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EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck
28 March 2024 at 9:46 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EagleDelta
Quoting: damarrinIs creating a good server-side anticheat solution even possible?

Yes, it is. Rather than just spout that it's the only way or anything else vague, the appropriate solution would be to hire a team to reverse engineer the cheats, tear them down to their basic components and build heuristics on that.... but it costs money and likely a new team dedicated to doing that.... and it's not cheap, so the money is in picking the easiest option that makes it LOOK like the business side cares.
What if someone writes new cheats?

Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support
28 March 2024 at 5:16 pm UTC Likes: 4

Well. They said they would, and they did. My faith in claims these developers make has been Reinforced.

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps
28 March 2024 at 5:13 pm UTC Likes: 7

I still don't understand why anyone would expect things to do with crypto not to steal your money. Seems like normal expected behaviour to me.

PUNKCAKE Délicieux just added Linux support to a whole bunch of games
28 March 2024 at 5:08 pm UTC Likes: 4

Stray Shot has a cute trailer. Don't think I've ever seen a trailer end with "You know what? Fuck this game!"

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available
28 March 2024 at 5:05 pm UTC Likes: 6

We're getting to where if someone says "I have an X-box" I won't know if they have a Microsoft console, and old school Linux computer that still uses X, or an appliance dedicated to their Twitter account.

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck
28 March 2024 at 4:57 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Genesis198Yeah it's this exact type of bs that made me sell my steam deck and get an ally and never look back,
I . . . think you might be on the wrong website then. Check the name.

GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA
27 March 2024 at 7:48 pm UTC

Quoting: Lachu
Quoting: Purple Library Guy
Quoting: LoftyNintendo make money off of selling hardware and of course a few of their exclusive IP's. You being able to emulate switch on PC won't hurt them one bit, but everyone else doing it with consummate ease en-mass & on a steam deck in higher quality which is just a much better switch like platform would and eventually probably will destroy Nintendo.
Maybe, but that's not the customer's problem. Businesses are not entitled to abusive business models simply on the basis that they wouldn't be able to make money on non-abusive business models. That's why we have antitrust laws, child labour laws, product safety laws and on and on. So if the question is "Should businesses have the right to dictate what hardware I use to run software I bought from them?" the answer does not hinge on whether they will lose money from not being able to do it. Nor does it have anything to do with whether they put some kind of encryption on it to enforce their ability to so dictate, even if there's a law with a clause that says it's illegal to circumvent their encryption.

And there is an answer to the question. The answer is "No, businesses should not have that right. If I buy something, I should be able to do anything I want with it that isn't illegal for real reasons unconnected with that business' ability to exploit me." In fact, the whole thing where when you buy software you are claimed to have "licensed" it and have to click on a EULA is bullshit from start to finish. I don't sign a EULA when I buy a TV, even though it probably has software in it.

That's not the same case, it's even worse. In this case, Nintendo restricts platform/hardware you are able to play with games of other companies. It is anti-free-market.
Didn't mean to give the impression that I thought all Nintendo was doing was using EULAs; I was just giving that as an example of the kind of thing that shouldn't really be allowed.

Meanwhile, I don't actually give a damn if things are anti-free-market. (rant about free markets follows)

Spoiler, click me
Not a big fan of either free markets or the things that actually exist that people call free markets even though they aren't and indeed can't possibly be. Markets are social constructs which are formed and maintained by the creation and enforcement of social rules, sometimes formal, sometimes informal. Markets free of such rules cannot exist. So-called "free" markets are markets in which a certain kind of rule is considered less legitimate and reduced as much as possible--specifically, any rule intended to increase the common good as opposed to that of the individual wealthy profiteer. They work as they're supposed to--they let the Zuckerbergs of the world piss on our heads and tell us it's raining.

I do care if things take power away from actual people.

(Side note: The term "free market" as invented by the classical economists meant something entirely different from what free-marketeers mean by it now. They were talking about markets in which rules were applied for the purpose of squeezing out market "rents", making those markets free of rents. So a classical "free market" would be one in which no firm had the power to erect barriers to entry, create a monopoly or cartel, or otherwise evade competition and use that evasion to raise prices.
For modern free-marketeers, the point is almost opposite, to reduce all rules that might restrict what firms do, under the assumption that anything whatsoever they might choose to do must be efficient because markets, and the underlying motivation is precisely to create a situation that both allows and gives an economic justification for extracting rents to create windfall profits at consumer expense)

EA anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck
27 March 2024 at 7:24 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: dpanterDRM is cancer, retroactively forcing it on older titles is despicable and anti-consumer to a degree most companies can't even bring themselves to think about.
Bit of hyperbole there. Most companies can bring themselves to think about pretty much anything that will make them money.

Spoiler, click me
One of the major points of the corporate form of organization is to push otherwise decent people into more-or-less-willingly performing arbitrarily despicable acts in the name of profit for the company. Not that this is totally unique; one of the major points of organizing a religion as a hierarchy is to push otherwise decent people into performing despicable acts at whatever level is required to save more souls, AKA grow the organization's power. And so on; hierarchies are there to grow the hierarchy's power and scale, and one major component of that is disciplining the human cogs in the hierarchy into performing whatever actions are necessary to pursue that end.

Check out tactical dice-rolling roguelike combat in Slice & Dice
26 March 2024 at 10:03 pm UTC

Quoting: scaineThought the art was pretty nice for static images, tbh. I guess we all have different tastes.
I'm not saying the art is bad. It's just that the setup doesn't give me the impression that a fight is going on. Like, if you take Slay the Spire, it's still just basically a still image of your character and still images of the opponents, with pretty minimal combat animations when you play a card. But it still sort of looks as if your character is a person, who is there facing off against a thingie or multiple thingies, because of the way the space they are in is presented. In this, because the pictures are in boxes and there's no real representation of a space that the images might be in, let alone in together, I don't feel like it gives that impression--it's heading more towards the abstraction level of chess, or playing Battleship with graph paper. Your chess rook can be beautiful, but playing chess doesn't really give me an impression of combat.

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live
26 March 2024 at 7:56 pm UTC Likes: 2

Seems kind of . . . standard. Right down to being set in a place called "Draconia".