I mean, it’s an obvious scam. Always has been. They only have a few tech demos, and bunch of polished marketing material. There’s nothing to actually release.
I’ve been on a mini quest to try and get my Twitter account banned without doing anything strictly against the ToS and my first idea was to start messing with people who say something completely untrue, then refuse to back down under any circumstances. But that got me thinking, is it okay? I’m not outright insulting/cyber...
Though i agree it could be fun at first, conspiracies are legit dangerous. People are so desperate for meaning, 17% of Americans believe the government is lead by a kabaal of satanic lizard people eating babies and shit like that.
My mom is deep into the rabbit hole of nonsense, and it genuinely consumes her. Nearly all her friends abandoned her, she almost lost her job, and that’s only reinforcing these convictions. If something like January 6th was happening in my country, I bet you, she’d be there. The time conspiracies were harmless fun are gone. They ruin people’s lives.
I think it’s worth thinking of GZDoom as an sprite-based FPS engine with Doom legacy. It can work with 3d models but it works much better with sprites. Which gives it a certain aesthetic. And is much easier to work with than other engines in my experience.
The Doom community goes incredibly strong on the old forums and many discords. Very vibrant and cheerful bunch of people, I wholeheartedly recommend checking in
Gzdoom can run voxels too. Here’s a video of voxel enemies, weapons and objects. youtu.be/71AXYp1X_SA
BUT the thing is, there’s so much more than that. Comparing it to build, even with the improvements from ion fury isn’t fair because that’s still fundamentally build. Gzdoom has replaced even physics, movement and hitbox detection. There are so many changes and bugfixes present in the stock doom engine in gzdoom that speedrunners refuse to use it. Speedrunning requires accurate behaviour. But there are other engines for that.
The original doom engine was open sourced pretty early on, and even before that, people were making maps and custom content very soon after release in 93. And maps are being released every day since then. As soon as the source code got out, a bunch of “source ports” aka custom engines started popping up. Some with aim to fix bugs, some to extend the feature set. And because it’s open, the community started to standardize. So most modern ports that focus on compatibility (unlike gzdoom) are compatible with behaviour of multiple other ports. What I mean is this.
Dsda-doom is focused on speedrunning. So it has plenty QOL features for speedrunning, and is compatible with old ports that extended the feature set. Limit-removing is most common, there are hard limits in the stock engine, like number of enemies on screen at once, map size (block size), how many sectors are on screen at once, and many more. Exceeding many of those will straight up crash the game.
Boom is an engine that removes all these limits and also extends the base feature set by adding new trigger actions, enhancing RNG calculations, and much more. That is the second most favourite. Speedrunners love it, and dsda-doom supports it so you don’t need to use the ancient executable. There is dozens if not hundreds of ports, and a lot of those are still in daily use. Thanks to compatibility settings, when somebody makes a new map, they can say “it’s boom compatible” and people get their modern port of choice, run it in boom compatibility mode, and the map/mod runs perfect for everybody.
Gzdoom supports nearly all the ports, and feature sets throughout history, and has plenty extra of its own. Like portals, coloured lighting, advanced scripting with zscript and much more.
That’s what I mean when I say it’s not fair to compare it to build. Doom in one way or another was worked on by the community for 3 decades, build didn’t see nearly as much attention. Gzdoom doesn’t aim to make doom better, it aims to make a good environment for old and new doom-like games. The active communities on doomworld and zdoom forums are in tens of thousands of people. It’s fast more active than many modern games’ communities. It’s a 30 year old game, just let that sink in.
Oh, by the way, there are even people who make content that is vanilla-compatible, which means it would run perfectly on the original DOS executable from 93-94 on a 386 machine.
I initially only installed “Comodo Firewall” but for some reason they also installed a “Comodo Dragon Browser”, which I did not consent to. I always choose the “advanced” installation to uncheck bloatware, but in this case there was none and when you try to uninstall the browser, they force you to participate in...
I’ve seen the vlc addon that can play torrents but doesn’t that kill them? You’re not seeding anything by just streaming and leaving when the movie is over. Idk, seems like a shitty thing to do
Before signing up you best check how the payout works. So it’s not like Roblox. Encouraged to create within the system but making any money is near impossible, and even when you reach the minimum payout limit, the conversation ratio is insanely bad.
interesting. But that seems to rely on Chrome, which I’ve removed. I’m using Duckduckgo as main browser instead. So I just fireproof the login, bookmark and I’m good. Thanks for the explanation, though.
edit: there seems to be a sandboxed webapps browser on f-droid
What are some good tech related podcasts you can recommend? I’ve listened a lot to Darknet Diaries but lately, I’ve found it to become less and less interesting as he mostly just interviews some pentesters....
I can recommend Embedded - a couple of firmware engineers with a guest
and The Amp Hour which is host/guest in electrical engineering. If you know the EEVblog, Dave is a co-host but only appears when there’s no guest.
I do over all agree with you. Not sure about the non-profit, though. That seems like something for later when the dust settles.
However, as we all know - power corrupts.
Some form of governing body(ies) is probably necessary to keep the lemmyverse from falling apart by forces inside and outside. Right now the fediverse seems to be pretty much free-for-all. If there was to be a governing structure, it would need a lot of thought and careful consideration in regards to its shape, size and strength.
It is actually exciting to see and participate in how things develop.
That already happened. For example, we have mozilla !firefox
edit: I think it’s a mistake to throw mozilla into in the same bag with the other corpos. The whole truth is a bit more complicated than makes money = bad. In this case I’m happy to take the L
There is this lukewarm comment @sunaurus made yesterday but I would very much appreciate a definitive stance on the topic, please. I do believe that having Meta here poses a real threat to the future of fediverse. It may not be the case right now but considering the company’s history, I think it’s very safe to assume only the worst. As explained in the article linked above.
It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed....
I agree with your sentiment, however I don’t think Reddit is a sinking ship. It sucks, me and many other people are angry with them, some of us left but it’s not nearly enough to make them actually sink. Reddit is too recognizable a brand.
They’re too big to fail.
$600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen (exputer.com)
Is it unethical to troll arrogant people?
I’ve been on a mini quest to try and get my Twitter account banned without doing anything strictly against the ToS and my first idea was to start messing with people who say something completely untrue, then refuse to back down under any circumstances. But that got me thinking, is it okay? I’m not outright insulting/cyber...
GZDoom - Engine of hell (lemmy.ninja)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ninja/post/119027...
You can't uninstall this software without being forced to participate in their survey (lemmy.world)
I initially only installed “Comodo Firewall” but for some reason they also installed a “Comodo Dragon Browser”, which I did not consent to. I always choose the “advanced” installation to uncheck bloatware, but in this case there was none and when you try to uninstall the browser, they force you to participate in...
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Updated my Samsung phone and it installed unwanted apps (lemmy.world)
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Is threads bad? Yes. But Elon being knocked down a peg or two is worth it. (lemmy.ml)
Good tech podcasts
What are some good tech related podcasts you can recommend? I’ve listened a lot to Darknet Diaries but lately, I’ve found it to become less and less interesting as he mostly just interviews some pentesters....
SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL with a $10+ Million Investment | SUSE (www.suse.com)
This is going to be interesting.
10 days after 3rd party reddit app shutdown, Lemmy's top 10 instances combine for a thriving userbase of 234,000 (lemmy.world)
Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:...
Re: Defederation - Does Lemmy need a charter?
***Edit:*Shit, I probably should have made the title plural - “Does Lemmy need charters?”...
Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important (ploum.net)
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/400702...
Lemmy.ml has now blocked threads.net / Meta (lemmy.ml)
It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed....