andyburke

You can’t solve cheating on the client.

I would love this.

How can Mastodon fix this? How is this a Mastodon issue vs. any kind of social media?

Mastodon is open source, as well, right? It feels like someone should be able to fork it if they’re really ignoring useful features that would help people.

Can you point me at them? Which ones?

I don’t use Mastodon so I have no idea what’s going on, but I am curious what y’all in this thread would want Mastodon to do.

Can’t you set up an instance and moderate it to your preference like other federation style apps?

What specific features are you saying are needed to make Mastodon more usable for any community that might find itself feeling less than welcome?

Yes: all modern democracies.

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✋ Hi, person here who bought 2020 but refuses to buy 2024 because they didn’t deliver on half their promises for 2020, including that it would be the last sim they sold.

Maybe they were suprised this many people actually signed up for their next level bullshit. 🤷‍♂️

Like watching people argue fanfic canon in here. 😅

Mprotect stops any read and write and execute access to memory in both user and kernel lands (only rx or wx). Stuff like web browsers won’t work unless you have a program to mark it in elf to not use pax. However, this kills a lot of exploits with that turned on by itself (though there are probably work arounds if you are developing exploits which the other features would hopefully catch). That’s why people installed 3rd party unmainlined security patches, but that’s just me maybe idk.

I am having a hard time following what this does or why this is desirable. You’re saying there’s a patch this thing provides that … disables memory access … unless a flag is set in an executable … which will then bypass the security?

Client side anti-cheat faces similar issues, and there unlike your server you don’t control the hardware.

There are lots of options such that you can tune your false positive/negative rate. 🤷‍♂️ Tons of ways you can structure this depending on your game’s tech.

There are ways to detect and stop that, but they can and should happen on the server, not on the client.

Why would anyone want to run unmainlined security patches from a company?

This is how CrowdStrike happened.

This feels like security via business decision which is always the opposite of security. At least this would be open source now? 🤷‍♂️

The brutal cognitive dissonance you manage to encapsulated in this comment is impressive.

byeeeeeeee

You are … making my point.

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I worry sometimes that the reddit exodus brought mostly bellyachers.

The sheer boringness of these repeated questions about the size, growth, health of the fediverse.

Fuck metrics. Jesus, do you mot get it at all?