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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I emulate a lot of old games on my Steam Deck. It’s not too hard, but requires some work. I will do the work for non-Steam stores if/when there is something I want to play from one. However, I suspect not releasing your games on Steam will really limit your reach. My guess is that most people won’t go through the effort to get itch.io games work on thier Deck.









  • There are lots of options for open source licenses. Most of them will make your code changeable and runnable by anyone. The question is: does someone who takes your code and changes it have to do the same thing?

    If you don’t care if someone takes your code, makes changes, and then close sources it all, then the MIT, Apache, or BSD license is for you.

    If you want to keep each file you made open source, but let someone mix-in close source files, go with the MPL (Mozilla Public License)

    If you want to keep your project open source, but don’t care if a closed source project links to it and uses it as a library, then go with the LGPL.

    If you want to keep your project open source and force anyone who links to it to be open source as well, use the GPL.

    If you want to require even more openness, take a look at the AGPL. This requires anyone who uses your code to release their changes, even if they only run the code on their own servers and never ship the code to users.

    I personally like the MPL. I want to keep any direct changes to my work open forever. But if someone wants to fuse in closed source code, I don’t mind. It’s not a super popular license though. Most people go with the BSD/MIT/Apache licenses or the GPL.


  • I watched the first season and swore it off after the ending. It felt like none of the characters had real motivations, they just acted in whatever way would result in the biggest twists for the viewer. There was also a ridiculous part where a character is given a padd that says there are bombs all over Qo’noS. It’s just assumed that everyone will believe this and she can take over.

    All I heard about later seasons was that there was a “time-traveling Ironman suit”. Which did not make it seem like the show had improved.