Emoji might be the right choice there. Sometimes I’ll just send back 🤷 or a gif in text messages or quicker formats but for something like Lemmy or Mastodon, I think a more effortful reply is desired since the point of those services is the conversation.

Absolutely, and it isn’t to say I never use emoji/emoticons but I don’t on social media that much. You can convey emotion and vibe with a bit of nuanced typing. This is likely lost on some folks but others seem to be tuned to it, almost like body language. Grammarly actually has a tone mapper built in to tell you what sort of tone you are sending out.

I feel like emoticons are in some ways cheating at using words and thus it shows a lack of effort put into your communication. I use them mostly in quicker format messaging like Discord. I don’t blame anyone for using a 🤷 or such but I’d like to try to be more eloquent.

It’s telling how even Epic games doesn’t use just EAC for Fortnite.

Some quick research send like it highly depends on the lodge. From Wikipedia

Grand Orient de France, in addition to recognising women’s masonry, decided in 2010 that there was no reason that its lodges should not be able to initiate women, thus adding another strand to international co-masonry

So it seems some do allow for co-ed rituals such as initiation. That said the whole thing sounds pretty sexist to me. I’d probably just avoid the whole organization or any ties to them. No reason to give that group more power.

Just what sounds like what happened from the data provided. I’m not saying they did or didn’t. I’m saying that’s what it sounds like to me.

I don’t feel like we can even place blame for this on YouTube because they are just dealing with the situation as they would thousands of other accounts flagged as imposters. It seems clear that they saw this information and maybe you were reported, maybe the automated system of “REMVideoArchive” vs “REMArchive” got triggered as too close and they picked the one with the most metrics/presence.

They uploaded 2 months ago, so it feels recent enough to say they are active.

From the data you provided. I also put a qualifier on that which you cut out: “It sounds like” which means I am just working from the data you provided and the quick Google on the term you provided. The end result is that there seems to be another YouTube channel with an active website that is almost exactly the YouTube channel name you had. It seems like YouTube saw this and removed your channel as an imposter of theirs.

Did you know of this other channel? Did you have contact with them? Were you uploading content similar to theirs, potentially the same archive footage from different sources?

Are you aware of https://remvideoarchive.com/ It sounds like yes, and you were taking their archive content and reuploading them. Their official YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/@REMVideoArchive where if yours was REMArchive, I don’t see how you’d be in the right. You were impersonating the YouTube channel tied to this fan group. Did you have any contact with this group?

Looks like for everything there is plugins and lsp support for. Like vsc but not Microsoft.

Most people put security cameras in their homes despite them being able to be remotely hacked. Lots of people have an Alexa which could also be seen as letting a stranger in. A lot of people use tools that could be used to compromise their direct use but trust they don’t as for things like anti-cheat being malware. That’s all FUD. There has not been a single large anti-cheat company known to be sending unneeded or personalized user data.

On the server side, you could check for abnormalities in a person’s stats, for example if they get >90% headshots, if they’re getting a lot of kills outside a weapon’s normal range, amount of time aiming at enemies through walls that they shouldn’t be able to see etc etc

That’s called heuristics and EAC does that as well. Why not do both?

Not saying there shouldn’t be any clientside anticheat at all but at the point of the anticheat putting itsself in kernel space it’s gone too far

Why? this isn’t the opinion of a lot of the players out there.

You can’t get access to the SDK without a license. A license takes moments to get but makes it so you can’t just pass it around. Unreal is the same way but they have plugins to add the SDK support for unreal

Why should they. They are in the business if making innovative and interesting games. Not innovative hardware or dealing with 2% of the marketplace. They don’t even fully support Mac which has a larger market share. I can’t blame them for making their business one of reducing risks in underdeveloped areas.

We’ve already established you have to trust the client to some extent in a typical game.

Also do you lock your front door despite people being able to lockpick it? Most people do because it raises the barrier to entry.

Yes but also the barrier to entry on those sorts of hacks is very high. Every houses front door lock can be picked in the matter of minutes. The issue is that lots of people don’t have that skill.

Lastly there are heuristic anti cheat but that’s really only a catch all for inhuman inputs. Not a full solution.

Client code isn’t trusted but no matter what the is one set of data you most trust that comes from the client. Input data. So with input data it can be manipulated that another application calculate out a headshot and sends that input. So even only trusting the client where you have to, you’ve failed to secure the game fully because you need to trust input data.

Ha, k, if you believe so.

That’s simply not a great solution. You can’t make a fast paced fps feel good without trusting the client. Even quake has some factor of client trust. The issue is that even if the client sends just inputs across the network, you still end up with cheats that seems the exact inputs to click on a person’s head. You are trusting the inputs are sane. So that’s the raw metric of not trusting the client, it’s just sending the user data and the user data can be manipulated in order to cheat.

So you still failed to secure the game simply by trusting the client. It’s not possible and it’s an argument that comes from not understanding the technical challenge at play here.