11 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/kakaoent_pcok/status/1744889648265175197

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38974887

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Picking the Widevine Locks: Acquiring and Using an L3 CDM"

unforgivenpasta — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:18:23 +0000

There was a talk at 37c3 recently about UHD BluRay encryption[1] as well which is just more of the same "security" through obscurity

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12296-full_aacsess_exposing_and_...

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Sit."

unforgivenpasta — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:55:50 +0000

The together version found here https://nothing-together.sonnet.io/ is neat as well, you can play simple sounds to another person or a bell gong to everyone

One thing i found a bit distracting is the very obvious looping point of the background music

Inside Scanlation (2010)

unforgivenpasta — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:38:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.insidescanlation.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820734

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra"

unforgivenpasta — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 19:24:21 +0000

Finding high quality for older or non-english shows might be of some difficulty but they're quite common for shows and movies released for english audiences

This is just a guess but requiring Widevine L1 might be enough deterrence for some groups to wait for highest quality BluRay releases

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker"

unforgivenpasta — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 15:37:13 +0000

It is! This video is a bit old now but it's still so unbelievable how easy it was for the speaker to "kill" people (in Australia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Court: Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Site, but Not as a DNS Provider"

unforgivenpasta — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:17:32 +0000

In Finland you can go to any corner store to get a 300mbps 4G SIM or even 600 mbps 5G SIM and use it as your home internet in a LTE modem (which is very common)

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Offpunk 2.0"

unforgivenpasta — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:16:46 +0000

I've looked into archiving all the pages i visit as well and warcprox[1] has been bookmarked for a while now

Hard drive storage space being so cheap in the ~$15/TB range makes this more feasible even for video archival

[1] https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Minosoft: Open-source Minecraft client, written from scratch"

unforgivenpasta — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 23:18:21 +0000

Github mirror https://github.com/Bixilon/Minosoft

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Beg Bounties (2021)"

unforgivenpasta — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 13:28:21 +0000

Reading the accompanying cloudpets article is very similar to my experience with reporting exploits.

Found a XSS vulnerability on a very popular danish website and 0 contact since reporting. The vulnerability still exists and even found a few less severe bugs

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "Asahi Linux goes from Apple Silicon port project to macOS bug hunters"

unforgivenpasta — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:34:06 +0000

Much better than the OSnews article that related Asahi[1] to the bug and when called out by marcan they stated that the headline would stay [2].

The article seems to have been deleted[3] at some point since the link from marcan goes to a 404

[1] https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111334488235016591

[2] https://mstdn.social/@osnews/111334720022394898

[3] https://www.osnews.com/story/137678/apples-macos-sonoma-make...

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "uBlock Origin 1.53"

unforgivenpasta — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 16:13:09 +0000

I have almost 1500 rows in the "My filters list" (comments and blank lines included)

I couldn't think of how horrible the web browsing experience would be without uBlock Origin

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "2023 Paid VPN Relationship and Corporate VPN Ownership Map"

unforgivenpasta — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:42:39 +0000

Looks like Njalla's VPN[1] is missing, I'm not sure if they have their own servers but it seems more than likely

[1] https://njal.la/vpn/

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "COSMIC DE: Desktop environment created for Pop!_OS and other Linux distros"

unforgivenpasta — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 23:19:03 +0000

i love hyprlands fork of xdg-desktop-portal[1] which fixes a bunch of things like obs window capture by using custom wayland protocol extensions[2]

[1]https://github.com/hyprwm/xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland

[2]https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-protocols

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "DeArrow – Solving clickbait on YouTube"

unforgivenpasta — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:26:42 +0000

These are the uBlock Origin filters i use for blocking shorts

  ! YT Homepage - Hide the Shorts section
  youtube.com##[is-shorts]
  ! YT Menu - Hide the Shorts button
  www.youtube.com###guide [title="Shorts"], .ytd-mini-guide-entry-renderer[title="Shorts"]
  ! YT Search - Hide Shorts
  www.youtube.com##ytd-search ytd-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-video-renderer)
  ! YT Search and Channels - Hide the Shorts sections
  www.youtube.com##ytd-reel-shelf-renderer
  ! YT Channels - Hide the Shorts tab
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="channels"] [role="tab"]:nth-of-type(3):has-text(Shorts)
  ! YT Subscriptions - Hide Shorts - Grid View
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-grid-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-grid-video-renderer)
  ! YT Subscriptions - Hide Shorts - List View
  www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="subscriptions"] ytd-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-item-section-renderer)
  ! YT Sidebar - Hide Shorts
  www.youtube.com###related ytd-compact-video-renderer [overlay-style="SHORTS"]:upward(ytd-compact-video-renderer)

I think these were on the uBlockOrigin subreddit, couldn't find the post

New comment by unforgivenpasta in "DeArrow – Solving clickbait on YouTube"

unforgivenpasta — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:22:30 +0000

Since watchtime is a major contributor to the algorithm, it might be the opposite if you click out of the video fast enough