Saturday, October 29, 2016

Cloba.U's Nico Nico Live Streams

Well, the live streams may look official to be frank due to the fact that Cloba.U had made the comic franchise, Magic of Stella. It started four years ago and the comic books of it started first before the games existed starting from two years ago. Most of the live streams may include working on the Dot-by-Dot sprites or maybe the comics. I was blown away from the way he worked on the comics as making a digital comic like that isn't anything easy.
During his live streams, most of the music is probably the BMS or some other kinds of music. One surprise is the music taken from Magic of Stella games including the ones taken from the albums he has bought. Live streaming yourself drawing sprites or comics is like live streaming yourself painting a picture and it will take time to finalize one part.
Unfortunately, it's not quite easy to buy those albums he has bought but from his live streams, you should be able to hear the full version of Star Chaser, full version of Star Hill UK Hardcore remix done by the same person who composed the same song as well as the medley that mashes up two songs. They may be part of the Star Chaser EP album or something which is all done by Ginkiha himself. Unfortunately, it's an epic shame that not all people know the Magic of Stella games those songs are actually in and they're already missing out. However, there's the update news some in What's New of Magic of Stella Star Chaser indicating that there will be a full version of the game's BGM in Christmas. If that is true, perhaps, I may as well make a gameplay video of that during that time when possible.

Bonus thing, I might have made a mashup retro remix of Star Chaser with Dreams of an Absolution. Initially, the reference of Star Chaser was the game size version but upon hearing the full version of the song from Cloba.U's live stream, I decided to amend the mashup remix based on what I could recall. The result was that it was a little bit longer. Needless to say, I already deconstructed Dreams of an Absolution to its death by mashing it up with other songs as well.
Link here: https://soundcloud.com/silveryfj/dreams-of-an-absolution-x-star-chaser-sfj-16-bit-mashup-remix.

Windows 10 Creators Update Live Stream

The Creators Update also known as Redstone 2 of Windows 10 may look like a future fascination where you can use Paint 3D Studio, do easier messaging with files to be sent to the messaging box as the attachment along with Beam, the interactive live stream feature for both Windows 10 computers and Xbox One.
Paint 3D Studio may give you the ability to turn 2D stuffs into 3D objects along with other stuffs imported from cameras, 3D scanning and so on. It may look like the entire interface may be suited for tablet users although the professional tools like Photoshop can still be done with stylus and other cool things like Surface Dail for any Windows 10 computer. Paint 3D Studio allows you to import and export objects between Sketchup, Minecraft and other tools suited for Paint 3D Studio. There's also a website where 3D objects to be used for Paint 3D Studio can be downloaded from. There's also the 3D scanner stuff that can be done with a Windows tablet or phone device. It may be less difficult than Autodesk 123D Catch where you can capture real-life objects and turn them into 3D ojects in such a complicated way due to the technology being too new at the time.
Beam, the interactive live stream program, well, there's nothing special about it other than the interactive buttons at the bottom where viewers can use those buttons to ask the streamer stuffs like advices, what to do and even to keep up during the match. There's also a button that asks the streamer to pay attention to the chat or the gameplay screen. So if you want spectation in live stream, you can enter something like that in the chat but the special thing is that you can also organize the tournaments for an existing game that's suited for them. Unfortunately, the flaw is that the tournaments can be organized at the consumer-level so the idea may make things kind of ass. They should be organized at the corporate-level like EVO, E-Sports and other kinds of competitions.
Another cool thing is the Surface Studio, the all-in-one Windows PC that is kind of like iMac but superseding due to the inclusion of touchscreen feature, Surface Dial and the stylus feature. Be warned, however, such advanced computers like Surface Pro i7 and Surface Studio are extremely expensive. Other updates include the mixed reality for Hololens where you can mix both virtual reality and augmented reality although I still find the Hololens kind of delusional as if you're talking to your dead friend whose soul has entered reality where communications between you and him can work but not anyone else. You can also tour on public places with Hololens although it looks kind of weird to see not all things animating. Perhaps, it uses Bing Maps technology but chances are, things are not happening in real time when you do the tour. You actually have to go out and get to that place yourself. It things are happening in real time as if the satellite monitors whichever place you want to have a simulated tour at using Hololens, something may go wrong when it comes to privacy.

