if you can’t connect to a vpn using only open source software, that’s a crappy vpn

importantly it’s (hopefully) an ISP that operates from a less copyright-happy country and isn’t tied down to tons of expensive infrastructure and long-term contracts

Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though

because the goal of tamper resistance is to make it harder to unscrew without apple’s approval

This description could be anyone.

CIA assassination is the leading cause of death worldwide

or that I don’t want to (google what it is and then) press some weird keybind and spend minutes scrolling through the list of emojis when good ol’ emoticons do the trick

if you accelerate it to exactly the speed of light, it will destroy everything within about 15 billion lightyears (galaxies further than that are safe because they recede from you faster than light)

if all 330 million 'mericans tried living in the woods, shit would go south really quickly

Is there something I should be keeping an eye out for, or preparing for so everything goes smoothly at least with regards to this community?

On the 6th of May, 2028, travel to 2 Augusta Hills Drive, Bakersfield, Kern County, California, United States. At exactly 4 PM local time, place an orange traffic cone on top of the nearest garbage can and await further instructions.

ironically suyu is still up on github

and of course ryujinx hasn’t received any legal threats yet

Youtube actually uses 128kbps opus, which should be significantly better than 160kbps mp3

but the real problem is that you can’t know what quality the uploader used, it all gets recompressed by youtube.

I read on a pop sci magazine years ago that “this is not the first time we have offered a design, but nobody was willing to buy one so it didn’t get built”

They could do it without recompilation, but something like changing the obfuscation and recompiling for every copy would likely make it much harder to get rid of the watermarks even if you can compare several different copies

(though they could also have multiple watermarked sections so that any group of for example 3 copies would have some section that is identical, but still watermarked and would uniquely identify all three leakers. The amount of data you need the watermarks to contain goes up exponentially with the amount of distinct copies, but if you have say 1000 review copies and want to be resistant to 4 copies being “merged”, you only need to distinguish between 1000^4 combinations so you can theoretically get away with a watermark that only contains about 40 bits of data )

I managed to recreate almost the same screenshot in 5kb (and with much less compression artifacts!)

before adding the text and circles it was only 1.6kb

it’s a case where jpeg compression ironically results in the picture getting 60x larger and more blurry because everyone recompresses the images and jpeg is designed for large photos and not pixel art

note that both rage comics and pepe became popular memes in 2008, and wojak in 2009

driver is john cena, who has the catchphrase “you can’t see me”

relevant xkcd

I’m pretty sure someone fully cracked kfx again - they just didn’t bother to make it work for kfx directly - the newest form of azw is just zipped kfx from what I understand

about 3 weeks ago the solution was merged to the current big active deDRM fork. Amazon seems to only respond when the new workaround percolates to the big easy to use front-ends like calibri

(And I don’t think the timeline for amazon sealing up the holes is actually all that fast. The original setup was being spread on some forums for several months now, and the january update from amazon was also quite “late”)

also there’s also several forms of downgrade attacks that mean only content released after amazon’s latest fix becomes uncrackable