[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

They aren't your pet then, you're their humans so it's fine

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago

Preface: I'm not an expert in this yet but I'm pretty interested in learning about systems-level topics so if I'm wrong please correct me!

Yes, the thing about anticheats and anti viruses is that they are only useful when they have access to the underlying resources that a virus or cheat engine might try to modify. In other words, if cheating software is going to use kernel-level access to modify the game, then an anticheat would also need kernel-level access to find that software. It very quickly became an arms race to the lowest level of your computer. It's the same with anti viruses.

IMO the better strategy would be to do verification on a server level, but that probably wouldn't be able to catch a lot of cheats like wall hacks or player outlines. At some point you just have to accept that some cheaters are going to get through and you'll have to rely on a user-reporting system to get cheaters because there will always be a way to get past the anticheats and installing a separate rootkit for each game isn't exactly a great idea.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Screw it. Let's actually make python script an ISA that gets run on physical hardware with no higher level tooling. Then we can have the python virtual environment which runs this for fools who don't have the right hardware. Finally, when people start complaining about naming we make Python Script 2.1, which is a JIT language built on top of IL that looks nothing like either of them but can emulate both python and python script with the performance cost of being a quarter as fast as both.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Can we get this thread like once a week or every other week or something? This is awesome

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

The other consideration is that pretty much every company you could work for as a software developer is going to try to take advantage of your work. Most companies are morally bad at best and morally terrible at worst. If you discourage any good person from working there, the problem will only snowball from there.

If working at FAANG gives you the resources to support things you're passionate about, and you're willing to stand up for your values when they do something bad, there isn't a problem with that IMO.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

^^ imo the logos under the "Doric" and "Tuscan" pillars are my two favorites. I like the slightly more detailed one better than the flat logo, but I completely understand why they changed it and there are some way worse examples of logos getting butchered by becoming too simple.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Crazy? I was crazy once.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

To a degree I'd say this applies to anyone that works on a game except upper management. With games like these the devs/artists are almost always the passionate ones trying to put their best effort into their games but end up forced into incredibly condensed timescales by upper management.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some people are speculating a database error, because apparently 0.18.3 requires a database migration to work, here's the other post I just saw about this: https://lemdit.com/post/262746

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