wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 19 hours ago:
Sounds like it sucks at every level. From what I’ve dealt with on just software/drivers:
You want to use scan to email through anything that isn’t a fully open, no auth, anonymous SMTP relay? Go fuck yourself.
Wait… we changed our mind. We’ll totally support SMTP authentication, but with an arbitrary undocumented limit on the password length we can store, which is definitely shorter than the password length requirements for most SMTP relay suites. Certificates? Holy shit are you from the future?
Or you can scan to network share, but I hope you enjoy finding all the hidden catches and caveats that are completely undocumented!
You want an option so people have to log in at the printer itself to release their print job? Enjoy six different interfaces for five different underlying standards for how that works across two different manufacturers. And we reserve the right to just stop supporting that feature or change it entirely with any firmware or driver update. And if there’s a mismatch between the driver and firmware then we’ll just make the print spooler/job queue shit itself and require manual intervention to continue printing.
You want our driver to properly communicate to end user software the paper sizes it supports? If it supports double sided printing or not? How it will collate multiple copies? Man, we can’t even care enough to indicate to software if we’re Black and White or Color. Best we can do is completely ignore the options you picked through your software and our driver and just do whatever we think is best. That’s a good compromise, right?
For the price of these god damn enterprise mfds, there’s no excuse.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 days ago:
What’s objectionable about it Apple? Hmm?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 days ago:
I know GBA audio quality can be questionable, but I feel like Fusion’s soundtrack adds a lot to the game’s atmosphere. Worth playing with the sound on. Great game.
- Comment on YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. 1 week ago:
I mean, I’ve heard of other sites using info like having a saved payment card in your own name, or the age of the account itself to know that the user is over 18 without needing ID.
But this is Google, they want to flex their analytics and get as much additional info on everyone as they can.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
I’ve played a handful of games that precompile shaders at boot up without it taking 15 minutes, and they try to hide at least some of it behind the splash screens and such. This is absurd. If pre-compilation or caching is needed, just fucking do it.
On top of what you said, that any company with the funds of Gearbox has no excuse for not being able to optimize it to happen during runtime without tanking FPS.
- Comment on Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll 1 week ago:
There’s been countless studies on this. That’s not how our brains work. After the short term, or a scant few outstanding ones that stay with you, the only thing left long term is the brand recognition. That steers your choices when you buy things.
Put simply, people don’t have the mental capacity to keep a full list of every company that advertised to them in a shitty way in the front of their minds constantly, beside everything else required for daily life.
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 1 week ago:
A mainstay on my shuffle playlists in the Encore Mode Save Select Theme, Double Take, from Sonic Mania Plus. Track is by Falk du Yeong, who did the music for the popular Sonic Fangames Before and After the Sequel.
A recent one that Youtube Music (hooray for Revanced) revealed to me is the Main Menu theme of Mindwave, by Dorkus 64. Apparently the game is kind of a mix of WarioWare but with jumping into people’s minds as the setting? Can hear a lot of WarioLand 4 influence in the track. Weird, and an absolute bop.
Honorable Mentions:
- Main Menu Theme, Metroid Prime (or from the Remaster)
- Briefing, Ace Combat X
- Stage Select, Ape Escape
- Time Station, Ape Escape (kind of cheating, it’s basically a menu as a hub stage)
- All the menu themes from Sonic Mega Collection
- Comment on Lead 1 week ago:
I think you considerably overestimate his level of influence. Just because Trump’s cult isn’t letting a good shooting go to waste doesn’t mean he was anywhere near as important or influential in life as they are acting like now.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians 1 week ago:
After Guardian reveals secret spy project.
Put the emphasis on Guardian, reveals, or secret. It’s all valid.
Guardian didn’t reveal a secret here. This just finally got them enough bad PR that it started to effect the bottom line.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians 1 week ago:
Why are you talking like Microsoft didn’t know? They didn’t need “to check” or to “review”. They knew and didn’t care until it started impacting their bottom line.
