Tech Over Tea - Why Wait, Just Switch To Linux | Solo

Episode Date: October 5, 2024

It's been a very long time since we've done a solo episode but we're finally back and if if you've never been around for one we're just here to rant about whatever I happen to find interesting this week.

Good morning, good day, and good evening. I am, as always, your host, Brodie Robertson. And today, it has been quite a while since we've done one of these. Not a podcast, but a solo episode. I honestly could not even tell you the last time it happened. It's gotta be... God, it's gotta be like three to six months ago surely like the only reason i wasn't doing them is i just had guests lined up and i just wanted to keep doing the guest

episodes then avicon came around and we had like two months of the game developer ones which kind of flopped um i i thought they were fun i them, but basically nobody watched them. So uh, I Don't know. This is not supposed to be a like a Linux channel. I refuse to make this a Linux channel I'm gonna talk about things that are not a little bit that are not Linux here If you don't like that, well, hey, that's a that's a you problem But I just didn't feel like a lot like arranging someone i have a list of people that i can talk to and people that i know i can get on the podcast literally like the next day so it's not even a matter of that it's just people have asked me to do a solo episode again just

because i don't know it's it's a nice change right like when i do the solo episode it's a very different thing to what i'm doing with the guests. Because the guests, it's usually like semi-focused, right? It's, you're here to talk about Gentoo. You're here to talk about LFS. You're here to talk about some other thing that is specifically your thing. But when we're on the solo episode, it literally is just, I rant about whatever I feel like ranting about. Usually just like tech news that doesn't make its way into like the, uh, into the main channel.

Um, sometimes it might be, but hey, if you've never seen a solo episode, now there's one here. I think the best place to start, actually, I've got like a whole list here. Like I could start literally anywhere. I've got like the Twitter block button. I've got, like, a whole list here. Like, I could start literally anywhere. I've got, like, the Twitter block button. I've got the whole, like, Twitch bits nonsense. I've got some stuff about the Winamp source code. Uh, what my current,

like, YouTube binge is. Like, it's been so long that I don't even, like, I don't even know what we do with the solo episode anymore. Um, I think we can talk about the Twitter block button. So, it's, by the time this is coming out, like, it's a little bit after, like, all of this stuff, like, was first announced, but if you didn't hear that, or somehow you didn't hear it, um, Mr. Elon Musk, everyone's favorite

person, as this Redditor is calling them, apparently, um, this guy's calling him, uh, Enron Musk, Apparently, this guy's calling him Enron Musk. But, breaking. X is about to remove the current block button, meaning that we have an account that is public. Their post will be visible to the blocked users as well. High time this happened. The block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing the public post. So, that's a really weird way to word it basically if you block an account assuming this goes through which it's entirely possible it

doesn't because some stuff we'll talk about in just a moment um if you block an account you won't see their content but they will still be able to see yours i assume they won't see their content, but they will still be able to see yours. I assume they won't be able to interact with it. If they do interact with it, you probably won't be able to see that. My assumption is this is going to work very similar to the way that YouTube's block work. Well, YouTube doesn't call it a block. They call it a hide, where if I hide an account, you can still comment on my content, you can still upvote

it and dislike it, but your comment, I think, just gets auto-nuked. Like, you just don't know that it's been deleted, and I never see that comment. Like, it doesn't go into held for review or anything like that. It is just gone. Honestly, I don't know how to unblock people on YouTube, so if I ever hide your account,

um, contact me somewhere else if you actuallyblock people on YouTube. So if I ever hide your account, contact me somewhere else if you actually didn't do something wrong and I will fix it up there. Because I'll have to Google how to actually fix it. But there has been a lot of, mainly, a lot of criticism of making this move. Let me see if I can find some of it. Block button, Twitter, bad. Yeah, that should. Let's go to, yeah, you know what? Reddit. No, this is from a year ago. Elon deleting the block button except for DMs. Oh yeah, that happened as well, didn't it? I forgot that that one happened. Wait, you can't block. Wait, no, no, that didn't happen. No, I think that was like

an idea that he had. Um... Uh... Says he wants to get rid of the block button. Nope. Wait, he said he was going to do it back in March as well. Wait, I thought people... Wait, wait, wait. Wait, what? These blocks lists are annoying. It achieves nothing to block public posts. Time to get rid of the block in favor of a stronger mute. Okay,

so this is not the first time he's actually talked about it. I completely forgot about that happening. So, there is a number of issues people brought up. I can't find people talking about them now. But if you go to Reddit, Twitter, whatever, you'll find them. A lot of it comes down to people being worried about, like, online stalkers and weirdos on the internet. So, you would block someone and then

they wouldn't see your account right like if you have some weirdo that's following you everywhere you go you blocked them they don't see it i understand this argument but i think it's entirely wrong and based on a complete misunderstanding of how the internet actually functions. So I understand it, but I think you're wrong. When you block someone on Twitter, this is just blocking their account. Now, for people that have like a minor inconvenience with you, right? Like, oh, they don't like your videos on the internet. Oh, they think your voice is annoying. Like, that'll deal with those people. Or like, they make a mean comment to you, right? Like, oh, they don't like your videos on the internet. Oh, they think your voice is annoying.

Like, that'll deal with those people. Or like, they make a mean comment to you, right? Like, those people, the block deals with them. What it doesn't deal with are the actual psychos on the internet, right? Where, like, these are the people that hang out, like, Kiwi Farms, 4chan, places like that, who make it their day-to-day business to harass people online. A block button does nothing to those people, because if you block someone and they're a psycho, what they do is they make an alt, or not even they make an alt, they have an alt, and they go to the alt, and they look at your post, they copy the post, they screenshot them, they talk about them elsewhere, maybe they even talk to you from their alt and like harass you there as well. Right? Like the block button does not stop those people because all they do just go to another account.

If the whole question, if the point is you don't want them to see the post, they can log out and see the post anyway. Now, Twitter has like restricted the way that you can see posts while you're logged out. But regardless, you can make an alt. As long as you're not like IP banned from Twitter, you can make an alt and do whatever you want there. But because there is this block button, people have this like false perception

that if they've blocked someone, they are now safe to do what they want. Like I have been blocked by a number of people who then think that they can just go and, like, talk shit, and, like, I'll never see it, but people screenshot the post and send it to me, right? Like, if you want to talk shit about someone, a block button is not going to stop the person seeing it. It'll make them less likely, right? Someone who's not determined to see it is not going to see it. But someone who actually is, it just gives you a false sense of safety. And honestly, I feel like it ends up leading to more people getting hurt because they think they can just do what they want now they have a block button. Now, I do think that there are ways that blocks can be improved, right?

Like, it's not a full solution, but if you're blocked from an account, you should probably IP block every single account logged in from that IP right now. So if you have an alt, you're basically auto blocked from like on those other accounts as well. Now, obviously a VPN is going to get around that. Sure. Absolutely. But that's again, like another step, right? Going to an alt is a minor step, going to an alt and going to a VPN, like, that's an extra step on top of that. There's other, like, methods you can deal with, but, like, very intrusive, like, you know, fingerprinting users and, like, identifying individual systems. Then if someone's blocked on that system, then literally every single person logged in from that system

also has that account, like it is blocked by the account already but i'm not a big fan of data tracking like that so maybe going that far is like a bit too much but at least doing like the ip currently logged in shared cookies like if if your shit like if if your account is logged on on a browser that has a shared cookie with another account like if you're logged in, like Twitter lets you log in two accounts at the same time. If you have two accounts logged in at the same time and one of those accounts is blocked,

then the other account should be auto-blocked, right? Like that would more deal with the problem. Again, you can swap browsers. So it's not like a perfect solution. You can clear your cookies, things like that. But it's a better solution. And none of these are like perfect, but you can add them together and you like get like a better solution. And none of these are, like, perfect. But you can add them together and you, like, get, like, a better solution.

With the block as it currently stands, I am completely fine with it being removed. Yeah, I actually don't have an issue. Now, I might not have an issue with it. But, um, Apple might. Twitter, block button, Apple. So is that what I'm talking about? There are people mentioning it's running afoul of the rules. Someone's actually linked to the section of the Apple TOS.

Why is Twitter not opening? What a garbage website. So my understanding is apple requires social media platforms to have a block button now it's not loading because my internet's garbage but it doesn't define what block button actually means does this one have a... Why is every journalist fucking awful? Can one of these... Can one of these journalists actually just link to the source provided by Apple? Anyone? Any single per- no, not this one either. Oh wait, wait, wait. I think, I think we've found it.

It links the entire thing. Okay. Block. Blocking users. Apps must provide, must implement. Ah, here we go. So this is the Google one. Apps that provide access to publicly accessible UGC,

which is user-generated content, such as social networking apps and blogger apps, must implement in-app functionality to report users and content and to block users. Now, from what I can see here, it doesn't define the term block. No. And I believe in the Apple one as well. Oh, yeah. The ability to block abusive users

from the service. Is that? That might be the one I was thinking of. But as you can see here, there's no definition of what block actually means, right? So, YouTube for example, is a social media platform and it has a very light block where,

again, you block the user and they can still see your content, but you don't see them. So if YouTube doesn't run afoul of these rules and YouTube is a Google application, I think it would be weird if Twitter ran af foul by having a mute that's what effective it would be right like it would be a mute feature rather than a block I think a lot of people just want to jump on Elon for every single thing he does and I understand it because you know people don't like the way the Twitter is being run uh as you just saw it literally just died as we're trying to use it but i i do think you should focus on what other things are doing right like you shouldn't be holding someone accountable for things that everybody else is doing if other platforms can have only a mute and not a block, then it's probably fine if Twitter's in the same

state as well. I'm not going to call it X, it's not X, it's Twitter. But we'll see. Like, honestly, what usually happens with changes like this is Elon's like, I'm going to make this change. It's going to be big. It's going to be great. And then he secretly goes and talks to his lawyers. And they're like, hey, Elon, I know, like, you want to do this, right? But, like, you can't. Like, here is the section of TOS, like, of the Apple Store and the Play Store. You can't do this. And a couple of days later, what he's going to do is come back and post a tweet being like, you know what? The block button's actually kind of a nice feature.

