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Centre Pompidou, Paris
#Photography #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Sony #Paris #France
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Pedestrian on a city sidewalk in front of the Pompidou Center with blue exposed vertical exhaust pipes across the front of the building
Here's another thing I apparently never posted here - my Sony PocketStation.
Sony's answer to Sega's VMU!
Organiser, clock, minigames!
Planned for release outside of Japan but it never happened, though some NA games still released with support for it like FFVIII.
#retrocollecting #sony #playstation
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Two pics, top: me holding the tiny VMU/ game boy like device
Bottom: the button panel opened up to show it's memory card connector
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Two pics, left: the clock on the PocketStation
Right: Squall from VII on the PocketStation screen
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Two pics, top: the PocketStation in my PSOne
Bottom: the PocketStation in my PS2
Still not feeling great, but figured today would be a great day to finally test out the entirety of the custom FF6 cart I built so long ago. Broke out the Sony PVM-2530, got everything hooked up, and now it's time to beat all of the things down.
The SNES is modded with Voultar's SNESRGB mod, and the video/audio goes out via a SCART connector into the SCART switch (`gscart`), then into the CMPTR adapter, _then_ into the Sony PVM.
I do have two SCART switches, and if you're looking at buying one just get the `gscart` switch. The Mini Hydra is the most temperamental thing I've ever had the honor of paying money for...
#retrogaming #ff6 #customCart #sony #crt #snes
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A poor photograph of Terra in bed after being rescued in Narshe on a Sony PVM-2530 CRT running Final Fantasy 6.
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The custom shelled Super Nintendo running a custom cart of FF6 with the decensored Ted Woolsey translation in a clear acrylic shell.
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The custom CMPTR adapter that allows you to hook up RGB via BNC cables to the Sony PVM-2530. Pretty happy that the CMPTR connector didn't really take off...
Eye contact [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Almost 22 years have passed since this photo was taken, in my university-era bedroom.
I had already graduated and I was doing things I truly enjoyed.
I was about to move out, even though nobody knew it (I was taking notes on my Palm about what to pack, but messiness was the norm, so no one got suspicious). I also had a slightly swollen gum, so I was smiling without showing my teeth, and I had mouthwash on the desk.
And that smile was one of mysterious satisfaction, anticipating what was about to happen soon.
Perhaps the most enigmatic Italian smile since the Mona Lisa.
#ThrowBack #Memories #Past #Selfie #iMac #Sony #iMacG3 #SouthPark #Palm
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Indoor snapshot from 15 May 2004: a young man (me) in a gray sweater and light blue shirt smiles at the camera (in an enigmatic way) while holding a Palm handheld device and stylus; behind him are an old Sony CRT TV and a green iMac, with a South Park poster on the wall.
I spotted someone sharing their #Sony #PSP mod which 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘭𝘺 improves battery life. Increasing what is typical for the battery (1400 mAh) to a utterly crazy 7200 mAh version.
RoyHehe wanted to see how much battery life you could feasibly fit inside the console, which required removing the UMD drive, RF shielding and you have to trim shell in a lot of places, too.
So maybe not for the faint of heart?
Still, I love these ridiculous #gaming efforts
The great duck takeover will begin with small, local skirmishes
#Photography #Nature #Florida #Birds #Sony
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Two brown ducks walking across pine straw mulch
Frankly it reads to me like an admission of their own guilt, the "brazen theft" being a projection, mens rea expressed as legal action.
Spotify and the three main major record labels sue Anna’s Archive for $13trillion for “brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings”
#culture #music #AnnasArchive #spotify #UMG #WarnerBros #Sony #lawsuit
Bravia is one of the best brands in TV, hope this doesn’t taint the brand! #sony #tcl
Never had a TCL before 🤷♂️
https://www.theverge.com/news/864263/sony-tcl-tv-business-partnership-takeover-announcement
Obviously the #zeebo flopped, espechally due to #Qualcomm's #BREW #OS ¹ which is basically '#JavaMobile but worse in order to circumvent #SoftwarePatents' whilst also having dogshit performance and being hard to develop for or even port games to, making it even worse than #Gizmondo or #NGage which used #J2ME.
