My gf and I have had discussions about teaching morals to kids. In that vein, I asked myself, would I teach piracy to my kids? Yes, it’s technically illegal and carries inherent risks. But so does teenage sex carry the risks of teenage pregnancy, and so we have an obligation to children to teach them how to practice safe sex....
Don’t have any data to back it up, but I’ve been using Photoshop for 25+ years, and got the clear impression that this was 100% part of marketing; from what I gathered from friends back then, pirating Photoshop was so astonishingly simple that it seemed deliberate. If you’ve got the software that’s the easiest to get hold of for kids and students, that’s what they grow up with, that’s what they know, that’s what they expect to have access to in future employment situations.
Now that they’ve managed to pull off Subscriptions (and consequently fucking us all over by making it a legitimate business model, which instantly spread to, what, +60% of all paid software?), I’m sure they’ve calculated that the higher bar for gaining access to their software is more than adequately offset by the readings on the yard stick in their Scrooge McDuck money vault building(s).
And still, nobody has managed to make something that can replace their bloated, shitty software for professional users.
“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”
This has happened to me a few times. One I remember was the game Alchemist, where I just sat there confused as hell for 4 and a half hours while three guys were all talking about strategies. Tonight it was Terraforming Mars, where I was told it would be a 3 hour game, but by hour 4 we were halfway done. This time I said...
Had the exact opposite happen once — playing Risk with a group of friends, one guy ends up completely dominating the board. Almost everyone is out, just him and one other person left.
Everyone wants to either start a new game or go to a pub, but he still hasn’t won. We ask him several times if he’s accomplished his goal yet; he hasn’t.
He drags the game out by an additional 3 hours, and finally wins. Turns out he had won some 4 hours earlier, and “forgot” or “misunderstood” his objective. In reality, assholes just wanted to try to take over the whole world, and thought we wouldn’t insist on seeing the objective card afterwards.
We banned him from participating in any and all games. For life. This was some 25 years ago. I haven’t seen him for 10+ years, but to the best of my knowledge, nobody from that particular friend group (around 12 people) ever let him participate in any games again.
I’m looking to be able to store assets that I’ve created and purchased (both 3d models and images, potentially audio in the future) on my nas and would love to be able to use something to browse them and filter or sort them based on what kind of usage license I have for them. So if I’m doing a commission I can filter out...
I realize this is a FOSS channel, but I’m going to play devil’s advocate and suggest Eagle.
I have some 40K assets, mostly JPGs and PNGs, and apart from Obsidian, Eagle is the best piece of software I’ve found in the last 5 years, maybe longer, and I absolutely adore it.
It’s not free, but it’s pay-once, fairly cheap, and the upcoming version has an API and huge focus on community developed plugins.
The current version supports a huge amount of file types, including 3D. I’m not completely sure about audio, but I’d be kinda surprised if Eagle didn’t support audio.
Altid når folk snakker om hvor forfærdelig dansk IT/software er generelt (absolut fair nok, listen er lang!) nævner (nævnte …) jeg MobilePay som et lysende eksempel på det modsatte — nogen af dem kan altså godt finde ud af det! sagde jeg.
Det “nye” MobilePay — what the actual fuck?! Har de fyret alle de kompetente medarbejdere? Har de fyret dem der lavede brugertest?!
90% af mine egne brugsscenarier er “Betal for en ting et fysisk sted, vis kvitteringen”. Jeg kan ikke være den eneste. Hvordan kan man sætte sig ned og lave en ny version der ikke viser kvitteringen?! 🤯 Næh nej, nu skal man klikke ind på den først. Hjernedødt, og helt uforståeligt.
Og så er der “arkivet” … 🙄 Hov, din transaktion er X antal dage gammel, den ryger i arkivet 👌 Men den er jo gammel nu, så vi går ud fra at du ikke har noget behov for at klikke på ting i arkivet og se detaljerne, hvorfor skulle du have lyst til det?!
Man bliver så træt 😭
Og for en god ordens skyld — fuck jer, ForældreIntra 🖕 Jeg skrev til dem for over et år siden at Expected Behavior for et tilbage-swipe (eller klik på tilbage-knappen, hvis man har sådan en) i en Android app IKKE er at (fucking) lukke app’en! Crickets. Ikke en lyd, intet fixet. Hver eneste gang jeg læser en besked og vil tilbage til min inbox kommer jeg til at swipe, og app’en lukker lige så fint ned. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
Klart, men var det nødvendigt at gøre resten af app’en dårligere for at få lov til at vise den reklame?! 🤔 Man skulle tro at de kunne have bevaret den velfungerende funktionalitet og stadig nået deres mål.
I’ve got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them....
I was using Spotiflyer for a while because it worked well and was available through F-Droid but it seems like the creator has moved on to an app called SoundBound that I haven’t seen in the megathread or any of the other sites listed in the Other Treasures section....
He sold tees back when he made these, I had a red Pork Chop Sandwiches and a yellow Bus Rider. They lasted well beyond a decade, think I might even still have the tattered remains of the red one in a box somewhere 😁❤️🥩🥪🚌
Hello! I would like to catalogue my library (I estimate in the low thousands but I am unsure of the precise number). I would like to keep tracks of several things, from the “obvious” like author, title, publisher, edition, to more personal like “when”/“where” did I get it. Was it a gift? Is a lucky find from that one...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
Which are the F-Droid apps everyone should download?
Would you teach your kids how to pirate?
My gf and I have had discussions about teaching morals to kids. In that vein, I asked myself, would I teach piracy to my kids? Yes, it’s technically illegal and carries inherent risks. But so does teenage sex carry the risks of teenage pregnancy, and so we have an obligation to children to teach them how to practice safe sex....
Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)
“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”
How do you deal with the situation where you are invited to play a game, only to find it's wildly complex and takes 4 hours to finish, and you find yourself not wanting to play it within minute 5?
This has happened to me a few times. One I remember was the game Alchemist, where I just sat there confused as hell for 4 and a half hours while three guys were all talking about strategies. Tonight it was Terraforming Mars, where I was told it would be a 3 hour game, but by hour 4 we were halfway done. This time I said...
Looking for self hosted digital asset management
I’m looking to be able to store assets that I’ve created and purchased (both 3d models and images, potentially audio in the future) on my nas and would love to be able to use something to browse them and filter or sort them based on what kind of usage license I have for them. So if I’m doing a commission I can filter out...
What Would God Say About File-Sharing? * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
I dag kommer Rejsekortet som app, men du skal skynde dig, hvis du skal være blandt de første (www.dr.dk)
Low tech DHCP (jlai.lu)
Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend audiobookshelf.org...
Stop Killing Games (www.stopkillinggames.com)
yewtu.be/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE
Could you share a clip of one of your favorite scenes from a TV series?
You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive?
I’ve got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them....
What Spotify to YouTube MP3 downloader for Android do you recommend?
I was using Spotiflyer for a while because it worked well and was available through F-Droid but it seems like the creator has moved on to an app called SoundBound that I haven’t seen in the megathread or any of the other sites listed in the Other Treasures section....
Now that Voyager doesn’t work, what client will you be using?
Any replies welcome, but I’m primarily in search of a new iOS client. I heard Raccoon is similar but last I checked it was Android only.
What things do you refuse to pirate?
Which seas do you avoid?
GI Joe PSA: "Game Over Yeaah!" (www.youtube.com)
How to catalogue my library
Hello! I would like to catalogue my library (I estimate in the low thousands but I am unsure of the precise number). I would like to keep tracks of several things, from the “obvious” like author, title, publisher, edition, to more personal like “when”/“where” did I get it. Was it a gift? Is a lucky find from that one...