justJanne

That assumes you’re on some VPS with a hardware firewall in front.

Often enough you’re on a dedicated server that’s directly exposed to the internet, with those iptables rules being the only thing standing between your services and the internet.

Considering that reading source code can take a long time

You’ll get faster over time, until reading code is faster than reading documentation, as code will always represent what’s truly happening, while docs are frequently outdated.

In a language the user isn’t familiar with

If you’re not that familiar with the language, it’s likely you won’t be contributing to the project. Open source projects usually to have quite limited resources, so they tend to optimize docs and dev UX for people who are likely to contribute.

If you can only have a good experience by installing malware, you don’t have a good experience.

I really should finish building that nvidia jetson based hardware anticheat that’d allow anyone to cheat even in vanguard protected games with perfect accuracy for just ~150$. Ring 0 anticheat’s only use is to spy on you and yet people will continue defending it until someone’s proven just how useless it is.

What you’re describing used to be right under X11, but under Wayland the compositor handles all rendering itself. For Gnome that’s mutter, which is also maintained by the gnome project.

The ICE’s max speed depends on model and variies from 250km/h to 300km/h. These speeds can be reached on:

• Hannover-Würzburg (280km/h)
• Mannheim-Stuttgart (280km/h)
• Oebisfelde-Berlin (250km/h)
• Siegburg-Frankfurt (300km/h)
• Köln-Düren (250km/h)
• Rastatt-Offenburg & Schliengen-Haltingen (250km/h)
• Nürnberg-Ingolstadt (300km/h)
• Ebensfeld-Leipzig/Halle (300km/h)
• Wendlingen-Ulm (250km/h)

There are more of these tracks currently under construction:

• Stuttgart-Wendlingen (250km/h)
• Bashaide-Rastatt (250km/h)

And many more are currently in the planning stage:

• Hamm-Bielefeld (300km/h)
• Oebisfelde-Berlin (300km/h)
• Ulm-Augsburg (300km/h)
• Gelnhausen-Fulda (250km/h)
• Frankfurt-Mannhein (300km/h)
• Bielefeld-Hannover (300km/h)
• Nürnberg-Würzburg (300km/h)

With that, the Germans will have finally won /s

Also note that even a dual boot system is leaky. A kernel level anticheat has enough power to do firmware upgrades on peripherals or the UEFI, so a badly behaving kernel level anticheat could easily take over your entire system in a way that can never be gotten rid of.

It’s not just office, SH and many other parts of the German government have been slowly replacing the entire O365 suite with OpenDesk, which is an open source product based on Matrix, Jitsi, LibreOffice, and a few other tools.

The goal is to have a fully integrated solution for calender, chat, calls, documents, cloud storage, etc.

My employer is developing parts of that solution and we recently switched our internal communication over to it, and tbh, it’s working really well.

Now is the perfect point in time to do it, with the GDPR ruling regarding O365 and Microsoft fumbling the migration between old teams and new teams.

Honestly, supporting linux makes absolutely no sense for vanguard.

If you use vanguard, it’s because you’re fine with a company taking full control of your system, installing a rootkit tracking your every move.

If you use Linux, at least part of the reason is because you want to take control over your computer back.

To support vanguard on linux, you’d have had to run vanguard as hypervisor with linux running in a para-VM, or you’d have had to modify most of the linux kernel to add tracking and control capabilities that’d never get merged upstream and would break with every update.

The resulting system would be closer to android or a playstation than to actual linux distros.

It’s just like those shitty recipe sites that tell you their grandma’s life story for hours before giving the recipe. Get to the point, who cares about the anecdotes of some writer?

I don’t want to connect with everyone always everywhere. It’s just like small talk, which may be acceptable or even essential in some cultures, while considering rude and wasteful where I’m from.