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Thanks a lot for sharing. I love your approach for smaller games with faster cadence, and that it worked as full time job. I know the market is tough, but I hope you can make it work as long as you want.

How did you do this transition? How did you feel about your decision before your game was featured? I've been thinking about this path, but I feel too hesitant to jump.

> You get what you deserve if you don't block ads.

I hope you do great contributions to the cause if you are already at the point of victim blaming.

Not telling my friends that I love them.

I was 28 the first time a friend told me "I love you" in a pure friendship way (and while sober), and without being a part of a special situation. I've also done it afterwards, and because I had never told my friend i love them, it made the message even stronger.

It feels wrong that we don't do this more often.

That's still $20k above what they have to pay for the right of usage of the library. What donation amount above would you consider reasonable? Or how would you budget Spotify's donation accross all open source projects that they use?

You can dual-license to avoid comercial exploitation. Why then set an expectation on how much should be donated for complete open source projects?

I acknowledge I stretched a bit your comment. I meant it as a way to try to find the line on what's OK with these new AIs rather than ill-intended O:)

Regarding your point, I wonder how different is it to break the "terms of use" for fair right, vs breaking the "terms of obtaining" alltogether. They both are about jumping over owner's will, who has the full rights of the work.

I very much look forward to see how the ethics and law around these issues evolve.

Why is it fair use if you train a model on copyrighted material and use its transformative output, despite going against the will of the author?

Can we all legally pirate educational books since it's for self training and producing transformative outputs? Can I consume all media (books, movies, music) the same way, and call it fair use? Also for software?

"Everything has a value".

Earlier this year I was drunk at a bar, using the urinal while staring at the wall in front of me, which was full of stickers and scribbles. Then I saw this message, written by who knows who, and it really stuck with me.

When they launched Overwatch 2, you couldn't play if you tried to verify your account with a prepaid phone. This was problematic since they closed Overwatch 1 servers (it's a paid, online only game) for Overwatch 2, a free to play game.

Some people found themselves that they could no longer play the Overwatch franchise after having bought the $40 original game because of this. This was later rolled back and they allowed prepaid phones. So they can definitely distinguish them.

I can't find the source now, but i recall reading that if you're obese by the time you turn 18, there's very low chances that you'll ever go down in the rest of your lifetime. It's not impossible, but really tough.

I wonder if having a swarm of people buy these items, then returning them since they clearly don't match the expected result from the description, would hurt the sellers enough so they would stop doing this sort of scam.

How is Brave's action wrong? It's the user who needs top enable the feature of "I don't want to consent ever, please ignore such requests".

If this state was the normal, and later they were to stop blocking cookie banners that you explicitly chose to always reject, it would be seen like a huge harrassment from companies to the user.

Maybe the end game is that we managed to realize what practices were beyond acceptable, and finally forbid them via legislation.

Guild Wars had the feature of allowing to set a secondary language. This would translate all game text from the main language into the secondary one in real time as long as you hold the given key down. This meant that at any point, you didn't need to fetch a dictionary or translate a word, wasting time and immersion. I'm so sad I haven't found any other game with this feature.

I'm trying to play games with another language, and while sometimes it's ok, other times you really need to know the language to understand how understand mechanics that are introduced into the game. City Skylines was a super tough game to play in a learning language, but it would have been a nice learning exercise if I had the above feature.

SFML can export to Android, but to me the biggest drawback is lack of Web export. In the current gamedev scene, web export is super popular for tiny games (specially for game jams, where it's just more convenience and also secure to share and try other games).

In today's world where so many tools offer web export (from libs to frameworks to engines), I can't justify learning a tool that doesn't support it.

I think about these kind of activities and their motivations a lot.

Money is too valuable and rewarding that many people will constantly chase these hustle practices no matter the ethical implications or if they are shady. Even more so if they are legal.

With the current potential of AI and automation this just makes the resulting impact bigger for the 'good citizen consumer', like the sheet amount of autogenerated videos on YouTube that just read out loud some scrapped content, or even the stolen and reposted content, all in seek of finding a semiautomatic money cow that they can milk. After all, if that can give you easy scalable money, why not trying?

