Yeah, most anticheats are actually just rootkits (running at kernel level with unlimited privileges). This is also a big security issue, some games like genshin impact have also been used to create botnets since there is only one privilege escalation from the game itself to the kernel.

Whenever you use an anticheat, you just have to take the company’s word for what they are doing with that kernel-level access.

Here are a few nice ones, I can’t really pick:

“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” - John Maynard Keynes

(You can also apply this one to proprietary software vs. Free software (don’t say open source in my presence))

“The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees.” - Étienne de La Boétie

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” - Rosa Luxemburg

What mail client is that?

If you don’t mind around 4 hours of downtime per month (for now) I could host it for you at renn.es (contact info is there, just send us an email and we’ll send you an invite to a matrix room or something). We basically have a great server with nothing on it, so having one more service running wouldn’t really have any impact (we have 2-3 gigs of ram usage avg. out of 32).

EDIT: the server is in france with 6gbps down and 2 gigs up

C’mon you’ve ditched windows but your wallpaper is full of them… /s

I’m not a distrohopper, but GNU stow is delightfully simple. See my dotfiles as an example.

Great! Exactly what I did too, I’m keeping my account until they make the API changes and will participate in the flood of data deletion requests :-)

You deleted all posts and comments, right?

Right?

I am self hosting matrix synapse, it’s actually much easier than XMPP with SSL certs generated by Caddy. Ejabberd doesn’t play well with them.

EDIT: with docker.

Main computer: Arch (BTW) because I am a WM user (awesomewm) and AL has no bloat to remove. Also because of the AUR.

Servers:

• main server is a gentoo beast. I chose gentoo because systems was actually causing some problems and reporting a “degraded” status. OpenRC is really nice after years of systemd :-)
• second server, used for backups: NixOS, for no particular reason. I might install Debian 12 on it one day.

I wasn’t born back then, but it would have been the fact that search results weren’t total crap like today: only reddit seems to offer decent results if you don’t want sites like wikihow to come up… I wrote a more elaborate blogpost partly about it.

Total wealth of people who died because of titanic: two similarly sized spikes

Librewolf, icecat, qutebrowser, iceraven, surf… are not chromium-based.

More like “Installing… Do you want avast or X or Y installed along with it?” No thanks, I very much prefer Linux package managers.

Thanks! Stay tuned because I’ll probably add some kind of webring to the blog soon

Finally got it working, but it’s a little hacky. It works in my two RSS readers, can you confirm it works for you too?

Try Linux for a month and you won’t even think about coming back.

I made a blogpost about that, and I promise you’ll see no ads, no cookies, no JavaScript, just the blogpost.