HKayn
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- Comment on 'Melts our frozen-solid hearts': Frostpunk 2 devs celebrate 350,000 copies sold—covering the production and marketing costs 2 months ago:
Frostpunk 2 is also available DRM-free on GOG!
www.gog.com/en/game/frostpunk_2 - Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 3 months ago:
What we should do is blame OP for deliberately choosing a title that makes it look worse than it is.
- Comment on Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
Turns out you’re actually the owner of your home instance. I didn’t know that when I made my previous comments.
I’m guessing you’re currently paying for your instance’s upkeep out of pocket? I can’t spot any donation links on your instance. This might work for you personally, but do you really expect other, larger instances to do the same? Even donations are only rarely sustainable.
- Comment on Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
How do you expect your instance to cover its costs, then?
- Comment on Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
So how is your home instance financially sustaining itself? Surely you’re helping it, right?
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 3 months ago:
Don’t confuse their initiative for benevolence. At the end of the day it’s all still for their own benefit and their ecosystem.
The contributions to open source are still a nice side effect.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 3 months ago:
GOG exists and has managed to carve out a DRM-free niche for itself for more than 15 years now.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 4 months ago:
I hope one day we will find a method to finance websites operating costs without ads.
Never. People don’t want to donate, people don’t want to pay a subscription fee, people don’t want to watch ads. People want everything on the internet for free.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 4 months ago:
Your money is honestly better spent donating to new efforts like Ladybird or Servo.
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 4 months ago:
Damn, your machine must have been heavily locked down to be able to figure that out!
- Comment on Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users. 4 months ago:
I switched to Pass recently after having used Bitwarden for a couple years. I’d say Bitwarden still has a slight edge in terms of features, but Pass has gotten good enough and it’s included in my Proton subscription.
- Comment on Proton mail launches LLM and crypto wallet 5 months ago:
So why does Proton work on multiple products at the same time? Simply because:
- throwing more bodies at existing efforts has a point of diminishing returns and then a point when it even becomes counterproductive
- given the lengthy minimum time it takes to perfect services, starting earlier lets us deliver more to the community over the long term
That’s why we bring new services to market earlier than some of you would like, but I can also say that it’s never done if we believe it would compromise an existing effort.
- Comment on Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said 5 months ago:
So why does Proton work on multiple products at the same time? Simply because:
- throwing more bodies at existing efforts has a point of diminishing returns and then a point when it even becomes counterproductive
- given the lengthy minimum time it takes to perfect services, starting earlier lets us deliver more to the community over the long term
That’s why we bring new services to market earlier than some of you would like, but I can also say that it’s never done if we believe it would compromise an existing effort.
- Comment on Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said 5 months ago:
Proton would be absolutely awesome if it stuck to it’s “We’re better than GMail” plan and provided stellar email and calendar.
You’re saying that like those have now gotten worse than they were before.
- Comment on Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said 5 months ago:
There are separate mail and VPN plans. What are you upset about?
- Comment on Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said 5 months ago:
Welcome to Lemmy!
- Comment on Proton mail launches LLM and crypto wallet 5 months ago:
You might be surprised to find out that, just like everywhere else, Linux users are a minority among the Proton userbase.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 5 months ago:
Explain.
- Comment on Rq: How to Mastodon 5 months ago:
Some instances choose to disable downvotes. If you downvote a comment that originates from one of those instances, it will have no effect outside of your home instance.
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 5 months ago:
Because otherwise you’d be supporting the Chromium monopoly, and that’s the biggest sin imaginable in the Fediverse.
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- Comment on Why haven't we figured out monetisation for peertube? 5 months ago:
There will never be enough donations to cover the cost of hosting videos.
- Comment on don't use ladybird browser lol 5 months ago:
Go visit fedia.io and then tell them again that they’re on Lemmy.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 5 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 5 months ago:
Everyone in this thread is already using Linux and just using this thread to circlejerk about issues the average Windows user won’t card about.
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 5 months ago:
*price
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 5 months ago:
No, this is not correct at all! You keep limiting yourself to the terms “open source” and “closed source”.
Any code you create, you own by copyright. Even if it is public on GitHub, you’re still the lone copyright owner and no one is legally allowed to do with it what isn’t allowed by a license.
Projects on GitHub without an open source license are only “functionally open source” to the same extent that pirated games are “functionally free”.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 5 months ago:
Correct, you are allowed to click the “fork” button and nothing else. You’re still not allowed to download, use, modify, compile or redistribute the code in any way that doesn’t involve the “fork” button.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 5 months ago:
The industry takes advantage of open source projects that have permissive licenses. This is an important distinction.
If you didn’t release your code with a permissive license (or even with a license at all), you have rights that protect you and your code. The only issue is that copyright infringement can often be hard to prove if you didn’t plan ahead for it.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 5 months ago:
I’m seeing this misconception in a lot of places.
Just because something is on GitHub, doesn’t mean it’s open source. It doesn’t automatically grant permission to share either.