"A country doesn't lose its reputation in a war. It loses it on a Friday night, by eleven votes."
« Probablement les politiciens les plus ignorants de la planète ? »
Ce n'est pas un militant qui l'écrit.
C'est VideoLAN. Les créateurs de VLC. Plus de 7 milliards de téléchargements.
Ce soir, voilà ce que le monde lit sur la France.
Vendredi. 577 députés.
35 présents. 21 votants.
11 voix ont suffi pour taxer chaque gigaoctet servi aux Français.
Coût pour VideoLAN, selon VideoLAN : plus d'un million d'euros par an.
Pour une association qui donne son logiciel depuis bientôt trente ans.
Un député touche plus de 7 000 euros bruts par mois.
Pour être là quand on vote.
Ce vendredi, 542 étaient ailleurs.
Et nous ? Rien.
Aucun électeur ne peut révoquer un député.
Présent ou absent, il reste jusqu'au bout.
Ils parlent de souveraineté numérique.
Ils taxent ceux qui l'ont construite.
Un pays ne perd pas sa réputation dans une guerre.
Il la perd un vendredi soir, à onze voix.
"And I'm not afraid to say it" and then locks comments, fucking pussy
Ofc pussy blocked replies lmao
How long until legal realizes & tells @riotgames to revoke this? Way to document Vanguard doing illegal things LMAO
Maybe you clowns crying about the new Vanguard feature should learn to read about what it actually does. No it won't brick your PC, even if you are the cheater who will get affected. It will only disable the hardware used to cheat. Even then, it's fixable and not permanent. No you won't get falselly flagged. If you get hit you deserved it. #Vanguard #Valorant
Well, that escalated quickly.
There’s been a wave of claims by cheaters about Vanguard “bricking” their PCs, so let’s clear that up: Vanguard does not damage hardware or disable your devices.
The photo we posted is a picture of cheat hardware devices that are sold explicitly for cheating in VALORANT (not normal PCs or PC components). Through our latest updates, Vanguard now makes those devices worthless for VAL, but does not in any way brick PCs or PC components or PC software.
Our latest update enforces standard platform security features, like the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU), on accounts identified as using Direct Memory Access (DMA) cheating devices. These protections are already part of modern systems and when enabled, they block DMA cheat devices (such as those shown in the photo) from accessing memory in downstream applications, like our games.
If a cheat setup continues attempting to cheat after those protections are enabled, the system may generate hardware faults or instability. This is expected behavior under IOMMU when attempts are made to read protected memory.
Disabling IOMMU allows the cheat device to function again, but IOMMU will still be required to play our games. This means the cheat device won’t work with our games, but your PC isn’t “bricked.” We would not, and cannot, impact your PC’s functionality in any other fashion.
This functionality only applies to systems attempting to use DMA cheat devices, and players who are not using DMA-based cheat setups are not affected.
We’ll keep investing in anti-cheat to protect competitive integrity, and we’ll keep being as transparent as possible about how those systems work.
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