https://news.itsfoss.com/destiny-2-linux-bungie/

Bungie being a bitch as usual

Steam Deck and Destiny 2

Destiny 2 is not supported for play on the Steam Deck or on any system utilizing Steam Play’s Proton unless Windows is installed and running. Players who attempt to launch Destiny 2 on the Steam Deck through SteamOS or Proton will be unable to enter the game and will be returned to their game library after a short time. Players who are not accessing Destiny 2 through Windows and attempt to bypass the SteamOS/Proton incompatibility will be met with a game ban.

Ad injection will continue till public morale improves

I prefer the VS Code approach. The entire codebase is open but owned by Microsoft. But because of the MIT licence, the community has made VSCodium. Microsoft does not interfere with VSCodium (AFAIK). This I think is a good model.

Thanks for the explanation!

They can take their own parts (they didn’t sign an exclusive release of their code).

From this I understand that their attitude is “you can look at our entire code but don’t try making something out of it. But you are welcome to help us :)”

Linus pays me $100 a month for spamming Linux. You also get payed, right?

TIL

This is a person who has been isekai’ed into work

without actually giving back any code to the commons

Can you explain how this works?

Say a contributer downloads v1.1 of floorp, checks the code and makes a PR. Floop sees this and accepts the change and publishes v1.2. If a new contributer downloads floorp, they get v1.2 where they can see the previous merged PR.

How is it that they are not giving back? I can understand that not being on a repository makes it difficult but it’s technically possible.

TAs can earn money?

-Former TA

Whenever I face an issue in our company portal and I ask the IT team, their response is “Can you please try on Google Chrome?”

🤦🏽🤦🏽

🦊🦊

You can fork it, fix it, do whatever you want with the code, but on the main chromium repo they rarely accept PRs from random contributors

This needs to be discussed more by the community.

I can kind of understand what’s happening. They want to have complete control over what goes in an out of Chromium. Some PM is probably overseeing the PRs, and if some PR hinders their ability to collect data, that PR gets rejected. Mighty fine project this is. Other forks probably don’t have the resources to go through all the commits issued by Google and just accept them as it is. They just makes the changes to suit their own agenda. All the more reason for people to switch to Firefox

I wonder how Ungoogled Chromium is affected by all this.

We need a dedicated Green Light with Dev guidelines for Android games. Or at least a separate store section for them. I really don’t want to get flooded by low-effort mobile games.

The code doesn’t do anything on non-Google domains.

A Google engineer adds a piece of code, does not document what exactly it does, and it was approved without question. Something is seriously wrong with this or I don’t know how the Chromium project works.

True. We can also not run code at all and be perfectly safe.

I wish there was a comparison. Number of 0days in open source and 0days in closed source for comparible projects and a measure for time to mitigate the 0days.

I am no expert on code-auditing. But I’m slightly at peace that there are 100s of experts looking at the code because it’s open-source. But i also understand mistakes can still happen. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s the best solution so far.

Remember this thumb rule -> if it’s not open-source, you are allowing the software to do whatever it wants to do.

No regulation, law, support group is going to help you. You are digging your own grave.

While I welcome Android games on Steam, a part of me is repulsed by how Android game devs treat their customers; in-game ads, horrendous amount of mtx, p2w. Not saying that Steam games don’t suffer mtx but it’s way lesser.

Anyway, let’s see how it goes.

Not a priority for Microsoft anymore.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/5/24091370/microsoft-windows-11-android-apps-end-of-support

New meta dropped!