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- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 day ago:
It’s the same for me.
I don’t care if somebody uses Claude or Copilot if they take ownership and responsibility over the code it generates. If they ask AI to add a feature and it creates code that doesn’t fit within the project guidelines, that’s fine as long as they actually clean it up.
I’m more concerned with the admitted OpenClaw usage. That’s a hydrogen bomb heading straight for a fireworks factory.
This is the problem I have with it too. Using something that vulnerable to prompt injection to not only write code but commit it as well shows a complete lack of care for bare minimum security practices.
- Comment on SBA #54 2 days ago:
They put out an engine that offers unoptimized shortcuts for traditional development techniques, replacing LODs with Nanite and introducing Lumen as a low-effort way to produce “realistic” lighting.
Both of those fall short of acceptable performance and visual stability quality during real-time rendering, but who cares about that when they make development faster and do a good enough job make for prerendered trailers? /s
- Comment on Don't forget to wash up! 2 weeks ago:
I can’t remember if I was wearing it before, but I’m not wearing it now. It’s probably fine. I think. Maybe.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 2 weeks ago:
Why days worth of farming? To help give the player a sense of “pride and accomplishment” of course.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 4 weeks ago:
"Art isn’t about artistic expression. Billions of people make paintings and most of them go unseen. Museums, on the other hand… They don’t make paintings, they make experiences. For a nominal entry fee, consumers have access to an evolving and ever-changing catalog of content.
This is the future we envision here at Remedy. High quality games that build upon themselves, creating an experience that grows with the player. For that reason, we’re announcing that the Alan Wake series will no longer be individual games, but instead a live-service experience with episodic content."
- also that guy probably
- Comment on Onii-Chan is watching you 😩 4 weeks ago:
For localization, would -kun work? It wouldn’t be a correct translation, but the idea is that the average citizen is conditioned into having that of closeness and familiarity with Big Brother might make for an interesting take on it.
- Comment on How many BS hoops do I have to jump through everyday 5 weeks ago:
Is it? Or is it just a way to record which employees need mandatory cybersecurity “training” that tells them to use a 28 character password with at least one number, one upper case letter, one special character, no strings of 3 or more repeated characters, no strings of 3 or more incremental letters or numbers, and no strings of more than 5 of the same character class?
- Comment on What do I do? 1 month ago:
Isn’t that worse? Chocolate ain’t exactly healthy for most animals.
- Comment on Without getting into current politics can someone describe to me what an authoritarian regime looks like? 1 month ago:
Oh boy. We’re already at 13 out of 14 on the checklist.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 2 months ago:
“OK, I unplugged the computer. … No, I still hear the fans. … What? You mean the footrest? Why would I unplug that?”
- Comment on Microwave does not make room a flat, judge rules 2 months ago:
If a landlord could put an air mattress in a bathroom, they would advertise it as 1-bed 1-bath.
- Comment on It's called traditional medicine sweety, look it up 2 months ago:
Oh, please. Nobody needs heroin cough syrup when you could instead be drinking radium as an ailment cure-all.
- Comment on Lol, lmao even. 2 months ago:
They’re selling billionaires a bridge to nowhere; and it’s working.
That’s just wealth redistribution /s
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 3 months ago:
No, no. It makes perfect sense from an investment standpoint. Their actual target audience would love to be able to pay for access to that catalog.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 3 months ago:
Company profiting from allowing pedos to groom children enacts steps to prevent pedos from grooming children? Like that’s going to happen.
Whatever solution they come up with, I can guarantee that it “accidentally” has a loophole in it.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 3 months ago:
Recently?
- Comment on Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia. 3 months ago:
A thief doesn’t loudly announce that they just stole something.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 months ago:
Yeah, they’re are. I used sbctl to enroll and manage my own keys, and I chose to include the MS ones to ensure dual booting still worked properly.
Because of that hard-bricking motherboard problem, choosing to not include the MS keys is actually more effort due it being gated behind a flag and a mountain of warnings.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 months ago:
these games only accept the secure boot setup where the root key is that of microsoft’s.
