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Quite frankly, this article feels like SEO bait for their website, rather than anything useful.

The best description I've been able to give of the dichotomy of CS is this: there is no way for a person to become good enough to get their signature into the game, without using kernel-level ACs.

As someone unfamiliar with the author, I had a deep amount of cynicism for the length of this piece... but damn, it's good, top to bottom.

The situation is almost always “weird networking.” A WiFi hotspot too new for a device you have. Captive authentication you can’t solve on your e-reader (this was the case for me at college). Or, as I’m using one right now, as a simple booster (with a battery plugged in).

Given that this has been available on Android for years, I do not consider it an overly difficult feature for Apple to implement.

What do you mean they can’t control it? They could stop gambling tomorrow by disabling trading and disabling case openings. Valve already appear to be preparing for the latter to happen via regulation with the “Armory” feature in CS, which follows Fortnite & other major AAA titles.

(Oh, talking about Valve electing to engage in scummy behaviour, the “X-ray” feature is a classic example of them deliberately subverting regulation against loot boxes.)

If you want to bring up the “let the free market be the free market” angle, I’d at least be amenable to it.

But pretending as if they’re innocent passengers, and that they have no idea what is going on it ludicrous. Don’t baby a billion dollar company.

(I have skin the game too. If Valve blocked trading, I’d lose $400 worth of value in my skins. I’d still rather not support gambling, especially the type that is so incredibly unregulated.)

Insane to me that Apple still does not support this.

> call of duty where they dynamically alter in game loot mechanics to get people to purchase in game items.

[Citation needed]

> I certainly dont think that Valve designed there systems to encourage gambling

Cases are literally slot machines.

> [section about third-party websites] I don't think Valve deliberately encouraged it.

OK, but they continue to allow it (through poor enforcement of their own ToS), and it continues to generate them obscene amounts of money?

> you guys are choosing to focus on the one company thats fighting against it.

Yes, we should let the billion dollar company get away with shovelling gambling to children.

Also, frankly speaking, other AAAs are less predatory with gambling. Fortnite, CoD, and VALORANT to pick some examples, are all just simple purchases from a store. Yes, they have issues with FOMO, and bullying for not buying skins [0], but oh my god, it isn't allowing children to literally do sports gambling (and I should know, I've actively gambled on esports while underage via CS, and I know people that have lost $600+ while underage on CS gambling).

[0]: https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/7/18534431/fortnite-rare-defa...

Are they on the same iCloud account? I believe that's the magic needed.

Some context from Matt Levine [0] as to what was different prior to this change.

(TL;DR, but please correct me if I'm wrong: it was previously backstopped by Ellison's revocable trust. Ellison could theoretically clear out the revocable trust at any time, and leave WBD high and dry. Now that it is backstopped by Ellison himself, there is no such worry.)

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-17/war...

From TFA:

> Google Sans Mono was created in 2020 to support contexts that needed fixed-width characters for editorial design, at medium and large text sizes. Despite this, it soon got its first big product integration, replacing Roboto Mono in Google Chat. The only problem? Developers hated it.

[...]

> Recognizing this critical need, a dedicated effort was launched to craft Google Sans Code, a monospaced typeface specifically designed to make code more readable. This involved thorough research into the 20 most common programming languages and how developers interact with code, aiming to make the new coding typeface more visually appealing while reducing the ambiguity of similar-looking letterforms. Based on these insights, Google tasked the Universal Thirst foundry to meticulously focus on specific letters, numbers, and operators to meet these requirements. The result is an eminently readable and surprisingly playful typeface.

> Google Sans Code launched as an open-source font in 2025, and is the typeface used to display code in Gemini.

Thanks for the insight, and a general thanks for AnkiDroid as well!

Within the Android drivers, right?

My current struggle is getting people to engage with my RFCs: that is, leaving comments. I certainly know they're not perfect, and I'd much rather know that before going into a meeting where we discuss the RFC. Especially so I can do any asynchronous research, or just spend some damned time thinking about it.

That being said, this is improving in my team. And I think the stakeholders above me appreciate it.

Charlie Brooker did a good bit (in 2007!) about picking the right candidates for a mock reality TV show: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NGkJxju3uKo

This feels as if it deserves a write up, did not know that they migrated from Python to a primarily Rust backend. Would love to know the why/what from the team.

