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I guess maybe in a world where every console controller isn't compatible with most PC games, cheaper than the valve controller and more ergonomically designed than the valve controller...maybe if Logitech, 8bitdo, Razer etc. didn't exist and didn't produce cheaper or better controllers it could have worked....
>It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content
I'm curious. Copilot isn't actually part of github. It's a plugin for Visual Studio wouldn't that mean copilot is distributing code hosted on github, outside of github? You can't use copilot without visual studio.
How is this not Microsoft just parasitizing all the code hosted on github to make visual studio better? Which as far as i know, depsite being owned by Microsoft is not actually part of github.
Isn't this partly why the downvote button exists and pushes lower voted comments down and greys them out or the flag button for those really terrible off topic comments?
The only reason I don't pirate games now is because I choose not to, not because finding cracked games is now harder.
About the only place DRM seems to actually work is closed server multiplayer games, other than that, since the days of stupid puzzles hidden in the manual, to CD keys, to the crap that exists now, I doubt DRM really makes much of a difference to anyone other than paying customers and multiplayer people.
I've never found one single player commercial game at all I wanted to try that didn't have a viable crack.
Actually, using linux, sometimes, you have to use the cracks after actually purchasing the games just to get them to run. I bought Kotor 2 from GoG recently, had to download a cracked version of the steam aspyr patch just to make it run without crashing on resolution changes after the cutscenes.
I don't understand why the concept of 'rooting'(as it applies to android) exists. I purchased my phone, with money, why in the actual fuck are there hundreds-thousands of folders and files my pocket computer will not let me touch?
I'm really tired of the 'safety before freedom' mentality that seems to exist these days. Humanity's managed to exist this long without being nanny'd and the people trying to do the nannying are also human.
The same thing happens with brightness too. Turn it up full, suddenly, down to 3/4's again until you acknowledge yes, you really do actually want to turn your brightness up full.
The first time it happened I was outside in the sun and couldn't actually see my screen to figure out why it dimmed again, i kept trying to brighten it and it kept dimming, I finally noticed the popup on the bottom in the brief second of lightness I had after the 4th or 5th try.
I really hate the way devices try to control you rather than allowing you to control them.
On my old rooted android phone from years ago, I had alsamixer installed and could turn the volume up however I pleased, even above the artificial software limits present in all android versions.
I miss those days.
https://www.theawl.com/2013/09/i-am-an-object-of-internet-ri...
>I grant to Amazon a royalty free, worldwide, fully paid-up, perpetual, transferrable license to any and all of my intellectual property rights associated with the Personal Game and my Personal Game development.
So by working for Amazon, you're obligated to give them something you create, that they will not pay you for...
This has to be one of the most insane things I've ever seen...
I swear every big tech company is so far up it's own ass it can see out it's mouth.
https://iskmarket.com/en/Sell-Eve-ISK
I'm guessing not a few people are earning a living from Eve.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20080043317A1/en
https://patents.justia.com/assignee/e-ink-corporation
https://blog.richardvanhooijdonk.com/en/the-entertainment-in...
https://tecreview.tec.mx/2021/04/26/en/how-to-make-a-blockbu...
>A team of scientists from the Spanish universities of Granada (UGR) and Cádiz (UCA) has designed the first computer system to help screenwriters write movie scripts that will do better at the box office, a model that makes use of artificial intelligence techniques to analyze the most successful clichés or tropes.
As far as actually writing a text adventure game goes these days, there's lots of options for languages and libraries that are specific to making text adventures.
There's Inform and TADS for making parser based games.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TADS
There's renpy, Quest and a bunch of others for making more visual novel/choose your own adventure style stories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%27Py
http://textadventures.co.uk/quest/
There's actually still a fairly large text based game community out there these days.
As someone who stupidly started smoking later in life, that's pretty much how it goes. Nicotine addiction isn't like on TV where you smoke a cigarette or puff a vape and suddenly you're hooked. It's a slow process you find yourself doing more and more often until you realize one day, it's every day all the time.
Does anybody know why audacity, an audio editing program, has decided their software is only available for those 13 and up??
I might have missed something, but that's the gist of it.
Alright everybody, did you all finish your copies of 1984 like we talked about at the last meeting?
OK good, so we'll go around the room here and each of you give me one idea about how we can make facebook more like 1984.
OK go
Well, in 1984, Big Brother found it effective to have citizens report on eachother's transgressions. It meant effectively, citizens were paranoid of eachother and would control their behaviour for them.
Great, I like it. Get the engineers on it pronto. I want it out by the end of the month.
But, they seem to have replaced the written tutorial or instructions for a lot of things.
I'm one of those people, I learn better through reading. I learn alright through youtube videos, but I find I retain knowledge better through written descriptions and pictures.
I've found since youtube tutorials and knowledge videos really exploded in popularity, finding highquality written tutorials or instructions has become more difficult.
Even a lot of programming stuff is moving into video format, which honestly, I can't learn anything from those. I need to be able to work through something like that at my own pace, possibly work through different sections, maybe experiment to fully understand. Doing that with a video is much more difficult than something written.
Lately, i've been looking into stuff about blender, trying to find anything up to date in a non-video format is almost impossible. There's some great high quality written stuff for blender out there, but it's several years out of date and everything that's replaced it is in video format.
This all being said, I am still glad this all exists and there's so much information so easily available.
As far as I know HN exists to aggregate news people applying for YC funding would find interesting. I don't think it's supposed to be about any one subject in particular. I imagine YC applicants have a wide range of interest, including traditional news stories from the sources you mention.
Why are things like this legal?
Why are billion dollar companies that, between the two, control huge amounts of all markets related to computers and the internet allowed to make backdoor deals that avoid regulators and essentially is them arguing over which piece of the entire domain of computing belongs to them with no oversight?
The earlier entries talk about some of the same stuff mentioned in this article.
Reading about these things, I dunno, it reminds me of the wild west or something.
All these university students and programmers writing illicit games like outlaws, hiding their games under simple file names that became almost memes for the ones in the know at the school.
It's really cool and those people are the reason why video games and computers became a thing.
Everytime I learn more about the early history of computers or even video games it always makes me happy. I dunno, to see how far it's all come, to have grown up watching a lot of it evolve.
It's just always great to read about.
I figured out pretty quickly you could Ctrl-alt-delete to bring up the task manager and just close the client on the computer I was using.
The teacher never figured out why one of the computers vanished off the remote software management screen she was using.