I have a PC where I could actually test this. Do you know if it would immediately reject the game from launching, or would I be flagged and banned in some kind of ban wave?
The latter is something I would prefer to avoid
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 months ago:
Oh, the comment I directly replied to is absolutely justified in its downvotes. I actually meant to reply to a different comment of theirs.
There’s a lot of FUD and disinformation around Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 in general. When it comes to anticheat and requirements ewquie3m, people are dog piling. The comments being cynical or exaggerating the security risk of the TPM to the user are getting more upvotes, while the comments that disagree with those are getting pushback.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 months ago:
secure boot enabled with machine owner keys wouldn’t be enough either for these games
They should be able to check which signing keys were used for every part of the boot process. Unless they want to be colossal assholes and check the MOK as well, they could still verify what they need without flagging Linux Secure Boot dual-booters as cheaters.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 months ago:
You quoted the end of my comment, so you must have read this part:
Together, they make it possible for anticheat to tell if something (like cheating software) tried to rootkit Windows as a way to evade detection.
For the threat model of anticheat software, verifying system integrity is not an unusual requirement.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 months ago:
Amazing. Crowdstrike did end up providing some benefit to users after all.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 months ago:
Once you delve into the technical parts of it, it’s actually not that unusual. I wrote more detail in another comment on this post, but the TLDR of it is that Secure Boot is meant to enforce the integrity of the boot procedure to ensure that only approved code runs before the Windows kernel gets control, and the TPM 2.0 is meant to attest to that. Together, they make it possible for anticheat to tell if something tried to rootkit Windows to evade detection.
- Comment on Want to play the latest multiplayer games? Just go into your bios settings or upgrade your PC if it doesn't have TPM chip. 3 months ago:
Sorry to see the downvotes buddy, people are cult-ish. You aren’t wrong.
The entire idea of Secure Boot is to verify the boot chain using signature checks to ensure that nothing “unauthorized” runs in the boot process before control is handed off to the kernel. It’s meant to stop lower bootloader stages from silently modifying or hooking later stages.
In theory, it’s supposed to stop rootkits from being able to exist above the OS, hiding themselves while stealing information or influencing programs. In practice, there’s a shit load of badly implemented EFI programs and bootloaders that are signed and later turned out to be vectors for arbitrary code execution (this is why you need the DBX list to be updated frequently).
Cynically, Microsoft probably came up with Secure Boot because that whole rootkit-and-fuck-with-the-kernel thing used to be one of the ways people cracked Windows 7.
As for TPM 2.0, the whole point of it being used for anticheat is because it stores an immutable log of the Secure Boot process and attests to the integrity of the system. If I installed my own Secure Boot certificates and rootkitted Windows for the sole purpose of cheating, the TPM would see that a self-signed executable was used during boot and refuse to say the system was unmodified.
- Comment on ...will continue until... 3 months ago:
Almost. The corporate solution nowadays is for the guy who owns all of the carts to replace the horses with AI, fire half of the drivers, then demand the remaining drivers take two carts every trip.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 months ago:
Can you recommend me other (non atomic) distros that play nice with both secure boot and nvidia drivers?
I wouldn’t exactly recommend it because of the learning curve, but I have the exact setup you’re looking for working on NixOS.
Lanzaboote made it pretty easy. The downside is that you need to put secure boot into user-managed mode, and some asshole anticheats might not like that even though only Microsoft-signed executables were used in the boot chain of Windows.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 months ago:
For gamers who are newcomes to Linux, Ubuntu (or Debian) should be a hard pass. Linux gaming is advancing too fast for the 2-3 year gap between LTS versions to not matter, and trying to work around the stable (outdated) packages is typically what ends up breaking installs.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 months ago:
For gaming, you can’t go wrong with Bazzite. It’s meant for gaming to mostly just work out of the box, so you likely won’t need to tinker with anything.
It’s that tinkering that introduces stability risks. Adding third-party package repositories and trying to install newer software on top of older LTS distros is what tends to end up breaking them.
- Comment on Smells Great 4 months ago:
If the steam doesn’t get you, the enzymes breaking down your proteins would surely give you horrible skin irritation.