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she/her - Total Mess | Founder of simplicity & Digital Remnants
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The thing that really bugs me is how opaque that blanket license is. I don't know what I'm giving them permission to. I don't know whether and how I'll be able to revoke permission. I don't know whether that applies to my art. I don't know what they're doing with it.
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I've actually looked at Firefox's telemetry ages ago and it is anonymized rather well. In fact it passed German legislation before it became GDPR.
There's also a huge difference between basic telemetry and "Let us peek at everything you enter into the interface and what sites you look at"
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Even if we are pedantic about this, and include DoH/DoT for DNS resolution, this should be separate from the browser itself and opt-in.
Right now Firefox defaults to Cloudflare in that regard so your data is not even processed by Mozilla in that case.
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Idea is the same. Browsers figure out who "bsky.app" is (usually through your ISP's DNS) and then start talking to that address directly.
At no point does Mozilla need to process any of the data I want to send/receive here. Everything I enter stays between me and the person I'm "calling".
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Maybe I need to simplify: This is the equivalent of a phone manufacturer going "Sure it'll let you make calls to people but by using this phone you must also agree to us recording all your calls and using all information given".
It's unnecessary. Mozilla does not need to know what I say to whom.
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At the end of the day your browser transmits data directly to whoever you want to upload to. Not Mozilla.
If anything you have to grant a license to Bsky/Google/whoever you're talking to. Not Mozilla.
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For an online service, sure. For a browser or any local piece of software. No.
Not a single open source license includes a guard like that. If it was necessary to grant a license to the maker of a software for local processing, we would've seen it pop up in multiple of those licenses by now.
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Valve could obviously do the same given their platform. But if this is the pricing they go for, they'd much rather sell closer to actual cost than try to recoup cost later.
Probably a fair bet right now given how niche the market still is.
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Well. They basically treat it like a console. Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft would traditionally also sell their consoles at a loss and recoup that loss via game pricing.
Which I guess also explains the absolutely horrible native support for PCVR. It's not desirable from their standpoint.
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1+ years since it’s been announced. The cope is real.
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tbh this is still one of the reasons why I’d like dynamic url creation to go GA. Most people don’t know what link to plug in and it’s so easy to detect in Udon.
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I've had those consistently for a while. Seems like they've gone away though.
Consistently getting the wonderful stuttery full body/IK on other people now instead. Used to be that I'd get it after 3 hours in an instance. Now it's everyone else after 1h.
Network stability = 0
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Yeaah I managed to do just that for now. It's just yet another jank thing to keep an eye on in an already janky VR setup.
There's also some weirdness about replacing the executable which prevents it from creating temporary files (something something Windows defender maybe).
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In fairness the Quest Pro also inherited the screeching mic. So I guess somehow that's hard not to accidentally implement in a headset??? 😕
At least mine does it every couple of weeks and needs a reboot in order to work normally again ...
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Create a new one, delete it again. It’s about the message. Otherwise they’ll never learn.
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It does look great! The real question will be if it stays that way. Some clear plastics have this nasty habit of yellowing due to UV exposure ... then again VR headsets rarely get to see much sun.
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Not going to lie though: Translucent electronics need to make a comeback.
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Idea with this motion reduced setup is to prevent the screens from flashing rapidly by interpolating between frames. Great for dark venues that have their screens tightly integrated.
It's designed for TXL Video. I'll likely release it as part of the VRCTools distribution once it's more mature!
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When enabled, it'll disable all screens, flashy things, AreaLit and AudioLink automatically.
It obviously won't fix people in flashy avatars being around but at the very least it'll make sure the venue won't burn your eyes out.
You also get to re-enable anything you like later if you feel comfy!
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Also color profiles. I've been using flat profiles in VRCLens for a while now and tbh I can't live without that.
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They offer a golden deck saver dlc with a monthly subscription fee of 60€?
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I remember completely wrecking Unity for the first Halloween world. Turns out I was using custom render textures way harder than the devs anticipated leading to the engine hard crashing every time I opened the scene. Took me 14 hours to debug.
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At the end of the day I'd personally also want Discord integration. Being able to directly talk to the people who support you is super important.
In fact that's where most dev updates go rn since I hate the microblogging on Patreon/Ko-fi with a passion.
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Yeaahh the primary thing that keeps me away is that the best I can do is show names in the worlds ... that's it.
Not even sure it can do early access like I do right now. It absolutely can't do the goodies/assets that I'm releasing nor can I keep a dev log.
No thanks.
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Yup. People do that a lot actually based on what I've seen in my friend circle.
You get burnt a few times by a _really_ bad asset and you'll understand why people do that. More common when creators don't list polys/material slot counts.
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Straight ramp connecting the edges of the steps. Mesh colliders generally suck. Getting you pov shook rapidly while going from a to b sucks even more.
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Can I also have the entire shy bean? Wouldn’t mind cuddling one of those for a while 😳
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The only time it's been helpful is when I do super repetitive things (think 10 properties with similar naming and associated behavior) ... which typically doesn't happen unless I get to deal with Udon (which just happens to be primitive enough that you end up repeating yourself a lot more).
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Depends on how fast your subject is ...
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Can relate ... when I signed up I was in a pretty dark place. Things have gotten better since ...
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It was also there when you played the simplicity version of that venue ... mwahahaha
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Yuup. Played through Banjo Kazooie on a tablet ages ago ... It was hard.
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Something something making complex lists work correctly is an absolute pain due to the lack of layout support.
Here's a layout utility. But we won't let you use it in all contexts because screw you!
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Does that also apply to less nude thigh high pics and such? Asking for a friend 😳