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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Nasty stuff, stealer logs. I’ve written about them and loaded them into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) before but just as a recap, we’re talking about the logs created by malware running on infected machines. You know that game cheat you downloaded? Or that crack for the pirated software product? Or the video of your colleague doing something that sounded crazy but you thought you’d better download and run that executable program showing it just to be sure? That’s just a few different ways you end up with malware on your machine that then watches what you’re doing and logs it, just like this:

    These logs all came from the same person and each time the poor bloke visited a website and logged in, the malware snared the URL, his email address and his password. It’s akin to a criminal looking over his shoulder and writing down the credentials for every service he’s using, except rather than it being one shoulder-surfing bad guy, it’s somewhat larger than that.

    Seriously, read the article you posted. YOU probably attempted to log in and the virus on YOUR computer you seem to be in HEAVY denial about captured your info. You’re lucky the 2FA probably prevented the people who are are logging activity from your PC from accessing your Steam account.

    The article you posted clearly defines stealer logs, and the email you screenshot clearly says your info is in a stealer log breach - I don’t know what more to say. You clearly have all the information you need, you just don’t want to process it.

    YOU LOGGED INTO STEAM ON AN INFECTED COMPUTER AND ARE PROBABLY STILL USING THAT SYSTEM. YOUR COMPUTER HAS A VIRUS.


  • I have not brought this up with the other moderators, but this seems uncontroversial, especially among people who seek to give a voice to the voiceless.

    I agree this is the right policy to establish and a pretty uncontroversial take, especially in a vegan community on Lemmy.

    That said, as someone with a tiny bit of experience in community building, I’d generally recommend at least a cursory heads up for the people who have to enforce the new rule - let them be a part of the process!

    Cheers on taking a stand against hate!





  • Good and relatively mass produced? Good start searching for terms like “solid wood dresser”. You still have to do some vetting but it cuts down on the absolute junk.

    Good and cheap? Check your local Goodwill and Habitat for Humanity ReStore regularly - their stock is highly variable, but they will have some of the best items for the best price out there.

    Money is no object? Make friends with the folks at your local hardwood store and pry them for recommendations for local woodworkers, and attend local craft fairs.





  • I’m on fedora 41 and gaming is almost perfect on it, the final hurdles are some VRR

    Variable Refresh Rate - synchronizing your monitor’s refresh rate with your computer’s output, yielding a potentially smoother image and, for portable gamers, better battery life. This is a key feature of “Freesync” monitors, etc.

    refinements and HDR.

    High Dynamic Range - increase in the variability of light levels achievable in a scene, allowing monitors to better approach the dynamic light levels one would experience IRL (In Real Life). This is a key feature of most new displays, especially higher-end OLEDs (Organic Light Emitting Diodes, a type of display technology where pixels are individually lit)

    These are supposedly coming in f42

    Fedora 42 - the 42ndiest version of Fedora.

    so I’d rather not wait god knows how long on Debian for these features to show up. However once the features arrive and I run into issues with F42,

    Fedora 42 - the 42ndiest version of Fedora.

    I’ll consider Deb.

    Not an acronym, but abbreviation for Debian. Or perhaps OP lives in a Hallmark movie and Deb is the girl who has always been by their side, but they’ve never considered as a romantic partner… Until now…


  • I think you missed the entire premise of the article you linked - the “stealer logs” mean someone logged into your account on a system that had been breached (infected with malware), and the “stealer” “logged” those credentials.

    Also, SteamDB and Steam are two very different things. SteamDB is an independent third party offering that just tracks Steam data via their API.






  • Ehh, I think it’ll be a looong time before machine learning can make meaningful character interactions.

    It may be able to make maps faster, slightly better versions of something like No Man’s Sky or Minecraft (both already sporting functionally “infinite” procedural generation), or fill a city like Cyberpunk 2077’s with slightly less mindless wandering NPCs, but I don’t think it’ll help make story-based RPGs bigger in a useful way

    The NPCs that stand out in an RPG do so because they typically have a well-crafted, and finite, story arch which is incredibly difficult to do with machine learning and trying to make things more procedurally generated.