So... another form of "launcher"? Just more deeply integrated and annoying. I hope users will like it as much as they like traditional launchers 🤮 .

Looks like another try on the "walled garden" solution, this time at the publisher level rather then at the OS level.

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Could this changelog entry be related to this problem?

Steam Controller Firmware

- Address potential charge issue when controller is removed from charging puck.

From the changelog "Steam Client Beta - May 22nd" [External Link]:

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@dimko I'm not an expert in this area but I doubt it's about reverse engineering:

By providing hardware-agnostic implementations of the VK_NV_low_latency2 and VK_AMD_anti_lag device extensions, this layer brings Reflex and Anti-Lag capabilities to AMD and Intel GPUs.

From this quote I understand the new code "simply" forwards the anti-lag instructions to the current installed GPU regardless of whether the call is from nvidia or AMD libraries.

Maybe someone more expert can explain it better.

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Not exactly a revolutionary technology, ever heard about "static program analysis"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_program_analysis [External Link]

Are they surprised that a new approach to the problem has uncovered new vulnerabilities? Who would have thought! 🤔

How many vulnerabilities have been systematically fixed by traditional code analyzers throughout the entire history of Firefox without all this marketing hype?

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I don't know what is worse, AI or popups... why not put it neatly in the infobox, like the protondb extension? It could just say AI / no AI and pop more info on click.

Looks like we have a competitor here. The license of the addon is MIT, you can start from that source code and build your version. You know... linux... open source... stuff like that :grin: .

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Citing page 122 of the mastercard-rules PDF (with bold added by me), Mastercard considers violation of the rules:

The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks
serious artistic value (such as, by way of example and not limitation, images of
nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a
person or body part, and bestiality), or any other material that the Corporation deems
unacceptable to sell in connection with a Mark.

With "nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part" I understand that chopping of an arm of an NPC should violate the rule. This is a mechanic present in A LOT of games, even AAA games like the witcher 3. It is interesting they are attacking only indipendent developers and not multinational colossus publishing AAA games :whistle:.

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So basically they're going to replace a dedicated kernel based anti-cheat for their own because they think they can do better than a team of people whose only job it is to create an anti-cheat system?

A third party anti-cheat is a service they need to pay, they are probably trying to lower the costs.
Writing an anti-cheat is easy, simply use AI! Nowadays you do not need developers or know how, you only need 1 single AI guru and an easily persuadable CEO :grin:.

How could this possibly go wrong?

Yep, waiting for the fireworks to start :whistle:

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I use qpwgraph ( https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/rncbc/qpwgraph [External Link] ) to play with pipewire.

I am not an expert in this field, I chosen this program because I use Fedora KDE and the program is available in the Fedora repository and it is developed with the Qt framework. It does what I need and i never searched alternatives, I do not know if there is something "better".

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But issue I always had with nucleus co-op is the audio. Since you're running two or more instances the audio basically doubles and sounds wrong

In theory you could redirect the audio output of the instances on different physical outputs of the PC and each player could listen to the correct audio with headphones?

 
           +----------+
game 1A => |          | => audio jack => headphones => player 1A
           | pipewire |
game 1B => |          | => bluetooth  => headphones => player 1B
           +----------+

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It's on sale now! :wink:

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