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Summary
India-China standoff: GOI bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, SHAREit. Amid the heightened tensions with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the Indian government on Monday took an unprecedented step and decided to ban at least 59

 
 

 
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This comes in the heat of china and india border dispute, and the recent death of 20 Indian soldiers in the border, people took to streets destroying chinese products

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/explainer-what-is-the-deadly-india-china-border-dispute-about
 
 
 
 
Sources
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/centre-bans-59-mobile-apps-including-tik-tok-uc-browser-others/articleshow/76694828.cms

I wonder if American schools and universities don’t teach often about Imanuel Kant

Bad Dragon

Coolest? Well, the following example is rather cringy than cool, but let's try:

A diving school in Thailand called "French Kiss Divers" with the slogan "The deeper the more pleasure". I wish I was making this up, I'm not.

That seems really impressive, imagine a virtually silent gaming laptop.

If it fails, can Vine come back? 

OMFG please no..... Not another Ring 0 anticheat.... Starforce was bad enough. Who know what this thing is actually going to do...
 
Frankly I'm more likely to want to pirate a game that has some sort of anti-cheat/antitamper software as in the vast vast majority of cases it will straight up run better and be more stable without it. 
 
Never mind that some times I want to cheat or mod a little in my single player games especially when they become really grindy ot i'm bored with it and want to switch it up
Or how about the when game is complete dogshit and a third party patch that would be blocked by the software improves the gameplay and performance a hell of a lot.

@JoostinOnline
IDK whats funny, do you really think that 4 days will force anyone to buy that game? Are you really that blind?

Your point is busted, no pirate cant wait 5 days for the crack.

I think you are misunderstanding either how Denuvo or cracking works.  It just obfuscates the game code, the process of cracking is deciphering it what is happening underneath so that they can provide the pure executables without the obfuscation.  That is why cracking teams have a history of bragging about their versions running better than the official one.

I'm sorry but where on earth are you getting that from?  Performance impact is one of the main reasons people hate Denuvo in games.  While the impact varies between games, it is basically just accepted that Denuvo has a negative performance impact.  I have seen plenty of times people recommending to play the cracked version even if you have paid for a copy just for the performance improvement it brings.
 
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/282924-denuvo-really-does-cripple-pc-gaming-performance
https://www.techpowerup.com/246648/denuvos-impact-on-game-performance-benchmarked
https://www.game-debate.com/news/22656/denuvo-pc-performance-impact-tested-doom-benchmarks-with-and-without-denuvo-drm

Yes he is exaggerating, but this from 2019 gives a good example of how long it takes to crack Denuvo games:
Rage 2 cracked: Day 0 (non-Denuvo .exe uploaded)
Metro Exodus cracked: Day 4
Devil May Cry 5 cracked: Day 0 (non-Denuvo .exe uploaded)
Resident Evil 2 cracked: Day 6
Far Cry New Dawn cracked: Day 6
Ace Combat 7 cracked: Day 13
 
https://www.pcgamer.com/denuvo-cracks-2019/

GOG sells none DRM titles, so at least you can know those games are OK.

Mmm, intrusive DRM. Remember when it'd only perform cursory checks on the game itself rather than dicking around with your entire system?

How does Denuvo in DE affect performance? It's been shown in previous games that Denuvo has a very large impact on performance.
 
 
 

I had played a cracked version of DOOM Eternal, I did not finish it, I was planning on buying it.
 
I now see an actual reason to not buy it. A shame, because I did want to reward ID Software for their excellent work. I don't know who or what decided to staple Denuvo to them, but I know that I will now not be purchasing DOOM Eternal.
 
Sad really. Considering the game is already ****ing cracked, making this essentially pointless.

Oh great, they became malware.

i'm hoping someone makes a list of games that use that software so i can stay away from them. 

Denuvo has always been massive cancer

Sources:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/05/doom-eternal-anti-cheat-kernel-driver-is-safer-than-others-denuvo-says/
 
