Early 2010s I asked the company I worked for to approve some free game engines to be installed. The legal department returned a big no with pages of why Unity should not be allowed in the premises. We proceeded with Unreal, Blender and eventually Godot as tools any employee could install.
Unity was bad back them, it is just that people did not read the agreements and tech sheet. Their new leadership just made that more apparent.
Thank you so much for the detailed reply! I will read more on the Clarity Act and the history of constitutional reform (I see this being mentioned every time someone talk about electorate reform).
All bets are off if the US decides to pull a Donbas on us, of course.
That would be terrifying.
Thanks for the reply. Is there any organization that we can help? I wonder if creating a community here with info would help.
Thanks for the reply. That makes a lot of sense, this “borrowed” land will backfire their plans.
Puuluup is great, learned about them during Eurovision a couple of years ago. Thanks for the recommendation of KEXP
Kotaku is going to Kotaku. Don’t feel FOMO, the game is not all of that.
The game has a little boost in players every time they release some bigger package, but then drops significantly. I imagine their numbers will soar when they add lootboxes and market access. And the number of bots will increase significantly.
Despite a bunch of technical problems, like being rerouted to a server in Amsterdam with a jump first in Buenos Aires. The game design is a massive time waste, and all decisions from past year made matches way longer (if it was not hard enough to find a team that want to end the game when we are at advantage). My last matches before ditching it were taking ~40min, that is too much for a team shooter.
I guess they are going for the “MOBA” time length, what is bad. I also ditched MOBAs when match length went from 12~15min to 30~40min.
Now imagine playing two +40min matches in a row with the same salty players (common in MOBAs) with no away to avoid them on your team in the queue. At least you can mute and report.
It seems they currently use AWS for their CI backend, and that might change eventually https://docs.worktree.ca/sovereignty That can be problematic for some, either because of Bezos or because they work with retail customers that compete with Amazon.
Before jumping on it, I would suggest to pore over the “Terms of Use • Acceptable Use Policy • Privacy Policy” and see if they are adequate to your needs. Sadly, it was not for mine.
On the plus side, the person behind it seems very competent and tech oriented. Not some American behemoth. You can check their code at the platform. https://worktree.ca/alex
Codeberg is on top of Forgejo instead of Gitea. Because they just branched, if something works with Gitea, it will probably work with Forgejo. So static sites, CI tools might work the same way.
They also focus on only OSS project. Worktree allows commercial private projects.
Btw, Comet main dev is one of the devs behind Heroic. It seems imLinguin is also based in Poland and very active with the GOG community. GOG definitely knows about them. Maybe something changes since they are willing to invest on Linux now.
It is a breath of fresh air when a politician is coherent.
His speech had some lighthearted humour sprinkled here and there. You could see his face when one of them landed.
Carney did not say the words “Union”, but the whole argument around countries in the middle joining forces with each other so they can negotiate rather than be coerced into unilateral agreements is the same for workers unions.
I don’t have the exact commit anymore, but it was at the beginning of 2024. I remember going to suggest them to be more straightforward with their changelog, but someone beat me to it.
Yeah, I remember other project for epic, Legendary, that a bunch of people built on top, but it was discontinued recently.
Edit: nevermind, I found the mastodon comment, and the people reporting the problem with gog on github. From there it was easier to find the commit.
https://mastodon.social/@heroiclauncher/111824351634717227 (It was actually a reply to their own mastodon post where the “informed” about the change.
Scroll down to webview/index to see the change. The subsequent commits were all to fix issues caused by this.
I feel like people believe what they want to believe. And Carney being a sweet talker does not help.
I have some lovely neighbours, but they truly believe Carney words. Best way to help is to be sweet about it with some thought tickling questions.
Them: Oh poor Carney, had to do this bad stuff because of negotiations with Trump and the negotiations did not progress. Me: It might be tough being PM, all the information we don’t have access. I wonder why he did not make the bad stuff a condition to the negotiation, and bring back the good stuff in case it fails.
It helps to start some sharing of thoughts, but I don’t push harder than this because it always ends with the “UCP would have sold us by now”. And that is the reason I think makes the Liberals prevent PR. People will keep voting on them with fear of the other party.
That said, I often fall for Carney words as well. He does something bad, I get upset, he goes and does an interview, and midway I am falling for it. Wait a minute, let me check the data.
Nice, quite easy to get into development mode. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamframe/setup
One day, Heroic stopped working for me, it was flagged and blocked by my network. They injected affiliated links that redirected to weird domains, with no warning on changelogs. I was worried of a man in the middle attack and I investigated the PRs. They did not even document it properly on the commits, but it was intentional, you could see the line changing in the code made by one of the main devs.
Nothing against them making some money, I would have opened a rule for them. But doing this kind of thing without notifying people is shady at least. Later I found a message from the devs in one social network(mastodon maybe?) about adding it, but that is hardly notifying your user base. Subsequently, more people reported the client not working and they addressed it. It was not only about network rule that blocked most users, Heroic could not reach some GOG services without https and for some reason the weird redirects were forcing the route through http.
With some wording, they made some users believe they had “team up with GOG”. But they just signed for the affiliated program that anyone can sign for, GOG had no idea who they were and were not officially endorsing them. Quite often you see on lemmy people arguing like GOG is behind Heroic, or that Heroic is an official GOG store.
Since then (early 2024), I stopped recommending Heroic to people and moved to other options (wine, lutris, bottles). I am sure it was an honest mistake. But it will take a while to recover the trust.
All problems aside, I still prefer an open-source solution that I can investigate this type of thing easily over a closed blob that I have to reverse engineer and sniff packages.
When they released Witcher 2 on Linux (CDPR) some top hat (sorry I don’t remember who) did not like the feedback from the players and used it as reasons to not support Linux on subsequent titles. One hope it is not the same guy that bought GOG.
This is the best answer! Thank you for sharing your methods. I was going to reply about the daily editorial, but yours is more complete.
I would also like to add that I type the name of things I like and often find them on bandcamp. Including big artists.
Peter Gabriel, Evanescence, Run the Jewels, Flight of Conchords, Ghost…
What I don’t find there, I get from a thrift store (easy to find famous artists there) or quobuz.
They do already, and most of the comments on the noise are “please share promp”.
They gave us a scare over the years, being sold around to companies that are famous for enshittifying platforms.
Epic sold the company when people unionized, and the next did a trick to not recognized the union and “hire” half of the staff (contrary to fire half of them).
The platform is not what has been 5 years ago, but it is still my favourite place to get music around.
What a cool series, thank you for sharing! I was not familiar with the channel and will take a look on the rest.
I did not know much beside the game and the IP stealing thing. It is sad what happened to them.
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Seems like NDP is doing a good job then.
Should the candidates try for UCP instead? Their values seem to be aligned with some branches of that party.
also, is @op a bot? +1,4k posts, no engagement.
edit: found this post that paints a different picture of her husband https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/the-ndp-needs-more-not-less-nuttiness/article_e1364ffd-0245-4060-8d5a-fe582030741f.html take it with a grain of salt because it is an opinion piece.