If the word “cryptography” here is what throws anyone off, it’s not some advanced field of study, it just refers to the physical manifestation of messaging, which a child can get behind.
No it doesn't. Cryptography is specifically encoding messages in a way that is hard for someone without the specific secret key to decode, even if they know the methodology.
You know the story isn't between moves in combat (with rare exceptions)?
A lot of video game writing is bad, but computers allow storytelling that isn't possible through other mediums. BG3 is choose your own adventure but actually good.
Also: read books for your stories. 😉👍
No, users were banned because AMD took it upon themselves to intercept and change code execution.
It was a completely fucking bonkers decision that anyone remotely aware of game development in any context should have known was literally guaranteed to get anyone who used it banned. It was not, and fundamentally cannot be, acceptable in a competitive game.
The only possible valid way to do it is by working with developers to make the required changes.
There's a legitimate way to do it.
Hijacking code is not good technology.
Facebook can and will.
The entire reason they don't on Android is because there's literally no benefit to it.
There's a lot of super invasive stuff companies are doing that I don't support, but hijacking execution to inject code is something they won't and shouldn't permit. (If they're detecting it by touching the kernel they should be in prison, but with any legitimate methods they have at their disposal, if they can detect anyone hijacking their execution, it should always be a ban. There is no legitimate source or way to do that in a competitive game.)
AMD working with the companies directly to patch in what they need is the only way it can work. Just shipping that code was insane.
I'm not talking about permissions.
I'm talking about their store policies. Google is far more permissive about malicious behavior than Apple is. Companies that have no reason to bypass the play store because it already allows them to spy to an obscene degree will bypass the App Store when given the opportunity, because it does not.
Lol they're a very distant third, and none of this is going to convince anyone to buy an Xbox.
Ignoring any debate on the merits of exclusives generally, this is "lol their console tanked so bad they have to start to put their games onto other platforms to make the revenue they want".
I don‘t see a reason why these cardridges wouldn‘t work in 20 years anymore.
Because, just like discs, they're a crappy pre-launch build that relies on day one patches or additional content to actually work correctly.
I would be shocked if the newer versions don't have a software hack way before that.
The fact that the first version was easy to hack made later versions lower priority, but at some point for the sake of preservation or to have the OLED, the new ones will catch up.
Because Google already lets apps do anything they want no matter how malicious. There's no reason to leave the Play Store.
Apple has people sneak past their rules on occasion because screening is hard, but they have and enforce rules that protect your privacy that malware companies like Facebook don't want to follow.
From the perspective of the employee it basically is a gift (more a benefit).
Employees don't pay for stock in an ESOP; they're earned by being employed there (with different options for how they're divided, but restrictions so they aren't excessively dominated by the highest earners).