They were never given security guarantees, they were given security assurances, which is kind of the issue that led to this. Granted all geopolitics is down to the whims of leaders upholding agreements, but on paper a security guarantee is near automatic cobeligeration with the defending party while a security assurance is in no way as heavy handed. I would say that the Ukrainian goal is to have an agreement that will give them dependable allies in a future conflict.

I’m not saying I’m OK with it, but I am saying that this data collection on game servers can be negated by not sharing information over in game chat. The rule I follow is that game chat is for talking about specifically the game or a discussing what platform we should communicate on instead; the unfortunate thing is that this ai would potentially compromise other services like your preferred messaging app. All in all, there doesn’t appear to be any reason to stop using cross play servers from a data privacy perspective.

I fail to see how this ai isn’t a legitimate service, sure me and a lot of other people don’t want it, but there is an actual use case for it. It is very obvious to most of us here that it is a data collection scheme, but the data that a game server has on you should be unimportant, if it isn’t that is a failing on you for either playing such an invasive game or a failing on the game developer for making such information easily obtainable, either way this is not an issue for gamers who restrict the private information they share.

If that is what was meant, this is nothing new, server hosts have had this information and more for ages, and your gamertag is by no means priveledged information. I am having trouble trying to figure out how this change affects my willingness to play on cross play servers, as others have pointed out however I would be wary of compromised devices with privelidged data like banks or HR which I realistically have no way to protect myself from.

Could you expand a bit, I understand that their systems are compromised, but how does that provide information to them about you if you play a game together. Unless you are just referring to the information that a server host or your friend would know anyway.

You are assuming their ai hallucinating or maliscous devs won’t push updates that break user choice.

The general consensus is that you shouldn’t be selecting your distro based on gaming, all of the modern well maintained distros will be relatively the same performance. In my opinion you should select your distro first on how well maintained it is, then on stability, & then how well you know how to fix issues. Although I don’t follow my own advice since I use arch but that is because I am far more accostumed to that ecosystem.

They’re being run by accountants, and one thing accountants hate is paying people to do a job, its always “far easier” just to pay a company for that.

I’m not the least bit surprised considering I didn’t know this event existed until articles started popping up.

How do you figure, I haven’t seen the actual text, is it written ambiguously? If not, I would imagine that they be able to enforce it, the only thing is the scope is very small.

Has anyone been able to find the text of the law, the article didn’t mention the penalties, I want to know if this actually means anything.

Edit: I found a website that says the penalty follows 5000*sum(n+k) where n is number of days since first infraction, this has a closed form of n^2+n= (7500^-1)y where y is the total compounded fee. This makes it cost 1mil in 11 days and 1bil in a year.

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There was a link in the article about that, it was saying that they are just requiring self reporting, I don’t know the political context in California, but it seems like you wouldn’t push this and then turn around and try the id thing, but I am by no means an expert at predicting the idiocracy of politicians.

why should we use renewables to produce hydrogen (not to mention develop an entirely new hydrogen infrastructure) when we could just use that renewable energy as it is? That’s just adding extra steps and inefficiency for very little benefit, if any.

Because hydrogen isn’t trying to replace the source of energy, it is trying to replace the storage of it, at present batteries are not nearly good enough for the EV only transportation boom, but hydrogen works and only really needs to deal with the volatility issue

I have had more issues with formatting between ms 365 desktop and ms 365 online than I’ve had with libreoffice

I would much rather over tune the fine than make it a cost of doing business, in general accountants think backwards to most people and they won’t tell the higher ups to change anything until it really affects the bottom line.

I’m not sure we should be looking to them for pointers, but it could be as easy as sha256 public and private keys, that’s already much better

Itch is a bit spotty if you don’t want to configure your prefix and it doesn’t work under proton, but pirated games work fairly well in lutris using the official versions prefix

You can normally add it to steam to see if proton will work, or if not, you could use heroic, lutris, or bottles, although normally if it doesnt work under proton and there isn’t a premade wine prefix in lutris or heroic, it will take some tinkering.

Which games are you worried about?

Is there anything special about this platform, or is the only appeal to stick it to the man. Is there some special vetting process, is there a bias tracker; I guess I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just search for the news in your preferred browser and search engine

It would be far better to say the party that is bought and sold by corporations