I understand the functionality of it. Maybe he even like holds a poll, right? And the poll is like, block button good. It's like, you know what? Yeah, block buttons are good. I'm actually going to keep it around. Even though I said I was going to get rid of it, even though I said it wasn't useful,

I'm going to keep it around. That's what I'm thinking is probably going to happen. It wouldn't be the first time it's happened. It would have many, many cases in the past of it being done. So, yeah. But honestly, the reason why it's probably happening, like the reason why it's probably being discussed, I can think of a couple of reasons.

One of them is apparently there are block lists going around of everybody buying Twitter Blue, buying like a fake, what do you call it, a fake verified tag, and just auto-blocking every single account that has bought Twitter Blue, which kind of undermines the existence of being able to buy verification. And there's a lot of people that block elon musk it is estimated that elon is the most blocked account on twitter so yeah which i'm sure is not great for his ego now one i guess reason for blocking an account I can get behind is not for your own safety,

but for the safety of others. There are people on the internet, I have dealt with them myself, some of them are developers in the Linux space, who have an unhealthy attachment with arguing with you. You don't start the argument, they just want to start the argument on every single post they can start it on. In those cases, sometimes people block them, not because they are annoyed with them but for their own like for that person's own safety and mental health if they can't interact with your post it's probably better for them obviously the most psycho of these people will make an alt and do it anyway but if you're in like you know scaled down right you're in like, you know, scaled down, right? You're like at a normal level of psycho. For those people, I can understand. I can understand it. Now, I don't have as much

sympathy for these people, right? Like if somebody wants to be a psycho on the internet, there is so many psychos out there. Twitter is run by them. Twitter is full of them. So many psychos out there. Twitter is run by them. Twitter is full of them. I can't deal with all of them. So I just kind of like live and let live. If they want to be crazy online, I kind of just let them do so.

It's kind of funny to me, actually. And sometimes, sometimes it gives me content, right? Like if you're stupid enough and especially stupid enough about Linux, it is entirely possible I am going to talk about it. So I don't want to get rid of those people. But I also know that I'm like, you know, willing to farm the content.

And I get that some people might be nicer than I am about this. So, yeah. In short, I don't think the block button is that big of a deal, right? I don't really care. I would like direct messages to work properly. That would be nice.

Where, you know, you could just send a message to people that you were not following without being on Twitter Blue. Also, I'd like notifications to work, which don't work right now. Where if someone is not already starting a DM conversation with you, you don't see a notification for it. Also, I'd like the website to work where if I click on it, it loads rather than one out of five times, it just sits in an infinite loop and I have to reload and then reload

and then reload and eventually it works. Same thing happening with posts where sometimes I post something and it's like, something went wrong. Like how does something go wrong fucking 20 times a day? And it's not like me trying to send like 20 different tweets. Like usually it's trying to send the same tweet 20 different times to get it to actually work.

Anyone who says that Twitter is working in like a perfect state like it used to be is either delusional or uses it once a day. Like they- they- they- like one- not even once a day, like once every couple of days. Because it does not work properly. It is constantly broken. No matter what you do, it's going to break very, very, very often. Which probably gives me a good reason to not use it as much as I use it. But, you know, it is what it is.

Anyway. I don't want to talk about that for two hours, because, uh, yeah, let's talk about something positive, actually, System76, so, by the time this comes out, Cosmic Alpha 2 is going to have been released, uh, because everything is done open source, you know, it's open source, done open source you know it's open source right so you can like see when the like alpha is there right like is i actually i when when um i got like the release notes from system 76 they'll like embargo until the thing comes out and the reason why they embargo it isn't because like it's actually embargoed and the thing is not there and you can't actually see it it's they want to give everybody who is in like the tech journalist-y space around this

like an opportunity to get their material together so that people don't like jump the gun and start talking about things early. But because it is like public, if you didn't like get the embargo, there's absolutely nothing wrong with going to the Git repo, grabbing the Git commit that is available right now, which is basically Alpha 2.

Actually, I think that they've generated the Alpha 2 ISO. So the Alpha 2 is basically already there and just going with that. But I want to say I really appreciate the way that System76 has been handling their interactions with the FOSS space, with journalists, with YouTubers, and everybody else. So when the Alpha 1 came out, and this isn't just a me thing, right? This is like a bunch of other people. When Alpha 1 came out, I was sent a bunch of press notes.

I was sent like a bunch of slides and like release information, like, oh, this is a feature that's happening, all this fun stuff. And they also held a big press event. I did a video on that. That's the thing that I cut up and uploaded on the channel. That was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed that. Even though I was awake at a very, very, very, very

stupid time in the morning, I would very much appreciate showing up to one of those again. Now, with Alpha 2, they didn't do a press event, which makes sense because it's like a month and a half between those two points. So there wouldn't really be like much to talk about because yes, there is a bunch of changes.

Yes, there's a bunch of commits. But when you're going from nothing to Alpha 1, you have a lot of things. When you're going from Alpha 1 to Alpha 1.1 basically, it's called Alpha 2, but it's a month worth of commits on top. There's not as much things to talk about there. But they did send

me a 10-page document talking about all of the changes that they want to talk about. I think one of the things they brought up there was the fact that they now have sound settings, for example. They have network settings, other things like that. There are some things they didn't mention, like the fact that they now have density settings, which is very nice to see.

So if you don't like the fact that Cosmic is very, very bloated in the way, like, the UI is designed, where there's just, like, gaps everywhere for no reason, you can now go with the compact setting it's a little bit scuffed there's a lot of things that don't respect it or like don't they might respect it but the spacing doesn't look consistent compact compact feels like it was designed by one of the engineers whereas uh like spacious and comfortable feel like it was designed by a designer. Like, Compact is there, probably because people like Jeremy Sola were sick of having to deal with spacious, but Compact isn't a final design. At least that's what it seems like to me. But I really appreciate the fact that System76 is reaching out to people to talk about what is being done in their desktop.

Because if we look at both GNOME and KDE, KDE to a lesser extent because they do have people like Nate doing his weekly blogs. GNOME has a thing, but it's like, it's less of a, like, Gnome has the like, Gnome Weekly, whatever it's called. It's less of like a formatted post and more like a collection of other posts from other people. So it feels a lot more disjointed, but System76 is reaching out to people in this space, the journalists, the YouTubers, and basically using them for free marketing, which I very much appreciate because I want to make content on Cosmic. And being provided things early, being provided like release notes,

ISOs, things like that, honestly makes things so much easier. And I was going to do the content anyway, but it's clearly building a relationship with people in this space and getting in contact with carl and jeremy and people like that is very very easy to do i need to bring um victoria on the podcast at some point the developer of smithy because i think that'll be fun but i haven't really seen this same sort of vibe from katie and gn. What I think should be done right, it doesn't have to happen every single like minor update, but when GNOME 47 drops and 48 drop and 49 drops and it doesn't have to be like a two hour zoom call right, but at least reach out to journalists, reach out to journalists reach out to youtubers send them the version of the gnome

iso that you're using anyway for testing internally because you don't need to like generate something new but like you were already using something for development testing send a link directly to that out to people so they have a thing they can go and test and Preferably also send like some sort of release notes like here are the like the major changes being done here's the things you can talk about because Whilst I might be critical of GNOME, right? I do think GNOME is a cool desktop and I like KDE I think there are some bugs that need to be ironed out, but I think it's a great desktop, but it feels like It's weird right where

Cosmic, oh sorry, where KDE and GNOME Feel more corporate and feel more distant than the actual desktop made by a company right, it's a weird sort of feel where It feels like I can get in contact with someone from Cosmic from System76 a lot easier than I can get in contact with someone from GNOME or from KDE. I don't mean just like random developers I mean like, you know people in the GNOME Foundation or from KDE. I don't mean just like random developers. I mean like, you know, people in the GNOME Foundation or the KDEV. Like one of the things I talked about when I had, um...

When I did the video on, um... Laura taking over... No, that's the Mozilla. Who's the... No. Mozilla has Laura Chambers. GNOME, they are looking for a new CEO. Mozilla has Laura Chambers. Gnome, they are looking for a new CEO. One of the things I talked about when Holly had left the Gnome Foundation is like, I don't remember seeing like a single interview

that Holly Million had done. Whether that be for like, even just like a Gnome outlet, right? Like some Gnome person that has a podcast i don't remember even seeing that maybe something happened but like where was an interview with pharonix or it's false or gaming on linux or like me right i this isn't just about me, right? Yes, I would like to do these things as well, but why are GNOME and KDE not using the people in this space to promote the material they have? Like, I genuinely don't understand why.

I genuinely don't understand why. It's weird to me, right? Maybe it's because they... Maybe it's because, like, the projects predate, like, the way we do things with, like, tech promotion now, right? Like, they're both projects from the 90s, whereas System76 is newer. They're a company. They're more used to dealing with people directly. I don't know. If somebody is happily from GNOME,

whether that be anyone, anyone high up in GNOME wants to talk, I would absolutely love to have you on the podcast, right? I might disagree with you on a lot of things, on a lot of things, but I would happily talk to anyone, and I feel like it would really humanize the people that work on these projects. Because when people from KDE have come on, and they've talked about stuff,

like, people can really see, like, how the thought process for these systems come together. And I don't think that really exists with GNOME. Like, people right now, they see Gnome, they think Red Hat, and, like, it's weird. Again, it's weird. Where the project that's actually not a corporate project feels more corporate than the actual corporate project. I don't understand how it's happened.

