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Slikey··on Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
Warcraft 3 Map Editor got me curious and Minecraft really kicked it off! I always love to hear people coming from these areas :3
Slikey··on Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
I didn't imply the poster questioned Minecraft, but this effort didn't come out of nothing. It came out of a community which exists in the ecosphere. The actual computation part was the least amount of time spent on this. The bulk was trying to narrow this seemingly 2^64 seeds down to a bruteforcable amount while learning something. There is a whole community around "seedfinding" now, which has done amazing work around reverse-engineering and pseudo-random number generation. Sure the sentiment of putting resources to anything of no immediate value is questionable, but I imagine so is modern day theoretical physics and mathematics :)
Slikey··on Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
Yeah, it got me hired by Hypixel. I am still sad I never had time to rewrite it and apply the things I learned in the past :(
Slikey··on Minecraft's “Pack.png” Seed Reversal Methodology
I don't even know what feelings strike me most about this post. I think this post draws a really sad image about the poster. I have started my computer programming career in Minecraft, about 10 years ago and I don't know if I would have had the same motivation to do it without it's capabilities, community and problemspace. Sometimes, if you have nothing positive to say, rather say nothing.
Slikey··on Germany's nationwide emergency warning day sees bumpy rollout
Totally agree. I really struggle to remember any public software project overseen by the government which wasn't dominated by total incompetence... Bundestrojaner, Corona-App, Nina-App, Immigration database, Official's backups and not to mention the entire infrastructure of police, military and emergency services. There is just no sign of improvement.
Slikey··on Germany's nationwide emergency warning day sees bumpy rollout
The incompetence starts with the thought that an "app" would reach any meaninful fraction of the population.
Slikey··on SpaceX Starlink average speedtest is 42.3Mbps down / 9.7 Mbps up
I am interested in that. Are there any international treaties that force SpaceX to comply? If SpaceX has no business in totalitarian country X, do they have any way to sue SpaceX for offering service? I imagine a black market will establish to get access to starlink even if SpaceX doesn't officially sell access. Can you expand on this topic?
Slikey··on I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects
I think the trick is to make it non-scalable and once you run into scaling issues you are profitable enough to hire someone to do it for you :)
Slikey··on Zoombombing is a crime, not a prank, prosecutors warn
Since some people are entirely mistaking my point, here some more in-depth thoughts.

We should hold the companies and individuals operating on the internet to the highest standard to prevent such security violations. I am talking about a balance of the barrier here. Guessing meeting IDs is such an obvious and trivial attack vector that it should be expected to be abused.

We look at companies like Facebook and expect them to keep our data safe and if they don't, we hold them accountable even though they are a victim of a crime. Some comment equated that to victim blaming in case of rape and that is just an insane analogy.

Obviously if there is a real world consequence and people having damage they should have the right to get compensated and that is why we expect providers and companies to keep logs, but honestly how do we expect services to develop the highest standard if they can pass the blame to an attacker. At least an equal part if not the majority should be the organization that engineered a vulnerability because in most cases these happen due to improper design. (See programming vs. civil engineering quality discussion)

We are talking about a minor inconvinience through trolling easily fixed by a proper token system on Zoom's end. This is not what the criminal justice system should be prosecuting some teenagers for.

Slikey··on Zoombombing is a crime, not a prank, prosecutors warn
"Its also the same kind of excuses heard when a woman was dressing well and gets raped. "

Are you high? This is in an entirely different ballpark. You are not seriously equating some trolling and digital damage with the violation of a human body, are you?

Obviously if there are serious consequences there needs to be a deterrant, but this is some trolling on the internet, not rape.

We are "victim blaming" people for severe neglect all the time. Look at Facebook and other services if user data is stolen. It's called neglect or do you say "oh the hacker shouldn't have stolen the data, not Facebook's fault".

Slikey··on Zoombombing is a crime, not a prank, prosecutors warn
A security concept so vulnerable to this should be the real crime. Kids like to troll, this has always been the case and will always be the case. I am quite annoyed the internet culture is more and more invaded by these lawyers. The internet has always and should always be built on the concept that whatever can be exploited will be and the people who open themself to exploits carry the majority of blame. Maybe that's just my wishful thinking for a more wild west anarchistic internet...
Slikey··on Firefox is showing the way back to a world that’s private by default
DOn't you dare call all these freemium games bloating my default installation spyware! :D
Slikey··on The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)
The oldest company in the world on this chart (Kongo Gumi in Japan) is not in Business anymore. It seized operations in 2006 due to bankruptcy.
Slikey··on Requirements volatility is the core problem of software engineering
So much this. I want a civil engineer try and build a bridge over 6 tectonic plates with pretty much all physical constants constantly changing. That would be the equivalent of working with an ever moving tech stack.

Even the language and best practise change constantly. Looking at possibly the most stable language C, we have entirely different best practise pattern from community to community.

Slikey··on Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
I AM NOT ADDICTED
Slikey··on SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, misses booster landing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage#/media/F...

More supply drives down prices. Don't even mention current satelite Internet. Those operate via GSO satelites with seconds of ping and a way higher pricing considering SpaceX wants to be competitive with broadband pricing.

Slikey··on SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, misses booster landing
They are actively working on reducing reflectivity but there will always be an impact and honestly any effort to improve it will be well appreciated by me. However, even though I love the work astronomers do and the view of a clear sky into the stars, I must say I prefer global Internet availability over making astronomers clean their data from satelite datapoints. Most discussions about this leave the goal of Starlink out of the picture. If this can bring Internet access to every spot on Earth, the immediate benefit for humanity is clear.
Slikey··on 1-on-1 meeting questions
I can only imagine the horror of working in a team where obstacles are not communicated immediately and have to wait for such meetings. This screams in inefficiency and frustration. The job of the manager should be to implement a culture of open feedback and actively resolve obstacles as they come up. Most of these questions come straight out of the waterfall playbook.
Slikey··on Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs
The world isn't black and white. There is quite some way from someone entering an industry on the wrong foot to someone working as a slave trader. By your logic we should hang everyone committing a crime. Don't be silly.
Slikey··on I Just Took the World's First 20-Hour Flight
This. They used the empty economy area for physical workout. Good luck with that once this thing is packed and people will start walking around. This flight looks like a horror story and this "experiment" is an ad.
Slikey··on Xi Jinping's daughter has returned to US to resume studies at Harvard
Kim Jong Un studied in Switzerland and spent most of his youth in the west. It really seems to be peak communism to send your children to study in western countries.
Slikey··on The end of uBlock origin for Google Chrome?
AdBlockers are the modern Anti-Virus. It's the same cat'n'mouse game. The next step will be isolating "sponsored content" in news articles and educational content.
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