racemaniac

joined 8 months ago
[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

It just joined the musescore project, great open source music notation software. For funding the only commercial thing they offer is a site where you can upload & download scores, with the paying part also paying licensining fees for copyrighted music. Imo all looks very legit. I was already familiar with musescore before this drama, and watched some of tantacrul (head of the musescore project, and now also audacity i guess). He's a very down to earth guy that has quite some insightful videos on the musescore development and figuring out what to keep/remove when going for new versions. But also great videos regarding other topics.

So far i've seen nothing that rings any alarm bells. The open source community can sometimes be a bit too sensitive regarding paid services linked to open source software. But in this case as long as the actual software remains open source, and the paid part actually adds value (a nice place to exchange sheet music, without any copyright issues as that's covered by your payment, so a very legit reason to ask money), why not?

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No it doesn't?

I just googled it to be sure, but i already assumed you meant 'spyware' (which is something completely different), referring to the telemetry (which i can get is a sensitive thing, but anonymous usage statistics to know where to focus their development sounds like a decent idea, and afaik they implemented it with respect for the user)

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I love how you wrote all this, and are completely missing the mark. Nintendo is filing a lawsuit claiming that the palworld devs violated their patents, not their copyrights.

Anything palworld 'copied' from pokémon is either japanese lore, or from older games. This is not a copyright suit. If a copyright suit were possible, Nintendo would have brought it waaaay earlier. I'm wondering which patents Nintendo has that were supposedly violated.

I love how there's this entire discussion here about copyright etc... while that's not even what this is about.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

It was indeed a very short flash not long ago :).

And i'm not at al interested in those products either, but they were hard to miss when that flash happened >_<.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

He just means it's been all over the tech internet lately, and he has a point.

of course not everyone knows everything, but this and the humane AI pin have been featured everywhere as they're the first companies bringing llm focused AI products to market, and are generating a lot of hype, get a lot of critical articles, and a lot of youtube videos & investigations regarding them.

Not hearing about the Rabbit R1 when you followed tech news the past month was harder than playing whamagheddon during christmas time. So i get his surprise, and i don't think his reply was mean spirited, it was hard to avoid hearing about it.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago

Once it becomes too big the forum admin should realize it's time to make a subsection regarding that topic XD.

Forums for sure aren't perfect, but a 20 page forum thread that does a deep dive into a topic with a lot of good contributors beats anything i expect to find on discord or lemmy.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

Don't agree with this, there's a huge difference between a forum and something like lemmy: how what you see is determined. On a forum as long as discussion is happening, a thread stays on top. On a more social media site like this, things only remain relevant a couple of days at most, while forum threads can go on for years. That makes sites like this more focused on short and shallow discussions, where forums imo allow for more in depth discussions.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Without actual examples it's really hard to tell if the forum was just a toxic environment, or you were the newbie not reading the room. I've seen both happen.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the main difference just that forums are focused on longer discussions, and reddit/lemmy are focused on a constant stream of content?

I'd prefer forums for a lot of my interests, a well managed forum will contain long in depth discussion regarding important topics that the likes of lemmy/reddit/discord either don't, or if they do, good luck finding it. If however you just want to visit it in the morning and see something different than you saw yesterday, yeah for just raw speed of content, forums suck.

But is that really better?

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'm kind of wondering what forums you visited.

What however is a recurrent issue with young people on forums is them asking questions that have already been answered a million times. On sites like reddit & discord, that's the norm, we need new content all the time, the 526th person asking just keeps the social media going.

On forums however the etiquette is that you do some effort yourself, and something that gets asked that often is either a sticky, or a long running thread with all the information you could possibly want (but you'll need to invest some of your own time to get the information from there). And if you then arrive on the forum, read nothing, and ask the same question... again... yeah... you won't be welcomed with open arms.

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Who's talking about abroad? Maybe they have peoplke in russia working on the project and they need to check their safety?

[–] racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Keeping up a server that allows migration has negligable costs for a product the size of minecraft. There is no excuse....

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