And look, if they don't want to fix it, like, that's fine. Like, you don't have to do anything about it. You can be in this state. You can just ignore the problem. But, I don't know. I think it would be a lot more healthy for people to just talk to people. Yeah? Like, you don't have to agree with everyone.

Just talk. That's all. Just talk a little bit. Just say, like, even just a couple of words here and there, doesn't even have to be, like, a two-hour interview, just, like, 15, 20-minute video, I think would be awesome, but is it gonna happen? Um, probably not. Honestly, I feel like it'd be easy to get someone from Canonical on, uh, there are some Canonical people that follow me, so I'm sure I can work my way up the chain and get someone high up at Canonical on, which would be very funny.

Actually, it would be really funny to work my way up the chain with Valve and get someone there on. That would be very amusing as well. Actually, since we're talking about Valve anyway, let's talk about the frog wayland frog protocols now the video i've done on this is a long out by now and there's probably plenty more drama since i first talked about this but wayland protocolsyland Protocols is a shit show. It should be no surprise that I have that opinion on Weyland Protocols,

and I'm not the only one that has that opinion, as is evident by the fact that Joshua Ashton is trying to resolve the problem. So Weyland Protocols, for anyone who is somehow living under a rock, this is the repo where Weyland Protocol design is done. Let's get a merge request. So, whether that be... What do we have here? XDG top level icon closes...

Can we find... Actually, you know what? Let me just go to, like, a main- a main discussion. Uh, Weyland Protocols, XDG, top level icons. This? Yes? Yes. Okay. So, this is where, like, the discussion is done to get things ready to be merged. This is where, like, the discussion is done to get things ready to be merged. Now, the problem is, as I've talked about a lot, there is a lot of bike shedding. A lot of people focusing on, hey, what color should the bike shed be?

Hey, what should this variable name be? Well, window is not the correct term under Wayland. It is actually top level client. Well, um, actually, there's a lot of um actuallys in this, uh, in this repo. And a lot of developers from a lot of desktops who don't want to admit that use cases outside of their desktop exists, where it's my way or the highway. The problem is everybody in Weyland has equal voting rights. So the highway is for them to go on

because they don't actually have the power to vote people out here. They are worth as much as everyone else. It doesn't matter how big your desktop is. It doesn't matter which companies might back you. You are as valuable as every other peasant here. You are also a peasant in Weyland Protocols. Now, because of this, and because people like to go on power trips, things tend to take a very long time. There are some protocols that are still open after eight years. They might not say eight years on the GitLab, but some of them predate the GitLab and were talked about on an earlier mailing list

and may have come from an even older project. And yeah, so yeah. I've talked about many protocols that stick around for way too long. Now, the goal of the Frog Protocols. Where did the article go? Did I close it? Why did I do that? What are you doing, you moron?

Here it is. So Frog Protocols is a repo started by Joshua Ashton of Valve. Eventually, we'll get Joshua on the podcast. There's been many, many scheduling conflicts and many Joshua responding to my messages and then not responding for three months.

And then we have to plan things again. And we keep repeating this cycle. I've repeated this cycle about four or five times now. Eventually, eventually the episode hopefully will happen. Now, the goal of Frog Protocols with this repo right here, yep, this is Frog Protocols, the goal of Frog Protocols is to design things in a more iterative fashion. So, with Weyland Protocols, what tends to happen is even with staging protocols and unstable protocols,

things are treated as if they are already supposed to be stable, right? Like if something is unstable, it's supposed to be in that experimental phase, it's supposed to be moving quickly, being iterated upon, all that fun stuff. But in Wayland, what tends to happen is once it is opened there it is treated as if it's supposed to be used in a production system today and it is criticized as such there is no interest in getting anything merged early and getting it tested early it needs to be perfect before any testing is done what tends to happen with this is, again, a lot of bike shedding, a lot of people focusing on things that don't matter.

And when you are doing a design by committee with a committee of people that cannot agree on what color the sky is, you run into a lot of problems. So, the goal of Frog Protocols is basically to... One of two things. Either circumvent the Weyland Protocol discussion system, or reinvigorate the Weyland Protocol discussion system to have it work in the way that, you know,

actually makes a lot more sense. Where unstable and staging behave in an unstable or staging way. There has been a lot of feedback on this. Um, I am 99% sure that Joshua was talking to Neil Gompa and Campbell Jones before this went public because, well, I kind of know this because I submitted a merge request to Frog Protocols. It was just fixing some like grammar issues in the readme and Neil Gompa approved the change and then Campbell Jones merged the change. So clearly there's something there. Also, Neil made a package on Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Tumbleweed.

Campbell Jones made a package on Arch. So, also, Xavier Hugo, who made an implementation in KWIN, like, immediately upon the repo going public. So, clearly, clearly there is some coordination here amongst people who are particularly bothered by the state of Weyland. And you know what? Fully support it. Now some people in Weyland, notably people who are sort of big dogs in Weyland,

were not super happy about this being done. Simon Sir still seems to be very much against this. Basically saying rather than doing this, it makes a lot more sense to just work in upstream protocols. It's not

that hard to get a protocol merged. It can be done. It's not that hard to get a protocol merge. Like, it can be done. What's the actual comment? I don't think adding support for protocols, essentially bypassing the Weyland Protocols consensus, is a good idea. The bar in Weyland Protocols is not that high, and adding support for third-party protocols

not representative of the Weyland community isn't a good way forward. Now, the comment we have here is from Plaggman. If you don't know, Plaggman is Pierre-Lou Griffiths, who you may know from Valve. He has done a lot of the early Steam Deck marketing videos. He was present in them. So he's kind of like a big dog at Valve.

He was very much in favor of the change being done. Xavier Hugo. He was very much in favor of the change being done. Xavier Hugo wrote a big essay being in favor of the change being done. Actually, one thing very amusing about the people who upvoted Simon's comment, it has changed since then. But when I first saw this, there was four upvotes. Every single person who had upvoted at the time was either a GNOME developer and or a Red Hat employee. So the people who are most disruptive in Weyland were the most in favor of not disrupting the Weyland process. not disrupting the Weyland process. The people who are most likely to have a power trip were the most in support of the current governance model

that allows them to have power trips and block things from being merged into Weyland. Imagine that. What a weird coincidence that is. There was a scorcher of a comment from Lude Paul earlier as well. It ended up being deleted, I think, because she realized it made her sound like an absolute psycho. I have a screenshot of the comment.

It was on my Discord. Hold on, I, I know I posted it somewhere, it is, it is incredible, um, is it here? Where is the comment? Did I, I might have just posted it on Discord, like, I might have copied it rather than actually, um, rather than actually saving it, let me see if I can find it, I, I might have copied it, rather than actually, um, rather than actually saving it, I, let me see where I can find it, I, I didn't have Discord open, I, I rebooted my system just before I was testing stuff on, um, on Cosmic, so I did, like, a full reboot between those points, um, is this it right here, yes, yes, this was the, uh, This was the comment initially. This is really disappointing to see and incredibly unhelpful to the situation at large. I can understand frustration with Wayland Protocols, but we've been genuinely trying to figure out ways to improve the situation there as best we can at

FDO, that is freedesktop.org, and the reality is splitting things out like this is just going to segment support for protocols further across compositors. We need more active input from people on actual changes that could be made to the project as a whole in order to be able to make things better. Now we're just going to get people having to pick side to actually contribute things on and further empower people who are causing problems in Wayland protocols. If you actually have concrete ideas about this stuff please suggest them to us instead of making the lives of all the people working on Weyland protocols harder because now we have to deal with interested contributors being split

between the two and inevitably I kind of assume that's going to make things worse for Weyland protocols if we can fix the reputation it has and as a result have less input from actual experts outside if we can't fix the reputation it has and as well have less input from actual experts outside our community. If we can't fix the reputation it has, and as a result, have less input from actual experts outside our community. Behind the scenes, basically all of us recognize the problems with Wayland Protocols. We are more than willing to put forth the effort of actually trying to fix this, especially on the side of the Code of Conduct team, which Lude Paul is a member of. But it is really difficult to do that meaningfully

if we don't have input from people actually involved with Weyland Protocols. This is exactly what this project does. This project, at a, if nothing else, pissed off people involved in Weyland and got people actually talking about the problem. Like, every big name had something to say about this. There was like a big post from a pecker of the Western project basically saying like yeah The way Whelan protocols works. It is not how it should be working like in the early days of Wayland We had it like this because we didn't want things to just be one for one Replicated from x11 we wanted to try to do things better be one for one replicated from X11. We wanted to try to do things better, but things have gotten basically too strict. He described it as Wayland Protocols is the blessed holy ground that people

were desiring. The problem with it being a blessed holy ground, though, is only certain things are allowed in the blessed holy ground. So you end up with this situation where everything has to be perfect, otherwise it is not allowed in. Now, to be fair, Lou did delete these comments and apologize and say, I sounded like a psycho,

let's actually talk through how we can fix these problems, and seems to be more on the side of Joshua now. It seems like... It's weird, right? Initially, Lude Paul was very much against this. And initially, a lot of people were very much against this.

