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Not really: if you're astroturfing, you don't do all your astroturfing from a single source because that makes it so obvious even a blind person could see it and sort it out.

You do it from all over the places, mixed in with as much real user traffic as you can, and then do it steadily and without being hugely bursty from a single location.

Humans are very good at pattern matching and recognition (which is why we've not all been eaten by tigers and leopards) and will absolutely spot the single source, or extremely high volume from a single source, or even just the looks-weird-should-investigate-more pattern you'd get from, for example, exactly what happened to cause this post.

TLDR: they're doing this because they're trying to evade humans and ML models by spreading the load around, making it not a single source, and also trying to mix it in with places that would also likely have substantial real human traffic because uh, that's what you do if you're hoping to not be caught.

If this worked for other forms of content than microblogging it'd be more interesting.

I don't have an issue with paying for people who make long-form video content, or people who post actual real long-form blog posts, or newsletters of interest but microblog shit?

There's barely enough of interest there to justify reading it most of the time, let alone paying for it.

Tweets and toots are just advertisement for the actual content, not the actual content, IMO.

This would be more interesting if it was a way to monetize Peertube or the various blogging platforms that are federated.

Solution update:

Lots of advice, and I found what I needed: it was audio compression. This was not a thing I had a clue existed, but it's exactly what I needed.

Resolve does it natively, and having it compress the voice track, and then adding some ducking and fiddling with the volume levels resulted in closer (if not exactly) to what I was expecting/needing.

Like, that was 90% of the problem, and I'm sure the last 10% is simply a skill issue and I'll get it sorted out.

Thanks for telling me what I should be looking for, since it's kinda hard to find the answer for something when you don't know what the thing you need is called.

Politely, but no.

It's a compression tool that is also used to mask malware, and you're proposing to expand it's use in a use case that's ALREADY coated in enough malware to give you herpes just by walking past your average tracker.

It's a bad idea from a security perspective, and it's not going to outperform a LZMA-based compression tool using a large dictionary (7zip, etc.) which also isn't fucking with binaries in a way that makes detecting and preventing malicious software more complicated for the average user, who typically knows absolutely zero about what's going on.

As someone who's been buying (though not intentionally) exclusively AMD laptops for the past 9 years or so, yeah, this resonates pretty well with the user experience.

I mean, none of the laptops are bad or defective or whatever, but the quality of support and feature support and just the general amount of time it takes to get things pushed out has always been shit compared to Intel stuff.

AMD can't manage firmware and software fixes for shit, regardless of product line and if I were an OEM, I'd probably be pissed at their stupid slow bullshit too.

Example: 2022 G14 was totally getting USB4. Got a beta for it, and then Asus went 'Fucking AMD isn't helping or providing stuff we need, so this beta is all you're getting, go yell at them.' Is that the whole story? Maybe not, but it certainly feels perfectly reasonable based on how AMD has supported everything prior to that as well, so I tend to think it's enough of the story to be true.

Good hardware (mostly), and it's reliable enough and it does the job, but it's very much a dont-expect-support kind of experience past the first couple of months after release. (And yes, I know the OEM carries a good portion of responsibility there, but if there's not a new firmware/microcode/etc from AMD to fix an issue, then what are they supposed to ship to you?)

Sorry, I meant antivirus. (Corpo IT calls it endpoint, since it's, well, the endpoint.)

Fantastic. Though, I have to wonder if this is going to result in either way more cheaters, or if the anti-cheat will become super fucking awful to deal with and start making (broader) arbitrary decisions on what you can and cannot run because it has less access to shit.

Regardless, the less shit fucking around in the kernel the better, especially for shit that shouldn't have ever been there in the first place.

On Linux? There's no iGPU support in Resolve so that's just uh, not going to work.

That's a Windows-only feature for whatever reason, so uh, sorry?

Pack what executables exactly?

Like take a copy of Nodobe Notoshop and repack it?

If that's what you mean, uh, politely, but fuck no. Malware is enough of a problem that there's no way I'd want to start downloading crap that's been UPXed since that's going to make it impossible to determine if it's legitimate or not by (most) endpoint tools, or they'll just see UPX and go 'bad shit!' on everything.

