lime!

But most of the key points he raised were sensationalized but not actually wrong if you look at things from a developer perspective.

they were also not really relevant to the campaign, which was the biggest problem with his comments. there was no expectation that studios do extra work to keep servers up, or make offline clients. the expected legislation was to have publishers allow external use of the relevant source code of the product when the publisher deems the work no longer profitable, to spare people the effort of reverse-engineering protocols and building their own servers. a knock-on effect of that would be that future services would have to be built with eventual shutdown procedures in mind, which, let’s face it, they should already have been doing.

thor was saying “this isn’t feasible because it’s a bunch of extra work for the developers”, completely missing the point that this is not on the developers. it’s on the company sitting on the IP. they can publish source trees no problem, no developer involvement necessary. and the legislation would have made sure of that fact.

that was sort of the point though. a big case with a narrow focus can later be used as a fulcrum for a wider scope, given that the original case has the right spin. it’s also easier than going after the anti-repair people.

linkedin is like designed for envy but only used for pride.

thor is a tech youtuber. it’s just his actual name.

yeah my opinion on piratesoftware was really cemented by his inability to do a charitable reading of the petition.

nah, he’s live and reloaded

me and a few friends have a dumb chatbot we’ve been fiddling with for 15 years. started out on irc, moved platforms multiple times, and i’m currently porting it to matrix. it can do poetry, markov chains, tell you when the weekend starts, pull youtube videos, create email aliases, etc.

i used to have an mp3-player with only an audio jack, and a USB-to-TRRS cable for charging and data transfer.

i think it had 64MB of storage?

point is, it’s been a thing

Edit:

also my keyboard! the two halves are connected together via audio jack.

bad horse
bad horse
bad horse
he’s bad

he rides across the nation
a thoroughbred of sin
he got the application
that you just sent in

we’re focusing our business
and hiring from within
there’s currently no vacancies
within our evil agency

bad horse
bad horse
bad horse
he’s bad

the evil league of evil
is downsizing you see
although we are still interested
in your CV

so please keep it updated
and keep your schedule free

you’ll be the first
to know of course
we’ll keep in contact!
signed bad horse

funnily enough there was also a car brand named Nikola. they turned out to be a huge scam.

god i feel this so much. like trying to push through mud to get thoughts to complete sometimes.

a large part of finland is a province of russia. Karelia belongs the the finns.

this reads like an ad for dice tower… which i know they wouldn’t do because they don’t have that kind of audience.

i stick to susd, which means that i never buy any board games because whenever they review one it immediately goes out of stock.

…did you start watching the minute they uploaded and post this the minute you were done?

the motivational poster border with the completely unnecessary text upset the 16-year-old meme pedant inside me that i thought died many years ago.