Natanael
@Natanael@infosec.pub
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 20 hours ago:
Switch 1 games can support dynamic resolution, it’s probably going to be used for higher end games on Switch 2 as well.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 20 hours ago:
The problem isn’t getting enough computing power into the tablet, the problem is cooling and battery power.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 20 hours ago:
I hope they at least allow gamechat to be used locally, and by that I specifically mean allowing the camera stuff to be active (like if you plug in a small USB C camera in portable mode, maybe even if you sit in wireless range but in different rooms)
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 20 hours ago:
It seems like there’s nothing special about the camera, hopefully you could use others.
The SD Express makes sense, they’re not just upcharging (you can use any manufacturer’s cards), it’s how they guarantee the storage is reliably fast enough for all games to prevent lag in loading speeds
But for the other accessories, sure. And charging for switch 2 edition upgrades is annoying.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
Also they only make referral fees because they’re not a registrar themselves
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
Thunder compresses it
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 1 week ago:
Technically, in some jurisdictions a person who is widely known to be unreliable is harder to sue for libel precisely because the likelihood of reputational injury is lower if nobody actually believes the claim.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
This is unreadable on mobile in portrait mode
- Comment on Learn something new everyday 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 3 weeks ago:
It’s losing cost advantages as time goes. Long term storage is still on tape (and that’s actively developed too!), and flash is getting cheaper, and spinning disks have inherent bandwidth and latency limits. It’s probably not going away entirely, but it’s main usecases are being squeezed on both ends
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 3 weeks ago:
It’s also what Google Maps live view is using. Street view imagery plus rough location plus on-phone camera sensor calibration data allows it to compute highly accurate positions relative to surroundings.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 3 weeks ago:
Taxing liquid capital is fairly straightforward, especially if it’s tied to income (like company founders owning shares).
Taxing non-liquid assets is complicated because it’s hard to make it fair in cases of family home inheritance and similar situations.
But taxing use of assets as collateral for loans (to create liquidity from a non-liquid asset) should be reasonably fair, it can be treated as an advance on capital gains taxes on the collateralized asset.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 4 weeks ago:
The scaling attack specifically can make a photo sent to you look innocent to you and malicious to the reviewer, see the link above
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 4 weeks ago:
Yeah so here’s the next problem - downscaling attacks exists against those algorithms too.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 5 weeks ago:
Apple had it report suspected matches, rather than warning locally
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/tree/…/bsky
The old design was built to scale to a few million users. The new backend is revised to handle ~hundreds of millions. They’ll releasing bits and pieces at a time.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but the openness of the protocols, especially the portability of accounts, makes it hard for them to push negative changes on users.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 weeks ago:
Bridgy started without that requirement and it pissed off too many Mastodonians so they reworked it
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
Bluesky is a public benefit corporation. That’s very different from for profit
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
3rd party moderation tools already exists, using the same API as the official moderation system, available to subscribe to even directly in the official app. If you don’t want bluesky’s moderation decisions enforced, you can run a different client which don’t apply the bluesky labels (or if the bluesky appview blocks something entirely, you can circumvent that and retrieve it directly from that user’s PDS)
is specifically not clarified to leave open the possibility for monetization such as forcing as on users
What
The network is specifically designed around portability and content addressing so they can’t lock you in
it would never be a useful alternative to the Official Bubble maintained by the Bluesky corporation that you must submit to or be left out in the cold interacting with users only on alternate, small personal networks.
There are already plenty of people running their own self hosted PDS servers to host their account, talking to the rest of the bluesky users, using 3rd party moderation filters and 3rd party clients, with 3rd party feed generators to view stuff like topic specific feeds
Also there’s bridgy so you can talk across Mastodon / bluesky by letting bridgy mirror posts and replies between the two networks
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 weeks ago:
Have you heard of bridgy?
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
Bluesky is open source though
- Comment on nuked from orbit 5 weeks ago:
As long as these types pay attention to what the scientists tell them and explain it to others accurately, they’re helpful
- Comment on Community creation question 1 month ago:
Jerry passed me control of !crypto@infosec.pub already, started posting to it to get it started
- Comment on Community creation question 1 month ago:
… Does it not have access right control? The FAQ doesn’t describe any delegation
- Comment on Community creation question 1 month ago:
Great!
- Comment on Community creation question 1 month ago:
I’ll see what I can do. Don’t have hosting ready for anything automated though.
- Comment on Community creation question 1 month ago:
Separate question, is there any automoderator equivalent around here?
- Comment on Community creation question 1 month ago:
So the new account only sees posts less than a year old, but this account (also on the very same host!) sees that plus older posts 🤷
- Comment on Community creation question 1 month ago:
No way from admin tooling to do it?