I often see them in offices. People who working 8 hours in an environment where that don’t control the AC will often want proof that it is or is not working effectively. As there are potentially multiple vents along a duct these ribbons are a handy way to see how much the duct pressure varies across the room.

For a company that is iterating on its products this is probably fine from a mechanical sense but would be a nightmare for their IPs.

Consider the early Super Mario series:

• 1985 - Super Mario Bros
• 1986 - Super Mario Bros: The lost levels
• 1988 - Super Mario Bros 2
• 1988 - Super Mario Bros 3
• 1990 - Super Mario World
• 1996 - Super Mario 64

If in 1990/people could legally make their own “lost levels”-esque remixes with the SMB1 engine that would be paltry competition with SMW.

Similarly if people started remixing SMW in 1995 it wouldn’t have stopped SM64 from defining the 3d platformer genre and presenting a very strong argument for the analog stick being required for any 3d console.

But if people could tell their own Mario stories, that might tarnish the brand. If that happened we might not still be getting Mario games today.

I’m not sure how you open source both engine and assets without losing control of the narrative.

True, “community” might not be the right term.

But nonetheless if the OG developer structures their license so that each version becomes open source after 5 years then people publishing that as is or creating forks will always be a few steps behind the official release.

Of course if the title has any kind of community support that crowd sourced effort has the potential to outshine the OG developer, its important they time their license to give themselves a head start.

I think Friday Night Funkin’ will turn into a cautionary tale here, by releasing their game with much hype and open sourcing their code the first 7 weeks in 2020-21 they allowed community to really flourish. The player community has created content and then content that builds on and responds to that content (both narratively and mechanically) for several cycles now. Much of this content is now viewed as core to the FnF experience by players but much of it is also now built around other people’s IP (video games, TV shows, music, etc)

At the same time The Funkin’ Crew has been quietly working on Friday Night Funkin’: The Full Ass Game but I suspect that as a commercial game bound by the resources of single dev team and the rule of law they will be hard pressed to compete with the community they spawned.

While this is a win for remix culture it might not turn out as being the most prudent business decision. On the other hand they pulled off a two million dollar kickstarter so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the other hand if the code from the 5 year old release was open source but the updates from today was still closed source for another 5 years that would encourage continual improvement addition content to differentiate from the community releases.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/a2a6bc534868773b9320ec3ca7399283cf7a375b

Technically true.

You are right, having the password in the same vault does mean that if the vault itself is compromised they have both. Guess I could move the TOTP to a separate authenticator app but the only other apps I have a mobile only and there are times I need to login without having hands on my phone.

I guess the time based aspect of the TOTP makes it a little more resistant to having someone monitor my keystrokes or clipboard or whatever and capture a relatively long lived secret like my password. So I guess its a comprise I’m willing to make.

I generate a TOTP with my password manager, it stores all my other login details and keeps it simple.

I love beetlejuice and have introduced it to the next generation.

Thankfully my son is usually uninterested in legacy sequels/revivals of IPs where he has seen the original so will be able watch it if it reviews well or skip it if not.

Unfortunately when he hasn’t seen the older iterations he is often quite keen. We hadn’t watched the earlier Garfield films (why would we?) so he was interested and we watched the new one today. (it was aggressively mediocre)

it’s not settled that releasing as many micro plastics as possible is fine as long as it would happen eventually anyhow

Is anyone making that argument? My thoughts are that we should reduce plastics (both macro amd micro) entering the ecosystem.

As 22% ends up as litter and directly enters the ecosystem, and 49% is put in landfill (which may enter the ecosystem later) is seems using less plastic is the best solution to this problem.

Edit: I forgot the link:

https://www.oecd.org/environment/plastic-pollution-is-growing-relentlessly-as-waste-management-and-recycling-fall-short.htm

I might be missing the point but does it matter if it breaks down into micro plastics over 3 years or 13?

If single use plastics are destined to become micro plastics does the time scale matter?

Assassin’s Creed Mirage will support the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad Air (M1 Chip or above), and iPad Pro (M1 Chip or above). In terms of compatibility, the iPhone requires iOS 17.0 or later and a device with the A17 Pro chip or later, while the iPad requires iPadOS 17.0 or later and a device with the M1 chip or later.

As far as i can tell the loan was for around 4.5 months average salary for Brazil. Its a windfall but not a “retire early” windfall.

I’m tired of all these “pass the torch” movies,

Its the obvious way to start a legacy sequel trilogy.

Usually the old cast/characters just aren’t capable of new adventures of the same kind the made the franchise popular.

Of course Jurassic World tried to do it differently by just setting a new story in the same world but the invited then old cast for the third film which was gratuitous. A scene where a small group of people sneak past a killer dinosaur loses it edge when its a small crowd. Then add the modern and legacy casts both needing their own arc and you get a film that over stays its welcome.

Full text without the paywall here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240414010601/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/magazine/why-coyote-vs-acme-was-not-released.html

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Its a bit like Batman or Jurassic Park in that the media franchise encompasses both children’s products and media targeting an older audience.

Cocaine Bear , The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, Palm Springs, and Good Boys are recent ones that have that feel.

A lot of people consume content online where director’s commentary frequently isn’t present but I imagine there are still a lot of people who are into this niche.

This and deleted scenes are IMO the biggest loss with the shift to streaming.

I had the original run of Futurama on DVD and the commentaries were always interesting but there is no way I’m going to start hording physical media again.

The crazy thing is that its really just another audio track, from a technical perspective it would be at trivial to add to video stream but there must be additional licensing and they don’t seem to feel its worth the effort/cost.