Warning 1337 no longer safe, Baldur's Gate 3 infected with Miner, refused to be taken down, possibly linked with admins.
Warning 1337 no longer safe, Baldur's Gate 3 infected with Miner, refused to be taken down, possibly linked with admins.
1337x admins allowing BG3 torrent with bitcoin miner stand after multiple reports in comments with proof, seems like the site lost it's credibility. Suspicious that the user is also shilling to donate to 1337x, suspecting him being somehow affiliated with 1337x mods
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I'm not against pirating, but given how long it's taken to crack some of the stuff I was waiting for, and watching things drop to like $10 from a $60 title after a year or two, now I just perpetually wait 2 years until I buy any game. Pirating movies, music, and other 'consumables'...great. Pirating executable content, no fucking thank you. I learned that lesson as a teenager, and I'm not going to put my computer at risk in that way any longer.
Just too many hoops to jump through to maintain a secure PC when pirating games/applications. Anyone who thought 1337 was "safe" to begin with, is fucking stupid.
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Imagine not having a virtual machine in 2023
Many games, etc detect being launched from within a virtual machine and will refuse to run. I already run Proxmox here at home with plenty of virtual machines for various services like jellyfin. I've unlocked my 3080 to do proper hardware GPU passthrough and partitioning and even normal...non-pirated games will refuse to run in a VM.
I don't remember what program, but I remember coming across some people who didn't feel comfortable giving games like Valorant and Genshin Impact kernel level access so ran it on what they called bare metal or something running it off another drive. Maybe it was Ventoy?
Have wondered if a dedicated drive for just pirated software and games would help keep the main system safer with how cheap ssds have gotten. Maybe a way to run it off an external ssd while blocking off access to other storage that doesn't have pirated content?
BG3 is running on a spin up instance right now for me. I am playing it as I am typing this, from a virtualized environment.
Okay, was that supposed to prove a point or something?
Only that in a thread about BG3 executables, where you mentioned things can potentially not run in virtual environments, this does. It is topical to this post and conversation.
So yes, it is.
The problem is that it doesn't. You running this one game that works, doesn't account for the huge library of games that don't run in that manner. It doesn't invalidate my point that spinning up VMs just so you can pirate games is a lot of bullshit to go through just to pirate a game that's gonna be $10, 6 months from now.
I mean, I get what you're saying, and yeah in your scenario it doesn't make sense. There are some people for who piracy is much more necessary
I dunno man, you made a point, he countered your point, and you got defensive and doubled down, sounds like the discussion is over
That's...what discussions are... point, counterpoint, point, counterpoint, growth of opinion, why would the discussion stop just because we might disagree? We can continue refining our arguments and both grow from the discussion. Why the hell are people on Lemmy so...weird? I've got so many of these discussions where people just devolve into name calling or accusatory statements instead of just...being normal. Don't you guys like to actually have people with different views challenge your opinion so that you can think about it more, refine, and have a chance to change that opinion? Have you been so neglected in life that you don't know what a normal discussion between people is like?
I dunno but me personally I love to play devils advocate even if I don't necessarily agree with what I'm saying 100% just for the sake of being able to hash it out with somebody other than my self.
I’m saying that it seems like you’re shutting down rather than having a calm discussion, you absolutely seem like the weird one here bud
You see?
I've got so many of these discussions where people just devolve into name calling or accusatory statements
You are a prime example. The reply you are referring to is nothing but a calm reply to the person who countered my original statement. He mentioned one game and my reply just points out...there's more than one game and his "point" only works in a narrow set of circumstances. Nobody is "shutting down" as you claim, I simply replied with a counter point.
With a miner for a game with online content then virtual machine doesn't save you. It may keep.your data safe but still uses your resources for mining.
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Fair point depends how long you play the game for and also how the miner works though. Is.it only.mimimg while the game is running, that may be easier to slip past a virus checker.
So people run games through a Virtual Machine? I haven't pirated PC games due to not trusting them, so have been curious the steps people take to avoid situations like what occurred. Have wondered if some people have a dedicated PC for just pirated games, or at the very least run it off an external drive.
Imagine not knowing how common sandbox escaping vulns are getting to be.