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Can't wait for Re-DENUVO with double and triple the DRM appearing in games.

How long before this software suit requires age verification and constant camera feed to ensure you aren't doing something they don't like... like having fun...

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Quoting: EWGIf a higher price tags equates to higher quality builds and wages for those making it, then I'd be happy to eat a few more peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and wait another pay cheque if necessary to buy something.

You make it sound like having more PB&J sandwiches is a bad thing.

I’ll tell you right now that it is not.

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Dissen bombad.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: sarmadFor example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

That is a good example why classic algorithms are better than LLMs which are basically algorithmic lossy archive files. It is something like MP3 for all kind of data where the timestamp is the input (prompt, randomization number and so on). The important part is "lossy", because it loses information on the training process. This causes fail predictions as not being able to do correct maths. I just asked CGPT on duck.ai "What is the math result of 13/73²?" and the result was "13 / 5329 ≈ 0.002438 (rounded to 6 significant figures).", while the real numbers are 0.00243948... this was not even a rounding failure.

If we take this approach to your gaming situation, there are precise position parameters and time frames. The server can calculate precise if such an action could be possible - easy triangulating math. Why would you want to predict if it was possible or not if you just can calculate it? And AI probably does not even go the math route, because another one is "easier" (which does not mean more correct).

AI in games is good for things like animation prediction, can save resources while being much more natural than classic systems. But there is no benefit in using it for anti-cheat (except it may costs less at development, but it can damage the companies reputation in return).

You're making the same mistake I made.
[AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence) isn't [machine learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning)
It's the capability of computational systems to preform tasks typically associated with human intelligence.
As proof I will provide an example from the gaming space.
Far for the AI boom we've been calling the behavioral logic behind npcs the AI.
That logic is coded in no machine learning involved, yet we call it AI.

We nowadays associate it with machine learning, because most modern AI companies use mostly machine learning to achieve their goals, but that's just an artifact of our time.

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Quoting: sarmadFor example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

That is a good example why classic algorithms are better than LLMs which are basically algorithmic lossy archive files. It is something like MP3 for all kind of data where the timestamp is the input (prompt, randomization number and so on). The important part is "lossy", because it loses information on the training process. This causes fail predictions as not being able to do correct maths. I just asked CGPT on duck.ai "What is the math result of 13/73²?" and the result was "13 / 5329 ≈ 0.002438 (rounded to 6 significant figures).", while the real numbers are 0.00243948... this was not even a rounding failure.

If we take this approach to your gaming situation, there are precise position parameters and time frames. The server can calculate precise if such an action could be possible - easy triangulating math. Why would you want to predict if it was possible or not if you just can calculate it? And AI probably does not even go the math route, because another one is "easier" (which does not mean more correct).

AI in games is good for things like animation prediction, can save resources while being much more natural than classic systems. But there is no benefit in using it for anti-cheat (except it may costs less at development, but it can damage the companies reputation in return).

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Quoting: melkemindI'm always impressed with how fast they work. They put out an initial workaround with Proton Hotfix on the same day it stopped working, and now they already have it in Experimental.

Makes you wonder how easy it would be for the devs to test the update before pushing it. 🤔

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Quoting: Caldathras

Quoting: sarmadSingle player games should have no anti-cheat protection.

As I understand it, Denuvo is not anti-cheat. Just looking at its full name, it is anti-tamper DRM -- it performs a completely different function.

Oh, my bad. I thought it was for anti-cheat.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: sarmadMultiplayer games should depend on server-side AI based monitoring

Agree with "server-side", disagree with "AI based monitoring". I would probably one of the first people getting banned for not hacking, because I play games like games and not guided (as 98% of all players these days do). AI is discriminating based on their trainings data. It is common sense that it should not be used for surveillance and Monitoring to filter cheaters is nothing else.

That's a good point. I'm not sure how the AI is trained to detect cheating. But it certainly shouldn't be trained on expecting you to play like everyone else; it should be trained on more raw data that includes the whole game world, not just how the player behaves. For example, it should be able to detect that you are aiming precisely at a target behind a wall, or other similar things that are impossible without cheating.

