A lot of it deals with the fact that Roblox doesn’t pay you out until you accrue some critical mass of value.

Isn’t that how YouTube works?

I googled and 30k robux is $109.

I play online with my son and have never ever seen that. It’s almost all tower defense games which would be a different crowd.

What games were you playing that had that kind of chat going on?

It’s not second life at all. It’s a game platform like Steam. But they made it super easy so kids starting coding their own games.

Back in the 80’s there were computer magazines that would post BASIC code you could type in and play a simple game. Kids would mail in their code and it would be published. Same exploitation of child labor.

I don’t see how Roblox is any worse than every other platform. If a child makes an app and puts it on Steam, Steam takes 30%. If a kid makes a YouTube channel, YouTube takes their cut of ad revenue.

Roblox made it easy enough to code that it got kids excited to write their own games. If any other game platform made it as easy, they’d have the same “child exploitation” problem.

Bitrot happens even when sitting around. Magnetic domains flip. SSD cells leak electrons.

Reading and rewriting with an ECC system is the only way to prevent bit rot. It’s particularly critical for SSDs.

Those definitions need to match the global standards or you end up with your own confusing jargon.

Not really. The first local login to configure it requires a Plex account. And that account times out maybe monthly? It seems every few months when I remote to the Plex server it wants the plex account to login.

The problem with Plex is it isn’t fully hosted. Plex controls user passwords. You can’t use it without logging into their servers.

Imo profit without compensation is exploitation. If you are paid a salary and the owner sells your burger for more, that’s profit. If you make a burger and the owner sells it for profit without paying you anything, that’s exploitation.

As I just found out, as bizarre as it seems, the definition of OpenSource requires that your work can be exploited by large corporations.

The Lemmy users in the thread were angry with a developer because he didn’t want his program exploited by Google/Microsoft/whomever.

It was in this thread here:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21153303

A company was calling their product Open Source because they published the source code and allowed anyone to modify it. But they didn’t want Google taking their work for free. Lemmy users called them scammers/open source washers because they didn’t want their work exploited by large corporations.

I still find it weird that Open Source defenders are adamant that you must allow large corporations to exploit your work or you are a fraud. I had no idea.

It’s open for anyone who wants to play fair, but prevents large corporations from profiting off of your work.

It was just explained to me by many on Lemmy that not just GPL but the actual definition of Open Source requires that you allow large corporations to profit off your work.

I was extremely surprised to find that out. For decades I thought only the BSD license allowed corporations to profit from your work. It turns out that you can’t even technically call your product Open Source if you don’t allow corporations to exploit your work.

I thought it was crazy but I was dogpiled with links showing I was wrong.

There are free dynamic DNS services so you don’t need to pay for a static ip. I like noip.com.

If build volume is a limitation, I’ve seen all sorts of snap together plates you could crib from. For example I recently printed this pacman boardgame. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5396911

The interlocks are completely hidden by the overhangs of the other plates. Once snapped together, you can’t see that it is made of separate parts.

Disk encryption is Luks not bcrypt and Luks timeouts are configurable.

I think he’s referring to the 10 second pause between attempts. It’s security theatre because you can replace the bootloader with one that doesn’t pause.

I’m constantly amazed by the misuse of JavaScript. The web worked fine when it was all client side requests and server responses. JavaScript was for GUI and rare edge cases. Then it became the default for every webpage.

This type of JavaScript has absolutely no business being on the client side where it can be modified by the end user.

It’s not clear at all from that pic that there’s a boot print in the planter. I see several small holes in the second planter that looks like squirrel digging.

Yeah but if you type in 1060 W Addison St, Chicago, IL 60613, they won’t hassle you again.

They got away with lying for 10 years without repercussions. The only thing that killed them was Musk going full Nazi.

If that were true Tesla would have been out of business years ago.