redhorsejacket

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redhorsejacket @lemmy.world 6d ago

Fighting fire with fire, they'll never see it coming

6d ago

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity

redhorsejacket @lemmy.world 6d ago

Any non-dummies out there willing to dummy this down for me?

If I'm picking up what was being put down, websites typically reserve a small amount of space on a hard drive for any given website to install scripts they need to function. This is done as a matter of course, and is largely the modern Internet working as intended (for better or worse). However, in this case, a compromised website could instruct my browser to reserve a gig or more of space to deploy or install this FROST script. This reports back to the attacker what programs are competing for resources on my computer, including my individual browser tabs and what sites those tabs contain. It can do this despite the location where browsers let websites install/run scripts being nominally sandboxed away from the rest of the drive. It does this by measuring the latency of certain I/O operations occurring on the drive, and feeding that information through some sort of neural network.

Assuming that is generally correct from a layman's POV, how exactly is that latency information sufficient to determine what programs or websites I have open? Wouldn't different models of SSD (or even different SSDs of the same type) have minor variations in performance which would make this impossible? Hell, how does the script even know that it is installed on an SSD and not an HDD?

Not saying it untrue, because obviously the folks that discovered this know a touch more about computers than me, but, if this explanation were trotted out in a thriller movie ("well, President Ryan, we know the location of the terrorists' hideout because we were able to measure the latency of their hard drive, which revealed they were placing an Amazon order in the other tab"), I'd chalk it up to techno-babble nonsense.

1w ago

Fauxnan the Barbarian, Part One – Black Gate – A survey of Conan-likes

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redhorsejacket @lemmy.world 1w ago

From what I understand, there's an argument to be made that Red Sonja started not holding up at its own premiere haha.

That being said, I can lightly recommend the Red Sonja remake from last year. I did a double feature of that and Deathstalker 2025 awhile back, and had a really good time. It's kind of wild that we had two revivals of non-Conan barbarian properties released right around one another. Like an even schlockier version of Deep Impact vs Armageddon haha. Admittedly, I think Red Sonja 2025 benefitted from having watched Deathstalker 2025 first. Like the reviewer in the article, I only started to have a good time with the latter film once I A) learned its budget was barely $100K and B) came to terms with its comedic tone. Therefore, Red Sonja's somewhat po-faced earnestness and modest budget ($17 million-ish) felt like a breath of fresh air by comparison.

Movies @lemmy.world

1w ago

Fauxnan the Barbarian, Part One – Black Gate – A survey of Conan-likes

www.blackgate.com /2026/05/02/fauxnan-the-barbarian/

1w ago

Any dead franchises that can survive being rebooted?

redhorsejacket @lemmy.world 1w ago

I'll be honest, I've no idea if that's a codemnation or an endorsement lol.

I like Trek just fine, but it almost entirely stems from catching TNG episodes on daytime TV growing up, as well as the memes. My understanding was that TNG didn't start to get gud until Roddenberry had largely been sidelined.

2w ago

Is it just me or is there an itch that you get every now and then that can ONLY be scratched by watching Blade Runner?

What, within the text of the film, indicates to you that there is some sort of consensual power-play happening between those two characters (who are on, what, their third ever meeting?) during that scene?

Like sure, slap-slap/kiss-kiss isn't inherently assault in every context, but, in the film's context, I find it difficult to read it any other way. Even taking the physical coercion out of it, like blocking her attempts to leave, if we take the movie at face value, Deckard is a 40 something alcoholic who "falls in love" with a woman A) he knows is artificial, B) lacks any real experience with the world, and C) is going to be hunted by men like him. The sum effect of which is to paint Rachel as someone who would be completely and utterly dependent upon him if they ran away together. That, in combination with his physical actions leading up to their sex scene, paints Deckard as an abuser, in my opinion.

I'm sure that wasn't necessarily the intent. Rather, they were just playing with the same film noir tropes that festoon the rest of the movie, but, still, that dynamic really puts a sour taste in my mouth. Not enough to prevent me from enjoying everything else about the movie, but it bears mentioning.

2w ago

Helldivers 2 announces “ongoing” Optimising Liberty project with new performance options including long-requested upscaling support

I disagree with you about P2W. Ive unlocked 3 premium warbonds through regular gameplay, and my load outs still consist of 80% free gear. Eagle airstrike, recoilless rifle, turret, and an arty barrage will take you all the way through a level 10 mission with minimal issues, without necessarily relying on your teammates to fill a hole in your load out. Which is what usually happens when I start throwing in my newly unlocked, hyper-specialized warbond rewards.

