theangriestbird
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- Comment on Mewgenics: Some of the ‘celeb’ Meowing voice cast seems to be problematic at best 1 week ago:
Can someone give the short version on what Ethan Klein did? I read the Wikipedia article but it paints everything in a broad brush, definitely feels like a story missing some key details.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 1 week ago:
yeah i actually just discovered this revival right before posting my comment. It’s really neat! Xfire and Discord are always linked in my mind, because i literally first installed Discord because my friends were moving over from Xfire. These days, Steam Chat can do almost everything that Xfire did, so there isn’t REALLY a reason for it to exist. But i love seein that ancient UI.
- Comment on Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs 1 week ago:
I suppose the next question is where will everyone go?
time to go back to Xfire, i guess.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’ll never happen, until they make YT premium so prohibitively expensive that a majority of users no longer want to pay. If they’re smart, they’ll keep it at the current price until it starts losing money, because their effective monopoly is YouTube’S most valuable asset. Once they get any kind of decent competition, the whole house of cards tumbles.
- Comment on ICE Recruitment Ads No Longer on Spotify 1 month ago:
Clarification: ICE’s recruitment campaign with Spotify ended. Doesn’t mean they won’t accept a new one if ICE comes knocking again.
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in Ferrari crash 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s exactly “rubbing it in.” I think it’s appropriate for NBC to point out this small detail in the headline, as it is a neutral detail which nevertheless colors the incident in a more appropriate light. Just saying “car crash” would lead more people to believe he was t-boned or something (most people only read the headline), when the truth seems to be that he made a very dangerous decision which unfortunately led to his death and the death of his passenger. Hopefully more Ferrari owners get the message, and they remember Vince before they decide to gun it down Angeles Crest Highway.
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in Ferrari crash 1 month ago:
Based on the rest of the story…it kind of seems like he was driving his Ferrari way too fast.
- Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder [TWIV]thisweekinvideogames.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 12 comments
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- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 2 months ago:
As anti-AI as I am, this is way less sensational than the headline makes it sound. They’re adding an AI mode that’s basically a built-in extension. Sounds easy to disable. I hate this shit, but you have to grant that Mozilla is a small company fighting for survival. They are probably just doing this to stay relevant (maybe they can get more money from google by being the default AI provider as well), and they may just as quickly drop this when the AI bubble finally pops. I am willing to forgive Mozilla for a little more than I forgive Microsoft, who has no real reason to push this AI hype other than trying to get more rich.
- Comment on SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years 2 months ago:
ehhhh get back to me in 14B years, i only believe REAL-WORLD metrics bee hmph emoji
- Comment on Doom Studio id Software Unionizes To Secure AI Protections, Benefits: ‘We See The Direction The Industry Is Headed’ 2 months ago:
fuck yeahhhhhh!!! This is huge, id may have relative independence but they exist under the Microsoft regime.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada says he’s leaving Bandai Namco this month [VGC] 2 months ago:
They should probably add Harada as a DLC final boss
- Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada says he’s leaving Bandai Namco this month [VGC]www.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN] 2 months ago:
it’s infuriating and honestly kind of scary. They’re making gaming a luxury hobby, one auxiliary industry at a time. Every component that goes up in price is another reason for consoles to go up in price. More and more cool hobbies are slowly growing out of reach for the average person. Soon the only thing left to fill your free time will be alcohol and the sound of silence.
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 cast calls for The Game Awards to add a motion capture category [VGC]www.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 1 comment
- Comment on The artist whose designs were used in Bungie’s Marathon without permission says the dispute ‘has been resolved to my satisfaction’ [VGC] 2 months ago:
it barely resembles the original. It’s an extraction shooter, a la Hunt: Showdown or Escape from Tarkov.
- Comment on "Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before" Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough? [Eurogamer] 2 months ago:
it’s usually just cosmetics though, right?
- Comment on Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense 2 months ago:
google should experiment with sucking my ass
- "Fewer people are playing Call of Duty this year than they have been before" Why has Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 seemingly sold below expectations? Is it simply not good enough? [Eurogamer]www.eurogamer.net ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 19 comments
- The artist whose designs were used in Bungie’s Marathon without permission says the dispute ‘has been resolved to my satisfaction’ [VGC]www.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 10 comments
- Comment on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | Review Thread 2 months ago:
MP4? yeah, it’s out on the 4th
- Comment on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond | Review Thread 2 months ago:
So this game is landing with a solid Metacritic, but it seems like this is coming from all the blogspam AI-gen sites being overly generous with their scores. Some of the more reliable sites (VGC, Eurogamer) are landing more in a 3-star range. Seems like critics are very split over how to receive this game.
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- A website where you can view Jeffrey Epstein's emails as if you were logged into his Gmail accountjmail.world ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 7 comments
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- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 2 months ago:
I posted this below in reply to a similar comment. If you don’t like the way the devs have handled the raising of concerns, then fine, that’s kind of a judgment call and I can’t tell you what you should feel comfortable with. In my limited experience with the Jellyfin devs (including reading through the responses on that thread you linked), I do not personally get the impression that they are downplaying or refusing to correct issues. To me, it seems more like they are prioritizing some issues over others, and the outstanding security issues seem pretty minor for most use cases.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 2 months ago:
idk the full history, but Joshua’s comment here does not give me the impression of devs that are just deliberately ignoring security issues. It seems like they are simply balancing priorities, which is what all good devs should do. Personally I like that client compatibility is valued over everything else - I would be pissed if they broke the Fire TV client to fix a minor security hole on a niche Linux distro, because then one of my users would be SOL. And as Joshua says in that comment:
many other options are now open to us in a post-10.11 landscape now that we have a proper library database ready.
So it seems like now they are better set up to address the security issues without breaking compatibility.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week 2 months ago:
So, I am not going to deny that those security issues exist, but it seems like they would only pop-up in niche situations, or only if someone already had access to your admin profile. Most people are using Jellyfin to share their media with themselves and their tech-illiterate friends in family. In that use case, the only people who even know my server URL are people I have shared that info with privately. Nobody is trying to hack my admin account.
Now, I am no infosec expert. Maybe there are folks that are trying to run larger operations, and for those people I can understand why these security issues may become concerning if you don’t have a tight handle on the circle of people that have access to your server. That said, it’s also a bit silly to expect a free, open source solution to meet your needs in that scenario, anyway. If you know and understand the issues that well, then maybe go join the dev team and patch the holes. That is the beauty of open source, anyone can jump in and fix it.
