The API debacle got me to leave, I had become fond of Infinity for reddit, and saw there was a fork for Lemmy called eternity.
I implored a sub I nodded to join me, likely a handful did.
I like it here much better, I can never go back now.
According to snopes, the claims made by the Spoonamore guy are kinda iffy, I'm afraid. :(
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/11/21/stephen-spoonamore-letter-harris/
Reminder to sign Ross Scott's StopKillingGames EU Citizens Intitiative (which carries legal weight if it reaches 1 million) if you're an EU Citizen! Ubisoft killing The Crew is what kicked the whole thing off.
Neoliberalism utterly failing to staunch the ransacking of the working class due to capitalism
”Why is the right gaining momentum???"
As someone who used to be one of those nutjobs many years ago; there was an extreme mistrust of FEMA, and the main conspiracy at the time was that the New World Order would someday use FEMA to begin rounding up people to be put into concentration camps, and had millions of plastic coffins waiting to be deployed for the people who resist.
We fully believed that with every fiber of our being, and if we had seen a FEMA response to a disaster, especially if communications were down, we'd probably just assume the end times were upon us and that they chose this time while we were vulnerable to strike.
Religion is a hell of a drug that can paralyze critical thinking skills beyond comprehension.
It doesn't help that Trump removed so many regulations for the meat industry, and Biden never replaced them.
The meat industry is essentially allowed to self report to 'free up' USDA health inspectors.
Factory grown meat is no longer reliably safe, and I suspect it's only a matter of time before a new preon outbreak occurs.
If you're not sure what StopKillingGames is about, the creator of the campaign, Ross Scott (of Freeman's Mind fame) made this short video to give the rundown.
Jpeg XL isn’t backwards compatible with existing JPEG renderers. If it was, it’d be a winner.
According to the video, and this article, JPEG XL is backwards compatible with JPEG.
But I'm not sure if that's all that necessary. JPEG XL was designed to be a full, long term replacement to JPEG. Old JPEG's compression is very lossy, while JPEG XL, with the same amount of computational power, speed, and size, outclasses it entirely. PNG is lossless, and thus is not comparable since the file size is so much larger.
JPEG XL, at least from what I'm seeing, does appear to be the best full replacement for JPEG (and it's not like they can't co-exist).
The difference between a home server and a larger business server is simply the scale of how many players it can host at once.
WoW's server binary was reverse engineered by fans, and a large ecosystem of privately run WoW servers that players can connect to exist at this very moment.
Private servers running older vanilla versions of wow became so popular, blizzard then created their own vanilla wow server to get in on the action.
Silver lining: less flights booked means less emissions for the environment.
The industry has shown us how they absolutely cannot be trusted, while FOSS applications have shown us they are sustainable and will always put the user's interests at heart, with Blender being a prime example.
We have to stop funding closed source software, enshittification is inevitable.
If we all donated the price of Affinity's perpetual licence to Krita, Kdenlive, and Inkscape, we'd have a suite of tools that could outcompete them all, and never have to worry about another acquisition.
If you're an EU citizen, you can massively help by joining the petition over at https://www.stopkillinggames.com/