Joe Barrett

Husband, Father | Games, security, running, & weightlifting | Director, Ecosystem Security @EpicGames | Former US Gov | Posts are my own opinions.

[Joe Barrett @BarrettJ]

Once we pilot EAC v2 on Fortnite, we plan to enable all EAC customers to opt in to the new module and bring their awesome games to Linux.

And yep, would love to support Steam Deck, we're talking with Valve about how.

[HYPEX @HYPEX]

Epic Games is in talks with Valve in hopes of bringing EAC v2 to the Steam Deck

Fortnite is coming to Linux, with more EAC games possible later, but the Steam Deck won't be supported right away since it's missing security features that Epic's new Linux anti-cheat needs

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@TendieRanch @Texas_Twins_Dad Because SSH would require exposing a port to the internet. Tailscale does not.

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@0xTriboulet Next step is they're going to elect you onto the board.

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@MichaelFKane Ian Fleming's Bond novels are around 50-60k on average if I remember right. Fast paced and fun.

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@filpizlo

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@AnEriksenWife I don't remember 😓 It's been far too long since I've read it, and maybe I'm conflating stuff from the sequels, etc.

But it is really good!

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@ryanpatrickauth If you had a home gym, you could get that experience every day!

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@filpizlo Fil-C for Rust

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@lcamtuf It was definitely their most aggressive version yet. I'd prefer it if next year they went a little more chill.

[Joe Barrett @BarrettJ]

I make it my mission to be overly enthusiastic and greet everyone I see each time I'm in Helsinki.

I can tell they love it by the way they frantically try to break eye contact with me.

[Embassy of Finland in the US 🇫🇮 @FinlandinUSA]

It's becoming nightmarish... for the Finns.

Happy Halloween from the Embassy of Finland! 🎃

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@integrii @0xjmori Probably a telling sign that the retailer would rather try to drive human eyeballs and show you advertising as opposed to making it easier for you to purchase what you want.

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@Josh_Christiane Or Samhain!

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Someone wished me "happy holidays" just now and I had to do a double take.

Is Halloween a holiday you say that for now? I wouldn't have thought so...

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@integrii Hah, you too!

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@AnEriksenWife Google is the only one I've seen that does it. I have the Google One AI Pro plan and it shares my token usage cap with my wife.

Everyone else, we either share an account (hard since most do Google SSO) or pay twice.

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@KyleKneisl So much of computer science and engineering suddenly clicked in place for me once I got to senior-level courses where they explained the why behind some of the stuff they'd been having me do for three years.

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Agreed. You may need frontier (or near-) models to do things like map out networks, reason about the best places to add capability, but the job of log analysis and detection can easily be thrown at cheap stuff.

Worst case, have positive alerts escalate to a stronger reasoning model and a sample% of negative findings pass to another to sanity check, but no need to use the heavy weight models for all of it.

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I think that's the key to breaking down public perception of AI - more stories like this, but going even further and having people walk their friends and family through it.

Help them understand it's not going to blindly steal their money, book them on a first class ticket to Thailand, etc, but rather than when you give it good instructions, it can eliminate the hassle of the daily grind chores that you just don't want to spare 20 minutes on.

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Agreed. I may struggle to draw a stick figure, but if I have a solid vision of what good looks like (even if I lack the traditional skills to do it myself), AI allows me to create something to fulfill my vision.

If my vision sucks, the output still sucks.

But if my vision is good? Suddenly I get the ability to create beyond my means and bring something fun into the world that I previously had no way of doing, due to my own lack of artistic skills.