Stop trying to make web3 happen, it’s not gonna happen. Seriously, the name isn’t even gonna get reused for something normal because people would think it’s related to all the crypto insanity. We’re gonna go from web 2.0 straight to web 4.

Did you know that badgers keep their homes in tip-top shape by creating a latrine pit as a bathroom? They won’t defecate in their homes, instead making a pit out of dried grass and leaves just outside their burrow.

Not OP, but what puts me off is that it calls itself badger, but really it’s just a software that has nothing in common with those glorious animals. Did you know that badgers’ keen sense of smell is about 800 times sharper than our own?

Oh yeah, let’s wait until they start murdering people to maybe take some action.

The cracks, they don’t remove our protection. The cracks still have all our code in and all our code is executed. There is even more code on top of the cracked code - that is executing on top of our code, and causing even more stuff to be executed. So there is technically no way that the cracked version is faster than the uncracked version. That’s simply a technical fact.

Going by that logic, there’s simply no way that Denuvo does not hinder performance.

RPS: The study you mention showed that having Denuvo software improves revenues at launch, but also showed that a certain point after release - I think it was around three months - it evens out. Do you think publishers should have a policy of eventually removing Denuvo and making that clear to players in their marketing?

Andreas Ullmann: That’s the only point of the study where I’m not totally agreeing.

Well, who would have thunk!

1. For all the mentioned cases, if your firewall blocks incoming packets by default, no one can access it, no matter what is the source of the port being open.

2. You don’t configure it on the docker level, at least if you care about outside connections. If you mean from your local computer to a docker container, by default you cannot connect, unless you expose the port to the system. If you mean from other docker containers, just create your own separate network to run the container in and even docker containers cannot access the ports.

3. I usually use netstat -tulpn, it lists all ports, not only docker, but docker is included. docker ps should also show all exposed ports and their mappings.

In general, all docker containers run on some internal docker network. Either the default or a custom one. The network’s ports don’t interfere with your own, that’s why you can have 20 nginx servers running in a docker container on the same port. When you bind a port in docker, you basically create a bridge from the docker network to your PC’s local network. So now anything that can connect to your PC can also connect to the service. And if you allow connection to the port from outside the network, it will work as well. Note that port forwarding on your router must be set up.

So in conclusion, to actually make a service running in docker visible to the public internet, you need to do quite a few steps!

• bind a port to your local host
• have your local firewall allow connection to the port
• have your router set up to forward connections on the port to your machine

On Linux, local firewall is usually disabled by default, but the other two steps require you to actively change the default config. And you mention that all incoming traffic is dropped using UFW, so all three parts should be covered.

I mean, sure, but this could be the push to open architecture. Half the apps wouldn’t need recompiling anyway, only those containing native code.

Realistically it could take 2-3 years for Qualcomm to switch to RISC-V (so 5 years because we all know how smooth such huge transitions are). That’s enough time for Google to fully support Android on RISC-V.

IMO it’s now in Google’s hands, once they add support, interesting things are gonna happen. I could even see Arm going out of business, I’m sure Qualcomm would happily help others transition for a very fair fee to help get them out of business.

I think with RISC-V being as supported as it is (meaning it’s nothing obscure, but has strong open source toolchain support), this might potentially be a very bad move for Arm.

Anyway, I love it when corporate greed destroys corporations instead of humans for a change. And if open architecture gains traction thanks to that, well, all the better.

And whatever doesn’t use bullying as a tool to get more customers.

Ah, time to switch to RISC-V, then? Long term it’s the best choice. Wouldn’t be surprised if they started working on it.

A number of games on GOG have DRM now

Not single-player ones. Online multi-player itself is kind of a DRM and there really is no way to make it otherwise. Not for a company of GOG size, anyway. And I’d argue that even if Steam made some forced open-server requirement, they would be abandoned fairly quickly.

They’ve also said they’d work on Linux support and that they’d open source Galaxy, but never did.

As I said, not because the company is the best, but because you have access to the game files and can do whatever. I’m under no illusion that they are perfect, but IMO the no-DRM-installers are the single most consumer-friendly move any game store has done. And no one forces them to.

True, forgot about that. Anyway, if you want a truly pro-consumer gaming, go to GOG. Not because the company is the best in the world, but because you buy the game, get the game files and you can do whatever with them (not in the legal sense, but who cares).

That’s purely profit driven. The biggest difference to other corporations is that they’re privately owned, meaning they can pursue long-term strategies instead of short-term ones. Publicly traded companies have to pursue short term strategies because otherwise investors get itchy and want to sell. Doing something that costs money and will yield results in ten years is a big no-no for publicly traded companies.

Everyone and their mother who makes any computer has to pay money to Microsoft because they put Windows on it. There are only a few outliers, most notably Apple and a few vendors who put Linux or no OS in there.

Valve doesn’t pay them shit, meaning they can sell the device cheaper, thus getting more customers. That’s the immediate gain. When you provide a gaming OS that you want to offer to others, you’re also the one getting paid for providing support. That’s the long term profit.

And through it all, as a nice bonus, they stopped being reliant on a single vendor and gained unbelievably great PR from a group of gamers.

People don’t care about facts, but feelings. Valve executives don’t give a shit about people either and Valve is extremely anti-consumer half of the time, but people love them because feelings.

Change and improve sounds pretty much the same to me, as in the process is modifying it, only the intent changes.

I’m using Proton mail, I like their focus on privacy and e2e (only with other Proton users, though).

Imagine going to the slowest and ugliest interpreted language there is and feeling superior about it.

Like, modern Python is basically what PHP was at its lowest point, PHP 4 (20 years ago).

The efficient and clean code? /s

Don’t judge PHP by what you saw in WordPress. Modern PHP is amazing, WordPress had horrible code when it started and they definitely didn’t fix things afterwards. It’s a horrible slow mess of a code. Look at some modern PHP (for example this api of mine ) to compare.

All five of them.