Comment by cwillu
1 day ago
Alas, the signed-kernel-anticheat monster is approaching and, mark my words, will drag linux into an indistiguishable hell if it takes off.
1 day ago
Alas, the signed-kernel-anticheat monster is approaching and, mark my words, will drag linux into an indistiguishable hell if it takes off.
Yeah, it sucks. These are corporations whose business it is to restrict our freedom. Their software is literal malware meant to pwn our machine and restrict what we can do. Their invasiveness is the least of it.
I advocated so much against it. I was so sad when I saw that virtually nobody cared. It seems games are more important than freedom.
Let be real, we all trade a part of freedom for something.
If you want true freedom, you should follow Richard Stallman.
I do follow him. I use AGPLv3 on all the code I publish. Stallman saw far into the future and predicted much of this decades ago.
There is a problem though: he talks about software freedom, not computer freedom.
Right now we can make free software ourselves and enjoy the freedom that brings, but the war on general purpose computing rages on and it threatens to invalidate all of our efforts. Free software is completely pointless if our computers start refusing to run it.
We need to enshrine computer freedom into law and literally ban stuff like remote attestation. We also need distributed computer manufacturing technology so that normal people can simply create their own free computers at home just like they can create free software at home.
Anything short of this, we're screwed.
Would like to see the ability to boot into a secure system that only has the game and maybe discord.
Would like these corporations to just accept they have no control and stop trying to "secure" themselves against us.
Quite a few billion dollar games that can't function then.
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That kills so many valid setups that it's a complete non-starter.