The security provided by a browser is constantly changing, as the vulnerabilities, attacks, and countermeasures are constantly changing. It’s a cat-and-mouse game that never ends.
The privacy provided by a browser would be difficult to measure, since it depends a lot on browsing habits, extensions, code changes between versions, etc.
There’s no good way to calculate a metric for either type of protection, and even if there was, the metrics would be obsolete very quickly. For these reasons, I wouldn’t have tried what you attempted here.
However, there is a very simple way to compare the major browsers on privacy and reach a pretty accurate conclusion: Compare the developers’ incentives.
The argument against it is founded on copyright.
We fund copyright in order to enrich our culture, by incentivizing creative works.
Blocking creative works preservation strips away the cultural enrichment.
What’s left? People being compelled through taxes to fund profit police for copyright holders who aren’t holding up their end of the bargain.
It’s worth noting that publishers, and especially the “rightsholder groups” that they hire, are not artists. They are parasites. They are paid more than fairly for their role in getting creative works out there in the first place. I can’t think of any reason why they should have continued control after they’ve stopped publishing them.
Check the other two dozen copies that they posted in other communities. Comments in this one explain why it’s being downvoted. (It’s not because anyone dislikes interactive fiction.)
That might be true if it were pure silver, but it isn’t.
At best, it could be sterling silver. If it was made in the past century or so, it’s likely just silver plated.
Your account info says you joined Lemmy a couple of years ago. Could that have something to do with it? Could be that there are simply fewer of us here than wherever you were before.
Also, if Reddit is one of your haunts, keep in mind that a lot of communities there partially dispersed a little over a year ago, and not everyone has reappeared in the same place (or at all).
It’s possible that a post in this format might have been motivated by honest belief that we all would find it valuable, rather than a goal of farming clicks. It’s possible that a wall of text might be created because the author hasn’t yet learned what paragraphs are. It’s possible that the same post sent to dozens of communities might have been because the person behind it doesn’t really understand the fediverse. It’s possible that their account sat dormant for a quarter of a year before posting because their free time disappeared just as they were getting started with Lemmy. It’s possible that the account is run by a person, rather than an autonomous bot.
But in this case, I don’t think so. This post trips too many of my spam alarms.
This wall of text reads like self-interested promotion, rather than community discussion or valuable information.
The argument against it is founded on copyright.
We fund copyright in order to enrich our culture, by incentivizing creative works.
Blocking creative works preservation strips away the cultural enrichment.
What’s left? People being compelled through taxes to fund profit police for copyright holders who aren’t holding up their end of the bargain.
Edit: Note also that publishers and their lobby groups are not artists. They are parasites. They are paid more than fairly for their role in getting creative works out there in the first place. I can’t think of any reason why they should have continued control after they’ve stopped publishing them.
I don’t remember the artist’s name. I’m pretty sure the article was a text post, probably a blog. Not a youtube video.
Some years ago, an artist who was not a mega-star but was on all the major music services published an article detailing how well each one paid. I’m now kicking myself for not bookmarking it. I clearly remember Spotify being among the worst, if not the worst.
I edited my comment again around the same time you were replying. You might want to take a look to see if anything I added helps.
Diablo IV is a DirectX 12 game. Those don’t use DXVK directly, though I think they might still use the DXGI component that comes with it, even though vkd3d-proton is providing the Direct3D 12 support.
DXVK_CONFIG_FILE is not a flag, but an environment variable. It is for overriding the location where dxvk.conf is expected to be. By default, that file is expected to be in the game’s current working directory when it starts, so you don’t need this environment variable at all if you figure out what directory that is. It’s sometimes the directory where the game executable lives, but not always. (Hint: look for a dxvk or vkd3d log file.) Details here.
Note that one person in that reddit thread says dxvk.conf can be in “any folder of the wine prefix”. As far as I know, that’s just plain wrong. It has to be where DXVK is expecting to find it.
If you can’t figure out where to put the config file, you might try applying those dxgi settings using an environment variable instead. In Steam, the game launch options would be: DXVK_CONFIG="dxgi.maxDeviceMemory = 8192; dxgi.maxSharedMemory = 8192" %command%
Here’s a different possible workaround, to be put in Steam’s game launch options: PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU=1 %command%
Or if using Lutris with a Proton Wine runner, you would add an environment variable to the game (or launcher) profile, with key: PROTON_HIDE_NVIDIA_GPU
and value: 1
.
If none of those workarounds help, you’ll want to get involved in these discussions:
https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/1588
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/7199
Edit: Several people have reported that this VRAM bug doesn’t happen on AMD cards. If you happen to have one, you might give it a try.
I don’t want their money. Money means they’ll feel even more like they own it.
I wonder if this could be avoided by having companies pay into funding pools instead of paying specific developers. Something like the Sovereign Tech Fund, perhaps with different structures or selection processes, might mitigate any sense of corporate entitlement.
Nice timing. This arrived during my Bubble Nebula stop while exploring in Elite Dangerous. (I put a screen shot in that community, in case you’re curious.) Space sure can be pretty.
Gift links have trackers. (More accurately, they are trackers.) The archive copy doesn’t have trackers or require javascript, which itself enables fingerprinting and more tracking techniques.
Or avoid Google’s “sign in to confirm your age” nonsense by watching it somewhere else, like here:
https://www.ign.com/videos/dragon-age-the-veilguard-official-launch-trailer
Funny how neither Serge Semin nor OP bothered to mention Serge’s employment history. Learn the details before jumping to conclusions, folks.
https://xcancel.com/SchmidtOcean/status/1849520079588761708
https://xcancel.com/SchmidtOcean/status/1849209667202818489
https://xcancel.com/SchmidtOcean/status/1844445395461480540
https://xcancel.com/SchmidtOcean/status/1848470099142857014
https://xcancel.com/SchmidtOcean/status/1849920791871209489