CeeBee_Eh
@CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 day ago:
Why are you comparing theft to game hacking out of nowhere?
You made the comparison: “Much like every security system”
Source?
It’s out there, my dude. It’s a constant complaint in literally every competitive online game. If people are complaining about it, then it’s not working well enough. This isn’t an esoteric thought either. You ask anyone if cheating is a big issue in online gaming and anyone with knowledge about it will tell you it’s a constant problem that’s getting worse.
What do you mean by system in “full access to the system”?
If you own the hardware and have admin/root access to the OS. Then it’s yours and you have “full access” to everything. And I do mean everything. You can modify the OS. You can read the values of protected parts of memory. And so on.
If you don’t understand what I mean by “full access to the system” in the context of anti-cheat running on your own hardware, then there’s nothing I can say in a short comment to get you up to speed.
Someone still has to discover the exploit.
The cheat and anti-cheat battle is a constant cat and mouse game. The advantage is always with the cheaters because they outnumber the developers 100:1 at the least. Plus they have the will and determination to find ways around anti-cheats. In fact, building security against exploits is by far way harder than finding exploits.
The reality is that client-side anti-cheat is a losing battle.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 day ago:
What you’re referring to is deterrence, and it doesn’t apply to online gaming the way it does to theft of property. One cheater doesn’t ruin the game for one other person, they ruin the game for dozens or hundreds of other players.
And the efficacy being so bad is the reason why client-side anti-cheat keeps getting more and more invasive to the point of being literally, by definition, a type of malware and system rootkit. And yet it’s still not enough to defeat cheaters, because the cheaters have full access to the system itself.
And the guys writing the cheat software just have to put in the effort once to defeat the anti-cheat and then they sell it to people who install it like any other software. The cheaters who use the cheats have it easy.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 day ago:
Anti-cheat is a necessary evil for competitive online games
Client-side anti-cheat is useless. It’s not a necessary evil, it’s just evil. The minute the cheater/hacker has direct access to the system, you’ve already lost.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
For the longest time I refused to watch the Halo show because I heard that Master Chief takes off his helmet. But then I gave it a shot and it’s a really really good show, and they did the adaptation solid justice.
They made changes where it (mostly) made sense and were truthful to everything else.
They set up a back story that explains how we got a John-117 in the games. Someone who is socially reserved, doesn’t talk much, never takes off his helmet, and prefers to work alone. The ending of the second season was a setup for season 3 to start exactly where Halo 1 started.
The music was phenomenal, cinematography was on point, acting was great, story line was compelling.
I’m normally the person who’s a stickler for not changing a story at all, but the Halo universe was originally told through a game that was more about story beats than actual literary writing. So there’s a ton of room for the in-between conversations and events.
I think the show got an undeserved bad rap. If more people gave it a chance they may have actually liked it.
Halo fans got an actually decent show. Whereas Wheel of Time and Tolkien fans got the abominations of a show we got.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 days ago:
A Halo MMO could have been cool.
Speaking of MMOs or open world games, I wish that Stargate MMO game got off the ground. That would have so much potential.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 4 days ago:
BL3 is the existing evidence
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 month ago:
What I do is just take out the card a plug it into a little USB dongle thing which I can plug into either my phone or laptop.
What’s wild to me is that anyone would do it any other way. I’m astounded that this is somehow a “tip”.
Not even 10 years ago it was simply the way to do it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I mean sure it has a shared history
Wait, you serious?
- Comment on https://lemmy.zip/post/37479548 2 months ago:
“Initial focus on PC”
I hope they’re using those words correctly and I can pay it on Linux.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
looking at things i think i meamt Only Office. Any opinions there?
If I remember correctly, Only Office uses LibreOffice as its core and then adds or changes default stuff. I might be wrong about that. But ultimately I hear positive things about Only Office.
The hosting is on my old desktop which is running server 2016. I’d like to replace the OS on it too. I don’t keep the box online so I’m not keen on using it for anything other than game servers.
Sounds like a perfect situation for loading something like Proxmox and then visualizing the Windows Server 2016 instance. You would basically have the exact same functionality but with way more options like cloning and backing up the server.
Appreciate you not going aggro on me over it.
No worries at all. I think the automatic defensiveness from Linux people comes from old misconceptions being repeated often. Or sometimes it comes from how something is read and interpreted. Someone might say “I can’t switch because I need XYZ”, to which a very literal response is “you can use ABC which does the same thing, so you can switch”. When what the first person meant is “I can’t switch because I prefer XYZ”, which is a completely valid reason.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
I wasn’t going to berate you or anything. I was genuinely curious.
