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As heartbreaking it is to say this, I have the impression that Hong Kong hasn't had its own law for roughly five years. Isn't this really mainland China's law?

I suppose the people writing the headline have little choice but to go along with Beijing's way of framing and phrasing things, no matter how misleading it might be.

Let's hope they also do something meaningful about it.

A few million dollars in fines will not fix it. Making it a felony, convicting and punishing the people responsible (extraditing them if necessary), might.

To be clear, I think the original Pirates! actually was Sid Meier's work. I'm not sure about this remake.

Running it wasn't exactly straightforward. My CD-ROM copy was a no-go, but I managed to get the GOG version working in a 32-bit Wine prefix with DXVK. (I'm on linux.) Remaining problems are lack of wide-screen support (so I run it in a full-height window) and pauses between various scenes (which I might be able to solve with an older Wine version). It's playable already, though; I'm glad I put in a little effort.

Other linux users wanting to try it might want to use Lutris, which seems to have install scripts for it, or a console emulator. Or maybe the Steam version works fine through Proton? I haven't tried it.

I think how often this is a problem varies widely from person to person. I don't remember the last time I gave a mobile number out to a company, but it was more than a few years ago. The last few that strictly required one were non-essential; I just took my business elsewhere.

Discord’s audio and video end-to-end encryption (“E2EE A/V” or “E2EE” for short)

That last bit is a little concerning. E2EE is widely understood to mean full end-to-end encryption of communications, not selective encryption of just the audio/video bits while passing the text around in the clear. If Discord starts writing "E2EE" for short when describing their partial solution, it is likely to mislead people into thinking their text chats are protected, or thinking that Discord is comparable to real E2EE systems. They aren't, and it isn't.

We want an E2EE A/V protocol that is publicly auditable

Their use of the word "auditable" here is also concerning. What does it mean for a protocol to be auditable? Sure, it's nice that they're publishing their design, but that doesn't allow independent audit of the implementation that actually runs on their servers and (importantly) people's devices. Without publicly auditable code that can be independently, built, run, and used instead of the binaries they provide, there's no practical way to know that it matches the design that was reviewed. And even if code is made available, without a way to verify that the code being run is the code that was inspected, any claim giving the impression that the system was audited is misleading at best.

During the rollout phase, a single non-supporting member being present forces the call to transport-only encryption. The call will automatically “upgrade” to E2EE if that member disconnects.

This sort of thing has historically been ripe for abuse. (See also: downgrade attack.) I hope they are very careful about how they implement it.

The protocol uses Messaging Layer Security (MLS) for group key exchange

Interesting. This makes me wonder if their motivation might be eventual compliance with the European Digital Markets Act. If that is the case, perhaps they also have a plan in the works for protecting text chats?

My early impression, based on what they wrote:

This won't fix Discord's major fundamental flaws. However, if their E2EE A/V design holds up to scrutiny, and if they were to fix their problematic language and provide truly auditable client code, the protection offered for audio & video could at least reduce Discord users' exposure to unwanted harvesting of voice & face samples. A step in the right direction, and a timely one, given that biometric data collection and AI impersonation are on the rise.

Seems unlikely that all these would have fallen here.

I wonder what sort of creature would go around collecting them, only to leave them out where they would reflect light and attract the attention of anyone passing by. It's almost as if...

What was that sound?

@latenightblog@procial.tchncs.de was created ~37 minutes ago.

Their only post violates rule 2, and probably violates lemmy.world rule 8 (misinformation).

Somebody please show them to the door.

I'm so sorry. I promise my laughter is not at you.

also any inputs are probably scraped

ftfy

Let's hope it's the bad outputs that are scrapped. <3

Games requiring kernel-level anti-cheat are such a small minority of games that I struggle to think how this could mean big anything (good or bad) to Linux gaming in general.

It's funny how different scenes stand out to different people. If someone had asked me to list the most memorable bits of The Lighthouse, the scenes you mentioned wouldn't have entered my mind. Dafoe's monologue, on the other hand, will stick with me for a long time to come.