schmorptron

Anti-Cheat is the only industry where security by obscurity is valid.

Battlefield has been doing this, with FairFight, and it's worked okay-ish, but insanely slow

The android app is good, though I can't compare it to the iOS version. On windows, itunes works okay-ish albeit slow. On Linux, the web app is the only option and it sucks way bad.

Hopefully the next gen Ryzens will support USB4 which is basically Thunderbolt 3 without the brand name.

Ah, makes sense. That's handy then

Yeah! Didn't know the mac name for it.

On the other hand, on a 16:9 or 16:10 screen you can have two windows side by side and still get enough horizontal space to read enough of a line.

That's promising then!

Does that not get in the way of the 3 finger swipe-up to open the activities screen?

If everyone gets a vaccine first and then covid we could be fine though, since the risk of dying is near zero for most people after having it

Uuh, I wonder how visual lookup will compare to Google Lens. I almost never use google assistant because of privacy concerns, and having it done locally sounds wonderful. (Although, on a second look, …

I've also found that brave search gets much better results than google for some programming related topic, simply by not being targeted by blogspam SEO as much. It's refreshing to not have t…

what are you using nowadays?

At uni, it's common to have whatsapp groups for classes, which tend to be encrypted 100 to 200 people WhatsApp groups.

I've found koyu.space to be very friendly, as long as you're cool with left leaning politics posts in there.

There is a timeline that randomly mixes in posts from users from other instances whom users from your instance follow

I dunno, maybe it's easier for them than to implement quite a large existing spec, or they just wanted to.

I was curious too, on their profile it says "Howler", so I'd assume it's this? https://github.com/HowlerChat/Howler …

Big words for someone who doesn't run on over 6 billion devices™!

Yep, this is the same reason I uninstalled manyverse based on https://scuttlebutt.nz/ from my phone again as well, despite it not having any of my friends on it, joining any public ro…

Like TeamSpeak

I'm one of those people, but for a discord alternative, I think it's a pretty fair trade off. My WhatsApp groups are mostly under 100 people while discord servers get much, much bigger. The …

On the other hand, matrix was explicity designed with bridging in mind, and if this is designed to have a good matrix bridge natively, it'll probably work pretty well without having to stay up to…

This makes a lot of sense to me, and I've never thought of it like this before. Excellent point!

The new word is "deadass", and the problem is solved.

Check out my name is andong, his Presentation style is incredible.

I noticed this as well. Good thing though, so I don't waste as much time on there.

I haven't been browsing this site for more than like a year, but have found it one of the places on the internet where political discourse seems to be relatively tame and good-faith for the most …