Sweepi

These stats should not auto-ban, but flag for human review.

ImO, the goal is to find the statistic cheaters will skew since they are cheating.

Lets say, one is wall-hacking in Counter-Strike. In Counter-Strike, many maps have a central location/lane called "mid". There is often a kind of mind-game of limited information going on:

  - Does 0, 1, or both teams have an AWP(=one-shot kill sniper)
  - Is the enemy sniper guarding mid?
  - Which entrance to mid is the enemy sniper currently watching?
  - Has the enemy sniper guarded mid in the beginning, but has now left?

Any wall-hacker will be a major outlier regarding not running into mid while the enemy sniper is watching.

If you can accurately dissect/classify/log player behavior, I expect the statistics to look similar to those of poker players who cheat and know the cards of the other players on the table: https://media.pokertube.com/uploads/2025/12/5d96fe17d39043a0...

dont know the point of the table, but here it is:

  |gap      |gzip      |bz2  |lzma    | 
  |---------|----------|-----|--------|
  |0        |2.7%      |18.9%|  *0.9%*| 
  |8 KB     |2.4%      |17.8%|   0.9% |
  |*40 KB*  |*94.4%*   |17.7%|   0.4% |
  |1 MB     |*104.3%*  |19.7%|  *0.9%*|

  | I would like to respond because you're speaking authoritatively but this is mostly your opinion.

Sorry, I felt inclined to respond to your broad claim "It's nearly impossible to play multiplayer games now without KLAC". XKCD 'Wait, Honey, sb. is wrong on the internet', we both know it.

  | Indeed. The goal is to reduce cheating to a manageable level. It is impossible to eliminate.

I agree with the goal, but KLAC is not an acceptable way to get there. I would rather suggest to:

  - dont trust the client
  - really dont trust the client
  - support / let customers host the servers (they are the ones who will put in the time required to deal with cheaters, and they will also be there once the devs/publisher have abandoned a game)
  - Use statistics a lot more: mark outliers for review, and until review, aggressively move them to their own matchmaking bracket. 
  - Implement a "demo"-style replay format for matches/sessions (which therefore contains all inputs of all parties). Make all "ranked" or eq. matches publicly available (no names/chat, just the gameplay) and people will develop tools in their free time to detect cheaters.

Also: Have a simple trust score (Account age * Money spent), and act more aggressive on people with low trust score. Let new people improve their trust score by reserving ~$100 on a credit card which will be billed if the account gets banned for cheating.

  | Ryzen 7 and an AMD GPU

Ryzen 7 is a 9 year old, AMD GPU a 20 year old generic term. If Notebookcheck is correct, the "Lenovo ThinkBook 16 G7 ARP" comes with a Zen3(+) CPU and a RDNA 2 GPU, both released 6 years ago.

If Zen3+ vs Zen3 is a significant architectural difference, than it would slightly miss the 5 year mark, since it was released 4.5 years ago.

I want to clarify to anyone reading this that this only effects high-competitive games, like LoL, Valorant, PUBG, R6S; and not all of them (e.g. Counter Strike).

It does not affect "multiplayer" in general, to the contrary, most multiplayer games are not affected (coop games, MMOs, RTS).

  | It's nearly impossible to play multiplayer games now without KLAC. The cheating is out of control.

Ofc, cheating is also present with KLAC, its just the next level of the cat and mouse game (Driver exploits, DMA access via PCIe, Network Packet analysis, ...)

  | Unfortunately this is an ideological hill that many Linux devs are willing to die on

Nonsense. 1. Almost no anticheat is implemented on Linux in the first place. Most "working" anti-cheat solutions for Linux are just a #if Linux doNothing(); #else ... 2. KLAC requires SecureBoot/ChainOfTrust + closed source code running with highest privileges. This does not make sense for any PC, but I dont see why it would be harder to do on Linux than on Windows, Linux just has a smaller install base in general and a lower acceptance rate for KLAC, therefore its not worth it to implement.

Its the perfect date for people who see all of their "real" family once per year, at CCC. Lots of couples attending obv.