2w ago

Gal can dream though

That's how the sport gets you. You have one great drive or chip or whatever, and you spend the rest of your round/season/life chasing that. Or maybe that's just my relationship with golf lol

2w ago

Cybertruck Driver Tests “Wade Mode” in Grapevine Lake, Test Ends with Bricked Truck & Driver in Jail.

2w ago

for all of you that still support Palpatine, why?

He's One of the Good Ones ™️

3w ago

Protein

redhorsejacket @lemmy.world 3w ago

I don't think it describes density, though someone more informed than I might illuminate us. Any given (skeletal) muscle group (e.g. quadriceps, biceps, pectorals, etc) consists of both slow and fast twitch muscle fibers. Different muscle groups have different proportions of slow vs fast twitch, depending on the purpose of that group. For example, the average person's quads are have a roughly even distribution of slow vs fast twitch, but the muscles which we use to blink are almost entirely fast twitch.

There's a pretty good comparison table on Wikipedia if you're still curious, but once I see the ATP cycle coming up in a given article, I know I've reached the limits of my amateur understanding. Here, there be dragons.

3w ago

Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

redhorsejacket @lemmy.world 3w ago

"How many hot dogs a day? Well, gosh, I don't know. Some days it's just two. Other days...it could be up to, and I'm just ball parking here you understand, it could be...up to seven?"

"So...seven hot dogs a day."

"Yeah, probably safe."

4w ago

Im a weekly showerer

I mean, I can't speak for everyone, but I do.

Eating a mint to deal with bad breath seems like the equivalent of a 15 year old boy dousing himself with Axe body spray to deal with their BO. It doesn't solve the problem, it just temporarily masks it, and usually to a lesser degree than you think or hope.

4w ago

Suggest me some history books.

I'd like to color outside the lines of your request just slightly by recommending a palate cleanser, if you will: The Dollop podcast with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds. Their schtick is finding an oddball story from history, and doing a narrowlt focused deep dive on that subject. One host tells the story, the other is usually totally oblivious. Both are comedians by trade, so they riff throughout.

The educational value takes a backseat to the comedy bits, but there's still a pretty impressive amount of research which goes into the episodes, and their emphasis on weird, niche stories means that they're often talking about subjects which go unmentioned in general history education. A personal favorite episode of mine is The Jackson Cheese, which talks about a couple enormous wheels of cheese which were gifted to Andrew Jackson following his election to be President in the 1830s. That may sound dull as dishwater, but I've yet to hear anyone that's listened to the episode express that it was a waste of their time.

At any rate, if you want a break from "serious" history education, you can do a lot worse!

4w ago

Weird Real World Locations for your Games!

You may be interested in Paro Taktsang, or Tiger's Nest Monastery. I believe this was used in Batman Begins as the home base of the League of Shadows, before the villain turn.

4w ago

What's the most surprising song you've heard in a supermarket? I once heard killing in the name of

Excuse me, do y'all have plus sizes? This coat, as you can see, is for a great big fat person.

4w ago

Official Poster for the 4K Theatrical Re-Release of Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971)

Well this is exciting! I watched The Lair of the White Worm last week after picking it up out of a bargain bin. It was my first Ken Russell and was totally unknown to me going in. I had an absolute gas watching it. A friend recommended checking out The Devils, but maybe I'll hold off until I can see it in the theater. If it's anything like what he did in the later movie, I want to see it on the biggest screen imaginable, with the least possible idea of what it's about going in haha

4w ago

The latest trilogy isnt on here

Hello there, this is news to me, but that's an enticing prospect.

1mo ago

What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?

redhorsejacket @lemmy.world 1mo ago

In OP's defense, I checked out both movies' Letterboxd ratings, and Blade 1 is rated at 3.5 out of 5, and Blade 2 is sitting at 3.3, so maybe it is just an echo chamber thing. That being said, I really believe this was not the case 10, 15 years ago.

Having sat with it for awhile now, I'm kind of coming around on the notion. I'd have to do a back to back viewing to confirm, but my current hypothesis is that Blade 1 is an excellent urban action-horror picture. It does everything you'd expect it to do pretty well. Blade 2, being a product of Guillermo's interests, has this weird, quasi-Shakespearian family drama between Nomac, lady vampire, and the patriarch serving as the emotional spine of the picture. It's fine, but I remember a lot more about their dynamics than I remember about Blade's arc, which is maybe not what you want from a Blade movie. Plus, all the extra vampire lore and whatnot makes the picture feel less like urban action-horror and more like a fantasy film, which just so happens to have guns and the occasional unwitting human. Not bad, but it does feel like a dry run for ideas Guillermo would do better in other movies.

1mo ago

What movie franchise gets worse with each new film?