Please don’t put words or intent on me. I’ve been very direct, and at the very least was not attempting to imply any such ideological agreement.

My minor point was to associate him with what appears to be the main source of his household income. No more, no less. Everyone can decide how much that means to them as they wish.

Judging from the excerpt quoted in my original comment, it has at least been renamed to StudioLab.

counts as him making points from an unsavoury position

Didn’t say that it did. It’s just something that I didn’t know until recently, that I have only seen brought up once in the decade plus of Cory being treated as an important source of truth in this sphere.

I’m not trying to say that it somehow makes him full of shit or anything. Personally it gives me pause about some of his previous rants, and casts a minor amount shade on his position. But I also personally feel that the merits of a point made matter significantly more than the source.

I intentionally said nothing more than the fact itself in my original comment. Everyone is welcome to decide how important or not it is to them personally.

It’s exactly the kind of thing that people tend to use to challenge someone’s position, so I understand the confusion. Just wish people would stop coming at me like I kicked their puppy for bringing it up.

you keep restating the seemingly-identical position

Yes, because it was literally the only thing I was trying to bring up, as I have stated repeatedly.

I’m not the one confused here. I’ve been straightforward about the incredibly minor point I was making. People should know who his wife works for, as it may influence their feelings on him.

Simple as. No more, no less.

Could it matter? Maybe. Maybe not.

Almost everyone responding is jumping to all sorts of conclusions about what I really meant by bringing it up. I just thought people should know the fact, as I had never seen it ever brought up until recently. For myself, it casts some of Cory’s previous rants in a different light, but I’m not actively trying to sway things in any direction here.

I am getting real tired of people responding with basic ass “gotchas” pointed at shit I didn’t say or bring up though, and declaring themselves some sort of winner in an argument I was never having.

Edit: Me responding so much is that I’m attempting to make it clear to every single chucklefuck. It really doesn’t have anything to do with investment, as I’m having an incredibly slow day. The investment is some stupid wish that I’m not being misunderstood, which seems inevitable at this point. More attempts at clarification that I wasn’t trying to impugn his credibility seem to mean the exact opposite due the little trap of “if you don’t care, why are you responding so much?”. Because I’m some degree of ASD and have trauma from childhood about being misunderstood. Chill.

Fun Fact: the current head of Google’s search is the same guy that was in charge of Yahoo’s search right before they folded their own search and just started licensing Bing.

If you’re tech inclined, look for tech positions at non-tech places. Sometimes they can be hell “we need you to be the entire technology division on the salary of a remote helpdesk worker”, but there are rare places where you get to help and do cool tech stuff without the constant “climb the ladder or die” bullshit.

… yes. I’m not an idiot, thank you for the implication otherwise though. That’s always nice.

Perhaps you’re not familiar with just how outspoken Cory has been about all of this sort of stuff over the years. I think his wife’s job is an important disclosure that has not been made, so I highlighted it. Same as a youtuber disclosing a video was a sponsorship, it could impact how their words should be interpreted, but it just as easily might not effect things in any significant way.

I’ve made my very minor point. I even specified in my initial comment that she is very likely involved with DRM, but not guaranteed to be.

I’d love to hear any counterpoints besides the effective equivalent of “how dare you point out a potential problem with our guy”.

Only you can decide how much or how little his wife’s job means. I just wanted people to be aware.

Only if you take it that way. I’ve said nothing about his point being questionable, and it wasn’t my intent.

For me this is more about that his status as a free software/internet icon for well over a decade should be tempered, if only slightly, by knowledge of what pays his bills.

Cory has self styled and been treated as a free software icon for well over a decade. The whole enshittification thing is just the latest thing to bring him back into the public eye.

It doesn’t invalidate his point whatsoever, but it’s important to know that what pays his bills is all.

It’s no longer Makielab, as it was acquied by Disney. What they actually do now ias a subsidiary is unclear beyond the quote from her Wikipedia page, especially as her personal site linked to by Wikipedia is down.

I spent a good chunk of my teen years on 4chan, I’m normally the one pushing the idea that a good point is valid regardless of the source.

Anyway, I edited my comment and I’ll copy that here: Didn’t say this to invalidate his point, mostly wanted to highlight something that I find most people don’t know about him. It’s something I think is important considering how much he styles himself as an idealogue/icon for technological freedom. He still makes good points, but the position he’s doing it from should be known is all.

Lol, no. Also, big diff between associating with and being actively married to.

