Burretploof 🐀

software dev by day, tired at night
i mostly post about video games, sometimes i retweet memes/shitposts 🧡

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[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

Bluesky: @burretploof.bsky.social

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

Mastodon: https://t.co/SuopPoAmnv
Spoutible: https://t.co/slCDCkCXmD

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

@faetrouble My welcome?

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

I also have to thank Twitter (or X, if you want to call it that) - since they broke the patched apps, I just stopped using it on my phone because the official one shows so many huge ads.

Thanks!

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

I guess I have to thank @Reddit - since they nuked most personal API keys (including mine), I've been using their site a lot less because the official app is complete ass and just a pain to use. Not sure how you fumble that.

Thanks! ✨

[tobyfox @tobyfox]

DELTARUNE Chapter 5!!!

Comes out in a little less than 15 days!!!

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

*wakes up and quickly opens twitter*

sloppy seconds is when AI is trained on AI generated content

[Mutahar @OrdinaryGamers]

Man the anti woke crowd is just straight up retarded

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

This is your reminder to avoid smart TVs and buy dumb TVs instead.

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

The world’s largest residential proxy network runs on consent, TLS and vibes. The TV is always watching and apparently it is also available for contract work in surveillance or data acquisition? Bright Data sells access to a residential proxy network, the kind customers use to route requests through real home IP addresses instead of datacenter IPs that Cloudflare, DataDome and HUMAN are trained to block. The supply comes from an SDK embedded in consumer apps. So: CTV games, messengers, mobile apps and screensavers. With consent somewhere upstream, the device becomes an exit node. The TV is perfect for this job. It is plugged in, on WiFi, often unattended and barely supervised. It also asks for consent through a privacy policy and a remote-control UI, which is one way to make “informed choice” look like an endurance sport. One config flag tells the SDK to ignore whether the screen is on. Another tells it to ignore whether the user is on a call. In this economy, watching TV counts as downtime. https://t.co/WvFVvEFrzY

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Today, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot is reportedly attending a private meeting with European Commission officials in Brussels, hosted by Video Games Europe (VGE), the video game industry’s main lobbying organization. Stop Killing Games was not invited.

According to the Stop Killing Games campaign, the group was excluded despite being the consumer movement behind the European Citizens’ Initiative that brought game shutdowns and digital ownership to the attention of EU policymakers.

The issue is not that publishers meet with policymakers, which happens regularly. The concern is that industry representatives have direct access to decision-makers at a critical stage, while the campaign representing more than one million citizens is not in the room.

This is concerning, knowing that Ubisoft’s shutdown of The Crew helped start the Stop Killing Games movement.

I don't know what the VGE is doing, but they should include both the industry and the people affected by these decisions.

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

Too bad that payment providers & CC companies are making sure that these games get harder to sell. Not just on Steam but everywhere.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A new report has revealed a heated debate inside Valve over pornographic games on Steam.

According to former employees, Valve’s top lawyer suggested the company take a stronger role in moderating adult content on the platform.

Gabe Newell reportedly disagreed, saying, “What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?”

The quote comes from accounts shared by former employees and has not been publicly confirmed by Valve.

If this is true, Gabe Newell is even more based.

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

Honestly, this is probably the best advertisement @Cloudflare could ask for.

While I don't like how centralised the Internet has become - Cloudflare's protections against various attacks and excessive AI scraping are incredibly helpful and a must-have for me.

[RPCS3 @rpcs3]

PSA: @TencentGlobal is aggressively scraping the Internet to build yet another AI slop chatbot, DDoSing many websites in the process.

We've found that, as of last week, their scraping bots can now solve Cloudflare challenges and behave like real users while ignoring robots.txt. In the last 24 hours alone, our website received more than 3 million successful requests from Tencent bot IP addresses, plus another 1 million that were blocked by Cloudflare challenges.

These recurring DDoS attacks from Tencent have been going on for over a year, and we have been constantly adjusting our firewall rules to filter them while trying not to impact Tencent's real users. Because that is no longer possible, we're now fully blocking Tencent IP addresses, starting with ASN 132203. We recommend other sysadmins do the same.

Other ASNs displaying similar abusive behaviour will also be fully blocked from our services.

We'd also like to thank @Cloudflare for sponsoring us with Project Alexandria as of 2025, giving our sysadmin the tools to keep RPCS3's online services running without service disruptions.

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

@rpcs3 @TencentGlobal Thanks for speaking out. The AI scraping is insane. I'm seeing this on my own servers, too. Not just Tencent, but other scrapers, as well.

While I'd still dislike it - if they'd at least throttle themselves and respect the robots.txt...

[Dark Web Informer @DarkWebInformer]

🚨 Instagram had an exploit that allowed you to use Meta AI to reset passwords to accounts with no MFA on them. The exploit was patched a short time ago.

[James Spanos - b/s/k/y @Dualnames]

Happy birthday Strangeland!!

Thank you to all the players who have given us so much love over the years by leaving a review, sharing their thoughts! I know it's vastly different from our previous game, but we're still insanely proud of it.

And it's on sale on @GOGcom and Steam!

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

I normally try to be kind, but holy shit, dude, what a completely braindead take.

You actually have to be either incredibly fucking stupid or disingenuous to claim that's what killed the game - instead of poor management decisions, vaulting of content, and so on.

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

@riotgames Someone in your dev team had to be like "this is a bad idea," right? Someone. At least one person. There's no way y'all developed this and thought that this is a great idea.

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

Piggybacking off of this, I heard that even using a dedicated sound card can get you kicked out of games that use Vanguard.

like fucking lmao what are y'all doing

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

As much as I detest cheating in online games -

this effectively turns Vanguard into malware.

This should be the point where even the players of their games should realize that exposing your system to this "anti-cheat" is not worth it.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Riot Games have “bricked” $6,000 DMA cheating devices with their Vanguard anti-cheat

The hardware is denied access to game memory, so cheaters can't play Riot titles

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

I cannot put into words how cringe this is.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Spotify will let Premium subscribers create AI covers and remixes in a new partnership with Universal Music Group

The feature will be available on songs created by participating UMG artists

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

@rocco_botte Looks like you got owned

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

Will humans make mistakes, too? Yes - but they are generally able to count items on shelves correctly.

Imagine how many errors this AI scanner thing must've done to make them go "oh wow this is useless!"

[Burretploof 🐀 @burretploof]

This is actually so funny.

They are learning first-hand why you can't give important tasks to these systems without human oversight.

https://t.co/LiIZjiORhg