Funwayguy

I would argue it was before that when they sold out to cryptobros during the 30 series, and coming up with the xx90 cards to see just how much people would spend. You could even consider it a corruption soft launch to test the waters with regulators.

A place I worked at fell for this AI marketing doomerism around vulnerabilitues hook line and sinker. The tool lit up the organisation’s infrastructure like a Christmas tree labelling thousands of configuration issues and potential exploits, yet only a tiny fraction of was ever truly exploitable from the open internet. Millions blown on this junk and hundreds of hours wasted triaging meaningless reports all to appease an LLM that doesn’t know jack shit about threat modelling. But hey executives said scary number went down and that’s good right?

To me it’s more like the Kia cars where insurance can easily roll over if a pathetically easy bypass is found. Most people won’t care until houses get cleaned out without evidence of forced entry. Domestic abusers also tend to love persistent access to these things too.

Overall not a fan.

I have similar setup on my home server except my Crowdsec & Anubis live in a dockerised VPS proxy that tunnels over WireGuard to the real server behind OPNSense. Saves me a ton not having bandwidth obliterating AI crawlers hit my internet bill. As an added bonus, I can move or shutdown the public VPS entry if things get too ‘spicy’ without any downtime on connections via the VPN.

I dumped Portainer on my home server when they did the ‘Fortnite’ graphical rebranding. Now using Arcane to manage my servers and edge nodes. Very much enjoying the CVE scan tools and in-place image updating.

I too wish it was further ahead but when I think of the decades of duct tape MS has built around the NT kernel with horrors such as 95, Vista and 8 drivers, it makes sense that reverse engineering all that in a clean room is no easy feat. Their work certainly isn’t wasted either.

Not that it matters anymore. GN summarised it best stating that we’re already long past the point where the extortionate prices matter to even enthusiast consumers who wouldn’t buy this shit at 3x MSRP anyway. Even prebuilts are selling empty case ‘kits’ to keep inventory moving.

This approach only works in daylight with cameras that rely on colour only. Infrared spectrum cameras such as what Australia uses on mobile phone traffic cameras are much harder to deal with. Patterns don’t cut it and it’s a huge part of military research into hiding vehicles from infrared spotters.

Disabling the cameras entirely is much more effective.

That would imply preserving the original. No, they are having their AIs revise history and its literature to whatever they deem ‘acceptable’ in their new world order, hence the rampant book banning spree they’ve been on as of late.

But they did such a great job of feeding the world’s most problematic corporations government IDs and photo identification of minors and storing it in databases ripe for hackers.

Brought to you by the government whose national health network failed its security audit last year, and had 13 million records breached through a 3rd party the year before that.

This is the part that the “walled garden” arguments I see conveniently ignores so often. Humble games and key reselling, good and bad, exist because of this rule. That 30% otherwise covers Steam dealing with sales, key distribution, payment providers, and all the legal liabilities that comes with that for you. Unless you can securely and continuously run your own shopfront below that 30% margin, there’s not a whole lot of incentive to do so… But Steam isn’t stopping anyone, not even Epic in fact. The so-called wall is like a foot high.

The DRM isn’t even that deep either and has known tools to remove it if you want. It exists as a bare minimum requirement for copyright law and Steam friends but not much else, hence why publishers often use things like Denuvo still.

We don’t ‘defend’ Valve’s monopoly so much as they really aren’t doing anything special to maintain it besides making Steam libraries accessible on more hardware. They compete by merely existing in the same space.