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  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" [refer to in-app purchases]

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  • What about game devs though? They are clearly hurt already by the insane fees.

    Just think about it. When you buy a game for 10€ on steam, steam get's a flat 3.33€ just for giving you a "buy game" button. The gamedeev get's maybe half of what you payed (Taxes, engine fees etc.).

    Don't you think, that there is something kind of fucked up about that?

  • Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" [refer to in-app purchases]

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  • WTF is this comments section here? I don't give a rat's fuck (if that is a thing), about what Tim Sweeney thinks about Valve, or if Valve is a good company or not.

    Charging 30% of revenue for a digital store is clearly nit justifiable and Valve makes insane amount of profits just by having a near monopoly on PC game sales. They don't need that much and it's still just digital feudalism regardless if who does it.

    You guys are just stuck in the good guy/ bad guy mentality and honestly, it's kind of embarrassing to get this defensive over a company.

  • Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavyweights OpenAI, Anthropic

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  • Servo and Ladybird can't come fast enough man. I hope, that they are mature before Mozilla inevitabley crashes into the fucking ground.

  • Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavyweights OpenAI, Anthropic

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  • I actually think servo has a much better chance of making it, because it is better managed, supported by the Linux Foundation and their lead devs don't give weird right-wing vibes like "Andreas Kling".

  • The Galaxy Maker, by my 10yo

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  • Wow, that's sweet ;)

  • Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App

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  • Liberapay, Kofi

  • Do you have any recommendations for podcasts, that are as well produced and "deep" as video essays?

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  • Yes, I am in Nebula. It's actually really good. I am only paying 30 euros per year (because oft the creator discount) and it's a good way to support creators.

  • RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives

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  • Are you joking, or are you actually serious?

  • I recently got into collecting dvds / bluerays

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  • What's the advantage of vhs?

  • I recently got into collecting dvds / bluerays

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  • Funnily enough, they all have the correct orientation (look at the little logos at the bottom). I guess, there is just no proper standard in which orientation a movie title is printed on the box.

  • I recently got into collecting dvds / bluerays

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  • Yeah, I also found it quite hard to decipher and I am not really sure, I fully understand it either. But basically my read was that it was a critique of societal expectations about dating and dating culture.

    In the movie, everyone was forced really hard into the whole relationship / marriage thing, even if it just wasn't meant to be. And then they get into marriages, that may look perfect and happy from the outside but actually make the people involved miserable (look at the guy, who was limping, he pretended to fit with his wife, had a perfect and beautiful family from the outside, but everything was based on a lie).

    It could also maybe be analogous to dating apps, where you get into relationships with people based on pictures and shallow personality traits.

    The whole thing about the "resistance-movement" to the culture was maybe about how even they struggled to really imagine a world without the insane and restrictive sociatal standards. Instead of creating a community without any restrictive social standards, they just forced everyone to act according to the opposite standard (of everyone being single).

    Neither ideal was really sustainable or healthy and even though a lot of people felt the problem with this system, no one knew how to challenge it.

    That was my read anyway.

  • I recently got into collecting dvds / bluerays

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  • Oh yeah, I absolutely agree! Poor things is probably my favorite movie of all time. I agree, that it's hard to reccomend, but it's also probably one of the more normie-compatible movies of yorgos lanthimos, if you compare it to something like "the lobster" or "the killing of a sacret deer. By the way, thre is also a book with the same title, which this movie is based on. It's written from the perspective of McCandles and you learn a lot more about the Godwin Baxter character there (who was much more of a background character in the movie). It's also just phenomanally written, so I am really enjoying it so far.

  • I recently got into collecting dvds / bluerays

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  • What are your favourites?

  • It's not real!

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  • God, I love this meme template

  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • I think this model, however it may work will still be better than what we have currently though. If we can even attempt to charge AI-companies for the training data, that would be a huge step. Because the current model is just they take everything, that they can get their hands on.

    And if that makes AI-devellopment ecomically unviable, that's a really good thing

  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • I find it incredible, how uncharitable some of these comments here are. As an open source contributor myself, I also really don't like the fact, that my work just gets stolen and profited of by big companies without my permission.

    Even the nicest, most idealist engineer still needs to be able to live from his work. I am not saying he is, but he is completely within his right to protect his work from abuse.

    Free software shouldn't mean, that every company can use our code in any way, they like and open source licenses still have terms, for example copyleft licenses, like GPLv3, still require work, which is based on that code to be licensed with the same terms and appropriately credited. AI companies are clearly not abiding by these terms and aren't really prosecuted for that.

    We should be angry at the companies misusing our work instead of open source devs who have had enough.

  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • I think this guy just wants to be payed for all of his work. If big companies start to skip the part of even crediting him for the that they stole without his permission, I can understand his decision to deny them that ability.

  • Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why

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  • Codeberg is also really nice if you are doing open source

  • PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop"

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  • If your kids really need Roblox to work, they could try Sober. I personally don't play Roblox, so I've never tried it, but I've heard good things about it.