They didn’t fire those employees because they thought they were wrong. They fired them for making a scene. For drawing public and news media attention to it. To try and stop the protesting employees from influencing even more employees.
This isn’t some “oopsie poopsies, we didn’t know! our bad!” thing.
- Comment on Is there some sort of "underground" net for old computing? 1 week ago:
Beyond what has already been mentioned, there’s the gopher protocol for entirely text based sites.
- Comment on I mean... This is it. 1 week ago:
Usually you can just go harder if you’re already going as deep as you can. Grab onto your partner and pull them towards you as you thrust.
Alternatively, changing up the angle or position can get you deeper compared to standard missionary. Not as useful right in the moment, but a tool for later.
Or they might want you to go as deep as you can and stay there with some grinding.
Just pay attention to your partner’s reactions, go after what makes them feel good, and don’t over think things. After you get some space from it, maybe talk to them about it. Ask them to try and word things differently or something. Life’s too short to stay with someone that you aren’t comfortable being vulnerable with, and especially to stay with someone who would intentionally make you feel lesser during intimate moments (assuming that’s not a kink of yours).
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Meh. I’d rather they have their meeting places out in the light like this than hidden away in the dark web or something.
Just block, defed, move on. No need to feed their narrative of being the last bulwark against the bad guys by dogpiling them. People are allowed to be wrong and you won’t change their minds by storming in all righteous at them anyway. That will just entrench them more.
If you truly want to turn them, there’s plenty of studies and research done on how to actually influence people and change minds. Some of it is even in leaked classified intelligence agency field guides, which is a fun way to end up on a list!
- Comment on Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse 2 weeks ago:
I love Sheperd Book. I don’t think we ever got an explanation for why he had an effectively “no questions asked” pull with the Alliance, and I kind of like that.
I would absolutely have loved more of the show and the world, but some aspects I think are better with no big resolution or explanation. Keeps the series and setting alive in my imagination.
- Comment on Where, indeed? 2 weeks ago:
Gonna bury it so deep in you it’ll need a tombstone baby 😏
Ouch.
“So how exactly did you break your pelvis ma’am?”
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Pump the numbers and try to retroactively justify the absurd spending on it all. Everyone who accidentally opens it is another tick up for the user numbers.
I’m sure they also have some stats based on installs that this will spruce up too.
- Comment on labubu 2 weeks ago:
I want to see someone make a fully articulated one of these with custom software running on it so it writhes along with whatever furby stuff it’s doing.
- Comment on “TO THE PERPETRATORS WHO STOLE MY ASS: I HAVE BOTH HANDS ENGAGED IN FINDING IT AND YOU WILL SOON FACE THE FULL FORCE IF THE LAW!!!” 2 weeks ago:
Nanotrasen thanks you for your brave sacrifice in contribution to robotics research and construction of a new Bio-Utility Techno-Tool on Space Station 13.
- Comment on Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC 2 weeks ago:
It requires a ROM to extract the assets and levels, which so far has kept a number of reverse engineering/decomp projects like this one safe, even from Nintendo. Argument being that it needs to be your ROM that you dumped yourself of the game in question, which is legal.
The majority of users are just going to download a ROM, but Nintendo hasn’t gone after these so far.
- Comment on YSK Lemvotes.org will show you votes on any post, comment, or by user, or anything on the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
This is a foundational restriction with how federation works and was discussed back during the exodus from reddit when they cut off their API. Votes can’t be federated without identity attached, or you’d end up with a single vote multiplied by however many instances federated it to yours.
This is the price of the fediverse being uncensorable. Everything you do on it is oublic, and norhing can be reliably deleted from the entire fediverse.
There was some efforts to obsfucate voting by one of the m/kbin lemmy alternatives, to have each account have an associated hidden account with a randomly generated name that would technically be the account used for voting, so only the admin of your own instance could connect between your public account identity and your voting identity, but that could also just be defeated by basic pattern identification.