I am going to be trying out libreoffice and OpenOffice
LibreOffice is great. I use it on my work system at a medium to larger sized company (every single other person uses o365). I haven’t heard anyone complain yet about doc comparability and I haven’t had any issues myself.
Stay away from OpenOffice. It’s practically a dead product. When Oracle bought OpenOffice, the community forked the project which became LibreOffice. LibreOffice is where all the development and community focus and effort has gone since.
OneNote is my second most vital
I don’t have any recommendations here. I’ve never really found a “perfect” solution for this. Currently I use a few different solutions, but it’s all centred around markdown, so they’re all interchangeable.
OneDrive is probably my most vital.
I personally wouldn’t touch OneDrive with a hundred meter pole. MS does so much screwing around with your data that you can never be sure if the data stored is what you uploaded. They’ve been known to just up and delete files they scan and think is malicious, even if it’s a false positive. Then they’re known to scan all your documents for everything, including potential passwords, then use those passwords to open password-protected files and then scan them also.
Then there’s the situation from a year or so ago where they automatically switched everyone’s documents folder to a “cloud first” folder, where they just auto-uploaded everyone’s local files, deleted the local copies, and did it all without user consent or even informing users. And this resulted in all kinds of wild crap like people not having access to their documents because they were offline and were expecting local files. Then some people had their metered data connection getting maxed out. While others couldn’t even modify their files or even save a file to their “My Documents” folder because the default storage allocation was far less than the total data of their local files. So effectively the data was held for ransom.
it’s mostly running dedicated game servers that have no Linux option.
Most newer games that you can run your own dedicated server will almost certainly have a Linux option, which suggests you might taking about older games, in which case something like Lutris (Wine) might be an option.
But are you hosting these game servers on your desktop?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux).
They haven’t been for a while now. On some newer distros they’ll install the Nvidia drivers at the same time as the OS itself.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
Nvidia GPUs are not good in Linux at the moment
They’ve been perfectly fine for years. And now they’ve never been better for desktop DEs.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 months ago:
What kind of things are holding you back?
- Comment on Why Chrome only? 2 months ago:
If I can’t control something 100% local, I don’t buy it. If it requires an online account in any way, it’s trash.
- Comment on Why Chrome only? 2 months ago:
Oh man, that’s bogus. That’s for sharing that.
- Comment on Why Chrome only? 2 months ago:
Wait, what exactly does Ecobee require chrome for? I was looking to replace my Nest thermostat with an Ecobee.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
It was a sarcastic jab. I don’t agree with software piracy in general, that’s all.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
You can run into some issues with missing features, for which you’ll have to manually hunt down what’s missing and manually install it.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
isthereanydeal com
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
Oh no! Your pirated game isn’t working properly! Let’s blame the OS!
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
As much as I dislike Windows, it’s incredibly uncommon for it to blue screen unless there’s some kind of hardware fault. And if it’s happening in Linux too, you’ve got bad/dying hardware.
In Linux, if your system is hanging for a bit then coming back, then it’s probably a drying hard drive.
One thing you can check with is Burn In Test on Windows. It will stress all the individual components and tell you what’s failing.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 3 months ago:
I’ll use the crappy Win11 lappy just for MS office
LibreOffice works very well. I use it often in a company that uses Office exclusively, and I’ve never had a compatibility issue.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 5 months ago:
While I mostly agree, I have used LLMs to help me find some truly obscure stuff or things a normal web search would take a long time to sift through a lot of sources that are too generalized. An LLM can give you the exact thing from a more generic search, then I can take that specific output to find the detailed source.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 5 months ago:
Now ask DeepSeek about Tiananmen Square
- Comment on Exogate Initiative, a "Stargate Command" basebuilder and management game, released on Steam 5 months ago:
Before you ask, the creators were threatened into oblivion. You MIGHT be able to find an installer out there somewhere.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 months ago:
Yuzutu?
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 6 months ago:
While this seems like a trivial issue (Just buy a third SSD for Windows and dual boot)
That’s not trivial at all. Don’t let anyone let you think otherwise.
- Comment on I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office 7 months ago:
Ya, I got all 12 of them.
- Comment on I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office 7 months ago:
Sounds like a bad case of the Mondays