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pqtyw commented on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license   unity.com/products/unity-... · Posted by u/finnsquared
999900000999 · 4 days ago
Unity's failure to communicate will be studied for decades.

They really should of straight matched Unreal's revenue cut from the start, and maybe offer a deduction for site licenses.

Instead they announce something like a 20 cent fee per "initial interaction" which they track via embedded spyware. You had a massive backlash from indie developers who realistically weren't Unity's target in the first place.

People who never programmed or made a commercial product already complaining Unity is coming for them.

That said, Godot is often good enough for what most new programers can actually do.

It's also OK for certain non gaming projects. No need to worry about Unity deciding your not making a game and hiking your fees.

pqtyw · 4 days ago
> something like a 20 cent fee per

They announced it, but based on their actual pricing tables effectively nobody outside of a tiny extremely unlucky proportion of users would have paid that much. The effective fee was several times smaller and they also switched to a per project instead a per company revenue limit for personal tier (which would have resulted in a significant price cut for a quite a few people).

Yet nobody noticed any of that because their announcements were incomprehensible .

Not that I am a fan of the whole pricing model but they were so exceptionally bad at communicating it. Like it's hard to even fathom what sort of incompetent idiots they had running their marketing department (I mean an average intern would have had handled it better). IMHO it would have been hard to bungle it more even if they tried doing it on purpose...

pqtyw commented on Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World   heritagedaily.com/2025/08... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
notavalleyman · 7 days ago
When King Offa of England's Mercia decided to mint some coins, the coins which came to everyone's minds were the islamic dinars.

That's why his coins were identical to Dinars, with OFFA REX next to the islamic shahada.

https://artofthemiddleages.com/files/original/e5a8cb4eadae18...

https://www.islamic-awareness.org/history/islam/coins/dinar1

pqtyw · 7 days ago
Gold coins pretty much disappeared from Western Europe in the early middles ages, the Byzantine Empire and the the Islamic states were pretty much the only significant source of gold for a time so that makes sense in a way.

Interestingly enough the first coins minted in the Islamic Caliphate and based on the Roman Solidus actually had portraits (they just removed the Christian symbols) on them for a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_Umayyad_gold_dinar,...

pqtyw commented on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUg... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
em-bee · 8 days ago
jailing people for wrong opinions (a real threat in the EU since there is no protection of Freedom of Speech anywhere)

how do you figure that? the freedom of opinion is explicitly enshrined in the german constitution for example. there are limitations, but these are very specific and not arbitrary.

gemany is in fact one of the countries the provides the most protection for your opinion world wide, as long as that opinion is not based on obvious falsehoods (like holocaust denial), or stirs up hatred against a group of people. you can however criticize others and at this point germany provides even more protection than the US.

pqtyw · 7 days ago
> you can however criticize others and at this point germany provides even more protection than the US.

Would what last few episodes of South Park be legal if they were made by Germans and targeted German politicians? Probably not?

pqtyw commented on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUg... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
Maken · 8 days ago
The European Convention of Human Rights explicitly protects freedom of expression.
pqtyw · 7 days ago
The first amendment in the US did too but it took more than a 100 years for the current interpretation to become the consensus in the legal system.
pqtyw commented on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUg... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
latentsea · 8 days ago
When you put "concern" in scare quotes like that... are you saying that there isn't actually anything to be concerned about regarding the safety of children using the internet?
pqtyw · 7 days ago
Perhaps? But that seems mostly tangential to this specific issue?

I mean it's like trying to solve income inequality with by adopting Bolshevist communism...

pqtyw commented on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUg... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
tucnak · 8 days ago
They say it's the Swedes, but that's not accurate. Thorn is a NSA-run charity that has been lobbying for this since 2012.
pqtyw · 7 days ago
> They say it's the Swedes, but that's not accurate

Yes because its Denmark, other countries are mainly just tagging along. I mean we can and should blame lobbyists and such as well but 90% of the problem are the politicians and bureaucrats and the politicians listening to them.

pqtyw commented on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUg... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
logicchains · 8 days ago
Although the chance of getting a large fraction of the population to use a decentralised censorship resistant messenger is low, it's still higher than the chance of somehow stopping the Eureaucracy from continuously pushing authoritarian policies.
pqtyw · 7 days ago
> stopping the Eureaucracy

I think that people are no mentioning enough that there is a specific country:

DENMARK

which is leading this effort. Not saying that there aren't plenty of EU bureaucrats who support Chat Control but this is not primarily some "top-down" EU thing. Its a specific subset of countries trying to impose their dystopian ideas on the entire EU.

If the EU parliament and court of justice are the main institutions that can stop this if countries like Germany etc. just rollover.

pqtyw commented on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUg... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
Hilift · 8 days ago
> But I thought in EU and US things are different.

Different indeed.

Privacy is enforced through compliance and civil court actions. In 2018, one of the largest actual data breaches at the time (~300 million customer records) netted about $0.25 per record in penalties, after several years of lawyering. ($52 million (US)/$23 million (UK)).

The EU makes more money fining companies for policy violations:

A €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) fine was imposed by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for transferring Facebook users' personal data from the EU to the US in violation of GDPR.

That is what privacy is about.

https://nationalcioreview.com/articles-insights/extra-bytes/...

pqtyw · 7 days ago
Well Chat Control would offset that 10 fold...
pqtyw commented on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUg... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
sunshine-o · 8 days ago
I am pretty sure now that this ChatControl thing is the result of the EU being unable to setup an US type NSA/echelon type stealth mass surveillance system.

They might have gone so far to have paid for an implementation but it didn't work (like the EU search engine, cloud or whatever) because they are really incompetent.

So now the solution is to do it in the open, just write a dystopian law and force it through the fake parliament. Our only hope now is the practical implementation of ChatControl will also be in practice ineffective.

We are not really living in 1984 or Brave New World, in the EU we are in the 1985 movie Brazil.

pqtyw · 7 days ago
Does EU really have any real security apparatus independent from it's member states as such that it would really have a need for something like this?

Also ChatControl is something being pushed by Denmark and other ideologically similar countries not necessarily the EU itself as such.

pqtyw commented on Our European search index goes live   blog.ecosia.org/launching... · Posted by u/maelito
oblio · 16 days ago
> Not really, you vote for parties local to your country. You can not vote for EP parties directly.

The people in the EU parliament are people you vote for, directly.

pqtyw · 14 days ago
> ProtectEU, the new "break all encryption if chatcontrol fails" was proposed by a secret group, whose identities still not know

This however seems like a non issue to you?

u/pqtyw

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