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Finally a good news from Germany. There are also not much since conservatives lead the country again.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThis actually seems like a pretty good idea. There are going to be standards and standards bodies, and what they do is going to have an impact. So apparently these guys are saying "Gee, it might be kind of good if some of the open source programmers who have to deal with the results, who write the plumbing of our digital world, could have a voice on those bodies that make the standards." That makes a fair amount of sense to me.

People bitch about bureaucrats, but without them what you have is Somalia.

Also standards primarily benefit open source, because contrary to big tech monopolies it doesn't have a centralized management structure for smooth integration, nor a big tech master dependency that dictates terms.

Standard openness is preferential, but optional in this.
Thanks to POSIX bsd, MACOS and Linux coexist in app development space, thanks to C porting Linux to a new architecture is no more than writing a solid compiler, thanks to transitional docx Libre Office can compete with Microsoft office, etc.

Apple just forces everybody to recompile, rewrite and redo all their programs to their next architecture.
Linus can't do that, but he can hide changes behind standard C and POSIX interfaces.
Microsoft can just demand printer drivers.
The bsd team can't do that, but they can support driverless printing standards.

On the bureaucrats part.
Yeah, bureaucrats do good work.
Bureaucrats are the backbone of the power of the civilian parts of government.(planning a coup, try doing that without money and your every move published)
Bureaucrats are what makes customary law tick and thus keep the juridical branch in check(for a large part this is what went wrong in the USA).
Bureaucrats allow one to launch asymmetric economic sanctions.
Bureaucrats are the checks in checks and balances.

I do admit I think the EU gives them a little bit too much legislative power(the exclusive right of amendment as an executive branch of government), but that is because it was founded and nurtured by them.
Also they are boring and that is a good thing. The will of the people is absolute, but also fickle. Spread elections and the boring parts of government are what allows a democracy to middle out this fickle will into one direction.

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Whatever nitpicks I've had over the choice of applications, I've been using Bazzite since 2024 and have found it to be an excellent distribution. It was easy to set up, and has been very stable. An immutable distro is not for everyone, but for me it's ideal.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Linux_RocksI remember running Fedora 3

Never existed. You mean Fedora Core 3? I remember when the rumors starting flying that Red Hat 9.0 was the end of the line. It was true; Fedora Core replaced it. At this point, I no longer remember when they dropped "Core" and then started with the sub-branding, like "Workstation".

Ah, Wikipedia remembers: Fedora 7 dropped "Core" because it merged in the "Extras" repository; I think that's what remains as EPEL for the server variants to this day. Same article says "Workstation" didn't come until Fedora 21.

Oops, my bad. You're right, I totally forgot about the name change. Yeah, it was Fedora Core 3.

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I really want to give it try in virtualbox but the live iso (kde) will not boot so I gave up on it. I prefer Manjaro anyway which is as powerful but much easier of use.

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Thank you Germany for your continued support! 🥰

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Shame it's using denuvo, though not surprising

Kinda funny because isn't denuvo kinda redundant now and doesn't prevent piracy anymore?

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Linux_RocksThat's actually pretty cool, especially the finding the printed source code in his garage. lol

Now if they wanna actually be cool, they'll open source all the way up to MS-DOS 6.22 and either open source Windows 3.11 or make it freely available on their site. They've got no money to lose in doing so and it'd just be easy PR for them.

If they do that, wonder if they'll first pull out whatever they did to make sure Lotus wouldn't run . . .

AFAIK, they didn't have to implement any specific anti-Lotus or anti-Borland sabotage code. They simply didn't expose functions in the public api that would let software by those companies to run efficiently; all the while their own office suite, IDEs, etc., made use of appropriately optimized private functions.

So it's unlikely that a smoking gun could be found; it's how things work (?!) when the private company owns the whole software stack, & hides the code from the rest of the world.

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I, too, prefer attempts towards integrity, accountability and sources. If we want to be fair, we have to tolerate differing opinions. If I wanted to be in an echo chamber I would turn to an AI chatbot instead.