(Anecdotally, Anki has seen a huge quality increase in the past couple of years.)

Wanting to know what I'm missing r/e: licensing costs.

Wikipedia [0] states:

> VESA, the creators of the DisplayPort standard, state that the standard is royalty-free to implement.

And VESA's website [1] lists Samsung, Sony and LG as being members already, so they've already paid. What am I missing here?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Cost

[1]: https://vesa.org/about-vesa/member-companies/

Yes, this is a complete exaggeration of a headline and should be flagged for that alone.

This has been a long running project, and the Tor team clearly took their time to make it, as opposed to being a spur-of-the-moment change.

it’s a double meaning, no? as the thing with leetcode is that the way to best it is persistently doing it.

ok lucky you but that doesn’t mean that the verge doesn’t have a paywall [0]

> Our original reporting, reviews, and features will be behind a dynamic metered paywall — many of you will never hit the paywall, but if you read us a lot, we’ll ask you to pay

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/3/24306571/verge-subscripti...

Verge has a dynamic paywall - so it depends on how many articles you’ve read.

this is already running in production for Counter-Strike since 2018 [0][1].

to be honest, it isn’t particularly good - all serious CS2 games operate on a third party provider with a kernel-level anti-cheat. also, the cs2 update banned people for spinning their mouse too fast [2].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/5u2xly/eli...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTiP0zKF9bc

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwU_ejDNC0s

QR Code scams are a very real issue [0].

[0]: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr430eee2w5o.amp

This isn’t anything to do with Zig though, it just happens to be the language that this crook chose.

They’ve could’ve picked Nim and done this whole spiel there (you’d want to pick a fledgling language that isn’t saturated with documentation, so the stalwarts aren’t usable).

Also wrote this wonderful article on Formula 1, which was sadly removed by the publisher: https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roada...

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But every language has those, even C.

You can just ignore those people. I’d hate to miss out on a positive technical choice because some people were being annoying about it.

There are certain places on the internet where any mention of rewriting in Rust is met with scorn and ire. And while, like any technical decision, there are pros and cons, I cannot see why in the face of astounding evidence like this, you would completely dismiss it.

And I say this as someone who has never written a line of Rust in their life (some day I'll find the time).

> The reason third-party anti-cheats are commonplace at these events is because most tournaments opt to use Faceit or similar for game scheduling. This was the case before VRS (with RMRs) and the TO could choose an anti-cheat of their choosing. This always ended up being Faceit AC or whatever platform the matches are scheduled via (For example, PGL used Challenger Mode, which used Akros Anti-Cheat). ESL of course uses Faceit because (ESL Faceit Group).

No it isn't. They're not using it by happenstance, because it is a feature of the platform, they're using it because it would not be competitively viable without it. PGL caught major flak for using Akros [0] because the tool was not good enough at the time to handle a Major qualifier. Just because something is not specified in the rulebook does not mean it is not de facto. Not a single Valve-sponsored major has ever lacked a third-party kernel anti-cheats, from the qualifiers (when they existed), to the VRS eligible events.

Yes, I am simplifying for the audience by calling them first-party. They're technically all contracted events on a tender process [1] (well, even TI is contracted out to PGL as of late).

The point still stands: events on Counter-Strike, with sponsored by Valve and with tight in-game integrations in the form of stickers, blog posts[2], and other advertisements, all rely critically on kernel-level anti-cheat for game integrity purposes.

Or to put it more succinctly: there is no viable pathway for a player to get their autograph into Counter-Strike 2 playing on Linux.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/19499bu/ak...

[1]: https://www.hltv.org/news/40764/valve-sets-start-of-march-as...

[2]: Today's blog post for the Starladder Budapest Major: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/730/view/57827633307...

Worth noting: Valve’s own first party tournaments for their own game require kernel level anti-cheat (from a third party vendor). Valve themselves have given up on allowing players in their own title play competitively in a Valve sponsored event with a kernel level anti-cheat. I can’t imagine they’d ever be this brash.

There is no adapting without a proper solution for securing game integrity.

On orders of the late Queen: https://youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw