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fluckx,

I am stealing this.

fluckx,

We do this to find criminals, drugsdealers, paedophiles and terrorists. MEPS are never part of any of those groups.

Source: trust me bro >.>

Rules for thee and not for me.

fluckx,

Well. Now seems to be a good time to be ashamed to be Belgian.

Shameful politicians :(

fluckx,

Unfortunately they do have some decent games published.

“A way out” and “it takes two” were both really good games ( hazelight studios ). No surprise mechanics, no predatory anything. Just coop fun!

fluckx,

Windows: does something privacy invading bad

Google: why didn’t I think of that? Hold my beer

fluckx,

And fucking fine them to infinity for it. Why would they not do something like this again if all they have to do is say “my bad bro”.

fluckx,

I guess I’m not updating my routers anymore then. Sucks though. It seemed to be the only Asus product that wasn’t garbage.

fluckx,

Is the train of thought that if the adult approves they can harvest data from minors regardless? It harvests data from anybody using the internet, not just person handling the settings. It doesn’t seem legal that the data harvest agreement binds all users in a household rather than the one managing the settings?

Is that legal in Europe? is it legal to suddenly semi brick a device if you dont allow them to data harvest? Is it really considered giving consent freely when the device you paid $$ for suddenly no longer does 90% because you disagree with sudden data harvest practices?

I can understand a feature not working because you disagree on sharing something. E.g: can’t tell you which pizza place is near you if you dont share your location.

But this? I hope it’s illegal and they get sued into oblivion for this. This is super invasive.

fluckx,

Routers aren’t supported by merlin unfortunately :(

fluckx,

I’d rather update it as well. But the routers are behind my ISP router and aren’t externally accessible. The attack surface is smaller in that regard. I’m not happy with the thought of an unpatched router. Maybe I can hold out long enough for merlin to support my routers.

I dont think the latest few updates I did mentioned any security updates. Only bugfixes.

I’ll tackle the problem when it presents itself I guess.

fluckx,

But that’s the point. You, the 15 year old, never click or see the box. Your data is harvested because somebody somewhere else agreed to it.

It’s like giving any website the right to farm your data because somebody else on the same shared IP clicked accept all.

I’m also totally okay not having to send any identity data over the net. I fully agree there. It’s just their standpoint of “let an admin click it and we can farm everybody’s data behind that device” seems like a very unstable legal standpoint.

Then again. I’m not a lawyer and the law doesn’t work based on how lawful i feel something is or should be.

fluckx,

I mean my Asus router models aren’t supported by merlin. Only 1 of them functions as an actual router.

fluckx,

Meh,

I was interested and it could be nice. But staying in the loop means registering with a discord or github account. :/

fluckx,

True, but they aren’t marketing it as FOSS though.

fluckx,

Oh man the memories. The first two were stellar games. The first one had amazing mods too.

The third one wasn’t really my cup of tea. Not bad in general, but not as brilliant as the first two.

fluckx,

He’s an alcoholic bodyguard who can’t do an assignment without getting hammered on liquor. I wouldn’t call that finding peace. :D

fluckx,

Fucking Asus transformer pad.

Please send it back for free and we’ll check if the damage is under warranty. If not you’ll need to pay 50$>to get your device back.

FUCK. OFF. Ship it back for free if it isn’t under warranty. Or have a contract with a shop nearby that can determine if it’s under warranty.

Last time I bought anything Asus.

fluckx,

Actually that’s a lie. I have their routers in house which, for now, all seem to run pretty decently

fluckx,

Maybe I’ve got a broken set. The ones that were assembled properly

fluckx,

I believe they already limited the sale of ghost of Tsushima to regions where PSN is available, despite not having a mention of requiring a psn account.

I wonder what their end game is /s

fluckx,

Maybe they can sack the studio pre release. That gave some of their other games some more attention /s

fluckx,

It used to have some shadowy kind of autosave where if your PC crashed it could restore the document. ( or a large part of it ).

But no actual autosave except If you have o365 ( or the one drive integration? I don’t really know). I only use it at work where they pay for a License

fluckx,

You know what i really miss when using an OS? Advertisements! I always have to open a browser and go to a website for it. Microsoft has fixed that as well in their recent patches. What a company!

fluckx,

How else are they going to get the needed context to provide you with AI powered context search!?

fluckx,

cd Pictures

have you heard about our latest and greatest Microsoft product? See aka.ms/bullshitlink for more information!

fluckx,

This just proves there’s no added value in studios being bought up by bigger studios like EA and the like.

  • buy the small studio,
  • get the IP,
  • dont do anything with the IP,
  • fire everyone in tiny studio to “save costs” ( read: send more money to shareholders )
  • ???

The people working the smaller studios deserve more and better. I dont know about the others. But HiFi rush had great reviews IIRC.

Edit: I may very well just be salty.

fluckx,

That would’ve helped to add in the original message. I dont think I’ve ever heard of “ubi” servers.

You can try installing the deb file I guess? If you google it I’m sure you can find it somewhere.

fluckx,

This would have been less of an issue if it remained enforced from the start. Re-enforcing it after demonstrating it clearly works without makes it look scummy and greedy. People could also easily refund if they didn’t agree. Now its too late.

