DefiantEmbassy's recent activity
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Comment on F1 drivers surprised by China track that’s been ‘repainted, not resurfaced’ in ~sports.motorsports
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Comment on Meta starts licensing headset OS in battle with Apple in ~tech
DefiantEmbassy Link ParentMeta acquired Oculus in 2014 0, with the first commercial release of Oculus being under Meta. The article is fine.Meta acquired Oculus in 2014 0, with the first commercial release of Oculus being under Meta. The article is fine.
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Comment on Riot’s Vanguard comes to League in ~games
DefiantEmbassy Link ParentI mean, we’re practically at that point right? Apex, Fortnite, Call of Duty, Battlefield, PUBG, Helldivers, basically any live service title is employing some level of kernel-level anti-cheat, no?I mean, we’re practically at that point right? Apex, Fortnite, Call of Duty, Battlefield, PUBG, Helldivers, basically any live service title is employing some level of kernel-level anti-cheat, no?
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Comment on Riot’s Vanguard comes to League in ~games
DefiantEmbassy Link ParentIt's feels like a combinatoric thing - the userbase is sufficiently small (and was never officially supported), and building the relevant protection there would be difficult. The best Riot could...The article also mentions that there were only 800 Linux users yesterday.
It's feels like a combinatoric thing - the userbase is sufficiently small (and was never officially supported), and building the relevant protection there would be difficult. The best Riot could do is a gesture of good-will and refund cosmetics, a-la Counter-Strike when they dropped macOS support, but even that would be excessive, given that you've likely had significant game time with these items (discussions about cosmetics themselves are probably best saved for another time).
Finally, while I haven't been keeping up with the latest news, Vanguard has gone under fire before for straight-up preventing people from running applications like Core Temp,
They mentioned this within the article linked. They used to block vulnerable drivers (i.e. kernel level drivers that were exploitable, the theoretical doomsday situation portrayed for Vanguard), and now just prevent you from loading them game with them installed.
Does this mean that you could get banned for "cheating" on a single-player game while Riot games aren't running? What if you're using debuggers for development? Does that count as "cheating software"?
Riot aim to simply crash the game process if you have debugging tools open, not ban you for having these tools open.
Let's be clear here - this mistake happened for hardware-level cheating. It a) speaks to the demands that Vanguard has to deal with and b) is unlikely for regular users to ever run into.
(Twitter link) Look at the ridiculousness of procedures Vanguard has forced users to run into to even try to cheat. That is the battle being fought.
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Comment on Riot’s Vanguard comes to League in ~games
DefiantEmbassy (edited )LinkI find it particularly interesting when people panic over personal information being stolen, because frankly, most usermode software (i.e. League without the kernel driver) can already harvest...I find it particularly interesting when people panic over personal information being stolen, because frankly, most usermode software (i.e. League without the kernel driver) can already harvest enough information to cause most people harm. Keyloggers, clipboard thievery, stealing sessions from browsers? No problem! Installing software on your computer in non-sandboxed environments (your phone is a sandboxed environment, for example) just comes with an inherent risk that it might do naughty things.
Either way - I play Counter-Strike, the most popular live service game without a kernel level anti-cheat... and it fucking sucks. Too many goddamn cheaters making games just throwaway experiences, and for all of the publicity Valve got over their machine learning anti-cheating efforts, it ultimately culminated in people getting banned for spinning their mouse in a circle, while cheaters roam free.
Valve's official tournaments use third-party anti-cheating solutions because the official one is so incapable.
Without FACEIT (who implement similar anti-cheating and tampering solutions like Riot’s Vanguard for Counter-Strike), Counter-Strike would be doomed at the top level. Doomed.
Hopefully one day soon, the platforms our games run on will offer developers the security features required to prevent cheating without necessitating extracurricular software.
I do hope so too. Online cheating is a scourge, and having each game build and install advanced anti-tampering and anti-cheating mechanisms is a drag.
(I wonder if this will end up being a case where consoles have proper M+K support and make distribution of titles easier, thus making them the defacto trusted environment - albeit, I know Ubi still needed to build Chronus detection.)
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Comment on how do you manage your personal ssh keys? in ~comp
DefiantEmbassy Link ParentKeePassXC also has support for SSH Agents (slightly different to 1Password: it adds/removes keys from another agent, rather than being an agent itself).KeePassXC also has support for SSH Agents (slightly different to 1Password: it adds/removes keys from another agent, rather than being an agent itself).
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Comment on Can anyone recommend a printer/scanner combo that works with Linux with no additional drivers? in ~tech
DefiantEmbassy Link ParentIt's alluded to in the OP, but CUPS is also the stack for MacOS, right? i.e. if a printer works for Mac devices, there is a fairly decent chance it works for Linux? Very little knowledge in this...I got it running on my desktop through CUPS (Linux printing server)
It's alluded to in the OP, but CUPS is also the stack for MacOS, right? i.e. if a printer works for Mac devices, there is a fairly decent chance it works for Linux? Very little knowledge in this area, though.