- Making the #OUYA look like a piece of perfection in comparison, because that #cube didn't cost 20x more to port games to but merely demanded the (OUYA-exclusive) #GameController #API (which predates the later #Android-Standardized one!) to be supported, which is closer to a #patch than a #redevelopment!
But even in a starved market like #Brazil most households weren't gonna dump over 1 month minimum wage on an aging #3G-#Cellphone with composite video and 6-button #USB #controllers.
- Also who thought that announcing a price cut before launch was a good idea in a time the "Osbourne Effect" was already well known?
So yeah, blame Qualcomm for this shitshow...
- To add insult to injury, #piracy on it is rampant... and the #PS2 whipped it's ass around town cuz it even as #import #console like the #PlayStation2 could shaft them in spite of #tariffs because by that point #Sony closed their books on that platform and didn't give a fuck about #piracy, only allowing pre-agreed licensees like #EA to still shove out their games for it.
And lets be honest, #Edutainment is not a cash cow because in places like #Mexico it's way easier to get even cheaper #PC|s due to #NAFTA #FreeTrade (i.e. all the stuff #refurbishers couldn't sell in the #USA anymore got offered there before being sold further south...
- Really sad, cuz if the Zeebo was like a €50 box, it could've been a smash hit, so it died due to lack of resources...
Needless to say the Zeebo is the strongest argument for #StopKillingGames as these devices are nearly useless these days and piracy is the only way to get / change games on it and play them these days.
- Also respect to Derek from #SSFF for playing the entire Zeebo catalogue tho there's nothing to ride home about...
Nowadays the nieche of the zeebo is served by cheap #PCs for #gaming even cheaper #Android devices and (aside from few stores like #Steam that managed to upstell a #DRM as a #feature), rampant #piracy to the point that #MobileGaming outside of #iOS is basically dead unless we account #PayToLoose #Shovelware of the "#DisguisedGambingGame" kind as "#Gaming" which is an insult even for #gambling, because there at least in theory, with a honest operator the chance of winning is greater than zero (tho I'd still disrecommend it because no gambling game is *"fair" beyond the theoretical chance of winning by the rules)...
@adr same...
I just know that "#Valve is not #Sony" and that they ain't fighting a war of 5 fronts nor willing to subsidize a product like Sony did with the #PS3 which at launch costed them at least $800 to build.
- Valve isn't trying to win the HD format war with a new & proprietary media they control, (nor sabotage their competitors on the console front) but unshackle themselves from #Windows and #macOS in favour of a platform they have more control (or at least their biggest competitiors don't have an iron grip!)...
#GabeN may not admit to it but #Windows8Bing and #Microsoft's attempts at killing off 3rd party game and software stores made his blood freeze and boil at the same time because just as #GabeNewell was ex-#Microsoft and they usually botch their initial attempts, he knew that #Windows10S and #Windows11 would come and try to choke Steam out of the platform.
- #Steam going #Linux and investing billions into that endeavour is a longterm strategy not because Valve likes #OpenSource and profiteering from #free & #unpaid #community #labour, but a matter of survival similar to how Microsoft had to react to the #RedRingOfDeath and suck up U$D 1,150,000,000 in costs or #Xbox & #XboxLive would've died with the #Xbox360's launch models.
Cuz remember: Whilst Valve is not a publicly traded company, they still are share-held and thus has to further the interests of said shareholders.
- It's just that GabeN is the biggest shareholder and his Superyacht even when at port needs maintenance and crew to keep afloat and legally seaworthy. His interests do align more with his customers than the execs at #Nintendo which nowadays are some Japanese Corpo Suits and not #Gamers, so they don't have any shame charging €200+ more outside of #Japan for the same hardware.
In the end, Everyone from #AMD to #Valve to the #Retailers selling the #SteamMachine and #SteamVouchers are doing this for the money. #HappyConsumers are a nice side effect but in #capitalism, #monopolies (and Steam is effectively a monopoly by market share) don't have consumers' interests in mind.
