RxBrad
@RxBrad@infosec.pub
The Internet is bad.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 4 weeks ago:
People raging about videogames being woke
VERSUS
People raging about people raging about videogames being woke.
…FIGHT!!!
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 4 weeks ago:
You see the screenshot.
Now assume your Angry Internet Gamer position…
Get in the comments, and FIGHT!
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 1 month ago:
I knew WB’s HD-DVDs (remember those?) were a timebomb. I didn’t realize regular DVDs were, too.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 month ago:
Also the Android TV app is AWESOME!
I dunno…
There’s a transcoding bug in the Android TV version of the Jellyfin client where transcoding a video with 7.1 audio breaks playback. Even with a Pull Request out there that fixes it (by matching the behavior of other Jellyfin clients), the issue got closed as “not planned”. The continued suggestion continues to be “just force everything to play in stereo”.
I don’t have unlimited bandwidth, so plenty of my stuff gets transcoded in Plex. I can’t, in good, conscience, switch my friends & family (most of who use Android TV) over to Jellyfin.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
I legitimately don’t understand why the U.S. isn’t the only locality where it shows up as “Gulf of America”.
Set the en-US string to “Gulf of America”. Leave literally every other region’s text string untouched from what it was 6 months ago.
When the next Democrat U.S. President gets sworn in and immediately Executive Orders it back to “Gulf of Mexico”, change the en-US string back to that.
This is all so stupid and melodramatic.
- Comment on Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there. 2 months ago:
It was all about “fun” in the days of MySpace and Digg and early-Reddit. That damn cat wanted a damn cheeseburger and we all laughed about it.
Then it became all about politics. And people would go to any lengths to ensure that “their” politics “won” on social media. We went from people having fleets of alt accounts, to fleets of bots, to just having AI spread and upvote propaganda.
So, it’s all just gross now. I want my goddamn Geocities & Yahoo! Towers back.
- Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico 2 months ago:
Such a weird thing for everyone to fixate on and lose their shit. Let our dumbass en-US selves do whatever “official” dumbass thing we have to with the name.
Everyone else can leave it what it always was.
Next time there’s a Democrat U.S. President, the “en-US” term will be changed back to Gulf of Mexico.
This is stupid.
- Comment on How Nissan and Honda's $60 billion merger talks collapsed. 2 months ago:
I do worry about Nissan’s future when they seem to be about this close to operating with zero profits.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 months ago:
Genuinely curious… How does Google handle other oceanic naming that isn’t agreed upon Worldwide?
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 2 months ago:
- Comment on GTA 6 publishers think PC is of "increasing" importance in 2025, but still won't announce the magic date 2 months ago:
A year after consoles.
Rockstar knows how to get that double dip more than anyone else.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 2 months ago:
I love Mastodon. It’s easily my favorite & most-used social media platform right now.
But I’m also a huge damn nerd.
I honestly can’t say I’d recommend it to anyone that isn’t also a huge damn nerd, because they just won’t find stuff they want.
“You want sports? We don’t have much of that, but check out the Proxmox server in this guy’s basement!”
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air 4 months ago:
Got a chuckle at this response, though…
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 4 months ago:
Good thing Sony doesn’t even have launcher. But hey, we’re still all mad. Because internet.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 4 months ago:
PC gamers only care about account linking when it’s Sony.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 6 months ago:
So, uh… Why does Elon even care about this?
Is this from that Iranian hack of the Trump organization or something?
