rdri
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- Comment on Journey Back to Felghana: Ys Memoire Sets Western Release for January 2025 | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 weeks ago:
No Steam?
- Comment on Denuvo respond to their rep for tanking games - "I'm a gamer myself, and therefore I know what I'm talking about" 4 weeks ago:
That’s also a lie. There is no way it would be impossible to remove the protection code (or parts of it) or make it not execute. That alone makes him a clown.
- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 1 month ago:
Steam getting better isn’t linked to anyone becoming a billionaire. That sentiment sounds like people can’t stop looking for things to blame Valve for.
Is it too difficult to accept that every single company failed in competing with Steam? I’d say they didn’t even try their best (especially Epic). Must’ve assumed that just serving a website with a web app is all they needed to get as rich as Gabe.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 1 month ago:
A replacement isn’t a clone
You know I wasn’t asking for a replacement. You’re suggesting e2ee-first software to people who might not really need it in the first place.
Personally, when I think about all the quirks and requirements that must be met for some chat to happily accept a new member in a e2ee scheme, I get mad. My daily chats, gifs and cat photos aren’t worth everyone’s effort and discomfort.
Also, I use WhatsApp not because I like it but because it’s easier than forcing dozens of people to use something else. I hate it because of how it works, and it doesn’t have anything to do with e2ee part (it’s worthless for stuff I use WhatsApp for). I like that it dropped electron though - I value my ram.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 1 month ago:
That’s wrong. There is no plaintext transfer. While a lot of stuff can potentially happen on server every second as you said, it doesn’t happen according to them. I don’t trust that fully either but that’s their argument. You can look up encryption schemes in their faq.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 1 month ago:
Use for what? Are there alternatives that aggregate news, have bot support, non-electron clients and immediately sync between desktop and mobile?
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 1 month ago:
Where something publicly exists anyone can set up a local archive to capture anything, regardless of what’s available at the moment of joining the chat. Also telegram has such a setting too. It’s useless when someone really wants to get you. They won’t need an access to telegram servers to get you.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 1 month ago:
When they explained it it was specifically stated that it should be either impossible or too difficult. Keeping keys and content separately, that’s what it’s about iirc. Either way the point of telegram is not in privacy for everyone. You trade protection for convenience (cloud data and great clients), and if you want you can use secret chats. That’s it. Seeing their user base, it suits most people. We’ll see if their server data gets leaked or something, though it didn’t happen yet.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 1 month ago:
You’re still missing the fact that public chats can’t be adequately protected.
It’s just doesn’t really enhance privacy like E2E and I find it disingenuous to say “my chat app is encrypted” when you mean server encryption not E2E.
FWIW when they said that the “e2e” boom has yet to happen.
- Comment on Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect 1 month ago:
Oh believe me, group chats are encrypted. Problem is, most of them are public, so that’s only to protect them from being exposed to dump/search server side. And yeah, their encryption is not e2e. That’s encryption nonetheless.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Seems it’s fixed now?
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
If you mean just the percentage of users I might agree. But those people don’t really correlate with the users who provide most of the profit of the platform.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
My profile is also not public but it’s visible to friends. Also I can make it public when I want.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
I see. Still, I can see that for many people achievements with no value are no better than their absence. Platform provides value, and for now only steam provides a lot of it with almost each purchase.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
Are you serious? Obviously people don’t care about achievements on a platform that has almost no community-related functionality.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
There is still plenty of fish for advertisers, sadly.
- Comment on Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in France 2 months ago:
Useless. Current allegations are related to the absence of moderation. Moderation of public content, in public channels or chats. As you can guess, end to end encryption does not protect public content.
- Comment on Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades 2 months ago:
None of that helps or discards anything I’ve said above. But it allows to say that NTFS limit can be basically 1024 bytes. Just because you like what UTF-8 offers it doesn’t solve hurdles with Linux limits.
LUKS is commonly used but not the only one.
- Comment on Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades 2 months ago:
NTFS also has a 255 limit, but it’s UTF16, so for unicode, you will get more out of it.
I think this is a biased way of putting it. NTFS way is easy to understand and therefore manage. What’s more important is that ASCII basically means English only. I’ve seen enough of such “discrimination” (stuff breaks etc.) based on used language in software/technology and it should end for good.
All other modernly maintained OS do UTF8, which “won” unicode.
UTF8 is Unicode. UTF8 symbols can take more than 1 byte.
Plus all the other things Linux has over Windows of course.
There are also encryption methods that slash maximum length of each filename even further.
- Comment on Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades 2 months ago:
Linux file system is shit? Otherwise I don’t get why you’ve used the “because” word. NTFS is certainly not shit.
- Comment on Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades 2 months ago:
Linux still unable to catch up with NTFS when it comes to filename length, sadly. 256 bytes in an era of Unicode is ridiculous.
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 3 months ago:
I see what you mean. It helps predict that, but not always. This is still a lottery, and the absence of SMART only makes it a little bit more of a lottery.
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 3 months ago:
Worst part is that SD cards don’t have SMART, meaning you don’t know when they’ll die.
I mean, SMART doesn’t help much with knowing about HDDs’ death either. It’s more often they don’t show up at all, so you can’t even check SMART.
- Comment on Open-Source AMD GPU Implementation Of CUDA "ZLUDA" Has Been Taken Down 3 months ago:
We need that in order to preserve those terrible implementations of physx etc. in older games that look even more terrible with them disabled. Hope the work is continued.
- Comment on TriliumNext Notes - The last note taking app you should ever need 3 months ago:
Judging by the size, just another electron app.
- Comment on Riot's fighting game 2XKO will use Vanguard anti-cheat 3 months ago:
Correct, it’s impossible. And anticheat will not help with identifying such complex cheats.
- Comment on Riot's fighting game 2XKO will use Vanguard anti-cheat 3 months ago:
Just decide that more than X inputs per second equals cheater, and measure that on the server side. No need to riddle users systems with code waste.
- Comment on What are your favorite spooky (but not scary) retro games? 3 months ago:
I really liked Haunting Starring Polterguy.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
Retail stores.
why would they have any need or business sense to charge less?
Because their business is different from steam? Or maybe because they are more experienced in business and could show the world how it’s done? Wait, why do we even assume that Steam had such huge influence around the time when other digital stores popped up (some of which also didn’t live very long)? The pc gaming was massively considered niche for a very long time, only until recent years. I can’t imagine Apple going “oh right, we are creating our own digital store mostly for mobile devices so we need to check how that PC gaming company does their business, to copy their practices”.
for your original claims
Everything is fine with them.
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 3 months ago:
What disparity?
The disparity between a good quality product and useless crap? The disparity between the %% of profits that roughly goes to single employee of different companies? The disparity between 1 yacht and 6 yachts? You choose.
It would put the money in the hands of workers
You can put it in their hands right now. Sell your game in your own store and get 100% profits.