Good morning, Hackers and Hackresses! Are you all root already?

This is actually a bad answer :D

I'll quickly write up why

I have to be on-site this week again. Yaaaay...

It's not that bad actually, I just like to complain

The pro is that I have about 2 hours to get there, and 2 hours to get home

I can take those 4 hours, do whatever I want and call it overtime

That means if I do that just 2 days, I have 8 hours overtime and I get one day off

So if I work for 2 weeks (10 days) overtime, I can take one week off afterwards

And that's a breddy gud deal in my opinion

Well, at least it's something :D

I currently have 恋の氷結おてんば湯けむりチルノ温泉 stuck in my head

The lyrics literally mention "Normies, get out!" and I'm laughing my ass off

@forest Congrats! You are now at 50k + 4.

Don't you mean you will return to ASM? :D

In other news: DMZ regular "MechMK1" was found murdered in his apartment. A letter written by who is assumed to be his murderer reads "Please just stop with your shitty puns"

man I wish you good luck

I'm just here writing a waaaay too long reply to an answer by Thomas

You can do it!

Does anyone know if I can use a Yubikey to log into Windows 10 even if I don't have a Microsoft account?

Does anyone of you have experience with Yubikeys?

I'm interested in buying one, but I don't know how easy it is to make a backup of them, in case my key is lost/damaged/etc...

you cannot backup them

@MrHeliose So what would I do if I would use a Yubikey for a Google account, and say, my YubiKey breaks?

You should use google recovery stuff

Now you know why 2FA is really not as common as it should be

if backup were possible, anyone can fake your key (it's kinda problematic I guess)

Because people forget usability

@MrHeliose Not really. They would need to possess my key first

But I see your point

Yes I mean with a physical acess

That's not really something I worry about. I would keep my key on me. I'm more worried about losing access to the key

support.yubico.com/support/solutions/articles/…

can be usefull

Thank you!

Also, regarding Yubikeys: It seems as if the yubico setup tool allows you to duplicate a key

@MechMK1 That is pretty sweet.

@ConorMancone it is:D

@MechMK1 People in the ~10-50K rep category aren't allowed to disagree with people in the 100k+ rep category. Sorry, it's a rule.

@ConorMancone I've never been one to play by the rules, my friend.

@MechMK1 If you plan a situation where you have to login with your yubikey every time you may end up causing yourself trouble. If, however, you have a computer that is always authenticated (for instance, my personal computer), then you have some options even if you lose your key (since you still have access to your account).

Although that may not be a perfect solution either

Wat

lol, yubikey auth?

No, keepass :D

Too late, I already memorized it!

Ironically, we had a conversation about this not too long ago

Anyway, It's also possible to have more than one kind of 2FA, although that probably introduces weaknesses that you may not appreciate

I didn't know I had keepass open

Clearly someone has hacked your computer. You should ask a question about how to rid your machine of your malicious firmware

@ConorMancone my monitor is obviously infected

I can tell

I know who did it

lol, hilarious!

Luckily that was an account I really don't care about :D

Feel free to wreak havoc with it

For my work account I have a yubikey for 2FA which my boss has (since my work account has lots of important information on it), and I also have my phone connected so I can auth via SMS. When I need to add a new device I have google text me, and he can add a device without me from the yubikey.

So anyways, what I wanted to say was you can clone YubiKeys, so if I buy two, clone them, keep one on me and one in a safe, I would be fine

Of course that makes my phone number a vulnerable point, but it's convenient :shrug:

I would probably change that eventually, but it works for now

Oh yeah, I should change the password

@MechMK1 That sounds like a plan too. You could also try the google authenticator app as an alternative. Most of the same benefits but slightly easier to work with

I completely forgot because I was eating pizza

/mmmmm pizza

Hey give me a moment while I change passwords

back

I was reading Thomas' answer, and he mentions the possibility of display-only games. Conveniently of course, google has just tried to launch a "console" that does everything server-side and simply transmits rendered graphics to your device

(Stadia) I was reading up on it again, and I was just amused by the first paragraph on the product page, as it has a higher density of "exceptions" then just about anything I've read

@ConorMancone And it's not like literally every article on that was negative

> There’s no need to overpay for expensive hardware. With Stadia, you get up to 4K 60 FPS[2] gameplay on TVs[3] without the hassle of time‑consuming game downloads or in‑game updates. And you can take your favorite games with you on your laptop, tablet, or phone[4] as long as you have Wi‑Fi.[5]

Reminds me of "Stadia tries what GameOn did before. What is GameOn you ask? Exactly my point!"

lol

Are you interested in my take on Stadia?

