Valve announced a change for Steam today that will make things a lot clearer for everyone, as developers will now need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages.
          • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            2072: Valve headquarters flooded with deadly neurotoxin

            20789999999999: Valve employee wakes up in the -245th floor of their offices and must make their way back up to the surface

          • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Ah, yes, can’t wait for the time when humanity totally stagnates because we can’t even count on old people dying off to get rid of their outdated ideals. Gaben might have good ones but plenty of older people in power do not.

      • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        “God emperor Gabe, what should we do today?”

        “Go fight the Epic Games militia so we can defeat them once and for all.”

        “Can we also work on Portal 3? It’s the 100th anniversary of the franchise soon.”

        “Three? What’s that?”

  • go $fsck yourself@lemmy.worldEnglish
    443·
    2 months ago

    FYI - the owner of this site, gamingonlinux, was a mod on the !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml community until they were caught abusing their moderator powers. Then they deleted their account and complained on mastodon that it’s stupid design that mod logs are public. [Screenshot]

    Instead, here’s a link to the official post https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/4547038620960934857

  • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

    Cleaning up files upon uninstall - Your uninstall script should already be cleaning up any files created or modified by your install process. However, we know that some older games may not fully remove files upon uninstall, and it isn’t possible to update the game any longer. Players need to know if any anti-cheat utilities have left files behind, especially those that modify OS kernel files.

    This section alone shows how stupid kernel level anti-cheat is. Play a game and gain a persistent security risk. It’s actually a feature that such games don’t run on Linux.

    • Klajan@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      This reminds me of the stupid Gigabyte RGB software…

      Not sure if this is till the case, but for a long time the kernel driver had a known unpatched security vulnerability. And uninstalling the software did not remove the kernel files, so now your system is vulnerable until you reinstall Windows…

      And I fully expect some kernel level Anti-Cheat to be no better in this regard.