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Comment on A startup allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then came the censorship—and now the backlash in ~tech
DefiantEmbassy LinkAn article about how Rajat Khare, an individual behind a shady hack-for-hire company, Appin, has been using legal threats to censor articles about him and his past.An article about how Rajat Khare, an individual behind a shady hack-for-hire company, Appin, has been using legal threats to censor articles about him and his past.
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A startup allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then came the censorship—and now the backlash
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Comment on Lewis Hamilton set to join Ferrari in ~sports.motorsports
DefiantEmbassy (edited )LinkOfficial article from Mercedes, announcing Lewis' departure at the end of the 2024 season: https://www.mercedesamgf1.com/news/mercedes-amg-f1-lewis-to-part-ways EDIT: Ferrari also announcing...- Exemplary
Official article from Mercedes, announcing Lewis' departure at the end of the 2024 season: https://www.mercedesamgf1.com/news/mercedes-amg-f1-lewis-to-part-ways
EDIT: Ferrari also announcing Lewis: https://twitter.com/ScuderiaFerrari/status/1753133900925129140
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Comment on Lewis Hamilton set to join Ferrari in ~sports.motorsports
DefiantEmbassy Link ParentSame. I saw the Italian reports, but I thought "ah, they do this every year". But the volume and quality of the media was substantially better than usual. And then the Sky report (the one linked)...Same. I saw the Italian reports, but I thought "ah, they do this every year". But the volume and quality of the media was substantially better than usual.
And then the Sky report (the one linked) dropped and then the "oh shit" moment happened.
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Comment on Lewis Hamilton set to join Ferrari in ~sports.motorsports
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Lewis Hamilton set to join Ferrari
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Comment on F1 rejects Andretti bid to join by 2026 in ~sports.motorsports
DefiantEmbassy LinkDeeply disappointing. The sport could do with a few more cars and a few more seats for drivers, and Andretti did not fuck around with their bid: they're actively building facilities and have GM...Deeply disappointing. The sport could do with a few more cars and a few more seats for drivers, and Andretti did not fuck around with their bid: they're actively building facilities and have GM on-board to build an engine.
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F1 rejects Andretti bid to join by 2026
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Comment on Max Martin has the most No. 1s among music producers in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, surpassing George Martin in ~music
DefiantEmbassy Link ParentPresumably The Onion’s report on how every song starts off as a sample of Hall and OatesI'm curious as to where the "most music uses samples from the 60s" idea originates
Presumably The Onion’s report on how every song starts off as a sample of Hall and Oates
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Comment on Ohio, Michigan Republicans in released audio: "Endgame" is to ban trans care "for everyone" in ~lgbt
DefiantEmbassy Link ParentAnd the article makes no claim there either. This is a case where someone should retitle it to the original authors’ intent (unless OP is the author).And the article makes no claim there either. This is a case where someone should retitle it to the original authors’ intent (unless OP is the author).
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Comment on The Markup iceberg in ~tech
DefiantEmbassy LinkBack when I was a fervent org-mode user, I ended up writing my final year thesis within it, with a lot of tomfoolery to hook up Zotero, and get the LaTeX export to work, and in particular, look...Back when I was a fervent org-mode user, I ended up writing my final year thesis within it, with a lot of tomfoolery to hook up Zotero, and get the LaTeX export to work, and in particular, look how I wanted.
Was the final result good? Yes. Was the writing experience immaculate? God, yes. Writing in raw LaTeX for a primarily text based document just doesn’t sound fun, meanwhile org/emacs is just a wonderful format.
Would I do it again? Eh. I have no idea if I'd be able to pull an export from the raw org again, as some configuration was baked into my dotfile.
I do wonder how this experience would compare. Editing in Obsidian would make me happy, don’t know how the Pandoc exporting process would make me feel.
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Comment on What is your favourite episode of a podcast? in ~talk
DefiantEmbassy Link Parent“The Call” is a brilliant but incredibly sad episode.“The Call” is a brilliant but incredibly sad episode.
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Comment on What is your favourite episode of a podcast? in ~talk
DefiantEmbassy (edited )Link“Long Distance” from Reply All . (what a shame about the ending of the show.) The ending of “Beware the Jabberwock” from This American Life is really great at making me understand the madness of...“Long Distance” from Reply All .
(what a shame about the ending of the show.)
The ending of “Beware the Jabberwock” from This American Life is really great at making me understand the madness of American politics.
Complaints about track issues are common, and this is an extreme reach. It wasn't racist to call the surface in Istanbul poor, or complain about the surface at Circuit of the Americas, or complain about the surface at Miami.