It's an interesting concept, I'll be curious to see if it actually pans out in the end. Probably not though, simply because serious gamers are very serious about their gaming

Sure, go for it

Stadia is a product with no consumer demographic

As you said before, people who care about videogames have either a good gaming PC or a console

A PS4 costs 250€ today. That's very affordable

"Casual" gamers will play on their phone or on a handheld device (Nintendo 3DS, etc...)

A nintendo 2DS costs 100€

Now what does Stadia cost? "Nothing", for the basic edition, but you have drawbacks.

if you want the "pro" edition, which no doubt they will try to sell to you every waking moment, you have to pay 10 USD per year

Per month, I'm sorry

So 120 USD per year

Which means a handheld console will be cheaper than stadia pro after less than a year, and a full-sized TV console will be cheaper in 2 years

So you can't really give the "It's cheaper to enter the gaming market", because consoles are already extremely cheap

Secondly, it's not like "netflix for games", as some people thought it was going to be. You still have to buy each and every individual game

So if you are just here to try things out, you are still expected to shell out at least 40 USD per game, 60 USD for others

That's literally the retail price.

With the added downside that, should Stadia ever go down, you will never be able to play any of these games anymore

Next point: The smallprint. While they advertise that the game will be in 1080p, only the video stream will be in 1080p. The game itself will be rendered at 720p and then upscaled. This is done so they can technically advertise it as 1080p without actually being 1080p

I can buy that. On the opposite end the Wii was a big success because, despite being very off-the-wall, it ended up finding itself a huge market in more casual gamers. From what I can tell the Stadia seems like it is marketing itself to more serious gamers, and per your analysis above, I can see why it wouldn't have much success in that market. My family and I are definitely on the "casual gamer" spectrum, and while it's only a matter of time until I buy a Wii U, this has 0 interest for me

@MechMK1 Oh, that's sneaky and mean

Next is the input lag. Most people reported somewhere around ONE SECOND of input lag

You can see videos on youtube where people press a button and the game responds a second later

When I play, I disable V-Sync because the ONE FRAME delay on a 144 Hz monitor makes me feel weird. Now imagine that effect times 144!

Imagine a driving game and on every corner you have to estimate when you have to steer so you will make it

The next big problem is the random connection drops

Again, most players reported that the game just randomly does not respond to your inputs for a few seconds. The problem is, the game doesn't just "lag" - it runs fine on google's servers. Your input is just missing.

Imagine a console where someone randomly unplugged your controller for a second

All of these points make Stadia extremely unattractive for me as a platform, and I see absolutely no way of how any of this could ever be fixed.

Perhaps if we all had like a zero-latency internet, then perhaps, but as things are now, it's an absolute disaster

Network latency would certainly be a huge potential issue. You'd think they would get that ironed out before trying to launch something like this, because it would be a huge deal breaker.

The games look and feel terrible, and the Stadia version is literally the worst version you could get

As we know, I certainly don't have the internet connection for it

It looks worse (720p on supposedly E X T R E M E hardware, versus 1080p on a 250€ PS4), it plays worse (1 second input lag versus virtually no input lag), the service could randomly shut down (my old B/W gameboy still plays Tetris just fine)

Why would anyone ever want this?

@ConorMancone Is there a reason why you want a Wii U and not a Nintendo Switch?

