> the article to linked says 54% and contains no codes or links
Correction: Jamie discusses “9504.90.6000” in the second-most recent comment below the post, likely as a response to this exact “no tariff codes, no knowledge” framing. (There could be other instances, I only skimmed briefly for it.)
Given Valve’s failures with AAA multiplayer games rejecting Linux due to the ease of undetectable cheating that unsecured Linux presents, once Steam Linux gains enough market foothold they’ll be able to ship attested secure boot for Linux; at which point games will start opting in to require you to be booting Valve’s anti-cheat Linux that requires TPM 2.0 to deny you kernel modding, debugging other processes, and so on. This is why Windows 11, specific enterprise versions of Windows 10, and any Apple operating system released since the T2 chip all require a TPM: preventing users with admin rights from patching kernel space stops cheating and malware, and is a ten-year lead held by Apple and Xbox over PCs and Steam Deck.
It would be deeply ironic if they licensed Microsoft’s Xbox Proton TPM, which AMD ships Windows 11 drivers for, to a new Steam Deck that support dual secure-booting attested Windows 11 and attested Linux :)
And I think it's a cat-and-mouse battle the anti-cheat folks are doomed to lose. If you have good reverse engineering chops, it seems like it would be fairly trivial to patch the "Am I running on a TPM?" check out of a game binary.
At one point on a trip to Hawaii I was detained in my room by hotel security for fifteen minutes after requesting a room key to replace the one I lost.
It turns out that they had typo’d 12 into the request type field instead of 1, and type 12 was “Covid lockdown protocol with security enforcement” leftover from 2020 and latent in their systems.
Depending on MarkMonitor have chosen to integrate with each other to handle the sort of trademark management that is MarkMonitor’s premium offering, either or both parties could have simply been off-by-one or typo’d in a transaction to cause this. It’s absolutely plausible to create a confusing nightmare outcome with a one-byte error. (And we’re having quite incredible cosmic rays today, so I hope they’re using ECC RAM!)
Have you raised this issue to Apple Support directly? They would typically escalate to the Private Relay team to confirm the issue, and having a front-door complaint is more likely to get the Apple attention you’re seeking than a post here is.
I believe https://carto.bruitparif.fr/ represents 2022 levels, but my French is very rusty and I suspect that historical data review is more readily available to a speaker of it. Perhaps that site has lockdown data as a layer somewhere?
Perhaps it’s your phrasing? To use a particularly obnoxious phrasing from Wired Magazine as demonstration of how the tone of feedback can influence how it’s perceived:
Tired: “maybe you should rename X to Y”; lacks an explanation of why, ‘maybe’ is often sneering / condescending in this usage, assumes that proposed solution is correct
Wired: “fyi there’s a copy error on the site: X doesn’t match Z, should it be Y?”; explains the problem, asks if theorized solution is correct, makes proposing a solution optional
The chosen example tone is not intended as a reflection or judgment of you in any regard, but the necessity of this disclaimer supports my point.
Its interesting how we can both infer the opposite from our statements. Your start of "there’s a copy error on the site" would seem to me to be more condescending as it assumes that it is a mistake, whereas I merely suggest that it is.
I don't really mind the downvotes, just pointing out how stupid they are. I just think of them as cowardly anonymous idiots and go about my (otherwise awesome) day.
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