GOG digitally signs their games and have no DRM, thus no need for cracks.

If you can get a hold of a GOG version, you can check its validity.

For games outside the GOG ecosystem, they are all unfortunately at risk.

I played Baldur’s Gate 3 via a pirated GOG version on release with friends until I was able to afford my own copy, then moved the saved game over to the legit copy.

I also did not like something Newton said at the end of a (paywalled) blog about what he learned from the reaction to his piece about AI skeptics. Newton said, and I quote, that he was “taking detailed notes on all bloggers writing ’financial analyses’ suggesting that OpenAI will go bankrupt soon because it’s not profitable yet.”

I do not like bullies, and I do not like threats. Suggesting one is “taking detailed notes on bloggers” is an attempt to intimidate people that are seriously evaluating the fact that OpenAI burns $5 billion a year and has no path to profitability. I don’t know if this is about me, nor do I particularly care.

Musk has also made weird veiled threats to keeping lists. I bet Zuckerberg is just smart enough to not tell people he keeps a list of people he keeps tabs on and uses his immense wealth to crush.

I mean, we know Monsanto had a “fusion center” that fought tooth and nail to have any negative coverage of Monsanto destroyed, intimidated, or flooded with negative reviews and responses.

We have had executives from eBay mailing critics dead animals.

If I were Zitron I’d be worried about way more than just another journalist who is stuck up powerful people’s asses, but that’s the price of speaking truth to power.

Donald Trump does coding.

Me, to Google right now:

One way to avoid it is to prioritize GOG copies if they’re available. Since GOG has no DRM they tend to generally be untouched.

to Better Attack Jack Humans

Now that’s an answer I can get behind.

Woosh. We’re decentralizing everything except the hardware and everyone’s like bUt iTs dEcEnTrALiZeD!

https://lemmy.world/comment/14473226

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2021/12/was-threat-actor-kax17-de-anonymizing-the-tor-network

Given the number of servers run by KAX17 the calculated probability of a Tor user connecting to the Tor network through one of KAX17’s servers was 16%, there was a 35% chance they would pass through one of its middle relays, and up to 5% chance to exit through one.

This would give the threat actor ample opportunity to perform a Sybil attack. A Sybil attack is a type of attack on a computer network service where an attacker subverts the service’s reputation system by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to gain a disproportionately large influence. This could lead to the deanonymization of Tor users and/or onion services.

Given the cost and effort put into this and the fact that actors performing attacks in non-exit positions are considered more advanced adversaries because these attacks require a higher sophistication level and are less trivial to pull off, it is highly likely this is the work of a high-level (state-sponsored?) threat actor. As for who is behind this group, neither Nusenu nor the Tor Project wanted to speculate.

A spokesperson for the Tor Project confirmed Nusenu’s latest findings and said it had also removed a batch of KAX17 malicious relays.

“Once we got contacted, we looked through all the relays in the network and identified several hundred relays that are very likely belonging to the same group and removed them on November 8.”

VPN’s also by definition still use the same corporate pipes as anything else.

That’s literally the same point I was making, that your protocol can be blocked when they’ve decided they don’t like it.

That’s rather missing the point, an integrity check doesn’t solve the fact that to communicate with anyone, you have to do it through giant corporations pipes.

An integrity check doesn’t help when an ISP have straight blocked your protocols traffic, like Comcast previously did with bittorrent.

Can we stop sucking down the preachings of an idiot like Jack Dorsey? We don’t actually have net neutrality, so it’s totally within their current rights to just block traffic they don’t like.

Do protocols solve the problem of every hop in between you and the destination has to pass through what amounts to someone else’s private property? Some private servers owned by who knows who on the way between that we have no idea whether they’re inspecting every packet that comes through or not.

Because that’s the bigger issue, and I’m not even sure it’s one we can solve, because it’s pretty important to how the internet functions.

A protocol still has to be supported and passed through private corporations walled gardens.

Who else remembers Comcast illegally using Sandvine to throttle bittorrent traffic specifically? Pepperidge Farm 'members.

https://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/

You might be able to remove the malware, but you can’t remove the backdoors that the US government stipulated should be there to begin with, it’s just another exploit in waiting…

Gender is not a boolean value, it’s a variable.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/project-digits/

Yes, actually lmao

Blueballed

How Google looks:

It was also published by The Information, which has more of a solid reporting history. Their reporting was followed up by Reuters, so I’m gonna put this in a “likely” category.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/nvidias-biggest-customers-delaying-orders-latest-ai-racks-information-reports-2025-01-13/

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidias-top-customers-face-delays-from-glitchy-ai-chip-racks

I can see why someone wouldn’t post a link to the article from The Information since it’s paywalled.