Simon is still against this. Simon will get on board in like six months or so. It tends to be what happened with Simon. He usually is very against something for like the first three, six months. And then when everybody agrees, it's a good thing. That's when he usually changes his mind. He's like, oh, okay. I guess, I guess fighting this is not worth it anymore. Um, I'll just accept it. That's what happened with screen tearing. It's happened with a bunch of other protocols. I have no doubt it'll happen with this as well, but it seems like by Joshua taking some of the initial flak, and getting this

open, it, it's made it easier now for people who, I guess, were worried about getting flak themselves, flack themselves um to like put something out there right like as as lewd said here everybody knows it's a problem but there's this like i i honestly i think a good way to put it this is true for a lot of projects there is this mindset of toxic positivity where you cannot well it's toxic positivity about like the structure now internal to the structure toxic as hell right like if you go on whaling protocols especially before certain people got banned um certain genome developers um certain people got banned at least temporarily discussions would be a hellscape like like people were actually like making personal insult people were impersonating voting members i say people one person was doing it um at least most notably and like all that stuff, but around the way Weyland works, it's like, we can't talk about this, the structure, it works, it's fine, it's okay, but Joshua, like,

breaks that, like, breaks that mold, breaks that initial discussion, and now people are like, oh, it's fine that we can criticize this we can actually say Weyland protocols is a shithole. It is a fucking mess and I've been saying this for Probably since I've been talking about Weyland protocols, right? like but I am someone outside the project and I understand in that context why someone might like not agree with me and why why someone might not want to like step up and say it but it's gotten to the point now where it just it's just not workable right like there are so many stalled protocols joshua's been around doing whalen stuff for a long time now game scope is very mature valve wants to start shipping whalen by default on

the steam deck so i imagine there's probably some, like, internal discussion about, like, how do we fix this shit? Like, how do we actually get KDE fixing issues they have on Wayland, fixing things that are missing, how do we clean things up with GameScope, how do we get things ready for the product we are actually selling? And by having that push there, I don't know, like, I don't think this is a project sponsored by Valve, right? Like, Frog Protocols is not, like, directly paid for by Valve. Joshua Ashton is obviously a Valve employee, so is Plague Man. But I would be very surprised if there weren't internal meetings discussing, like, how do we do this?

there weren't internal meetings discussing like how do we do this like what can be done here to resolve this better to make it actually work like it should and frog protocols at least initially has started up some very productive discussions and we'll see if in the long run they actually play out. Because obviously when you're in like early days, like it was a couple of days after the fact, it's hard to really see. And things in Frog Protocols might just become like they are in Wayland Protocols, and it's just double the problem.

But I hope that we can at least address governance issues and make Wayland Protocols feel like a place that people actually want to get involved in and don't feel like if they submit a protocol, they're gonna get harassed. They're not even just harassed, right? Like, they're gonna get like yelled out the room by like Wayland purists who are like, no, this is not my- hashtag not my Wayland, hashtag bad feature. When it's like, users desire this feature.

It doesn't really matter if you don't want it. This is a feature that users need. This is a feature that app developers need. You need to get off your high horse and actually let it become a thing. It's one thing if no one wants to work on it, but when there are developers willing to implement it and then other developers are like, no, no, this is not in my Wayland. We can't have window plate locations.

We can't have top level icons. We can't have screen tearing. Like, especially after a couple of months of that, I can understand why someone might just have zero interest in being involved in whale never again and i've noticed this like firsthand there are names i used to see a lot more frequently who just never show up anymore or like they have long-running protocols and the protocols end up being stalled because they have to deal with just absolute fucking psychos who won't let up on just basic points

that, that should just be fine to bring in, but, Weyland, Weyland, Weyland, Weyland, Weyland, it is what it is, actually, you know what, let's, let's, um, this might be a shorter one. Let's slightly detour to a video game for a moment. I am a big Monster Hunter World fan. I haven't done Iceborne yet. Uh, I will get to Iceborne eventually. And considering that Monster Hunter Wilds is coming out in February uh I might have to finish Iceborne uh a little bit quicker but the reason why we're talking

about Wilds isn't because of the game I want to talk to you about the fucking absolutely cooked system requirements so do you remember the days where you would buy a PC game, like a new PC game, and it'd be like, yeah, you need a GPU that's two generations old and that's the recommended, like maybe even three generations old, like it's, you're on the the the the the 10 series at this point and it's like you need a 680, that's that's recommended, right? Obviously, if you want higher, get something newer, and same thing with the CPU, usually, like, three or four generations out of date, that is your recommended. recommended requirements, um, the minimum, the minimum is also cooked, but recommended is what I want to focus on, OS, Windows 10,

no one cares, um, wait, when does Windows 10, hold up, hold up, uh, when is Windows 10 something updated? Windows 10 EOL, October, uh, this again becomes that in February next year, and they're still recommending Windows 10 as the OS, um, that should probably say Windows 11, anyway, processor, this is where it gets very, very cooked. Intel Core i5-11600K. Recommended. Or Intel Core i5-12400. Okay. AMD Ryzen 5 3600X or AMD Ryzen 5 5500. Okay, this is my CPU, by the way.

I need to upgrade my CPU. Memory, 16 gigs of RAM, totally fine. But here's the GPU. RTX 2070. RTX 4060, or AMD RX 6700 XT recommended. This is the current gen Nvidia. This is one generation behind AMD. Now, the additional note

is where it's also cooked. SSD required, that's fair, it's a modern video game, whatever. This game is expected to run at 1080p60 with frame generation enabled under the medium graphics. So,

4060 frame generation medium 60 FPS. What the fuck has happened to PC specs? What in the world has happened with developers just going fucking wild with not optimizing their game? Like there is no way, like

I've seen what wilds looks like. There is no fucking world where these specs make sense unless the game is horribly unoptimized, which would make sense because that's every fucking modern game right now. Nobody fucking optimizes anything and this is what ends up happening. This is insane. If I don't upgrade

my CPU, I'm probably gonna be playing this game fucking low. Like, what? Like, frame generate- Honestly, I think frame generation has done so much damage for game optimization. This is my hot take. It has allowed developers to be so fucking lazy.

They're just like, oh yeah, just fucking just do frame generation like it's gonna look close enough I guess it's fine like Wukong's another game that it's fucking performance is absolutely cooked I don't know what it's

I don't know what it's like recommended like specs are I haven't actually looked at them I should do that let's where are they? So... Okay, these ones make sense, but the performance is still cooked in the game.

i7-9700, AMD 5 5500, 16 gigs of RAM, 2060, 5700 XT, ARC A750. The above specifications were tested 2060, 5700 XT, ARC A750. The above specifications were tested with DLSS, FSR, XE, it's still fucking frame generation nonsense.

But like, these specs make a lot more sense, right? Like, this is a two-generation-old AMD card, NVIDIA card. This is two- old AMD, uh, this is, like, three generation old, uh, Intel CPU, what in the world is the deal with Wilds, though, like, I, I, I, I am so fucking confused by this, surely this has to be just like their dev machine, right? Like, this can't be their actual recommended specs.

Time to fucking upgrade the PC to play this game well, I guess. Like, you'll need a fucking- If you want to play this game on like high settings, you're gonna be running like a fucking 46- uh, 4070, 4080, which- like, again, this is

not fucking crisis, like, what are these crisis specs? This is what, like, like, what is this? I honestly think that a lot of games, like, because of how, because of how powerful PCs are, honestly think that a lot of games, like, because of how, because of how powerful PCs are, it actually just has hurt the way people write things. Like, you don't have to optimize things if you can expect that people have these just wild GPUs.

Maybe we need to go back to a point where, um, PC hardware just stopped upgrading fast for a while. We need to stop having these tech innovations just so we can actually fucking force game developers to either get their shit together and optimize things

or stop trying to like go for ultra realistic every fucking thing. Just tone things down a little bit or like even if not tone down, just work at how to do what you're trying to do in a way that doesn't fucking cause a fire in my house.

That would be, that would be pleasant. I would, I would very much enjoy that. But, um, I mentioned Wukong in there a bit. Wukong, besides its performance being cooked, um, it is a very fun game, but man, that, that game is a little, a little, a little buggy. So you know how you see a lot of games that have like, hey, slide through this gap. It's a hidden loading screen. We're not going to tell you that, but it is a hidden loading screen. Or you'll push open a door and it takes you like fucking 10 seconds to open a door.

The reason why it's like that, anytime you see long to open doors, anytime you see sliding through a gap, whether it's like a like a walking gap or like crawling under a section, anytime you see a fucking elevator, all of these things are loading screens. They're just hidden loading screens. Now Wukong, the game developers were not AAA game developers making Big World. So, they don't seem to understand these issues. There is a lot of points in Wukong where

there is clearly supposed to be a zone transition, and they did not put one there. So, in Chapter 2, when you walk towards the desert boss, not from the staircase side,

but the side that has the big door, if you walk back and forth through that door, the lighting conditions completely change, and everything just changes color, because there's supposed to be some sort of transition there, they just didn't add one. There are so many times we walk out of a cave and shadows just switch to a completely different location as you go in and out the cave because again they didn't put a transition there to

have you go between the cave like there should be a turn there or something to hide the lighting difference between those two zones but they just never bothered to add it again i i this is entirely because they're just not used to building these big wells again they're they're fucking make mobile garbage games but the gameplay man i can ignore some some cooked lighting and some i i can't ignore the absolutely god-awful performance the game has especially in any area that has a lot of particles um especially any area that has a lot of particles now the problem is that's most of the game uh so if you combine particles with a big area uh the frame rate goes from here to here and uh doesn uh, doesn't come back for a bit,

but the gameplay is very, very, very fun, I am bad at it, um, I'm sure there are people who are good at playing the game, who, who actually, like, deal with stuff in a way that makes sense, but I just like to bash my head against things, it tends to work oh the other thing that I find really weird is the game has a lot of areas that they don't intend for you to go back to but you can so in chapter one where you fight the big yellow baby that area when you go to it when you've beat the boss it teleports you back out, that's where you get the, um, what is it called, like, I'm thinking Monster Hunter Terms Fireproof Mantle, um, it's the fireproof thing that you get where, like, it, it makes it, the beating the big bear boss easier, but you can go back to that area, There is a teleport point in there.

