dissident_coder

I started using Baking Soda on iOS/Safari and it's a game changer and it doesn't seem like YT can do anything about it.

I love Kagi, used my free searches and customized the crap out of it. It would absolutely be worth the cost if I wasn't penny pinching because of cost of living increases and inflation.

Oh well, back to bing with GPT4 chat/search.

> The only Rails projects that I worked on that never had performance problems are the ones that never reached any scale. All Rails projects that gained traction that I worked on, needed serious refactorings, partial rewrites, tuning and tweaking to keep 'em running.

You'll be hard pressed to find any stack that doesn't require this.

Meta/Google/etc... at the end of the day are businesses, and the currency they deal with when transacting with us is our personal information and they convert that to dollars with their partners.

As I also value freedom of association, I am perfectly alright with them refusing to "do business" with me because I do not find the denomination and terms of the transaction acceptable.

I do not really have any inclination to want to compel them to serve me by force of gun, either.

I think both they and myself are better off in this scenario where we just choose to not do business with each other and I find some other business that has more acceptable terms - or I just go without, these services aren't as essential as some people think.

Without any evidence to suggest otherwise, it's just baseless conspiracy theory to think some "shadow figure" was secretly pulling the strings to make their preferred evil-capitalist-ideal version of BG3 (lol).

BG3 is indie because they financed the game with money they raised themselves and self-published. It's that simple.

It's a bot prevention measure (allegedly). It also conveniently blocks out people that are more likely to not want to share all of their personal information with them. No skin off my back, the less toxic social media garbage I'm allowed to use, the better for my sanity, good riddance.

AA and AAA are a statement of budget, size and scope of a project.

BG3 is a rare example of a AAA indie game.

The CEO has openly stated they were given full creative control of what's in the game.

> I fail to see what separates Alma from CentOS Stream at this point

Alma is getting their source packages from CentoOS Stream, but they are using the specific versions that are in the Redhat releases they are targetting. They aren't just rebuilding Stream sources from HEAD.

Alma Linux is getting their source packages from Stream but they are using the exact same versions that are in the current Redhat release.

As far as I know the only censorship that was done to the game was the sexual content for release in the Japanese market.

Baldurs Gate 3 is also technically an indie game by the classical definition.

"The science" has become religious dogma to many people, the complete anthesis of science. When people say they (follow) "the science" I don't even bother listening to what they have to say anymore.

If NYT wins this, then there is going to be a massive push for payouts from basically everyone ever…I don’t see that wallet being fat for long.

I don’t really see it as good guys or bad guys - just that China (and Russia) don’t really care too much about American copyright.

And there seems to be an an obvious advantage from my perspective to having an information vacuum that is not bound by any kind of copyright law.

If that’s good or bad is more of a matter of opinion.