Draconic_NEO

Draconic_NEO , 4 months ago to Technology in Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

Indeed it is. Unfortunately though it's also important enough that it means people will go along with fascist stuff if the "security" excuse is used, and people who stand up to it will be mocked and ridiculed at best, or be accused of being cyber attackers at worst.

Draconic_NEO , 5 months ago to Technology in Did ad blockers survive YouTube's offensive? Letting numbers talk

Pretty sure they did that on purpose, trying to skew the narrative. The goal is to make it seem like it's all doom and gloom because it'll get people to read the article to the end, and maybe in their minds get some people to stop using adblockers.

Draconic_NEO , 5 months ago to Technology in Did ad blockers survive YouTube's offensive? Letting numbers talk

I don't know how true that is about YouTube intentionally CPU bombing ad block users specifically.

I will say though that websites run by big tech companies getting much heavier and more poorly optimized is ultimately just a fact of life. They don't care about optimization, in fact it benefits them more that people have the latest and greatest hardware so that's what they're going to target. Ultimately that means that these websites will get slower on older hardware with time, and people will rely more and more on alternative frontends to access content, and it won't really matter if you have ad blockers or not (*turning it off on a bloated site that is bogging down your CPU might actually make it worse).

Draconic_NEO , 5 months ago to Technology in Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says

Probably get a unit w/o having it implanted, modify it, then get it installed unofficially. (Don't ask who or where, because that won't be shared publicly, as it will almost certainly be illegal).

Draconic_NEO , 5 months ago to Technology in Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation

same as Linux.

You couldn't be more wrong bud. Flatpaks do not require sudo, executables run from a directory (like how Steam games are run) don't require sudo either.
You only need sudo if installing from the main package manager like deb, rpm, pacman or whatever your distro uses. Most games on Linux aren't installed from the main package manager though.

(On either OS if they are not showing terminal output)

If it's a package for the package manager you could download the archive for it and pull it apart to see its contents, it's usually very clear when such software includes kernel drivers or kernel patchers. Most software on Linux uses the package manager to install or a script to unpack, both of which are relatively easy to explore even if the software isn't open source, haven't found too many linux apps with Binary installers, they might exist but if they do they aren't popular or common.

Draconic_NEO , 5 months ago to Technology in Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation

I can definately see that being a problem, all systems have their downsides. A system like that though I feel is necessary in a game with decentralized online play.

For centralized ones it doesn't make as much sense since those already have anti-cheat (automated or human run) and bans from the service, which aren't perfect either, innocent people often get banned when they didn't deserve it, it's just not as apparent because in those communities anyone banned is witch hunted afterwards, there's a lot of appeal to authority in those communities.

All user crowd control systems, even the lack of one is going to have negative effects to their usage, even if they aren't apparent at first.

Draconic_NEO , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Technology in Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation

I think on iOS it's technically possible (or at the very least was at one point) but apple would nuke your app from the store if you tried, so I'm doubtful they would try pulling something like this for apple users specifically.

On android barring a Rooting exploit in the OS (which would also get your app nuked) it just isn't possible, and Rooted users don't really need to worry because they should know better than to grant a game Root access if it asks.

Draconic_NEO , 5 months ago to Technology in Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation

Could allow people to curate their own blacklists if they don't want to play in groups like that, then they would have the option to play in public and online, it would be more rough and they would have to keep it up but having those tools would allow them to play publicly without needing to join a forum or group while still curating their experience. Obviously would be more work but it would be a good fallback.

If that's too hard they'd still have the option of joining one of those groups.

Draconic_NEO , 5 months ago to linuxmemes in I'm probably going to get a lot of explanations in the comments

Just got to hope that Canonical will host all of the software for it on their Snap repository (singular) I don't think they'd object to it but that is a big issue with snap, you can't add other repositories and the server code isn't open source.