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  • I guess I was asking how do these people, make the torrent say their username?

    You just name the torrent with your username when you make it. They mostly follow an agreed common format to include all the relevant information in the torrent name like: Name.Of.Movie.Year.Resolution.Source.Audio.HDR.Codec-Group

    And how do peers know it comes from them?

    This is usually by trusting the tracker that indexes the torrent, which is usually only possible with private trackers.

    PTs have scrict requirements for publishing torrents on their tracker and will tie torrents to a user on their website so that it’s impossible for other users to impersonate a group/user release name.

    On public trackers, people can just lie since there’s no limits on publishing torrents and its up to the mod team to handle fake/bad torrents. Piratebay used to actually be pretty good at this with verified usernames but now I’m not so sure.

    The easiest way is to join a PT which will report the same torrent hash for the same torrent on a public tracker. If it’s identical to the PT torrent, that means its from the genuine group/user.



  • mlg@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Pretty Prulevege
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    Someone here mentioned a while ago that some house spiders learn your active hours and typically come out to hunt when you’re either not around or asleep.

    I usually ignore them because I’d much rather deal with occasional corner cobwebs than literally any other pest hanging around.

    Spiders are the only thing not interested in my food.


  • mlg@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Movie details
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    Whenever evil antagonist broadcasts his evil message on every major advertisement screen and TV in the world (and PC/mobile device), with full audio.

    stupid rant
    1. Ad screens don’t have speakers you dolt

    2. No one in times square looks at the ad acreens except the tourists when taking a picture

    3. Not all ad screens can handle a live stream connection and you’d need to hack into each one to play your message.

    4. It is literally impossible for everyone to be conveniently watching the TV at the same time as everyone else across the globe

    5. Overriding every TV broadcast channel with your message requires an RF array an order of magnitude more powerful than Russia’s massive Murmansk-BN electronic warfare system.

    6. No one watches broadcast TV anymore in most developed countries

    7. The internet cannot handle a simultaneous stream of video to every digital device in the world without the use of multicast or broadcast, which means evil antangonist is either rolling in with hacking the entire internet backbone to enable multicast traffic or magically broadcasting a signal to devices that don’t support receiving a broadcast signal.

    8. Evil antagonist has to use multiple zero day CVEs just to force stream his evil message on PC/mobile devices for a whopping 30 seconds.



  • EAC Linux v2 runs a systemd service that stays active just for the length of a protected game session, alongside eBPF programs written by Epic that watch for tampering and cheats.

    For players, this means a stricter boot setup, so Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 need to be on, the kernel has to be signed with a key Epic recognizes, and several other boot and kernel settings come into play.

    EAC checks all of this only when a protected game launches, and failing the check brings up an error, not a ban. Players can also keep a separate boot entry for protected games and run their own keys elsewhere.

    So I guess MOK is not supported? That would make it impossible to play with Nvidia drivers because they need a MOK for signing.

    Using eBPF is actually a pretty neat idea, but I guess MOK would be too easy of a bypass because you can sign your own kernel modules and just do whatever in kernel space.

    It’s way better than a crappy kernel module but I wonder if hackers will actually abuse this for access over windows, especially when the Android version is also right there without any significant anticheat.



  • EDIT is this actually a service? If this exists I’ll fucking do it, I swear

    It technically is for a lot of PC repair shops that don’t otherwise advertise it, but I remember some ye olde Craigslist posts offering such a service back in the day lol.

    I’d honestly do it for free if I knew you in person lmao.



  • Uh no, most if not all of the paid indexers are not worth it compared to just waiting for an open invite from a quality one.

    Not even the gold tier quality ones allow paid entry AFAIK. They only allow people who are long time seeders and uploaders with reputation.

    The one thing you might have to pay for is a VPN in case you want to torrent on public indexers, which is often worth it because not everything will end up on private indexers, and you usually have to wait a couple of months before you can join a solid private indexer.






  • I can trip the measly 15 amp breaker by drawing 1.5kW on two servers + turning on an amplifier that is somehow on the same circuit despite being in a different room quite far from where my servers are lol.

    On average though I only draw like 350W. The huge spike only happens if I run a miner/llm on both of my servers or the during the startup spike.

    The 1kW chunk comes from some RTX Quadro 6000s which each eat 250W each when maxxed out.

    EDIT: Want to mention that most machines report their power draw (from mobo) without IPMI, so you can use your favorite stats collector use it to form a rough estimate of kWh total in case you don’t have a proper meter that records usage.






  • Lol remember when they software locked LGA1511 to prevent 8th and 9th gen CPUs from working on existing 6th/7th gen motherboards, and then the modding community bypassed it with some BIOS mods and Teflon tape.

    This whole time they could’ve actually been making old computers better than they are and make it so the consumer didn’t have to spend a fuck load on upgrades but waited till a chip shortage to do it…

    This isn’t anything new in the component industry. Nvidia is even more guilty of this with their RTX ray tracing scam which now looks comically small next to their subsequent AI bubble.

    I’ve personally preferred AMD for this reason because they actually thought ahead of Intel on several occasions like x64, multicore processors, more efficient laptop CPU power consumption, actually funding next gen hardware specs, etc.

    In my eyes, the last time Intel was even “on top” of AMD was the skylake overclock era where single thread performance was still sought after heavily.

    Hilariously though my servers are all Intel xeons because of their sheer production volume making used parts much cheaper than AMD.