Or like, don’t use AI at all.

I’m talking about softwares that emulate steam to disable their DRMs. I know that they’re generally seen badly as they are linked to less legal ways to get games, but I’ve been using those to avoid having to run steam everytime I want to start a game, and I would say that it works in most cases. Especially useful when you cannot afford to have a reliable internet connection, and steam decides to be a bitch about it.

Even though Borderland could be one of these games with extra DRM protections, then yeah it might not work.

Obviously, GoG is generally better and makes everything much more straightforward.

I mean, it’s generally possible to make steam games run without steam

Wow, we found the dude from another era that thinks that free is all that matters.

Big genius.

Hardening with AI, lmao

No.

So many critical bugs and security holes have been made from an oversight of the people handling the code.

Now you want to tell me that instead of having people write code that tries to make sense, and then review it (sometimes a bit too late), you want to have an hallucination machine produce some code randomly, then have people “fix” it, then review it?

This is just a recipe for disaster.

AIs are not “AIs”, they’re just bullshit generators that everyone is falling for. Technical debt and lack of code reliability were the main problems of software dev, and AIs are sacrificing those two specifically, just in exchange for the illusion of speed.

If you train monkeys to pile up bricks, it doesn’t make a house, it makes a disaster waiting to happen. And monkeys, unlike AIs, are actually intelligent and sentient, which would make them more reliable still.

There’s things like URLCheck that allow you to check and decide on how URLs are handled, but it might be overkill

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but believing with an absence of evidence is utterly absurd.

I don’t know what conspiracy theory dark hole you fell in, but you definitely need some scientific method and skepticism.

Yeah because showing kids being raped as a love story is amazing.

I mean GoT is horrible garbage, but that’s independent from this article.

Steam has been shit for so long, and yet people expect them not to be

Eh, you can’t be spending 100% of the time supporting nazis, so once in a while you forget to destroy democracy and you mistakenly make a good decision. So yeah, I guess France is only at like 95% now.

All your points were about stereotypical “womanly” stuff, summarising it as “tits” to point out how incel-like it sounds is completely valid.

But everything is fine

And big linux groups cannot remove age verification as easily as users can, as a big group is likely to be sued while an individual isn’t as much.

Generally provided by the ISP, no?

Good for you.

Now what about others that are not in your situation? What if this gets flagged as a suspicious behavior? What if your ISP blocks access to devices that are not allowed by a third party (government or company)?

You can always make a slippery slope. The difference is that complying for now brings nothing bad, not complying brings more focus and puts a target on linux and its users.

I don’t disagree with anything here.

But my point wasn’t “there’s nothing to worry about”, it was “an age field is the minimum they can do, and blaming them for it is pointless”.

My point is that this law is already there, and the fight needs to be brought where it matters, and the code of linux systems is not what is going to change politics. When someone is held at gunpoint, you don’t yell at them to fight back and curse them when they don’t, but you attack the attacker.

As I said, it’s a loss. It is not going to bring anything good, and can only bring bad stuff.

But my point is that the alternative of ignoring this law would just worsen the situation.

If you want to fight a law, you need to do it with meaningful measures. You find flaws, you revolt, but you don’t just ignore the law and hope to not be attacked for it.

If a big linux distro does it, it will lead them to endless legal battles that will ruin them, and then what?

The strategy here is to accept the loss, mitigate it as much as possible, and attack the source, which is politics, governments, and popular support and understanding.

Explain to people why it’s bad, burn down the government, and fix the system. If we only fight the symptoms when they target us, we’ve already lost.