- They ain't a Public Roadworks, Drinking Water, Electric Grid / Postal Service / Phone Utility Company with state control and/or oversight breathing down their necks for every price increase or terms change. It merely happens that said shareholders don't expect the company to constantly increase revenue and profits in the short term.
@adr Granted, just by the hardware parts they'd loose out if they were to sell at €749 (you can thank the #AIbubble as well as #RAM & #NAND - #Tripol #Cartel and lack of #regulation for that).
- OFC #retailers also want their margin, and unless one's in a position like #Apple, the #retail margin will be 10-20% depending on the market, whether it's a #online or in-presence stores or whatever. And that is already a low margin.
Everyone who expects this a €499 box is fucking dellusional at this point, because with the current memory prices and expected developments people would just buy truckloads of them to harvest the #GabeCube for it's #RAM, #SSD & #VRAM and scrap the rest.
- Cuz already we're seeing the #RAM sticks that would be in it to cost €250+ and unlike #Sony or #Microsoft this isn't a #SBC they can sell at a loss unless they want to break their advertising promises and risk expensive #ClassActionLawsuits in #SueHappy #USA and extremely high return rates in the #EU respectably.
If the #GabeCube is competitive priced if not cheaper than equivalent #Desktops and #Servers then we'd see every #business with "strategic procurement" just buy literal truckloads expecting #DRAM & #Flash prices to not come down this upgrade cycle (aka. within 5 years) but still needing some machines to work with as the heightened prices - like the #ChipShortage before - will strangulate the #UsedMarket.
- I kid you not, we'd rather see #scalpers and #businesses equipping employees with cash, credit cards and high-value gift cards just to pick shelves clean (just like it happens) with #GPUs because that shit is now hotter on the black market than "research chemicals" because it has less risk and higher payouts.
So do expect the #Gabecube to cost way more than €749 + VAT and closer to €999 than €749 since #Poland has a low #VAT / #GST rate and is a 'low income' place (compared to the EU-Average)...
- The €749 would've been more realistic by the time it was announced but the €499 never were for any non-closed system subsidized harder than the #PS3.
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holeeee christ on a cracker
so back from as far back as the late 1990s until last year there was an ongoing myth repeated over and over: "Sony's proprietary MicroMV camcorders are not supported on Apple computers. You must capture from a Windows 2000/Vista computer."
these kinds of myths get spread around because no one actually *tries* something different
if you don't recognize "micromv" tapes, you're among the majority. they were the tiniest tape format that sony built into its handycams. they're about the size of a microcassette tape (1/5th the size of a minidv), and store 60 minutes of 480p video.
you can see the one i bought a few months ago here:
https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/115499504884696392
the DCR-IP handycams are gorgeous and tiny. the problem is with getting your footage off of the camera. they all have a firewire (IEEE1394) port for capturing the tape's video+audio to a computer. unfortunately, sony packaged them up with some truly horrendous Windows 2000-based software (MovieShaker - as bad as it sounds)
people who hooked up their camcorders to their iMac G3/G4's were shocked: iMovie and (later) Final Cut didn't see the camera at all. Sony's response: go buy a Windows computer with a firewire card. you can imagine how many people were so pissed off that they sold their micromv camcorders and never went back
as much as i love windows 2000, there is no f'ing way i am building a PC just to capture my video tapes.
today i decided that, hell or high water, i was going to get my micromv tape footage transferred from my camera to my iMac G5 20-inch which i am still in love with after 20+ years.
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finally, here it is - a minute of video captured from a sony DCR-IP5 MicroMV camera. afaik, this is the first time a micromv tape has ever been transferred to an apple computer. (and for no good reason, aside from nobody trying it!)
some dad trying to impress everyone with his electric guitar skills as his kid shakycams the hell out of the performance 👏
true found footage magic.
cd & radio works tho! it’s so fun! super vintage but me, my friends & siblings have enjoyed listening to music on it today… time to get more CDs soon!
❤️ i think he’d like us still using it
#flashes-app-ln3348nvl89 #SonyFH15R #VintageAudio #Photography
Some #photos from a trip to #Thailand earlier this year!
