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FiniteBanjo

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  • So if I am understanding this correctly, Steam Proton games such as Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight CAN spy on you?

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  • That's really interesting and I'd love to see you debate the other users saying that they can't do the things that you're claiming they can do. Please inform me once that starts so I can bookmark the comments.

  • So if I am understanding this correctly, Steam Proton games such as Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight CAN spy on you?

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  • Whats your source on that? IDK much about Linux, tbh, which is why I'm asking, but if it were still in Windows then as an example RuneScape which runs a version of EAC, which is in this case not kernel-level, cannot detect AHK because I used to use it for skilling mouse-button macros a few years back to make the multi-hour grinds more bearable. Now, they COULD still detect bots who make clicks by analyzing timings and preciseness, but it clearly wasn't enough to prevent them because botting was and presumably still is a serious issue.

  • So if I am understanding this correctly, Steam Proton games such as Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight CAN spy on you?

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  • I think it's great, we need to let people know where we stand on the issue.

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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    1. I kinda don't agree, for me personally it's faster to write than it would be to read and comprehend.
    2. Companies buy employees time the same way they buy tokens, the humans cost about the same for better results, so quickness isn't really a factor here unless you're willing to lower quality for speed and generally that isn't the case with translation work.

  • So if I am understanding this correctly, Steam Proton games such as Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight CAN spy on you?

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  • I repeat, if you run spyware, you get spyware. You’ve just given it the tools to work cross platform.

    Well that's conflicting because at least one other user said that the spyware doesn't function well enough to work as intended in Proton.

    To answer your question, Valve and Riot who provide these games made this a Proton discussion when they got these games running in Proton, and by discussing what is and isn't possible in the current scope we can create a more informed community who can make their own decisions.

  • So if I am understanding this correctly, Steam Proton games such as Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight CAN spy on you?

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  • I'm glad I checked with you about the LLM thing because I felt pretty slighted when I thought I was putting forth effort for a conversation and suspected others weren't at all participating but instead routing in their bots. I feel better knowing you're genuine.

  • So if I am understanding this correctly, Steam Proton games such as Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight CAN spy on you?

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  • Yeah! Exactly! I just wish somebody could tell us more concretely what information they're capable of gathering.

  • So if I am understanding this correctly, Steam Proton games such as Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight CAN spy on you?

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  • While the symlinks may be abused for this, Wine also gives access to running apps by mounting your Linux root folder as the Z drive (similar to C or D drives you may have already seen).

    Running any untrusted software on your system (particularly proprietary ones like most games), you should be mindful of associated privacy risks.

    I feel like for all of the words you just posted you are kind of beating around the bush here. I found tens of such conversations about root access and inherent risks online already. I hope you're not copying and pasting LLM outputs.

    The reason that these games request kernel level access in windows is to see what programs are running currently. Does root access not give them the same capability on Linux?

  • So if I am understanding this correctly, Steam Proton games such as Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight CAN spy on you?

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  • For sure, it goes without saying that I don't play any of these spyware games unless somebody invents a reliable way around this issue.

  • So if I am understanding this correctly, Steam Proton games such as Marvel Rivals and Dead By Daylight CAN spy on you?

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  • Listen, that's cool and I agree with you 100%, but the bigger (or at least more immediate) issue here is those shortcuts being used as intended to spy on you because EAC and BattlEye are spyware.

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    Zig language's policy on AI

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  • LLMs work by increasing scale, number of separate neural networks, to increase accuracy when improvement from training hits a wall. Which is very problematic because it means power consumption becomes exponential. I think most people won't have a problem with neural networks, but certainly do have a problem with LLMs.

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  • If it makes more mistakes than humans and therefor requires humans to check all of their work, and it's been shown to not be very cost-effective, then what's the point? Better to just not use the AI at all.

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  • Love that, what a cool dude

  • Modern Horror Icons [@nj_creepshow]

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  • In life you have this general assumption that by doing things correctly and living in the right place that you will live to somewhere around 81 years old, which is the national average for UK.

    You could die at any moment but you roughly know what the odds of that are: slim. In the backrooms; you do not know.

  • Modern Horror Icons [@nj_creepshow]

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  • Me and that fuckin Lamp can divide the place up for all I care, I'll get that homie his own kitchen.

  • It’s a sign of the times

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  • My comment explains what it is after explaining what it is not, in a single sentence.

  • Ahem [TinyBaer]

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  • My comments only say what my comments explicitly say. I even annotate sarcasm.

  • Ahem [TinyBaer]

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  • I'm just discussing preferences and advocating for better stories, I'm not saying we should ban anything. I think a lot of GoT fans pretty frequently bemoan the fact that the episode one incest and rape lost a lot of potential viewers. Maybe I'm wrong, though, maybe GoT wouldn't even have a following if it weren't for the fucking.

    I definitely understand why office worker A would have reservations, though I don't agree with where he draws the line.

  • Ahem [TinyBaer]

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  • Somewhere between the banana hammock and the puppy-gimp, which hilariously is accidentally censored by the header being out of place lmao

    PS Sexual Content does not equal Sexuality.