brainw0rms [they/them]

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Cake day: August 31st, 2023
  • brainw0rms [they/them]@hexbear.nettoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Denuvo Unveils New Tech That Will Make It Easier for Devs to Track Down Leakers - IGNEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Unpopular opinion, but I don’t really get the amount of hate Denuvo receives tbh. I actually do reverse engineering for a hobby and a living, and honestly there are so many much worse DRM schemes game publishers could be pushing on consumers. People act like Denuvo is the most invasive, terrible DRM ever lol. It lets you activate the game offline, and also gives you a huge amount of machine activations per day, more than any reasonable person would need.

    All the performance issues people complain about are just the game developers being dipshits in how they integrate it, by not reading documentation, etc., but that’s not Denuvo’s fault. Like, yes by all means blame the publishers for forcing their developers to slap Denuvo on as an after-thought 2 days before launch, but let’s not pretend it’s Denuvo that is the problem. They’re providing a solution to publishers, and if it wasn’t them it would be some other company with probably even worse tactics. I don’t think its unreasonable for a company to want to protect their IP, when without it games would be getting cracked and pirated on day 1. I also don’t think its unreasonable for pirates and crackers to do their thing, but to be so entitled as to expect that you should be able to easily pirate every new game the second it comes out is silly.

  • brainw0rms [they/them]@hexbear.nettoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Where do you get your news?English
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    4 months ago

    Personally I don’t like reading news very much, I just keep various live news feeds up in the background while I do other things. Typically Al Jazeera English, but they rerun segments pretty often throughout the day, at which point I’ll just turn it off, or switch over to CGTN. Occasionally I’ll watch MSNBC or CNN if they aren’t being ultra cringe (rare occurrence) for more US focused coverage, though I can hardly stand to watch either for very long.

  • brainw0rms [they/them]@hexbear.nettoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Gitea launches cloud service to provide a secure alternative to GitHub and GitLabEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I guess it depends on your threat model, but if you’re dealing with mission critical proprietary code then it should really never be leaving your own companies infrastructure, imo. If for some reason it is necessary to use enterprise cloud hosting, established actors like Github, Gitlab or even Bitbucket still seem like the obvious choice.

    The issue is this “Gitea Ltd.” company (or is it “CommitGo Inc.” now? honestly pretty confusing…) which appears to have been created with the singular purpose of monetizing Gitea, appeared out of thin air with no input from the community that actually develops Gitea. They’re basically saying “you can’t trust those other smelly hosts that have existed for years and have contracts with tons of huge companies, but you should definitely trust us with your stuff bro!”. Seems off to me.