LupertEverett

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Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts in c/technology@lemmy.world
On Bad Art in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

You can't escape the Homestuck

On Bad Art in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
WHAT in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think that's just Win10 with RetroBar

Hacker advertises alleged database of 89 million Steam 2FA codes in c/steam@lemmy.ml
[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Valve literally told the guy who spread the news on Twitter that they do not use Twillo as a SMS 2FA provider at all: https://twitter.com/MellowOnline1/status/1922458687316074640

Good on TechRadar for actually bothering to mention BleepingComputer's article about it, but they still didn't mention where the news originated from.

It all began in this LinkedIn post, which wrongfully claimed that the "leak" was coming from Twillo (Also funny is that this is an AI company): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/underdark-ai_cybersecurity-databreach-steam-activity-7327022917370703872-JqN3/

Then the Twitter guy got involved in it, then the "news" sites ran off with what the guy on Twitter said.

Lemme just quote this insightful comment in Steam subreddit as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1kmeoqo/steam_doesnt_use_twillo_no_need_to_change/ms9n1xx/

To clarify why changing your passwords is basically pointless

  1. Steam does not use Twillo for its MFA implementation. Twillo doesnt store the keys for the MFA implementation.
  2. Twillo doesn't store passwords, meaning even if you assume Twillo was breached, it has no passwords to leak.
  3. Twillo only has a centralized MFA app similar to Google Authenticator. Again this does NOT STORE PASSWORDS
  4. If Twillo was compromised, the only possible vector would be an SMS hijacking attack, and that's IF Steam uses Twillo as its SMS intermediary
  5. If we assume #4 then, which is a stretch, CHANGING YOUR PASSWORD IS POINTLESS. Its attacking the SMS network. You can change your password every other minute. The attacker can simply generate and SMS code and take over your account that way. Your password is pointless in this scenario
  6. If you are 'paranoid' and want to do something 'actually useful' remove your phone number from your account, which still again makes a LOT of assumptions above everything tl;dr changing your password is pointless, remove your phone number if you are 'paranoid'

Change your passwords if you want to, but there is no need to panic.

Btw, selling 89 MILLION Steam accounts' data for just 5000$? Really???

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[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Like legit, the guy hates Ataturk's guts, yet these idiots claim that he is a Kemalist.

I want what they are smoking. Must be some pretty good shit.

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[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, the guy who had no ill will towards anybody, tried to unify people to the best of his ability, and provided cheaper food for the poor... is a Nazi!

Holy shit, the sheer stupidity needed to come up with such a take!

"AI is the Future" in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"AI is a tool when it comes to AI art"

I find that rather dumb. Because tools are made to help people. You use a hammer to nail things, for example. You don't leave the hammer to do all the nailing by itself. If your only involvement there is just with your prompt, then you didn't do anything, the computer did. This would be like saying "I commissioned a drawing from this artist and told them what to do, therefore I made this drawing and this artist is a tool".

Wii Homebrew Community "Built On Lies And Copyright Infringement" in c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

More like Hector Martin Do Not Cause Drama Challenge: Literally Impossible

Get it right! in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Freawayland

DELTARUNE TOMORROW IS REAL in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Deltarune in 64 tomorrows!

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[–] LupertEverett@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I too have installed Win11 Pro several times on computers, captain obvious. I know you can do that now.

I am asking that how did you reach to the conclusion that they won't remove it in later builds from the article itself.

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OldUnreal team publishes installers for downloading Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament from archive.org, with Epic Games's approval! (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21988112

So, great news!

Not too long ago, the folks at OldUnreal announced in their Discord server that they got permission from Epic Games to distribute two particular links from archive.org to download Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament.

Now they've published installers for automating the installation process, as well as installing their patches on top of Unreal/UT.

The installers are available to download on the links down below:

Unreal Gold Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/full-game-installers/

Unreal Tournament Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unrealtournament/full-game-installers/

These are Windows only, but Linux and macOS installers are also gonna be released sometime soon, it seems!

