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  • It’s difficult to say. Short answer is I wouldn’t trust it.

    Vmprotect is a piece of DRM that obfuscates the underlying code by running the software within a custom virtual machine that makes reverse engineering the software much more challenging.

    This method is sometimes used to obfuscate the actions of malicious code from being detected by security tools. I would be wary of running anything using this even if I was 100% sure I could trust the source.

    If the source is unknown as it is here, I would definitely not trust it.


  • It’s kind of a difficult problem to solve.

    Effective regulation requires lawmakers to have a solid understanding of the thing being regulated. This is not really feasible with something as complicated and nuanced as “information technology” and it’s how you get especially stupid rules like the ones coming into the 3D printer space to prevent manufacturing ghost gun parts.

    Guaranteed, those started from a place of “We all agree that a lower barrier of entry to making firearms is bad. How do we control that?”

    Theoretically, this is the purpose of a lobby group. You have someone that is familiar with subject matter to propose sensible regulations to keep the industry honest, but in practice it’s just industry leaders that pay for regulation to choke out competition, or to loosen restrictions to be more predatory.




  • The cybersecurity specialist in me really doesn’t like the idea of having enough wire in public spaces that it’s essentially impossible to monitor, sending infrastructure related data.

    But then again, a weekend playing around with a flipper zero and a walk through town is enough to realize that it probably doesn’t matter.






  • We get the occasional tornado here, but thankfully I have never seen one up close.

    We get a shit-ton of hailstorms though, and occasionally the hailstones are big enough that if you’re outside during one, you’ll probably need a trip to the hospital. A lot of the older cars have golfball style dents and pretty much everyone has a story about trying to get insurance payots for holes in the siding of their house.






  • This is torture if the subtitles don’t match.

    I have a soft spot for dubbed anime and always have, but in pretty much every case, the subtitles are not a transcript of the dub, they’re a translation of the original Japanese.

    As a result, the feeling you get trying to watch that is not unlike going up a set of stairs and miscounting, but for every sentence.



  • Godort@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhy homelab?
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    It’s a hobby, and most of the reason why is because it’s fun to get it all set up and working exactly the way you want.

    I think of it like this:

    Why would anyone spend all the time and money to build a hot rod when they could just drive a sensible Toyota Corolla?