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by Gareth321 36 days ago
Your argument appears to be nihilistic in nature: "don't bother fighting the cheating because it's inevitable." Forgive me, but I won't be giving up that easily. No anti-cheat is perfect, and we're not aiming for perfect. We're aiming for a reduction, and the harder we make cheating, the fewer cheaters there are. If cheating requires special hardware to mimic mouse and keyboard input, that significantly cuts down how many cheaters one will encounter in a given day. I have no doubt that the threat vector here widens and deepens as AI becomes more integrated into our operating systems. That does not mean we should give up or accept cheating as inevitable.
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Comprehension issue.

"Quotes" of something not said directly that you are quoting is always bad. Quotes containing a summary that is entirely false are even worse. Don't do that.

You can try to deal with cheating as chess.com and others _do_, or you can do something you know will not work. Kernel mods for chess.com would be stupid. Their anti-cheat strategy involves zero windows kernel mods. That is how it will go for all online gaming if it hasn't already. So use something else.

Windows kernel modules won't work much longer if they even still do. Pretending they will, doing nothing to stop cheating is a a nihilistic, give up, faintly ridiculous attitude.

Using quotes to intentionally misrepresent someone is of course bad. I feel I accurately represented your position and nothing you have written refutes that. In fact, you double down here by claiming that chess.com's method is a reasonable solution, and vaguely gesture at "something you know will work." Chess.com relies on inference, which is wildly inaccurate, with many false positive and false negatives. There have been many scandals over the years, and you would know that if you had spent a few minutes on Google prior to this comment.

If you disagree with my interpretation of your nihilism, please go ahead and provide a workable solution for significantly suppressing cheating without the use of kernel level anticheats. Right now you're talking about of both sides of your mouth.

Your reading has serious issues.

“Something you know will NOT work” Is what is written right on the page. You quote it without the “not” wTH? Kernel mods won’t work much longer if they still work at all. Gotta find something else. What? Let’s see. Won’t be kernel mods.

Doesn’t make much sense to see this level of non comprehension of plain English. There’s no point talking against it what i say makes no difference if you read the opposite. Maybe this is convo with AI? Dunno.

Best.