Quoting: belisama

Quoting: slaapliedjeSo not sure where it would be able to spoof it, unless you went around using the app to scan things that are not the Steam client.

First of all, never underestimate the wacky stuff users will do. Second, if it works on the website (or even if people just *expect* that it will), rather than just the dedicated client, then some sort of site spoofing could be possible. In any case, QR Code normalization is bad. I about died when they became the new hotness in restaurants during Covid.

Oh, I agree with you. I was just posting how, in theory, it would work. I have been saying for many years that QR codes are a terrible idea and totally something that would be easy to exploit.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Appelsin

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: AppelsinAnd it doesn’t discriminate if it’s brainwashing in favor of crazy left or of crazy right.

There is some evidence this may not be the case in practice, and this is understandable theoretically: While the radical left and radical right would both make significant differences to the average person's life should they take over, the radical right wouldn't make much difference to the prosperity of the very rich, and might actually increase their wealth and power still further. So owners of platforms have no reason to see them as a serious threat. Whereas the radical left could significantly impact the fortunes of the very wealthy even if they merely became influential enough to shift the "Overton Window" to where 70s-style redistributive taxation became feasible. So owners of platforms have strong motivation to keep left wing talk out of view.
Disclaimer: I'm a crazy leftist, so my position may be biased.

A very good point, which I do agree with.

However, this depends on what is meant by "crazy left/right". Since I do consider myself among the crazy left to which you refer (those in favour of redistributive taxation and other such policies), this is of course not what I mean by "crazy left", though it's still crazy according to other points of view than mine :grin: This is more the classical skandinavian socialist / social democratic left, to which I'm a card carrying memeber (being Norwegian, that may not be so strange).
This is, as you say, not something which the platform holders (or anyone else with lots of power and money) wish to promote. And even if it is somewhat in vogue these days, even in the US, it's not the sexiest part of modern leftism, and doesn't elicit the same emotional response as other lefty interests.

To specify what I mean by "crazy left": The modern emotional Twitter-left, which more or less acts as the current counterpart to the "alt-right", i.e. the radical (racist anti-racist) parts and offshoots of the BLM movement, the anti-biology gender crowd (e.g. in sports, "a man who became a trans-woman and have gone through male puberty doesn't hold any physical advantage over a biological woman, because there's no biological difference between men and women, it's only social conditioning"), and the "disagreeing with me, or giving me information that I don't like, is equivalent to an assault on my mental and physical person", where a heterodox view on anything is unacceptable.
Like the conspi-right, this part of the left is easly manipulated by those with the power to do so, either for profit (Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, etc) or foreign interests (e.g. it's known that Russia have used social media and the racial tensions post-Floyd to stir up and mobilise Twitter-left outrage, to further deepen the US political tribalism).

Thankfully, in Norway, we're not quite at US levels of hysteria (on either side), but we're slowly but surely importing the culture war here too, since neither far side want to miss out on the action and the opportunity to be ahead of the curve.

Ah, I see what you mean. I'm a bit of a traditionalist; I don't really see most of the identity-politics crowd as "left". For me, left and right are about economics and social class, and in North America, particularly the US, most of the most strident identity politics types are actually either centrist or even fairly right wing about economics. Frankly, IMO they have to frantically double down on the identity politics precisely because they have no real politics that would make much difference to anything.

"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives." - Tyler Durden

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Quoting: GuestCan't wait for people to have their Steam accounts hacked because they used a QR code for logging in (it's too easy to spoof them).

If it is like the Discord one; the client will pop up the login box with a QR code (so it is generated by Valve). Then you would launch the Steam App on your mobile device to take a picture of the code on your monitor, then it authenticates through the app, telling the client you have authorized it to login.

So not sure where it would be able to spoof it, unless you went around using the app to scan things that are not the Steam client.

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Damn. On the one hand I have been looking for some twin stick shooters to play on the Steam Deck. On the other hand... always sad to see someone pass on who clearly had talent.

