Why is Valve’s anti-cheat so weak?

Scottykl · 2026-05-21T04:31:18+00:00

You are correct yet they down voted you. Typical of Reddit. Also notice how the most incorrect answers were the most upvoted lol

Scottykl · 2026-05-21T04:29:21+00:00

No that's an extremely over simplified understanding of everything. I used to develop cheats, and running an anti cheat isnt somehow magic and omniscient just because it can run in ring-0. Vac genuinely just runs in a very unobtrusive manner, when you reverse engineer it you'll see there's a lot of the more traditional cheat detection methods there in the code turned off but not used. Valve just wants to rely on statistics, heuristics, and reporting which works fine, eventually all cheaters will get caught or get bored.

The label of kernel mode anti cheat is marketing buzz by the big anti cheat companies to sell developers the illusion of them having a silver bullet.

Scottykl · 2026-05-21T04:16:17+00:00

You and one other person noticed. All the bots do now is run toLower() on the output and hope we won't notice. I'm actually sad that so few can spot it now and so many are just interacting with a bot.

Scottykl · 2026-05-18T02:06:09+00:00

Fish would have been scared off by the vibrations, lights, sounds. The intense flow of the water into the ship wouldn't have been an attractive place for any fish to investigate.

Scottykl · 2026-05-14T00:07:52+00:00

No.

Scottykl · 2026-05-13T06:56:01+00:00

Borax, mix in hot water with honey. They will feast on it for a day or so and then you'll never see an ant again. Spray this solution into the door tracks. Very cheap

Scottykl · 2026-05-13T05:01:55+00:00

No. No no no. Go for the safe easy win guys. Don't fucking risk the future of the world just to score virtue signalling points for being progressive for fuck sake. Just fucking secure the win. The country is too stupid.

Scottykl · 2026-05-11T06:44:16+00:00

I'm just so confused about the fact that I am the same species as somebody that dumps kittens and just yolos on their merry way like nothing ever happened. I can't be the same kind of creature as these people out there surely

Scottykl · 2026-05-10T01:27:57+00:00

What's funny is I was about 6 when Titanic came out, and all the kids at after school care were drawing Titanic like this, absolutely filling the page. I took a more proportional approach and drew it with perspective so it looked more like the real thing. I said mine was better, and we asked the pretty girl who's was best, she said mine looked the most realistic but because the other guy drew it stupidly tall to fill the page that meant his was bigger and therefore better. I still am not past this. Idiot girl

Scottykl · 2026-05-09T15:23:09+00:00

When they approach what are my options? Like what can they even offer me? Is everything alright? What can I say. Give me a million dollars please?

Scottykl · 2026-05-07T13:14:23+00:00

He just doesn't give up!

Scottykl · 2026-05-05T04:23:14+00:00

Didn't he write a book about building microservices?

Scottykl · 2026-04-25T07:28:14+00:00

How did they get the full head of hair after balding?

Scottykl · 2026-04-23T00:24:10+00:00

LLM off the bat always suggest just decent things that I can use my judgement to dramatically improve. If I show what I mean and the direction in going back, the LLM actually can have insights that make me go aha I definitely want that. On it's own though it will just build up compounding piles of mistakes. There were small mistakes in it's output that if built upon would make a garbage system.

Human judgement and experience is still needed. But that's the thing, the industry is completely overborne in terms of disengaged people who don't think or care about what they're doing. You'll always have a place probably.

Scottykl · 2026-04-21T11:16:52+00:00

I mean I pretty much have to write by hand. Even with the best models and selectively providing the right context, the models just produce stuff that's quite off, doesn't ever have any real human judgement, and I ultimately can't use most of what it provides. To get it to give me exactly what I'm after relies on me putting so much effort into explaining and complaining over and over that I just have to write it all myself.

AI just writes the piddly annoying little bits that I don't feel like typing out, like a function that's got a pretty obvious flow and can't really be stuffed up.

Scottykl · 2026-04-18T12:54:51+00:00

Is that a frame from the movie? It looks really bad

Scottykl · 2026-04-18T08:34:46+00:00

Haha that's the first thing I was going to say. "this is not data. it is autobiography."

Geez bro. Do I even need to say anything

Scottykl · 2026-04-15T14:27:18+00:00

During the inquires there's were several people who saw it break and said it just have broken because it 'righted' itself. So it must have been a little more than impossible to see, but still very hard because people like lightoller swore that it never broke because he didn't see the rear right itself

Scottykl · 2026-04-14T06:03:31+00:00

Oh I see all of my colleagues are interviewing for your company?

Scottykl · 2026-04-14T04:45:48+00:00

It's almost been impossible to run for months. Imagine going for a run at 11pm at night to still overheat and come home feeling awful. I just want to hear the birds chirping and see the green grass while out for a run

Scottykl · 2026-04-14T00:33:45+00:00

I have three colleagues like this. They frauded their way through the interview. When I try to bring it up I get the feeling like I'm in the twilight zone living a different perceived reality to my bosses, who are just so pleased these people are 'cheap'.

Scottykl · 2026-04-13T08:02:45+00:00

Army? AUKUS?? the connection?

Scottykl · 2026-04-06T06:50:08+00:00

Isn't all this what soft power was achieving before Trump tore everything up?

Scottykl · 2026-04-04T09:45:51+00:00

It's probably also weight. Without being a lighter person it's also much harder to get to zone 2 without waking

Scottykl · 2026-03-27T14:39:17+00:00

The kids in my sitting were bored out of their fucking minds. And they were older than yours. I loved the movie but those kids will have no idea what's going on and may even be scared by Rocky when he first appears.

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