Look up that one genshin fuck up on the internet. Their kernel anticheat was used by ransomware to completely take control of people’s PCs. Best part? You didn’t even need to have genshin installed, because the AC was bundled with the ransomware, and Windows would install it as it was “trusted software”
You don’t give your house keys to your home security system provider. Giving kernel access to anything, even if it’s for your own good, is dumb. People don’t understand the risks that come with it. People just think what the companies tell them to think. As a matter of fact, there are still cheaters in valorant. Vanguard isn’t perfect, it can still be bypassed. VAC works fine for what it is, and it could still be refined. It bans more people monthly than Vanguard.
The biggest reason for kernel level anticheats is your sweet sweet data and more control of your computer. You don’t need them. We have been playing online games since the 90s, and none used kernel anticheats. It was never necessary to sell your computer to Tencent in order to play a game which, again, still has cheaters.
Yes, and I’ve seen it happening. Usually it doesn’t instantly brick every PC, but it can sometimes brick certain PCs with specific configurations. Then it will be silently patched without acknowledgement for the bug.
I’ve seen it mess with (and crash) graphics and network drivers, rendering PCs useless until forced reboot. It can also mess up other games, processes, and even updates.
People have been warning gamers about kernel level anticheats since they were introduced, because no userland code should run with that level of privileges, period. However, people still installed those games not really understanding the threat, and that’s why we have so many games with a kernel anticheat.
Oh, the starbucks “thing” isn’t even coffee. You’re not losing anything by not going.
CocaCola did what?? Why didn’t I know that? Guess I’m a pepsi guy now, wow.
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It’s funny because in spanish it means Documento Nacional de Identidad (National ID). Given the context, I immediately thought of that instead of Do Not Interact
Wow, I’ve actually never seen this disc. However, funnily enough, I have another disc with that program burned into it. Someone didn’t read the notice, it seems.
F2 is universal, it’s been there since before Microsoft. It also works on Linux and most independent software.
This. The guessing part comes from the time it takes to do the tasks, but you know the number of tasks. So a progress bar should only reach 100% when all the tasks are completed.
For example, you might have a big process that performs 3 other small tasks and then finishes. You could reasonably assume that each small task is 33% of the big process, so after the first finishes you get 33% progress, then 66% after the second and 100% after the third. When the bar reaches 100%, the third task has finished, so your process has finished too.
What you don’t know is how much time each small task takes, so if the first task needs 20 seconds and the following tasks take just 5, you’ll spend 2/3 of the time on the first 33% of the progress bar, and then the remaining 66% gets done in 1/3 of the time.
Command make not found, but can be installed with apt-get install make.
If your PC is in another language, that shortcut gets changed. For example, in spanish it’s Ctrl+G (G from Guardar, I assume). It may seem intuitive, but not every app follows this change. It’s also way more difficult to hit with one hand, as the G is further from Ctrl than the S. Localized shortcuts are a thing I never understood about Windows, and I hated it while I used it.
After that I swithed to Linux, and I’ve been using NeoVim for a few years now. Instead of Ctrl+S I now compulsively [esc]:w[return], which, now that I think of it, may be even worse.
TF2 currently under attack by the aussies. I’m going to bed right now, so I can’t defend it.
The books they shared still had DRM on them. As we all know, if it has DRM you don’t own it. They never gave away any book, so I don’t see what they did wrong.
Indeed, the green cross is the symbol for pharmacies here in Spain and in most places I’ve been (including a bit of northern europe).
None of them sell cannabis. If legal to sell, it needs to be sold in separate stores, which usually don’t have flashing signs. Those stores can’t use the green cross as a symbol.
Puking is good, it helps to get rid of toxic stuff in your stomach. The fact that you need to puke is bad, because it means you ingested toxic or poisonous stuff.
Bet you’re fun at parties, huh?
The launch was terrible, but there are some things that keep them apart from the rest of terrible launches.
Cyberpunk 2077 was a really ambitious game, with a lot of new mechanics and incredible graphics. Beasts like that are really difficult to optimize for a large range of computers with different specs, so at first it ran poorly on some.
The most notably buggy release was the PS4 one. And rightfully so. They were trying to run a truly next gen game on a console which was more than a decade old. They not only had to optimize the game, but they basically made a completely different game, with different assets and engines, which was really difficult to do. Still, it was too much for the console, especially old PS4s that were full of dust or had old fans and were overheating.
Another important fact is that users were also pressuring CDPR into releasing Cyberpunk 2077. It was delayed at least once (maybe twice, I don’t remember), and people wanted to play the game. They probably had to choose between delaying it another time or releasing it without polishing it that much.
I believe it was Cyberpunk 2077 that started the trend of “release now fix later” games. However, I don’t think they really did it on purpose. The game was too ambitious for its own good, and having to develop, optimize and test two basically different versions of it was too big of a task for a studio that in today’s terms wasn’t even that big. The rest of the AAA producers just realized that CDPR still won loads of money at launch, and decided to release incomplete games on purpose, after seeing that CDPR could make profits that way.
But must importantly, CDPR did an amazing job at fixing the game, unlike many other studios releasing broken AAAs. They optimized the code, fixed most of the bugs, improved the AI massively and made the game really stable, to the point where I’ve seen it running at 40 FPS on 10+ year old overheating laptops. Even though it took a while, they still delivered the game they promised to their buyers.
Dunno why it’s down, could be them forgetting to renew the domain or another issue. I don’t think that was on purpose.
However, owner and devs are using the downtime to change some infrastructure internally, and that’s why it hasn’t come back up yet.
ETA for recovery last tuesday was ~a week, so I’m guessing it will be back up soon.