⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Something interesting I’d like to point out, the videogame Mindustry is open source and copyleft (I think either GPL or AGPL). You can get a build off GitHub or FlatHub completely for free. However there is a Steam version with Steam multiplayer and achievements as well which is $9.99 USD on Steam, estimated ownership is around 846.7k [1], the price hasn’t always been $9.99, but assuming that isn’t the case the game has made around $8 million, I haven’t taken out Valve’s cut and I don’t know how much tax they’re paying but that’s pretty good. It could be a lot higher if all of the FlatHub and GitHub users paid for their copy. I initially discovered the game on FlatHub, loved it and now have it on Steam. I wouldn’t have bought the game if I hadn’t tried it for free.

    It feels counterintuitive that freeloaders can help with sales, but consider a physical artwork like a painting. People don’t tend to buy these things without seeing them first, and seeing it is experiencing, so there’s very little benefit to buying it, but people do anyway to support the artist, because they want more.

    [1] https://steamdb.info/app/1127400/charts/




  • This is likely to be something we see more broadly, eventually with the phasing out of TV. I’ve noticed they’re trying to push us onto their catchup services by playing much fewer ads (I still block them anyway). I imagine it’s cheaper to stream over the internet, but more importantly it’s much easier to lock people into watching only your channels. With TV you can go to another network with the push of the button, with a dedicated app you need to exit, open the other app wait for it to load/sign in and have a look at what’s playing to browse. Not to mention how much more data they can extract from you for better targeted ads, heck even ABC iview needs accounts so they can give you recommendations (something I think should be optional because I don’t really care about whatever new show they want me to watch, I just want to watch Vera, Mad As Hell and the Weekly. Two of those shows are finished and the other just had its last episode for the year).
















  • Never really liked his channel but wasn’t aware of this video until now. What a fuckwit. Has no idea what communism is but keeps saying it when he really means authoritarianism. Says that a gun is “great for children”, I’m hoping he meant for children to use…

    I don’t understand why I need to buy a gun to deal with downstream problems where there is an upstream solution. The reasons he gave for owning any gun are really societal issues. Instead of encouraging everyone to have a private army, why not encourage people to vote for politicians who will fix the upstream problems