InFerNo
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- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 9 hours ago:
This could give some helpful insights: github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet?ta…
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 9 hours ago:
If they threaten server admins with legal action based on the global user count of lemmy rather than their local server user count I’m sure plenty of owners will fold.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 9 hours ago:
If it doesnt show up on page 2 it doesnt exist lol
I think thats more the deep web than the dark web 😄
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 3 days ago:
Let’s not speak of it before it gets swept up
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 3 days ago:
Now download them before they have GOG do age verification. The EU overwhelmingly voted to implement it on platforms that offer content not suitable for children.
- Comment on Sonic SMS Remake 3 days ago:
I finished that one first on my PC and was putting it on my Odroid via portmaster when I came across these remakes in portmaster. The SMS remakes website has other demakes and remixes listed!
- Comment on Sonic SMS Remake 3 days ago:
I finished with Sonic first, was now doing a Knuckles run. I intend to run it once with every character.
- Comment on Sonic SMS Remake 3 days ago:
The mechanic annoyances were the drop dash activating unintended, sending you off edges to your death, and the stopping animation where Sonic “brakes” with his feet interfering with movement while jumping. It prevents you from accelerating during the jump. This happens a lot on narrow platforms where you jump on, correct your direction not to fall off, then jumping to the next one only to realize there’s no velocity gain in the direction you’re now trying to go. Fell a lot to my death with this one.
- Submitted 3 days ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 1 week ago:
Why? It only verifies age, no? Why would watching adult content with it without age verification be associated with Savile? Are they perhaps checking which content you specifically are consuming? So they have more than your age? Now now, couldn’t have seen that coming.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 1 week ago:
Those do exactly what they’re supposed to do. They’re even explicitly advertised as providing new revenue streams.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
I understood they just don’t exist anymore, am I mistaken?
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 week ago:
There was a forum in the Benelux that did exactly that and they had to shut down.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
You could ask someone you know to register and share the login, it’s a flawed concept. There’s probably a bunch of partners in there who didn’t even know their boyfriend used their info to create an account to check on themselves.
- Comment on Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall, blaming bloc’s new rules 1 week ago:
They probably think this will persuade the politicians to review these rules, as they can’t reach their target audiences anymore. I hope they see the overwhelming support for this decision, but I’m not sure if I’m in a bubble. I only see positive reactions so far. There was 1 critical article in the news, but just stating facts, no opinions. I think it’s great. Less brainwashing going on during the election cycles from now on since Facebook in particular allowed for some really specific demographic targeting.
- Comment on Unbeatable name 2 weeks ago:
I used to have a whole plastic container full of matchbox cars, they were built to last. Hotwheels nowadays don’t feel very sturdy.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 2 weeks ago:
My ISP used to advertise about fiber because their backend is fiber but residential connections are coax with DOCSIS whatever. Over of the downsides is assymetric up/download speeds. Upload gets reduced to favour download and you get these whack ratios.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like a coax network instead of fiber.
- Comment on cookie combs 2 weeks ago:
I thought that was a shadow 😄
- Comment on Missed it by that much! 3 weeks ago:
That’s Player Unknown’s game, right?
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 4 weeks ago:
What I hate about Calc is how it scrolls horizontally, it can’t show half a column, it’s the whole column or it doesn’t scroll, which is pretty fucking annoying when you have large columns.
What I love about Calc is how it handles data imports. So much better than Excel, which usually turns it into garbage or adds things that aren’t there.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 4 weeks ago:
Yes, of course and it’s a lot better than what we have at this point, it’s a great first step. I still remember the days of Id Software releasing their game (logic) under the GPL.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 4 weeks ago:
What “online only” means is the need to authenticate to a proprietary server. After logging in, you are then (potentially) directed to a random server to play on.
If you are not online, you cannot authenticate and therefor not be directed to a server. This means you cannot play the game. When the authentication server and infrastructure behind the game is taken offline, the game becomes unplayable, because it is online only.
If a final patch were to be made where either a private authentication server would be made available for you to self-host, or authenation to be completely removed, you could play the game either offline on your device locally or LAN, or online by anyone who cares enough to host a server with the game logic. It would no longer be “online only” since you would have a choice. You can choose to play offline, or choose to play online.
If a game actually needs servers beyond the authentication part, then those should be made available too, so that anyone, again, can play locally or online.
It’s logical that if game servers are made available, a game can never be “online only” again, because you could host the server on your pc and connect to localhost.
Your whole argumentation about “online only” game design falls completely flat. You are mixing concepts that have nothing to do with one another.
A game can be a battle royale by design, gameplay wise, and have the ability to host your own servers by design, technical architecture wise.
Quake Live used to be online only. You could not host your own servers. They released for steam and made it possible to host your own servers. The old authentication system was taken down, logins are no longer required, and now you just launch the game and pick a server in a built in server browser. It should be the standard and Quake Live should serve as an example of how it should be done.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 4 weeks ago:
This is short sighted. Architectures can and will change in the future. I’m running game servers on my aarch64 devices, if I wasn’t able to compile, and sometimes even edit, the code I wouldn’t have been able to run these servers. Emulation isn’t always ideal, janky or even non existent.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 4 weeks ago:
Because visitors to the US don’t tend to be from the US, that’s only logical
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 5 weeks ago:
“the internet” is a necessity and requirement to function in society. You can’t be denied access to it anymore, it would be disproportionate.
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 5 weeks ago:
Castlevania Symfony of the Night
Someone’s also working on Mega Castlevania IV.
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 5 weeks ago:
I’m looking forward to that “new” Megadrive game that’s in development. It was looking really good.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 5 weeks ago:
US websites don’t even ask, they just do it behind your back.