Serinus
@Serinus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon catches his wife 1 day ago:
I liked the spelling bots. You can always just spell “you’re” correctly. Or never use it and just use “you are” every time you can.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 days ago:
Judges are smarter than that. So are juries.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
“their breath” is the traditional end of that phrase.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
The idea is that the biggest barrier to entry for small business and entrepreneurship is healthcare.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
the ability to just take a few months off and burn your savings is increasingly not viable.
Universal healthcare would help here.
- Comment on Hardcore 1 week ago:
Namecheap xyz domains are less than $3 after tax for the first year. Subsequent years are around $10.
- Comment on Hardcore 1 week ago:
It costs less than a dollar for the first year. After that, who knows.
The plain text is much more reliable than any url.
- Comment on Make Monday a spuddle Monday! 1 week ago:
Have you ever seen the video of the meth addict in Walmart?
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
Kinda weird that the top of the league subreddit isn’t filled with people complaining about their bricked PCs, isn’t it.
- Comment on the struggle 2 weeks ago:
Astrology can be fine as long as you don’t take it too seriously. It’s not much different than a favorite color or lucky numbers.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
The mods for one, absolutely. Also it’s just a much, much smaller developer with much less oversight (even internal) and less to lose if they were caught.
And trying to sell this data for a price that would matter to Riot would make it even more likely to be caught, and maybe land someone in prison. Screenshots are not okay.
The game itself is probably fine. Most things are probably fine. The mods are absolutely more risky. And all of this is more risky than Vanguard.
Part of it is also the high profile. Part of it is the attention and pushback.
If you want real corporate spyware, check your car in your garage.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
Okay, do YOU honestly think Riot is taking screenshots from regular players and sending them to their servers?
Or is it more likely that this is propaganda stemming from people who make money selling cheats (and those who are convinced by those rumors)?
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
I’m a professional software developer. The people hacking league of legends are doing it for money. Guess what kind of activities make money.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
It’s not really any different than any other application you run on Windows.
User level access is all that’s needed to upload the majority of your files. And we’re all trained to push yes to the admin access button all the time.
If you really want to be secure, you need to have a different OS/hard drive for your games, and not allow that OS to access your secure drive. I haven’t yet gone this far, but it’s reasonable. Lethal Company on Steam is much more of a risk than anything Riot, including Vanguard. Tarkov was enough of a risk that I wouldn’t install it at all.
In the future this is a change I might make, but Riot isn’t in the top five of reasons why.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
A much more reasonable complaint than this bullshit.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
Which is why I’m almost certain it’s not happening. So far the only source is a cheat forum. I wonder what their motivation is.
Even in corporate dystopia where they monitor you every 15 seconds screenshots are frowned upon. You never know what kind of sensitive data that can reveal.
There’s no way Riot is doing it. The backlash would be immense, and they absolutely know it.
This agitprop stems from the makers of cheat software who are mad that the risk of using their hacks will go through the roof. Sure, you can still get around it. But now if you screw up it’s a hardware ban.
They’re gonna lose a lot of accounts that they sell at $10/pop.
I wouldn’t mind talking more about security, but I’ll save that for another comment.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
A cheating website doesn’t like Vanguard. Big shocker.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
Also any time you open a webpage in Windows, a nude photo is taken of you (whether you’re currently clothed or not) and posted on your mom’s Facebook.
My source for this is the same as OP’s.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
It’s fake/bullshit unless you have a source more reliable than “some guy on Twitter”.
- Comment on Come on, science! 2 weeks ago:
You can get them fixed.
- Comment on Conservatives Quickly Turn Against “Idiot” Marjorie Taylor Greene 3 weeks ago:
She doesn’t represent the party
Are you sure about that?
If you said Santos, I’d agree. MTG seems pretty spot on though.
- Comment on Let π = 5 3 weeks ago:
Because one is on sale, and they didn’t update the sale price. Or, alternatively, because you don’t want to be an idiot that can’t do basic math.
- Comment on Let π = 5 3 weeks ago:
Who really wants to use Excel to figure out if the 24-pack of Coca-Cola or the 3 12 packs is a better deal?
- Comment on Let π = 5 3 weeks ago:
Your life is easier and better if you can do this kind of simple math in your head.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
The entire scalping/resale market arguably shouldn’t exist, instead tickets should be refundable within reason, at which point the organiser can issue and sell new tickets.
I had to think about this for a minute, but this is exactly the way to handle it. Don’t allow direct transfers at all. You don’t get to pick who gets your tickets (and therefore scalping can’t exist.). But you still can refund your tickets (maybe with a SMALL fee) up to a couple hours before the event. I hope we don’t need legislation to say they have to be sold for the same price they were originally offered for. We don’t want an incentive for Ticketmaster to steal people’s tickets when a venue sells out.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to Top - Last Six Hours!
Thanks for allowing me to briefly visit your community.
- Comment on Uncle brian... I get you now 4 weeks ago:
This American Life, Episode 587 - The Perils of Intimacy. Thanks for trying, evil stepmother.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 4 weeks ago:
In the UK. Right. (Source)
- Comment on We see what you're doing 5 weeks ago:
If they wanted to play it safe they could just rule that the Constitution is still valid, particularly the part where insurrectionists can’t hold office.
- Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod 5 weeks ago:
Criticizing China in any way.