Can Software Piracy Be Justified?
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UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint trackways unearthed
Summary
The UK’s largest dinosaur footprint site, featuring about 200 tracks, has been unearthed in an Oxfordshire quarry.
The 166-million-year-old tracks, some stretching 150 meters, were made by long-necked sauropods like Cetiosaurus and carnivorous Megalosaurus.
The well-preserved prints offer insights into the movement and environment of these Jurassic dinosaurs, including where their paths crossed.
Discovered by a quarry worker, the site has been studied extensively with 3D models created.
Discussions are ongoing about preserving the trackways, with potential for uncovering more prints.
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Sauropods are so so so cool. It's just unfathomable for me to think of an animals that big.
In Spain, I think, there's evidence that they were so heavy that when they walked, it'd vibrate the earth enough to sort of resettle the sedimentary layers nearby. Absolutely wild.
Hundreds March for 'Intifada' in NYC Hours After Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas
Hundreds March for ‘Intifada’ in NYC Hours After Attacks in New Orleans, Las Vegas
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in New York City on New Year’s Day for “intifada,” blocking Sixth Avenue in Manhattan just hours after a terror attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, and an explosion in Las Vegas, Nevada.Joel B. Pollak (Breitbart)
You guys are fucking morons if you believe this.
But what else is new.
Why? Because it literally did happen.
https://x.com/officer_Lew/status/1874590476671832489
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Edit: Aha I see you changed your comment lol, originally you were saying "screw you if you believe this happened"
En bok om facklig organisering. Jag har läst Rasmus Hästbackas bok Vad vill syndikalismen? I mångt å mycket är det som att läsa en grundkurs i facklig kamp och politik skriven av en medlem i Socialistisk Politik (SP).
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Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!
Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!
UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added
Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.
FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.
You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).
Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.
Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
fedimeteo.comHappy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️
FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.
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Hold on, let me check the weather.
Huh.....
What? What's it say?
It says it's going to be a high of 66, a low of 38, and cloudy with a chance of Linux in the air. That can't right....
No, that sounds right. It's been Linuxing all week.
What.....
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Linux -> penguins -> cold -> snow
Makes sense.
A high of 66 though definitely sounds like an issue!
FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.
That's a lovely anecdote, but also an argument against keeping up with weather prognoses — if you've already decided your preferred outcome based on your plans and desires for the next day 🙂
Probably not —
You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms)
AFAIK the Lemmy/Mastodon compatibility isn't great as they use activitypub for different purposes.
Besides, what would be the point of posting weather reports on Lemmy? So you can discuss their accuracy?
Currently supported countries include:\
Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands – with many more regions coming soon!
Bro. Harsh.
Florida’s manatees are actually relative newcomers, historical research suggests
Summary
New research reveals that Florida’s manatees are not native to the state, arriving only after the Little Ice Age ended in the late 1700s, when warmer waters became available.
Historical and archaeological records show manatees were rare in Florida prior to this period, challenging assumptions about their long-standing presence.
As climate change threatens manatee habitats, researchers suggest using historical baselines to guide conservation efforts.
Advocacy groups are urging stronger protections, including restoring the manatee’s “endangered” status, as warm-water refuges diminish due to the closure of fossil fuel plants.
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Höga krav för att få vittna anonymt. Den första januari trädde en ny lag i kraft som gör det möjligt att vittna anonymt i brottmål. Reglerna om anonyma vittnen påverkar inte den vanliga vittnesplikten. Den är oförändrad. Men det riskerar att öka antalet friande domar i rättegångar om grova brott.
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Steam On Linux Ends 2024 With A Nice Boost To Its Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use At 74%
Steam On Linux Ends 2024 With A Nice Boost To Its Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use At 74%
Valve has just published the Steam Survey results for December 2024 and they reflect a nice upward trend for the Linux gaming statistics and a high point in recent times.www.phoronix.com
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Last month, I switched from an all-AMD system to a 2+ times better all-AMD system and I couldn't be happier! (okay, 32GB RAM and a bigger than 59W battery could've made me happier but I digress).
I've been on AMD throughout my entire Linux journey and I've never had any issues related to that hardware.
Old one was an Acer Aspire 5 with Ryzen 4500U, 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD.
New one is Thinkpad T14 with Ryzen 7840U, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.
But with Steam deck being pretty successful, and showing that gaming on Linux is viable now, I kind of hoped for more.
But as the AMD numbers showed for years after Ryzen came out, the inertia in the market is huge. And change takes time.
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My hope is that there will be an uptick at the end of support for Windows 10.
I know I will really try to completely ditch windows at this time.
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IDK if Windows 11 is bad enough to make much difference. People were really pissed about Vista and 8 which helped Linux some.
Yes, i already installed a PoP OS in dual boot and tried things out.
I will test games on it in the next months to prepare for Windows deletion. I just hope a game I really like won't go out not working decently on Linux or I'm afraid I will lose my momentum/motivation.
