wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions 1 day ago:
Yep. While WP Engine definitely aren’t heroes here, Mullenweg has been mixing his business and the Wordpress org for a long time, and the licensing terms he decided upon for WordPress and the initialism WP didn’t support the “special case” situation he tried to force WP Engine into.
If he had just kept his damn mouth shut and changed the usage/licensing terms so that commercial resellers over a certain size had to pay back into the costs for support, this wpuld have never been news.
I highly doubt he’s been told that he must provide free support, and I suspect that he’s just been told that by his own rules he must provide the same free support for them that he provides to all of the other users.
- Comment on Hackers Can Jailbreak Digital License Plates to Make Others Pay Their Tolls and Tickets 5 days ago:
While I don’t disagree, whether or not something should be tracked has jack all to do with whether or not tracking it is surveillance.
Also, maybe don’t just jump to the conclusion that someone is championing being a raging shithead.
- Comment on Reddit bans posting UnitedHealthcare shooter’s manifesto 1 week ago:
Even when dealing with bullshit like this, trying to “rules lawyer” online when a moderation group has made their stance known loud and clear rarely works out well.
Also, just in the rare case you didn’t know, Lemmy is more than just .world. It’s not like Reddit where you’re just stuck with the Reddit admins.
You could register an account on any instance you want. The overwhelming majority of them would still allow you to interact with content from .world, but the worst the .world admins could do would be to ban you from a .world version of a “subreddit”.
I’ve been very happy with the admin of lemmy.dbzer0.com, a former mod (I think former head mod) of the piracy subreddit that resigned with the API mess. Doesn’t seem to take action lightly or capriciously, content to let the community make decisions through open discussion and polls rather than just iron fist their wishes through.
- Comment on You can get a free copy of both Breathedge and Dark Sector right now 3 weeks ago:
Dark Sector (Steam): store.steampowered.com/app/29900/Dark_Sector/
- Comment on Firefighters Struggle to Break the Tesla Cybertruck’s “Transparent Metal” Glass During Emergency Response Training 4 weeks ago:
Why are they using an axe and not any of the specifically made tools to break a window? A spring loaded window punch shouldn’t take up any appreciable amount of space or weight on a suited up fireman.
- Comment on Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could have featured an ice gun and blob monsters, as seen in new documentary footage 4 weeks ago:
Oh neat! I seem to remember some of the blob monster tech being found a long time ago, I think it was datamined from another Valve game or something.
Nice to see it officially aknowledged and some real footage.
- Comment on Windows Server 2025 takes admins by surprise 1 month ago:
Ha! You’re a funny one.
- Comment on Windows Server 2025 takes admins by surprise 1 month ago:
The issue seems to be that Microsoft has started to reuse KB#s for updates across different channels, meaning update KB1234 can be a Security update for Windows (Desktop) 11, and be an optional OS upgrade for Windows (Server) 2022.
That appears to be what happened here, but additionally a mistake was made and the Server patch was labelled with the details (that it’s just a security update) for the Desktop one.
Also doesn’t help that Microsoft only has one documentation page for any given update number, and the one for this one only lists the details of the desktop update.
- Comment on 700 Ubisoft staff in France hold strikes in response to worldwide return to office mandate from Assassin’s Creed publisher 2 months ago:
Pretty sure that’s the first one (I never played it) or Black Flag. Black Flag has intermissions in a game development office.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 2 months ago:
This isn’t news, it’s just the standard notice that Microsoft isn’t going to spend time making their new shiny OS work on 10+ year old hardware.
- Comment on Free Long Awaited MMO & Limited Time Management Game! | (Sickfishsticks free game upd.Oct 6) 2 months ago:
If you open the Harbinger dev’s page on Steam, their last game (also a “boomer shooter” style fps) is also free.
- Comment on Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games 2 months ago:
A good chunk of the internet in general as well.
- Comment on Skate heelflips into my calendar with an early access release some time in 2025 2 months ago:
Oh man, can’t wait for all the physics engine abuse videos.
- Comment on PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation changes license for no commercial use and no derivatives 2 months ago:
Yeah, RetroArch is something best used/enjoyed in spite of the lead devs. There’s a lot of really cool and unique stuff it does, but the main devs have pulled some real bullshit over time.
- Comment on PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation changes license for no commercial use and no derivatives 2 months ago:
Iirc, the creator of Duckstation has been salty about repackaging his stuff for a good while. He had disagreements with how RetroArch made a core from his emulator, citing some sort of licensing violation (not asure the validity). So someone forked his codebase and made the Swanstation core, and he publicly exploded and ceased development of Duckstation.
He must have come back at some point for his opinions to be relevant again I guess.
As far as I understood things, he’s always been touchy about what others chooss to do with his code, even having negative reactions to basic bug fix pull requests.
- Comment on "Today, we have an exciting update: Duncan and Paul, alongside many other talented members at Hopoo Games (maker of risk of rain), will now be working on game development directly at @valvesoftware !" 3 months ago:
Great job! I remember hopoo’s (the founder’s) early posts on 4chan’s Amateur Game Dev General threads. Wild to see they made it this far.
