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regardless of the definition of the word. i don't think anybody would call a game indie that has tens of millions in production budget, over 300 developer working on it and a movie deal before it was even released.

So under ten million max then?

What's the maximum developer count? Do outsourced assets count, if so, how? By the amount of people who directly worked on the assets by the outsource company or the whole headcount?


deserved it wasn't even indie either

>I've taken to getting a cracked copy of every steam game in my library so that steam can't screw me over again in the future.

you can trivially crack any steam DRM game yourself within minutes.


Yup, and you can find open source "cracks" if you don't trust using a binary for it. It's barely DRM.

the same way you should run _all_ proprietary binaries. restricted inside a sandbox. linux makes that easy with flatpaks.

That only goes so far though. A lot of games need internet access, so essentially you are running potentially modified binaries running on your hardware/network, that gets access to the outside. Sure, blast radius becomes somewhat limited, but you still have a potential problem.

The only games that need a network connection are online games. With those you can use a application firewall (which you should anyways) like opensnitch to only allow connections to sites that make sense and block anything else e.g. internal connection.

Unless you get your cracks from google.com it will be fine.


Flatpaks would make it easy, if they ever worked when you needed them to.

Sounds like a issue with your system. I have used hundreds of them on all kinds of systems.

I'm glad it works on your machine.

Unless you know the wallets seed phrase you can not access the mined funds. At best you could replace there wallet with your own to mine it yourself.

They tried to do a 51% attack which at worst could result in double spends. They have never reached more than 35%.

The attack did not and could not compromise or weaken moneros privacy and anonymity features.


Sure does seem like the primary outcome of email being released onto the world has been criminals making money.

Absolutely not.


That virtually all ends up in the spam folder. Neither half the revenue generated nor half of the utility people extract from it is criminal. I don't know a single person who has used Monero to conduct non-criminal business.

>I don't know a single person who has used Monero

That's the point, its private by design and unless they tell you, nobody will ever know how much they use and for what. The true hacker spirit.

If you bother to look past news headlines you will find a vibrant community of people paying for legal goods that value privacy before FUD and ignorance.

https://monerica.com/sitemap

This kind of fearmongering is already leading us towards a cashless society because "only criminals use it". This is hackernews and not facebook or congress so it should be obvious to everybody here what the end result of criminalizing/demonizing non KYC payments will be (hint: look at china).


> unless they tell you, nobody will ever know how much they use and for what.

As opposed to email?


do i really need to explain on hackernews that email is not E2EE? yes which shows your comment has no actual data behind it hence FUD.

You really need to explain why whether or not email is E2EE is related to people needing to tell me they use email or not.

They have been since a decade. After tripping down on unrelated political activism they do the same with AI.

Firefox is only good for getting forked into better browser like Mullvad Browser, LibreWolf and Tor Browser.


I think AI in the browser could be useful. It just isn't that useful now.

So far, the most useful "AI feature" Firefox has ever shipped is the page translation system, which uses a local AI to work. I wouldn't mind seeing more of things like that.

Eventually, "browser use" skill in AIs is going to get better too. And I'd trust Firefox with an official vendor agnostic "AI integration" interface, one that allows an AI of user's choice to drive it, over something like OpenAI's browser - made solely by one AI company for its own product.


Yeah I use a plugin for similar translation functionality, but with a local llama.cpp instance instead. Definitely useful and has increased my usage. Also works nicely on the Android version of the app.

How are they funded? Especially LibreWolf?

Curious if LibreWolf can survive the next 25 years or even longer than Firefox.


Mullvad at least is funded by their VPN subscriptions.

>There's lock picking daily since centuries. It doesn't work

It takes time to pick one lock and twice as much to pick two.

It takes the same time to escape 1 or 10000000 sandboxes.


That's only somewhat true if we are talking about the same sandbox nested (which would be quite dumb to do).

Escaping two different sandboxes are multiple times as hard, and a sane sandbox is not trivially picked, see web browsers and that the fact that the world is not one giant botnet.


How many implementations of linux namespaces are there in the kernel? Is it more than one?

Is a wasm sandbox, or the browser not a sandbox, independent of the kernel?

Has one of them ever gone more than a month without a CVE?

Flatkill is very out of date and disingenuous. Flathub is very explicit and obnoxious about such unsafe permissions and can easily be modified by the user. It's also amusing that people here claim Wayland is a security theater too while posting about flatpak being bad because it's vulnerable to x11 issues.

No security boundary can prevent bad permissions just like in android.


> It's also amusing that people here claim Wayland is a security theater too while posting about flatpak being bad because it's vulnerable to x11 issues.

They both create an illusion of safety. We all know that X.org had no security model and it sucks. Wayland put restrictions that would make sense if the rest of the desktop ecosystem was made with security in mind, but it wasn't. I've heard way too many claims like "Wayland makes keyloggers impossible" that are technically true but irrelevant in the real world, because a desktop environment is not just Wayland.

Flatpack is also misleading and its sanboxing is just not great, regardless of the problem with X11.

> No security boundary can prevent bad permissions just like in android.

Good bringing this up: in Android the applications ask the user for permissions, in flatpak permissions are granted based on what the developed asked. That's just bad.


>applications ask the user for permissions

Such portals exist for some permissions like screensharing and other are planned.


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