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Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by dvdkon on Friday August 22, 2025 @03:08PM (#44988563)
Fine, then let's not bother with anti-cheat at all, since an aimbot can work by just filming the screen and sending HID events over USB. Anti-cheat is like DRM: You have to make do with a compromise.

Hundreds of thousands of raycasts per second sounds doable to me, but couldn't you just use a GPU and some simplified level geometry? That ought to scale well enough. It's not free or perfect (knowing the position of a hand a cheat will be able to estimate where the head is anyway), but that's not the goal, right?

Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by whatevaa on Friday August 22, 2025 @04:55PM (#44989699)
There is a video of DYI aimbot of using a camera and sending electrical impulses into his arm to make him do certain adjustments. It's a bit hit and miss but seems refineable.

It's cat and mouse game.

Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by pxc on Friday August 22, 2025 @06:01PM (#44990383)
Is cyborg doping even cheating? At least at this stage it's still high effort and DIY. That almost makes it legitimate to me
Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by internetter on Friday August 22, 2025 @07:08PM (#44991033)
many sport communities call doping cheating
Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by pxc on Friday August 22, 2025 @07:39PM (#44991286)
and that's reasonable! but it's not a given. It's different from other kinds of cheating and some of its motivations are unusual when it comes to cheating restrictions (e.g., long-term health of players)
Re:The issue of anti-cheat on Linux by dpoloncsak on Monday August 25, 2025 @01:35PM (#45016430)
This is probably the video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-EbjGSRyKA&pp=ygUZYmFzaWNhb...

BasicallyHomeless has made it his life mission to eradicate cheating in video games.