@MechMK1 lol, I totally meant a Switch

Confused my generations

Switch is a good console. I had a lot of fun with it

I wanted to buy one for Christmas but we ended up having too many presents already

Mainly I just want to play Pokemon sword and shield, if we're being honest :p

No need to stress it. There's still Easter coming :D

my mom played Pokemon Sword

She said it's rather....short

She finished it two days ago, and played since christmas

I'm still writing

But the short version is: if a game actively punishes me for something that is not my fault, I will not play that game

If the game randomly decides that I will die now, it's not a good game

I never said it was wrong. I said it was a bad answer

A much better solution is manual overview (aka. CSGO's Overwatch) paired with account-tied items

@J.J That's why I bring my energy drink from home

Though I switched from Red Bull to my discounter's brand

Red Bull costs 1,79€ per can. Flying Power costs 0,39€ per can

What I meant before was if you have rare and desirable items on your account, then you will not cheat with that account, else you would risk all the effort you put in over years

@J.J I enjoy both Red Bull and Flying Power

@J.J i can too, but why would I pay more than 3.5 times as much for what I consider to be an equivalent product?

I don't consider Red Bull better or worse, just slightly different

So my point in regards to rare items was that if you saw a player with lots of rare stuff, the chance that they are cheating is very low. It's like a weird "proof-of-work", where a person becomes more trustworthy the more stuff they have

"Damn, that sounds unhealthy", he writes and takes a sip from his pepsi before taking another bite from his pizza.

My favourite thing is that I sometimes sneak in an unnecessary u in some words and make people question if I am from the UK or not.

And I do it inconsistently enough so that there is no clear pattern

I do it quite a bit with "behaviour" and such :D

Oh I thought you were talking about Red Bull again

Now ask yourself: Would you rather drink this much Red Bull? or would you rather spend it on weed? :D

I wish I had some, but my dealers don't have any and growing it will probably smell too much

Maybe your weed is rubbish. mine is grade A

I just make myself some brownies, put on some Tool and eat ice cream

I don't smoke at all

Bad for the lungs

That of course makes it much less bad for your health :D

If it works

As I said, I don't smoke

I never broke a bone either, and I am not fond of trying that.

Lung Cancer

My grandpa died from it

Or COPD

My uncle has that

Has several holes in his lung

Yes, but there is a difference between living relatively healthy for 60-70 more years, and living for 50 more years and feeling like I am about to suffocate every second of my life

No, certainly not, but why would I want that? If I dislike it, I just did something I disliked, and if I like it, I would not do it anyways, knowing the concequences

Reminds me of how a guy described heroin once:

> It's like a huge weight is suddenly lifted off you, and you're sitting on a cloud. And when it wears off, that weight is put back on. The problem is, now you are aware of the weight, and this feeling will never go away.

I do plenty of things. I wanted to start shooting guns, so I did that

And I tried all kinds of large and small calibers

I have an AR-15, and I shot with a lot of other stuff

I have a good gaming PC, I have a nice Warhammer 40k army, etc...

Some people may think this is sad, but I enjoy this life. I feel no desire to go out partying every weejend

Eh, I don't drink that often

If you don't count the tiny glass of plum wine you get at the chinese restaurant

it's sake most of the time not plum

@MrHeliose Depends on the restaurant

Many chinese restaurants use plum wine

While japanese often use Sake

didn't say you lied, were I live it's Sake most of the time.

I didn't take it as you claiming I was lying. I just explained how things are in my area

hey

If I use windows "Format Drive" wizard and I do 7 formats on my external HDD, I assume it's as secure as any other 7-pass wipes? (E.g. from DBAN)

SSD?

HDD

with a USB connector

Then I'll go with "yes", although not an expert

toshiba

Well, I read that Win Format feature zeros out

so I mean...

It's not like I have nuclear thing blueprints or anything

All I know is that SSDs are very tricky, but old school spinning disk platters are much more straight forward.

I read that SSDs arent tricky at all

since they basically dont have more than 1 layer (physical)

so even a 1 pass "All zeros"

on all clusters or whatver

should do the trick

correct me if wrong

@J.J that sounds bad...until you look at how much everyone in my office spends on coffee every day. Multiple times that! It's crazy