csolisr

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There Are 100 Computers Hiding in Your Car Right Now (You’re Riding a Data Center on Wheels)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
  As if I needed even more reasons to not buy a car (other than the obvious "it's extremely expensive" and "even the electric ones require excessive amounts of energy and minerals to produce")
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  You can't inconveniently ask, you now must inconveniently forgo entire sections of modern society and return to physical, analog workarounds - if you're even legally allowed to go without, that is. Going all cash and forgoing most banks and several major stores, avoiding electronics as much as possible, driving around with bicycles instead of public transport or personal vehicles, settling for jobs that still accept physical CVs. At this point, the only proper opt-out would be to go live in the mountains, growing your own crops and living like in the stone age.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  I'd settle for that solution anyways, but only as long as users can still mix and match kernels (one for secure boot and games that require anti-cheat, and another for custom hardware)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  Which is why I prefer the MacOS approach better - instead of relying on the developer adding a hypervisor, Apple uses binary signatures for all the relevant system files which are attested via something similar to Secure Boot, plus an Apple-provided API for runtime attestation, to ensure that the system has not been touched since boot. I suspect that Valve's assistance in making Arch Linux builds reproducible is pointing towards that goal.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  Considering that Vanguard has already been bypassed at least once (see dailydarkweb.net/vanguard-bypa… ), I think somebody must already know if the tool is ultimately malicious or not. Problem is, the somebody that knows has a vested interest in not disclosing any details, being a cheat bypasser and all.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  That's precisely why I haven't so much as touched any games if they don't support Linux with their anti-cheat solution. The developers of Apex Legends proudly announcing that dropping support for Linux made cheaters drop "significantly" doesn't sit well with me, and in fact I suspect EA is doing something malicious that can't be feasibly detected precisely because of their kernel-level access. And don't even get me started with Tencent-funded Riot's Vanguard, it's practically guaranteed that China will eventually demand to use it as a backdoor someday.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  A shame that many multiplayer game developers, like EA and Riot, still consider Linux to be too unsafe to trust with an anti-cheat. I wonder if Valve is working on a proper solution for that - signed kernels and packages a la MacOS, perhaps?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ElevenLabs: "Say hello to Santa!"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  Spoiler alert: this is actually the Elf on a Shelf in disguise
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max is getting ready for its own password-sharing crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  People are still unwilling to just go without Big Media and boycott it entirely. Until they do, they will keep abusing their clients.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  Forcing people to purchase the Switch 2 for their handheld needs, obviously </sarcasm>
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transparent solar cell technology could allow smartphones and cars to self-charge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  @deegeese @BrikoX If it's light enough to be added liberally to a smartphone without turning it into a brick, it probably is light enough to add it to a car roof with no major weight added. The question is, will it actually absorb enough sunlight to fill a car battery?
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck plugin system Decky Loader 3.0 gets a first pre-release⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
  @Fubarberry I've been using a hack to use Decky Loader on Windows and non-Deck Linux, and at the very least it allows me to use themes and add info to the interface. I wonder if Decky Loader 3 has official support for either of these.