My original #playstation that I've had since high school seems to have a failing disc drive, so I couldn't say no to this cheap find at #savers thrift store (a New England chain that I no longer have access to since I live in New York now).
It even came with a free copy of #grandtheftauto3 (more likely, an enployee at Savers forgot to check for a disc or didn't care about pulling it to sell seperately)! Sure, it's a PS2 game so it won't work on a PSX and I already have two copies of it, but why not?
Also, LOL at the #thrillkill sticker. I'm keeping that on it, for sure.
#gamer #retrogamer #retrogaming #sony #mastogamer #mastogaming #gaming #retrogaming #videogames #videogamer
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A US Playstation with a Thrill Kill sticker over the disc tray cover and a Saver's thrift store price sticker of $14.99.
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A PlayStation with an open disc tray and a copy of Grand Theft Auto III for PS2 inside of it.
CRTC Incurs Fourth Lawsuit Over Online Streaming Act (MPAC)
The CRTC has, once again, been sued over the Online Streaming Act. This time, by the Motion Picture Association Canada and several others.
https://www.freezenet.ca/crtc-incurs-fourth-lawsuit-over-online-streaming-act-mpac/
#Business #Censorship #Copyright #LawAndTechnology #News #Amazon #BillC11 #Canada #CRTC #lawsuit #MPA #Netflix #OnlineStreamingAct #Paramount #Sony #Universal
#Texas is suing all of the big #TV makers for #spying on what you watch
TVs made by #Sony , #Samsung , #LG , #Hisense , and #TCL are part of a ‘mass #surveillance system,’ Attorney General #KenPaxton alleges.
https://www.theverge.com/news/845400/texas-tv-makers-lawsuit-samsung-sony-lg-hisense-tcl-spying
Sony to Own Control of Peanuts in $457 Million Deal With WildBrain
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/sony-acquire-peanuts-457-million-deal-1236612363/
VGC: Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/tencent-horizon-clone-pulled-from-stores-as-sony-settles-lawsuit/ #Sony
If you missed this. The brands in question are Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL. These companies allegedly recorded "what viewers watch without their consent. The predatory technology, Automated Content Recognition (ACR), identifies the content being played on a device by matching short content fingerprints to a database."
Engadget: Texas sues five TV manufacturers over predatory ad-targeting spyware https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/texas-sues-five-tv-manufacturers-over-predatory-ad-targeting-spyware-201500248.html @Engadget #privacy #spyware #infosec #Sony #LG #Samsung
#Texas sues #TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch
The lawsuits target #Sony, #Samsung, #LG, and #China-based companies #Hisense and #TCL. According to complaints filed in Texas state courts, the TV makers can allegedly use #ACR technology to capture screenshots of television displays every 500 milliseconds, monitor the users' viewing activity in real time, and send this information back to the companies' servers without the users' knowledge or consent.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/texas-sues-tv-makers-for-spying-on-users-selling-data-without-consent/
"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued five large TV manufacturers yesterday, alleging that their smart TVs spy on viewers without consent. Paxton sued Samsung, the longtime TV market share leader, along with LG, Sony, Hisense, and TCL.
“These companies have been unlawfully collecting personal data through Automated Content Recognition (‘ACR’) technology,” Paxton’s office alleged in a press release that contains links to all five lawsuits. “ACR in its simplest terms is an uninvited, invisible digital invader. This software can capture screenshots of a user’s television display every 500 milliseconds, monitor viewing activity in real time, and transmit that information back to the company without the user’s knowledge or consent. The companies then sell that consumer information to target ads across platforms for a profit. This technology puts users’ privacy and sensitive information, such as passwords, bank information, and other personal information at risk.”
The lawsuits allege violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, seeking damages of up to $10,000 for each violation and up to $250,000 for each violation affecting people 65 years or older. Texas also wants restraining orders prohibiting the collection, sharing, and selling of ACR data while the lawsuits are pending."