- Comment on DOOM + DOOM II get bundled together with new enhanced versions 4 months ago:
I’d be imterested in a breakdown of what new features the kex engine provides that aren’t already available in gzdoom.
There are other sourceports, but that seems to be the standard for general use in the community, outside of ports with specific goals in regards to accuracy.
- Comment on If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe 4 months ago:
It’s not applicable in any way here other than to go, “lol, aren’t gamers bigoted? Am I right guys? Updoots to the left!”
- Comment on Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue 4 months ago:
I’ve tried this myself, but I’ve found that you really need to commit to mainataining your own media library, or to using pirate streaming services.
None of the big name legal streaming services work well through Kodi plugins due to the DRM on the content. Usually end up with stuff limited to 720p, stereo, no hdr.
I really wish the streaming companies would chill so it was easy to get a single unified interface for all my content in the highest quality available, but no, someone might pirate it in a marginally easier way then they already can!
- Comment on Portable CD players are back and now work with wireless headphones 5 months ago:
Nah man. If you care about your CDs you should already have them ripped to flac format, so the disc rot can’t kill them. Convert to mp3 vbr0 for tossing them on a player or your phone. Listen with whatever ear buds you like.
It’s not like vinyl or casette tape, where the analog nature of the storage medium is going to effect the sound. CDs are pure digital, just a carrying case for the files on them.
- Comment on Verizon screwup caused 911 outage in 6 states—carrier agrees to $1M fine 5 months ago:
This sort of disclaimer needs to be beside every article concerning corporate fines. Fucking ridiculous.
- Comment on 500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library 5 months ago:
This is upsetting, but yet again this is ignoring the real reason they are being slammed and is misrepresenting things to try and support (the legitimately amazing) internet archive.
They willfully, intentionally, and very loudly broke the laws/agreements about how many copies of each book they could lend out simultaneously. I hope they win this. I hope more people become aware of this situation.
I also hope more coverage about this starts to be more honest and straightforward about why this is occurring.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 will add official mod tools this September, making it even easier to play dungeon master 6 months ago:
You should take a look at the mods that already exist. Pretty sure some of what you listed is already available.
- Comment on Co-op tower defense beat 'em up ChronoDojo adds various Steam Deck improvements 6 months ago:
“Co-op tower defense beat 'em up”
Well that’s a genre mashup I didn’t know I needed in my life until today
- Comment on The MSI Claw is an embarrassment 7 months ago:
Don’t get me started on how many fear mongering articles keep making it to the top with comments about “Microsoft adding anti-features with no way to disable them” or “Microsoft will just reset it with the next update anyway, why bother” because people can’t be bothered to take 5 minutes to skim through the settings app. Learned helplessness.
I get the frustration that it’s necessary in the first place. I get the frustration when it’s something that needs to be fixed through the registry or group policy because that’s not straight forward.
But the sheer amount of false information being parroted by people who never took the time to look into configuring their own device is absolutely absurd.
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 7 months ago:
They store the current edit and one previous version back, and deletion does not count as an edit as it only hides the latest version from showing on the front end and through the api.
This was found out by people trying to edit and delete comments in mass during the api exodus.
So you’d want to edit the comment to garbage twice before deleting it, and hope they aren’t willing to restore shit from deeper backups they surely have for system safety (speaking as a systems engineer) that they haven’t pulled from yet.
- Comment on Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract 7 months ago:
Suggesting common sense pratices and understanding of how the world works isn’t being supporting of the state of things. I see no argument in the comment you replied to that it’s ok.
Time isn’t infinite, and if I have to choose only one option then I’d focus on helping people make their way through the world that currently exists, rather than focusing on impotent ranting about how things should be.
We can’t just snap our fingers and live in the world of how things should be. Until we get there we all have to live in the world that is.
- Comment on Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation 7 months ago:
Fucking hell. I had really hoped that the world could have gotten off its collective ass to ratify some international agreement limiting the use of AI for shit like this before we’d start seeing these headlines.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 8 months ago:
I’m honestly surprised it took this long for someone to try this. With smart devices I would think it would just take enough RAM to store the last few seconds of frames and do a comparison.
Like, if less than 5% of the image changed in the last three seconds and there’s been no new caption lines recieved (for broadcast content), pop a banner ad in at the bottom. Like how TV stations used to advertise upcoming specials and events over top of the bottom of other shows.
Additionally/alternatively: Require streaming apps to broadcast a clear “paused” status back up to the OS, or just track use of the pause/play button.
There’s a whole bunch of different ways a smart device could attempt to identify pauses in content, and a whole bunch of companies who would be willing to mess up on the identification and piss off consumers for the chance to push ads and make more money.
What’s going to be interesting is how streaming services and cable/sattelite providers react to this. I’d imagine that they would consider overlaying ads they don’t control onto their content to be a violation of their rights to advertise to the consumer and control their own content. Also means corporations making content would have less control over what ads are shown with their content, and ads would have less control over the content they are shown with.
“This Liveleak flaying torture video brought to you by Gillette razors!”
- Comment on Take-Two Buys Gearbox From Embracer, Confirms Development on New Borderlands Game 8 months ago:
As long as T2 ensures Randy Pitchford doesn’t Fixed that for you. Man’s a stooge.