Doc Blaze

this is fascinating and very insightful, thanks for sharing!

I strongly agree that it seems like in his comments after the interview last year (the fing idiots comment) that he was planning to leave soon the whole time and volunteered to be the fall guy in exchange for a golden parachute. It’s a win for all parties involved, because unity gets their PR scapegoat and he was likely going to get a nice financial package on the way out the door anyway.

I don’t care much what the new direction is anyway. I’m using unreal for my games but I admit even with the new pricing structure, I’d probably pay a lot less under Unity’s install fee thing, which caps out at 4% rev share, assuming one of my games ever even got enough sales to hit a million dollar threshold as a solo developer. The issue for me was the magical telemetry spyware that’s apparently going to be in every new build now. Its to the point I’m reconsidering if I’ll buy unity games ever again, or even install any of the ones I have on steam if they decide to update the build.

(That last part hurts my soul deep because Cities Skylines 2 is literally about to release. 🥲)

Well it does seem a little hypocritical, no? I don’t hate any tech company, I’m heavily skeptical of them having our best interest, but I see value where value exists, if there’s a way to extract it/partition it from the company that makes it. Whatsapp for example, is still a decent app even though Facebook is awful. I even begrudgingly use Meta VR for stuff I can’t find on steam.

Exactly, and I don’t think Google really gives a shit what you do anyway, they just want to shelp your data to their ad partners. But any free open source software or hardware has value independent of the company that creates it. Degoogled chromium, FOSSized android rom Pixels, YouTube in browser with ublock, it’s not hard to remove Google/Microsoft etc from the equation and get a useful product if there’s one there.

many of you hate Google yet I’m willing to bet most of you flashed a custom or foss android rom like lineageos to your devices.

I’m pretty sure these are companies both seeing less sales in the post COVID era as well as realizing how much they can do with AI that they don’t need so many people for. I hope at least this further reduces crunch culture once we come out the other side.

Thankfully even though the shovelware era is really upon us now, I think there’s never been a better time to throw your hat into the ring as an indie or solo developer, if you have the guts or chops for it. Not a ton of competition coming out and FOSS tools and cheap marketing opps are more available than ever before. Steam deck really broadens the demographic and AI tools make multiple hat wearing devs more productive than ever before. At some point these AI games are going to take over, so if you always thought you would never have the resources to get your passion project done, perhaps now is a good time to reconsider.

and my code:

a picture of the toilet bowl itself

I don’t wanna degenerate into one of those tin foil hat people but holy goddamn how are they implementing this and where is it going in 10, 15 years? Biometric IDs, seriously?? Why don’t they just make drivers licences electronically verifiable, like debit cards?

All epic did was sell Bandcamp and have to regrettably lay a few people off due to the changing AI market. Putting them in the same breath as those other 2 is a bit like saying Hitler, Osama bin laden, Dennis the menace.

what I mean is that, connections that are private and secure in the current day, may still be logged since everyone is so data hungry to train their AI, because even though it’s not currently readable, those past messages will be tomorrow, even if the encryption of the day changes. it only protects the things under the current standard. that’s sort of unsettling to me that nothing is truly guaranteed safe for even 5 years, despite how deep the key space goes.

part of the issue is that just because something is secure now doesn’t mean it will still be in 5 years. so with quantum algorithms no doubt going to improve once the tech matures, and moreso with companies hoarding everyone’s data until that time, it’s only a matter of time before all that stuff is entirely breakable. so even if we keep up with the times it feels like a losing battle.

is it really? I was under the impression that there are are already quantum algorithms to break aes if the tech was there. also I meant to say lattice cryptography, not elliptic curve.

edit: yes apparently 128 bit keyspaces are fucked, 192 isn’t looking great either, but as for the attack algorithms out now 256 would still be safe.

this scares me because the analogy for us we get older is I don’t want to be sitting here still feeling great about my 256 bit AES when quantum computers had cracked rijndael for the nsa for years already and the rest of the world is on elliptic curve cryptography.

edit: I mean lattice crypto, not elliptic curve

somehow I agree with both of you

ahem attention Walmart shoppers. PSA.

Do NOT. ever. EVER. use the snap store.

EVER.

Other responsible distros like mint have gone as far as disallowing it for good reason.

Alright now, have a good day, kiddies.

I feel like any seasoned Linux user knows to not EVER use the snap store. I’d rather use universal Windows platform apps, to be honest.

yeah I just switched my wallet and that is why I never used that feature. I literally just found out maybe 3 days ago I have a tap card when the cashier told me. I was horrified. I feel like the time you save tapping as opposed to swiping or inserting isn’t worth the security and privacy risks.

these engineers keep making new stuff that’s kind of interesting at best but we don’t even need that we end up being inconvenienced by. tap cards save .07 seconds but you end up having to protect your card from thieves and extreme tracking by retailers, and it’s disgusting. it’s time to go back to cash.

isn’t that why Kramer was bowling watermelons down the aisle (dating myself a bit here)

tethering is far superior if you have the data plan anyway. but even apple lets you randomize your Mac these days, and on android it’s trivial to if you get root access.