Lastly, there are VR headsets for Windows 10 starting at $299 although I don't know if they make use of Hololens software or something.
The live stream obviously took place on the last day of the NextGen Climate texting assignment and needless to say, my progress for that wasn't that great. The others' assignments had made great progresses though. The assignment expired by the time the live stream ended.

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Tech Support Hotline by Fight for the Future

On the first night I did the assignment from NextGen Climate due to the fact that I signed up for it from Avaaz website in which activists around the globe can volunteer for people's rights and freedom, there was news indicating that the East Coast region of the US was under heavy cyber-attack through DDoS. We don't know who were behind those attacks but those outside of that region were not affected. It affected many popular websites for users there.
Unfortunately, someone from had the guts to say such inferior crap on CNN regarding the DDoS attack that happened. Like WOULD THE S**A BILL THAT FAILED THE LAST TIME STOP THAT CYBER-ATTACK? There should be an investigation like those behind those cyber-attacks should be arrested if found for instance. Saying such stupid things on interviews that would be broadcasted on the internet or TV can attract the attention of and anger people who have REAL BRAINS AND KNOWLEDGE.
If there's a field of subjects and topics that you know throughout your lifetime but you're forced to acknowledge a completely different one, that can be a challenge as if they don't know your true field of knowledge out there. So if you're into sports and you know alot about it but they underestimate your knowledge into making you do something related to something completely different, you may be out of luck and it can be a difficult situation.
And because of that interview being done on CNN, Fight for the Future might have to organize the petition and the Tech Support Hotline campaign to lead directly to the phone of Chief Technical Officer, Jeff Lyon. It is a petition made for Congress although the way Fight for the Future takes actions like that is kind of sarcastic. The kind of stupidity already angered advocate organizations like Fight for the Future as if the ones like us and tech companies who opposed S**A bill were cyberbots. We obviously know how AWFUL that bill was and it could be a disaster if it passed in the first place. Also, it was disrespectful to call us cyberbots like that as we already know that we were not the only ones who opposed that bill and besides, it could land her in trouble out of that stupidity.
Knowledge-wise, I have the standard knowledge of networking and cyber-security but they can be tough topics in theory and practical forms. One thing to keep in mind lest you disrespect me or something is that I have tons of knowledge related to Information Technology and that level of knowledge will keep rising. Also, knowing true concerns as stated by advocating organizations like Fight for the Future, Avaaz, EFF, etc. are the better options out there because knowing the things from the news on the net, TV or newspapers will bring you nowhere as you may be missing out one side of the articles. Last but irrelevant, to come up with a character, story, purpose and so on may involve more than knowledge. It may require some research before you can come up with stuffs like that.
Eventually, during this campaign by Fight for the Future, Jeff Lyon is glad to explain the basics of how Internet works. It may sound like a technical topic but on a basic level.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Dutch TV program on privacy

In case of education that teaches you stuffs about cyber-security, there are theories like how things can be compromised due to weaker security, how you can prevent the service from being compromised, how you can take actions when your service/product/system is compromised in which your stuffs are stolen, etc. There are various types of different actions that compromise your security like Social Engineering, Phishing, Malware, Spyware, and so on if you aren't careful. We had seen tons of phishing sites and emails that try to pose as the legitimate sites but normally, legitimate sites don't do such bad things like forcing you to give out your personal information or you'll get your account suspended for example. You should be already aware of such things in existence like that and you can find simple warnings anywhere on NOT to give out any sensitive information.
On the practical side, there are some assignments like you have to test-penetrate the system in the test environment for educational purposes to see how things can happen and how you can prevent that. However, a word of warning from those assignment says that you will never use those same techniques for any other purposes as I think that this is more or less a criminal act.
Unfortunately, if an educational material is to be taking place online or in TV program, more precautions are needed. And a case of privacy violation takes place from the Dutch TV program in which various images are used for the purpose of examples. However, there were no permissions to use those images and the program was already pulled. It can however be reinstated with the privacy lesson portion completely cut out.