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n3dm··on Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
eBay
n3dm··on 8Gb USB Flash Drive Endurance Test (2017)
They make archival quality optical media for all types. Here's some Blu Ray with 1000 yr shelf life. https://www.amazon.com/Archival-Verbatim-M-Disc-Inkjet-Print...
n3dm··on 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
No, it's still nothing to do with that for steam. Its their compression.
n3dm··on 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build
This hardly is relevant to your internet speeds with steam downloads. It is much more CPU dependent when you are operating at such high speeds.
n3dm··on Ask HN: I want to start legally hacking, help?
raffi,

I am more on the IT side of things, and want to also transition to infosec. I have taken some CEH labs in college, but didn't get the cert, and I have the training materials for OSCP but didn't study it. I have CS&Engr, & Digital Forensics. My IT background mainly is on network/sysadmin with some *nix. What do you suggest in terms of what I should look for? Titles I've been applying to are security engineer, and SoC analyst and such with no luck. Or do you think OSCP is something I should dig into and get on my own?

n3dm··on DJI FPV
No, it is no delay 120fps. The sickness induced from VR is primarily when the tracking is bad, then slow refresh rate of display, then screen door effect last. Something like this would make only screen door effect be the factor that makes one sick which is minimal for most.
n3dm··on CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf] (Dec 14)
Update your video drivers. Known issue.
n3dm··on How Discord Won
Negative, if you get their triggered anti spam response for creating an account fresh, or even logging into an existing account, you literally cannot log into that account anymore without providing a nonvoip phone number. You have to attach a phone number to continue.

What's the issue? Maybe the user doesn't have a phone number to give. Maybe the user already has that phone number attached to another account. Maybe they don't want to attach their phone number to a huge set of data, depending on their use, if indeed discord sells or begins to sell it. Rhetorical question if you ask me.

n3dm··on How Discord Won
>Because even creating an account on discord after clicking a "join server" link only requires you to put in an username. No pointless e-mail requirement, not even a password, no nothing. Put in an username and you're good to go.

What are you talking about? I've tried to create an account before it and would not let me without giving them a non-voip phone number.

YMMV should be included in that statement.

n3dm··on How Discord Won
I'm not arguing that the features/ease of use is the reason why its doing well. All of those features are unmatched for average consumers that don't care about their privacy which is their customer/product base. I didn't say anything about the features you mentioned and was talking about voice chat only.

>Most [gamers] don't care about RAM usage. Source? Anyone I know who games on a PC is almost always hyper aware of what crap is running on their system.

I'm simply arguing what the point is that I quoted, that it is obnoxiously heavy (250mb minimum ram, sometimes 450Mb+,) uptime is questionable, buggy application, and does care about user privacy. They force you to use a non-voip phone number for account creation now in some cases. Or joining some servers.

n3dm··on How Discord Won
>Discord really is a high quality service.

-Lots of server downtime -Obnoxious amount of system resource use -Crashing -Bugs -Forced updates -Privacy concerns. (Scans your open processes, etc)

Some of us can agree to disagree.

n3dm··on How Discord Won
>$120M in annual revenue from server boosts and nitro subscriptions?

Are you sure that's not also including the data they are selling of its users?

n3dm··on How Discord Won
>every single game voice chat just sucks compared to discord

I disagree wholeheartedly. Discord uses 250mb+ minimum in RAM to handle simple voice chat, whereas alternatives like mumble in this example use 20mb. The voice codec and quality is arguably better and with less down time. Discord servers often go down and I've found myself having to switch to central or whatever to get it to work.

n3dm··on Cryptocurrency YouTuber Ian Balina hacked out of $2M during a livestream
>I kept text versions of my private keys stored in my Evernote, as encrypted text files with passwords. I think they hacked my email using my college email, and then hacked my Evernote.

>Storing private keys for wallets worth $2,000,000 online...

A fool and his money are soon parted.

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