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Indie game developer here, 10+ years, multiple commercial titles - this rings true. I mostly spend time in communities where people are in a similar work situation, yet producing different products (programming, art, film etc).

This isn't to disparage intentional game dev communities. They certainly have their place. But often these communities are for hobbyists who want to share screenshots of their A* implementation in Godot (again, that's great), which isn't really useful to me these days.

Journalists typically ask two questions here: 'does this person wish to be named?' and 'is it in the public interest to ignore this request?'. It is highly dubious that there is any public interest in revealing Scott's name, hence the outrage.

Second, depending on the story and person, revealing a name can very easily lead to revealing phone numbers and addresses. So this isn't just 'a name'.

Finally, Scott very clearly does not want to be a public figure.

Help me out here. Are you genuinely saying that the economic conditions would be more favourable for the author if London were less diverse?

A bit OT, but does anyone know what happened in Australia to cause this: https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-re...

The broader motivation is to bring crypto to services that people are using, not the other way round.

You've just proposed an odd dichotomy: that big budget films can only be funded through Hollywood with DRM and other restrictions, or by technology companies without DRM and other restrictions.

You're going to need to elaborate on that, because on the face it, this sounds absurd.

The idea that a surgeon can 'give up', then a nurse be bribed to convince the surgeon to 'keep going', is more terrifying than the surgery.

> So poorly written, I find it hard to take seriously.

English is not the author's primary language.

There's also 0AD, inspired by Age of Empires http://wildfiregames.com/0ad/

> Also, the Mono project has made it possible to run almost any .NET app on Linux

I'd argue that the gap between 'any' and 'almost any' is larger than what you're implying - at least large enough that it can't be ignored.

"Some data is simply not worth indexing, and not worth serving up to bots."

The broader points being made in the article are that the value of information is determined by the visitor, and that the burden of keeping the site up and running should fall on the host.

By that reasoning, the presence of a ROBOTS.TXT signifies "damage" or "temporary madness", and should therefore be ignored.

Also, keep in mind where this article came from - the Archive Team are bloody-minded about preserving information.