One question, could we not just sign the linux kernel and other parts, so that the anti cheat program would know that nothing has been altered? I am thinking about something like steam hosting a list of trusted hashes and that any company that is trusted by steam can push new hashes for theier compiled linux kernels there.

If kernel "protection" (or any client side system) is required to ensure people don't cheat, then how come there are so few billionaires ? After all, one can easily access their bank account without installing any rootkit kernel anti-cheat.

Game devs need to stop caring about what the client do and start caring about what their server receives, just like every other online service.

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I hope EU outright ban kernel level anti-cheats (or any other government, EU is just the most likely to have the hooompf).

It would force the devs and publishers to actually do their homework and help linux gaming as a side bonus.

One man can dream.

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Nice, one more reason to try kde on my next install. Already made the switch to a DE-agnostic terminal a while ago for that reason.

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Not that much time for games sadly, so I've been mostly playing "short-ish sessions" titles.

• Drill Core [External Link] - fun mix of management and tower defence with dwarven humour


• GODBREAKERS [External Link] - scratches my risk of rain 2 itch (and actually works unlike ror2)


• Day Of The Shell [External Link] - turn-based puzzle shooter? (disclosure: I know some of the people who worked on it)

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This seems like a false dichotomy. Surely a project can acknowledge that LLM-based tools exist, and then choose not to use them on practical or ideological grounds (or both) - one doesn't really exclude the other.

Indeed, I might have worded that poorly, "handle [LLM tools] appropriately" was not meant to equal allowing their use. A ban or restriction is also an appropriate way to handle the issue.

I like your hammer analogy. And I would still argue that a blanket ban on hammers and forcing people to drive nails with rocks is barking at the wrong tree.

On the other hand, we are definitely seeing a lot of people bashing wood screws in concrete beams with their newfound unethically-made hammers. A scene which doesn't give hammers the best reputation for sure.

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If I were Twitch I'd be getting really nervous.

You'd be... twitchy?

I'll see myself out.

On topic, that's disgusting. I bet poor ol' bezzie could've kept all of these people employed until their retirement had he used 0.1% of his fortune.

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Looks pretty interesting, time to give the demo a spin!

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I for one am really happy about this. 2 years on fedora and so far it's been a bliss compared to all other distro I tried.

(as for the AI part, posted my opinion in the other post as that was more relevant than here)

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I hate the AI circlejerk, the models are built by greedy corporations appropriating the work of thousands without a second thought. Then they sell it to the mass (keeping the money for themselves ofc). Then most people proceed to use "AI" to generate a flood of approximate junk they smear all over the world. The noise makes it harder to reach quality information and reinforces the use of LLM models.

But with that said, LLMs are just tools. Whether they're used for good or bad is in the hand of the wielder.

For example, Daniel Stenberg publicly (and rightfully) denounced a flood of "ai slop" security reports to cURL [External Link]. But the same person also acknowledged [External Link] the relevance of a massive report openly built using "AI-based" tools [External Link].

If anything, open source projects are the most rightful beneficiaries of LLM-powered improvements since most available models heavily leverage open source code.

I'd much rather trust a project that acknowledge LLM-based tools and handle them appropriately than one which pretends they don't exist and nobody uses them.

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If there already is a native port, it is always better to fix that port (if possible/feasible) instead of just nuking it and relying on the Windows version running using Proton.

To me, adding new content and fixing bugs make a game better. Changing how my computer reads the 1s and 0s, does not. As such I'd rather they spend whatever resource they have making the game better, rather than the binary more linux-y.

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