As far as instance admins are concerned, this has been known from the start, and is completely outside of their control. That said, it could definitely use some more signposting for awareness. It’s shocking how often this entire discussion gets repeated by people who apparently never thought to look into how federation actually works.
- Comment on ‘Don’t Patronize Us’: Data Center Charm Offensive Irks Opponents in Rural Georgia 3 weeks ago:
If you think rural Georgia is such a shithole, why in the hell would it make sense to build a datacenter there? Just keep your shit out of their shit if you hate them so damn much.
- Comment on Don't 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 3 weeks ago:
This company has illegally installed their cameras in more than one town, then tried to sell the local police force on them.
They have lawyers on staff that they use to coach local politicians on how to hold the votes to establish contracts with them in ways that aren’t technically illegal, but ensure that no community opposition has a way to have their voices heard.
You can find a lot of these sprts of stories by searching online. In local subreddits, ones dedicated to talking about flock, and local news.
Benn Jordan has a good 40 minute video giving an overview of these systems, how they work, what they track, and why they are a problem. He highlights some cases where families were held at gunpoint by police due to failures of these systems. He also experiments with defeating the AI that reads plates.
Louis Rossman is currently leading a campaign against their installation where he lives in Austin, Texas right now. Has a number of videos on it.
Overview before the Austin City Council vote: youtu.be/4RM09nKczVs
Call for people to show up at the Austin City Council session to discuss the potential contract with Flock, and showing how difficult it is to find this sort of stuff and be involved with your local government: youtu.be/g4vL1ERdZ9Y
Call to action 2: youtu.be/hDOmYqlwxD4
Austin City Council reschedules the vote (in a questionably illegal fashion) with less than 24 hours notice when they realize they kicked the hornet’s nest: youtu.be/iscDYp6dtl8
Minor followup during the wait for the revised time, at two of the three parks with 90% of reported car break ins these cameras are meant to serve: youtu.be/2QbtDWrlPpc
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 3 weeks ago:
No way that holds up when challenged. Gacha games alone prove existing work.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 4 weeks ago:
Climbing down from the trees was the begining of the end.
- Comment on Step 1: Delete 4 weeks ago:
Slap a fur shader on it and ship it!
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
I think part of the issue is that after winning on the platform of “change”, Democrats veered hard into “establishment status quo”. They won so hard that most people don’t even recall the bad parts of the Obama presidency at all (the point of my last comment, that it wasn’t all sunshine and roses), and then threw that lead in the trash.
They had a chance with Sanders, but threw away an absurd amount of public goodwill by very openly pushing him out of the running in favor of Clinton. That effectively left Trump as the only candidate carrying the “change” flag, and a lot of people were too dumb to see he was full of shit.
When Democrats had a chance again, they went with another “establishment safe” choice and only won with Biden due to an immense outcry against Trump. Then they lost again because they wouldn’t platform someone people were willing to get out to vote for.
If we get out of this shitshow, I’ll be very interested in what history says about the last few presidential races.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
You may not have been paying close attention. Obama was astoundingly better than Trump, but invasive spying on citizens was allpwed to remain legal under his watch, and he extended what was allowed. Drone striking questionable targets started under him as well. There’s more, but those two are the highlights usually brought up.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Vampire Survivors’s Ode to Castlevania DLC
It’s so fun to see them actually get to use the IP VS was inspired from, and the DLC is absolutely a love letter to all of Castlevania, including some of the more obscure characters in the lore. The DLC has roughly double the content of the base game, with at least three big “unlock/events” locking more layers of content behind them. Tons of new playable characters, tons of new weapons, one new massive map with its own unique mechanics and progression, and so much classic Castlevania music and remixes. Totally worth it.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 4 weeks ago:
Nope.
512+256=768, 768+64=832… minus 7 for system data and general overhead maybe? That’s my best guess, but that’s a really odd size.