Anyway I’ve edited my comment and I’ll repeat tye edit here: You all are reading way too far into me bringing this up. Didn’t say this to invalidate his point, mostly wanted to highlight something that I find most people don’t know about him. It’s something I think is important considering how much he styles himself as an idealogue/icon for technological freedom. He still makes good points, but the position he’s doing it from should be known is all.

Friendly reminder: Dotorow’s wife is a director of a Disney subsidiary highly likely to be involved with DRM.

Ms Taylor is now the Director, StudioLab at The Walt Disney Studios. In that role she is responsible for ensuring that Disney continues to invest in the intersection between online tech and content distribution.

EDIT: You all are reading way too far into me bringing this up. Didn’t say this to invalidate his point, mostly wanted to highlight something that I find most people don’t know about him. It’s something I think is important considering how much he styles himself as an idealogue/icon for technological freedom. He still makes good points, but the position he’s doing it from should be known is all.

In addition to your good points:

a world where Mozilla is actively engaged

That doesn’t have to mean a world where Firefox itself is involved in this engagement, despite her insistence that it for some reason must be. Firefox is not Mozilla as a whole.

Chromium manages (obsfucated binary blobs from google still being included aside)

She’s not particularly wrong, but this highlights the problem for me.

Why does the corporate arm behind one of the last “free” browsers out there need to become involved in this clear conflict of interest?

Why does this need to be developed as core functionality in the browser codebase instead of as an addon like most of the previous experiments?

There is repeated insistence that this is key to the future of the web. I don’t neccessarily disagree. I disagree entirely that this should have any direct contact with the Firefox project. Create a separate subsidiary within Mozilla for this shit. Anything to maintain a wall between the clearly conflicting goals.

This all reads like a new CEO coming in hungry to make a mark rather than actually just be a steward to keeping business as usual going.

Hell yes. The company is a good one, as far as I know. Like when an alpha build of the first game leaked, they ended up providing a safe download link for it themselves and created an official space to discuss it on their forums.

I’ve always wondered where the dividing line really lies between doxxing and just compiling publicly available info into an easy to digest format.

Clearly, tying someone’s pseudonymous online identity (like my lemmy account) to a real life identity crosses that line (except when those identities are explicitly linked by the account owner).

But like, what about a lemmy account that regularly posts links to github projects all by one github account, posted to lemmy a few hours after they go up on github, where the github has a link to the github owner’s linkedin? The lemmy account is not explicitly linked to the identity in linkedin, but it only shortcuts perhaps 3 minutes of data gathering, and all the individual pieces are public.

What about if you have someone’s full name and rough area of residence, as if you met someone at an event in your area? You can probably find their Facebook, from that a handful of info, chain that together with stuff like public yearbooks, linkedin, online white/yellpw pages, etc. Without digging into private information, just using public sources, you can get a shocking amount of info on most people.

All that rambling aside, live imagery of a person’s face being matched to public pictures attached to online profiles is clearly a leap in the wrong direction, but the bigger issue is just how much public info is floating around about people.

While it’s a privacy nightmare either way, on some level I prefer things like this being in the hands of the public instead of only available to corporations. I have this naieve hope that someday it might make people examine the overwhelming amount of data being collected all the time.

Welcome to the reality of indie game dev. Great ideas are comparatively easy, effectively dirt cheap. Like most things worth doing in life, the difficulty lies in actualizing those ideas and bringing them to reality.

The only real solution is experience. Beyond that: Learn to treat your “amazing game ideas” like cattle instead of pets. Prioritize rapid prototyping of your main gameplay loop/systems before you fall in love with the set dressing.

All of that said, by just finishing a project you are already further along than 90% of amatuer devs. The best takeaway from 4chan’s long running amatuer game dev threads: just like make game.

Creating something that exists beyond your imagination is always progress forward. Releasing a game, even one that doesn’t meet what you hoped, even one that’s objectively shit, is monumental progress.

Now toss it up on itch.io or whatever storefront and start on your next attempt.

I’ve seen some meme’s about imposter syndrome along the lines of “If it was really important, wouldn’t they get someone better to take care of it?” and they’ve actually helped me relax quite a bit about my work responsibilities.

Also, I want others to be able to do my job. Being the only person where I work familiar with my shit is such a pain in the ass! I want to work on new stuff, not be cursed to answer the same damn questions every day because no one can be bothered to read the documentation I wrote.

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