Ha, jokes on you! I'm playing Oblivion, am over encumbered and am hobbling back to a merchant... which is... better?

Just to be clear, I'm not arguing against 3rd party ac entirely, JUST the heavy handed kernel access ac solutions. I believe that if the less insane options were the only ones, the overhead on developers would be present, certainly, but not insurmountable, even for small indie studios.

To slightly exaggerate my earlier example: If you give the gardener access to your security cameras, there's no reason for them to walk around the back and check if the sprinklers are on. It might be easier, but that does NOT mean your gardener needs access to the security cameras.

The way things are now, developers lean on that insane system as a crutch, and build their games without any regard for client integrity whatsoever. Because why should they? THAT is the laziness I'm complaining about.

there probably should be a middle ground where the layer of security that is now being offloaded to a third party service having kernel-level access should instead be handled by the OS

I don't believe kernel access should be required at all. 3rd party, OS, whatever! It's NOT necessary.

Having said that, If you're arguing for a system service that can verify client integrity and pass that back to user space, sure, I could live with that. In that case though:

you're at best going to get from Microsoft. Linux being what it is that isn't an option

I grant you that Microsoft at least acknowledge the problem, but they are dragging their feet on a solution, and they've said they're not going to enforce it, once it becomes an option.

Linux being what is is, and Valve investing what they have, I'd be surprised if something like this wasn't already in the works

I'm saying the use of 3rd party anticheat is a crutch that developers use to avoid thinking about cheating in the first place. If they put some proper thought into their architecture, you wouldn't need such heavy handed anticheat in the first place.

There is nothing inherently more secure about kernel level ac, it just gives you so much access to the underlying system that you can tell if the client is being manipulated.

I'm saying that's a lazy approach, and you should instead be building your game to be resistant to client manipulation in the first place, rather than asking the user for a stupid level of privilege.

You DON'T need kernel access to achieve that.

Developers that go down this route are substituting good architectural design for god tier access to your machine. Kernel access is the proverbial keys to the kingdom, there is literally nothing they cannot do with it.

It's like a gardener saying they need access to water, so you give them the alarm codes, a copy of every single door key, the safe code, the wifi password, a silicon mold of your fingerprint, and a urine sample for good measure.

It is WAY beyond overkill, and any developer that claims to need that level of access to prevent cheating is lying. There is NO justification for it. They. Are. Being. LAZY and they are putting you at risk in the process.

there is nothing close to kernel-level anticheat from Windows

Long may this continue. Fuck kernel level anticheat malware, and fuck the developers that use it.

We were discussing the usefulness of receipts, why are we now discussing the maturity of my friends and my ability to set boundaries?

I'm more than happy to pick up whatever my friends would like... because they're my friends, and so long as I have hands to carry it, it's not an imposition.

I just expect them to pay for it. Expecting me to foot the bill WOULD be an imposition, and I wouldn't be ok with that. THAT is my healthy boundary.

Receipts help with this.

There is no one size fits all when it comes to group dynamics like this, and I'll thank you to not make assumptions about my friends like that.

If I'm only getting a scone and a small black coffee, I'm not paying for your soy mocha latte with almond sprinkles and unicorn hair. "I've got next" is a luxury of those not on a budget. All my friends get it, and we all agree you pay for your own. We save rounds for the bar where everyone is drinking the same thing

Also, fwiw, I've never even been to America

Because only Americans buy more than a single donut?

Unsupported doesn't mean it won't work:

it looks like shit though. It doesn't size to your screen, it looks like normal teams but really small.

This is what unsupported means.

Shit, you're right! I totally missed that!

I find documents in ALL CAPS like that extremely hard to parse, which is why I case corrected the main text. Should have done the rest of it too apparently!

eta: Updated the transcript to hopefully make that clearer

I mean, yes, but that breaks down when you start thinking about a donut, two croissants, a cheese scone, and 3 coffees, 2 regular, 1 large, one with regular milk, one with almond milk, and one black, for me and the two friends in the office who then need to think about reimbursement

As reported by the authoritative magazine Canadian Weekly World News, U.S. intelligence obtained a 250-page file on the attack by a UFO on a military unit in Siberia.

That reads to me like the author is confirming what was reported by the magazine. It then goes on to document the contents of the file, not what was reported in the article.

Having said that, I seriously doubt the veracity of the KGB documents. I'd put money on this being some kind of cold war psyop hangover, rather than something that actually happened.

Transcript of the interesting bit - Note that the text is JUST a reprint of the article, not the CIA confirming anything:

Country: Russia International Subject: Paper reports alleged evidence on mishap involving ufo Source: Kiev Holos Ukrayiny in Ukrainian 27 Mar 93 P 5

Reprint from the newspaper Ternopil Vechirniy: "Cosmic Revenge"

After Mikhail Gorbachev dissolved, in 1991, the KGB top secret intelligence administration, a lot of material from that department found their way abroad, in particular to the CIA. As reported by the authoritative magazine Canadian Weekly World News, U.S. intelligence obtained a 250-page file on the attack by a UFO on a military unit in Siberia. The file contains not only many documentary photographs and drawings, but also testimonies by actual participants in the events. One of the CIA representatives referred to this case as "a horrific picture of revenge on the part of extraterrestrial creatures, a picture that makes one's blood freeze."  

According to the KGB materials, a quite low-flying spaceship in the shape of a saucer appeared above a military unit that was conducting routine training maneuvers. For unknown reasons, somebody unexpectedly launched a surface-to-air missile and hit the UFO. It fell to earth not far away, and five short humanoids with "large heads and large black eyes" emerged from it.  

It is stated in the testimonies by the two soldiers who remained alive that, after freeing themselves from the debris, the aliens came close together and then "merged into a single object that acquired a spherical shape." That object began to buzz and hiss sharply, and then became brilliant white. In a few seconds, the spheres grew much bigger and exploded by flaring up with an extremely bright light. At that very instant, 23 soldiers who had watched the phenomenon turned into stone poles. Only two soldiers who stood in the shade and were less exposed to the luminous explosion survived.  

The KGB report goes on to say that the remains of the UFO and the "petrified soldiers" were transferred to a secret scientific research institution near Moscow. Specialists assume that a source of energy that is still unknown to earthlings instantly changed the structure of the soldiers' living organisms, having transformed it into a substance whose molecular composition is no different from that of limestone.  

A CIA representative stated: "If the KGB file corresponds to reality, this is an extremely menacing case. The aliens possess such weapons and technology that go beyond all our assumptions. They can stand up for themselves if attacked.

Latest variant is NSFL

Thank you. That was an absolutely awful way to start my day. Glad to see it's being taken seriously

Game of Thrones S8. I'm still salty

It definitely seems to be when I post, but I've never posted on furry content that I'm aware of lol

The question:

So, I think that the Democratic Party has to make a fundamental decision, and I'm not sure that they will make the right decision, which side are they on? [Will] they continue to hustle large campaign contributions from very, very wealthy people, or do they stand with the working class?

Ye, the medical thing concerns me. NZ has a national health record system that let's you register a primary emergency contact. From everything I've read, that, coupled with the fact that we're in a defacto relationship should be enough to prevent that being an issue. I hope that stays untested