Annoying omission that only the latest "4th gen" heart rate sensor was tested, 2nd gen (Apple Watch <6, all SE models) and 3rd gen (Apple Watch 6-11) are not mentioned and it would have been very interesting to compare.

|If someone has the ability to give 2$ for every 1$ I give, why are they only giving on contingence? |Just give the money!

Why? If i had the money, I would do the same.

reads like a glitch from Pokemon Red/Blue (Gen1). Even the simplest tests would have catched this issue.

FAQ by SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/faq/?guildid=215154001799413770#why-sho...

"Why should the community trust Nexus Mods with SteamDB?"

You shouldn't have to take our word for it, so here are the commitments, in writing, that you can hold us to:

  SteamDB stays free.
  Nothing currently free goes behind a paywall.
  We don't sell your personal data.
  SteamDB keeps its own identity, site and community.
  The extension stays free and keeps working.

"You can see this simply by observing that the actual places that are progressive controlled - major blue cities - are the most dysfunctional places in the country."

Serious question - what is 'dysfunctional' about 'blue cities' that works better in 'red cities'?

> At some point, the pathway for Microsoft to regain some of the goodwill associated with Minecraft is to fire the senior lawyer most responsible for sending out these notices.

Why would anyone with brain give them any good will for that? I might believe them if they would give Luanti 2x the damages and gave in writing that they will pay 10x damages the next time this happens.

100%!

The future of supercars is to outlaw them to make any engine noise on the road. There is no reason to have engine noise other then that not having engine noise is not possible at a given price point. This is obviously not the case with "supercars".

If you want to buy a toy that makes noise, get a non street-legal car for the race track. There is no reason why 99.9..% of the population should be required to tolerate more (street-)noise than necessary.

China reduced the CO2/kWh of electricity by 33% in the last 20 years, while increasing output by 320%.

The U.S. reduced it by 37%, while increasing output by ... 12%.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?tab=line&...

Also talking into considering the insane wealth disparity and the current rate of change, "coal" is just ragebait.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-mix?tab=line&...

Update[20260828]: Framework made this statement(unfortunately only to the press, not on their website):

We've received reports of a small percentage of Framework Laptop 13 7040 Series BIOS updates resulting in non-bootable boards and are investigating the root cause of the issue. In the meantime, in addition to replacing in-warranty Mainboards, we are making exceptions for out-of-warranty replacements where we can confirm a stable-release BIOS update caused the board to become non-bootable.

In parallel to this, we're introducing "Crisis Recovery Mode" BIOS functionality to enable a path for failed updates to be directly recoverable. Our latest Framework Desktop BIOS release includes this functionality, and we are actively bringing it to Framework Laptop 12, 13, and 16 in our upcoming BIOS

Update[20260828]: Framework made this statement(unfortunately only to the press, not on their website):

We've received reports of a small percentage of Framework Laptop 13 7040 Series BIOS updates resulting in non-bootable boards and are investigating the root cause of the issue. In the meantime, in addition to replacing in-warranty Mainboards, we are making exceptions for out-of-warranty replacements where we can confirm a stable-release BIOS update caused the board to become non-bootable.

In parallel to this, we're introducing "Crisis Recovery Mode" BIOS functionality to enable a path for failed updates to be directly recoverable. Our latest Framework Desktop BIOS release includes this functionality, and we are actively bringing it to Framework Laptop 12, 13, and 16 in our upcoming BIOS

"You need an account to view content on Gander" Why would this be a good idea?

> For three years, the laptop has served me well, until Framework suggested via newsletter to install the latest BIOS update, version 3.20, with a bunch of security fixes. Unfortunately, the system hung and displayed a corrupt image on the screen, signifying a failed BIOS flash.

> Naturally, I reached out to Framework support, who told me to unplug the laptop, let the battery drain, and power it back on again afterwards, hoping the laptop would recover by itself. Unfortunately, it never did, and after giving Framework a bunch of information, they informed me that since my 1-year warranty has expired, I have no option but to purchase a new Framework motherboard, which will cost at least CA$500.

This is very disappointing.

  1) Framework failed in not implementing a bootloader which takes a BIOS file on a USB-Stick and flashes it w/o requiring a working BIOS/Firmware or even a CPU/RAM. Every $70 Desktop-Mainboard worth its salt has this feature.

