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kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Tim Sweeney: "Besides taking 30%, they’re [Valve] also taking a potentially even larger fraction of developers’ revenue and livelihood by undermining their business with these AI hate campaigns."English
3·2 days agoDo you think my friend went to make a Halo game because it was to make money or because it was fun to have a lan party?
Do you think Bungie initially developed Halo for fun, or to make money?
kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demoEnglish
3·7 days ago“Astonishing! This Adam Smith fellow writes screeds against Mercantilism using quill and parchment created by Mercantilism!”
kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demoEnglish
5·7 days agoIdk if it really counts as non-capitalist, but I played Dwarf Fortress for well over a decade before you could even pay for it 😂
kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•President Trump calls on New Mexico to change its name to ‘New America’English
5·8 days ago“That’s why we named you America, America. So you wouldn’t forget about America, America.” – Stephen Colbert
What if what you’re good at is “learning new skills?”
I went to trade school a couple years ago. Like three or four of my classmates were former programmers who were sick of the AI shit
You were really getting shafted as a web developer and likely could’ve made a lot more
I don’t think you know how much experienced finish carpenters get paid.
I did this, except I actually have better pay and benefits than I did working in tech (I was a low paid web developer, now I am a highly paid finish carpenter). I was just warning my coworkers today to get ready for the wave of ex-programmers hitting the trades.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that 302 LAPD officers cleared $300,000 last year. At the NYPD, four times the size, only 15 did.English
8·16 days agoWow, those are some terrible management practices. Sounds like the people who run that outfit should be fired and the whole thing defunded & shut down.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
3DPrinting@lemmy.world•New California ghost gun lawsuit takes aim at company that sells 3-D printer filamentEnglish
6·16 days agoThe problem is that, legally speaking, the lower receiver is the gun. So you can buy all the other parts online with no background check etc.
A person with a machine shop and knowledge on how to use it could also do this
Mastodon doesn’t really have those types of algorithms, it’s all just the people you follow in the order they posted, like Twitter in 2008
I just assumed it was named after Lemmy Kilmister 😂
99% of non-lemmy users give up right before they start using lemmy
kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Kiwibank is desperately trying to stop people saying they want to fuck its sheep mascotEnglish
4·24 days agoThe only thing that annoys Australians and New Zealanders more than people implying they fuck sheep is when people confuse Australians and New Zealanders.
kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
Linux@programming.dev•System 76's COSMIC Desktop becomes the first major DE to take a stand against AI with new policy that rejects AI/LLM contributions
7·26 days agoMe interrogating the linux source code: “Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about… your mother.”
kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfareEnglish
3·26 days agoYou’re correct
kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfareEnglish
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kestrel7_7@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Counter-Strike Co-Creator Says Gabe Newell Got So Obsessed With Mongolian Throat Singing at Valve HQ That Staff Started Closing Their Office Doors to Escape the NoiseEnglish
12·1 month agoDammit, stop it with the throat singing and release half life 3


Maybe if there was like any good reason to go to Mars, at all, we would make it a priority. But there isn’t