After very successful launch with (and without) Denuvo DRM Doom Eternal gets its brand new and shiny anti-cheat system made by Denuvo. And the fun part is, just like upcoming Valorant's Vanguard anti-cheat system, Denuvo Anti-Cheat digs into the system like a maggot into a corpse (although Denuvo one runs only while game is running, so it's kind of "better").
So thoughtful of them to not even bother the players with a tray icon, almost as thoughtful as to not bother the players by giving any warning of installing the driver that seems to be quite hard to uninstall (while it should uninstall at the same time as Doom Eternal, you will need to go through couple extra hoops just because the Doom Eternal cannot uninstall the primary exe-file because its dependency on Denuvo Anti-Cheats dll-file which then cannot be deleted because its dependency on Doom Eternals exe-file, reports some users here). Also because the thing runs in ring 0 it does update itself and do whatever it does silently without even Windows knowing what is going on.
Except apparently the game cannot be played even in single player -mode without the anti-cheat system running, updating and stalking in the background. Problem with these ring 0 anti-cheat and DRM systems isn't that they would do something only when certain criteria are fulfilled, it's that they are running in the first place when they are not needed and Denuvo Anti-Cheat doesn't make exception here because it does run always when the game is run, not only when the multiplayer mode of the game is run.
That sounds nice but can we see those audits somewhere in the public? Probably no because "reasons" and we just need to take their word for that it has been audited correctly and fully and those audits didn't find anything alarming. In second part of the quote, Michail does have a good point except those drivers usually run transparently and have linked services running in user-space which is a lot better for trust than running completely silent beyond any monitoring, also that those vendors aren't known for products that currently are hacked open in days, some even in hours.
Steam runs in user-space (ring 3) and while GPU drivers run in kernel-space, they are not updating themselves silently in there and they are also made by companies that still have quite a lot trust to loose if their drivers start leaking or are badly made. Also again that "no annoying tray icons [and blah blah blah]", the point of that "annoying" tray icon is that it shows something is running in the background and something is going on which is kind of important when things go south that you can start to diagnose what is going wrong and one software running silently in kernel-mode is kind of big suspect especially when it's made to be as invincible as possible. Also that "annoying" tray icon gives nice information like "Hey! The game might take a bit longer to start because I update myself before letting the game start" or "Hey, it's your friendly anti-cheat here, the game might run a bit slower because I'm doing my thing here in the background, so, nothing to worry about".
 
But the true gold in the article:
Nope, you don't get my trust as long as I don't see openly, publicly and easily accessed those audits and a lot more info about that software other than few bullet points about what it does and even if they were to ban every player in the world except me (I don't even own Doom Eternal) it wouldn't build anymore trust. Again, it also doesn't really help building trust when their primary product is constantly cracked open like a it was nothing while probably the same persons market it as "the best product in the world of its kind".
 
Problem with the trust isn't that I wouldn't trust Denuvo or Irdeto about them not collecting my data or having any malicious intends.
What I don't trust is that they have really build bombproof software that some 3rd party couldn't use for malicious things and that some white hat would find their mistakes before black hats. And we have concrete, factual and very real example what can go wrong when wrong people go marching in the kernel-space, StarForce is the example and it wasn't never used as a backdoor into Windows or with any "malicious intent", it just was made so it really messed up Windows and specially the CD-drive drivers. At best you couldn't use your CD-drive ever again to play music CDs independently, quite often some other CD based DRMs refused to work correctly and some CDs just didn't work at all and, not that rare, worst case was that the Windows itself started to go into kernel panics and throw BSODs because StarForce was poking into wrong memory addresses. And the best part of all of that "fun" was that the only way to get rid of it was to reinstall the whole PC and in some late cases get a new CD-drive because StarForce had dug into its firmware also.

@allmods Assemble !!!!
 
It's time to flex!!!

We mods, have no idea what you're talking about...
 
🙃
 
 

When @Spotty trades in his Ban Hammer for a Ban gun

 

They don't actually use TDP, it's just the easiest term to use to communicate to customers asking about it, even though it's entirely wrong. PPT, TDC & EDC is what is being limited in the BIOS, similar story on the Intel side. When doing power limits and custom power profiles TDP values aren't being changed or set at all.
 
Slight difference in AMD's case is they don't have boost duration or single core boost.
 
 

Hi, this is the official XMG Support, here to answer all of your questions!
 
 
Yes. We will upload the service manual for CPU upgrades before the end of April. Here are two pictures of XMG APEX 15 from the inside:
 

 

 
   

Remember the P570WM?
  
 
Actually no. After 15min of Prime95 (Small FTT's), the R9 3900 is still running at 3.5GHz on all 12 Cores with only ~82°C CCD1 temperature.
 
In Furmark+Prime with R9 3950X, the CPU Temperature rises to only 90°C which is still below throttling point.
 
Or to put this into performance results:
 

 
  
 
"Base Clock" here means that we are at ~2.66GHz on all cores after 15min in Prime95 on R9 3950X.
 
Taken from the FAQ on Reddit:
 
Q: What do I need to know about the 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, running at 65W?
A: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is originally specified as a CPU with a TDP of 105W. Running it at only 65W does indeed limit its performance potential. Thanks to the law of diminishing returns, the loss is not linear: even though you cut the power by about 40%, the multi-threaded performance is only down by about 19% and single-core performance by only 10%.
The 65W TDP-limit is achieved through BIOS settings and cannot be altered.
At 65W, the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X beats the 65W 12-core CPU AMD Ryzen 9 3900 by a margin of about 15% in multi-threaded benchmarks. Single-threaded benchmarks remain at the same level between these two. So if you can afford the premium price and if you want the fastest CPU money can buy in a system of this size, the AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is a very good choice.
This is similar to running the CPU in what most desktop mainboards call “Eco-Mode”.
 
  
 
OK!
 
But a desktop does not have monitor and keyboard attached. Can we call it portable All-in-One? Or maybe a Porttop?
 
  

I can currently find 18 different e-tail listings for 3900 (non-X) in Germany and Austria.
 
 
If you have any more comments, questions, concerns - please let me know!
 
Cheers,
Tom