xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

I don't think steam or valve will ever go away i just worry about who will replace gabe and if they have users interests in mind rather than political interests in mind

valve is kind of in a position where if they ever had to close their doors Microsoft Sony EA or Possibly some Saudi Arabian investor would buy them out
i could even see tencent joining that bid war

But yeah it would be a bid war and the only people who would suffer are the users

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unreal engine 6 is on the way, announced with a new rocket league.

i'm of two minds here. we all know unreal 5 sucks ass. is unreal 6 going to be better, or is it fundamentally just unreal 5 with a new coat of paint to trick people into being optimistic about the engine again?

i wonder how much of CDPR's work has been incorporated here, or if all of that stuff is specific to their studio alone.

You know what online games are missing nowadays that was awesome in the 80's and 90s good announcer effects like this classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4I6mMilmio

I loved the usage of this is CS 1.6 / Source lobbies with sound plugins.

if you've got a 4k-compatible blu-ray drive, you might be able to dump gamecube/wii/xbox games and more now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuioEfLtVyo

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One of the victims with a technical background that spoke during the enemy of state event at the national libertarian convention today referenced the name of the specific remote management protocol that governments are using to take control of ISP supplied routers/modems and spy on users.

As someone behind a product that hinders this sort of abuse through a router that can sit between your ISP supplied modem/router (or spying device) and your actual network I found it quite interesting to hear from a technical user describe their experience when a government exploited this functionality against them.

So it’s something we’ve known was possible on routers and I’ve mostly only read about in the case of cellular phones and/or articles have alluded to.

On routers it's called the TR-069 protocol, and apparently has been succeeded by TR-369.

In any event I hadn’t known the name of the specific protocol prior (not that it would have been hard to figure out, it’s not a secret) and thought it was interesting to hear that it’s what was in fact exploited and used against him.

My companies routers solve this problem of course which made it particularly interesting for me to hear someone even if only briefly bring it up where it’s been used against an actual person with first hand experience.

Basically the moral of the story is stick a router you actually control in-between your ISP supplied modem (or for that matter any modem) and computers/printers/devices.

If your interested in watching the video you can find it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h450fh7qvks

These are the two router products my company currently develops that can mitigate the threat:

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-mini-vpn-router-v3-tpe-r1300

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-gigabit-mini-vpn-router-tpe-r1400

>another dumbfuck fell for hachi's bait

"Google is again pressuring some longtime G Suite Legacy users to move onto paid Workspace plans, warning that accounts flagged as 'commercial use' could lose access to Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and other services if appeals fail."

Stupid people do stupid things. There is a reason why for ~30 years I have refused to touch Meta (Facebook), Google (Gmail, etc), Apple (IDK what they even sell), or Microsoft products (also not super familiar with their product line-up).

Not to mention Adobe, and many others. And that is just in "tech".

I was once young (~11 ? or so maybe) and maybe not near as naive as the average adult today, but even I was questioning my use of Hotmail long before Microsoft bought the company.

I was 100% right to be skeptical that Hotmail wouldn't sell out to Microsoft, and then they did.

I was right not to use Facebook when everyone around me was hopping on board.

I was right in my quest to move away from Paint Shop Pro and Adobe Photoshop.

I made a lot of good decisions ... now if only other people would take responsibility for their own stupidity and stop blaming the evil people behind said companies.

You enabled this. Take some responsibility for your actions and spend some time and dollars [euros/bitcoin/monero/etc] where it matters to mitigate that stupidity.

The free market enables changes, but only if people actually utilize it to their benefit.

I also have been maintaining a mail server for about as long. When I was abused- I learned- I switched to less hostile operators. I've dealt with different companies and some were terrible/abusive- one suspended an account I had in 1997 I believe after they changed their policies to prohibit mp3s and then immediately scanned and suspended accounts without warning.