There was a game I got for VR in the early days that looked like it had fantastic potential as a really great RPG in VR. Then the one developer behind it passed away, so it's forever stuck in early beta form.

Someone just needs to figure out how to upload consciousness to the Steam, so it can keep producing games...

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: Kuduzkehpanelse

SyntaxError: expected ':'

and what's that? Python? lol... the langauge best known to break API in minor versions and even bugfix releases. By honest mistakes which got fixed with fast follow up releases, but still. Got better in the past few years though, was a lot worse in 2.x, but happened in 3.x too (3.6 series in example).

Bash is notorious for this as well.

So in a case like this with glibc, did they need to yell from the rooftops that they were now going to remove the 'both' from the automake file? Maybe post it on Twitter, Facebook, CNN? I'm honestly curious how something like this gets stated so people know that something that was added has deprecated older bits, and you should no longer use them. This is longer ago than a huge majority of people even know what Linux was...

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Quoting: STiAT

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: randylEmbracer is freaking huge. I've been wondering how they've flown under the radar so well. Maybe it's because of their name change and how little known "Embracer" is. Embracer is the rebranded parent company of THQ Nordic and was also previously named THQ Nordic AB which owned THQ Nordic GmbH. They rebranded to Embracer in 2019.

Some of the subsidiaries Embracer owns and several are massive parent companies in their own right: Amplifier Games, Asmodee, Coffee Stain Holdings, Dark Horse Media, Embracer Freemode, Gearbox Entertainment, Plaion, Saber Interactive, and THQ Nordic. They've also merged several previous brands into their fold or into their subsidiary's holdings group.

Thanks for pointing out!
They also got Koch Media and Deep Silver, both well known at least in German speaking countries.

That they aquired Koch Media 2018 slipped completely past me. They were not that small.

At least they seem to still invest in the kindom come sequel.

THQ /Embracer have almost no reputation for me, since they manage to fly under the media so well.

THQ and Deep Silver at least have been releasing a decent amount of Linux Native games too. So they can't be all that bad, can they? Right?

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Quoting: Kimyrielle

Quoting: EikeThe preview image is chosen so well... :D

A Ferenghi would have been even more fitting, though.

Rules of Acqusition #385: always present a friendlier face to those about to be owned.

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Quoting: JordanPlayz158

Quoting: PublicNuisanceSo an employee from a company who makes a closed source game store client that hosts a closed source game that uses closed source anticheat software had an issue with an open source library and i'm supposed to side with the employee ? Do I about have that right ? Would it not be an easier issue to fix if more of that equation I listed were open source ?

It wasn't just EAC that broke but a few other applications like Shovel Knight, a game with a native linux port and libstrangle, an fps limiting library, this isn't about open vs closed source software, this is about maintaining backwards compatibility to not only make linux more enticing to port to but also to make it so things like games that do not get maintained forever won't get lost to time.

Well, it 'sort of' is about open vs closed. If it was open (Shovel Knight) someone could have given them a pull request to change to the newer method. That's pretty straight forward.

This wasn't really about backward compatibility, and more about deprecated methods still being used in software. This should be a wake up call for those projects that use old crappy code, and hopefully they'll get updated to be faster.

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haha, were you trying to subvert the populous to your Linux-gaming ways? Evil Liam, plotting to overthrow the governments of the world with your Steam Deck news!

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: slaapliedjeI knew this would be the case, and maintain they should have just stuck with Debian.

IMO sticking to Debian is not possible because new features necessary to make games run (ie. Halo Infinite) and performance improvements first make it to Arch Linux and actually Valve is the one on the front developing these features so Arch naturally makes sense. I don't mean updating every minute like real Arch installations but having an Arch base but doing what Manjaro couldn't: dodging and circumventing breakages while delivering new features by holding base a few days back, not waiting 6 months like current situation.

Uhm, you can 100% do that with Debian, just use backports. Then you get a much more stable environment, with a better control over stable /new stuff mix.
The reason they didn't want to use Debian is because they didn't like using .deb package format.

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