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It's funny how all of these "happy little accidents" are all… accidents. "Woops, we logged your auth token and private discussions, my bad." as in, why the hell was the game reading these in the first place, and at what point does an auth token is logged accidentally? Someone have to write a piece of code that says `log(thisSuperDuperSecretStuffThatShouldNeverGetCloseToALoggingFunction);` for this to happen.

Even in early development phase, we wrap logging of potential informations in a way that only expose minimal information, usually the presence and length of the content.

Either their dev are worst than an entry level junior intern, or there's some high level incompetence all around.

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Too cheap and lazy for voices, why'd anyone expect cybersecurity? Maybe they "generated" that, too.

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I was not thinking about buying any console (over the years i got a NES, a Megadrive/Genesis and the first DS "tank"), but now, i'm even less willing to.

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Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: ZlopezI don't really understand all the "Protect the children" laws as they are usually just a way of control in disguise.

Then you do understand. It's nothing to do with children, and it's nothing to do with parents. The people that are pushing their panopticon just want to be able to claim that those who oppose it "hate children."

So it's the same as some people calling you names if you don't agree with them, just so you can look like bad person instead of just a person with different reasoning. Now I understand why it's hiding behind "protect the children".

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Something else to note, is that the game does have an AI disclosure on the Steam page:

AI-assisted tools were used to upscale and enhance some in-game textures, to help add visual detail to the original artwork. All final assets were artist-reviewed and then integrated by the development team

Despite my immense dislike of LLMs, I have to admit that this usecase does not bother me.

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This is actually quite exciting! The linked blog post is also worth the read for Mint fans.

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Not much benefit to me. My Nvidia chipset is stuck on the 580 series. Ah well, I knew it would happen eventually...

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Private and Discord in same sentence. Heh.

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So they go the lazy, greedy, and unethical path by using AI for game content, and now are logging user messages. Phenominal. I'm honestly not surprised.

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I would love to see how California would try to go about banning Linux as a platform for non-compliance. Just...love to see how they would try.

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Surprised they'd do something so blatant, but given they're willing to use AI-generated content for their game it's not super surprising they'd also be pro-surveillance. goes hand-in-hand really

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extraction shooter

Turns out it was a data extraction shooter 😂

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Originally, Valve completely replaced Global Offensive with Counter-Strike 2, but they kept it as a legacy Beta you could switch to on Steam to play it.

Except, in true CS team fashion, it never worked on Linux: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/3291

Quoting: sarmadWhy would someone play CSGO when we have CS2? Is there anything that CSGO provides and CS2 doesn't?

Surf, Danger Zone, a Mac build, Demolition, Flying Scoutsman, a slew of maps that haven't been ported to CS2 yet, and more.

In fact, I was hoping this would make it easier to set up PUG between me and some of my Mac-owning friends. However, Valve left the Mac build out of the depot for this new listing. What's strange is that under the system requirements, the recommended Windows version is MacOS X 10.11. I would love to know what prompted creating the new game listing, it's so bizarre.

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Quoting: CarollyThere's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either.

Perhaps "most" is technically true, but I see plenty of superfluous Prop 65 labels on things here in Hawaii. (I don't know if it's because those things come from California, or if it's just easier for a company to slap a label on something and sell one version throughout the US rather than make a separate version solely for California.)

Some of both, actually. I know about Prop 65 labeling because once in a blue moon something labeled for California will show up here in Canada and it's because the importer just slaps the same labels on everything coming into their North American distribution centre. And anything actually manufactured in California does presumably need to follow their legal labeling standards (not that I've seen a Product of California that wasn't a fruit or a vegetable in a dog's age.)

But in almost all cases there is no obligation to do so for any product made/sold outside of that particular jurisdiction, and distros can avoid any legal kerfuffle by IP blocking California from their official downloads (see: how every American distro handles US trade sanctions with, e.g., Russia or Syria.)

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Quoting: Liam DaweNo, Canonical are not currently proposing that. They haven't made any decision, their statement is in the other article.

Yeah, you posted that right around the same time I made my comment.

I actually have the source article open in a tab to have a read personally on the weekend (it's pretty lengthy)... I skimmed it for now and it looks like some of their developers are proposing this level of integration; though as you rightly point out, it's not in an Official (Canonical-approved) capacity - for now.

Anyway, I'm open to Canonical implementing age gate stuff if they feel that it's legally required; but only because I can understand the potential consequences if they do not implement this. However, this shouldn't be mandatory for users where this legislation (law) has no bearing (i.e. so most users) and because of the "open" nature of Linux, it should be implemented in a way which users can completely disable or remove.

If Canonical - or any other Linux distro for that matter - can tick those boxes, I have no problem with them implementing these measures... If not, well I won't have very nice things to say about them.

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Quoting: Cyba.CowboyApparently Canonical is proposing changes that would force ALL Linux users to verify their age during setup, too... I did post a link to a video discussing this last night; but it needed to be approved by Liam and from what I can see, it doesn't look like he's approved it.

No, Canonical are not currently proposing that. They haven't made any decision, their statement is in the other article.

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Quoting: pete910It will be to run game servers, Not client. Don't get ya hopes up people !

Well, no, that wouldn't make sense. They wouldn't use anti-cheat on the server builds because that's their servers, this is all to do with the client-side stuff.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain ManAnd it's gotten rather extreme. There was one instance where a woman who texted a friend and called the man who raped her a dog received a harsher punishment than her rapist.

Well, obviously, nobody wants that. Would you link a source to read it up?

