- 9 minutes
After going through the linked threads. Discussing graphene OS or any other ROM on r/privacy will get you banned. WTF‽
3 hoursSo you need to do a face ID to play games in PlayStation in some countries now??? WTF
- KingKong33@lemmy.mlEnglish6 hours
All these scumbag companies are making it easier and easier for me to avoid their products.
- Zink@programming.devEnglish3 hours
I’ve pretty much gone back to my 2000s era mindset of “I don’t need a smart phone when I have PCs in front of me at work and at home.”
But really it’s more like I already have an old smart phone but hate using it and never want to have to upgrade. We’ll see what Motorola can make happen.
- partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish5 hours
How is Sony connected to this? I only see references to the Yeti and Graphite OSs. (Misspelled because some commenters say they can’t say the name of an Os for some reason?)
- David_Eight@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
TLDR; Playstation uses Yoti fot age verification
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1txn8di/did_i_just_got_threatened_by_yoti_age/
- partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish22 minutes
So, Sony uses Yoti — and it’s using a callback method so users can complete the Yoti verification flow by scanning QR code on their phone, similar to how OAuth2 allows? But if your phone has Graphene, the flow won’t work and instead triggers notification to local authority that someone tried multiple times to “bypass” it or something? Basically forwarding their own sever errors, due to incompatible clients, to the authorities?
Is that the right understanding?
I guess the time to sell my PS5 is fast approaching. Let’s see if Sony says anything about this. Either way, the moment my console asks me to verify my age, it’s getting sold.
- favoredponcho@lemmy.zipEnglish3 hours
Never even bought one. I couldn’t find anything compelling enough this generation to buy one and that decision has paid off.
- Phantaloons@piefed.zipEnglish2 hours
Gaming then: Three decent games a year
Gaming now: One decent game every three years.
- dil@piefed.zipEnglish1 hour
Big budget exclusives sure, plenty of good games to play every year, and many “old” games get updates every year keeping them fresh, you would only buy expansions back then, while a 6/10 game 5 years after release can become a 8-9/10
Your comment does apply to Sony exclusives tho
- Phantaloons@piefed.zipEnglish1 hour
It was aimed at AAA and AA.
Indie, as always, is doing just fine. But nobody needs a PS5 to play Slay the Spire 2.
Wow, thanks Sony. Still being cunts about copyright I see; nothing has changed since the SecuROM/XCP days…
- manxu@piefed.socialEnglish6 hours
I swear I haven’t bought anything Sony since that happened. There are just betrayals that go too far to ever be forgiven.
To be completely honest with you, Sony hasn’t released an interesting product in about 20 years anyway
Sony makes some of the best full frame cameras on the market. Granted it’ll cost you like $6k but Sony still makes some really good tech. I do not own a Sony products btw. In regards to cameras, I’m using Fujifilm, but they aren’t even close to Sony tech wise.
I thought so too but recently I actually met a professional photographer who works in marketing, and he told me that Sony cameras produced terrible colours across the board and recommended I go with Canon instead.
I’ve got no experience with either brands so no idea, my go-to was always Nikon.
Nikon’s camera sensors come from Sony. But Nikon engineers always do some magic. That’s why NASA uses Nikon cameras in space. Canon is arguably the best, but also the most expensive and not friendly to third party lenses. Sony lets you put any lens you want if you got the right adaptor. And that photographer you met isn’t wrong, but that is exactly why professionals have to edit their photos after a shoot. With Fujifilm I try to do it all in camera cuz editing hundreds of photos becomes exhausting after years.
- 4 hours
Their OLED TVs have the best upscaling tech and I am glad they still support 4K Blu-rays because physical media is important to me. Otherwise most of their products have better alternatives.
- gopher@programming.devEnglish3 hours
They also make great projectors.
On the TV side, they sold 51% to Chinese TCL, so I expect things will start going downhill fast from here, which is a shame.
- mal3oon@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
This is unexpected, given that Sony had a really great support for allowing bootloader unlock and support for AOSP. Till today you could flash Jolla’s SailfishOS on their devices.
Probably has more to do with the fact that GrapheneOS doesn’t implement age verification thinking about it, I’m still gonna hold a grudge about SecuROM and XCP though
Till today you could flash Jolla’s SailfishOS on their devices.
Pretty sure that’s still possible. I mean this whole post is about someone flashing an alternative ROM to their Sony device.
- crandlecan@mander.xyzEnglish9 hours
Your system experienced an unexpected error. Please reboot your computer. Thank you, the peeps at Sony (™️)
I’m not sure there’s a direct connection to Sony here (I use a Sony phone and am thus interested in this).
The initial post of the linked Forum thread does not make any connection. The accompanying reddit thread makes the claim that “PlayStation/Sony recently introduced a company called Yoti for age verification” but Sony is not mentioned on Yoti’s wikipedia.
What I am reading in the screenshots is pretty fucked up though.
- MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish6 hours
So just Yoti reporting users to authorities for using Grapheneos, got it.
Even the screenshots have the odor of bullshit. This particular community loves to play the paranoid victim, which is unfortunate.
- pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
This particular community loves to play the paranoid victim, which is unfortunate.
I agree, but Sony literally helped invent DRM. Sony went all-in on “fuck you” to their customers back when we all adored them for the Walkman.
And it feels like they have only rarely done better, since then, after exhausting all other options.
So I agree - we do jump there too quick.
But when we are discussing Sony, the ire is valid anyway.
Everyone at Sony can go fuck themselves - today, yesterday and just generally.
- Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais8 hours
I did not know what Yoti was doing.
Our proprietary suite of AI services include NIST-evaluated passive liveness, facial recognition, as well as our patented SICAP injection attack detection tool.
Can’t say I am surprised.