#USA #Texas #Samsung #SmartTVs #lg #TCL #Sony #Hisense #Surveillance #Privacy #ACR
@ra1n yes and no.
- Sony needed to keep market share and #Xbox really delivered #ConsoleMultiplayer that was frictionless (beyond the #paywall).
Also #Sony scrapped the #FreeMultiplayer later in the #PS3 lifecycle by paywalling #PSN too.
- Obviously #Microsift knew that it's #Multiplayer worked good and that they could charge for it.
Plus it did make it longterm sustainable because it does incur costs that would've to be paid and Sony did subsidize their service with ~ $5 more in #licensing fees per full-price AAA retail disc game.
- Not to mention the PS3 was pushed to win & end the #FormatWar for #bluray which Microsoft just partially sabotaged with the #HDDVD addon so #Streaming (via #Netflix) would win.
Wird ein etwa mittellanger Faden?
Aber gibt ja sonst kaum noch sinnvolle #Produktbewertungsportale, wo man sowas sinnvoll abgeben kann ohne dass man ne Woche später den Kommentar gelöscht bekommt oder so.
Es ist jedenfalls alles #Sony #EMount, sowohl #APSC als auch Vollformat, etwas durcheinander.
Und alles befindet sich eher auf der "preiswerten" Seite, also Chinaglas/Schrott oder bestenfalls gebrauchtes…
Der WAF um für die nächsten Objektive vierstellige Summen auszugeben wäre eher gering.
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einige der Objektive nebeneinander auf einem Tisch
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ein paar klobiger aufgestellte Objektive
Ja, da sind welche auch schon auf dem anderen Bild zu sehen gewesen - hier ging's mir eher um Größenvergleiche
Fangen wir mit dem schlechtesten in meiner Sammlung an: Das #Sony #SELP1650 (nur APS-C)
Positiv:
- sehr kompakt
- billig (kann man gebraucht evtl. für um 50€ bekommen, evtl. sogar billiger)
- war im Bundle zur Alpha 6000 dazu ohne dass das Bundle teurer wurde als die Kamera einzeln zu kaufen
- Weitwinkel-Zoom von 16mm zu 50mm (entspräche bei Vollformat ca. 25-80mm)
Theoretisch würde das Ding ausreichen um grundlegend mit einer APS-C-Alpha fast alle Arten von Fotos zu machen. Praktisch muss es dafür natürlich dafür sehr hell sein und die resultierende Qualität liegt dann irgendwo bei "alte Smartphone-Kamera".
Wenn man 50mm-Bilder machen will, geht das Ding erst bei F5.6 los und auch am 16mm-Ende geht's nicht besser als F3.5… und wenn man "Sonne Lacht Blende 8" als Grundlage nimmt ist das bereits ein Wert den das Ding nicht mehr erreicht. Denn die Lichtmenge bei F5.6 entspricht eher irgendwas oberhalb F12 im Vergleich mit Vollformat.
Sagte ich schon dass das kein gutes Objektiv ist und ich es praktisch nicht mehr verwende
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Das Objektiv, offen und ausgefahren
Diesen Zustand kann man nur erreichen indem man den Strom unerwartet trennt. Normalerweise fährt sich die Linse immer zusammen wenn die Kamera ausgeschalten wird.
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Die Linse in "ausgeschaltetem" Zustand.
Bei Verwendung wird sie auch für die kurzen Brennweiten ausgefahren - dies ist also ein reiner Lagerzustand.
Das andere Kit-Objektiv hab ich auch… das #Sony #SEL55210 ist aber bei weitem nützlicher.
Brennweite von 55mm bis 210mm ist schon ganz ordentlich - auf Vollformat entspricht das ca. 85mm bis 330mm.
Es ist ziemlich billig erhältlich für ein Tele-Zoom und es ist sogar aktiv stabilisert (OSS). Der Zoom ist noch schön mechanisch zu drehen und gut spürbar, für Fokus gibt's aber nur Fly-by-wire und gar kein Gefühl. Tasten hat es nicht, braucht es aber auch nicht wirklich.