For a lot of people it now looks as: now that the game is a success we want to collect everybody their data as well so we can make even more money.

Tbh, other games just require a 3rd party account without linking them explicitly. This requires an actual link which ( likely ) gives them access to a lot of your steam information which you’d rather NOT give to a corp that doesn’t seem capable at guarding people their data.

fluckx,

Apparently they recently updated the store to no longer sell in unavailable psn regions.

fluckx,

I can fully understand the agreement between the two parties was “also requires a psn account” while AH being completely unaware that getting a PSN account is so restrictive.

Sony likely didnt explicitly add that the game cannot be sold in regions where they can’t create an account.

Edit: or the didn’t explicitly state which regions a psn account CAN be created in.

fluckx,

That is true, but it I’d an additional hurdle. Sony is playing it smart.

They made an announcement and had a bunch of Outrage now. If they had just enforced it people would have refunded on mass probably. Now people can still actually play.

I’m guessing steam might be less eager to refund when the actual deadline hits. I also feel like a lot of people will just cave and link/create the account.

That’s definitely what Sony is expecting. And it’s also what I’m hearing from friends. That they dont want to, but that it’s a fun game ans they’d rather keep playing with friends.

fluckx,

The company that published the game likely updated the region it can be sold in. Steam just offers a platform.

Steam/valve is literally not to blame at all for any of this. Do you work for epic games or something?

I’m all for putting the blame where it needs to be, but you’re just shooting at all parties involved indiscriminately. Like blaming a rental company for a death in a traffic accident because they own the car.

fluckx,

Go ahead lol. It was the only thing that came to mind as to why you’d want to try and put blame on valve over this whole fiasco.

fluckx,

The thing is that it was enforced right at the beginning. There was a period where you couldn’t play without a PSN account, before they made it optional while Sony rolled out more infrastructure to handle the player numbers.

That’s what I heard as well. I was a bit dumbfounded when I read that it suddenly became mandatory.

I think Arrowhead screwed up because they didn’t know that PSN accounts aren’t available everywhere and so were selling the game in places that couldn’t play it unknowingly.

I think this is the most plausible reasoning. It’s what I’m thinking as well, and also what seems to appear through the CM. In which case it is a screwup on their end. Though in 2024 I do get you’d expect people to be able make an account anywhere in the world for a company like Sony.

Steam is usually pretty good about refunds and has apparently already pulled the game from the store in places where you can’t make a PSN account, so I imagine they’re planning to refund the game. This looks like the kind of thing that could be class-action lawsuit worthy.

If they did that’s good on them, but not wholly their responsibility. It is a good move to prevent new purchases they’d have to refund anyway ( or until there is clarity on what will happen in those regions ). I would kind of expect the publisher to do this once they figured out this was possible though :/

fluckx,

Im not even sure if the game would have taken off at all. Psn servers couldn’t handle the load which is Why it was disabled ( temporarily ) in the first place.

A lot of people, including myself, never even linked the psn because I could skip it.

fluckx,

What game is this even from.?

fluckx,

I’m not in one od those countries, but I’m currently waiting to see how it pans out. If they leave it in I’ll probably try and get a refund. I hope the people living in psn excluded countries try and get it refunded as well.

It’s a shame because the game is fun with friends. But I’d rather make a statement than just let it slide.

fluckx,

To gain the most security value from ZTDNS, system admins will need to enumerate the expected domains and/or IP ranges they expect their clients to connect to,” Jake Williams wrote. “Failure to do so will result in self-inflicted denial of service.”

Glad I’m on Linux/macos at home/work. Wtf is happening.

fluckx,

I’ll remember that. The MBA induced death spiral.

fluckx,

Their publisher decided it. And it’s probably in the contract. Apparently it was originally a requirement, but was made skippable when there were login issues.

The only thing they proved by making ot skippable is that it wasnt even necessary at all. The reason they’re giving for making it mandatory ( for security and being able to ban for griefing ) is bullshit. Not to mention They’re already using a super invasive anti cheat, which apparently isn’t capable of catching any cheaters.

fluckx,

The game is good fun. And really fun with friends too.

fluckx,

I’m doing my part.

/insertmeme

fluckx,

I read that in some regions ( I think UK/Ireland? ) it requires a picture OD your face/ID to verify your age.

Can’t verify that though

fluckx,

Weird. If I copy the TOTP code from bitwarden into their 2fa app I get different codes. Not even after a rotation ( one isn’t ahead of the other ). That doesn’t seem right :/

fluckx,

Wait - so far its only the Microsoft MFA code that does it.

fluckx,

My main issue is that if I add the bitwarden TOTP secret string manually multiple times its generating different codes between the entries. Which seems like something that shouldn’t happen.

It is a different format to the other ones I’ve got though.

Fuck Microsoft authenticator though. Had to restore it to a new phones once and if you don’t do it on initial startup you can’t restore it at all. Good thing I had a secondary app that still had them. Absolute garbage.

fluckx,

Indeed. “Competitive wage” my ass.

fluckx,

Yup. Competitive wage is a race to the bottom.

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