Barbarian
@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
Linux server admin, MySQL/TSQL database admin, Python programmer, Linux gaming enthusiast and a forever GM.
- Comment on WTF is wrong with Killing Floor 2? 1 day ago:
You can always refund it
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
It depends. There’s 2 different methods that I don’t think they’re doing that would make it legal:
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Explicitly tell the user what data the anti-cheat collects when you install it, and what other companies have access to it.
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Anonymize the data. Crop the screenshots in storage media to just the game screen, and have a list of which games need what sections of the screen blurred to remove usernames.
The first is far more useful for them than the second, but it also undermines it’s functionality ad an anti-cheat because you’re telling the cheat creators what to guard against.
Of course, the real answer here is stop doing user-side anti-cheat at all, do it server-side, and trust nothing the client says. That’s more difficult than user-side, but it also has the benefit of working, while also respecting the user’s privacy.
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- Comment on The big hit medieval strategy game Manor Lords works well on Linux 2 weeks ago:
Yup! The performance gets pretty terrible towards the lategame, but as far as I understand it, that’s a general issue atm, not Linux specific.
- Comment on small wins 3 weeks ago:
Don’t give postdocs money, they’d just spend it on booze and drugs
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 4 weeks ago:
Yes, any architectural style can be practical, I’m just saying that the style you’re actually advocating for is functionalism. I’d recommend doing some reading about it. I think you’d be a fan, considering you already seem to be in favour of all it’s core precepts.
- Comment on Anon's brother hates concrete 4 weeks ago:
I think you may be confusing functionalism with brutalism. In the UK, these two styles were combined but that isn’t necessarily true. Brutalist buildings can very much eschew function in order to be more imposing, memorable or unusual.
Functionalism is the style that is all about minimizing the resources used to get the most useful building you possibly can.
- Comment on space 4 weeks ago:
Primer is one of my favourite movies ever. It was made on a budget of 3 peanuts and pocket lint, and it shows, but damn it’s an interesting premise.
- Comment on every comment section 1 month ago:
That’s not to say that I still don’t honestly consider Linux a better option in most use cases. I just don’t generally wade in past the most simple explanations of stuff.
If people want to switch, they will. I’ve realized I’m not doing anyone any favours by being pushy.
- Comment on every comment section 1 month ago:
Totally understandable. Haven’t used windows at all, home or work, in at least a decade. However, I went through my insufferable Linux zealot phase about 15 years ago.
I was an annoying judgemental ass, but I got better.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
play better games
I’d heavily recommend people who want to play DnD but better and without Hasbro look at Pathfinder 2e. Fixes all the major issues with DnD (boring combat where melee gets glued to each other due to attacks of opportunity, no variety in actions outside of magic, broken balance, mandatory healer, etc) while also being produced by the only unionized TTRPG company.
- Comment on This shouldn’t be normalised 2 months ago:
That was a loophole to the original GDPR. That’s now against the law in the EU, but bringing cases against all these sites is time consuming.
- Comment on Weird 🤔 6 months ago:
I do get that for some situations and regions, cars are immensely valuable. I also could not agree more about the difference in environmental impact between dense, populous cities where everyone has a car and small rural towns where everyone has a car. That should be pretty self-evident.
All I was trying to say is that here in Bucharest you have some idiots that talk about cars and their necessity as if we’re in the Australian outback, where no alternative could ever be possible.
- Comment on Weird 🤔 6 months ago:
Sure. I get that. Where I get kinda confused by some people (not blaming you for this!) is when the extrapolation comes out. “We need cars to cross this massive gap between cities, and that’s why we shouldn’t build this tram line in the middle of this densely populated city”. Similarly, just because I think we should (talking about the EU here) make big investments into rail and ban short-haul flights, that doesn’t mean I don’t see the value in transatlantic flights.
- Comment on Weird 🤔 6 months ago:
The sane ones make a decent point about infrastructure (I’m definitely anti-car).
Blaming the individual for the lack of options provided by the government is pretty nuts.
- Comment on Trick or Treat! 6 months ago:
Fun fact: it’s a common misconception that the seeds are the spiciest part. That’s actually the second hottest after the placenta (the white part that connects the seeds to the pepper).
- Comment on Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about 7 months ago:
I was introduced to them via Jay Foreman’s unfinished London series. If you enjoy map men, I’d heavily recommend checking that out as well.
- Comment on Had to burn off some excess oil from my chainmail hauberk. Thought it was cool 8 months ago:
Have you considered the emissions caused by the manufacturing of your car?
- Comment on Is America Really That Bad? 8 months ago:
I feel this in my bones. Different laws, different stupid shit, equally stupid politicians.