Badabinski

I very much enjoy this reading of this post:

https://youtu.be/iE8FJdJlnnw

In particular, the companies purchase financial information from a data broker before offering a nurse a shift; if the nurse is carrying a lot of credit-card debt, especially if some of that is delinquent, the amount offered is reduced. "Because, the more desperate you are, the less you'll accept to come into work and do that grunt work of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying." That is horrific on many levels, he said, but "it is emblematic of 'enshittification'", which is one of the reasons he highlighted it.

What the ACTUAL FUCK‽ This is the type of shit Neal Stephenson would put in a fucking cyberpunk dystopia novel. I am filled with so much fucking rage. My sister is a nurse and goes through so much fucking bullshit at her job already. Nurses really do not need more shit thrown at them.

I knew I had heard of this game, but I couldn't remember its premise. For anyone else like me:

THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

I mean, I would put their ARM boxen on par with their PowerPC stuff in terms of proprietary-ness.

For those who like me who didn't know what this is, I believe it's an open source reimplementation of a Bambu AMS module. I'm probably not 100% correct about that, so if OP responds then you should listen to them, not me.

These are good points. I was in a shitty mood when I made my comment and upon reflection, it's an overstatement and not a very good take. I do still strongly support copyleft licenses and DCOs over CLAs, but I shouldn't turn my nose up when something is released without those.

I used to be excited when companies open-sourced stuff, and that is no longer the case. I suppose I'm just frustrated and bitter and cynical when it comes to large companies doing good things.

Hence my initial whinging about how this was released with a permissive license and a copyright transfer. The longer I'm involved in this industry, the less I like permissive software licensing. There's obviously a place for it, but my tolerance for permissive licensing is directly tied to my trust for the person or organization backing the software. I don't trust Microsoft, and I don't think I will ever personally contribute to their software unless my contribution is made under a copyleft license and with a DCO, not a copyright-transferring CLA.

You're correct, but I don't believe that a company shouldn't be allowed to take my code and change its license in the future. If they want to take something proprietary, they can go ahead and remove my contribution from it first.

You absolutely do not need a CLA with a copyright transfer. There are plenty of large projects that use a Developer Certificate of Origin that protects the company while not allowing them to change the license of your contribution.

I'll grant that my original post was pissy and angry and not a great take, however. You make good points here.

From the repo's CONTRIBUTING.md:

Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

Meh, a permissive license + a copyright transfer means this shit is just a potential rugpull. MSFT can change the license of the project to source-available or even proprietary at any time and you'll be powerless to stop it.

Absolutely not, although a scope likely wouldn't assist there. The weapon itself needs to have some form of stabilization that will keep it locked on after firing has started.

For anyone else who doesn't know what this is:

This is my build of Proton with the most recent bleeding-edge Proton Experimental WINE.

Things it contains that Valve's Proton does not:

• Additional media foundation patches for better video playback support
• AMD FSR patches added directly to fullscreen hack that can be toggled with WINE_FULLSCREEN_FSR=1
• FSR Fake resolution patch details here
• Nvidia CUDA support for PhysX and NVAPI
• Raw input mouse support
• 'protonfixes' system -- this is an automated system that applies per-game fixes (such as winetricks, envvars, EAC workarounds, overrides, etc).
• Various upstream WINE patches backported
• Various wine-staging patches applied as they become needed

copied from the other place this was posted.