xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club
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- C/++/#, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Assembly
- Ioncom Official Site
- http://ioncom.helioho.st/
Joined Jun 2020
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"Amazon says it is ending sideloading on new Fire Sticks because 'apps that facilitate piracy, and other apps, can carry malware,'"
Ohh you mean like proprietary OS Amazon ships with the device????
Story from arstechnica.com:
Moral of the story: Don't use crappy products from crappy companies where can avoid them.
There is nothing wrong with hooking up a plain old privacy respecting GNU/Linux OS (or dare I say even GNU/Linux-libre OS) or similar free software friendly device to a TV and streaming or otherwise watching your content from there.
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You've been in the industry long enough you should know better than this. Atari and Amiga were killed by their owners and the Microsoft+IBM monopoly. Not game piracy. Amiga Inc was not even a games company. Their leading product was hardware. Nobody wanted to own an Amiga computer because the IBM PC had caught up, was already in offices, had way more effective marketing, and the main audience interested in a multimedia computer already had their eyes on Nintendo and Sega. Commodore spent years flailing about, half-developing and throwing away different architectures, and not knowing who to sell Amiga hardware to. This is all VERY well documented.
DOOM's trial was under a shareware license. You got free marketing by being the most copied PC game in existence and benefitted greatly from it. 90% of people illegally copying the full version doesn't change that if you're outdoing Windows in install frequency.
Lastly, this additude is exactly why piracy exists. You need to directly and openly address the needs of people copying or they will not respect your boundaries. Games were always expensive, especially back then, and the internet changed the way distribution worked. People who illegally copy media today are also the biggest spenders. Let me tell you about myself. When I was a kid I didn't have money. I pirated shit all the time because it was the only way I was allowed to participate. Six years ago I pirated Cyberpunk 2077 because I did not want to pay full price for a game that was infamous for not working. I bought it months later because I liked it. I pirated dozens of movies because all of the easily accessible distribution methods are protected by Widevine malware, and the alternative is to spend way too much on a Bluray for my disc collection that I also don't own, and then decrypt it using a pirate program, which is illegal. If they didn't make being a customer so difficult, I wouldn't have done any of that. The story is the same for nearly everyone else you're pointing the finger at. To blame piracy is to completely ignore the factors which encouraged it, which can be tamed by the company who released the software if they have any theory of mind.
If you look up my Steam account today, I've spent thousands of dollars over the past decade on video games alone, and that's only on one store. Pirates are more than happy to pay for things that they want. If your game is being pirated, then that is something you are doing wrong.
You've been in the industry long enough you should know better than this. Atari and Amiga were killed by their owners and the Microsoft+IBM monopoly. Not game piracy. Amiga Inc was not even a games company. Their leading product was hardware. Nobody wanted to own an Amiga computer because the IBM PC had caught up, was already in offices, had way more effective marketing, and the main audience interested in a multimedia computer already had their eyes on Nintendo and Sega. Commodore spent years flailing about, half-developing and throwing away different architectures, and not knowing who to sell Amiga hardware to. This is all VERY well documented.
DOOM's trial was under a shareware license. You got free marketing by being the most copied PC game in existence and benefitted greatly from it. 90% of people illegally copying the full version doesn't change that if you're outdoing Windows in install frequency.
Lastly, this additude is exactly why piracy exists. You need to directly and openly address the needs of people copying or they will not respect your boundaries. Games were always expensive, especially back then, and the internet changed the way distribution worked. People who illegally copy media today are also the biggest spenders. Let me tell you about myself. When I was a kid I didn't have money. I pirated shit all the time because it was the only way I was allowed to participate. Six years ago I pirated Cyberpunk 2077 because I did not want to pay full price for a game that was infamous for not working. I bought it months later because I liked it. I pirated dozens of movies because all of the easily accessible distribution methods are protected by Widevine malware, and the alternative is to spend way too much on a Bluray for my disc collection that I also don't own, and then decrypt it using a pirate program, which is illegal. If they didn't make being a customer so difficult, I wouldn't have done any of that. The story is the same for nearly everyone else you're pointing the finger at. To blame piracy is to completely ignore the factors which encouraged it, which can be tamed by the company who released the software if they have any theory of mind.
If you look up my Steam account today, I've spent thousands of dollars over the past decade on video games alone, and that's only on one store. Pirates are more than happy to pay for things that they want. If your game is being pirated, then that is something you are doing wrong.
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GAB [dot] AI shutting down?
Either they're really fucking bad at networking, or they're doing this intentionally.
You wanna host a website? Host it anywhere you want, it's not like the hosting company is gonna know what's running on it...
Frontend: Cloudflare
Backend, email sender, etc: Use a goddamn VPN.
You don't know the IP address of Pkteerium (hint: It's not OVH) and this is a dumb personal project.
Either they're really fucking bad at networking, or they're doing this intentionally.
You wanna host a website? Host it anywhere you want, it's not like the hosting company is gonna know what's running on it...
Frontend: Cloudflare
Backend, email sender, etc: Use a goddamn VPN.
You don't know the IP address of Pkteerium (hint: It's not OVH) and this is a dumb personal project.
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@xianc78 I love it when i get some account of like a right wing political dude following me because I liked one thing they posted lol. I don't think they know what to expect.
What isn't talked much about in this is that there are also restrictions when it comes to video game providers (digital distribution services, multiplayer services, etc.) From what I can tell, yes, you do have to provide an ID to purchase video games online. Many people already use their real credit/debit cards for Steam, Xbox Live, etc so it might not be a deal for some, but it is for those who use pre-paid cards and cryptocurrencies to purchase games.
From what I can tell, most multiplayer games are fine as long as they don't create some searchable profile about their users. If you run some community server for an online game, or a tunneling service for LAN games like XLink Kai, or some reverse engineered service for a defunct console's online functionality, you should be fine, from what I can tell.
Please don't just instantly follow me because I liked or reblogged one of your posts.
Though this does make me wonder if commercial social media sites will start stripping algorithms and go back to non-targeted ads as a loophole. I don't think Facebook would do it, but X/Twitter might.
So, apparently KOSA *MIGHT* not apply to the fedi, or at least most of the fedi doesn't apply, as algorithmic manipulation is a requisite for being considered a "platform".
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KOSA just passed we have officially become the Uk the only things we have left is fedi,guns and linux I hate the government
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Nintendo should buy back Rare. I want a new perfect dark game dammit.
It's been a while since I've worked on the game itself, but I've implemented item crates that you destroy to get items.
#gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indie #SDL #cplusplus
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Democrats Pick Up the Global Digital ID Agenda in Project 2029
https://reclaimthenet.org/democrats-global-digital-id-agenda-project-2029?utm_source=fediverse
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"Woke Capitalism" Is Not What You Think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKvb6R-x48
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Discourse has an ActivityPub plugin: https://discourse.org/plugins/activitypub
This plugin, for example, is enabled on SocialHub https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/ap/about (it's a forum for fediverse developers)
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Unix V4 tape recovered from a closet at the University of Utah. This was news a while back but here's a little news video about it.
This is probably the most impressive Ship of Harkinian mod yet? Who needs the OOT remake when you can have this?
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=x7QRmKK6Np4
The only thing that would be better would be to import Young Link's, Shiek's, Zelda's, and Gannon's models from SSBU and recreate other models using that games artstyle.
- Sex
- Male
- Primary OS
- Linux Mint
- Programming Languages
- C/++/#, Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Assembly
- Ioncom Official Site
- http://ioncom.helioho.st/
Joined Jun 2020