Enjoy!

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OldUnreal team publishes installers for downloading Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament from archive.org, with Epic's approval! (lemmy.world)
 

So, great news!

Not too long ago, the folks at OldUnreal announced in their Discord server that they got permission from Epic to distribute two particular links from archive.org to download Unreal Gold and Unreal Tournament.

Now they've published installers for automating the installation process, as well as installing their patches on top of Unreal/UT.

The installers are available to download on the links down below:

Unreal Gold Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unreal/full-game-installers/

Unreal Tournament Installer: https://www.oldunreal.com/downloads/unrealtournament/full-game-installers/

These are Windows only, but Linux and macOS installers are also gonna be released sometime soon, it seems!

Enjoy!

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Surreal Engine (formerly UTEngine): Open source reimplementation of Unreal Engine 1, can run UT99 and Unreal Gold (v226) maps, and boot up Deus Ex (github.com)
 

Surreal Engine is an ongoing project to reimplement UE1, mainly focused on Unreal Tournament v436 and Unreal Gold v226 at the moment.

This one has been discussed in the other linux_gaming community before, more than two years ago. Since then there were numerous improvements:

  • It can now run UT99 maps and Unreal Gold botmatch maps (whereas it was limited to only UT before), and boot up onto the intro flyby of Deus Ex.
  • Colission handling is much better (but not perfect yet).
  • Can utilize SDL2 on Linux for windowing and native Wayland support (previously it'd use pure X11, and actually still does if you don't have SDL2 installed).
  • The menus mostly work now.
  • Initial works for the AI (they will move around sometimes, and retaliate if attacked).
  • Game detection system based on the SHA1 sum of the game executable. This allows us to detect many versions of UT and U1/UGold, as well as Deus Ex, Klingon Honor Guard, NERF Arena Blast, and more!
  • A launcher has been added to select the game you want to play on startup. And lots of other improvements!

There is still a lot of work to do to implement everything though, and contributions are always welcome!

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NVK Gaming (but with an RTX 3050Ti): Unreal Tournament v469d RC4 (with and without GSP firmware) (youtu.be)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by LupertEverett@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
2 comments fedilink
 

Thought of giving it a try myself, after seeing the other NVK Gaming videos by the user Reverse Module in this community. Building Linux 6.7 was kind of a pain though... :V

I happen to have an RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, so I can try things out with and without the GSP firmware. I had tested a game from the 90s (I don't wanna try out heavier games until the driver is more mature) but still, the performance difference is quite visible.

Edit: I edited the video description to include links to the tests made by the user Reverse Module using an RTX 4090M, I feel dumb about not doing this earlier.

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TR1X (formerly Tomb1Main), open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider (1996), releases version 3.0 with Linux support (Linked version: 3.0.2) (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by LupertEverett@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
10 comments fedilink
 

Note that I've linked the latest version at the time of writing this (3.0.2), the original 3.0 version with its changelog is available here: https://github.com/LostArtefacts/TR1X/releases/tag/3.0

For a quick rundown of things: Tomb Raider (1996) is the very first game of the critically acclaimed Tomb Raider series made by the late Core Design. Its available to buy on Steam and GOG (as a bundle of the first 3 games), with remastered versions of the first 3 games set to release in Feb. 14, 2024

Unlike the rest of the "classics", Tomb Raider 1 was a DOS-only application, which is rather inconvenient to get it working; or it would be if the fans didn't figure out a way to get the TombATI version of the game (a port made for very old ATI cards) working on the modern Windows OSs.

TR1X is made by reverse engineering the aforementioned TombATI version (by employing the methods from a similar project for Tomb Raider 2 named TR2Main, which is also where the previous name Tomb1Main is inspired from), and vastly improves upon it. The changes are far too many to list here, but the highlights include much further drawing distance, TR2+ style controlling for Lara, a New Game+ option, fully customizable gameflow (both for modding and making self imposed challenges), Gold expansion (Unfinished Business) support.

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