Founder of subSilico, a studio helping to get games shipped. Porting, publishing, always happy to help (@link2076 on Twitter)
Will be at Develop Conf all next week! Say hi if you spot me! (no prizes alas, just the fun of taking part :D )
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The UK government’s official internet policy:
1. if you run a web forum or fedi instance, you need to do a bunch of paperwork to comply with the #OnlineSafetyAct to protect the kids.
2. if you are rich and run a neo-nazi website with officially posted virtual CSAM, politicians won’t leave despite that being a million times worse than anything you’d read on a forum about fixed gear cycling or a mastodon server run by some queer furries running arch for their polycule.
Incredibly coherent.
After it was revealed that Nigel Farage bought a second home in his Clacton constituency under his partner’s name to avoid a higher rate of stamp duty, he has insisted he should not be subjec…
in case anyone missed this, this is absolutely brilliant if you're an oldschool nerd.
Great looks like Gov.UK is taking notes from Microsoft on authentication. Have to use the new "Gov.UK One Login" and surprise surprise it's a broken mess.. what joy :(
2nd attempt at setting up, 1st time gave me a "service error" this time weeks later a blank white page. So useful.
This is #healthcare in the #USA
A #doctor argues for approval for a procedure with a #UnitedHealthcare hack
She posted it on social media and is now blacklisted by #UHC and she had to sell her house and get a lawyer, they're ruining her career over this video:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-a-surgeon-facing-retaliation
If you live in the #US dont get too mad- your blood pressure will spike and your healthcare sucks because you're just "a little person" and your moronic country prefers you to just die
"Brightness statistics for #satellites of the #Starlink, #BlueBird, #Qianfan, #Guowang and #OneWeb constellations are reported. Nearly all these #spacecraft exceed the magnitude 7+ brightness limit pertaining to interference with professional #research. Most also exceed the magnitude 6 reference where they distract from aesthetic appreciation of the night sky."
So Unity pushing real hard on licensing is going around again: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1kiyh0m/unity_is_threatening_to_revoke_all_licenses_for/
I'd add that they only lost $78M in the last quarterly report which is WAY less than the last few. If they want to be actually profitable they'll need to keep squeezing harder for quite a while though.
I wrote a blog post on this a few weeks ago. Seriously consider not using Unity...
https://www.slembcke.net/blog/UnityVsCustomers/
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