tfrancisl

How are the actions of the feds at Waco and Ruby Ridge "left"? Authoritarian, yes, but supporting collectivism, shared ownership, etc? Nothing at all left wing about their actions.

Why is this being voted down? This is fundamentally how states and governance work. The state has a monopoly on legitimate violence, and can, at any moment, make that a problem for its citizenry.

Again, no true scotsman. If all the people who call a spade a diamond get together and call themselves spade-truthers, their perspective is spade-trutherism, however much that upsets true spade-trutherists.

Classic no true Scotsman. All the people who proclaim to be absolutists or advocates but dont meet my definition clearly are not.

Down voted for suggesting the most salient analysis of US history. Sad!

Agreed, looks very sloppy and unpolished. I was immediately turned away when i saw the recommended install method was `sudo sh` this random script.

I would argue TPM 2.0 is the security theater. A leaked key is all it takes to throw it all away. EAC v1 combined with behavior-based detection seems to be sufficient for some of these studios, so I don't know what Epic is struggling with.

I play CS2 plenty. The cheating problem is overstated as all hell. It seems to be concentrated around accounts that are being sold for lots of cash, so Valve is apparently taking that route for banning accounts more often lately.

Now, if we want an interesting case study in intrusive anticheat not necessarily being more effective than behavior-based, we should compare FACEIT to Valve servers. FACEIT is riddled with cheaters, and yet requires ring-0 anticheat on Windows. So fascinating!

And it's all a shame, in my opinion. They're too lazy to develop effective behavior-based anticheat (should be easier than ever with better NN architectures and more compute), and so they resolve to screwing over consumers or spying on them. Did not know about Embark's stance, that's too bad.

If this were about solely myself and no one else, I might agree. However, even I do play one or two games that use EAC v1 and they work perfectly fine on Linux. They also have very few cheaters, and employ behavior-based detection as their first line. I would hate to lose those games.

No, LPEs escalate you to root. Root access is specifically protected against by their requirements.

You could have just not replied if you werent going to try to be productive. Yes, lots and lots of people play video games on NixOS and Gentoo. Who is playing video games on Fedora, Debian? I dont care that I can switch kernels, I shouldnt have to.

I suppose I read into the Steam Deck not supporting all of the requirements right now a bit much. Thats the section I was referencing. I am still hopeful they'll at least object to IOMMU and get some movement from Epic there...

> Because your kernel could have the ability to allow a program to modify the game memory and hide the fact it's doing so?

I understand this, and my contention with this is that a signed kernel could have that too, so requiring the kernel to be signed locks us into very few ways of getting the kernel with little benefit to the AC if a key is leaked.

> Most Linux users are probably using a signed kernel. I don't think this is as big of a deal as you're making out.

I don't think this is true of most people interested in gaming on Linux in particular. Aside from that, the chain of things you need to do to prove you have a signed kernel are onerous and incompatible with many bootloaders and other tools many Linux users use regularly.

Now you're thinking like ... NVIDIA circa 2015 or something like that