“Your brakes operation will resume after this 10s ad”

I vote for “OF-Model/Simp”.

Even when you are paying for the product you are still the product.

I won’t argue that corporations wouldn’t steal other people’s work given the chance, but being able to do this is hardly worth the cost of not having copyrights on their own material. A Disney/Pixar/DreamWorks/etc. movie is not a stand-alone product - it’s mainly a feature-length commercial for a franchise. No copyrights means that the corporation doesn’t get revenue from the the merchandise created and sold by third parties.

Movie pitch - to pay all its lawsuits, OceanGate launches one final desperate mission to the wreck of the San José.

And feel old? No thanks!

Which was only 10 years ago.

Medium’s paywall gets lots of hatred, but at least they use it to pay the authors of the paywalled posts, so it kind of makes sense - you pay to consume content and get payed to create content. But Reddit is a forum, not a blogging platform - the separation between content creators and content consumers is much more blurred. If a subreddit gets paywalled, then the Redditors who create the content there - both the posts and the comments - will need to pay. Which will instantly ruin these subreddits when most of the posters will just take their posts elsewhere.

Did Reddit decide to imitate the business model of academic journals?

Can’t we get Nokia to make an EV battery instead?

There’s also a discussion about a subscription-based service and a deeper focus on AI.

This line made me think that maybe the subscription was a different thing? So I googled and found this interview: https://www.theverge.com/24206847/logitech-ceo-hanneke-faber-mouse-keyboard-gaming-decoder-podcast-interview:

I’m going to ask this very directly. Can you envision a subscription mouse?

Possibly.

And that would be the forever mouse?

Yeah.

So you pay a subscription for software updates to your mouse.

Yeah, and you never have to worry about it again, which is not unlike our video conferencing services today.

But it’s a mouse.

But it’s a mouse, yeah.

I think consumers might perceive those to be very different.

[Laughs] Yes, but it’s gorgeous. Think about it like a diamond-encrusted mouse.

Okay…

Also from that interview:

Some only have a mouse or only a keyboard, but many of them have both. But the thing that shocked me was that the average spend on that globally is $26, which is really so low. This is stuff you use every day, that sits on your desk every day, that you look at every day. That’s like the price of four coffees at Starbucks or less than a Nike running shirt. There is so much room to create more value in that space as we make people more productive — to extend human potential.

Guys, you are not giving Logitech enough money! You can do better!

That article gets stuck so much and makes my (relatively high end) laptop’s fan scream so hard you’d think the website was designed for that kind of hardware.

This is Rust. You don’t need a safe word - safe is the default. You need an unsafe word instead.

No. They’ll integrate with Threads.

I’ll start using it after I migrate to Wayland.

Do you have a cropped tattoo? Can we see it?

Hey, at least it’s not ads?

if date.today() - RELEASE_DATE > timedelta(days=90):
    try:
        game.prompt_user_to_connect_3rd_party_account()
    except PlayerRefusal:
        sys.exit(0)

But I had some success with low poly 3D models which I found are pretty easy to make.

Same. I find that for non-artists 3D is easier than 2D because:

1. You get things like depth and shadowing for free.
2. Animations are easier. Or, at least, it’s easier to keep them consistent and to control their pace.
3. 3D software has much more tools that non-artists can somewhat grasp.

Of course, my 3D models still look like crap - but it’s better looking crap than my 2D sprites…

There is a world of difference between “seems pretty clear” and risking a copyright infringement lawsuit.