At the very least I intend to only boot windows for those game that really don't work on Linux.
Yeah i went down the same path about a year ago and ended up forgetting i even had a dual boot of windows. I ended up just wiping the windows drive and reinstalled popos as a raid0 across both drives for that little extra speed bump for loading.
I don't really play multi-player games but I haven't come across anything not working from steam. The only issue I had was openRGB was detected by the insurgency sand storm anti cheat so I disabled it from launching on boot so my PC leds are just on default most of the time
I just ordered a new CPU and SSD, and I'm quite looking forward to making a new install, because my current system is running on a 6 year old installation. Although it's a rolling release distro, I can see there are desktop improvements I haven't got. Also I'll be going back to KDE, since they've fixed the hotkeys on numeric keypad issue. I'm almost giddy about it. 😀 😜
Det korrupta brottsförebyggande arbetet i Malmö. Flera nyckelpersoner i Malmö som arbetar med att hjälpa kriminella ungdomar anklagas i en kommunal rapport för omfattande korruption.
Åsa Linderborgs okunnighet om Göteborg visar sig tydligt i en kolumn som hon skrivit i Aftonbladet. Den har den märkliga titeln Metoo-domstolens straff tar aldrig slut fast den i huvudsak handlar om en bok med Göteborgsvitsar.
Piperska smällen eller Flyborgska smällen kallas mordet på direktör Sixten Flyborg (1892–1926) som ägde rum natten till fredagen den 12 mars 1926. Klockan 03:13 exloderade en bomb i hans bil på framför Pipersgatan 14 på Kungsholmen i Stockholm.
Why is Blender in Financial Trouble?
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I think they tried it with YouTube and it's dog shit still.
I don't know if the bottleneck is on the AI or the subtitles tho.
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Autodesk Maya
Well there's maya, but technically there's also others like 3dsmax and Arnold that arguably fill the scope blender is in as well. We're getting real granular here, but depending on how to compare, you'd either have to take them individually or look at the product suite as a whole.
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Ummm, 3DS is owned by Autodesk, so you may as well consider them the same thing for this conversation, and Arnold is a renderer (also owned by Autodesk) and not a DCC, so not really relevant unless you are specifically comparing Blender's built-in render engines to it. The reason I am not is that there are lots of plugins for Blender which can output .ass files to be rendered by Arnold, so it can be utilized if you want to pay the subscription.
Blender is a DCC. Not one that I am super familiar with, I'm a Houdini guy myself, but honestly it is better in a lot of ways than the steaming piles of shit that Autodesk puts out. The question is not one of quality or feature at this point, but one of capital and market share where it counts. If they could figure out what is needed to get the likes of Disney or MPC on board, or even smaller (though arguably still very large/high profile) houses on-board, then they would be seeing much more investment.
I follow Blender on Mastodon and, about a month ago, they started this campaign to see if they could double the amount of donations (from approximately 1% of users to 2% of users), and it's been decently successful so far just by putting "Can you donate?" banners in more places (and posting memes about donating on their social media).
Here's a short video they put out about it:
I think the funding campaign only lasts a month, so it's probably about over (though donations are always accepted, this is just a brief social media campaign to increase development funds for FY2025).
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I would like them to raise as much money as possible bit I am surprised that between this list of corporate sponsors they were only able to raise 3mil: fund.blender.org/
Also I don't see any major animation studios there. Do they not use blender? Or are they just stingy?
More and more I'm starting to see users of completely free and community-run open source projects expecting the same level of polish and customer service as proprietary commercial software, doing nothing to support or contribute to development while only complaining about how horrible they are when they are not able to do that. Then they switch to proprietary software, and when corporate enshitification happens to that software, they proceed to wonder why open source projects are all dying and corporate software vendors are getting more brazen in their shitty business practices due to not having serious open source competitors anymore. It's whatever when individual people do it with software on their personal computers, but when the businesses that use it as core components of their stack basically have the same only take and never give attitude, is it any wonder that open source is struggling?
Hot take: when I first got into open source, I turned my nose up at the licenses that restrict large scale commercial use just like everyone else. Open Source Foundation sure hates them and refuses to even consider them open source. But as I understand the software industry better, I'm starting to come around to them. If you're a company whose profits are over some threshold and you make that money through the use of open source software, why shouldn't you have to give back to it? I think it's not unreasonable that if you're a billion dollar company running your entire computer infrastructure on open source projects, you should be required to contribute a small percentage of your profits to their continued development. Said software obviously brought you a ton of value so why shouldn't you be expected to give back even a fraction of that value?
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I remember it was possible to buy fully functional 3d studio max 4 copies at the flea market in 2003 or so. They came with an easy to use license keygen (or so I'm told).
Can you expand on that "click 30 times" bit?
