RxBrad
@RxBrad@infosec.pub
The Internet is bad.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 3 weeks ago:
The fact that Russian came out this fast and said they need a version with their own commits is, perhaps, telling.
- Comment on Jellyfin 10.10.0 | Jellyfin 3 weeks ago:
My daily trickplay task finished in 1 minute after the update. So apparently not.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 weeks ago:
It’s still active – save the communities that got kneecapped by mods during the revolt (and sadly, most of those are now Discord-based rather than having any appreciable activity here).
The activity there now is a lot… dumber. Like much of the internet, the ratio of real people to braindead bots on Reddit is a lot different than a few years ago.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 weeks ago:
A lot of stuff ONLY has viable Q&A discussion there…
As much as I love the idea of Lemmy, try finding active communities here for: MAME or any other videogame emulation… Plex… The breed of your family dog/cat… Most any sort of non-Fedi-focused brand/podcast/personality…
Yes, I can create a new community. Then I just sit in it by myself, and occasionally deal with spam.
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 4 weeks ago:
The majority of Reddit discourse on this is wild. The crowd there is going HARD to try and paint IA in the most negative light possible.
I know we don’t like Reddit here, but for example: reddit.com/…/internet_archive_issues_continue_thi…
It’s almost as if the “hackers” and/or copyright holders are running that conversation.
- Comment on Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it 1 month ago:
So, uh… Why does Elon even care about this?
Is this from that Iranian hack of the Trump organization or something?
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 2 months ago:
Wait until they make all the money that was to be made on their game.
Then yoink all of that money.
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 months ago:
That optimization part is what worries me. I still remember games like Control & Cyberpunk being basically unplayable unless you had a PS4 Pro.
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 2 months ago:
I’m surprised that they don’t take even a minimal amount of effort to clean those things up before selling it. A little dab of isopropryl alcohol does wonders.
That cartridge looks like it spent the last 20 years in a butt.
- Comment on Fake Pokémon Cartridge Spotted At GameStop Raises Concerns Among Retro Gamers 2 months ago:
Someone buys fake on eBay. Plays it. Sells it to Gamestop. Minimum wage employee does not spot that it’s fake and it ends up on the used game shelf.
None of this is new.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 2 months ago:
Consoles are $500 gaming machines, generally capable of about 30fps in games. It’s no different for Microsoft or Sony.
And Nintendo… Well, Nintendo is Nintendo.
The bean counters have decided that people don’t want to spend more than that on videogame consoles. If you want more fps, luckily everything gets a PC port nowadays; and your almost-certainly-more-than-$500 rig can handle that.
It is what it is.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 2 months ago:
That was an option on console for most of the generation so far: Performance Mode vs. Quality Mode. But that’s mostly because nearly every game released so far has been a hastily ported last-gen title. It feels like this gen has really just barely started.
Single-player console games being 30fps is not new by any stretch. That’s basically what consoles do. And they’ve managed pretty well with it so far. If you want to spend 2-3x more on a beefy PC, you can get all the frames you want. More power to you.
20 years ago… Skyrim, Fallout, The Last of Us 1, GTA4 on PS3/360 gen. 30fps.
10 years ago… God of War, Gears of War single-player, Fallout 4, The Last of Us 2 on PS4/XBoxOne gen. Also 30fps.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 2 months ago:
Luckily, this is about as much of a FPS as Skyrim.
Skyrim, too, was 30fps when it first released on PS3/360 back in 2011. None of this is new.
- Comment on Avowed Runs at 30fps on Xbox Series X and S, Obsidian Confirms 2 months ago:
Both can be true.
I mean… 30fps has been the single-player console experience for as long as I can remember. (Except for the PS4/XboxOne-native games – seemingly this entire generation – which get 60fps on current gen.)
Yes, PC can do 60fps+ if your rig is beefy enough. Yay.
Console wars bullshit is insufferable. Even when PC is one of the consoles.
- Comment on Aftermath: Valve’s Baffling Deadlock Decisions Don’t Need Defending 3 months ago:
“But I must defend everything Daddy GabeN does!” ~ half of internet commenters, apparently
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Congratulations. Your new position is…
Boardroom Table.
- Comment on Lemmy's what are your favorite gaming podcasts? 3 months ago:
They’re still around. It’s just very different since COVID happened. And I’m old.
- Comment on Lemmy's what are your favorite gaming podcasts? 3 months ago:
- Nextlander
- Fire Escape
- Jeff Gerstmann
(Yes, I’m a Giant Bomb refugee.)