@Mr_NutterButter It all goes back to 1913 with a passing of a certain act.
The war on porn has started up again. For those old enough to remember and those concerned about the attacks on freedom of the past hundred plus years (and not just porn, but right to travel, financial freedom, speech, youths right to work/independence, etc) there is a new case to be decided at the US Supreme Court that could end up restricting your access to porn on the internet (yes again, several supreme court cases of the 90s ruled repeatedly you can't burden adults access to porn for the sake of 'protecting' youth). This law would effectively require sites to ID users as adults if primarily distributing porn. It would not apply to sites like Reddit however and of course you can't enforced anti-porn laws outside your legal jurisdiction anyway making it effectively a mute and stupid law that doesn't 'protect' kids assuming we take the 'think of the children' psycos at their word porn somehow harms kids who are if we are honest with ourselves don't care cause they haven't hit puberty and those that have are NOT children! Not to mention what this law actually does is punish the US operators of porn sites by pushing them to move porn sites to jurisdictions outside the United States or in this case at least Texas:
https://www.vox.com/scotus/391248/porn-supreme-court-free-speech-coalition-paxton-first-amendment
I think gamedevs should try to port their game to as many platforms as possible. This isn't the days of physical media where you have to buy/produce separate CDs/floppies/cartridges for a different platform and see if they would sell, so there is really no excuse not to port your game to a certain platform anymore. Even if one version doesn't sell, it isn't a loss because it's all information.
@creamqueen @grumbulon @djsumdog @Humpleupagus @zero Microsoft gets a cut of the profit made from hardware manufacturers who sell computers with Windows pre-installed.
@beardalaxy And I thought you replied to a different post of mine. My bad.
@BlinkRape He created the mostr.pub bridge and some client that uses the same UI as Soapbox.
From what I've been told, he is the only Nostr dev that is competent and is actively dealing with the CP and spam issues.
@BlinkRape The creator seems to be anonymous like the creator of Bitcoin.
@beardalaxy I have a Nostr account, though I rarely use it. I rarely see any spam on there, but that's probably because I use web-clients like Iris that probably filter all the bad accounts and relays. I never pay attention to the demographics there, but I did notice quite a few Japanese users. I've noticed that Twitter alternatives (decentralized or otherwise) seem to be very popular in Japan for whatever reason.
This week's donation went to a software developer named Vince Liuice. He contributes to a variety of themes, including the Matcha GTK theme which is my favorite. Others he works on include Plasma Themes, GTK3/4 Themes, Global Themes, Artwork such as Icons, Cursors, Wallpapers, Add-ons, and Extensions.
His work and code can be found at Github, Pling, and Gitlab:
https://github.com/vinceliuice
https://www.pling.com/u/vinceliuice/
https://www.opencode.net/vinceliuice
if you wish to help him financially he accepts donations through Paypal:
I honestly wish that Nostr succeeded because despite it's reputation, it's a brilliant concept. I think the biggest problems with the Fediverse are the fediblock culture and instance fatigue. Having accounts that aren't bound to a single server forces everyone to judge people on an individual basis and doesn't force people to create a new account elsewhere if their instance shuts down.
But of course, everything nice has to be ruined by pedos and scammers.
Are There Any Non-Woke Operating Systems?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DIfNzQvfzwE
@RustyCrab The smartphone is literally the perfect device for them because the file-system is hidden, most apps are cloud-integrated, and there are no extra peripherals to set up.