Quoting: CedrickThe "nice" era is over

What are you talking about?

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Quoting: fizdogI would love to switch to a linux distro geared towards gaming but things like this is holding me back. as little as i play fortnite, when i do its with my son and yeah. i'm already seeing people saying they want to switch to linux for what microcrap is doing with windows(whether the do or no is another question).

It's been a freeing experience for me, letting go of windows exclusive games (back in 2013). Once you truly don't care for games that don't run (or in my case, that don't natively run) you'll discover *plenty* of gems that are otherwise drowned in the sea of AAA games.

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[quote=Seegras]Sleep and resume, yes. But I totally don't understand why you would want to play first-person rpgs like Fallout 4 on this a tiny screen. Also, I don't see how this works with the rather massive UI of BG3 -- and no mouse either./quote]

I agree with the point, I also play decent games with a decent screen, but fwiw steam deck has touchscreen (and touchpads), so lack of mouse is no big deal for inventory management probably.

I don't get why binding of isaac is so popular by the way! That game is so clunky.

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Quoting: fagnerlnI believe that AI can help, people who can't write a code can use it, people who can't produce art can use it... But of course big companies will use it to reduce the employees numbers. Those developers should have a plan B, create a indie studio and start working on prototypes.

The code that's generated by AI is never perfect. People who take that generated code should be even more proficient in programming to verify that the output is correct (because code review is harder than code production).

AI can help them with very basic stuff maybe, it doesn't remove the need for users to actually know programming.

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Quoting: pbDoesn't look much like a bean to me...

Lol, how did they not see it?

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Just what the doctor prescribed!

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Quoting: tfkDon't want to spoil the fun here. But this situation is rather similar to the xz vulnerability. Original dev overworked, other one jumps in. Makes all kinds of changes. Who is es20490446e? Does the software need root access? Ring zero? Nuclear launch keys? 🤔

...I may be overthinking this.

My gut says you're overreacting, but it's a good and secure way of thinking, so I'll answer your questions to the best of my ability.
This software needs root.

Differences:
the changes they made fixed actual issues users were having and other devs(for example nwilder) were dealing with instead of an issue that exist only in the issues without anyone we trust reporting existing issues.
Also this maintainer asks actively for issues to fix.
This project isn't very useful and as such popular for servers, which are the main targets on the linux ecosystem.
I checked the changes and found no Binary changes.
The old maintainer had archived the project already for some time before the current took over, meaning that the project had already had some time to decline in popularity, because of lack of support.

Things that are the same:
New maintainer and overworked old maintainer.

Edit:
also this is python based, so more people can actually understand their changes.
With my basic scrolling I found nothing directly alarming.

But what if they learned from the xz experience, and now they are going to work on building trust for a year by doing real work before sneaking in an attack?

(Alright, alright, *this* project is not widespread enough, but the atacks are getting suffisticated enough that your argument is not enough)

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Quoting: tfkDon't want to spoil the fun here. But this situation is rather similar to the xz vulnerability. Original dev overworked, other one jumps in. Makes all kinds of changes. Who is es20490446e? Does the software need root access? Ring zero? Nuclear launch keys? 🤔

...I may be overthinking this.

I scrolled down to comment just that. Damn xz attack is making us all paranoid.

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Quoting: legluondunetAnti-Virus for what use? I never saw a virus on my Linux computers in more than 25 years.
To collect information on our Linux hard drives and sell them to companies for their statistics?

Well there was the _one_ incident with xz, so...

Funny how no one realizes that antiviruses are fundamentally the wrong way to solve the problem. They are _reactive_, meaning they defend against old attacks, but old attacks rely on old bugs and old bugs get fixed. They don't defend against new attacks obviously because they don't know what they are.

The fact that they are needed on windows is not because antivirus is necessary, but rather because windows is garbage. It's a system where apps run with root access and the system is no help in updating them. So you have buggy old software running as root for years, _of course_ the system gets riddled with viruses.

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> They say it can "detect both malware and adware, as well as legitimate programs that can be used for attacks".

Silly Kaspersky, you don't need a dedicated tool to format the windows drive.

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