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Jako301

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  • Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare

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  • The majority of people play at least some competitive games and most of those simply don't work due to anticheats. These game usually are also the most important ones to them.

  • In case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installs

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  • And you didn't understand what I said. While you can not monitor closed source at the code level, you definitely can monitor the apps behaviour. Even the automatic threat protection from the playstore protect function is worth more than the measly amount of people looking through smaller projects codebases.

    I hate Google with a passion, but with all their control over android devices, they are more than capable of scanning apps for malicious behaviour and automatically removing them. These few apps in the article are the 0.01% of malicious apps that their algorithm didn't detect.

  • In case you missed it: Bank info-stealing malware found in 90+ Android apps with 5.5M installs

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  • If we are talking about bigger projects with hundreds of thousands or millions of downloads, than this may be true. But smal scale projects have so few people actively looking through them that even to automatic scan done by the playstore has a higher chance of catching malware. It doesn't even have to be bad intent, two years ago there was a virus propagating trough the Java class files in minecraft mods which reached the PCs of quite a few devs before it was caught.

    I don't dislike FOSS, a lot of the apps I use come straight from github, but all this talk about them beeing constantly monitored by third parties is just wishful thinking.

  • Pixel 8A and Grapheneos

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  • Vanadium is purposefully made this way. It tries to minimise profiling by making your actions noise in a big mass of users. That only works if you use the standard config without anything to discern you.

    Mull is the other extreme of this. They try to eliminate fingerprinting by reducing the amount of trackable things in your browser.

    It's hard to say what really is the better option. You can't completely eliminate fingerprinting, and the more you try, the more you will stick out of the masses.

  • Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation

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  • How is that even supposed to work? These search engines need per definition massive databanks to search through. Either you need your own crawler and indexer which is more than just inefficient, or you are limited to a relatively short list of curated static results.

  • Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die

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  • If the game is DRM free on GOG it usually only has the Steamworks DRM on steam. That one is so easy to remove that you might aswell call it DRM free since its only use is to make publishers think their game is protected.

  • Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die

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  • There is nothing that Valve could change about this with the current way games are licensed.

    All your Steam account is is a collection of lifetime leasing contracts between you and the seller. Steam already forces third parties to give you liftime access even if the game is pulled from the store page, but that contract gets voided once one of the two parties ceases to exist, be it the buyer or the studio that sells the game.

    Legally binding the games to your account instead of you also isn't possible since in most countries you either have to be a real person or a registered entity to form contracts.

  • Linux not in meme

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  • Yeah, but it lies.

    No it doesn't, at least not if the update isn't already a month overdue

    But a future Windows update will reset them without informing the user.

    I've done 3 years worth of updates in one day cause I needed too. Pretty much everything was reset including registry edits, but the privacy toggles were one of the few things that stayed persistent. Maybe it's a EU special feature (wouldn't be the first), but at least here they won't change back silently.

  • "LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile :

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  • I've spent ways less time editing the windows registry than I've spent trying to fix all the dual monitor bugs with linux.

    Windows issues/changes are a 30 second google search away, linux issues often enough require a 1 hour deep dive into multiple forums.

  • Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

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  • Proton upheld their claim of privacy, no Emails were disclosed. But they never promised anonymity cause that's something they simply can't do under the Swiss law. If you willingly give them your other mail addresses or contact details, they have to comply. Sure they could have denied the Spanish authorities, but it takes less than a week to get a court order for things like this.

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    EA gonna EA

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  • It's the implementation that will probably annoy me the most. If the ingame radio station in GTA tried to sell me coke or Pepsi I probably wouldn't even notice since it fits in with the world. But knowing EA they will probably put them in as additional loading screen that you can't skip.

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    EA gonna EA

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  • I agree with the first part (not that it should mean they can just extract more money out of us), but the second part is something I simply don't believe.

    Don't get me wrong, I know budgets have increased, but the dev cost definitely didn't by remotely the same amount. Devs wages are pretty stagnant since the initial silicon Valley boom and new tools at our disposal have made it a lot easier to create games, be it for indi devs or the corporate giants. Sure, graphics got fancier, but so did the readily aviable stock assets. High end work stations cost maybe a bit more, but they are a drop in the bucket in the 100+ million budgets of today.

    What has increased on the other hand is the amount of executives/managers and their wages. In addition to that marketing has gone up a lot, probably over half of most budgets go there. The growing corporate overhead with its archaic structures also eats up a lot.

    If we go purely by dev cost, prices should go down since the overall profit would increase with the greater amount of players. Everything else is corporate overlords throwing shitloads of money at a mediocre game to make it seem worth something.

  • TikTok Ban Bill Becomes Law, Gives TikTok 9 Months To Sell

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  • This is not a ban and it was never meant to be. They just force tiktok to sell the US market to a US company. Said US company will continue the platform just like it is at the moment, just with a bit more of that sweet American propaganda mixed into it. Tiktok won't be gone, all that data will just go to the NSA instead of the CCP, that's all they wanted.

  • sIGmA BeHaiovouR

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  • Because Bethesda doesn't provide the legacy versions on steam, unlike other mod focused games, afaik. Once you've updated your game, you are stuck with whatever version you have.

    Sure, you can always download the right version from somewhere else, but I wouldn't count piracy + the risks coming with it as a viable excuse for their fuckup.

  • The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge

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  • That's just your bubble. Most VPN users just want to circumvent geo restrictions.

    Besides that, the general VPN "propaganda" is that it encrypts your traffic and no-one can see it. The average user gets baited by that and doesn't care to look further into it.

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  • You got Hyper-V approved on a work desktop? Man I wish I had that much luck.

  • Open Source VS Company

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  • You haven't worked in any customer support position, and it shows. The amount of slurs hurled at them is far greater than anything found in a few github comments.

  • Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons

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  • Most Windows issues and annoyances can be fixed pretty easily with registry tweaks. This specific issue requires you to go trough the major effort of changing a single 0 to a 2.

    As long as its still easier to completely debloat windows instead of debugging Linux, your so called win is still far away.

  • Can you tell excel sheets which were created using a pirated version of MS Office?

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  • Can they find out?

    No, not really. The Metadata doesn't have a "pirated" flag and something like the product key doesn't get saved. Microsoft themselves probably know due to their telemetry but even they can't be bothered about it. I would bet that even you send a pirated document to the Microsoft CEO, they wouldn't notice or even care enough to look for it.

    But as always there is the important rule of "don't fuck with work stuff, ever".

    It's already questionable why she is editing company documents on here private PC without either a dedicated and remotely managed work particition + VPN or an O365 online work account. These documents fall under far stricter data safety regulations and the way it is right now, she is personally liable for any data leaks.