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good and based. cock.li is a dumb joke that has gone on far too long anyway. people who seriously used them as a long term email provider, try using your brain first next time.

On the one hand, I agree it’s too little too late. On the other hand, I have to wonder why the shift from the status quo at all?

Even then, that setting doesn’t unhide the “.lnk” file extension, that requires a registry edit: https://www.askvg.com/tip-how-to-show-file-extensions-of-shortcuts-lnk-url-pif-in-windows-explorer/

Although shortcuts are pretty easy to spot in the first place unless you just double-click things without paying attention lol

What does this have to do with piracy

Were there no hostages Israel would never agree to a ceasefire. They would claim they need to eradicate Hamas no matter the cost.

So… you mean like how things are already? That’s the exact point I’m making, lmao.

The massive demonstrations for a ceasefire inside of Israel are to get the hostages out. Not because they care for Palestinians.

No shit. But what good is a “ceasefire” if it doesn’t actually end the war? Hamas has no incentive to agree to hand over hostages if Israel is just going to resume bombing the shit out of Gaza as soon as they’ve been released, which is what most of the demonstrators actually want.

I’ll be honest, at this point I don’t know what purpose the hostages are serving anyway. The Israeli government is not negotiating for their return in good faith, and they aren’t deterring the wholesale glassing of the Gaza strip. Clearly there is no legitimate interest in getting the hostages back alive. Even if you consider the token Israeli “protests” being organized, most of those people aren’t actually demanding an end to the war. It’s pretty clear the hostages are no longer serving as useful bargaining chips (if they ever were). I can’t say I really blame this guy.

In fact, one may even argue this was an act of mercy compared to the alternative of being indefinitely held prisoner in presumably pretty poor conditions, just waiting to be murdered by the IDF.

That’s actually pretty cool. I was born with one of my adult molars missing and always wished this was possible. Hope the results turn out positively.

Lmao, that’s news to me. Where is my pay check, Denuvo??? Nothing I said is incorrect, even if you don’t like it.

ehh, without hesitation I would choose Denuvo over being forced to install and run yet another third-party always-online launcher (Uplay, EA client, etc.) just to start the game.

Unpopular opinion, but I don’t really get the amount of hate Denuvo receives tbh. I actually do reverse engineering for a hobby and a living, and honestly there are so many much worse DRM schemes game publishers could be pushing on consumers. People act like Denuvo is the most invasive, terrible DRM ever lol. It lets you activate the game offline, and also gives you a huge amount of machine activations per day, more than any reasonable person would need.

All the performance issues people complain about are just the game developers being dipshits in how they integrate it, by not reading documentation, etc., but that’s not Denuvo’s fault. Like, yes by all means blame the publishers for forcing their developers to slap Denuvo on as an after-thought 2 days before launch, but let’s not pretend it’s Denuvo that is the problem. They’re providing a solution to publishers, and if it wasn’t them it would be some other company with probably even worse tactics. I don’t think its unreasonable for a company to want to protect their IP, when without it games would be getting cracked and pirated on day 1. I also don’t think its unreasonable for pirates and crackers to do their thing, but to be so entitled as to expect that you should be able to easily pirate every new game the second it comes out is silly.

Care to elaborate?

for Windows another good one is https://github.com/audiamus/BookLibConnect

IANAL (and am not a lawyer)

I’m curious what you think Navalny stood for, which you claim to totally support? Spoilers, he was an ultra far-right nationalist piece of human garbage.

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hard pass

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When the source of a crack/patch isn’t trusted, I’d do like you said and install it in a VM, then compare the patched files with their unpatched copies using diffing software (Beyond Compare’s hex compare feature is useful for this). If there are a huge amount of changes, like completely different size and content, or it is protected with a packer (typically will be a several MB larger), I would definitely steer clear of it. If it’s just a few changed bytes (and maybe the digital signature overlay is stripped off), then it’s most likely safe and you can just copy the patched files out of the VM and overwrite your main install.

Edit: Also, always prefer official installers directly from the developer’s site if they are available; “pre-cracked” installers are always a red flag to me.

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