I tried to find it as well, and the only thing that seems similar, is the German case of "Maja R.", who sent WhatsApp messages to a rapist from a widely publicised case. She did not know the rapist, the message contains insinuations of harm, and she "was sentenced to a weekend in jail after her comments because she had a previous conviction for theft and had not attending [sic] the court hearing for the case." - [Source](https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-woman-given-harsher-sentence-155055252.html).
If that's the actual source, then:
A) Yes, those laws have been rightly criticised.
B) That's a heavily manipulated version of events, seemingly given to back up a growing sentiment I'm seeing of trying to paint the EU as some kind of censorship hellscape, which is pretty far from the truth.

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Quoting: GoEsr

Quoting: hardpenguinNice, I would like to (..) play (..) EA Sports FC (..)

So long as you're not interested in multiplayer FUT stuff, you can play the career mode with FC Live Editor which disables Javelin.

Interesting, thanks! Yeah I usually play football games offline

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Quoting: pete910It will be to run game servers, Not client. Don't get ya hopes up people !

Source? Can you elaborate?

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Seems a little odd for a "Definitive Edition" to come out after just 6 months, but maybe that helps distinguish it from the badly reviewed original release. Would be nice if they went back and added native support to the House of Da Vinci series.

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Quoting: CanadianBlueBeer

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media.

You can be punished for say calling someone an a**hole. Not for stating an actual opinion. (You do not really believe that a person is a backside - it's not an opinion, it's all insult.) I fail to see a problem with that.

So it's an insult. It's also an opinion. (and insulting opinion?)

I may have difficulties to express that in English, but no, it is not an opinion. You don't actually, literally think that you are talking to/writing with a hole in a backside. That wouldn't be able to talk/write in the first place. The opinion would be that you're talking to a human being you severely dislike. And you're free to state that.

Quoting: CanadianBlueBeerNot something that should get one arrested.

That I agree with, but I never heard of such a case either. I don't know how severe the case needs to be for that to actually happen. People get a money fine for insulting. If there happens anything in the first place, the absolute vast majority is not getting anything for it at all, no matter if it's a real life insult or happening in the net.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Mountain ManTo be fair, we're still far behind Europe where you can and will be arrested for posting "offensive" messages on social media.

You can be punished for say calling someone an a**hole. Not for stating an actual opinion. (You do not really believe that a person is a backside - it's not an opinion, it's all insult.) I fail to see a problem with that.

You clearly do not value freedom of speech.

I value the freedom to state your opinion.

I do not see any value in insulting people, no.

Quoting: Mountain ManAnd it's gotten rather extreme. There was one instance where a woman who texted a friend and called the man who raped her a dog received a harsher punishment than her rapist.

Well, obviously, nobody wants that. Would you link a source to read it up?

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Quoting: JarmerApril is usually a busy work month. I should just pre-email all my contacts and be like "sorry stuff is delayed, I'm playing Shapez leave me alone"

Fair. 😄

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They're seeing us.

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Quoting: vertigoHas anyone played it? I'm looking for more games in the vein of Talos Principle and Portal.

It's got a demo, so you can try it for free (using Proton).
I don't think it's the same league as those two though. Not really the same (sub) genre either.

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What I'm curious about ia why Manjaro over [Garuda Dr460nized Gaming](https://garudalinux.org/editions)? Garuda too bloated and targeted towards a desktop install? I haven't used that in a long time -- since I got my Deck. lol

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*growls angrily*

I've been waiting years for things like an official FreeBSD or GNU+Linux distro, or ports to these OSes. It seems obvious to be that it would be fairly easy as [PS runs on a fork of FreeBSD](https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/02/04/inside-the-playstation-os-how-bsd-changed-sonys-consoles-forever/)!

It would be awesome if they... not exactly followed Valve's path but, took a hint from the hackers who made GNU/Linux run on the older PlayStations. Clearly, this is something people want so build it in as smoothly as SteamOS and market it to "content creators".

Imagine being a student or any other average person these days with limited space and money with a desire to have a social life. lol. It'd be great to buy a powerful console that doubles as a powerful and (semi-)open source PC. Start selling docks and branded mechanical keyboards and everything else. I mean, Sony is already a conglomerate that makes all sorts of electronics. Put together bundles that would be a gaming streamer or tuber's entire computer set up. That seems a much less gross way to make money than lock in and alienate.

Instead of being threatened by the Deck and other handhelds, they could go back to having their own that can double as a BSD laptop. It can't be that hard to finese a flavour of desktop environment.

I remember trying out one BSD or another about two decades ago. It was fine back then. I didn't muck around too much. Felt mostly the same as GNU/Linux -- yes, adding the "GNU" matters as that is the other part to make a full OS, whereas BSD is the full stack. I am sure these days desktop BSD is smoother than ever with good software support and they'd still have a great deal of control as they make the hardware and can tweak the software as desired. They'd just have to share GPL code.

For the record, I had the original PlayStation. I woke up one day to my Sega Genesis missing... It got traded in. 😭 Never touched a PS later than the fat PS2. lol So, no idea what they're up to these days besides what I've read here. 😗🎶

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Quoting: CarollyThere's a reason that products sold in my country don't carry Prop 65 labels, and there's a reason that most products sold in America don't, either.

Perhaps "most" is technically true, but I see plenty of superfluous Prop 65 labels on things here in Hawaii. (I don't know if it's because those things come from California, or if it's just easier for a company to slap a label on something and sell one version throughout the US rather than make a separate version solely for California.)

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Hi, new here
In a perfect-Ish world
PS4/PS5 runs on a heavily modified version of FreeBSD OS which is similar but not the same as Linux.
Instead of porting their exclusive games to Windows, why not making the Linux only exclusive. In doing so, Microsoft/Xbox next-gen will not be able to run them.
Am not a developer but since the kernels are similar, wouldn’t porting to Linux be quicker than Windows?
Doing so, they can still put their games on Steam or their own store/launcher

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