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  • Something I’ve been for a while now is why this gender disparity is so strong in this specific area of engineering compared to all other engineering areas. People seem to claim it’s because of the “geek” stereotype, but that seems more like a symptom than a cause and I fail to see how it enforces this disparity, considering there’s nothing preventing a woman from being a geek too.




  • I’ve never played it, but aren’t League of Legends servers already authoritative? Also, I’m pretty sure it would only deal with certain kinds of cheats. An authoritative server won’t be able to prevent a player from using an aimbot, for example, since nothing says that a player isn’t allowed to have super accurate aim. The server can’t tell if they are cheating or just insanely good. Nevermind I missed your sentence mentioning *-bots.

    I wonder whether, even with an omnipotent anticheat software installed, cheating would still be possible by having the router manipulate your packets on the way to the server (ie. having all the *-bot work being done on that device). I imagine TLS could maybe thwart that attempt, since the router can’t decrypt the packets, but I don’t think it’s really a problem since the client could also just provide it with the unencrypted packet and the server’s public key, so that the router may fabricate the packets. On the other hand, anticheat software would be aware of that since the client has to send those extra packets, but how could it know that those packets are being sent for nefarious purposes and not just simply some other normal software doing it’s thing?




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    6 months ago

    No, I’m not appealing to that. Fuck nazis. (I don’t actually see how my comment could be interpreted as that since my comment was in response to users complaining about having their content removed from other instances or communities, which if anything would make them the free speechers (I’m not saying that they are))

    Lemmy, in contrast to centralized platforms doesn’t force you to be restricted to the rulings of a single group of people under threat of being barred from using the entire platform.

    My point is, when you are talking on another instance, you are a guest there and it is completely expected for them to kick you out if you don’t abide by their house rules or if they don’t want you there anymore for whatever reason. While it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be criticized for it, the impression I got from the comments on this post is that they think it is some kind attack to a basic human right to remove their comments from a foreign instance and that admins should allow all content your instance allows.

    The same can be said about the reactions people from other instances display towards news of some instance defederating from the instance they are on.