And if you try to go to the end of the area, there's a staircase there. If you're to walk up the staircase, there's an invisible wall there. In chapter three, this is a minor spoiler, there is a big ice lake. And on that lake, you fight one of the bosses. I'm not going to say the boss. It's a cool boss.

The hitbox is weird, but it's a cool boss. Now, this lake, you can go out to the end of it. It takes maybe two minutes to walk to the end of the arena. I have no idea why they made the area so big.

And you can walk around the entire thing. And I think it takes maybe ten minutes to navigate around the edge of the entire thing. And I think it takes maybe 10 minutes to navigate around the edge of the entire lake. Now, you might think, oh, there's going to be, like, something out there. Like, why make it so big if there's not enemies or items or something out there?

There is nothing. Literally nothing out there. It's actually so much nothing that certain points of that area out there, they use low poly models and lower quality textures because they never actually expect you to go out there. Also, the hitboxes for the edge of the map are wrong, so you're maybe, like, three meters away from the cliff face,

but there's an invisible wall there. But it, like, lines up with the shape, they just didn't push it back far enough. There's a bit where there's an invisible wall that, like, raises you off the ground, which is clearly supposed to be for a rock that you can stand on, but it doesn't align with the rock, you can just like jump like floating in the air

near the edge like the point where you go onto the lake there is a bit that you can get an item it's not worth it though and um it's definitely not the 10 minute walk around to get it you can like see it from the starting point i just didn't notice it there when i first went there but like this is something you would never see in any other game because most game developers have gone to like some game development school or they have some knowledge of like other game development projects before they work on something like wukong but because they don't at least they don't seem to um they just do things that are just weird and feel like they they feel more jank like wukong is wukong is a game that clearly has a budget of a triple a, but feels like an indie game. There's like weird indie design quirks about it from like game developers who haven't worked in the genre before and it really makes the game

like kind of endearing. That being said, there's some boss mechanics which is fucking weird as hell. The boss fights are great and most of the bosses are really good. But I do think the difficulty scaling of the bosses is like... It's fucking... It's not even like a consistent wave. It's like... And then you're like fucking back to the floor.

Like some of the bosses take me one try. Other bosses like... fucking back to the floor, like, some of the bosses take me one try, other bosses, like, the, the final boss of chapter one, I thought was really difficult, um, actually, I think the hardest boss I've fought so far is, like, the blue baby, which, like, causes a big fucking AOE, but you don't realize how big the AOE is gonna be when you first fight it, but also, I guess you're kind of getting used to mechanics, I think that's,'s like the fucking first boss in the game um it's one of the hardest ones uh the final boss of chapter one the like the flame bear very difficult the martial arts tiger in chapter two that you fight in like the lake of blood or the like the pool of blood very predictable fight like

you know what he's going to do but it is hard to get those mechanics down because it's also like all the bosses in this game have a lot of mechanics like you'll see a lot of games where like the boss will have let's imagine like let's imagine a game like Dragon Age Veilguard. They showed off a boss fight with, like, a dragon. And the dragon had three attacks. Maybe four attacks that they showed. Where it was breathe fireball, tail swipe, jump, slam, and run at you. And that was all the mechanics it had. Whereas fighting the, um, what was it called? A ferocious tiger or something like that in, in, in Wukong.

Like it's got a, it's got like it's, it's punch combo. It's got like, it's, it's got like a feint where it will do this sword attack, but first two have a certain timing. The third attack, so he'll like spin, he'll like slash, slash, spin, and then slash. So it like throws off the timing. Here's the attack where he'll like turn invisible and then charge you. Here's the attack where he'll like jump up and then slam down. But then he's got like a different version of that. And sometimes he combos the attacks into other attacks.

a different version of that and sometimes he combos the attacks into other attacks so he'll do like the uh like slash slash spin slash jump slam and then like go into like the invisible and then charge you and it's not always that same combo of abilities and when you start up a fight as well sometimes the mechanic they use also differs so a lot of the time when you're fighting the tiger, he starts it with the jump slam, but sometimes he goes into slash slash spin slash. So you're not even sure how the fight is going to start. And basically every boss is like this, where there was a lot of mechanics and some of them, because they're really easy, you don't see them all. But another good one is when you're going through chapter three, there's a big dude who's just a fucking MMO boss. Where, like, if you put this boss into FFXIV or like FFXVI, which is basically a single player version of XIV,

because Yoshi P just made the same game twice. a single player version of 14 because Yoshi P just made the same game twice. This boss is really weird where the boss itself doesn't attack you. Like the boss doesn't move. It just stands there. But all of its attacks

are either it will summon some adds so there's a bunch of statues there. It can revive the statue so you should like break the statues at the start of the fight But if you if you do that He still has these other these other laser based attacks where like one of them is he'll shoot a laser where there is no There's no visual indicator of the laser

It's only timing based and a lot of the attacks are like that where there is zero visual indicator It is just a consistent timing pattern. So it'll be like A lot of the attacks are like that, where there is zero visual indicator. It is just a consistent timing pattern. So it'll be like, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge. Or it'll be dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge. And once you get that pattern down, it feels really nice. But that initial run, I didn't see it. What the fuck just happened? But here's this big laser attack. He's someone like this big circle around him, and that's

when you have, like, a laser chasing you, and then also those timed lasers, you're trying to dodge the other one by just walking around, but then you keep that time in your head, so you're like, dodge, dodge, dodge, dodge, while also laser is coming around everywhere as well, so if you stand too close to it, it's going to throw off your dodge timing. And you're like, wait, wait, am I supposed to dodge now? Or is it supposed to be like another second from now? And there's also this attack where it will spawn these like statues around the side.

And it basically makes like a laser grid, but not like a complex grid, where it'll like have like two lasers coming in, like to form a square in the center. So one moving this way, the other moving this way. I guess it's four lasers. And it'll be closing in on a square. Once you realize that, you're just like,

oh, I just jump over it and it just don't stand near the combo. And boom, you get it. And then towards the end of part of the fight, it'll do that and also the timing laser as well. So it feels a lot harder. But the boss itself doesn't have any melee attacks so between those stages you can just like wail on it there is another boss that literally doesn't attack you like there is no boss fight it has a boss health bar but all of the fight is based on you fighting minions. And it spawns like 10 of them at the start. And you're like, I'm dead.

Because these are difficult enemies at the time anyway. But once you clear those out, you can just win the fight. There's like no extra thought to it. And there have been a couple of reskinned bosses. I think so far. I thought. I think there's been like maybe two. Like you have blue baby.

Yellow baby. And like yellow baby is just blue baby. With like a couple extra mechanics. But also much easier. Because it also spawns these adds. Which give you health. So you can't die in the fight. There's a couple of others like that. But besides those, every boss that is a unique boss is a unique boss, right?

Like, you play a Souls game, right? And you fight dude with a sword. Dude with a sword. Dude with a sword. Dude with a sword. Dude with a spear. Dude with a sword and a shield. Dude with a sword, but then he switches to a spear. And then maybe switches to an axe. Right?

Like, you get into that cycle with Souls games. A lot of us just feel similar. But, like But everything in Wukong, it's like, okay, so you have Blue Baby that smashes its face, its head on the ground, causes big AOE. You have this fucking, you have dude with

a sword. There is a dude with a sword and he fucking sucks so he kicks you off the bridge and you instantly die. There is Tiger, which is like martial arts Tiger. You have fucking Fire Bear, where it's just a bear, but it's on fire. Why? I don't know. I don't

understand the cutscenes. I don't know what's going on. You have, like, laser statue. You have boss that doesn't attack you. You have this giant fucking demon thing that, like, bashes its head on the ground very easy boss you do like 10x damage to it i don't know the reason why but like very easy boss um you have the the

the boss that gives you the ability to make every single fight trivial uh where you can like transform into a into like the this like wolf thing the other rising Rising tides ability I never use it because it literally trivializes every single fight instead I use um Kage Bunshin I use the the shadow coin ability Which also trivializes every fight you have this you have this fight where you fight like some Big like golem like stone golem.lem it just like it's just a golem it just smacks its head on the ground like smacks the ground you have this uh you have all of the long fights the long fights are so different where like the first one it has this like these barrels on its back if you break them it does bonus damage but it also does like lightning damage to you uh

there's the the long dragon fight where it's a it's a big fucking chinese dragon you might have seen it in one of the um in one of the trailers it's actually not a difficult fight um it's just the hitbox is weird on it because it it's a chinese dragon so the the way it moves is also kind of weird so i'm not used to like how chinese dragons move but the hitbox the the lock-on point is its head. But a lot of the time you actually want to be locked on to the tail, but there's no lock-on on the tail. So most of that fight you're fighting without lock-on. Is this- all of these other- everything is unique in the game, and it's so cool.

And apparently there's DLC being worked on. Which will be very exciting. I want to see what happens with that. If you've not played Wukong. I highly recommend you play Monkey Game. It is very, very, very, very, very fun. You will enjoy it. If you like action games. You will enjoy it.

Especially if you can play it on a system. That doesn't have performance issues. So. Good luck with that. Play it on console. play it on a system that doesn't have performance issues. So, good luck with that. Play it on console. Play it on console and you might have a better experience in that regard. Or you might not. I don't know.

I don't know. You know what? Let's talk about the Twitch bits situation. situation so it's been resolved by now but i'm honestly surprised this and you know i'm not surprised i i am amused by it happening so this is it's not i don't know if it's it it's starting to get into conspiracy territory right where people are convinced that there are moderators or admins at twitch that do not like vtubers i have no doubt that dan clancy is fine with them he's been on vtubers shows before he seems like he has like no issue with VTubers. Yes, all of his recommended is Kuma ASMR channels, but that is based. I respect that.

