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ChillerDragon so did u abandon matrix? i also think its quite bloated

08:46

nothing beats the simplicity of irc

i think he quoted typical signal users, didnt he? xd

09:27

or is he serious xd

09:28

however "matrix is bad enough to be widley adopted

" this is gold, bcs way too true

09:28

generally spoken

thats quite the good quote

well @deen SDL2 has ANGLE support directly, if you want to risk it, i can setup the code for it(just need to ship the angle dlls) https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/include/SDL_hints.h#L916 Probably would require some testing, e.g. if we could default to dx 11 backend, and see what happens on computers that don't support dx 11, if ANGLE can just report it I cannot hide the fact that directx is just integrated million times better than opengl under windows, and that i'm annoyed by all our work arounds, yes .. that raelly annoys me xd (edited)

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09:49

and maybe ppl will complain about performance regressions no idea zink and OpenGLonDirectX12 also only have around 60% performance

09:49

i doubt angle is written so much better

09:49

but maybe it finally fixes the problems with Intel, bcs the GLonDX12 works on Intel

this doesnt affect my glorious linux perfomance right?

ofc not xD

cool

i wouldnt shoot into my own leg xd

chillerdragon disable zoom on your gctf server

11:07

also on 0.6 there is no sound of flag capture

A kid I tutored for a while took his C exam, look at the gem he brought me from the exam:

int a = 5, b = 10;
printf("%d %d", b, a -= (b = (a += b) - b));

What is the output?

12:36

Imagine being a professor, hired at an university and having this in your exam

The output is "-2: Please put your code into a readable format"

Where -2 is the code review that prevents submitting

I mean the entire thing is also UB, so that could indeed be the output gcc decides on

12:43

A friend of his apparently got a gem of a question too char[] str = { 65, 77, 23, 67 }; int len = strlen(str);...

:D

ELI5 why are ddos attacks so hard to deal with

Imagine ten thousand people beating you with bats wearing masks

13:06

What are you going to do about it? They are wearing masks so you can't identify any of them to report them. Nor can you reasonably fight back against ten thousand people. So your only option is to hire security, which costs a lot

what are the defenses taken by more expensive servers?

They either a) Pay for massive connections b) Pay people with massive connections to filter the traffic before it ever gets to them

13:09

Oh or c) Are people that have massive connections because they are their own ISP, like google or amazon

Learath2

A friend of his apparently got a gem of a question too char[] str = { 65, 77, 23, 67 }; int len = strlen(str);...

cs exams always ask the dumbest questions

Oh and there is one last option, if you are a large corporation actually losing money from the ddos the police will actually care about your report because police is there for only one reason: it's not protecting citizens or enforcing law, it's to protect capital

can't you somehow block the ip addresses of the ddosing computers?

They don't use a single ip, they use thousands, and they are faking those ips while at it

13:16

that's the first d in ddos: distributed, it's a small amount of traffic coming from thousands of different ips amounting to a lot of traffic

13:16

we do during tournaments and stuff agressively firewall sometimes, only allowing packets from people already in the server

but eventually they run out of computers no?

they don't use multiple computers, they just fake that the traffic is coming from different computers

but aren't those fake computers identifiable somehow? or something idk xd

13:17

also why isn't that allowing packets from ppl already in the server a good solution?

13:17

cause u can no longer connect to the server or something?

well first of all no new players can ever connect, second is a problem we have mostly solved but it used to be that they used to collect players ips and faked those so our firewall wouldn't catch much

13:18

s/used to collect/collected/

so basically it's impossible to solve without a server capable of handling large number of requests?

atleast not solve it as in how it's not a problem in most AAA games