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by faeranne 3y ago
Not quite a startup yet, more a partially implemented idea, but I'm making a set of "retro consoles" to fufill a lifelong dream of making proper second screen games, in the style of Four Swords for the Gamecube. I've be
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by faeranne 3y ago
Bots? eh... probably gonna agree. Apps, hard no. API access to third-party apps is the only way to make competition work out in the end. IRQ, AIM, and MSN Messenger all existed around the same time, and thanks to XMPP, worked equally wel
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by faeranne 4y ago
There's a seperation between a library and a pirate site, so it's kinda a bad faith argument, but even going on the merits of your argument, I am pressed to point out that, yes, other libraries have digital lending. It's call
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by faeranne 4y ago
Wanna throw in a small, but hopefully important story here. About 5 years ago, IA managed to recover a nearly decade long lost card game. It wasn't a huge deal, and the original creator had assumed it permanently lost when his websit
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by faeranne 4y ago
There's a fine line that could exist, but doesn't right now. Archiving content is a concept that goes back to the first cave paintings, and one tactic that has been proposed is to archive silently (meaning don't publish the
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by faeranne 4y ago
I'd argue that Prusa still has value over both Voron and Bambu Lab, though that value is dependent on the user. Voron still requires significant self-assembly, as you can't buy it as a prebuilt (far as I know), and doesn't h
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by faeranne 4y ago
> However, they are the same company pushing for pre-sliced files which is a terrible idea. Agreed, though should be noted this happens across the industry. Whoever is the current fore-runner tends to push for it. MakerBot did the same
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by faeranne 4y ago
Other than being a decent human being that actually sticks to the agreements they made, nothing. But there is a surprising amount of value in "being a good person" when you're not a mega-corp.
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by faeranne 4y ago
A surprising amount of truth to this. of my 600+ library, about 30 of them won't run under windows 10, but run fine under Proton. Multiple hacks/mods/compatibility tools have done nothing to make it work, but for all but 4,
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by faeranne 4y ago
> Simply don't buy an Apple phone. We said that about the headphone jack. Look where we are now. Companies follow what works, and Apple continues to pioneer anti-consumer practices. You shouldn't buy Apple, but that's
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by faeranne 4y ago
Because it isn't just Apple. Back when Apple removed the headphone jack, people constantly said "Well just use Samsung" or some other brand. Look at where we're at now. If Apple can beat the current pressure, other br
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by faeranne 4y ago
And I'm not even sure about those two. There's a limit to deny first that most end users will gladly override to keep things moving smoothly.
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by faeranne 4y ago
I'm gonna have to give this a thumbs up for use too. I'm not a fan of it being propritary, or tied to a web service, but it works amazingly well for what it is. I'm still hunting for a good self-hosted or offline alternative
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by faeranne 4y ago
Section 3.B of the EULA says no, but also that can be changed at any time, so possibly. I have a friend who released a game using Machine earlier this year, and they're scrambling right now to get a lawyer to look at this. Current op
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by faeranne 4y ago
Godot is MIT licensed, and as such this 100% can't happen. Absolute worst case is they limit or remove future versions, but MIT basically means "mention that this was MIT licensed." Do that, and they can't stop you f
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by faeranne 4y ago
They're gonna reach out and see how far this extends. According to 3.B, the game would be a "derivative work", and as such shouldn't be subject to this requirement. They've already started working on replacing it
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by faeranne 4y ago
Actually, I might know someone who can answer this. Or, at least they'll have to figure it out. I didn't realize this was that platform. A friend started a company last year to build a game based on this, and I'm pretty su
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by faeranne 4y ago
I'm sorry, is this in any way legal? Did they just tell people to delete their games? Like... I'm pretty sure this kind of rug pull would destroy any company that relies on this engine. 14 days for a full re-write is insane.
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by faeranne 5y ago
Very helpful in diagnosing issues, though it seems to have a false positive issue with RATS, as it keeps reporting that my ip is in RATS-ALL, but checking with the website, my IP is green checks all the way down. I'm assuming the -AL
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by faeranne 5y ago
I keep forgetting that part of GDPR is the storage aspect. Unless it goes in a log (though it usually does,) it's not counted. A technical argument could be made that going into memory is storage, but at that point the above issue co
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by faeranne 5y ago
Does it? I would assume that means every single online interaction needs a consent banner, since sending a request over TCP includes, by it's nature, your IP address. I never dug too deep into GDPR or the like, since my own websites
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by faeranne 5y ago
So Linux gives users too much control of the things they own? Sounds like anti-cheat is inherently user hostile. Maybe we should be pushing developers to stop relying on owning things that aren't theirs to own? Then again, we'r
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by faeranne 5y ago
Can I use this with a browser that's not Chrome-based? No. Well that's disappointing. I mean, it's license is pretty restrictive, so I probably wasn't gonna get too close to it, but the hardline of no br