For a company that is iterating on its products this is probably fine from a mechanical sense but would be a nightmare for their IPs.

Consider the early Super Mario series:

• 1985 - Super Mario Bros
• 1986 - Super Mario Bros: The lost levels
• 1988 - Super Mario Bros 2
• 1988 - Super Mario Bros 3
• 1990 - Super Mario World
• 1996 - Super Mario 64

If in 1990/people could legally make their own “lost levels”-esque remixes with the SMB1 engine that would be paltry competition with SMW.

Similarly if people started remixing SMW in 1995 it wouldn’t have stopped SM64 from defining the 3d platformer genre and presenting a very strong argument for the analog stick being required for any 3d console.

But if people could tell their own Mario stories, that might tarnish the brand. If that happened we might not still be getting Mario games today.

I’m not sure how you open source both engine and assets without losing control of the narrative.

True, “community” might not be the right term.

But nonetheless if the OG developer structures their license so that each version becomes open source after 5 years then people publishing that as is or creating forks will always be a few steps behind the official release.

Of course if the title has any kind of community support that crowd sourced effort has the potential to outshine the OG developer, its important they time their license to give themselves a head start.

I think Friday Night Funkin’ will turn into a cautionary tale here, by releasing their game with much hype and open sourcing their code the first 7 weeks in 2020-21 they allowed community to really flourish. The player community has created content and then content that builds on and responds to that content (both narratively and mechanically) for several cycles now. Much of this content is now viewed as core to the FnF experience by players but much of it is also now built around other people’s IP (video games, TV shows, music, etc)

At the same time The Funkin’ Crew has been quietly working on Friday Night Funkin’: The Full Ass Game but I suspect that as a commercial game bound by the resources of single dev team and the rule of law they will be hard pressed to compete with the community they spawned.

While this is a win for remix culture it might not turn out as being the most prudent business decision. On the other hand they pulled off a two million dollar kickstarter so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the other hand if the code from the 5 year old release was open source but the updates from today was still closed source for another 5 years that would encourage continual improvement addition content to differentiate from the community releases.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/a2a6bc534868773b9320ec3ca7399283cf7a375b

Technically true.

You are right, having the password in the same vault does mean that if the vault itself is compromised they have both. Guess I could move the TOTP to a separate authenticator app but the only other apps I have a mobile only and there are times I need to login without having hands on my phone.

I guess the time based aspect of the TOTP makes it a little more resistant to having someone monitor my keystrokes or clipboard or whatever and capture a relatively long lived secret like my password. So I guess its a comprise I’m willing to make.

I generate a TOTP with my password manager, it stores all my other login details and keeps it simple.

it’s not settled that releasing as many micro plastics as possible is fine as long as it would happen eventually anyhow

Is anyone making that argument? My thoughts are that we should reduce plastics (both macro amd micro) entering the ecosystem.

As 22% ends up as litter and directly enters the ecosystem, and 49% is put in landfill (which may enter the ecosystem later) is seems using less plastic is the best solution to this problem.

Edit: I forgot the link:

https://www.oecd.org/environment/plastic-pollution-is-growing-relentlessly-as-waste-management-and-recycling-fall-short.htm

I might be missing the point but does it matter if it breaks down into micro plastics over 3 years or 13?

If single use plastics are destined to become micro plastics does the time scale matter?

Do they currently require that cars offer an audio system?

lost revenue

You can be sure this is retail only.

Enterprise Windows won’t have this feature and now appears to have added value for corporate customers.

Ideally where funds are invested would be decided without fear or favor.

Yep, app not found.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fit.crab

edit: but got 22 on Snake, which is nice.

I think this video is a extreme example of the problem.

Its a one hour video bookended with statements that the author doesn’t have time to make a better video.

0:00:15: Now I’ve written a lengthy script but I have no time to actually read it out correctly from memory so I think I’m just going to use it as notes and talk from the top of my head instead.
…
1:07:15: I’m kind of sad that I can’t do this review like better technically cuz i can’t afford to spend you know a month editing this video.

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“Epic’s filing to the US Federal Court shows again that it simply wants the benefits of Google Play without having to pay for it,” Google’s spokesperson said. “We’ll continue to challenge the verdict, as Android is an open mobile platform that faces fierce competition from the Apple App Store, as well as app stores on Android devices, PCs, and gaming consoles.”

Is this the mocking? Its not a very good mocking!

It wouldn’t surprise me if they also could execute code.

They sat on external blue for 5 year before it was stolen and they disclosed the vulnerability to Microsoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue

I don’t see why we wouldn’t assume there is always something similar in their armoury.

If you are like me, and you also like the NSA, feel free to contribute and add more fun facts!

Its a fun read

It sure did, its over 20 years old now.

I guess it has inspired much of its competition, some of which with have added broader scope (like media servers) as one of their distinguishing features.

What do you mean?

Are these scripts being distributed via github or disabling telemetry on github?

Yes, they know. The message is asking the user to change from their default to Adobe Reader.