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- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 17 hours ago:
Comment OP appears to have drank the Epic Games Kool-aid.
The world’s biggest video game, Fortnite, is only available on Epic Games Store for most platforms. Epic’s market share is gigantic, other video game developers just don’t benefit of it because Epic promotes their own stuff first and foremost. If Epic had a storefront monopoly, it would be classified as anti-competitive behaviour.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 17 hours ago:
they have a monopoly on video game distribution
People who claim that Valve has a monopoly on PC games are already wrong but you claim that they have a monopoly on video game distribution in general is outrageously false. The 2022 overall video game revenue was a bit over US$180Bn. The PC game revenue was US$45Bn. In 2023, all of Steam was responsible for US$8.6Bn in revenue. The biggest PC games (Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox) aren’t even on Steam and neither are any console or phone games.
Criticize Valve for actual things to criticize them for. Don’t spread misinformation.
- Comment on Your stupid decal finally makes sense! 1 day ago:
I don’t get it.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I wish some company that wasn’t a giant asshole was working on these type devices.
The research behind such tech will proliferate no matter ho invented it first. People will be hired by other companies, they’ll apply whatever they learned, using different techniques. Specific techniques can be patented, the experience people gained cannot.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Orion combines the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses
Ah yes, “the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses”:
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 4 days ago:
I want to understand where the price justification is
The justification is that people should be yearly subscribers when they can more easily forget to cancel it.
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- Comment on The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive 2 weeks ago:
How do you know that Steam will be around in 20 years?
Use GOG instead, since the DRM-free game installers will outlive Steam :)
How do you know Windows will keep compatibility in 20 years? Valve money partially goes into Proton/WINE development and an evolution of that will absolutely be around in 20 years, just WINE was around 20 years ago already. CD Project doesn’t put any GOG/Cyberpunk money into breaking the Windows monopoly. (Also plenty of titles on Steam come without DRM because DRM is optional.)
- Comment on stop 2 weeks ago:
Some vegans got into a fight over cat food. Whether or not you agree that cats can be fed with vegan alternatives, it’s still just cat food.
- Comment on Dutch government retakes export control over two ASML tools from US 3 weeks ago:
The answer is literally the first word of the part I quoted.
- Comment on Dutch government retakes export control over two ASML tools from US 3 weeks ago:
Chinese chipmakers will be able to produce chips at the 7nm, 5nm and eventually 3nm technology levels using DUV tools – better than limits set by Washington.
However, chipmakers using the technique will suffer ever-worse yields, making that a demonstration of engineering prowess but economically unviable
GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES!
- Comment on Final Fantasy Creator Reveals Which Entry He Thinks Is 'Most Complete', and It's Not Final Fantasy 7 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 4 weeks ago:
proceed in some way that will break compatibility
That’s what new major versions are for.
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 4 weeks ago:
What’s the twist? There must be some reason.
.NET runs natively on Linux since quite some time. Honestly, I don’t get what Mono is even good for these days. Maybe reverse engineering old .NET versions.
- Comment on YouTube Survey 4 weeks ago:
Youth vaping!
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, because the “encrypted messenger” metric is about sending and receiving messages, not storing messages.
So whether or not the messages can be retrieved by criminals or law enforcement is not a metric. Got it!
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
That said, they should have an option for app data encryption, but that’s hardly a requirement IMO
So Telegram is not an encrypted messenger because there are types of messages that are not E2E encrypted but Signal is a encrypted messenger because encrypting local storage is optional. Got it.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
What’s important is that it hasn’t been confirmed good by actual normal cryptographers.
Why not?
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
That’s my day job and I’m good at it. People understand when I explain three clicks.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
You make it sound easier than it really is.
No, I gave a detailed tutorial how to initiate a secret chat and then explained that the procedure has to be done only once per contact. It’s exactly as easy or complicated as I explained. Not more, not less.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
Right. But it’s also not exactly “easy” which is what you’re saying it is.
I said it’s as easy as tapping the compose button and selecting secret chat. I nowhere claimed that it’s easier than that but it’s also not more complicated than that.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
Surely you talk to more than one or two people, no? If you have to manually check a box or something every time you start a new message with someone, people are going to stop doing it.
Maybe you get acquainted to 100 new people every day, so your day is a constant chore of starting secret chats all the time. I don’t. I doubt regular people do. Just start the secret chat once and then pick it up later.
Signal is an encrypted chat app.
Except for the locally stored data which is not encrypted and Signal’s attitude is that device encryption is up to the user.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
If you’re talking to 30 people, it’s 90 clicks.
Uh, so? A “compose message” button is the approach many communication apps use, including e-mail. Don’t get me started how many clicks it is to GPG-encrypt e-mails…
It’s not ideal.
I don’t know how many times I have to repeat myself that I agree on that part. You act as I would disagree. I don’t. It could be better but it’s also not a complicated nightmare as the blog author makes it out to be.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
the fact that FB messenger uses Signal protocol, means the encryption is better than the one used in Telegram.
MTProto 2 has not been cracked. MTProto 1 had a weakness and Telegram addressed it. That was many years ago. I’m not aware that MTProto 2 has ever been cracked in all these years. Telegram’s unwillingness to cooperate with governments is an additional security layer.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
It’s three clicks.
So it’s only three clicks, ergo easy.
And it opens a separate chat from the existing one.
I don’t see the problem. The secret one has the lock icon to clearly mark it. There’s no way one would accidentally pick the wrong chat. Delete the old, unencrypted one to be sure.
It’s obscure enough that you could say the UX deprioritizes (which at best is not an actively malicious design choice) usage of end-to-end encryption.
I agreed in another comment that there should be an “encrypted by default” option somewhere. I’m not claiming that it’s perfect but the claim in the blog that it’s super complicated is just not true. At least calls are P2P-encrypted by default.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
If you have to enable it every time, it’s complicated
But you don’t. As I already explained: secret chats stay in the messages list, so you can go back to an initiated secret chat and pick up there without any additional fiddling.
I have plenty of encrypted chats that I don’t have to enable every time I want to send one. I don’t understand where this misconception comes from.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
FB messenger should be too. Works exactly the same. 🙄
Facebook licensed Signal’s encryption: signal.org/blog/facebook-messenger/
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
It should be a setting to always use encrypted chat, and it should probably prompt you when you first login.
I don’t disagree but the claim that you quoted was that it’s complicated to initiate and as I explained it’s not.
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 4 weeks ago:
As a kind of a weird bonus, activating end-to-end encryption in Telegram is oddly difficult for non-expert users to actually do.
No, it’s not. It’s very easy. In the bottom right corner there is a pencil button to compose a new message and right there it asks which tpye of chat to start. Secret chat is the second topmost option after group chat. Really not hidden or complicated at all.