TwilightKiddy

Stop teaching people how to scream, please.

Could have just used class E addresses, at least then it would look intentional insead of brainless.

The instance I'm using (programming.dev) offers five custom UIs and they are mostly available under subdomains by the first letter of the UI name:
Tesseract (t.programming.dev)
Photon (p.programming.dev)
Alexandrite (a.programming.dev)
Mlmym (old.programming.dev, because this one tries to mimic old Reddit UI)
Voyager (v.programming.dev)

Makes sense to use a lower level domain for that, I think.

If you do this, be sure to make an image of your EFI partition and/or keys and keep it somewhere safe along with whatever is needed to restore the partition. Because if something tempers with it, your computer will stop booting because sighed hashes no longer match the ones calculated and you'll be locked out of your own system without some sort of way to restore the partition to a safe state.

@onlinepersona@programming.dev

As bad as secure boot is, that's exactly the use case for it. Frankly, you can both swap the CD and solder a new BIOS flash if you are really interested in boot poisoning, the latter is just a tiny bit harder to do without some sort of trace.

Mainly because then the manufacturer decides on how your stuff is encrypted, no likie.

Well, something has to be. You can have your EFI partition on a separate drive and then the actual drive will be fully encrypted. It's just as good as we can get, the algorithm for decrypting the data obviously can't be encrypted.

I think there are implementations with encryption logic stored in the BIOS or on a separate chip, but don't quote me on that. And even then, the decryption logic itself will be unencrypted, because, as it happens, computers can't run encrypted code.

Yes, but the latter is easier to read. I know what the former is, but my colleague could definitely use additional brain cells. And if they don't understand it, I'll be the one explaining. That's also the reason for not using abbreviations besides the most common ones in variable names. Always assume your code will be read by a typewriter monkey.

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Well, I'm a LibreWolf + uBlock hard mode guy, but that's, I think, the first time one of those anti-bot systems just outright crumbles without any even potential way to fix it. When requesting a challenge the server responds with a 708 code, which is not a standard one, so, I have absolutey zero idea on how to make it happy.

If you can't fix it, I propose you replace it with something like anubis.
Another funny way to combat bots that does not disrupt the user is honeypotting bots with a hidden link on the page that just blacklists the IP address of anyone touching the endpoint.

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From what I understand, the purpose of the community is to find discounted games. Even if the developer/publisher is posting about a discount on their own product, they are contributing to this exact purpose. Making them work for the ability to post will probably only turn them away. Also, this system may encourage people to create throwaway accounts for posting their own games.

Making it a public poll also feels bad. Obviously there are more non-developers here who won't be very considerate of what such a change means for the developers.

Current Reddit version of the rule practically boils down to "disclose yourself, engage at least a little bit, don't flood", which more or less tries to prevent any harmful behavior. The proposed change instead turns it into a rule that forcefully makes developers work for the community they are already contributing to.

On the other hand, if you want to discuss @hfgames@lemmy.world specifically, they already broke the rule. This account was clearly created to post promotions for their game exclusively and does not engage with any community they post to nor openly discloses who they are (should be fairly obvious judging by the username, but still).

And there is another point to be made. Rules are not accessible fully on Lemmy and you need to know that this is a copy-paste community from Reddit to know the rules. Instead of changing them, I think it's a good idea to make the rules fully accessible here first.