Quoting: emphyWell, as an armchair lawyer myself I can tell you that it's not any alleged copyright on the key that is the legal problem, it's that one can use the key to circumvent digital restrictions.

For the same reason, most linux distro's don't ship with decryption libraries for dvd's or bluray disks.

As a criticism of Euro-logic (not your post at all)

Kitchen Knives should be banned because someone might do something illicit with it.

Cars & Trucks should be banned because they might be an accessory to vehicular manslaughter.

Dihydrogen Monoxide [External Link] is a dangerous chemical and should be banned.

And TL;DR -- Just make illegal things illegal and then criminals will snap their fingers "Aww shucks" and obey the law after all.

Eurologic: Thing X can be used for bad, destroy Thing X

Experts agree: Food is the #1 cause of climate change, destroy all the food!

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Quoting: Lefl

Quoting: WoodlandorWait… CS:GO uses FACEIT? I thought Valve just used their own VAC or something similar they rolled out on their own.

No, you can install the Faceit anti cheat and match make on their servers.
Normal CS:GO still uses VAC

This really UNDERLINES a good point.

Anti-Cheat should be OPT-IN not Opt-Out (or no opt).

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Of course, considering Kernel Memory access, Filesystem access, and how game developers and modders are keenly aware anti-virus doesn't scrutinize gaming binaries (my polish game dev friends turned me on to this) --

It's more probable that anti-cheat is intended to be malware to spy on people -- after all -- WHY NOT only run it when connecting to gaming servers -- why does it need to be running the whole time a game is open?

(I even knew some chinese game developers who outsourced some work to china and got banned from steam for accidentally shipping malware)

Concerns like this are why I have completely separate Linux Gaming Rigs from my work rigs. ( and why I prefer immutible root for certain use-cases like gaming )

There's NO need for Anti-Cheat to be running except at a minimum, and the code might as well be open-source too while we're at it.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: ElectricPrismI thought Intel just canned their entire NUC division?

I think the phrase you are looking for is "nuked their NUC division" :D

Exactly, tired me just needed some coffee. I also had to double check and confirmed Intel nuked several of their divisions.

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I thought Intel just canned their entire NUC division?

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You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTCen9-RELM [External Link]

Edit: (I think we're going backwards in time to Behemoth Company Towns)

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Good for Debian, Arch and others, bad for Fedora. (making people agitated that is)

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IGL is optimized to provide lightning-fast rendering

Translation: The scope of the project isn't that robust yet. Also -- we made trade-offs to make it go brrrrrr.

Rather than [...] abstraction or mimicking one graphics interface [which everyone already knows] [...] [we made] a new modern interface

Translation: We made a new wheel, idk coz its fun? or benefits Facebook's future ambitions directly.

IGL was built with extensibility in mind

Translation: This "lightweight" thing we made is feature incomplete.

They have an interesting roadmap of what they hope to bring to it too including a multi-threading API, asynchronous loading of resources, a synchronization primitives API and more.

Liam's last summary sums it up well. They really just have done the preliminary work.

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To me this like like Google Go Language -- or Apple Metal -- maybe somebody likes those things but I don't see much sense in using these things seriously for anything beyond academic purposes unless you intend to specialize in them or be locked into specific eco-systems (which I don't as I find it unnecessary).

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I have watched this game with great anticipation.

It's great to see a new article about them.

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I bought my guilty pleasure game.

This really crappy game from Windows 95/98 days -- Chip's Challenge.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/16009/Chips__Chucks_Challenge_Bundle/ [External Link]

The game is crap but also somehow amazing at the same time. It's worth every penny.

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In case anyone is wondering -- yes it's totally worth it. Also, unfortunately the more expensive anti-glare etched glass is awesome as well.

Don't get it if you can't afford it at the moment, but yeah this device is pure magic.

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