rastilin

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Unity Overhauls Controversial Price Hike After Game Developers Revolt (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)

Under the tentative new plan, Unity will limit fees to 4% of a game’s revenue for customers making over $1 million and said that installations counted toward reaching the threshold won’t be retroactive, according to recording of the meeting reviewed by Bloomberg. Last week, Chief Executive Officer John Riccitiello delayed an...

rastilin,

I've seen this backfire horribly multiple times, so I don't think it's good advice. People aren't that simple.

In this case, many studios have already made plans to jump from Unity after the first announcement, so I'm sure there'll be some kind of "negotiated agreement" that's completely meaningless because people are already migrating away as fast as possible.

rastilin,

I think the fundamental protection is always going to be the firewall that blocks all incoming connections unless you explicitly open a port for a running server.

It's frustrating that the article doesn't have much information about the delivery method for this attack. Is it a remote connection, or you have to run it locally and it escalates privileges?

rastilin,

Anyone who still uses Unity for their new projects after this would have to be completely stupid. Of course they'll jack up the pricing again as soon as they can.

rastilin,

Huh, 13 hours per day and 78 hours per week. That's messed up. I wonder how much productivity people supporting this bill think they're going to get out of someone who's on hour 75 of that week? Or even hour 9 of that day.

rastilin,

How much worse is their internal strife going to be once they lose a war? Russia was tooling along before attacking Ukraine, but now they might actually for real topple within a few years.

California Sues Giant Oil Companies, Citing Decades of Deception (www.nytimes.com)

For context, the big oil firms did a series of internal studies back in the late 1970s and early 1980s which accurately anticipated the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global warming that would result, but went and hired the tobacco-cancer denial machine instead of looking for ways to move the world off fossil fuels.

rastilin,

This makes total sense. California was financially harmed by these oil companies, and they did it knowingly. They should pay for all the damage then.

rastilin,

I think their point is that the latest Ashton Kutcher press release is just another example of completely empty "PR Speak". I mean, Ashton's talking about spending "several days listening". But do you really need several days of talking and listening to realize that defending an abuser for basically no reason at all was a messed up thing to do? And why should anyone have to waste days of their time dealing with Ashton so he can have his "revelation". And didn't this scandal break like six months ago? That's a long time to be spending several days thinking and listening.

rastilin,

Revoke their pardons then. It's only fair.

rastilin,

This makes perfect sense in theory, but after multiple years of 8% to 10% inflation I'm not so keen on the "inflation always" line of thinking. Some kind of "generally stable" currency that alternates unpredictably would be best.

rastilin,

I've started suspecting that a lot of people get through it by just avoiding their family... which, why get married then?

rastilin,

If I were running a Unity project, I'd be tempted to just jump to Unreal. No matter what promises Unity makes you don't have any actual guarantee that they'll keep them while Unreal has the "non-retroactive" clause directly in their contract. However painful the switch is, you'll only have to do it once.

rastilin,

Donations are somewhat sustainable because the per-user cost of having stuff on the internet is super low. So even at $1 USD per month any remotely successful service becomes wildly profitable. People just thought that banner ads would be yet-even-more profitable since they can be applied to everyone who looks at the site, not just regular users.

rastilin,

I've seen owncloud merge files together. Like, you open one file and see data from another file inside it. That to me was a dealbreaker.

I bought a new Lenovo with Windows 11 preinstalled and apparently if I want to use this laptop I need to have a Microsoft account (lemmy.world)

Is there any way around this? Why is Windows doing this? Don’t get me wrong, I got the laptop to install a Linux distro anyway, but it’s helpful for others (especially my older family members) to just use Windows when they need to print a paper or do a small task, so I would have liked to keep it. Microsoft really lost me...

rastilin,

nixOS is great. It's got one additional step of difficulty from just pure Ubuntu, but it's designed to be as robust as possible and it's basically impossible to break.

Windows wise, there's some email address that you can type in to bypass the process. Beyond that as far as I know Windows 11 won't let you delay or skip this step, you have to have an account to install Windows 11 and it has to be a valid account that the OS can log in to. Maybe it's time to consider switching.

rastilin,

The way I see it is that the real problem is that they wanted to. Normal people don't want to kill their neighbors and take their things, even if they could. This also applies to most countries. The fact that the Russians are thinking about invading other European countries is a problem by itself.

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rastilin, (edited )

Maybe what kbin needs as a new feature is a way to block instances from showing up for you. Because it looks like some instances just aren't policing their registrations properly.

EDIT: The more I look into it, the more puzzling all this is. It looks like a real company, that actually exists in a real office, in a fairly expensive part of New York too. Which makes their spam all the stranger. I was actually more surprised to find that they actually existed. I double checked their phone number too, the one on Google Maps matches their website. Shocking.

Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious…

rastilin,

Apparently very few people, somehow. Because the internet was filled with people explaining how it was actually much safer than writing them down in a book because "what if someone goes through your desk?". I'm told it's much safer to entrust your passwords to a third party over the internet.

rastilin,

The mandatory DRM checks I think are 100% going to happen and I think that's the reason behind the TPM requirement for Windows 11. A completely secure bios->os chain is needed to completely lock out stuff like VLC.

rastilin,

We can only hope. The Steamdeck is definitely making huge strides in Linux market penetration. I'm worried that companies like Microsoft and Google will be able to force their way through sheer inertia and apathy and forced updates.

rastilin,

Microsoft didn't have always on internet 20 years ago, in some ways they also have somewhat less competition now than before, since there were PC clones before while now it's Mac or PC. Though your point does give me some hope.

rastilin,

That's fair. It's definitely an interesting read if nothing else.

rastilin,

The government could have bought out the failed banks and nationalized them.

rastilin,

See, this sounds kind of nice coming from a country where housing is almost impossible to get for love or money.

rastilin,

The newer ones too. Online Microsoft drivers are not always the ones you actually want to run.

rastilin,

There was an API floating around ages ago that let you mount a Gmail instance as a virtual hard drive and use it like block device. Dropbox does have an API for file access, so it's entirely possible to write a miner that talks to Dropbox and not your local drive.

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