As someone who plays a gacha game (Genshin Impact) I 100% agree. This shit should be kept the hell out of the hands of kids until their brain has at least matured to the point we'd let them go actual gambling.

That said, there's certainly a spread of abusiveness in the games: some are very reasonable and could be played with no money or very little money because they're generous with premium currencies and others are doing a sexy little dance while they steal your wallet.

Regulation around how much you can spend in a month would be reasonable, no kids would be reasonable, requiring clear and published probabilities and what those probabilities mean in terms of how many pulls would be a good start.

I can assure you most gacha players cannot tell you how many pulls you'd need to make for a 0.5% chance pull.

Also maybe outline estimated costs for winning wouldn't be awful, but that's maybe not feasible since there's a lot of variability?

Depends on your threat model and actual realistic concerns.

Ultimately, if it comes down to it, there's very little you can do that's failsafe and 100% guaranteed: the provider has access to your disk, all data in your instances RAM (including encryption keys), and can watch your processes execute in real time and see even the specific instructions your vCPU is executing.

Don't put illegal shit on hardware you do not physically own and have physical control over, and encrypt everything else but like, if the value of your shit is high enough, you're fucked if you're using someone else's computer.

This here. The most important thing on your computer are all your session cookies, which are, well, accessible with permissions your user account already has.

Dudes don't care about making your shit into a botnet, or putting a rootkit in your firmware, or whatever other technically complex thing you care to think about: they're there to steal your shit, and the most valuable shit you have is sitting there out in the open for the taking for anyone who makes it past a very very low bar of 'make the user do something stupid'.

Either is fine: the question is what happens when something breaks and if you care about issues and such.

If your docker host depends on the pihole it's running, there can be some weirditry if it's not available during boot and whatnot (or if it crashes, etc.).

...I ended up with a docker container of pihole and an actual pi as the secondary so that it's nice and redundant.

It reads like the usual thing you see with retro gaming types: someone, who probably has all the right in the world to do so, makes their version of something without the original person's name on it, and original dude has a little fit about how they're being denied their due credit or whatever.

Like, not the first time this has happened, and certainly won't be the last time it happens.

Though I doubt he really has the ability to change license on a whim like that, but it also doesn't matter, because it's not like that's retroactive. Just fork it before guy had a fit, and forget he exists, and move on.

Stripe is pretty much global, outside of some weird prepaid/debit cards in various places which just don't work.

The bigger problem is that the number of chargebacks you need to get your merchant account killed with them is very small if you don't have substantial dollar/transaction volume which a Lemmy admin isn't horribly likely to have.

And of course, their chargeback fees in general are unpleasant though that's more of a universal problem than a Stripe problem.

off-brand Super Soakers until they get frustrated

I'm now imagining the leaders of the Andromeda Initiative shopping for guns at the Citadel branch of Temu, which is Commander Shepherd's least favorite store.

Yeah, it's a recorded audio track of the voice over being mixed (or attempted anyway) with some mellow background music because I wasn't happy with how quiet everything was. The nVidia broadcast noise removal/echo removal is really damn good, but it leads to creepy sounding videos because it's so dang quiet.

The main issue is that the audio doesn't sound good on varying headphones/devices/etc once they're added to the Davinci Resolve project, mixed, and then rendered into a video.

Don't know if it's Resolve being the problem, me being the problem, or just some fundamental understanding I lack with how you should mix two tracks, where one is very much intended to be audible, but substantially lower volume than the other.

I'm all for adding added steps if I can get the audio to be mixed and audible at a variety of volume ranges and devices.

Another paper that equates not changing the world with being a complete failure.

A valid viewpoint, I suppose, but some Fedi-things have certainly improved my life, which really, is how these things work: you improve people's lives incrementally, and not by the hundreds of millions at once.

Of course, that means this is a complete failure because we won't accept anything other than massive global success as success anymore because... reasons?

I'm not sure what's wrong with your PC, but mine can run a lot more than 3 different consoles worth of games ;)

And of course you've also forgotten about Steam, the past 40 years of computer gaming, as well as the easy(easier?) use of all sorts of mods and addons that you just don't get on one of the major consoles.

Use a better client that shows you the information? The default UI does, so that's firmly a problem you've inflicted on yourself.