andyburke

✋ Hi, person here who bought 2020 but refuses to buy 2024 because they didn't deliver on half their promises for 2020, including that it would be the last sim they sold.

Maybe they were suprised this many people actually signed up for their next level bullshit. 🤷‍♂️

Or .. maybe the datacenter shouldn't use so much power to produce something of extremely questionable worth to our species. 🤷‍♂️

This person programs. ☝️ 🤝

Mprotect stops any read and write and execute access to memory in both user and kernel lands (only rx or wx). Stuff like web browsers won't work unless you have a program to mark it in elf to not use pax. However, this kills a lot of exploits with that turned on by itself (though there are probably work arounds if you are developing exploits which the other features would hopefully catch). That's why people installed 3rd party unmainlined security patches, but that's just me maybe idk.

I am having a hard time following what this does or why this is desirable. You're saying there's a patch this thing provides that .. disables memory access ... unless a flag is set in an executable ... which will then bypass the security?

No it doesn't. We have any number of free and open source operating systems to choose from that are already more secure. The number of people in a situation where they absolutely need to run Windows specifically is small.

This is already true for the vast majority of games. 🤷‍♂️

Why would anyone want to run unmainlined security patches from a company?

This is how CrowdStrike happened.

This feels like security via business decision which is always the opposite of security. At least this would be open source now? 🤷‍♂️

The brutal cognitive dissonance you manage to encapsulated in this comment is impressive.

I thought he was a free speech absolutist?

So ... how mad at Putin does this make Russian gamers? Mad at all? Do they care?

Ok. Well, fair enough.

Given that you cannot point me at any text that supports your claims directly, though, I have to conclude that what I said above in my original comments holds and that you do not have a right to stop others from recording you in public.