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[–] 520@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

I never heard of these clowns either. You're not alone.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

There is no such thing as a 'stable' Wayland interface. Each compositor is responsible for their own interfaces, the Wayland protocol is there to make sure that applications written for Wayland play nicely with them.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Replacing something featurful with something minimal is silly.

Unless those features just plain don't work well in the 21st century. Looking squarely at X11's network capabilities here, most of which were designed before encrypted remote access became the norm.

[–] 520@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

X.Org developers moved to Wayland, they were the ones who made it happen.

But did they bring the same mistakes with them?

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago
  1. running unauthorised pentests does indeed get people fired. Along with getting their managers in hot water for letting their pentesters be loose cannons. And if they're attacking someone else while on company time, the company can be in serious legal trouble too.

  2. it is rather customary for heads to roll when critical data is leaked as part of an insider attack, especially when said attack was enabled by negligent practices.

Just incase you've forgotten that randomly attacking people and leaking data is this kid's MO.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

that can change at any time if Valve bothers to patch it

Sure. And DRM free can become DRM laden with a patch too

it’s technically piracy

No it's not. It doesn't even legally count as copyright infringement. You are legally allowed to crack your own legit copy of software. The only thing possibly in the way is the EULA of the software (almost all of them have a possibly-illegal no reverse engineering clause)

it takes effort the average person isn’t going to do

The average person isn't going to be backing up their games in the first place.

[–] 520@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I do get your point, I'd rather have an exclusive game than no game at all, but that isn't what's happening with Epic exclusives a lot of the time. Most of the time they just buy exclusive rights to games that were going to come to PC anyway, sometimes right before release date.

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Steam DRM is easily bypassed. Look up hacked steam DLLs

[–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Way ahead of you. Been a Linux user for half my life :)

[–] 520@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ummm if you don't think GOG or Itch don't have similar clauses you're in for bitter disappointment.

GOG also reserve the right to terminate your account. You have a license to use it. Almost all games on GOG have a 'you don't own it, you own a license to use it' clause as well. No arbitration clauses though.

Itch has a class action waiver, and many games on it have a 'you don't own it, you own a license to use it' clause.

[–] 520@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

That sounds like a reason to stop buying Ubisoft games, not switch from Steam.

You also legally agree in the Steam User Agreement that all games in Steam don’t belong to you.

Pretty sure that's in almost every game EULA ever. May be a 1-up for Itch but I'm pretty sure almost all games on GOG have similar terms.

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