But there seems like there is someone at Twitch that doesn't like VTubers. So this situation is a bunch of VTubers were getting banned for stolen payment information to buy Twitch bits. Now, if this was just one, who cares, right? It was happening to non-VTubers, so maybe in this case it was something different. But like, I think 30 or 40 different channels got banned for the exact same thing within a day and i would believe it if there's like one or two people who like yeah this happened

yeah yeah yeah a problem but like all of these people like there's clearly some issue that was happening on Twitch's end. Twitch did reply to this. Let's see if I can... Oh, I just found... I just, um... I just saw something from the, uh, the Sony State of Play. Horizon Zero Dawn getting a remaster. A fucking PS4 game getting a remaster. Jesus Christ.

Sony, Sony, just release Bloodborne. Just release Bloodborne on PC. Like, what are we doing here? Break glass in case of emergency. But TwitchSport responded, We've received several reports of these accidental suspensions. These have now been reverted by the appropriate team. We'll be following up with the affected users via the accounts associated email

with additional information. Before this, though, you had a bunch of YouTubers getting banned for like lewd content who didn't do lewd content. Or if they did do lewd content, it was way, way more tame than anything that you see just normally in the ASMR category. Like, just go to ASMR on Twitch right now, and you will see so much worse than people getting banned for. So, now there is, um, this open, uh uh open post on twitch's user voice now twitch often ignores user voices especially uh unless they get a lot of angry people even then they just ignore them there was a while back where uh there was a user voice about people misusing the VTuber tag. Like when they first added the VTuber tag, you had regular streamers all using it.

And they're like, Oh, Twitch is fine with it. Twitch is fine with it. Oh, no one's moderating it. We can just do this. It was getting people a lot of extra views. They still didn't do anything about it. They still don't do anything about it to this still don't do anything about it to, uh, to this day, so I have my doubts over this, but this is equal and fair treatment for VTubers moderation

and transparency, again, a lot of people are getting banned, there was the Twitch bit situation, people don't know what the rules are on this platform, it's very very clear and I don't care what anyone at Twitch has to say about this it is completely clear that the rules for VTubers and the rules for regular streamers are different and if they're not different they're being enforced differently where the content that is allowed on the ASMR section, on the Pools and Hot Tub section, is so much worse than any VTube has been banned for. Now, there have been people banned for sensible reasons like during the art situation where twitch allowed genitals on twitch because they changed the way their art rules worked um people like annie got banned for drawing futa understandable yes it's technically said it in the rules obviously that

was not what was intended to be doing uh to be done with the rules um yes she got banned for that but normal situations where streamers are doing normal things like you know they have an outfit reveal they're like oh look at this bikini outfit and it's like nowhere near as bad as like the micro bikinis people are wearing every day on the ASMR section. Ban. Or you see like when Camilla got banned, where like she had a toggle for lifting up her skirt. And it's like, okay, sure, whatever, ban for that. But then look at the ASMR category where, again, people are wearing even less clothes and doing so much more that's fine but with the vtubers

it's not like clearly there is an issue with the way that moderation is being done here and after like at twitchcon dan clancy was like we're gonna make sure twitch is more transparent we're gonna make sure you know people know why they're banned We're gonna link to the section of your video, of your stream that got you banned. And then the day after TwitchCon, shit just went to hell. So... I don't know what's gonna happen here. I really don't. I really do hope that things do get better. People are obviously like, oh, we're gonna leave Twitch, we're gonna do this

we're gonna do that, like, no you're not like, it's not gonna happen, like, you might go to YouTube but people are talking about we're gonna go to other platforms, we did a platform for VTubers, there actually was a platform for VTubers, it completely failed because no one used it

because the people who watch VTubers don't just watch VTubers and it's very difficult to get people to go to a new platform for like one creator. It works in some context, like initially it worked with Mixer and then people like, I want to watch something besides Ninja and there was nothing on the platform besides Ninja. And the same thing happens with a VTuber platform as well, it's like, I want to watch Iron Mouse, it's like, okay, I'm done watching Iron Mouse, what else is here that's not a VTuber? Nothing, nothing, and you usually don't even get people to go to the platform in that context, you just, yeah, you just have issues, so it would much

better if the actual platforms that people use were doing things consistent, get rid of the people that hate VTubers, they shouldn't be working your staff, you shouldn't have double standards for your rules, just stop, stop it, like, what are you doing? Like, I... Literally, the most subbed, like, channel on Twitch is IronMouse, right? Like, the biggest account you have on your platform right now is a VTuber. And there is this double standard for VTubers. So... I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. And maybe, look, maybe some people don't care, right? Like, maybe just like, I want to watch content. It doesn't matter what happens with it. It's understandable. It is not your job to care about why people, like, why rules are being enforced inconsistently. It's your job to enjoy content, but it would be nice if you could enjoy that content without people just getting, um,

getting, getting banned for stupid things, but, you know, we'll see, we'll see what happens, so, since we're on the topic of gaming and Twitch and all that fun stuff, um, Since we're on the topic of gaming and Twitch and all that fun stuff, God of War Ragnarok was released on PC. I don't have a copy of Ragnarok for console. Where is it? This is not in alphabetical order. I can fix that.

No, that's the other version. I don't know. I have a copy of the PS4 God of War. I don't know where it is in there. I've not played it yet. I need to do that. Or better yet, God of Boy. Dad of Boy.

Dad of Boy, if that is how you want to name it. Now, the PC release of Ragnarok requires PSN login. Technically. Because, yeah, people found a way to bypass it. And, yeah, you don't actually need it. Now, I fully expect Sony to patch this out and break the mod and require some other method to do so. But the fact that you can do it means it is not a fundamental requirement of the game.

There is clearly a way that you can get around this. Oh, it got deleted already. Uh, it is available on, it is available on other platforms. Do be, do be noted though, that any mod you run, especially that is not vetted, probably is going to be kind of sketchy, you know? Um, yeah. I, I, I don't, I just don't know what Sony's doing, right, like, I really don't know what, what is going on over in Sony land, like, the whole connect to PlayStation on PC, like, that's, that's, like, the, that's, like, the bottom tier of the issues, right, like, Sony just has L after L after L. Like, I watch State of Play, like,

is this, like, what happened in State of Play, right? You had Dynasty Warriors Origin, you had Monster Hunter Wilds, you had Alan Wake 2, a DLC, if that's something you care about, you had, you had the, um, you had the Stella 2 a DLC if that's something you care about you had the

Stellar Blade Nier collab what is actually in the Stellar Blade Nier collab? I know it's the picture mode and like a costume but is that it? Is it like a zone that you can go to or is it

I don't think we actually know Is it like a zone that you can go to? Or is it... I don't think we actually know. I think it literally is just... It might actually just be photo-related stuff. Surely there's content here, right? Like, there's no way that all it is is you just get to look at Eve dressed like 2B. Surely not. Like, there was this picture right...

That's a fucking awful picture. Let's try it again. There was this picture right at the end of the trailer they showed. So, like, I don't know. Maybe there's some content. Maybe. Maybe it literally is just nothing which would be very funny would people buy it yes 100 people would buy it i need to play stellar blade as well that is

uh that is very much on my uh my need to do list i just haven't gotten around to it yet but like you also had um um what is it got a ghost of yote is that what it was uh ghost of yote the um ghost of tsushima 2 yeah yeah yeah yeah um there was Astro Bot updates, I guess. Astro Bot. I think Astro Bot is the only thing that Sony has right now that is not an L. And imagine being on the Astro Bot team. How much Sony probably fucking loves you. Like, you just lost $400 million to Concord.

You just lost all of, like, you probably, it's not even, you've lost $400 million to Concord. You just lost all of, like, you probably, it's not even, you've lost 400 billion, 400 million. I am, I am almost certain that the reason my state of play was so short is there was probably going to be another 15 minutes or so of, like, is there was probably going to be another 15 minutes or so of like Concord battle pass, Concord skins, Concord maps, Concord cut scenes, and they cut it all because the game is dead. But if you're in the Astro Bot team, people fucking love Astro Bot. I have not heard a single person negative about Astro Bot. I think the only negative person I've heard is Astro Bot is really fucking hard like that that might actually be the only negative point I've heard about Astro Bot which if that's the only negative thing you have

like you're doing really fucking well, right like I like that fucking well, right? Like... Ugh. Like, that... It's... Look, they need something, right? They need something. They had, like, an announcement for a fucking, like, ooh, you wanna get a

fucking, um, blue PS5. Or metallic blue PS5. Nope. Metallic green. Nope. blue PS5. Nope. Metallic green. Nope. Metallic white. Nope.

And then, I think, actually, I think my favorite part is they had the PS5 Pro guy come out and list out the big three again. It was like, you have bigger GPU, you have AI upscaling, and fucking whatever, whatever other bullshit they're trying to sell the PS5 Pro. Oh, God. Sony is in, like, Sony is, uh, kind of screwed.

Honestly, what I think is going to happen, because, honestly, I'm surprised we didn't see anything, like, anything Kingdom Hearts or like, anything Kingdom Hearts or, like, anything, but, uh, when, when is TGS? Uh, TGS 2024, uh, literally tomorrow as I'm recording this. So, maybe everyone's like, fuck Sony, we're gonna do shit at TGS. Honestly, very, very possible.

Like, even if we don't see, like, a gameplay trailer for KH4, like, something, right? Like, a fucking, hey, guys, you can pre-order now and get a Kairi statue or something. Like, surely, they've gotta show something for KH4. And maybe by the time you guys see this, you get to

laugh at me, like, haha, you thought it was gonna be something for KH4. There's not. But, uh, hopefully, hopefully, it would be nice. Man, hopefully it would be nice man the world of gaming is um it's something

right now it's certainly something video games man fucking video games just play old video games everything's happy just don't if you just wait like five years to play a game like you just you you just be you'll be happy then actually the only the only new game i'm playing right now it's technically not new because it's like early access stuff i've been playing a lot of core keeper recently and core

keeper is very fun i've just not technically finished still got, like, a boss or two to fight, um, uh, pretty much finished the starting biomes, so I'm, I'm making my way out to the great wall at some point, but I'm probably gonna prep a bit more before I do that, um, because, yeah, I, I, I, I, I, I unlocked everything, I beat the bit the bit gorm the destroyer i honestly thought was gonna be a lot worse because like so if anyone who hasn't played core keeper to get to the outer biomes get past what they call the great wall um you need to beat the first three bosses in the game um the the way they define it is a bit different. But, like, there's three, like, bosses that have, like, these statues that connect to the core. You were keeping the core.

