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  • if you’re using windows and expect any privacy at all […] throw that notion out the window

    Correct. And the same is true even if you are using linux, macOS, android, or a butterfly to manipulate bits to send a message through the internet.

    Because if your message ends up on the screen of a windows user, it’s also going to be eaten by AI.

    And forget the notion of “anything you post on the internet is forever”, this is also true for private and encrypted comms now. At least as long as they can be decrypted by your recipient, if they use windows.

    You want privacy and use linux? Well, that’s no longer enough. You now also need to make sure that none of your communications include a (current or future) windows user as they get spyware by default in their system.

    Well maybe not quite by default, yet





  • ugo@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.mlGamedev and linux
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    8 months ago

    In my somewhat limited but relevant experience, the amount of platform specific bugs is indeed that low. I mean, there’s of course a layer of platform-specific low level stuff which is highly subject to platform specific issues, but once you go above that layer and into game code proper, most bugs are just bugs.

    I didn’t fix 400 “Linux-only” bugs, but I did fix dozens of “seems Linux specific” and “only happened when at least one Linux client was connected” bugs, and a grand total of 2 were caused by platform differences. And of those two, zero were Linux specific. The platform difference in this case was about how different compilers optimise non-crashy types of UB.

    Of course, we don’t want UB at all so the fix is to remove it.







  • ugo@feddit.ittoMemes@lemmy.mlunholy software..
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    10 months ago

    You clearly have never tried flashing a microcontroller from a windows host. Have to scour the internet for some random ass driver to install.

    No such thing in Linux.

    Or you might never have tried using some random Ethernet usb adapter where windows doesn’t quite know what to do, if it doesn’t have an alternative connection to try and automatically download the drivers (not always finding them)