Melody Fwygon

Whoof. The burn.

Glad to see some people understand how much more problematic Trump is than anything that Harris would be doing.

Most anti-cheat software can’t do much on the client side. Really all it can do is look around at it’s environment where it’s allowed to look and see what’s going on.

Most Cheat Software will run on a higher privilege level than the game; whether that’s as an “Administrative” user or as “root” or “SYSTEM” in a context where it’s running as an important driver.

In any case, the only thing the Anti-Cheat can reliably do on the client side is watch. If it’s cleverly designed enough, it will simply log snippets of events and ship them off for later analysis on a server side system. This will probably be a different server than the one you’re playing on, and it won’t be sending that data until after the match has ended properly.

Sometimes it might not even send data unless the AC server asks it to do so; which it might frequently do as a part of it’s authorization granting routine. Even when it has the data there may not be immediate processing.

Others have also mentioned that visible action may be delayed for random time periods as well; in order to prevent players from catching on to what behaviors they need to avoid to get caught, or to prevent cheats from getting more sophisticated before deeper analysis could reveal a way to patch the flaw or check to ensure cheating isn’t happening.

Since cheat software can often be privileged, it also has the luxury of lying to the server. So clever ways to ensure that a lying client will be caught will probably be implemented and responses checked to ensure they fit within some reasonable bounds of sanity.

yeah no, you’re missing the point.

What Trump did was a gross abuse of power.

To be fair; this ruling is a result of Trump packing the SCOTUS, not something Biden himself did.

Not saying this wasn’t a Democratic party failing; they let Trump win in the first place during all that kerfuffle about Hillary.

But I do think we have to consider the context.

Do you play Star Trek Fleet Command?

I don’t agree with the assessment of the OP or the original blog article. Grayjay is Open Source software.

It is, however, NOT FREE SOFTWARE and I do know that organizations like the FSF and OSI do not consider it to be free.

The free status of this software was never misrepresented by Louis Rossman. He blatantly explains that there is a cost to this software and that the license is how he plans to enforce his means of collecting this fee on the honor system.

He also outlines how he cannot; and will not…stop anyone from forking this software and basically removing the payment bits of the code and just redistributing it under a different name. I strongly recommend someone does that…and maybe license that work under a much more unrestrictive free license that FLOSS-Only users might find more palatable.

I get that nobody wants or needs to trust Louis to keep his word. He’s gotta run a business at some point…and distributing this software this way on the honor system might not pan out quite the same way he hopes it will. I do hope that at the point where he and his compatriots choose to stop maintaining the application; that they do immediately retcon this restrictive license; and re-release it under a new, free, and unrestrictive Open Source Software license.

If this is true; this is probably going to be a very shocking revelation to some people.

I don’t know how much treason this man needs to commit to get convicted; but I hope he does get punished for something.

Do not put words into my mouth. I already clarified my position to make clear that it applies to this specific instance

I was being specific to this claim of pseudoscience; which seems to be based on the fact that we don’t have any other verifiable facts and instead it attacks the theory as pseudoscience despite there being no other prevailing proof of harms like biases, claims and lacking refutation.

Anything like this that is labeled “Pseudoscience” is simply a thing that is simply misunderstood or not understood at all.

Hmm. Is there something against linking external wikis on every article you create?

yes please; we need a ublock filter

Thank you for banning AI trash.

LLMs do have purpose; but that purpose is not in journalism and news

I actually disagree with this cooking MYTH.

But; it depends on the TYPE of plastic. Don’t trust takeaway containers or soft and flexible plastics.

Hard and rigid plastics are in fact SAFE if marked as “Microwave-Safe”; they HAVE TO BE SAFE to have that marking.

DO:

• avoid soft plastics
• avoid takeout containers
• avoid heavily damaged tupperware
• replace old tupperware plastics once in a while; especially if they’re all scratched/dinged up.

I’ve always felt the FSF has had no idea what they were doing. Therefore I do not always agree with or support 100% of what they do.

I do feel that sometimes code should be able to carry reasonable restrictions. Just not sweeping restrictions.

An example of a reasonable restriction would be a clause that prohibits commercialized use of free software without first obtaining permission from the project in question. Another reasonable restriction would be a clause that prohibits governmental use or use by military entities.

An unreasonable restriction would be naming only specific companies that are not allowed to use the ‘free’ software. It would also be further considered unreasonable for rights to use ‘free’ software if it expires, goes away, or is revoked if you commit a specific crime, or fall under suspicion of committing said crime.