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"

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

research shows i am objectively the best fedi user

the vita web browser most certainly exists in 2024

@rosie it's on-t btw

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.

i hate The GIF File Format

ROP tuah Stack on that thang