Something I used to do on Reddit was find a new community, and binge the top posts from the last year. I’ve started being able to do that on Lemmy, which is a huge win in my books
They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....
I’m an indie game developer (3 years at current company). Here’s a brief summary of the anti-piracy/anti-cheat history we did -
We noticed people were uploading old versions of our games on 3rd party app stores, so we introduced a feature that makes the game refuse to start if it’s on too old of a version
When we later updated the minimum SDKs, and older devices couldn’t update, we had inadvertently remotely bricked a perfectly functional game on their device
To prevent cheaters from figuring out how the game worked, we removed all logging from the application
EVEN TODAY I spent multiple hours and an Uber to get my hands on a specific device that was having crash issues because whatever logs I could get remotely weren’t nearly suffice to debug an issue
People were cheating Unity’s IAP store, so we installed a plugin that validated IAPs.
IAPs took multiple more seconds to process, hurting legit buyers
The cheating metrics went down, but because fewer people were buying IAPs, our rankings tanked on various ad networks
Hackers were making modded clients, so we added obfuscation
This made our builds much more harder to debug, and adds yet another step in our build pipeline
Users were editing values in memory to give themselves more levels and beat the leaderboard
We manually banned them from the leaderboard. It takes like 5 seconds and happens once a week, not a big deal
Users were editing values in memory for more coins
It doesn’t affect us in any way, at this point we stopped caring
On one hand, I wonder what would make someone so disillusioned to believe Trump would be good for America. On the other hand, I read comments like yours and realize a lot of people are this dumb.
Jones and three others had left their party in search of “The Birth Canal”, a tight but navigable passageway with a turnaround at the end. Jones entered an unmapped passageway which he wrongly believed to be the Canal and found himself at a dead end, with nowhere to go besides a narrow vertical fissure. Believing this to be the turnaround, he entered head-first and became wedged upside-down.
In 5+ years of OSS, only once have I even heard of hashes not matching and a build server being compromised, and it was fixed within 30 minutes. It was also a very big deal.
Basically, what you’re saying and what a quick search on Google shows seems to suggest user error.
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On one hand, yes, but on the other, Stable Horde developed a model to detect CSAM thanks to Stable Diffusion, and that’s being used to combat pedos globally
Anyone here struggle with trying to adjust brightness on Gnome in low light? At the low end, the steps are way too far apart, and at high brightness they’re almost imperceptible. Every other operating system uses a brightness curve that better matches human perception....
In the case of Waydroid, it depends on features only available in Wayland; simple as that.
There are some applications (like autoclickers) that depend on features only available in X, as well (mainly because they directly ask X to do something)
Why? Are we not doing enough? (file.coffee)
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F#€k $pez (lemmy.ml)
I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."
They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....
Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)
Please, not again. (lemmy.world)
Edit: good to see I woke the shills
Why do it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Linux mint = best beginner distro (lemmy.ml)
Reminder to clear your ~/.cache folder every now and then (lemmy.world)
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India blocks GitHub, after lobbying done by copyright trolls (torrentfreak.com)
Who cares if nobody can work, the important is that those illegal streams are blocked
Need to switch to Hanna Montana Linux now (lemmy.ml)
Youtubers and Twitter (lemmy.world)
It will only go downhill from here (lemmy.world)
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I Made Screen Brightness Control on Gnome Much Better (gitlab.gnome.org)
Anyone here struggle with trying to adjust brightness on Gnome in low light? At the low end, the steps are way too far apart, and at high brightness they’re almost imperceptible. Every other operating system uses a brightness curve that better matches human perception....
Can someone ELI5 why some apps need to support X11/wayland?
Isn’t this supposed to be a job for the window manager?...
This week in KDE: changing the wallpaper from within System Settings (pointieststick.com)
This week in KDE: Panel Intellihide and Wayland Presentation Time (pointieststick.com)
The Wine development release 8.21 is now available. (www.winehq.org)
This week in KDE: the Plasma 6 feature freeze approaches (pointieststick.com)