“But Minecraft already works on Wayl… oh…”

I think you’re overthinking it. You don’t need to render every skin. You just need a box that’s the maximum bounds for that player model. Again, we’re talking really low poly wireframes.

These bounds are standardized across every client, so the server already knows this information.

Games already do this with hurt boxes.

If anything, these experiences could be even more complex, considering every TV is basically a low-power computer now.

Honestly, a streaming service that recreates the original DVD menus when you select an item would probably do numbers.

But the server is the authority on player location. It can tell if a player is visible to another because it knows their locations (as well as any obfuscations) at any given instant. It doesn’t need to know what they’re going to do next until it gets that next input from the client.

Obviously calculating this requires more work on the server’s part, but in smaller competitive matches this is totally doable. We’re talking basic wireframe vectors.

EDIT: Yall are really starting to convince me to make a proof of concept for this, because I’m convinced it can be done.

You don’t even need Lutris if you have Steam. You can install it directly through Steam by adding the Blizzard Launcher as a non-Steam game.

It helps that StarCraft, while somewhat relying on speed, is much more about strategy, meta knowledge, and real-time adaptation when your plan isn’t working.

That’s not something you can easily script, even with LLMs. That’s why the bot players have to use cheats at higher difficulties, because decent players outsmart them pretty quickly.

You can absolutely configure Linux to spoof the hardware it reports to a program.

Cheaters will do anything but actually get good at the game.

Wall hacks, yes. See my other comment:

This is definitely solvable, though. The server can only send the client location updates of players they should be able to see.

If someone tried to wall hack, they’d only see the last known location before line of sight was broken.

Giving the client that data at all is like playing Battleship side-by-side and telling the player not to look at the other board.

Aimbots are much more complicated, because the client is the authority on player inputs. Even things like latency and mouse movement can be subtly randomized by cheats to appear less robotic.

This is definitely solvable, though. The server can only send the client location updates of players they should be able to see.

If someone tried to wall hack, they’d only see the last known location before line of sight was broken.

Giving the client that data at all is like playing Battleship side-by-side and telling the player not to look at the other board.

Now modern servers could dedicate each player their own CPU thread (except for maybe big battle royale servers).

I think it uses sha/shem.

My new gender identity can generate up to 43 kilopronouns per second.

You’re absolutely right. He needs to go out with a whimper, not a bang.

I think contributing to existing communities seems like the best option. Also, evangelizing the community in other places so people are more aware of it helps too. Luckily, that’s exactly what this post (kind of) does.

For example, I didn’t know there were dropout Lemmy communities. I just subbed to the blahaj.zone one.

Yes, they do. Many of them may be complicit, but not everyone is equally responsible for the harm their employer does.

This is gross and these workers obviously deserve better, but I don’t know what they expected working for Meta—the company most notorious for making billions of dollars violating everyone’s privacy (often illegally) over and over again.

Really? Tell me why.

I thought n’tsync was delayed because when I asked about the release, the devs said it’s gonna be May.

There is definitely some truth to this, but I suspect these numbers are inflated quite a bit by all the BS LLM-generated bug reports.

100% this. Until spoofing is made technically impossible, spam calls will never end.

I suspect there is no incentive to ever break spoofing because companies use this to spam and trick you with solicitation. If there is money to be made off stagnation, all progress will be aggressively resisted.