In the changelog it says it "repeatedly scans for valid peripherals in your network". I feel like that's a bad idea? If the player has installed a mod that hides the haptics settings, maybe it's because they don't want to use the haptics? How often does it scan? If it never finds one, does it keep scanning forever, eating up CPU and network time?

Actively scanning for devices unrelated to the game also seems like a privacy violation.

Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, if this situation were to happen, does your mod turn on the peripheral without the user's permission?

Please update your mods, as it seems you are playing with at least one un-updated mod.

Factorio provides limitted access to your computer’s functions beyond just the game. There is no issue of privacy from a mod interacting from the sandbox.

I understand some people may want to play with a censorship mod, but the issue is when one version of that mod deletes a feature for that sort of reason. This becomes a bigger issue with multiplayer sessions, as this setting is per player. If the host decides to apply a mod that globally deletes the feature, then everyone who joins is forced. This is why Rubia complains if a mod tries to remove the feature.

My mod cannot turn on the peripheral by itself. You need to run Intiface and Native Connector on your Linux machine to be able to read the factorio output and control the device.

Please update your mods, as it seems you are playing with at least one un-updated mod.

That is incorrect, and I don't see how you got that impression in the first place. I referred to the changelog, not anything ingame.

Thanks for the explanation. However, you missed one question-- the frequency and duration of scanning, in this admittedly unlikely scenario.

It is a quick check every 5-15 min. Rubia prints a global message when it does so.

I’m simply confused as to why you would report a problem you have not observed ocurring on your machine.

There was no problem that I observed during gameplay. I hadn't played in a while, went to update my mods, saw the changelog and was concerned about it. It looked like some drama was going on, and modding drama in Minecraft got pretty nasty at times, sometimes resulting in malicious code being run to punish players for using other mods the authors didn't like. I'm glad that wasn't the case here.