Science is influenced by academia. Still an important distinction.

Leaving the musky fields for where the sky is truly bluer.

I think the reason for this implementation is more the theft prevention. This sounds very mich like certificates to me

Well, the server acts mostly as a single source of truth. The clients are the ones registering the shot, the server confirms or denies it.

My approach would be prohibitedly expensive, as I suggested the registration would also happen on the server. It would also result in bigger lags

I’m with you on that.

For the individual saving is something very good. For the economy, however, a money hoarder is dead weight. It’s why inflation won’t ever completely go away, because it discourages hoarding (investing/bringing it to the bank can counteract this, that’s why I didn’t call it saving the second and third time)

It really depends who the issuer of the certificates (wallets) is. The funds get automatically transferred and won’t be lost, it’s “just” a privacy problem (plus the issuer will probably be able to interfere).

So the idea isn’t that dystopian, but it very much depends on the implementation.

Genuinely curious, because this isn’t my area of expertise, but how do you design a server to be “better” if it has to trust data from a remote client?

Check the data on the server (“oh no, incredibly expensive”). Don’t give any data to the client it doesn’t need, like enemies around the corner (“oh no, now my game is so very laggy because caching and future position assumption just became impossible”)

Example, if the client is compromised - because as they’ve said, they have no way to “attest” that the kernel is not compromised - how would the server know any better?

Now the server doesn’t need to care. There’s input? Validate and use it.

If my Apex client tells the server I got a perfect headshot, how would the server know I didn’t fake the data? Is there a real answer to this problem or are we just wishing they come up with an impossible solution?

Now the client can go pound sand. Server decides if it’s a headshot. Client only sends coordinates of origin and target. Lag? Sucks to be you, with or without cheat.

My general understanding is that EA is 100% correct. Now, on the other hand, maybe the should just limit plays between Linux <-> Linux so people can at least still enjoy the game

That would only create more work for the developers, all for the defacto expulsion of Linux users (Way less players at all times). The best course of action here would be the actual expulsion of Linux users. Also, EA is at most 25% correct. (Not a rational argument, I just very much dislike them)

(I’m moving to Linux soon so I’ll basically no longer be able to play the game, which is, as my primary gaming addiction, a huge loss I’m willing to take).

Damn, sorry to hear that. It’s always bad to leave something one knows because something’s become unbearable. I wish you best of luck on your journey! (I’m assuming a lot, but why else would you switch despite your choice of use of free time?)

There’s compromises EA could take, but I think the Linux market share is just too small for them to care to spend any resources - even though they’re raking in billions (~$3.4 Billion) and could spare a few resources to find a good middle ground. Capitalism at it’s finest.

On the other hand: I quite like it. It forces them to keep their grubby little hands from my kernel.

I do not like anything anti cheat. But I also don’t really like cheaters, especially in online games, so anti cheat could be tolerated. The only thing is: nothing trumps my systems integrity. Definitely not online player satisfaction.

I think the idea was that you can’t hoard anything, and stealing or reusing is harder. But it does make the central management way more powerful than it should be. But it’s normal bank standard.

What do you mean with “dystopian statist money”?

Yeah, I think so too. It should replace bank transactions completely.

GNU Taler to the rescue!

The netherlands are already looking into it: https://www.ngi.eu/ngi-projects/ngi-taler/

The project could be used via paper trail, as far as I understand it.

YOU JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE

The amount of people thinking they are getting ripped off by steam now is astounding.

They are the reason this step is incredibly necessary.

Nonono, be more specific. If the cops do it, then yes. If other grand/mass surveillance things do this, then yes.

But this could just as easily be taken as “You had your phone with you and didn’t record during the time of the crime? Sucks to be you!”

This is the result of having too many “nothing to hide” idiots.

They are all meaning to say “not my problem”, but all they’re doing is create problems for themselves and their kids. They only notice, as always with privacy, when it’s entirely too late.

No reason…

Why don’t you use emacs? You can replace Linux with it and use it to start vim!

Cleaning that far up is a pain in the ass

Depends. Do I need one specifically for my ass?

What? Authoritarians need their cattle for their system to work? Who’d have thunk?

It can’t be load bearing if it’s gone!