Freesoftwareenjoyer @ Freesoftwareenjoyer @lemmy.world

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We are judging lemmy.world admins based on their decisions and inaction is also some kind of a decision. Facebook is a threat and they've decided to not treat it seriously.

Every day of people still using Reddit is a day when a portion of humanity's ability to communicate is controlled by one psychopath.

Probably, but they raised the cost for us, so we should do the same to them. Maybe we would eventually reach a point when companies using that product decide that it's not longer worth it to pay X amount of money for a game to be "protected" for only Y amount of days. I think that should be the goal. To raise the costs, to make DRM as impractical for them as possible.

Yes, there are many things that people should be taught at school. Technology is just one area. All of the things you said are also very important, but it doesn't make what I said invalid.

Knowing marketing, for example, wouldn’t cause someone to be fooled to the point of saying something like this:

        But they should know what cryptocurrencies and AI are, since those technologies are slowly becoming a part of our lives.


  

Fooled by what exactly? A distributed ledger or machine learning? I think it's a simple fact that those technologies are becoming more popular.

You make it sound like the problem is technology.

The post is about privacy and software. It's important for people to be educated in other areas as well, but they weren't the topic of this discussion. So there was no point for me to mention them.

You’re focusing on a single channel of abuse.

I make software, so I talk about software. I'm not an expert in the other areas that you mentioned.

More people working on breaking Denuvo would mean more cracked games and more vulnerabilities being found. Even if Denuvo team could keep up with that, it would be extra cost for them.

Perhaps, but more people knowing how it works would help find new ones faster.

Yes and how is the developer supposed to earn their money when they can't spy on people and insert ads1111

You think it was just a fake promise? I haven't thought about it, but it's certainly possible.

Only employees can have an account on those servers. Registration is not open to the public.

I admire your optimism. To me it seems like the situation is getting worse. Corporations invented a DRM that's difficult to crack in order to make pirates less effective and they succeeded.

That's a shame. I wonder what it would take to change that. I would really like to see Denuvo become useless some day.

So you see no problem in living in a world where everything is recorded. That's crazy.

Many people think they are not easily swayed, but in reality most people don't have any training in critical thinking and often don't know how to verify if something is fake. Things like confirmation bias make it pretty hard.

Since only one person is doing it right now, I'm not sure that it's so certain that there will be other people who will want to do this. Even if someone new shows up, how many years will it take them to learn all of this? There is no reason to be ok with this secrecy. It only hurts the community.

Is that really good enough for you? Wouldn't you prefer to make this area as easy for new people to enter as possible? Keeping this knowledge secret benefits only those few people. I don't understand why anyone would be ok with this.

By keeping the knowledge to herself, she is slowing down the society's progress on destroying Denuvo. She also created a single point of failure. If she is gone, a lot of that knowledge will be lost. What will the community do then?

I'm not saying she doesn't deserve to earn money for her work. But she has the power to make it easier for other crackers to crack Denuvo. With enough people like that, maybe Denuvo could be destroyed entirely? Wouldn't that be a more worthy cause to support? But it seems that instead of actually helping the society, her priority is to be the only one who benefits.

That's crazy. Those people are no better than the companies that put DRM in their products then.

I wonder if we could do crowdfunding to pay someone to write and release the documentation? This way Denuvo cracking would be easy for any experienced cracker to learn.

Wait, so crackers don't publish any documentation on cracking Denuvo? They just keep all the knowledge to themselves? Or is it just that nobody else wants to do it?

The best thing that comes to mind is to maybe have some “special” instance (or just an application, kinda like what Mastodon’s Android app does - at least with the new update) whose purpose is to guide users through sign up and choosing an instance. I think this would kill two birds with one stone. Guiding users through instance-selection, maybe briefly explaining what an instance is and eventually pointing to more user-friendly docs, could already be much more manageable for everybody, and could feel like a more seamless experience, similarly to traditional social media.

That's a very good idea. The website https://join-lemmy.org could have something like that or we could make a new website for it.

People are already adjusting to the decentralized services, but it's possible that they will never become popular enough for most people to have to learn how to use them.

You are right that it's a huge field, but I'm not saying that we should be familiar with all of it. I'm saying that since we rely on software every day, there are a few concepts that every person should understand on a basic level. That knowledge would help them make better decisions and probably the world would be better if most people had it. Software developers should also understand those few concepts, but perhaps on a bit deeper level than an average person would.

A person can have privacy without knowing what SPI is, but it's very unlikely for them have it or keep it long term if they don't know what Free Software is. What you do requires deep knowledge of the hardware, which an average person doesn't need to have. But they should know what cryptocurrencies and AI are, since those technologies are slowly becoming a part of our lives.

I don't blame average people or software engineers for not knowing those things. But I think something went wrong in our society if people don't understand very important concepts that impact our daily lives and which are mostly decades old. This proves that we can't keep up with modern technology even on a basic level. Don't you think that's bad?