m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki
"preventing spying requires some effort so it's better to give up"
Wrong!
You not playing this game won't fix corporate surveillance, the only thing you'll likely achieve — you'll miss good old fun, that's it. Your friend will think you're a weirdo and eventually you'll become a full-time weirdo. If you don't want to play — don't, corporate surveillance shouldn't affect your decision. You just don't fight it with something like this.

@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network I see.
That's a bit different IMO. Data mining on a global scale is a major issue, but there is no way to fix it on a personal scale. And it is wrong to even try. Because even if you do you best to prevent collection of your data, they do it indirectly. The only way to fix it completely is to avoid contacting other people, that's paranoid.
Such activities should be hindered by law, what Facebook and Google do shouldn't be a viable bussiness model.

@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network
I mean if you are wanted in seven states it's probably rational not to install a game with DRM, otherwise it's pretty rational to assume no one gives a flying fsck about you and go with it.
That is what I was talking about: taking into consideration — 👍🏿, dwelling on it and taking whatever it takes to avoid it — 👎🏿.

@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network
Taking the fact that you might be watched into consideration is not irrational, living your life like you are always watched is.
> Where's the irrational fear or irrational distrust ?
There is nothing wrong with avoiding privacy intrusive things and choosing privacy respecting alternatives. Not doing something you want to do, in this case playing a game with a friend, only because you don't like DRM and there is no easy way to avoid it is somewhat over the top.

@mangeurdenuage @Suiseiseki @iska@mstdn.starnix.network
Being cautious ≠ being paranoid. Dwelling on it is. Doing it on a scale that seriously degrades your quality of life is being paranoid — it's a mental disorder.
Picking the best tool you can for the job is the right thing, picking what to do to match the tool that you think is best is weird. It makes you the tool. It's wrong. If you don't trust technology at all, just destroy your computer — that's it, done. Get a cabin in the woods.

@alinanorakari The two wolves inside me… Well, they've… transformed a little bit 😅

@Suiseiseki
3. The game just stops if the connection is interrupted even for a split-second. This renders the game effectively unplayable. Gamers will hate it too, maybe less than the second approach, but they will.

@Suiseiseki Can you give us a name?
So what happens if the connection to server is interrupted, I only see three approaches:
1. You trust the client. When the connection is restored server replays what happened on the client and accepts that. Anyone can botch the client and pass anything they want to the server — cheater's paradise.
2. If server deems what was passed from the client as questionable, it just drops it. Gamers will hate it as they lose progress.

@reddit-users-with-questionable-sanity And this guy is canonized universally?
Wow! Nice world actually!

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @Suiseiseki @splitshockvirus No one implements anti-cheat as a serverside-only measure because what are you gonna go if some weird shit happens due to lags or packet loss and you don't trust the client? Just drop everything and pretend nothing happened? No one will play such a game except for free software zealots. But they won't but stupid hats that exist only as in-game items anyway. So no one cares about them. It is THAT easy 🤣

@octobanon
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In my photo rainbow is not that prominent, but it has twice as many #cats 😺

@calcifer That is precisely why Matrix, with all its shortcomings is viable in non-free countries like China and Russia, but Signal, however secure it might be, is just a shiny useless app.
If you can't trust your cell provider, using your phone number as your primary ID means it can always be traced back to real you. Of course you can use phone number registered to some other person and a burner phone, but it also has its cons and it's not for everyone.
@katka @volpeon

@volpeon I think they've added this during the Hong Kong protests not that long ago. To prevent the police from using phones of arrested protesters to track others they've had contact with.
@katka @KayFaraday

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Too bad for you 😢
The worst I ever got from games is the feeling that everything kept scrolling downwards that lasted for half an hour after playing Tyrian for about 6 hours.
Oh, that and I tried to avoid playing Dead Space having high blood pressure 😅

@lichencats Thank you!

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org Just checking if grass is greener on the other side 😆

@sneak Is it mandatory for other countries to have a verified phone number linked now? 😮
I'm sorry if this is old news, I haven't used my AppleID for 5 years or more. Last time it nagged me with setting 3 "security questions", but at least you could log in using your web browser and disable them right after that. Having a phone number tied is really bad!

@feld Definitely looks like Pebble!

@ZySoua What's with putting tangerine on top of its head. This is not the first time I see it, is it some meme?

@cell @kaia Exactly! What's the point in developing this kernel if you can't run it on your newest kitchen appliance?