why is Steam specifically focusing on kernel-level anti-cheat here. so if an anticheat ran as the Windows SYSTEM user, which has full access to any process aside from PPL processes, that somehow doesn't count for disclosure to the end user? is the K-word really so important?

this feels like appealing to reddit knee-jerkers and it sucks. "modifying kernel level files" what. Nothing does this. Safedisc was decades ago

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Steamworks article: "New Tool for Describing Anti-Cheat in Games", "A new dedicated field helps developers describe the anti-cheat provider used in a game" the text says: We've heard from more and more developers recently that they're looking for the right way to share anti-cheat information about their game with players. At the same time, players have been requesting more transparency around the anti-cheat services used in games, as well as the existence of any additional software that will be installed within the game. With this feedback in mind, we've added a new field in the 'Edit Store Page' section where developers can indicate any anti-cheat software that is installed with the game. Once filled out, this data will be displayed to users on the game's Steam Store page. an image is attached showing a Steam store listing disclosing it includes an anti-cheat software PunkBuster, next to another image showing a listing where that box is red and says "Uses Kernel Level Anti-Cheat"

Your text-only graphic meme should just be plain text!!

#Accessibility

post character limit but it’s about how many characters all your post are allowed to have, cumulatively

you’re only allowed 20,000 characters, and every post you make decreases that counter, don’t waste them fucker

your os isnt "multitasking" it just has adhd

imagine if gifs died and we just used webms with looping enabled

bluesky news: a trick with their facets system allows you to duplicate what you said so as long as you're fine with the rest of your post being an exact copy of the first 300 characters you can post up to 600 characters. i think. maybe longer even

Don't recommend anyone Mull (a variation of Firefox for Android) without also telling about it deawbacks.

Its default user.js config includes lots of questionable choices, like disabling JIT, disabling WASM, disabling entire web APIs and messing with SSL configuration.

This means that half of webapps won't work, another half will be painfully slow and unresponsive, and yet another half won't ever open because of SSL errors (judging from my experience).

And you won't even know about it unless you go to about:config and see what's modified. Most people would just uninstall Mull at this point.

#Mull #Fennec #Firefox #FDroid #Android #Privacy #Security

i'm fucking BEGGING platforms to PLEASE GOD put a sign in button next to any sign up button, and make them either equal or emphasize sign in
if i click a button that needs you to be logged in, ask me if i want to login or signup
don't give me a big sign up button and then hide the sign in button way down in the footer

research shows i am objectively the best fedi user

this has to stop

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STOP TILING WINDOWS WINDOWS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PINNED IN PLACE YEARS OF TILING YET NO REAL USE FOUND FOR KNOWING WHAT DATASTRUCTURE YOUR WINDOWS ARE STORED WITH Wanted to fill your screen up with windows anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "FULLSCREEN" "Yes please lay out my windows in a binary tree instead of a fibonacci pattern" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Power Users have beend demanding your Respect for all this time (This is REAL window tiling, done by REAL Computer Touchers) (Images of disgusting tiling window layouts and configurations. Truly deranged) ???? "Hello I would like 96 new keybindings please" They have played us for absolute fools

me ca. 2015: "I need to build this PC in a completely static-free environment otherwise everything will DIE"

me last night, hotplugging PCIe cards and M.2 drives: "compputer👍 "

the vita web browser most certainly exists in 2024

@rosie it's on-t btw

STOP DOING HOMEWORK

CHILDREN WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO SPEND TWELVE HOURS A DAY DOING SCHOOLWORK

YEARS OF BUSY WORK yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for replacing free time with MORE SCHOOL

Wanted to learn during your free time anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "THE LIBRARY"

"The assignment is due tomorrow. It is worth 50 percent of your grade." - Statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged

"Sorry can't go out tonight, I have homework"

They have played us for absolute fools

Would it fucking kill some of you people to use the content warning feature and just mark your post as political
I've spent way too much time just writing content filters now because it seems we've forgotten fedi has this awesome feature to make posts opt-in

i've got a habit of binging listening to a certain album while i'm really big into a game so any time i listen to that album it reminds me of that game even though otherwise they're completely unrelated. fascinating how music can stick like that. (also goes both ways - the game reminds me of the album)

I remember reading some article dispelling myths around Bluesky and it’s probably aged badly now because Bluesky just launched a Series A funding round worth at least $15 million, with a huge chunk from a blockchain company and a smaller chunk from an explicitly labelled “research-drive crypto venture capital” fund.

Once you accept someone else’s money, you accept someone else’s control. That fifteen million is not a gift and will have to be repaid later in one form or another.

And as we all know… The only way social media can even make any money is growing so unfathomably large that it can make money from it’s users’ data for advertising.

when I think about it, bluesky handles have a really good side effect for marketing
one of the reasons tiktok blew up as much as it did (other than the quarantine of course) was the tiktok watermark that appears on every video downloaded from it
if someone has seen tiktok’s logo on a video they watched somewhere else, there’s a higher chance of them downloading it for themselves
kind of how someone could see “bsky.social” in someone’s handle on a screenshot

or maybe I’m overthinking it

Internet access should be regulated in a way similar to other necessary utilities like electricity or water

Meaning infrastructure should be obligatory open-access so you can use whatever ISP you want

And infrastructure operator should be *obligated* to connect you when requested for a fair non-discriminatory price

It's not acceptable to find yourself in a situation like "2 houses away have fiber but i don't and the ISP will not connect me without giving any reason"

It's so funny that CD will now be soon considered the "retro" physical music format over vinyl

absolutely tired of open source culture

i hate The GIF File Format

ROP tuah Stack on that thang