Sweepi

dont know the point of the table, but here it is:

  |gap      |gzip      |bz2  |lzma    | 
  |---------|----------|-----|--------|
  |0        |2.7%      |18.9%|  *0.9%*| 
  |8 KB     |2.4%      |17.8%|   0.9% |
  |*40 KB*  |*94.4%*   |17.7%|   0.4% |
  |1 MB     |*104.3%*  |19.7%|  *0.9%*|

  | I would like to respond because you're speaking authoritatively but this is mostly your opinion.

Sorry, I felt inclined to respond to your broad claim "It's nearly impossible to play multiplayer games now without KLAC". XKCD 'Wait, Honey, sb. is wrong on the internet', we both know it.

  | Indeed. The goal is to reduce cheating to a manageable level. It is impossible to eliminate.

I agree with the goal, but KLAC is not an acceptable way to get there. I would rather suggest to:

  - dont trust the client
  - really dont trust the client
  - support / let customers host the servers (they are the ones who will put in the time required to deal with cheaters, and they will also be there once the devs/publisher have abandoned a game)
  - Use statistics a lot more: mark outliers for review, and until review, aggressively move them to their own matchmaking bracket. 
  - Implement a "demo"-style replay format for matches/sessions (which therefore contains all inputs of all parties). Make all "ranked" or eq. matches publicly available (no names/chat, just the gameplay) and people will develop tools in their free time to detect cheaters.

Also: Have a simple trust score (Account age * Money spent), and act more aggressive on people with low trust score. Let new people improve their trust score by reserving ~$100 on a credit card which will be billed if the account gets banned for cheating.

  | Ryzen 7 and an AMD GPU

Ryzen 7 is a 9 year old, AMD GPU a 20 year old generic term. If Notebookcheck is correct, the "Lenovo ThinkBook 16 G7 ARP" comes with a Zen3(+) CPU and a RDNA 2 GPU, both released 6 years ago.

If Zen3+ vs Zen3 is a significant architectural difference, than it would slightly miss the 5 year mark, since it was released 4.5 years ago.

I want to clarify to anyone reading this that this only effects high-competitive games, like LoL, Valorant, PUBG, R6S; and not all of them (e.g. Counter Strike).

It does not affect "multiplayer" in general, to the contrary, most multiplayer games are not affected (coop games, MMOs, RTS).

  | It's nearly impossible to play multiplayer games now without KLAC. The cheating is out of control.

Ofc, cheating is also present with KLAC, its just the next level of the cat and mouse game (Driver exploits, DMA access via PCIe, Network Packet analysis, ...)

  | Unfortunately this is an ideological hill that many Linux devs are willing to die on

Nonsense. 1. Almost no anticheat is implemented on Linux in the first place. Most "working" anti-cheat solutions for Linux are just a #if Linux doNothing(); #else ... 2. KLAC requires SecureBoot/ChainOfTrust + closed source code running with highest privileges. This does not make sense for any PC, but I dont see why it would be harder to do on Linux than on Windows, Linux just has a smaller install base in general and a lower acceptance rate for KLAC, therefore its not worth it to implement.

Its the perfect date for people who see all of their "real" family once per year, at CCC. Lots of couples attending obv.

Annoying omission that only the latest "4th gen" heart rate sensor was tested, 2nd gen (Apple Watch <6, all SE models) and 3rd gen (Apple Watch 6-11) are not mentioned and it would have been very interesting to compare.

|If someone has the ability to give 2$ for every 1$ I give, why are they only giving on contingence? |Just give the money!

Why? If i had the money, I would do the same.

reads like a glitch from Pokemon Red/Blue (Gen1). Even the simplest tests would have catched this issue.

"You can see this simply by observing that the actual places that are progressive controlled - major blue cities - are the most dysfunctional places in the country."

Serious question - what is 'dysfunctional' about 'blue cities' that works better in 'red cities'?

> At some point, the pathway for Microsoft to regain some of the goodwill associated with Minecraft is to fire the senior lawyer most responsible for sending out these notices.

Why would anyone with brain give them any good will for that? I might believe them if they would give Luanti 2x the damages and gave in writing that they will pay 10x damages the next time this happens.

100%!

The future of supercars is to outlaw them to make any engine noise on the road. There is no reason to have engine noise other then that not having engine noise is not possible at a given price point. This is obviously not the case with "supercars".

If you want to buy a toy that makes noise, get a non street-legal car for the race track. There is no reason why 99.9..% of the population should be required to tolerate more (street-)noise than necessary.