Wow, look! A new place that controls critical flow of information, managed by for profit venture capital! How Wholesome😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

I suppose Rigs of Rods fits the bill, although I never played it.

haha. I hope they will. I hope that this “inspires” companies to produce more locally again. Pretty please?

I wonder what that means for google operating in russia. Since the demanded sum is so large, do they get their assets seized, like for example authorities sacking google phones? Or does this have absolutely no consequences?

for the record, that is $10,779,224,060,605,347,000,000,000,000,000,000 (american) dollars

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Tor if you dont want your fediverse server + ISP to know who you are on the fediverse. Other than that, fediverse people are not likely to use google trackers, so you should be safe without having to make new accounts constantly. Noscript for all other websites, gets rid of trackers very effectively, but a bit annoying because you have to whitelist the javascript you need.

the paper is no longer online, I cant access it.

Heh. Lunatic. Good alternative name!

I suppose. But I think, minetest as a project was strengthend by its proximity to minecraft. The big reason you pick up luanti is that its like minecraft, but free and with more modding freedom. I dont think this is bad thing to be reflected in a name. But good luck to them, maybe they can pull the name change off without hurting their public recognition too much.

Im always sceptical of name changes, because you trade a somewhat widespread known project name in for …nothing.

Theres also zulip, but I havent tried it yet, but its supposedly open source discord, but you have to host the server yourself I think.

Yes, go on, let NVIDIA buy intel. Let them buy AMD too. What could go wrong. I love monopolies! /s

…Recent laws in Japan have criminalized console and game modding, as well as save file editing…

WHAT? why?..what???

Yeah, it definitly tells me something, namely that I should not use the tool.

Why would news publish articles about the code quality of the tool, instead of its functionality?

Now they have negative press about its closed source nature, which is a calculated risk they took, just to open source it soon anyway? I doubt it.

but… you dont have to accept contributions? you can just make it open source and tidy it up at the same time?

then why make it closed source to begin with?

sounds great! I hope this gets some traction, because the official wayland protocols are so dead slow that its not even funny anymore. for example the wayland hdr protocol, open for 4 years now: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/14

Conversations, an XMPP chat app, does exactly this.