Ency

Cybersec & programmer;

Occasionally CZ/EN #Twitch streamer💻

[Ency @The3ncy]

@tarkov It's cool to see a new and unique map like this with new mechanics, it brings a freshness into the current cycle of the game.

[Ency @The3ncy]

@JenMsft Not really, as the sizes are now no longer obvious at a glance. Now you have to read the text instead of just sensing the length of the label.

[Ency @The3ncy]

@veeron @AirwingMarine Early Access, not Electronic Arts

[Ency @The3ncy]

@dopeseabass @AirwingMarine @cor3corp @bstategames Yes, it is. See the trademark Nikita filed for it two years ago: https://t.co/o6iUD4CnXH

[Ency @The3ncy]

@AirwingMarine Yeah, the scratched disk with the broken copy of the RPG. BSG failed to properly remove the event, you can still find the thumb drives and get daily quests requiring this disk.

[Ency @The3ncy]

@re3mr @siemaa22 Yeah, scav case and daily/weekly quest rewards. But I would consider that highly unintended and a bug, because the "official" way to bypass having to find the explosive is to either have a squad, or elite strength skill.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.

The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.”

Once again, they use “what about the children”, this time to install state spyware that would continuously scan every action on a phone or tablet and watch everything that is shown on the screen. This will effectively ban end-to-end encrypted communication and open source operating systems like GrapheneOS and forbid that people have administrator rights on their own devices.

The bill also seeks “Action to prohibit the provision of VPN services to children in the United Kingdom” and wants “all regulated user-to-user services to use highly-effective age assurance measures to prevent children under the age of 16 from becoming or being users.” In practice, this means identity checks for VPN users, making things like anonymous whistleblowing difficult.

The attack on secure and private communication is worldwide. Now is the time for resistance. Demand transparency from your politicians, and privacy for the people.

[Onepeg @Onepeg]

hi. your reviewer is lying.
- he stated he spent 10 hours in PvP and quit to play PvE due to cheaters.
- he didn't. He spent 30 minutes... maybe. 2 raids. The first raid is the tutorial mission in which you can't die. The 2nd raid he recorded for your "video review" and died to an extract camper, said this ONE PERSON was cheating, and quit to play PvE tarkov.
- that person wasn't cheating. your reviewer showed the death screen in the video review. i attached a copy of his account details. he's a typical 800+ hour tarkov player that appears to have started just prior to or during tarkov's last wipe.
- he stated he spent 120 hours in total in the game
- he didn't. his account is 52h37m old, not 120. Much of that time is spent in your stash. So he had roughly 70% of that time in PvE raids (except 1, which I mentioned above already).
- If your reviewer cannot be honest/lies about his time spent in game and his reasonings behind his opinions, it invalidates all of his first-hand experience when formulating his opinions and why.
- Tarkov absolutely has its problems. There's a ton of jank, poor optimization, etc. That does not mean BSG is undeserving of a fair review from you and your organization, and it certainly is undeserving of claims being made by a FIRST HAND ACCOUNT that does not exist for your reviewer.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

We no longer have any active servers in France and are continuing the process of leaving OVH. We'll be rotating our TLS keys and Let's Encrypt account keys pinned via accounturi. DNSSEC keys may also be rotated. Our backups are encrypted and can remain on OVH for now.

Our App Store verifies the app store metadata with a cryptographic signature and downgrade protection along with verification of the packages. Android's package manager also has another layer of signature verification and downgrade protection.

Our System Updater verifies updates with a cryptographic signature and downgrade protection along with another layer of both in update_engine and a third layer of both via verified boot. Signing channel release channel names is planned too.

Our update mirrors are currently hosted on sponsored servers from ReliableSite (Los Angeles, Miami) and Tempest (London). London is a temporary location due to an emergency move from a provider which left the dedicated server business and will move. More sponsored update mirrors are coming.

Our ns1 anycast network is on Vultr and our ns2 anycast network is on BuyVM since both support BGP for announcing our own IP space. We're moving our main website/network servers used for default OS connections to a mix of Vultr+BuyVM locations.

We have 5 servers in Canada with OVH with more than static content and basic network services: email, Matrix, discussion forum, Mastodon and attestation. Our plan is to move these to Netcup root servers or a similar provider short term and then colocated servers in Toronto long term.

France isn't a safe country for open source privacy projects. They expect backdoors in encryption and for device access too. Secure devices and services are not going to be allowed. We don't feel safe using OVH for even a static website with servers in Canada/US via their Canada/US subsidiaries.

We were likely going to be able to release experimental Pixel 10 support very soon and it's getting disrupted. The attacks on our team with ongoing libel and harassment have escalated, raids on our chat rooms have escalated and more. It's rough right now and support is appreciated.

[Ency @The3ncy]

@VeryBadSCAVR That's not your video to straight up reupload

[Andrew 🎛️🎹🔊 @android_stern]

@Polymarket It gets worse. He’s saying they have to start with non-binary numbers.

[Kapt'n Krunch 🛠️⚓ @KaptainKrunch97]

I’d argue (for myself) that PVE Tarkov is a camping trip with the boys where you get to kill something as a treat.

PVP however is the primal thrill of tracking and hunting the most dangerous game of all - another real person.

No other game has given me that experience. Gun legos is just a bonus.

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

@ThatchEffendi Wild that you can walk around dressed as an SS officer in America and the only consequence seems to be going viral.

[FURIOUSSS @FURIOUSSS]

@CounterStrike I wish I could give no fucks like this bro 😭🙏

[Ency @The3ncy]

@airwingmarine For a free-to-play game? Sure, maybe. But Arena is pay-to-play in the first place.

[Daniel Ahmad @ZhugeEX]

I don't understand why we keep having this conversation when the data is clear.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Wikipedia is one of the most reliable sources of information on the Internet, thanks entirely to its culture of cutthroat oneupmanship: The way the editors gain and maintain clout is successfully fact-checking other Wikipedia users.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

i never saw this coming

[Abhinav Upadhyay @abhi9u]

The point that Linus makes is right but his style is not. It sets the wrong precedent for the younger generation to be just as toxic as this. You can criticise the code without being abusive. I've seen enough quotes saying this is based, it is not.

If I tell my colleague I will not merge their code because of a style issue, they will learn and fix it, i don't have to call it garbage to cause trauma.