MrTolkinghoen
@MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment 4 days ago:
Amazing. Love it
- Comment on Anti-cheat looks like a no-go on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck for Arena Breakout: Infinite 1 week ago:
So any game that needs anticheat is shit? I guess you only think single player games are fun then
- Comment on Balatro's 1.1 update won't come out this year, so developer Localthunk can keep working at a healthy pace 1 week ago:
100% this. I really love these small indie games where you buy it. And… Surprise you actually own it. It works and it doesn’t need a weekly patch for the monthly season pass.
And then for some reason the devs actually love what they built and they keep giving updates which is amazing and an added bonus but far from expected and definitely not necessary because the game is already complete.
- Comment on Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port 1 week ago:
Heh that’s cool. For now. Enshittification must march on
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 1 week ago:
Yeah. I agree with this
Additionally, GamePasses are designed to force developers to have to use them. If enough people are using it, they’re going to be way more resistant to paying additional money for a game that isn’t in the game pass. This means that it locks users into a platform, and takes the consumers away from the game makers meaning the developers lose. Lose if they are on the game pass, lose if they aren’t.
Just another enshitification where the middleman is the only winner.
- Comment on Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s bad for consumers which means more money for Nintendo (and publishers) Reselling a physical game card nets 0 profit for either Nintendo nor the game publisher. They really have 0 incentive to go out of their way to support it, sadly.
- Comment on Leading genocide scholars say Israel's war in Gaza fits the definition 2 weeks ago:
And the sky is blue
- Comment on AI crawlers destroying websites in hunger for content 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a feature not a bug. Steal the content and take away the source of the content? Win win. Then the content can only be obtained via the AI.
- Comment on The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding" 2 weeks ago:
Yeah this. You’re telling me this isn’t just an OSS project by some mel in their basement?
- Comment on FFmpeg 8 can subtitle your videos on the fly with Whisper 3 weeks ago:
Well that’s pretty cool. Also given that it’s ffmpeg, I assume they did it in an agnostic way where you can toss any model at it.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 4 weeks ago:
Looks like it’s time to switch.
- Comment on Senior Israeli official flees US following arrest over paedophilia 4 weeks ago:
Trump’s intervened directly to get him released. You know gotta protect fellow Pedos.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. Wonder why they forked gitea
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 5 weeks ago:
“Today, AI is the voice in the drive-thru that can’t hear our orders. It’s killing the livelihood of creative workers. It’s the thing you have to do at work, whether you like it or not. It’s making search engines unusable. It’s a justification for corporate layoffs. It’s plagiarism. It’s killing information access. It’s taking credit for the work of visual effects artists. It’s a serial liar. It’s harming our critical thinking and memory skills. It’s mecha-Hitler. It’s the really annoying popup. It’s wealth inequality. It’s a crutch for the loneliness epidemic. It’s the industrial polluter. It’s the scammer faking your voice for predatory phone calls. It’s the military-industrial complex. It’s the book that could kill you. It’s exploiting social media algorithms with fake content.”
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 5 weeks ago:
If they depend exclusively on the Google safety net attestation service this is true. GrapheneOS supports even stronger attestation though, they just have to choose to implement it properly: grapheneos.org/…/attestation-compatibility-guide
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 1 month ago:
I like the article, but agree with so many of the comments here as well.
Ultimately I think one thing I’d love for would be a way to simply provide services (like Immich) for people but where the client is end to end encrypted, and neither the user nor the service has to worry about the how.
Example: how can I share an Immich with my family and friends, but where I don’t have access to any of their data. I.e. what signal does, but immich or any other service. I want to share my server with friends/family, but I don’t want access to any of their data. It isn’t a lack of trust, it’s that I don’t want that as even something they have to worry about
That same concept then extends here to community hosting. If we can solve the problem for a few, it should be scalable to many.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 month ago:
Thank you for the detailed reply! Yeah I realize now Mestastic.Org has everything I need.
Planning to prolly get:
A rak wireless kit for a local repeater on my roof powered via PoE, and then a ttgo techo for my personal device.
I know that I should just get the latter and play with it first, but I live high on a hill with a great vantage point of the city so feels like a disservice to the community if I don’t also host a repeater.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 month ago:
How do I do this? Shats the easiest way to get started?
Both a personal device and a repeater on my house
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 modder makes NPC cleanliness optional in order to avoid popular "non-sexy mods" being "hidden unnecessarily" 1 month ago:
Religious extremists.
- Comment on UK's New Age Verification Requirement Thwarted in the Simplest Way Imaginable 1 month ago:
Yes. Clickbait shit
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 1 month ago:
I can’t wait for mine.
- Comment on TIL about Fedi-Search, an open sourced frontend to easily search the Fediverse with a lot of mainstream engines 1 month ago:
Just provide a way to self host searx instance and then provide nightly backups of the DB so you don’t have to run the crawler
- Comment on Google Messages testing RCS’ new MLS encryption, Details page redesign 2 months ago:
Now if only Google would open up RCS to non Google messages apps. It’s just another walled garden.
- Comment on Paying the Subnautica 2 team their promised bonus would be "embarrassing", Krafton's CEO allegedly told the game's chief over lunch 2 months ago:
Frankly, the buyers truing to get them to take a smaller buyout before firing makes it clear they’re doing what they can to avoid paying it. At the same time, the way the incentive was setup both parties were of course going to try to win here. No one who has 250m is going to part with it without a fight. And vice-versa.
Hindsight is 2020, but the reward structure should have never been setup based an arbitrary deadline but instead on a total level of success
- Comment on Pilot groups reject claims of human error in Air India crash 2 months ago:
My point wasn’t that the switch was or wasn’t flipped, but that, do we know there isn’t a bug or electrical failure that caused the computer to think it was flipped when it wasn’t.
Idk it seems very unlikely given how carefully designed aircrafts are, but so many things are less “control by wire” though airlanes due seem to retain that safety still, but Boeing’s recent decade with the new max planes def leaves me with some doubts of their quality and design decisions.
- Comment on Pilot groups reject claims of human error in Air India crash 2 months ago:
Well, we’re told it can’t happen by accident. I agree that it probably can’t, but I also don’t know how all the wiring and programming is made.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 2 months ago:
I love graphene.
- Comment on US | Trump and Congress finalize law that could hurt your Wi-Fi 2 months ago:
Fuck that. I love my 6ghz WiFi.
- Comment on GeForce NOW on Steam Deck really can be a game-changer 2 months ago:
I stream from my PC with moonlight / sunshine and it really is a game changer for AAA games. I.E. oblivion remastered ATM ;)
- Comment on DJI Romo: DJI's first high-end robot vacuum spotted in close-up photo 2 months ago:
Valetudo is the only high end vacuum I’ll ever want.