MinekPo1 [She/Her]

I misread this as if it lacked the y and was slightly confused for a second

to be fair , neither the free software movement nor the open source movement (which are distinct ideologically) are explicitly socialist . in a way , especially the free software movement , they embody an extention of liberalism .

both of these movements focus on the individuals freedom and take issue not with developers/companies being systemically incentivized to develop closed source / nonfree software , but with individual developers/companies doing so . thus the solution taken is limited to the individual not to systemic change .

LMMS isn’t really a DAW, as it can’t really manipulate audio easily, only midi.

IIRC it can use audio files as instruments though I never used that feature so idk how limited it is , I believe other DAWs can import audio more directly

I once deleted /usr/bin while trying to delete /bin (symbolic link) because I accidentally misformed it . don’t remember why I had to recreate /bin in the first place but it had something to do with installing java

Not the video you talked about , but I felt like its related to your last paragraph : How League of Legends Uses Abuse to Keep You Playing | That Jess . While she focuses more on other pieces of moderation than anticheat , she shows how LoLs developers are incentivized to not give a fuck and that they do , in fact , not give a fuck .

You might also find The CS2 Cheater Problem Has Gotten Goofy | TheWarOwl , which talks about Valve’s failures to provide integrity , even despite , though he also says its a symptom of these failures , third party anticheat systems .

I’ll also add that AI anticheat is not a silver bullet , it also requires upkeep which can be more expensive than classical anticheat systems .

And set the date format to YYYY.MM.DD for the entire world. Americans and Europeans can stop arguing.

this made me uncontrollably angry , its YYYY-MM-DD not YYYY.MM.DD

slay

I assume I don’t need to provide sources for operation paperclip as it is well known.

• Kissinger approved Argentinian ‘dirty war’ - Declassified US files expose 1970s backing for junta | The Guardian archive
• Peru’s coup-plotting congress has 6% approval, 91% disapproval (but full US backing) | Geopolitical Economy Report
• US President Bush praised dictator Fujimori as ‘Peru’s hope for the future | Geopolitical Economy Report
• Augusto Pinochet - U.S. backing of the coup | Wikipedia

As for the Nazi part: these counties were popular travel destinations for Nazis trying to escape prosecution, with Argentina being especially known for this, who then helped exterminate political opponents in concentration camps. This is more relevant to the earlier Peru’s coup however.

operation paperclip moment. also the time they backed Nazi (literary, not figuratively) military overthrows of Democratic governments in Argentina, Peru, Chile (and others, these are just the ones of the top of my head).

On a serious note, if I’m not mistaken, most cases of ToR users identity being uncovered is via information the user either unintentionally leaving information public, or privately told another user, which was made public due to a betrayal or a security breach.

In most other cases involve security flaws in ToR clients not the network, again if I’m not mistaken.

Its honestly really fun, though I feel like its easier a bit

Similar thing happened across the border, in Ukraine, with a pacifist being accused of “justifying the war”, as reported by Democracy Now!

I would guess that “Build Files Exist” means makepkg successfully downloaded the files it needs to build the package. I assume cleanBuild is referring to the building of packages itself.

As for the options, my guesses are:

• N don’t install anything and continue
• A build and install all the listed packages
• Ab interrupt everything and exit
• I rebuild packages which are already installed, but don’t install new ones
• No build and install packages which are not installed on the system

I think you can also pick specific packages by referring to their index

• either listing them all (1 2 3)
• specifying a range (1-3)
• or excluding those which you don’t want (^4)

Note that I don’t use arch btw so I’m only guessing.

Good point! I honestly only have experience with Minecraft where the vanilla anti cheat is so bad it is often disabled and there are quite a few interesting ways to cheat (Cristal PvP, baritone, etc), so my perspective is limited by that.

However, I feel like if a game has mechanics with enough depth and achieving TAS like gameplay gave a significant advantage, I think, at least for those wanting to develop cheats, it could be fun.

