Also from the press release

JITs are common in some cases (ex. JavaScript), and don't have to be kernel level. Though, you are right about BPF JIT, which is disabled by default on Linux. Not sure if Windows has its own variant of this.

Remember that this only works around one vulnerability and more fixes should be coming which decrease performance slightly more.

EDIT: here's Intel's statement https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/

+helpme calls for medic

We're not 10 years in the past now. Stop acting like it. The developer mindset on the game has changed now and to pretend like they'll behave exactly as they did with the sandman before (when they didn't pay much attention to maintaining good balance) is just not logical.

I haven't seen anyone support unbanning everything, besides I guess MR. SLIN who got a lot of downvotes.

Sure, some things are changed in later patches, but sometimes some patches just have a certain metagame that isn't "fixed" for as long as that sort of patch period lasts.

I don't actually understand why the competitive community is so set on keeping comp TF2 a stale, "perfectly balanced" game. Games aren't supposed to be perfectly balanced, that's just boring, unchanging and practically brainless from a strategy creation standpoint. Good balance comes from having a few overpowered aspects of the game, so that in a highly competitive environment, teams create new strategies over time to adapt to the many different things other teams are doing to take advantage of those overpowered aspects. There's also a case where something may make a class overpowered in one area, but that area encourages a different playstyle which is overall easier to deal with.

People right now are unfortunately delusional that TF2 is going to grow as an esport if we ban weapons and limit classes. It's not. TF2 also isn't going to grow as an esport if the devs balance the game exactly to your liking. Other competitive communities are able to accept new patches and adapt to them, and the games supported by those communities have some of the most popular esport scenes in the world. Our community has this detrimental mindset that we should distrust the developers and instead, as non-game developers, make big assumptions about if the game is perfect for us and our old strategies and then act on those assumptions through bans. This is the one thing holding us back and I hope people realize this and advance TF2 much further by getting rid of this ban system.

Except if you look at their GitHub profile, they have a history of contributing to and reporting bugs for catbot, which is what I pointed out a sentence before (it's even in your quote).

I investigated a bit more into the users that complained on that GitHub report, and looks like all of them use cheats and/or develop cheats.

(including BenCat07 who posted on this thread and is now VAC banned on their Steam)

Remember what Gabe Newell said a few years back about cheaters spreading misinformation about VAC. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1y70ej/valve_vac_and_trust/

You might think it's funny to make fun of Valve, but think about who is controlling the conversation and who'd like you to distrust VAC and Valve.

preloading is/was always an exploit not ever guaranteed to work.

I wouldn't be surprised if Valve patched it, considering how you can redefine model data to enable hitbox xrays on valve servers using preloaded models.

6.2.1 released with a voice bug fix, added missing transparent viewmodels addon, host_thread_mode warning fix, new release publishing method.

Also, this might seem very simple, but VAC on Windows has very simple checks too. This is probably just one step in their game of cat and mouse for catbots. We'll have to see if Valve continues to add more complex checks in the future, or if this is all they plan to do.

Definitely, the purpose of relationships is mostly communication. Online friends can still exchange thoughts and ideas with you, share their feelings, etc. If people online don't treat you like a friend, they probably wouldn't have been a good real life friend either.

I love Skyrim's music.

Just to clarify, this was for your machine username or hostname, not Steam display name.

Fraps or MSI afterburner should work.