@freemo they gave me 20 images in a format that required special software I forgot about and I turned them into an animation.
@freemo I saw your selfie, and it seems to me that you don't need a diet!? https://qoto.org/@freemo/101287281032066213
@freemo On a platform designed with commenting on strangers posts as a core function no less.
Phenylephrine decongestant does not work, FDA concludes
@freemo Unity isn't selling to my customers; I am. If Unity was selling to my customers, they'd get money from the customer for each Unity runtime license sold. Instead, they're demanding money from developers for each developer game installed. The difference is that if a consumer has three built-with-Unity games installed on their system, Unity would get one royalty if they were the seller, but they get three royalties if the developers are the sellers.... Then they get three more royalties when that player needs a new computer and reinstalls those games, even though the developers did not get additional revenue.
Unity has always charged a per-seat subscription for the use of the editor software. As long as they have been a company, rights to redistribute the runtime was offered free to anyone who had a valid license to the editor. Because the editor is built on the runtime and is useless without it.
No other game engine that I know of charges per-install, and very few APIs do.
This also opens up channels for abuse. Don't like a game company? You don't have to review bomb them anymore, you can just start a campaign to reinstall their game over and over to financially ruin them.
Plus you have to wonder what kind of spyware is being included to tally these charges up.
The whole thing is ugly top-to-bottom.
This article covers the topic well: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the-death-of-unity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
"No #morality can be founded on #authority, even if the authority were #divine."
Just released v3 of my Ruby KISS library.
https://rubygems.org/gems/kiss-tnc
We got Trump because HRC assumed like it was "her turn" and campaigned like a spoiled brat. We got Trump because too many people in this country felt like they were ignored and screwing over the political system was their only outlet. We got Trump because republican voters, even after seeing what a POS Trump was listed when their party told them "Politics is a team sport." and "Voting is like public transits; if there is not a candidate that gets you exactly where you want to go take the one that get you closest."
We are heading towards getting Trump again because Biden and the Dems didn't learn anything from 2016 because their minds were too clouded by winning the popular vote, but loosing the election and crying about third party candidates. Democrats cannot admit the reasons they actually lost and it is why they stand a very good chance of loosing to the Orange Monstrosity again.
@freemo Same here (though I didn't have that many followers). Once in a while someone sends me a DM and then I tell them that now I'm here. Very few of them moved, or even made a foothold here.
I used to check in on twitter once a week or so just to see my notifications and if anyone reached out to me to respond... I have a few thousand followers and would get a few notifications a week so it was worth the effort.
Since musk took over my notifications and declined to a crawl. Now week after week I have consistently no notifications. As a result I check my twitter less and less and even find myself just closing the tab and forgetting about it for long periods.
Im pretty sure im not the only one and twitter is quickly dieing.
@freemo abuse is a big issue. Less now than 40 years ago but changing medical culture takes time. To the consternation of some senior clinicians (‘they aren’t learning anything useful like we did”) our medical students now spend time training with actor patients. A start but only that and one problem is how we select for entry into medicine. - empathy is well down the list.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
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My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
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Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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