andyburke

I’ll uh … be over here continuing to use an OS that doesn’t <checks notes> show me an ad when I am logging in.

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I’ll uh … be over here continuing to use an OS that doesn’t <checks notes> show me a full-screen ad.

This is one company using FUD to scare you away from another to switch to them.

This company is doing the thing they say is bad but <checks notes> for marketing purposes.

Miss me with this shit, I will keep backing my stuff up into a service that stores bulk data…🤷‍♂️

Not only that, I am reading angry commenter’s comments from an mbin instance. 🤷‍♂️

But modern Linux is easier to use than modern windows, so that last point doesn’t really work.

Modern Linux runs just about any windows app, including most games. It also supports web browsers which can access Teams, etc.

It seems like maybe the reason is more inertial than based on factors a well run business should consider.

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My friend in fediversing - you are the one who made a comment with a claim people have asked you to expand on or back up and you have utterly failed at that repeatedly.

You could have just never commented in the first place and you wouldn’t be whining right now.

<Elaine dancing>

I think the people who grew up a bit later may feel this more keenly than some of us olds who used to have to use the yellow pages.

Or … maybe the datacenter shouldn’t use so much power to produce something of extremely questionable worth to our species. 🤷‍♂️

This person programs. ☝️ 🤝

Mprotect stops any read and write and execute access to memory in both user and kernel lands (only rx or wx). Stuff like web browsers won’t work unless you have a program to mark it in elf to not use pax. However, this kills a lot of exploits with that turned on by itself (though there are probably work arounds if you are developing exploits which the other features would hopefully catch). That’s why people installed 3rd party unmainlined security patches, but that’s just me maybe idk.

I am having a hard time following what this does or why this is desirable. You’re saying there’s a patch this thing provides that … disables memory access … unless a flag is set in an executable … which will then bypass the security?

No it doesn’t. We have any number of free and open source operating systems to choose from that are already more secure. The number of people in a situation where they absolutely need to run Windows specifically is small.

This is already true for the vast majority of games. 🤷‍♂️

Why would anyone want to run unmainlined security patches from a company?

This is how CrowdStrike happened.

This feels like security via business decision which is always the opposite of security. At least this would be open source now? 🤷‍♂️

The brutal cognitive dissonance you manage to encapsulated in this comment is impressive.

byeeeeeeee

I thought he was a free speech absolutist?

https://www.grampsweb.org

So … how mad at Putin does this make Russian gamers? Mad at all? Do they care?