Whatever. You need to, like, beat these three specific bosses. So, there's the slime boss. There's Gorm the Destroyer. And, um, Malgoose. We'll call him Malgoose. Yeah, Malgoaz. Oh, fuck it.

Doesn't matter. Um, slime boss, very easy. If you die on the slime boss, that's a you problem. That is peak skill issue if you die on the slime boss. Especially if you go find a feather first. Because once you can dodge, every fight becomes trivial. Who needs shields when you can just dodge everything? becomes trivial who needs shields when you can just dodge everything um mal mal mal goose is more annoying because he fucking spawns fire on the ground and you've got to like dodge the fire

and fight him at the same time and i didn't realize that healing potions existed by that point so i was healing with food which is not the optimal way to do the fight. But Gorm the Destroyer, he cycles around the map. And basically, once you go out there, if you stand in front of him, you die. He does like 10,000 damage.

You just die. So you have to do enough damage to him before he gets too far away. Otherwise, he starts recovering. And by the time he gets back to you, he'll be at full health. I think it's when you get to like 80% or something, he will enter his combat stage

where you can actually fight him. I don't know what the optimal way to do this, but I just built a path and just ran alongside him, just doing as much damage as I could as quickly as possible. And once I actually did the fight, very, very easy to beat him so

It wasn't actually a problem at all I saw that boss like how the fuck do you beat this thing and then I know and I actually like tried to Build a tunnel that oh oh That was that was easy That was that was actually very easy Oh, that was easy. That was actually very easy. By that point, I had this pet which shot fireballs and I also had the fireball staff.

So I was just like melting the health bar anyway. So he was like, I think it was taking like 50 or 60 fire damage a second, taking like 300 damage for each hit. And it didn't, it didn't matter. The boss just went down i i'm very curious to see what the outer biomes have and i'm curious to see some of like the more end gamey mechanics like uh automation and things like that but i've got some basic automation stuff right now but there's like some wood farm stuff you can do, and you can drill or deposit.

It's a very cool game. If you've not played Corekeeper, I highly recommend you go and do so. It is very, very, very fun. I was looking on Twitter just a second ago, and I saw a post from... I saw a post from... I saw a post from Liam Doerr. Since it keeps being repeated by news sites and YouTubers,

no, Microsoft are not forcing Anticheat or anything out of the Windows kernel. I feel like people covering it simply didn't actually read the Microsoft blog post. So, there was this... I've talked about it to fucking no end, but lazy fucking useless YouTubers keep talking about it as if it is real. So there is an article by Notebook Check, which is by an author who does not know how to read, who wrote this article saying, Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with a plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat.

Now, the blog post it references never actually said any of this. Like, the blog post it references literally said the opposite, saying that they want to keep kernel-level modules around. They want to keep kernel level modules around. Like it literally said, they're not getting rid of kernel level access. All it said is they're going to provide means for developers to do things outside the kernel. Not provide means,

but provide more means than what they already were doing. And lazy fucking YouTubers, lazy fucking journalists, read this notebook check article didn't check any of the sources and now people like me people like liam door of gaming on linux who is a absolute legend who actually does know how to read who wrote a blog post explaining um what's actually going on here have to keep dealing with people who just keep fucking sharing around. So I've seen a low-level learning video where it was bullshit. And I called him out on it being bullshit.

He got 800,000 views on it. Has not taken down the video. Has not commented on being entirely wrong a misleading 800,000 people and I don't care if people think oh wait wait Why are you bullying the youtuber with six hundred and eighty nine thousand subscribers? Why are you sending your fans over to bully him if you're gonna say bullshit on the internet you deserve to be bullied I? Don't I genuinely do

not fucking care. The only comment he's pinned here is- The only comment he has pinned is about Valve having fucking Colonel Anti-Cheat. Oh, you know what, let's, are there still comments here?

Like, I know comments were calling him out, but I wonder if they still are. Um, like most people, this is the problem, right? You have these people that have these reputations of being good

sources, and they can get away with saying bullshit a couple of times and people just buy it and low level learning is one of those people who for the most part says great has great videos makes great content so he can just say complete bullshit like this and everybody for the most part just believes him unless someone actually calls him out and there's still people that There's still people that don't buy it and I saw a fucking LTT clip from the

LTT windows anti-cheat. Let's see if what was the video called? My called Microsoft could save Linux gaming, which again starts off by talking about the GTA 5 anti-cheat thing where they added BattleEye, but then by like a minute in it talks about how again, the bullshit fucking notebook check

article, hey guys the Microsoft is gonna move anti-cheat out of the kernel. No, no, they're not going to do that. Every time someone says like someone references this notebook check article, it does so much fucking damage to the discussion around Linux anti-cheat. This topic has been ruined for years to come now because fucking lazy YouTubers, lazy fucking journalists keep repeating this stupid blog post, this stupid, like, this is a, it's just blog spam., when people say blog spam, that is what that

notebook check article is, someone who didn't read any of the sources, who is just making bullshit claims, not saying, oh, this might happen, like, if, if you, if you shroud it in speculation, like, this is what this could mean, fine, whatever. But a definitive statement. A definitive statement that something is going to happen. I am now going to have to deal with people. Liam's going to have to deal with people. Fucking the Steam Deck gamer, Garden O'Brien, half his channel is Steam Deck content at this point.

Deal with people just who think that respected tech YouTubers said something correct when they just didn't read and it's so fucking annoying and like I have been every time every time

I have to see this blog post again it just it just bothers me right like I have been, every time, every time I have to see this blog post again, it just, it just bothers me, right? Like, this blog post might actually be a really great, like, litmus test for who doesn't bother to do any research when they make content, right? Anybody who's made any video on this, any article on this, who has said that Microsoft is going to move things out of the kernel,

just don't trust them because they clearly don't read the content they're talking about. And I've made mistakes in the past, like absolutely. But like when I make a mistake, I'm going to fucking admit I made a mistake. And sometimes I pull down the video.

Sometimes I pin a comment. But, like, to just keep repeating this. When, if you look up Microsoft, um, kernel, anti-cheat. anti-cheat like if you just look up this fucking topic my video is the first thing that shows up

it is the top video I guess it's the third what is this please for the love of god tell me this is not it please for the love of fucking, tell me this is not it. Please, for the love of fucking God, you do not reference it. Please, please, please, please.

Wait, when is this one from? September, oh no. Oh no. Oh no. Gamers and Linux. Gamers and Linux... Wait. Gamers and Linux users jump the gun. The Verge speculated Microsoft in early stages of designing

a 3D platform which can move whole... whole... Leonard... Leonard Bernadon. which can move whole whole Leonardo Leonard Bernardin Leonard Bernardin of ACS. Holy shit. I was worried for a second that the top article could not read this is a Reasonable way to frame it not entirely accurate, but certainly better than some of the others.

Certainly, certainly better than that. But like, third article here is from Liam who's just calling this out. So, uh, yeah. I hope, I really hope I don't have to deal with this article any longer. Like, I saw, I saw a fucking, I saw a post about preempt rt like real-time os support in the linux kernel which had a fucking reference to this goddamn article and then the person was like wait i oh i guess it's bullshit and like link to my video Like there are people who care about Linux kernel patching Who've been fucking misled by this goddamn article, and I'm sick of it. I'm genuinely

fucking sick of it I don't care if you get bullied because I made a video calling you out on this. You should be, right? Just read. How difficult is it to read this fucking Microsoft blog post and realize what it's actually saying? You don't have to read it. Just read Liam Doerr's article, right? If the Microsoft thing's too technical for you, read Liam's article and you won't Liam Dawes article, right? Like if the Microsoft thing's too technical for you, read Liam's article and you won't fucking see it. I know it's tempting to make a bullshit video that convinces people of nonsense, but like... Can you at least- can you at least freight- like bullshit about something that doesn't have to do with Linux? Just bullshit about something that's not in Myspace and that's fine. I don't care if you bullshit about politics. Just go do that. That's fine.

Everyone else is on every side of the political spectrum. Just fucking do that. Stop talking about my shit. Stop talking about something where I have to go and correct people on nonsense. But hey, it's free content. It is free content at least. If you do bullshit about it, I'm going to call you out. And you deserve to be called out. Yeah. Actually, speaking of calling things out, I'm going to do a video on this. It's probably out by the time you guys are seeing this. But Winamp really kicks the llama's ass.

Winamp really kicks the llama's ass. Winamp decided to go source available. Now, they have... Oh, man, they have done a number on this repo. Firstly, here is the license. The Winamp Collaborative License WCL. The Winamp Collaborative License is a free copy left license for software and other kinds of works. It is designed to ensure that you have the freedom to use, modify, and study the software, but with restrictions on the distribution and modification to maintain the integrity and collaboration of the project.

