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More info please? I have severe doubts that GOG actually had that intent.

This one [0]. Which German QA picked up and said 'no way', and so German customers didn't get the newsletter. But everyone else still did.

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/games/gog-apologizes-for-emailing-na...


Well done - that was a fun little distraction :)

Thanks!

is he still making content it feels like its been forever since ive heard anything about him

He's been radio silent for 9+ months. No videos, no podcasts.

People have been speculating on his reddit subs, but honestly anything from early retirement, to stay at home dad, to sabbatical, to serious illness is completely possible. The parasociality of everything has probably gotten old over time, too.


Seems like his work now is just keep changing thumbnails of his old videos to bait me into rewatching it.

Like so many other creators, seems like Grey’s main focus might now be on podcasts. Easier to produce and monetise.

He's got a regular monthly podcast called Codex if you're into that format too.

He hasn't been on cortex for over a year

Oh... I didn't realize, thanks for clarifying!

*cortex

Oops, my bad! Thanks for correcting!

That's what we always say between videos :P

I don't know if we are the level of "most people" but I'd say we are defintely at a "signficant percentage of ppl". Due to cost of checked luggage the popularity of one bag carry on flying has exploded.

I'd love that as well - can we not get LLMs to summerize and give us non-click bait versions of these events.

We can, we just have to pay the $0.05 per articles to do it, and some articles aren't even worth the $0.05.

I wouldn't mind paying $20/month to https://wikinews.org to help them build a system that indexed news from different sources, threw the links at an LLM summarizer and used as a draft submission to wikinews.

It would be interesting to see some kind of future where reporters get paid per fact they feed into the system, and then the system just outputs a coherent list of what happened without any fluff, or opinion.

The hard part would be figuring out the worth of each submission. LLMs might be able to assign a price based on the importance of the fact submitted? and then subscription fee people pay is paid to the contributors. I guess you could also have people rate the inputs and base it on that. (what the readers found important.)


A "system where people can feed facts" already exists. It's WikiData. Why involve money and credentialism into this?

I think it's going to take more than $20 per month to get enough suction to make any difference, at this point.

Wikinews closed up and went read-only on May 4, 2026:

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_closes_Wik...


They are bricking the devices and not allowing them to log back into the service if they ever log out. All they had to do was not allow them to access / purchase from the store rather than keeping them from logging in.


why because "elon bad" ??

cut your nose off to spite your face if you want but the rest of us will recognize the importance of space-x and be grateful it is here.


This is about going to the moon. Space-x is over budget and extremely late. It has nothing to do with the management there, only that it is better to come up with a solution without them.


I only suggested a Falcon Heavy because the rocket exists, is flight proven, and has enough capacity to shoot an Orion to any trajectory it is expected to encounter.


If that was the truth I have a strong feeling your wording would be different.


Please read the https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I literally can’t even continue this thread.


Earlier this year I decided to move away from streaming platforms and rebuild my local music collection and serve it out over Plex. Plex supports last.fm so everything gets recorded there.

I also use the following docker containers on my home server:

Multi-Scrobbler: https://hub.docker.com/r/foxxmd/multi-scrobbler Koito: https://koito.io/guides/installation/

This allows me to share my last.fm input to both a local scrobbler (Koito) and to listenbrainz - I figured having this data in multiple locations makes it a bit more safe.

Honestly between last.fm and listenbrainz I find myself exploring more on listenbrainz - even though most of it's users don't really fit the same listening profile I do.


If you want something that doesn't require a docker container to run but still supports multiple targets, I'm maintaining a small linux daemon for that: https://github.com/mariusor/mpris-scrobbler


for my use case I think the docker container is better solution. I listen on several different devices so having plexamp send everything to last.fm and use that as the "source of truth" and then the docker container monitors last.fm and resends that info to other targets makes a bit more sense - this way I never have to make sure I have something running on my listening device.


If the developer was a work for hire and never owned the copyright then no.

If the developer licensed the game to a publisher then maybe.


Is that what is happening? My understanding of Termination of Transfer is that it keeps you from being able to make a sequel to your video game using the characters you licensed from me, but that the game you have already created you can continue to sell.

What the termination allows me to do as the creator of that character in this analogy is say - charcircuit isn't doing anything with my character for 35 years - I'm going to take back control and maybe do something myself with it or license it to someone else to do something with...


I can't keep selling it if you terminate the distribution right to some texture you made that I used in my game.


I don't think you are correct here. From the FAQ [0] on the website linked by the post:

“Derivative works” exception – although a successful termination causes all of the rights to revert, this will not affect exploitation of derivative works created during the lifetime of the agreement, even after that agreement has been terminated. Once the agreement has been terminated, the grantee (see the glossary) may continue after termination to utilize “derivative works prepared under authority of the grant before its termination…[consistent with] the term of the grant” (to quote from the U.S. Copyright Act). This means that if, for example, an author granted a company a 50-year exclusive license to create a movie based on the author’s novel, that company can continue to use and exploit the movie even after the author successfully terminates the exclusive license. The company may not prepare a new movie based on the novel; it may only continue to use the existing movie that it created when the exclusive license was still current.

[0]: https://rightsback.org/faq/#So.2C_I_get_all_of_my_rights_bac...


Thank you, I was wrong. This does seem more reasonable. But it would be nice if minor changes were still allowed. For example patching security issues of a video game should be allowed.


I wish this were further up in the comments. Most people seem to be assuming that you get all the marbles back.

Imagine the chaos if someone were able to say ‘whoops, all those books you bought are no longer sellable!’.

Imagine if Alan Cox took back all the bits of Linux he wrote and decided they were no longer to be licensed under the GPL!

…although maybe it’s only a matter of time before that second thing happens somewhere? “The company may not prepare a new movie based on the novel; it may only continue to use the existing movie that it created when the exclusive license was still current” seems problematic for open source software (or commercial software! What if the original authors of the FAT file system decided to try to start getting royalties from new derivative works?…)


Replying to myself…

From https://rightsback.org/faq/#What_kinds_of_agreements_cannot_... , works for hire are not covered, which includes most 1990s software (though I do still wonder about open source licenses):

Under the U.S. Copyright Act, copyrighted works that qualify as “works made for hire” are subject to special rules that govern who becomes the first owner of copyright in a work. For regular works, the person who creates the work becomes the first owner of copyright. However, for “works made for hire” either the employer or person who commissioned the work becomes the first owner of copyright. Neither of these transfers of rights from the author to the employer or commissioning party, which occur by operation of the Copyright Act, nor any subsequent agreements entered into by the employer or commissioning party in relation to the work, may be challenged by the author or their family members.

There’s a whole lot more nuance there, but notably “A contribution to a collective work” is allowed to be a work for hire.


Yeah, if you license something to use in your game then that item comes with a license term. You did not buy it and you do not own it. If you did buy it instead of license it, you would be free to do whatever you wanted with it forever. But you didnt buy it, you licensed its use.


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