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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That sounds like a fine way to have your (presumably expensive) drone carrying your (presumably also expensive) camera hit with buckshot.

I'm not saying don't try anyways. But there's a good chance the gestapo just starts blastin'.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

I'm not exactly an expert either, but as far as I know there's nothing stopping you from modifying your own kernel on Linux if you're a hardcore enough Linux dork who knows how to. This is part of the reason anti-cheat developers love Windows and hate Linux, the Windows kernel is practically considered a black box that no normal user is ever supposed to touch, and Microsoft tries reasonably hard to make sure it isn't (I had to disable Secure Boot and virtualization in my bios, and add a sketchy looking second boot option to the Windows Boot Manager, back when I paid for cheats in games). This doesn't really work (as evidenced by the existence of kernel level cheats), but that's the philosophy.

On Linux, there are no "normal users". Some people run Arch for fun. Some people run Gentoo for fun. It's the Wild God Damn West. Ergo, you can say "well the kernel will have this functionality built in", and that's all fine well and good -- but there is nothing stopping someone else from coming along, yanking it out (or better still, modifying it to always pass "yep no cheats here" to any anti-cheat, even when there are), and recompiling their own kernel; because the design philosophy in Linux (for the most part) seems to be that the meatbag sitting at the keyboard is God, not some corporation. Which, considering how Microsoft is enfuckening Windows, I consider a good thing.

Kernel anti-cheat is a bodge, a stopgap, a last-ditch effort to save money instead of hiring staff that actually give a shit about supporting a game for people who've already parted with their money and moderating it properly. You know the only games I was never able to cheat in/didn't see many cheaters in/didn't ever really want to cheat in, for that matter? The games where the developers actually gave a shit, made a good game that didn't exploit the player, and paid moderators to do a good job keeping it free of other shitheads. Kernel anticheat wasn't even a speedbump, not then and I doubt it would be now. It's a shortcut taken by lazy and/or greedy companies who would rather compromise user security and eke out a few more percentage points of net profit up-front instead of investing in the long-term health of their community.

disclaimer: I am not a hardcore linux dork. I like Linux Mint nowadays and have for the past couple years because it just works and doesn't give me shit. I could be wrong, but that's the gist of it as it is understood by me.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

the day Canada opens their borders to refugees fleeing the Trump regime I'll be soooo happy.

Or I'll be dead before then. Either-or, hard to tell when you're gay and autistic how far away they are from Aktion-T4'ing oneself.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

... a solution, you say?

Why do I get the feeling this "solution", for these people you have in the country but don't want, will be very... final?

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

apparently, yes, human meat tastes like pork to the point that it is nicknamed "long pig".

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Notice how the states you'd be trying to leave or drive through as fast as possible are all grouped at one end of the scale?

I'm not saying this is the only reason. But it can still be a reason.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 8 points 2 days ago

wouldn't you like to know

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

keep me in the screenshot unless you want your subscriber base to know this guy from the past thinks you suck.

also, we're so sorry. not all of us, but some of us.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

but I know that there is at least one where the odds of a letter to Nature being accurate a few years later is about 50%.

...

you know, there is a difference between "getting published in Nature" and "submitting your work to Nature". It's subtle, perhaps: one involves being published in the journal. For the world to see and scrutinize.

I bet they get lots of letters that they do, indeed, find aren't well substantiated enough to publish.

Also, one field. Lmao.

Also, please tell me why you made your first comment, I'm genuinely curious. Did you read about this somewhere? Where, if you recall?

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

it's not about a takedown, really, I'm not trying to be mean (not especially hard, anyways), I just want to understand what Nature, or science as a whole, did to piss them off enough to make shit up about it. Or if they're just having a bad day they oughta just say so.

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