Restrictions. No distribution of modified versions. You may not distribute modified versions of the software, whether in source or binary form. No forking. You may not create, maintain, or distribute a forked version of the software. Official distribution. Only maintainers of the official repository are allowed to distribute the software and its modifications. Copy left license copy left license

Copy left license, fuck you it's a copyleft license. Oh, let me, you know what, let's, let's, does the FSF website have a, have a, have a good definition of copyleft? You know what, first line here works really well. Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free. In the sense of freedom, not zero price. And requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well. So, how do you have a copy left project that you can't distribute? a copy left project that you can't distribute So if you can't modify it and you can't distribute it how how exactly

How again if you can't distribute modified versions How can you share the source code for the modified version like this is literally counter to the definition of copy left like these two things cannot be true at the same time look you know

in like hyper like dumbass legal mental gymnastics, so it's copy left because you have to distribute the source code for modified versions. However, because modified versions cannot be made, by definition, you are distributing the source code for modified versions because the core version is the only version therefore

Like it's actually fucking dumb And this this don't worry. This is the surface. This is the fucking surface. This is this is the minorest of minorest things. Let's go to the commits. And let's go to... What's a good one? What's a good one? Initial community commit. Is this a good one?

No, that's the DLLs. We don't want that one. What's a good one? Merge branch? No. I know it's in here. They have not rebased anything yet.

Shit. Remove expired certs? No, that's actually just certs ah This will work remove potential Unlicensed code now keep in mind the word potential unlicensed code. Let's click Dolby payload dot CPP payload.cpp Let's go to the top where there is the

license notification. Right here. Copyright 2000-2002 Dolby Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. Do not copy. Do not distribute. Confidential information. Let's click another one. Let's say

this one right here. Oh, okay. That one does not have one. Fair enough. This one. Load diff. This is a clean one. Okay, that one is clean.

But there is a number of these... There's a number of these Dolby files. There is a number of these Dolby files There's a number of these Dolby files that have Do not copy, do not distribute Confidential information So They are leaking They are leaking internal

Dolby files Here's another one Dolby laboratories Do not copy, do not distribute Confidential information They are leaking, Dolby Laboratories. Do not copy, do not distribute confidential information. They are leaking internal Dolby files that they do not have the ability to leak. Now, just in case anyone's forgotten,

the developers of Winamp are not the developers of Winamp. The people who currently own it are some like NFT crypto grift company who bought the Winamp IP and are now trying to make as much money off nostalgia as possible. They have no clue what's in this code base. They are not even developers, as should be evidently clear by what's happening in here. Like all of this stuff should be rebased and done in private. The fact that you're leaving all of this here

when you're literally leaking code you don't own is wild. Wild to me. There is a number of, uh, also, that, that's, that's some other stuff there, um, uh, there was another one here, there was, there was more stuff that they actually hadn't, oh, yeah, right, there was, um, there's, there's more code still in the repo, at least it was, code still in the repo, at least it was. Maybe they've cleaned it all up now. But I

would not be surprised whatsoever if there was more code currently in the repo that they do not have the ability to open source. Like, I would not be surprised at all.

Apparently, they've leaked some code for Shoutcast 3 that, like, shouldn't be leaked either. I wonder if we can find it in here. Someone mentioned it.

I don't know if we're going to be able to find it, though. I wish I saved a link to it. People were saying that it might have happened over on Twitter. So, you know, Twitter is the most valid, uh, copyrighted source related to Shoutcast and stuff, yeah, there's someone mentioning it, um, there's someone mentioning it, but I don't know if it's actually true, like, I'm not, I'm not certain, but, like, if you look at the way the commits are done here like, these these are not commits done

by someone with development experience and this is not how you handle this repo also there's the fact that apparently GitHub's TOS does not, like, allow you to do source available code, I didn't realize this, uh, uh, where is it, by, by setting your repository to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repository. So apparently, like, it just straight up violates GitHub's TOS.

There is other source available code on GitHub, so I don't know how true that is. But, like, it is genuinely true that this is not a copyleft project at all. You don't understand Git. What is this one? We can see all that closed source code. You know, right? Removed Goofy A license. Ha ha ha.

Oh, that's fucking great. This... Wait, tree include... Oh, here we go. Tree includes... Uh... Shoutcast DNAs. Yeah, so apparently this is code from Shoutcast, which...

Oh my... Like, what are you doing? Like, how do you not... Like, it's not like one file, whatever, like... Yeah, one file here. No, no, no, no, no. It's like hundreds of files that they've leaked from, like, this repo.

Absolute, absolute morons. And the more I learn about this repo, the more... What? Wait, I haven't tried and I won't, but it looks like the sign tool pfx file and password are part of the release. Oh, okay, so that's the issue there, where they were, uh, where they were leaking, where they were leaking expired certs as well. So that's, that's this one here.

They, they were leaking fucking certs. Now, they're lucky they're expired, because this is 30-year-old code. What are they... Genuinely, genuinely, I have to ask, what... What are you doing? Why? What are you doing? Why?

And I have no doubt. I have no doubt this repo is going to be a gold mine of people. Of people who are just. Just finding more shit with this. Like, if this is what is here now. If this is what is here now, there is going to be more. Like, no, no doubt in my, no doubt in my mind whatsoever. Whatever.

I'm going to make a video on this, so if you want to see more like, um, if you want to see more coherent, there's gonna be a video on the channel before this comes out anyway, so you've probably already heard most of what I'm gonna say. Um, just, just kill Winamp. I love Winamp. Winamp's a great project. I, I used Winamp long, long ago, but like, the people who own it now are just trying to cash in on the Winamp name. They have nothing to do with Winamp long, long ago, but like the people who own it now are just trying to cash in on the Winamp name. They have nothing to do with Winamp. And it seems like people are mocking them for it, which they kind of deserve to be mocked because they are clearly, they're clearly not, they're clearly unaware of what they're doing. They're clearly very unaware of what they're doing. They're clearly very unaware of what they're doing. But, yeah.

Do we have anything short in here I want to talk about before we end off? What is this one? Oh! This is a fun little one. Apparently, the official OpenAIX account, or Twitter account, was taken over to peddle a crypto scam, which is very funny. So, the account was taken over and started trying to sell an OpenAI token,

which is... Honestly, I see that and I'm like, wait. Is this actually real? Is this a grift on top of a grift? Like, it wouldn't, it wouldn't be out of character to have a massive AI company sell a crypto token, right? Like, you have, you have the bubble combined with the bubble to become the bigger, The biggest of the bubbles. Um. But no.

Uh. Sadly. This was. Uh. Not real. Oh. Actually. Well.

On that note. One last thing. The um. The Marcus Brownlee grift. Marcus Brownlee. Who uh. Who made a wallpaper app. For $50 a year. That was collecting your location data, and one of the wallpapers

it had was orange. Like, just, literally just orange. Like, that's, and another one, cyan. And that was one of, like, the, that was one of the ones by, like, their artists, so. Apparently he's working on, like, changing the pricing and all of this stuff. So maybe it'll be better. But no matter what the price is, literally any price that you see for a wallpaper app is too much money. Like I, especially because it also had like AI generated wallpapers.

So why would I pay for AI generated wallpapers when I can pay for a sub to an AI-generator tool and generate my own wallpapers? Like, why would I do that? I wouldn't. And I don't know who would. But apparently people buy these wallpaper apps anyway. And, like, remember the days when you just buy an app? It was like, hey, you want to pay, like, $3 for this app? You just get the app.

You just have the app forever. Nope. Everything has to be a sub fee. Everything has to be, not even just a sub fee, but a sub fee higher than you pay for, like, Spotify, right? Like, higher than you pay for Spotify for an app to let you download wallpapers. And someone actually did, um... Someone did scrape the server that

they are located on. So, they just downloaded all the wallpapers anyway. So, good job there having zero authentication knowing that things are coming from the application and you just have a fucking plain HTTP server. Fantastic

job. Obviously, people are going to find that it's very easy to, to work out where your packets are going, but you know, yeah. Anyway, that's going to be it for me. Um, it has been a solo episode, which is always, always fun to do. Um, I don't know if we're going to do more of them, or we're going to go back to doing guest stuff, or what we're going to do, but, I don't know, this was fun. It's been a nice

change to do a guest, a solo episode once again after the very, very long break we've had between this one and the last one. If someone knows what my last one was and how long the gap was, please let me know. Uh, yeah. I'm not gonna stop doing guest episodes, don't worry. Like, there's, there's gonna be more guest episodes coming out. Uh, I'd probably, I've probably

recorded it by now, but, oh, by the time you guys are seeing this, but there will be an episode with Carl Rochelle coming out at some point. I'm still working on stuff with the Gen 2 creator, so when he's not busy with his kids, which is totally fair, we will do that one as well. I've got an episode, I'm going to bring Venny on at

some point, a VTuro I met a little while ago. That will be a fun episode as well. And, I don't know, I'll that will be a fun episode as well, and I don't know, I'll, I'll drag other people on the podcast as well, as I said, I have a big list, at some point, I'll bring Leah on the podcast, um, actually, a new specifier, there's, like, 12 different Leahs, Leah Rowe, the, uh, LibreBoot developer, uh, there's another Leah I want to bring on as well, who is involved in Chromebook stuff, um, yeah, anyway, that's gonna be it for me, so, Chromebook stuff.

Yeah. Anyway, that's going to be it for me. So if you're not subscribed to the main channel, that is Brody Robertson. I do videos, Linux videos there six-ish days a week. I've got the gaming channel, Brody on Games, streamed there twice a week. I am actually now an affiliate.

So if you want to give me your Twitch Prime, I would appreciate. I just poked myself in the eye. I would appreciate your Twitch Prime. I've got my React channel, Brody Robertson Reacts, which I will eventually re-brand, probably, to, like, Robertson Reacts or Robber Reacts.

I don't know. Brody Robertson Reacts feels like too many syllables. And if you're listening to the audio version of this, you can find the video version on YouTube at Tech Over Tea. If you want to find the audio version, there is a podcast RSS feed. Put it into your

favorite podcast app and you'll be good to go. So yeah, that's gonna be it for me and yeah, Soul episodes are back in some form or another. Yeah.