Arch-TK

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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
You ask if it's either intrusive spyware or if it's a locked down system and then describe dual-booting intrusive spyware. A TPM is entirely under your control. It's designed in such a way that you can't do certain thing
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Valve thinks it's not necessary and it's still in the air if it really isn't. They have bet on the behavioral analysis anti-cheat horse but it hasn't won any races yet. Moreover, they've proven that it's certai
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
"you can't tell if a player is cheating or not, does it matter that they are" This is basically effectively where KLA has gotten to. There are still plenty of cheaters, people just don't realize. I think it does matter i
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
It's either invasive anti-cheat on a vendor controlled platform or it's a totally locked down vendor controlled platform, there are no other options in the client side anti cheat space. Given that valve refuses to use KLA for thei
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Valve isn't likely to make SteamOS the kind of platform that facilitates intrusive* anti-cheat** or which is locked down in a way to prevent cheating at the client side. This means that a number of competitive multiplayer games will ne
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
We could just stop calling it an engineering discipline. You've laid out plenty of reasons why it is nothing like an engineering discipline in most contexts where people write software. Real software engineering does exist. It does so
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Would be fun to see the traffic dumps, I would love to try to figure out the protocol offline with them. Just spent half a day reverse engineering a Windows virtual printer driver (for work) and had to force myself to stop spending the rest
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Being "green" is like being "organic" compared to being carbon-neutral which is something you can just calculate.
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Is it not? What is it instead? Carbon negative?
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Temporarily controlling screen brightness is something that, at least on android, the app can do itself... The cracked screen thing - funny. I wonder how long these twats will hold out. I hope by the next time I fly Ryanair, someone has fig
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
There's not much Kernel Level malware singed in Windows (drivers have more scrutiny for whatever that's worth). Regardless, the point is that companies using KLA rely on the relative difficulty of circumventing protections impleme
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Yeah most games, except the ones which rely on KLA. There aren't _that many_ games in that realm, but most PC gamers play at least one of them a lot. Without effective KLA support (which would require a locked down Linux aka Gamedroid,
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Sure valve can make Gamedroid a reality, but Valve seems to be on the side of not using KLA themselves. And, again, Gamedroid != Linux and PS5's OS is not anything like normal BSD. In both cases (hypothetical Gamderoid and current Cons
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
> A kernel module is easier to make on Linux than on Windows. That's cool, but you can't enforce that the rest of the kernel hasn't been modified with that kernel module. You need a chain of trust. > We gamedevs don&#x2
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
I don't think Linux will ever fully take over gaming regardless of effort unless competitive multiplayer game companies decide to give up on assuming total control over your system in order to make cheaters undetectable to the average
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Regexing them out will break mail deliverability if the mail system doesn't do plus addressing. And you cannot know from a third party perspective if someone just likes putting plusses in their email address or if the plus is for plus
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
They cannot without cooperation of the mail provider as mentioned earlier.
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Oh, Nintendo can't technically win a lawsuit against you if you make something for personal use, but they absolutely can and will try and ruin you financially before it sees a courtroom.
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
On second glance, the validator is dictated by the domain owner so this falls into the "in case it's the latter, then this doesn't have as big an impact I guess" category. I'll put this on the backlog of things to i
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
> You are using a workaround for your privacy, and to prevent spam (not solid at either). Neither, I do it so I can track which companies sold my email address on without my permission so I can put them on my shit list / report them
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
The new standard relies on some possibly third party (at least that seems somewhat implied here) which has a database of email addresses which it can attest exist and which is tied to some user authentication. If the email address isn'
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Cool, so if I want to use myname+yourdomainname.here@myemail.com to register on your application I now first have to go to some third party(?*) to verify that myname+yourdomainname.here@myemail.com is valid**. And then, once I've gone
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Common misunderstanding in these comments: Ofcom expects _you_ the foreign entity to implement geoblocking perfectly. And if not, they will try to fine you first before they even consider implementing blocking on their end. That's the
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
Let's say hosting a website for cat pictures is illegal in the UK, but I am based in the US (alas, I am not). I put up my cat picture website but because the UK is a tiny and barely known country, I don't realise that this cat web
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
If SaSu is voluntarily implementing a UK geoblock instead of fighting Ofcom. Ofcom is claiming it's everyone on the planet's responsibility to implement their own geoblocks of the UK rather than for the UK to set up a GFW. If SaSu
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
But Ofcom is in fact saying that you are _not_ free to run those websites from the UK and they expect _you_ to implement a perfect blockade of UK IP addresses. On the other hand, if Ofcom receive a tip-off from a random charity claiming the
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
You can't use Docker on Mac or FreeBSD. Now, I am not calling you a liar, you _can_ use Docker on Mac and FreeBSD. But you would probably only want to do so for development, as Docker on Mac and FreeBSD requires running a Linux VM whic
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
YouTube claim these were not automated actions. This explicitly rules out "algorithm/LLM makes a stupid mistake" but also seems to rule out "hits a threshold of community reports and gets automatically taken down pending
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
A 2.8x price increase (compared to what I pay per tablet) for a product made and packaged in the US compared to a mass manufactured product made in a cheaper country by companies with thousands of other products and massive marketing depart
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by Arch-TK 11mo ago
There are rinse aid brands which undergo independent tests to ensure they don't contain problematic things but you can also pretty successfuly make your own with a combination of some food grade acid, alcohol and water.

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