Quoting: rezzafriHow about hardening Proton to protect itself from becoming a tool for a cheater

How about people just recompile it? Or do code-injections? It's their machine. there is NOTHING (but skill) that stops people from running whatever they want on their machines.

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it is still the totally wrong idea to

a) try to control the users computer in any way

b) rely on software that runs on users computers to inhibit cheating. And this applies to your own software (the game) in the first place. If you're handing out too much information to the client (because of speed) you're also allowing cheating. And nothing will change that.

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Quoting: wintermuteIn any case, it costs you nothing but time (and some personal information if you don't already have a Google account) to give Stadia a try right now and find out how it runs on your machine.

Hm, no. Geoblocking.
Stadia isn't available yet in your country
Not even sure this is legal in the EU, as you can see, it's available in several, but not all EU countries. the EU does tend to not like that. https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9566513?p=supported_countries&visit_id=637259823555677566-926207778&rd=1

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Quoting: AciDI'm glad Europe (still) does not recognizes patents on ideas, not realisations.

In theory. The European Patent Convention (EPC), Article 52, paragraph 2, excludes from patentability, in particular

Quote1. discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
2. aesthetic creations;
3. schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers
4. presentations of information.

So how come there are more than 100'000 software patents? http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Software_Patents_in_Europe
Well, they've all been granted illegally. And are not enforcable, because of that. Of course some entitites like to change that..

But the point is, the European Patent Office did act criminally.

However, the EPO is not part of the EU, it's an agreement to which also non-EU members like Switzerland are part. And the EPC never specified a court to which the EPO should be liable. The only thing one could do in light of this criminal behaviour, is to terminate the EPC unilaterally. If enough states just would threathen to terminate the EPC because of the illegal patents, that would probably also work.

In the meantime, the EPO continues to grant illegal patents and be a bad place to work (well, no judical oversight, this applies to labour-issues too): https://www.politico.eu/article/labor-relations-turn-toxic-in-the-european-patent-office/

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I looked at a few pages about stadia; it somehow does look as if it works badly on Linux, because Chrome lacks a load of features, like accelerated video decompression, right?

At least that's what chrome://gpu/ tells me:

Out-of-process Rasterization: Disabled
Hardware Protected Video Decode: Unavailable
Rasterization: Software only. Hardware acceleration disabled
Video Decode: Unavailable
Vulkan: Disabled

Problems Detected
Accelerated video decode is unavailable on Linux: 137247, 1032907
Disabled Features: accelerated_video_decode
Protected video decoding with swap chain is for Windows and Intel only
Disabled Features: protected_video_decode

Sounds not nice.

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This isn't exactly a win. It's more of a non-aggression agreement from Rothschild towards non-proprietery software. Because they probably realized a few things:

* It makes very bad press to attack open source
* They fight tooth and nails
* Rothschild is going to loose. Big.

Because in the end, all these patents were granted _illegally_. There cannot be patents on algorithms, and its only because of a totally false and non-scientifc view of what an "algorithm" is within the patent law community.

And nobody who has any software patents wants to fight anyone who will do its utmost to change that wrong assumption that "algorithms are not math" (yes, really, that is the base of software patents) and thus invalidate each and every software patent.

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Good, but Windows-only at the moment.

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I somehow think there was one of these for Unix already, decades ago. maybe under a different name? Using X or Athena Widgets maybe?

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The banner here on GOL shows also a baroque painting..

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Doesn't make sense. I'm better with Regex than with Sudoku.

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