Pup Biru

geopolitics is consistently hypocritical… especially when it comes to the US… we absolutely can, and should be telling everyone to stop being imperialist but in lieu of that, we can just tell russia to cut the shit

or the argument holds water and also the US has consistently been in the wrong for the same reasons

i closed reader view and scrolled just to see and wow the POPUPS and 50% of the page length being ads

WHAT

who uses the internet like this and finds it acceptable?!

buys you a little extra time to move to linux

the concept of someone working a 40hr week and not having money relax let alone pay their rent is literally foreign to me

it’s wild that people can work 80hr weeks and still barely scrape by

australia kinda does it like that… our minimum wage is tied to CPI (which covers much more than just food: also entertainment, rent, transport), and afaik was originally based on living standards

a wage that is fair and reasonable… sufficient to meet the normal needs of an average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilised community.

in fact, australia invented the concept of a “living wage” in 1907

so it should be exactly that today: enough for an average person to live a decent existence (including entertainment, food, housing, etc)

and starting with this model leaves room for a “steam machine pro” for people that want more, just like playstation has done

… and also perhaps a “steam machine lite” for people that just want a little bit of retro/2d gaming on their tv

meta and ctrl switched, because if there’s something apple did right it’s using the thumb as modifier key for copy/paste/etc instead of pinkie finger which is far FAR less able to deal with repeat strain

but i also type programmers dvorak because i got pretty horrible wrist pain at one point so anything to stop me damaging my wrists :p

software is not a one and done, and foss is so far from a workplace. there’s a huge amount of software engineering that’s not writing code, and maintaining a code base over years is far different than a relatively isolated fire and forget

an internship wouldn’t cut it, and neither would foss contributions

i wouldn’t say projects are practise… they’re kinda like a really basic simulator… you’re solving contrived problems so they’re not messy, you don’t have seniors etc, there’s no existing code base, no complex deployments, you’re not doing most of the non-technical parts of software engineering, and the list goes on and on and on

internships are great, but they’re really short

software should be a trade, and treated like apprenticeships… some theory is needed, but it’s wild that anyone thinks 3 years of just theory is going to produce decent software engineers

well it is only 0.50.0… the way most of these things go is that you get the gameplay mechanics working fist and you optimise performance close to release. same is true for early access commercial titles

voyager automatically opens links in reader mode for me and it works about 80% of the time

(but this article it doesn’t work for)

this entire thread is about the STG petition, and thus about the theoretical possibility of how laws could change

mandatory minimum warranties are also not relatively minimal effort and yet we have laws that require those… most consumer protection standards aren’t minimal effort: that doesn’t mean we don’t make laws to ensure consumers get what they are expecting when they hand over money

why shouldn’t handing over source code to a game that’s being shut down (and apparently that nobody finds any value in since it wasn’t even bought in bankruptcy auction) be mandated as a last resort?

literally what STG is about

and the law is able to make license conditions illegal/unenforceable (like non-compete clauses in employment contracts)

usually in bankruptcy the game gets sold in order to help pay debts… whoever buys the game assumes the responsibility of contributing to run the online services, or provide options for others to… in the case that nobody buys the game (im not entirely sure what happens to the IP in that case) but it’s relatively minimal effort to release server source code or documentation OR even just remove the online parts that’s usually just for DRM which is now pretty irrelevant because you’re shutting it down anyway so why would anyone care if someone pirates it?!

not to mention whose recent valuations have basically been about selling their data to train models which will be used to make AI slop

there are public STUN servers: just like DNS, STUN is a fairly critical part of modern infrastructure

peer to peer real time video is a fairly solved problem. the fact that we have google/amazon/zoom/etc in the middle isn’t because it’s necessary

that having been said, STUN servers are also incredibly cheap to run… i wouldn’t consider it exactly off the cards for a company that’s selling products to support a public STUN server indefinitely… it’s not quite as simple as them having to pay tens of thousands /mo in infrastructure costs to keep the lights on: it’s more like $100/mo, which at numbers that small you’d make back in just interest on the sales you made… but i reckon it could go something like “support for 10 years” and then they release an update that lets you set your own STUN server; perhaps defaulting to a public, free one