Yeah same! A year ago it was $120 for a 64GB kit of ddr4-4000. Now my same kit just broke the $800 barrier.

So there’s a few ways I’ve been pondering to take this discussion.

Much like how there are users that create software cracks for games, and the game dev uses more sophisticated forms of DRM. There has been an similar arms race between software developers for game cheats. (Imagine an ouroboros) The attacker has the advantage; it’s much cheaper to attack than defend.

There has been a new trend of hardware based cheating. Aimbot controllers, expansion cards that let another computer read memory values from ram, poisoned random number generators, remote USB controller debugging, etc.

What kernel level anticheats that enforce secureboot and TPM requirements are hoping to achieve is enforcing the attestation feature of the operating system (typically Windows) that the preboot environment has not been manipulated. Manipulating the preboot environment would allow an attacker to gaslight the kernel level anticheat into believing everything’s fine.

This does little to resolve hardware level cheating. (It does help with stopping early expansion cards from loading modules into memory) What’s worse is secureboot+tpm is a defeated technology, relying on security patches to resolve these flaws. However, if your goal is to eliminate knowledgable adversaries they are just going to buy a motherboard with a secureboot issue and do it anyways, and the anticheat developer has no means to reliably triage that against an user with an older or insecure computer.

The cobra effect of anticheat tools like these are they typically eliminate linux players and users with misconfigured or legacy hardware. (such as someone who has installed Windows without using UEFI) These invasive anticheats load before windows at the same time as hardware drivers. (That spinny screen before you get into your desktop). If the anticheat tool malfunctions at this stage it take the whole computer down with it, an expensive problem for a ordinary user that needs hire tech support. And in the case of vanguard it downloads software updates at this point too, if you have slow internet or the update is huge you’re stuck waiting to use your computer. And it doesn’t even matter if you weren’t intending to play games at that point.

You might draw the conclusion that PC gaming is a dead fish from this information. But an important take away is that some of these issues are present on consoles as well thanks to how share the same framework of ordinary computers or smartphones.

There’s already a standard that defines what is an acceptable email address. And an standard reply for a rejected email address.

The issue is you’re dealing with a misconfigured or inappropriate email stack.

The annoying part is this doesn’t stop cheating, just pisses off the regular users.

I was in a store and saw a toddler walking around with a $2000 phone. The mom took the phone from her just for a second. The kid screamed so loud. The kid demanded the phone back immediately. She folded and gave it back. All they were doing was watching a looping video of fish…

I’ve been trying it out with a group of people. (On Linux and Android)

It’s pretty bad still. The concept is solid but each client and server has their own way to go about things. Most are missing desired features like calling and screen sharing. Some even lack group chat…

Reactions and custom emojis are sent through an unencrypted side channel. Rich formatting such as code blocks are inconsistent across clients.

You’re pretty much stuck using the mainline client element to get the best discord lite experience. But it’s still pretty junk at hq screen sharing and group calls. It’s missing audio capture and a decent audio filter essentially.

Kool Stargate meme <3

4o works fairly well on duck.ai I wonder if it’ll go away soon too.

I’m just using the Firefox ESR client until its phased out.

I heard Japan is starting to get big in the cloud sector.

They won’t be happy until your government id and biometrics are encoded on every packet.

Oh is that what’s going to happen?

Ugh thanks I guess I’ve been living under a rock.

The waterfall scroll is one of my favourite features in Nova. I’m holding on until I come across a decent foss project or it breaks.

Without using fde such as through luks. You can’t be 100% sure it’s not stored (at least temporarily) in unencrypted locations such as swap or another program’s temporary place. That would make it trivial for someone to run data recovery software to retrieve it. Thanks to hardware accelerated encryption there shouldn’t be any significant overhead. Your boot times might be marginally longer.

Having a separate encrypted space like what you’re asking for is helpful if the medium is portable or you intend to give it to another person.

Smartphone games asking for money 😱

On one of my test machines I’ve noticed it’s installed the same update three times in a few days. No errors, I’m wondering if it’ll happen a fourth time.

They need to fire their entire upper management team and roll windows back to 7 and try again.

Been wanting this feature for the better part of a decade.

The Danmachi game recently went offline forever. They released a standalone version to play at home. I’m told its tuned to be a bit more fun and you can get all the stuff. Not sure if its been mirrored somewhere.

https://www.droidgamers.com/news/danmachi-battle-chronicle-eos/

I remember reading somewhere that japan and Korea still need to worry about internet explorer 6 support.