Starz0r
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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Yes.
But, in practice, it usually doesn't result in any new cheaters. There is a myriad of reasons for this, but I won't go over them here.
Comment · 2 years ago
What an interesting day when you see a site you've worked on for the past 2 (3?) years get posted to HN! Except I tried submitting this site years ago when I had just finished it, but it did not seem like HN was that interested at the time, and I don't blame them. It was very niche and video game related, and the site also looked a lot worse. It's come a long way to the point where there where I collaborated with someone else to do a redesign, which I think has done great for the project at large.
I originally created the site as a way to track which games would be supported on Linux, since at the time the Steam Deck was releasing, and some games were turning to support it. And it has since blossomed into a larger project, which some other tools even pull from! I would have never even imagined that when I first started making this.
I do want to address something I see being talked about in the comments, which is the fact people say that anti-cheats are snake oil, or useless. This is a big misunderstanding, and I feel like those more technically inclined should understand that anti-cheat is a "defense-in-depth" type of approach. Where it is just one of many lines of defense. Some anti-cheats are pretty useless, and don't do much, but some actually do try and protect the game you're playing. But, just like DRM, it can be cracked, and that's why it's more of a constant arms race, rather than a one and done thing.
I'm writing out a longer post about this for the future, but just know that without anti-cheat clientside, it would be far too easy for an attacker to cheat in these games. We're still ways out from letting AI (see VACnet [1] and and Anybrain [2]) determine if someone is cheating server-side, so for now we have to rely on heavier client-side techniques and server-side decision making.
Also if anyone has questions about the site (or for me), I'll try to answer them here when I see them. If not, have a nice day!
Comment · 3 years ago
Glad that method works out for you. Fortunately for the rest of the world, technology has progressed far enough that Password Storage is a solved problem.
I think it's very typical to think of HN users to think of the average person as tech-savvy enough to do what you're doing, but they aren't. People are fallible, people forget things, people lose things. Some people would rather entrust a reputable service to handle the very menial task of managing their passwords for them, rather than go through the hassle of doing it themselves.
Not only do these services provide better convenience, they make you more secure! Many people reuse the same password, so when a site gets "owned", any site using that same password is now compromised as well. Some of these services will even automatically tell you when a site gets "owned" and offer to change that password for you retroactively.
Now, if you want to go ahead and use a local only method, be my guest. But please, don't ever suggest to anyone else that they should do the same, that's just bad security advice! By the way, getting hacked in the password manager does not mean all your passwords leaked. It just means some extra metadata about you may get discovered, which I'd argue is a reasonable trade-off.
Comment · 7 years ago
How? I'll debate FSF ethics as much as the next guy, but they clearly state they want end user freedoms such as the freedom to modify the application you use. Apple clearly doesn't want that if you use specific GPL versions.
This is an Apple problem, not FSF.
Comment · 8 years ago
Love how people are claiming they are going to close down Windows for gaming back in the GFWL days and it never happened.
Now we have the Microsoft Store, whille substantially better, Windows hasn't even attempted to close down the system and yet again everyone is claiming they will. They aren't, and they won't, the Microsoft Store still hasn't urserped Azure or regular Windows keys in sales or profit. So why would any company close off their system potentially losing more sales on Windows keys, it just makes no sense.
Can we please stop touting this bullshit?
Comment · 8 years ago
I get that Electron is undesirable, but what do you mean by unsecure? Also, can you list some alternatives if you don't want them building a desktop app in Electron?
Cheating is a market, and most cheaters are not programmers themselves. But it goes deeper than that. Most players, and players who intend to cheat are already using Windows. Any portion of a game's player base that intends to cheat is usually small, any the portion of a game's player base that is also running Linux at the same time, is even smaller. So programming cheats for Linux (however easy it may be), is a nil-some game. Though I'm not going to claim it's never happen, there are cheats for CS2 on Linux for example, but this is an outlier and exception to the rule.
> Could I persuade you to reconsider going over them? I'm not expecting an essay or anything but it would be interesting.
Sorry, I didn't say that because I was trying to withhold this information, I just didn't want to spoil my future blog post. If you don't want to wait for the post and just want to hear it, I'm down to just giving a overview of the reasonings.