The bad part is that now consumers have to deal with a polluted search result and recommendations list, that is really hard to filter by the media owners because its a tough issue.

I understand the motivations, but I hate that the product degrades the quality as a result of a few actors .

Sometimes I wonder if this will always be the status quo in our world and I'm actually missing out on joining these practices as well and see if I can hit some jackpot, but I hate these side hustle practices.

I love this idea, thanks for sharing it.

I hope for regulations to protect consumers by not allowing to advertise this as a "buying action" if you later have to through the entire lengthy terms and services to figure out that they are not really selling this to you, but rather licensing.

Depending on what kind of art you need, Midjourney or similar models are becoming a more visible option for solo gamedevs to make decent art cheaply.

If you are an EU citizen, you can try using GDPR to request the feedback information they have on you. This might also work even after joining the company to see what feedback they wrote on you.

As people mentioned, companies have no incentive of putting the extra effort just to get more liability, and lots of candidates that would contest that.

How can I find and join this Discord server?

This sounds really sad. I really hope that you can build memories that are worth spending some time remembering with joy.

I really thought that Spotify Duo allows 2 people to keep their respective accounts, just that one person pays for both. Are you sure about the one device restriction? I can't find it anywhere.

I once took an Uber who didn't follow the directions of the app properly, missing some turns, resulting in unnecessary cycles. This resulted in the fare being higher than initially stated.

When I reported this to Uber, showing the trace in the map, they said the final price was still within the range stated (it was not), and nothing happened.

Has anyone worked on fighting back this kind of telemetry/spyware of essential consumer appliances?

I'm thinking something similar to what https://adnauseam.io/ does, but but amplified:

1. Someone reverse engineer what does the device send to which address. 2. Block the particular device to access internet (and make it easy for others too). 3. Constantly send bogus data to the manufacturer so the personal data they get overall loses value or is unusable. Make it easy for a lot of people to do it as well, or even just rent a bot farm.

There's too many legit and good services that end up being turned down due to abuse and DDos, and they don't even bring anything good to the attackers. Why not using these techniques for something actually good to consumers privacy?

I've seen one case at Google where a Manager was going for promotion, in part based on some metrics claiming the product usage increased a lot. Someone found that the metric was broken and was overcounting, but the report chain was explicitly told NOT to fix the bug until the manager gets promoted. This was kept broken for months. He did get promoted to L7 (senior staff), since the metrics were very positive, even though it was not deserved and the product was worsened in the process.

Make a huge incentive of promotion, behind well defined rules, and smart competitive engineers will tlgame the system. Even if it's an actual negative value for the product and company. You can always change teams after promo and start fresh with your increased total compensation.

I doubt that. The social features act like a strong gamification feature that keep people hooked. Those chasing this gratification won't go opt into these privacy settings, but those who want the privacy settings might stay in github instead of going elsewhere.

The 10x delta exists. You just have to compare the L5 engineer from the lowest paying region with the L5 from the highest paying one. And for the same effort and output.

There's no likening, it was just one more example in the bag of hardware used for harmful activities, which is a very big scope.

I'd love to learn that I'm wrong on the crypto one, give how well widespread is, but I haven't seen any fully convincing argument.

I do care when this use case is harmful.

We shouldn't need to limit hardware for specific usages, but we already see that people won't stop themselves from wasting energy and accelerating world climate if this gives you more wealth and power.

I'd also be up for limiting all military weapons from being so destructive across the globe for example. It's mind blowing how we managed to create so many harmful tools in such a small time span of our history.

But I agree with you when the use case is actually useful for humanity.

Thanks for offering contrasting experiences. Can you be more specific on why doubling the salary would be life changing? I read this as you're prevented from doing things that you're life can not be plentiful otherwise.

A lot wished they did more traveling like you when you where younger, but they cannot go back. Is your case a need for doubling the salary now, or can it happen through time? Would you feel the same if you had the same salary, but none of your peers were making double that?