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I don't know about this particular developer but I don't think there is anything "obviously" out of scope. I've worked in the animation industry and creating hard surface models with this quality is not really that hard for a skilled artist. As such I still stand by the opinion that it could be a solo effort depending on the developers background/skill.

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I depends on the background. I'm 2 years into solo developing a game and all programming, artwork and animation is my own. I had to invest into quite some learning to make it possible, but I figured it's a worthwhile investment. I do work with a composer, though.

Point being, it depends on which skills you bring to the table, which ones you are willing to learn and which ones are worth collaborating on.

I still think the term Solo-developer is justified in any case. The one who soley carries the burden of bringing the game from idea to the finish line is the solo developer, IMHO.

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A consumers tale about enshitification. Look to the sky and enjoy your ESPP everyone :)

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"Raspberry Pi CM0 is a yet-to-be-officially-announced castellated Compute Module based on the Raspberry Pi RP3A0 SiP (System-in-Package) found in the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3E (CM3E)."

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More information on the chip here: https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/14/sifli-sf32lb52j-big-...

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I was referring to Mozilla's past investment into advertising: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...

To me that and the new ToS add up, why else would they remove the FAQ entry.

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Absolutely agree. The blog post is claiming the opposite to what their ToS is granting - but one is fluff (that will be forgotten soon) while the other is legally binding. I cannot imagine applications like browsers that would require such an unrestricted license for user input just to do its service. That clearly indicates some "other" future motive that is underlined by the notion to remove the FAQ entry and other past actions towards an advertising future at Mozilla.

Am looking forward to explore some of the alternatives. And no, I don't want a just a correcting/updating/informing follow-up blog post of how we the users got it all wrong. In fact, the current UPDATE makes it worse:

"UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible. Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything other than what is described in the Privacy Notice."

vs. the ToS:

"You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

No - you don't need a license for my input. Just pass the butter, it's not your job to "use that information" in any way, form or shape. How did you survive 26 years without any license to our input? What did legally change that would require that license? No one asked you to: "We use data to make Firefox functional and sustainable, improve your experience, and keep you safe." (from the blog). What does that even mean? If you have specific use-cases in mind state them clearly, instead of this overreaching general license, that may or may not be misused now or in future. As of this ToS you may very sell my data to AI companies to "help me navigate the internet" which is not even part of the Privacy Notice protection.

Reinstatement your privacy guarantees in the ToS and be transparent about explicit use-cases.

Meanwhile, so long, and thanks for all the fish.

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Maybe, but SEGA seems to muddy their own case as their official support FAQ section [1] states: "Will I still be able to play the SEGA Classics games? Absolutely! All SEGA Classics games and bundles you own will remain in your library, ready to be downloaded and played at any time."

Note the "you own" here that is in dispute with the Steam user agreement.

[1] https://support.sega.com/hc/en-gb/articles/29776767664145-SE...

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xetdata is retired and recently became part of hugging face. I wonder if nfsserve will be still supported.

Are there other recommended NFS server codebases?

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Examples will be based on this repo, I believe: https://github.com/TheSpydog/SDL_gpu_examples

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This article from the main author of the API describes how the buffer cycling works: https://moonside.games/posts/sdl-gpu-concepts-cycling/

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If it came in a yellow and not a blue bag, we should have known.

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Gamma should not have any effect on the alpha channel, which is linear by definition. The alpha channel represents the average coverage of (infinite) subpixels within the pixel. The color encoding of an object should not have any impact on the coverage within that pixel.

I recommend reading the technical memo "Alpha and the History of Digital Compositing" by Alvy Ray Smith [1] to get a better intuition on the matter.

[1] http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/7_alpha.pdf

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https://laion.ai/faq/ Based on the FAQ of the dataset that was used for training of https://huggingface.co/spaces/stabilityai/stable-diffusion

   LAION datasets are simply indexes to the internet, i.e. lists of URLs to the original images together with the ALT texts found linked to those images. While we downloaded and calculated CLIP embeddings of the pictures to compute similarity scores between pictures and texts, we subsequently discarded all the photos. Any researcher using the datasets must reconstruct the images data by downloading the subset they are interested in. For this purpose, we suggest the img2dataset tool.

I love the "*simply*", but doesn't it mean that (depending on country, laws etc., but generally):

1. The LAION group committed possible copyright infringements and even left undeniable evidence that they did - on top of their written testimony (dumping the "stolen goods into the river" does not make the infringement undone, does it?)

2. Any model trained on the "linked" data may commit copyright infringement.

3. As consequence, you using generated images may be liable.

I always wonder how it possibly is legal at all - considering that as a human artist if I was to copy material and remix it it without proper permission would be liable (again depending on situation), but suddenly ML is around the corner and it's all great and now you can keep remixing the potential problematic output further - no questions asked!?

I guess there are no precedence cases but why should an automaton/software (and its creators) be judged differently to persons? I don't want to spoil the fun but what am I missing?

Also disappointed that this dataset did not make sure to only collect unproblematic content like Creative Commons that allows remixing. Would be a hell of a attribution list but definitely better than what is presented here.

EDIT: Formatting

EDIT2: I actually followed one of the projects mentioned not the linked repository. Clarified above.

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