"I’d probably be okay with kernel level anti-cheats if they actually stopped cheaters. " “I’d be okay with espionage devices all around my house if it meant a full stop of the smuggling of illegal contraband”
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Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel. Hopefully anti-cheat will be next
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
I’d probably be okay with kernel level anti-cheats if they actually stopped cheaters. But they don’t. Hell, the best anti-cheat I’ve ever seen that actually works isn’t even made by the developers of the game; it’s a mod! Blue Sentinel for Dark Souls 3. All it does is check if the files a player you’re connecting to has deviate at all from your own, then prevents the connection if they are.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 days ago
All I use my machine for is gaming, so not having cheaters in games far outweighs the odds of being hacked by imaginary bogeymen.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I am not really talking about being hacked but about anyone but you having more control over your system then you.
Maybe in your case thats very little information but I am a tech hobbyist and if i do not have full control and knowledge about every aspect of a device i bought, do i really own it?
If a consumer can’t fully own it, it shouldnt be sold as such. I considered such deeply unethical and damaging to the future potential of technology.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
If cheaters wanted to get around that, they could