And even if the game did greatly benefit from it, most people are already using esync/fsync in lutris/proton/etc. and so they also won’t really see a difference from what they’re used to.

I was there :) And yes you’re right, but also social media didn’t really exist at the time as we know it now.

If a family finds it necessary for their 14 year old to work overnights to survive that’s not exactly a point of pride for country

Would you prefer they not be allowed to survive?

What good is outrage at something that may not even exist?

Trump legitimately believes his purpose is to put forth the rules that make his voters happy… so in that way, negotiation is more of a sign of weakness and would tank his numbers.

Other countries have been doing this for years. Australia sends people back home all day every day, for failing to declare items. Ever watch those Border Security shows? They are ruthless about it, and most of those episodes are 20 years old.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/a-3-300-fine-and-a-cancelled-visa-traveller-deported-over-undeclared-meat-cheese/3nx0mceka

Georgia (and probably many other states) already doesn’t have restrictions for 16 and 17 year olds, and the rest of these things are just choices that each business can make on their own. Plus it’s not like the workers are being forced… if they don’t like the conditions they are free to leave.

I really don’t see why there is such an outrage over giving businesses more choice in how they want to operate. The employees already have the choice to work there or find somewhere else that aligns with what they want.

Yea ever since he started the doomers have been screeching “4 more years of this!!” when the 130 day limit was always there from the beginning.

You have no proof of that…

This was already the case under Biden (since 2019 at least), and many other countries do the same. Asking for social media usernames when applying for a visa was already a normalized part of the process, so to me this is basically a nothingburger.

I prefer to stick with the original C version.

Yet there is still no PoE hat for the 5…

What you’re doing is filtering out bots that can’t be bothered to execute JavaScript. You don’t need to do a computational heavy PoW task to do that.

Most bots and scrapers from what I’ve seen already are using (headless) full browsers, and hence are executing javascript, so I think anything that slows them down or increases their cost can reduce the traffic they bring.

Canvas fingerprinting filters out bots better than PoW

Source? I strongly disagree, and it’s not hard to change your browser characteristics to get a new canvas fingerprint every time, some browsers like firefox even have built-in options for it.

I’ve seen this from people too and I have no idea why they have such a problem with using more than one app.

Imagine what their home life is like.

Proof of Work is a terrible solution

Hard disagree, because:

it assumes computational costs are significant expense for scrapers compared to proxy costs

The assumption is correct. PoW has been proven to significantly reduce bot traffic… meanwhile the mere existence of residential proxies has exploded the availability of easy bot campaigns.

Canvas fingerprinting would work.

Demonstrably false… people already do this with abysmal results. Need to visit a clownflare site? Endless captcha loops. No thanks

Definitely don’t visit the toxic comment thread there… wow

I don’t like the approach of banning nonresidential IPs. I think it’s discriminatory and unfairly blocks out corporate/VPN users and others we might not even be thinking about. I realize there is a bot problem but I wish there was a better solution. Maybe purely proof-of-work solutions will get more popular or something.

All you need in order to do this is for the client to encrypt their password before sending it to the server. Often services that advertise “zero knowledge” platforms that use end-to-end encryption will authenticate their users in this way. If this were a website for example, there could be a javascript/wasm library used within the client page that encrypts their password before a login request is sent to the server.

Proof? And by what metric? That has not been my experience whatsoever, nor have I heard any complaints about either of them.