And even if the game did greatly benefit from it, most people are already using esync/fsync in lutris/proton/etc. and so they also won’t really see a difference from what they’re used to.

I was there :) And yes you’re right, but also social media didn’t really exist at the time as we know it now.

This was already the case under Biden (since 2019 at least), and many other countries do the same. Asking for social media usernames when applying for a visa was already a normalized part of the process, so to me this is basically a nothingburger.

I prefer to stick with the original C version.

What you’re doing is filtering out bots that can’t be bothered to execute JavaScript. You don’t need to do a computational heavy PoW task to do that.

Most bots and scrapers from what I’ve seen already are using (headless) full browsers, and hence are executing javascript, so I think anything that slows them down or increases their cost can reduce the traffic they bring.

Canvas fingerprinting filters out bots better than PoW

Source? I strongly disagree, and it’s not hard to change your browser characteristics to get a new canvas fingerprint every time, some browsers like firefox even have built-in options for it.

Proof of Work is a terrible solution

Hard disagree, because:

it assumes computational costs are significant expense for scrapers compared to proxy costs

The assumption is correct. PoW has been proven to significantly reduce bot traffic… meanwhile the mere existence of residential proxies has exploded the availability of easy bot campaigns.

Canvas fingerprinting would work.

Demonstrably false… people already do this with abysmal results. Need to visit a clownflare site? Endless captcha loops. No thanks

I don’t like the approach of banning nonresidential IPs. I think it’s discriminatory and unfairly blocks out corporate/VPN users and others we might not even be thinking about. I realize there is a bot problem but I wish there was a better solution. Maybe purely proof-of-work solutions will get more popular or something.

All you need in order to do this is for the client to encrypt their password before sending it to the server. Often services that advertise “zero knowledge” platforms that use end-to-end encryption will authenticate their users in this way. If this were a website for example, there could be a javascript/wasm library used within the client page that encrypts their password before a login request is sent to the server.

Proof? And by what metric? That has not been my experience whatsoever, nor have I heard any complaints about either of them.

xrdp and x11vnc is rootless

I would bet it’s more likely emotional breakdown from cyberbullying.

See Freenet/Hyphanet

Please don’t, because it is literally the largest place online that openly trades CSAM. Law enforcement even run their own nodes there to try to catch people.

How long until this gets overrun with 🍕 and nobody wants to use it…

Not sure how moderation would even be possible with this model.

Is the new Alexa+ required to be used going forward? Or can you stay on the local-only setup for controlling home automation and simple things like timers and such?

I refuse to support kitty solely based on kovid’s absolutely deplorable attitude. I lost count of the number of people I personally talked to who wanted to contribute but then decided not to after seeing how toxic and abusive they were to users in the github issues.

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to be fair, you can ask the same of many rust devs themselves

I assume they mean non-Xorg/wayland, but I really don’t know for sure.

which also removes the merits of you questioning if what he is claiming is fiction or not

yet you claim marcan is lina with zero proof?

I’m surprised they don’t just compel companies to build the backdoor into the client software itself rather than trying to remove or weaken the encryption. That way, E2EE continues to work properly.

If that does happen, I just hope there will be enough developers by then that can/will want to use it (as in, write rust code). Especially developers that can put up with the kernel process and its people.