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I have the docket link which is here but its a mess because the original case was dismissed back in 2021, but then amended and merged to contain a larger case.

I used to have the actual document number somewhere if i can find it I will let you know as well. Sadly when the case started getting media attention valve started filing for seal motions on newer evidence, but I don’t /think/ they retroactively sealed anything.

The case is well worth a read, the intent on it is of course valves potential monopoly on video game storefront but it goes into detail about other providers as well. It aims to focus on the valve 30% cut system they use and whether valve uses their market position to abuse or not. I don’t personally think they do, because I feel their choices are fair in a business mentality, but it’s cool reading about others POV’s on it.

The Wolfire versus Valve antitrust case.

They submitted evidence of email chains from Valve customer support stating that they want Valve to have the best deal available and that they will not choose to do business with companies that do not give them the best deal.

On top of that, they also went on record stating that the steam product key page under the Steamworks area is meant to be intended for all products on Steam, not just keys.

It’s a textbook example of, hey look, this is our policy that’s written down, but we don’t actually follow it.

I just want to add in that what Valve has as official policy and what they actually practice differ in this case. Because yes, their policy states it’s for keys only. However, they have admitted in court that if the publisher has it as a cheaper price elsewhere, they will delist your game

I believe they are talking about this.

If you have it at all exposed to the internet, you should probally terminate it

As a summery: Multiple endpoints on the software don’t check for authentication and an unauthenticated person can retrieve your complete settings configuration including your API keys and your password and also change your current configuration, Just by sending a simple POST request.

That’s wild to me that that was something that was able to be done.

So I get what you’re going at, but I did want to add that secure boot doesn’t require Windows 11. And that the main issue with Battlefield 6 isn’t the fact that it has secure boot enabled because you can use Battlefield 6 on Linux with secure boot. The issue is it won’t pass the anti-cheat, which is Javolin if I remember correctly, breaks itself when in a Proton environment.

Being said, I don’t think secure boot is the threat everyone thinks it is. Microsoft was originally not going to let alternative platforms be allowed on the secure boot environment. However, they started facing legal threats regarding it, including a potential ban in Australia and part of the EU stated they were looking into investigating it in regards to anti-trust, so they ended up caving to avoid having a judgment in court. I don’t foresee Microsoft going back to making it so they’re the only one allowed again,and if they do it’s almost certain they’ll be anti-trusted

I can see the concern on a Google attestion style system, but I don’t ever foresee it getting that bad because people will just not use the system. The only reason it’s working somewhat well for Google is because it’s integrated into Android as a whole and practically forced upon developers if they want to use the existing integrity systems. Being said, I’ve only ever seen it in banking apps. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it on a website to website basis.

Before I go full tin foil hat on this theory, I want to know how they plan on making it so the signal is sent client side without the client being able to fake the signal.

Like, this sounds like something that any type of OS that allows you to install a program will be able to bypass quite easily either by always sending the adult signal or never sending the adult signal

Like reading the bill, they explicitly forbid any type of personally identifying information being transferred. It sounds like it’s just a DOB check and if you say you are > 13 or whatever age they have it as it sends a signal.

I’m happy it isn’t allowed to send PII but like at the same time, I feel like just having websites put an age check prompt up does the same thing

im not sure how it translates to base lemmy as I am using tesseract, but Subscribed / scaled is the endpoint it uses which I believe just means subscribed communities only sorted by scoring(hot?)? I’m not entirely sure how it works I just know that it works good for me.

No, price and design are the only things I care about.

If it doesn’t have me walking around like a product billboard that’s immediatly putting it at the top of my list

I felt my back break when I went on the app and sorted by retro and saw stuff I didn’t think was that old.

loops has a app if you are talking about them, I just had to uninstall the previous to install the newest as it’s been awhile since I’ve used it.

I didn’t have any issues when I tried it a few days ago, but I also never bothered getting voice chat working for it and I haven’t done anything advanced like throwing my bot onto it.

Spacebar is the same way though. Like, it’s a one-to-one clone that is reverse engineering the API of the service. Their entire advertisement point is that you can take a Discord client or a Discord bot and throw it on to Spacebar without any type of modification aside from the server url

Every name there seems normal, except for a stoat. Like, I’m sure there was a very heavy process going into deciding the name for the service when they realized they couldn’t use Revolt anymore. But stoat just feels weird to me.

thanks for the ping, I will defo look into that one as part of my testing as well!

i can’t say I’ve ever had much experience with timed download links for software. generally the software that I’ve used has relied on a permanent link that you can always access and then premium features for the link is locked behind a license key.

I decided upon seeing this article I should update my current windows 11 iso.

They have definitely changed the download flow since the last time I attempted.

In order to download the latest windows 11 iso on a non-windows system, you need to go to the download page, select the last option, verify the connection select region and then verify the connection again, upon finishing it they now give you a 24h time limited link.

This seems very counterproductive to convincing people to go back to windows if they had already bailed, I would have thought they would want as less restrictions as possible on the iso itself in hope to get people to go back.

I’m not looking for perfect. I just want a similar layout with voice call, custom emoji and decent permission control.

The closest I’ve seen is space bar, stout or matrix. But matrix is a beast to get people on, and stout + space bar are both really premature atm client wise.

some of my group moved to steam groups but it’s so clunky and missing many features

I’m on the reverse end. I’m so sick of the “I hate windows, I’m switching to Linux” and then just never make the swap. Like stop bitching about it if you won’t do anything to fix it.

I assume they are doing some sort of update. Stupid that they flash the lights to indicate it though, what an annoying menace.

De-listed where? It’s listed still for me.

I’m guessing it was a regional de-listment and it just wasn’t specified.

Being said, this page was enough to make me install the app, still unsure if I wanna use it or not but, I don’t wanna risk losing the ability to install the app either.