Yeah I find it a little funny that people complain about generational wealth and then complain about not getting an inheritance.

They have talked a bit about what they are trying to do. It’s backed by Silicon Valley billionaire Eron Wolf, and he has talked about his frustration with everyone putting their blood, sweat, and tears into the software and then someone like Facebook comes along and makes billions from the work of others.

I get it’s frustrating, but personally I think it fails to see that Facebook is part of the ecosystem, but also so are many small companies, and many of these are contributing back to the software. If you remove the companies then you have removed a significant source of help. Eron wants to replace this with an expectation that people pay for their software, he wants to normalise paying for OSS so OSS doesn’t have to rely on the companies. You can see this in how FUTO keyboard using language implying you need to pay to get a license, but also it holds no features back from you and doesn’t nag if you don’t pay.

Personally I welcome new ways of thinking but even if the pay for your OSS thing works I think companies are uniquely placed to contribute in ways that a small team relying on purchases is never going to be able to replicate.

I don’t hold any ill will though, I think their heart is in the right place, albeit having missed what makes FOSS special.

Haha yeah I do find the licence a bit weird. Kind of a non-commercial licence but there are definitely some parts that I don’t quite get.

I have seen Eron Wolf talking a bit about what he is trying to do. I get his frustrations, but am not convinced their licence helps with those at all. You can’t really take open source, take away some freedoms that are sometimes taken advantage of, and pretend that removing those freedoms didn’t remove the benefits that are the reason those freedoms existed in the first place.

Typically licenses not OSI approved are referred to as “Source available” rather than “Open source”. This is one reason FUTO (who make Grayjay) refer to their license as “Source first” and not “Open Source” (though they did call it that for a while before clarifying and switching to the new term).

Also the app us malware infested and even leaves malware and spyware on your phone after you delete the app!

“They” used to say McDonald’s is not a restaurant company, it’s a real estate company (they buy land and lease it to franchisees).

Temu is not a cheap crap company, they are a data company. Their business is to collect data and sell it to profit. The cheap crap you get doesn’t need to make them money, because they are in they business of data harvesting and selling. The cheap crap is just how they get your data.

If anyone offers you even cheaper stuff if you buy it through the app, then that’s a good sign they want to sell your data.

I have about 6 or 8 ethernet cables in use plus more in my spare cables box, and I don’t remember ever paying for one. Where do they come from? I never seem to run out.

As someone else commented, it appears that the license isn’t free because when you share it the new person now owes the original author a beer if they ever meet them, so the middle person isn’t free to do whatever they like because of the ongoing obligation being forced on their users.

Ah yes that makes sense.

I thought it was free as in speech not free as in beer? So if it costs a beer then isn’t it still free (as in speech)? Or is this a OSI vs FSF difference?

Correct, racing busses is still legal (for now).

I’m not sure anything described as “hardcore” is my kind of game haha, but thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for the suggestion! Looks like they have demos so I’ll check them out 🙂

Heaps of cool games in there! Anyone played any and want to recommend them?

Check out the join site here: https://joinmbin.org

There is a list of servers there to check out.

I believe the current state is:

• Mastodon users can participate on Lemmy
• Lemmy users cannot follow Mastodon users

So you may see comments or posts from Mastodon users who have posted to Lemmy, but if you want to follow Mastodon users you’ll need a Mastodon account.

There is a middle ground. Mbin allows you to participate on both Lemmy and Mastodon.

Maybe one day I’ll have time again!

I had an Index, and after many years one of my lighthouses died (was actually from the Vive I had before that). But I wasn’t playing it enough to justify buying a new one.

Now the kids are getting older I might get back into it at some point.

I don’t have mine anymore :(

That part isn’t on the original cover. Is this a real foldout from a recent MAD issue that is an updated version of the 1974 cover?

Hmm the original doesn’t have that bit in the bottom right about the original concept. Is this a real MAD foldout based on an old cover but updated for the current hot topic?

I don’t think this is real. If you search up the issue number you’ll see the real version. It’s also from 1974.