Also, I’m not saying this would prevent cheating in competitive play, but it could give developers more insight into how cheats can be used (like with your example). Cheaters are not a monolith, but I don’t want to repeat my other comment :P

It wouldn’t get rid of the issue, I agree. But it would divert some of the cheating community away from fighting against the developers to playing by the developers rules.

Treating all cheaters as a monolith is really limiting which is kinda my point haha

Cheating via a lua script integrated into a game is waaaay different to cheating via external software, though mainly from the cheat developers side, less so from the users side, as you need to “fight” the anti-cheat.

Also, I think that considering all cheaters selfish (what is what I think you meant by calling cheaters sociopaths, see below) and bad at the game, really limits ones perspective, as not everyone hacks for the same reason. These reasons include:

1. Believing one needs cheats to stay competitive (either because one believes others are cheating or because, as you mentioned, due to lack of abilities)
2. For profit (to produce accounts with high value / tradable items/currency or to develop and sell cheats)
3. Due to frustration with progress towards a goal (often overlaps with #1, especially for players which are good at the game)
4. Enjoyment in breaking the games limits (note that this doesn’t decrease much in HvH)
5. The feeling of being more powerful than other players (often overlaps with #1, but also overlaps with smurfing)
6. For a sense of community (among other hackers, overlap with #2 or among mainstream players, overlap with #1 & #3)

Full disclosure, for me #4 and #5 are the most appealing, with the first two not being that appealing.‌ Note that #1 and #3, are as applicable, if not more sometimes, to high skill players as to low skill players. Two examples I can give of the top of my head are the 2021 trackmania cheating scandal and the Hypixel skyblock dungeon speedruning scene. In both cases there were competitive scenes that (at least from an outsiders point of view) seem legitimate, but a lot of top players all use cheats.‌‌ Also note that players motivated by #2 are less affected with a pay wall, which could even make them cheat more.

Why one cheats can also impact how one cheats. A player motivated by #1 and #3 is likely to hide their cheats (aka silent cheating I think?) while a player motivated by #2 or #5 may cheat in a way which is obvious to other players and they might not mind getting banned.

Also also, players who are more skilled at the game, can not only take a fuller advantage of cheats but also be more difficult to detect, as they know what they can get away with.

As for your usage of the word sociopath, which I don’t think is accurate, though I don’t blame you for it, mind you: antisocial personality disorder (the formal diagnosis for someone referred to as a sociopath), is an actual mental condition and using it because someone does not show empathy and/or seeks attention (which is not even a symptom of ASPD, I think you may be confusing it with narcissistic personality disorder?), not only flattens your understanding of the disorder but also raises a bad assumption: while a person with ASPD may find it harder to understand why certain actions are considered bad by others, that’s not an excuse for them to be abusive etc. The same applies to the common usage of narcissist/narcissistic.

TL;DR: IMHO what you said is an oversimplification which may make reducing the number of cheaters in competitive spaces more difficult.

Honestly something I’m surprised no game is doing is embrace the hackers.

For example, create a HvH gamemode where users can use lua scripts to aid them. I bet this would turn a lot of people away from the actual cheating scene.

Huh, fair enough, its hard to know whats obvious and whats not.

As for the second part, to my slight surprise, it did manage to figure it out. I guess I just suck at using LLMs lol

edit: To clarify, previously I tried only to correct its mistakes over and over again untill I got frustated

edit2: I still feel like chatGPT is struggling with basics of the language. maybe its just me being shit at using LLMs but smh

As I stated on a different comment in this thread, I worded my comment poorly. Why I think this is relevant however that, at least in this case, if an LLM get code which is significantly different from what its trained with, it can make wildly incorrect guesses. While here its because of a language with a… unique syntax, I think this could also be the case for code with a lot of technical debt or weird design decisions.

Sorry, I worded my comment poorly, see my reply to FaceDeer in this thread