Parienve @Parienve@social.cleverlibre.org

about a year ago, unity merged with ironsource

today they claim: "we can efficiently track installs of your project, trust us"

this isn't worrying at all, not even a tiny little bit

Unity introduces new fees for game devs based on revenue and game installs - article updated based on responses from Unity (it's not looking great) https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/09/unity-introduces-new-fees-for-game-devs-based-on-revenue-and-game-installs/

#Unity #GameDev

@Ruhrnalist It's on the settings tab itself (about:preferences#search) but always good to remember

"Replacing academic journals" - great article by @brembs and others arguing for a change to a federated scholarly informatiion network - music to my ears! https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7974116

Chrome now tracks users and shares a “topic” list with advertisers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

#privacy #technology

Every time I hear "AI" I've been learning from @jonny and @Mer__edith to replace it with "surveillance technology."

This morning, listening to Maxine Doogan and Tara Burns talk to Doug Henwood about their recent report on the use of surveillance technology (marketed as a weapon against sex slavery, but generally ineffective against that) to control, track and harass sex workers (and nonwhite trans and genderfluid women, even if they're not doing sex work):

https://esplerp.org/how-the-war-on-sex-work-is-stripping-your-privacy-rights-report/

Mushroom pickers urged: Avoid Amazon foraging books, appear to be written by AI

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354577

#amazon

@indrora Use Codeberg, give them money if you have it.

If feasible: Host your own Forgejo.

In-between solution: Have www.gna.org/ manage a Forgejo+#Woodpecker for you. It's money, but it's the same level as a managed Mastodon setup.

Loads of projects with actual money could do this but are still on Github. CPython *moved* there from independent hosting.

I was going to say "recently", but apparently I'm An Old and the "recent" event was 6 years ago.

An iOS app is being tested with #SkyBridge that allows the use of Mastodon apps with #BlueSky

What do you think if we contribute so #Fedilab can also benefit from this bridge?

https://github.com/videah/SkyBridge

So who wants to help the @Codeberg folks implement code search?

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/904

#git #codeberg #search #scm #versionControl #foss #openSource #dev

This is really cool: About ten years ago, a few friends and I built the first #Matelight, a very large display made from crates of glass bottles stacked up sideways, with adressable LEDs stuck into the bottles from the back. Now Hito Steyerl, a renowned artist, used a Matelight inspired by the actual one we hacked together back then at c-base as a part of one of her installations, called "Green Screen". Here's an article on the exhibition, and a photo:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/13/post-internet-artist-hito-steyerl-refusing-honours-big-tech
#electronics #art

Github Open Space Toolkit
In C and Python

https://github.com/open-space-collective/open-space-toolkit

Back in April 15th of 1998, a fan site known as "VX Half-Life" (later known as HalfLife Dot Org) released a video of their trip to Valve Software during Half-Life's development.

This video is LOST! Only bits and pieces of the video have survived throughout the years.

So I'm asking YOU data hoarders and folk who had the hindsight to make backups of your data, do you possibly have this video? Does anyone know anyone who may have kept this video? Does anyone know the people involved in the creation of this video? Does anyone know people who may have worked at GameStats who would of kept a server backup with the file present?

Attached is the only surviving minute of the video and some screen caps of the video from the archived site.

Known Filenames:
HalfLife.rm
valve2.avi
valvevisit.avi (46625 kb)
valve2.zip (7085 kb)
mvc-006f.jpg (screen cap of the video from preview.html)

Written Preview:
https://web.archive.org/web/19990221011950/http://half-life.gamestats.com:80/preview.html

preview2.html through preview5.html were not archived.

Non-controversial opinion:

Data brokers put people's lives at risk.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-applauds-cfpb-for-taking-on-data-broker-ecosystem/

Can a worker-owned restaurant work?

https://southseattleemerald.com/2023/08/26/can-a-worker-owned-restaurant-work/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://southseattleemerald.com/2023/08/26/can-a-worker-owned-restaurant-work/