Auch ist es nicht gerade Lichtstark - F4.5 bis F6.3 ist erneut nichts mit dem man Abends/Nachts rumlaufen will. Die optische Qualität ist auch eher… meh!
Ich hab schon Vergleichsfotos gemacht, mit diesem bei 210mm und einem WIRKLICH scharfen Vollformat-85mm-Objektiv (auf APS-C gecroppt entspricht das ca. 135mm). Rein rechnerisch sollte da das 210er doch deutlich mehr Details in der Ferne erkennbar machen?
Praktisch kann ich dann aber die gleichen Dinge erkennen - bei 210mm hab ich halt mehr Pixel, aber die sind einfach nur Brei.
Ich kann meinen billigen Aufschraub-Telekonverter (#VclDH1785) dran schrauben um (auf Kosten von noch mehr optischer Qualität) die Brennweite mit 1,7 zu multiplizieren. Das ist zumindest unterhaltsam.
Es bleibt:
- billig
- vielseitig
- kompakt/leicht
- OSS
- 1,7x-Teleconverter funktioniert
Es geht noch immer mit auf Reisen oder auf nen Hügel - in der Hoffnung dass ich damit ein Bild machen kann was sonst nicht möglich wäre. Aber seine Verwendung wird bei mir immer seltener.
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das ausgefahrene Objektiv, daneben die zugehörige Sonnenblende und ein Deckel.
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Die beiden Kit-Objektive zum Vergleich nebeneinander - beide eingefahren.
Smart TVs use ACR to track what you watch, sending screenshots and device data for targeted ads 📺
Turning it off on Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense, and TCL requires digging through menus but reduces profiling 🔧
Less data shared means fewer risks tied to ad networks and third-party access 🔒
#TechNews #Privacy #Security #Data #SmartTV #TV #Television #LG #Samsung #Sony #ConsumerRights #DigitalSafety #Cybersecurity #Ad #Ads #Tracking #Tech #Streaming #HomeTech #Awareness
#Photography #Sony #Candles #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome
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Black and white image of 13 lighted candles in the darkness
Not to mention #Valve makes it super-easy to develop for the #SteamDeck:
- Where #Nintendo, #Sony & #Microsoft will demand #developers' soul just to even be allowed to pay for a #DevKit they literally released it #OpenSource and made it even easier to access than the #SteamWorks - #SDK!
No wounder people like #GabeN:
- Imagine if #Sony, #Microsoft of even #Nintendo post-#Reggie would deliver their handhelds to customers with their #CEO...
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2022/3/1/22956123/gabe-newell-valve-steam-deck-hand-delivery
Well done #Sony, registering a new projector in 2025 as a woman requires you to get married.
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Snippet from a form with the heading Title and only two options Mr and Mrs.
Hmmmm... so an improved flip-up display, better IBIS, better autofocus, and everything faster...
That's a little underwhelming.
🚨 CVE-2025-64772: HIGH-severity vuln in Sony INZONE Hub installer (v1.0.10.3–1.0.17.0). Uncontrolled DLL search path enables local code execution. Restrict installer use & monitor for suspicious activity. Details: https://radar.offseq.com/threat/cve-2025-64772-uncontrolled-search-path-element-in-9a6721ce #OffSeq #Vulnerability #Sony #BlueTeam
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High threat: CVE-2025-64772: Uncontrolled Search Path Element in Sony Corporation INZONE Hub
Sony Playstation Plus Premium subscription cancelled.
Family in agreement - that money will go into supporting indie game creators and Steam/Valve instead.
Closed eco systems must die.
I'm looking for a new digital camera deal for black Friday.
Because I want to add another hobby to the 3 others I'm neglecting and depressed about.
A new blog post for you:"Sony a7RIII, Pixel Shift and Focus Stacking"
Enjoy!
https://www.wolfnowl.com/2025/11/sony-a7riii-pixel-shift-and-focus-stacking/
#photo #photography #Sony #PixelShift #FocusStacking #notAI
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This is a focus stacked image of Marcia's Dendrobium orchid, with six blossoms.
@StarkRG yes and all these criticisms I do share as they are all valid.
