I don’t get it. What are they trying to achieve here? I sadly don’t speak fluent Nutjob.

Let me guess, UltraAV whitelabels Kaspersky…

Eugene Jarvis made such awesome games. If you loved Smash TV back in the day, you should check out Nex Machina for a modern take on his classic twin stick shooters.

Not to excuse the developer but I empathise with why they might have felt compelled to change the license.

One of the biggest pains for any open source project is distributions and packagers who package the software themselves yet make changes or configure in non-standard ways which leads to major overheads for upstream as everyone submits bug reports for bugs introduced down stream and have nothing to do with them.

I feel we, as a community, need to be more vocal about when a project has been modified from the original source for packaging or distribution (where those changes weren’t pushed upstream) to demand the project be renamed in that instance.

I feel for these small developers who do this in their spare time and find the community forcing more work on them and damaging their reputation without any fault of the developer but someone downstream who doesn’t care not want to support what they’ve packaged.

Perhaps there are other solutions? Before other projects decide to use awful licenses and infringe on rights just to try and tackle the problems created by downstream.

Such as can an LLM tell from the bruises on a child or the sunken shoulders whereas the day before they were bright and cheerful that they are being abused at home and that no amount of tailored teaching plans will help that child except through a keen and perceptive teacher who spots what’s really going on.

And will that abused child feel cared about by a school that thinks an AI and a computer monitor are superior to a human being with empathy?

I love this whole “eventually” piece tacked on to talks about LLMs as if they’re more than a prediction model for what word comes next.

It’s akin to “the rest of the fucking owl” like there’s some magical simple step between LLM and full blown AGI.

These “AIs” teaching these kids will be pulled out of use the moment the kids figure out how to bypass the guardrails.

Give it to meee

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This slogan was from the 90s (1993/94 maybe?).

Slack and Teams have emoticons for reactions which serve the same purpose.

Internal forums are older than Slack. What’s so novel about Nintendo’s approach?

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I’m in leadership at a place where we ship software to hundreds of millions of devices every other week and sure, it sucks to maintain legacy products, but you never sunset something without one hell of a grace period and plenty of warning. And not without feature parity if you’re rewriting to escape tech debt.

There isn’t a valid excuse. They brought this upon themselves and their users knowingly and if they did it without knowing the consequences, that’s even more alarming.

Ship a new app then. Sonos already do this for older products.

Whoever the fuck thought a massive regression for every single customer was the perfect thing to deploy with no option for rollback needs to stop working in software.

If you release in early access, perhaps expect players not being ready to jump into a buggy, in-development competitive shooter?

Only early access games I’ll pick up are ones where it’s not PvP and I doubt I’m alone in that.

Bizarre they’re effectively treating the game as “released” and studying telemetry yet when players see “early access”, they see it as “beta” and not actually released.

Steam Input lets you map the trackpads to a mouse and you can map the buttons to any keyboard button. You can even map a zoom button and force the game to a specific resolution. It’s doable if you believe in yourself haha.

Steam Deck is such a godsend for these exact situations. Played through Tactics on my deck earlier in the year.

Thanks so much for sharing! I’ll have to experiment for dinner tomorrow (I’m blessed to have a local eco store that sells everything you mentioned).

You got me drooling - any recipe suggestions? I’ve both ingredients in my fridge!