  2) Considering 1) and that it was an official BIOS that caused the issue, Framework should repair (replacing/re-flashing the BIOS chip) for shipping fees max.

I am furious. We have recovery-bootloaders in devices with $10 bill of materials. Its not rocket science!

> value degrades more compared a simple (and clean, euro 6) diesel or petrol engine here

why not buy a used EV then?

> The Chinese brands IMO are not there yet.

Thanks for keeping the lights on for my neighbors for a few more years. However, I think BYD is there, and if weren't for the EU's Chinese EV Important tax, you could almost buy 2 BYDs (one for driving and one for spare parts /s) for the price of an equivalent VW.

I am not a car journalist and therefore have only seen 10s and not 100s/1000s of cars, but for my limited sample size: 100% of German(and most American and Japanese) car software is offensively bad. No idea whats so hard about getting at least the performance of a 10 year old iPad in a car.

Also: If you want "German Quality", the closest you will get is by buying a Japanese/Korean car. If money is of no concern, the Mercedes EQS might be an OK option, but they lost their stand out feature by no longer selling (giving up on?) Level 3 self-driving.

> New generation is so oversensitive: We were experimenting on Gen 11 hardware (RX 7900 XT) while Faith was working with a 10th Gen GPU (RX 7800 XT). We weren't able to replicate Faith's results for quite a while, due to architecture changes between these two generations.

... they are both RDNA3?

The colors look so different here:

https://nipponprints.com/images/tsuchiya-koitsu/summer-moon-...

(non-deeplink: https://nipponprints.com/tsuchiya-koitsu/summer-moon-at-miya... )

Also:

> In the cabin, the heft makes the plane feel almost still, even at 500 miles an hour and 35,000 feet; it is the only plane I have ever flown in whose takeoff and landing were imperceptible to the senses.

"Only"? Not "First"? Ever flown an A380?

> In November 1940, philosopher Aloys Müller criticized Planck’s views in a Naturwissenschaften piece titled “Naturwissenschaft und reale Außenwelt” (“Natural Science and the Real External World”). A month later, Planck responded in print—and used the exact same title. This, Gingras and Khelfaoui suspect, caused Springer Nature’s copyright bot to retract the paper as plagiarism decades later, even though the contents of the two essays differ markedly.

> The debate over the Copenhagen interpretation remains active today, which explains why Gingras and Khelfaoui find the retractions so troubling: A key scientist’s views on an important controversy have been memory holed.

> Both Scarlata and Gingras are concerned that papers by less prominent scientists have disappeared as well without anyone realizing. At a minimum, Gingras wants Planck’s papers restored. “Whoever did it, I don’t care,” he says, “just put them [back] in the database. Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”

Thanks, copyright bots.

You own a company so valuable that the tax on selling it shares puts you in serious trouble, but you still need to a start "a job"? A Job that requires you to change your nationality/tax residency to a non EU-state?

Edit: Maybe I should give an example: Lets say you build up a company, your shares are worth ~100k, while you payed yourself a living salary of ~2k so you could pay rent and buy groceries but not much more, especially no savings. Now you get on offer to work in the US for 180k/a, you sigh "finally" and just want to move, but the German wants 30k Taxes on your unrealized ~100k capital gain before your leave - Is this the kind of situation you are referring to?

Maybe I am missing the point, but what is the alternative? You found a company in Germany, dont realize your gains, therefore dont pay taxes, then leave the country, realize your gains, and still dont pay taxes? Why should Germany or any other country allow this?

Its incredible how much better Italian houses/cities feel at 30C(86F) compared to e.g. German houses/cities at 30C.

While the adaption of solar + air-conditioners (better: reversible heat-pumps) will be a good thing, I hope the local/conventional methods to deal with heat are not forgotten.

Why not quote the rule, if it is so offending?:

  Wikipedia is not an experiment in democracy or any other political system. Its primary (though not exclusive) means of decision making and conflict resolution is editing and discussion leading to consensus—not voting. (Voting is used for certain matters such as electing the Arbitration Committee.) Straw polls are sometimes used to test for consensus, but polls or surveys can impede, rather than foster, discussion and should be used with caution.

  Off-site petitions and votes have no weight in the formation of consensus on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...