GetOffMyLan

The Times Tech Guild’s decision to strike during the election is not coincidental. The strike comes after a two-and-a-half-year back-and-forth between the union and The New York Times. This September, the union gave Times management an ultimatum: if demands were not met before the Sunday leading up to election day, Times Tech Guild members would go on strike, leaving the news organization vulnerable.

That's all well established. They have been negotiating for a long time.

Not back peddling you are misunderstanding what kernel access means.

You don't need kernel level access (the thing we are literally discussing) to kill processes. Which was literally your example.

Obviously the OS handles it. How the fuck else would it work?

It is literally installed by choice. It's part of the game installation. It's up to users to know what they are installing. Many games likely install lots of things that aren't immediately obvious.

It doesn't infiltrate the system.

No it sends the message that they can do it. And that is massive all on its own.

It's designed to bring them to the table without starving the workers. Indefinite strikes would obviously be more effective but then you're forgetting about the people who do need the jobs.

How many people can actually survive not working for months? Principles are great but so is paying rent.

If nothing changes they can just do it again and at a time that hurts them most. Like election week.

Pretty much all code is making requests to the kernel. That isn't what is happening here.

It's side stepping the kernel. That's the whole point. You don't know what you're talking about.

Would be completely illegal in countries with gdpr. I'm a programmer and can tell you every company takes that super seriously.

You have to agree to be tracked. Most people just do it without thinking.

Nah words have meaning. I get you don't like it but that doesn't make it spyware or malware.

Spyware isn't about watching your system or memory it's about stealing personal information.

These anti cheats specifically comply with privacy laws or they wouldn't be allowed. You won't find any breaking any laws.

Anti virus and anti malware applications do the same. Doesn't make them spyware.

Yeah literally. This is just a setup issue.

I'm a programmer I understand what they are. I understand why they suck.

Stopping processes is actually a user space action. You can do it without admin rights btw. Even if it popped the admin screen that's still not a kernel level action.

Asking the kernel to do something is basically all operations and not the same as kernel level access.

Yeah that it's considered malware. I did Google it and there's nothing saying that.

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So Trump was the obvious choice. Smart.

Lucky they got Trump then. Much better.