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This actually seems like a pretty good idea. There are going to be standards and standards bodies, and what they do is going to have an impact. So apparently these guys are saying "Gee, it might be kind of good if some of the open source programmers who have to deal with the results, who write the plumbing of our digital world, could have a voice on those bodies that make the standards." That makes a fair amount of sense to me.

People bitch about bureaucrats, but without them what you have is Somalia.

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Quoting: hardpenguinWhat kind of silly moron cheats in Rocket League of all games???

Look at the screenshots in the article. That right one is highly suspicious! 😄

Honestly, for a studio now owned by Epic, it still has a pretty decent implementation. Still able to turn it off and do your own thing outside of the official servers is something that most devs would never do. Especially if they rely on skins for monetization.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksThat's actually pretty cool, especially the finding the printed source code in his garage. lol

Now if they wanna actually be cool, they'll open source all the way up to MS-DOS 6.22 and either open source Windows 3.11 or make it freely available on their site. They've got no money to lose in doing so and it'd just be easy PR for them.

If they do that, wonder if they'll first pull out whatever they did to make sure Lotus wouldn't run . . .

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Quoting: GrishnakhThe great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. /s

The other great thing about standards bodies such as this is that they create more jobs for bureaucrats. /s

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Quoting: VexThey sell you the TV to get you in the door. The TV doesn't actually make them anything. It's a loss.

They used this with consumer-class printers back in the day (and still do, really). The printer itself is a loss leader. They give you a proprietary starter cartridge with your purchase. They get you when you need to replace that cartridge. Ever noticed how they fight tooth-and-nail to prevent you from using third-party options -- smear campaigns regarding product quality, special microchips so that only first-party cartridges will work, etc. The sale of ink and toner is the lifeblood of their business model.

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Quoting: elmapulprobably that is why they relased it, to become "the heroes of preservation", when the truth is, we already had this.

That was my thought as well. Open sourcing 45-year-old tech is hardly going to impact Microsoft's current-day business. Costs them nothing.

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If a higher price tags equates to higher quality builds and wages for those making it, then I'd be happy to eat a few more peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and wait another pay cheque if necessary to buy something. It's a small sacrifice for me to make a bigger impact in the world.

I agree that it would be nice if it worked OOB like a regular controller across platforms, or had some way to configure via a QMK UI.

The only two features I'd really like to see are:
• RGB LEDs behind/around each key that I could customize.
• spinners around the thumb sticks like the Atari Gamestation Go has.
• bonus: small or full width screen attachment. Double bonus if it has a speaker or two.

I think additional grips and skins will be readily available via third parties.

Though, I'm not sure why Valve doesn't have fun cashing in on a great variety of these. They could easily enough deal with publishers for limited edition artwork on controller covers and such. They ought to be shipping things like this out to other retailers, or set up for them to handle things behind the scenes and ship directly themselves.
(lulz at the hyperthetical Good Old Games skins)

Hey, where are the GOL [Dbrand] skins‽ Would anyone else rep the cool penguin dude on eir Deck, Steam Controllers, or anything?

Stickers that say "Yes, I am GamingOnLinux" would be really fun to put on a laptop. 😉😉

Also, I have four of the original Steam Controllers. Two of which have never been opened. 😋

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finally an new star wars racing game?

i dont know if it will be good as the old ones, but one question that i really want to know the ansewer too...
star wars racing is the only game i know that you can turn your airship 90 degrees to pass through an small corner, an vertical hole, to get an short cut, looks like this movment is avaliable at this game, the question is, will the tracks use it? or it will be wasted?

and by looks like , i mean, im not sure by what i seen in the trailer.

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The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. /s

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I am pleased to notice this is not an EA or Ubisoft game! Now we're talking.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: elmapulthe licence alllow to implement this on wine/proton/dosbox?

I imagine FreeDOS is miles ahead of this ancient code. It's only interesting for historical purposes, especially with MS-DOS 4.0 also available.

probably, and probably that is why they relased it, to become "the heroes of preservation", when the truth is, we already had this.

but still, there might be some conner cases where a few games or apps dont work and this solves it.

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Quoting: someonewasn't me ;)

holy wow it's someone! dude I'm a huge fan

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