Cracked soft back in the day often came with some manifesto or text from the guy/team that hacked it. My 3dsmax like in 1995 explained all the loopholes they closed to make it working, and one was that if the soft detected it was cracked, and it detected 30 consecutive mouse clicks exclusively on the left part of the screen, it wrecked your IK, inverse kinematics, used to animate walking and such.
This was to make the soft unusable, and hard to figure out how to crack it correctly.
Gonna call you out on this, at least partially. It was SideFX, a real threat of a proprietary vendor who has sizable market share in 3D/VFX, releasing an entirely perpetually free learning edition and a low cost indie license who put the screws on Autodesk. Blender contributed to the decision, but it was absolutely not the primary pressure source.
Source: I have a Masters Degree in VFX, have studied the industry for over 35 years, and have worked professionally in it for going on 15.
I respectfully disagree. While true that Houdini was one of the first visual effects softwares offering an indie license, it was by no means the only one. Substance comes to mind, before the Adobe acquisition.
The timeline is also unconvincing: a considerable number of years elapsed after Houdini entered the market and Autodesk/Maya offered an indie license. However, is does coincide with better blender documentation and rise in YT content that rapidly grew the blender community.
Houdini can do more than FX, sure, and I've consistently heard nothing but good things, but its professional use remains relatively [edit: departmentally] niche. So, it may seem to someone in the niche of FX that Maya is losing ground to Houdini, but on a macro level Blender has the features and price point to threaten a larger portion of Autodesk/Maya's market share. In lieu of better data, I'll refer to google trends of the three softwares in which Houdini is a flat line at the bottom. I will gladly consider data to the contrary if you have it.
Either way, my main point was that competition is good, and who is responsible for how much doesn't change that.
A skightly different view, but when I started a lot of companies did give back. I have worked with, hired, managed and led at least a half dozen teams with the explicit mission to make an already existing open source project do what we want by contributing functionality upstream, or by forking the project. I actually wrote a "open source engineering management" curriculum back when I was still teaching.
Unfortunately these efforts often sttuggle in a similar way - some developer who is not affiliated with us starts creating friction, and blowing up internal schedules, sometimes seemingly on purpose. Management starts to ask why so many of our features are dependent on SkankTopia6969 approving PRs and awkward conversations ensue. And then the project slowly becomes the process of educating an increasingly detached internal hierarchy on the realities of open source development, and people inevitability start asking why this is even in-house tooling in the first place.
Despite that, I've fielded a bunch of products like this, though always at fairly small scale (like $10M/yr revenue). The only time I've really done it big league the project got canned during a technical reorg.
In another thread I mentioned OSI needs another tier to handle forced noncommercial source available licenses. Got down voted to hell and back.
Glad to see there are others of similar mind.
They're not in trouble. They've just become used to fat wads, and that's ok.
Every corporate clamouring over them the last few years, to show how inclusive they were.
So, once you get used to that, you get used to that.
That's all it is.
While I think some comments are true in general for other aspect of open source software zones, blender is a special case.
The target audience for blender are artists for movie, video and games. And these industries are very capital intensive and highly regulated by limited distributors. If you tell ppl you can only do blender instead of maya or other big names, it's like a programmer tells ppl he can only do perl. Good luck for finding a job. Just like programming industry without microservice architecture, if the whole team use one language, you have to use that. Just do a job search.
Game engine is similar. If you don't use unity or unreal. No aaa game for you. (Indie games are better in my personal opinion) So game assets made by blender is always second citizens.
Because of the above factors, third parties market place products' price are always low. It's good for buyers, but sucks for indie sellers. Compare the catalog between blender market place and daz3d's market place.
Universities will only teach products like maya instead of blender, just like java. Policy makers don't care about the best interest of students. Their policy is usually only outdated. Why java? They should only allow to use Nokia.
Unlike games, you can hardly try the indie route for movie. It's either go big or go die. When do you see a blender movie being shown in your local cinema?
blender is the only free less professional choice. The problem is their target audience is so broke.
Good for you. Lucky guy/girl.
Good things for blender is the community is really strong and friendly. And lots of free high quality tutorials in YouTube and even in other streaming platform. Go donuts. We should cherish what the community have built and achieved.
OFFICIAL TRAILER #2: Common Side Effects | February 2 | adult swim
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What's New In January 2025 | Max
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3 dead, 20 injured in Honolulu, Hawaii fireworks explosion
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/20912303
Three people were killed and 20 others injured after a fireworks explosion on Honolulu, Hawaii on New Year's Day.
Amber Alert issued for missing 14-year-old girl abducted in Inglewood
cross-posted from: thelemmy.club/post/20912301
An Amber Alert was issued for a missing 14-year-old girl who was last seen in Inglewood after allegedly being abducted.
Actor Justin Baldoni files $250 million defamation suit against New York Times
Justin Baldoni filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday, claiming the paper defamed him when covering actress Blake Lively's claims against him.
President Biden Delivers Remarks on the Latest Developments in New Orleans
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