@OrwellNGoode I preordered GTA VI for two reasons. 1. In excited about the game. It’s my money and I can waste it as I please. And 2. With how shitty everything is. Who knows if I’m going to be employed by November. So at least I don’t have to worry about it then.
Wow. What an asshole.
Free tech tip: before giving an assholy take about someone else’s take make sure to have the full context, otherwise you look like a douche.
As usual, Linus brings you the drama for the clicks, and then I've got to explain it for free :-)
A Windows IID generated using CoCreateGuid, Guid.NewGuid(), or UuidCreate() on modern Windows does not contain a recoverable MAC address.
Microsoft explicitly says UuidCreate() produces UUIDs that cannot be traced to the originating Ethernet address or correlated with others from the same machine.
However, a version 1 UUID, such as one produced by Windows’ UuidCreateSequential(), can directly expose the node identifier:
xxxxxxxx-xxxx-1xxx-xxxx-aabbccddeeff
└──────────┘
node/MAC field
For example:
1be8d85d-63d1-11e1-80db-b8ac6fbe26e1
b8:ac:6f:be:26:e1
There is no cryptographic reversal involved—the last 12 hexadecimal digits are the 48-bit node field. Windows introduced UuidCreateSequential() specifically to create time/MAC-based UUIDs.
Thus, it could be evil intent to track your machine. Or it could be a mistake resulting from someone packing a 1 UUID in other state data in a file. The result is the same, but the implications are different.
I'm confident this matches up with the calm, reasoned technical take here by Linus. Let me know if it doesn't.
Maybe I’m just an idiot with an idiotic take.
Also, don’t go after the makers of the Druffle avatar. If you don’t like the DRM, easy, don’t buy it. Just don’t be a dick head and go after the makers.
People need to start learning what words actually mean.
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. Which means any software that requires a tool to verify (even if it’s just once) that you have the rights to use it is, by definition, has DRM.
I’ve published books on Amazon, and I explicitly rejected adding the DRM. I don’t want my book to be pirated. However, I would prefer that those who purchased it can enjoy it hassle-free rather than doing something that just makes the experience worse for paying customers.