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Due to the casual writing style and the excessive use of commas, I don't think this was written by a language model. > In order to run Windows apps, one of the
by Zambyte 2y ago
Due to the casual writing style and the excessive use of commas, I don't think this was written by a language model.
> In order to run Windows apps, one of the things WINE has to do is reverse engineer the Windows kernel so there’s a WINE kernel to make this possible.
This is an interesting case of how humans "hallucinate" in the exact same way as language models. There is no "WINE kernel". It simply does not exist. The author made it up. They did it to back up this point:
> Yes, I do realize I just said something that sounds like a contradiction. Earlier I said “Linux is made in a way that they can’t force a rootkit on us” so how do these kernel-level anti-cheats work for games in Linux? That’s where the awesomeness of Proton comes in.
Ignoring the fact that Windows rootkits work in the exact same way as Linux rootkits in this context (they just ask for permission), the real way EAC and BattlEye work in Proton is by simply running in user space instead of running in kernel space.