- Granted, there are very, very few companies "doing better" for consumers with #GOG's #DRMfree options being better.
I mean, #Valve's #Steam basically is the #monopoly and refusing to sell on Steam is basically suicidal for #IndieDevs...
- So it's less that Valve is good at marketing and being able to upsell an #OnlineDRM as a #feature, but that competition is furious that their halfassed attempts didn't work.
Not "genius" but "criminally incompetent competiton" from #EA, #EpicGames, #Xbox / #Microsoft, #Playstation / #Sony and #Nintendo is why #GabeN can just "Thanos - Snap" basically "look like a saint"...
#Photography #Sony #Flowers #BloomScrolling #CostaRica
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Red flower blossom with dark green leaves in the background
@raccoon granted, #Valve did already commit themselves to it being "open like a PC" so they can't sell at a loss. They at least need to break even in terms of cost to avoid businesses like datacenters to go: "Hey, that's pretty good!" and order like 1000+...
- My University did that with the #PS3 and ran them as clusters becaude even tho #YellowDogLinux and any #OtherOS only gets 2 threads, the #Cell was still a competent and affordable #ppc64 machine that one could use #MPI and do #clustering at full blast without breaking a sweat. And mind you #Sony lost out €100+ just in parts cost on every PS3 phat sold at launch because winning the #FormatWar with #BluRay against #HDDVD was more important long-term.
Anyone who thinks the #SteamMachine aka. #GabeCube / #GabenCube will be a $499 thing or even a $749 thing needs to get updated on #pricing for #hardware.
Thanks to the "#AI" #Scamconomy, #PriceFixing and #OpenAI buying 40% of global #DRAM production output due to #Trump's "#Stargate" shitshow and the circular #Scam #economy associated, the 2x16GB #DDR5-SODIMMs (even if those were slow -4800 and not the recommended #Zen4 -6000 speeds) will cost about $250+ as of today.
#SSD|s too - which use the same chip dabs - also climb beyond $100 per TB or > $50 for a 512 GB #NVMe.
So already these components are $300+ as of today, and industry insiders claim this will get much worse so I'm not even shure a $999 pricetag will be possible by Q1/2026. Not to mention the 8GB VRAM of the built-on, dedicaded #GPU!
- Espechally since #Valve, unlike #Sony, #Microsoft, #Apple and #Nintendo will not have the capital to order like #RAM Chips or even sticks in decent qualtities right now.
The only reason why noone expects Apple to raise prices is because they already shaft their buyers by overcharging them for their #SolderedDownRAM & #SolderedDownSSDs and they tend to buy not just huge quantites, paying above.market, but alsov*fewer, higher capacity* chips.
(Video via #GamersNexus)
#Enshittification #AIslop #Scams #Scalping #PriceHike #PriceHikes #SKhynix #Micron #Samsung #AMD #SODIMM #DIMM #RAMpricing #Prices #ConsumerElectronics #Greedflation #USpol
🚨 CVE-2025-64444 (HIGH): OS command injection in Sony NCP-HG100 Cellular (≤1.4.48.16). Attackers with credentials can run root commands. Restrict mgmt access, enforce strong auth, monitor logs. Patch pending. More: https://radar.offseq.com/threat/cve-2025-64444-improper-neutralization-of-special--595d7110 #OffSeq #CVE202564444 #Sony #Security
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High threat: CVE-2025-64444: Improper neutralization of special elements used in an OS command ('OS Command Injec
Let's face it. Xbox has never and will never race in this lane, and Microsoft knows it. The only question is how does this compare with Nintendo's sales?
Engadget: Sony has sold 84.2 million PlayStation 5s since launch more than a year ago https://www.engadget.com/gaming/playstation/sony-has-sold-842-million-playstation-5s-since-launch-123004469.html @Engadget #Sony #PlayStation #PS5
This might not be a fair comparison, but it took more than a year for Sony to get these results. In contrast, Nintendo has sold more than 10 million Switch 2 units since its June launch https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/nintendo-switch-2-sales-10-million-1236569355/ #Nintendo