The app was not very good but it was pretty lightweight at least, and had no ads. Sad to see it go.

Now this YouTube Music Podcasts thing seems a bit off to me. It's not clear from the description if the podcasts are coming straight from RSS feeds like other, normal podcast players or if hosts have to upload them to the YouTube system.

If it's the former, I don't see why anybody would bother with the app since there are many adless alternatives to YouTube (podbean and antennapod are pretty neat), and at most Google would only get a little extra bit of interest data for said ads.

But if it's the latter this means that they are trying to do with podcasting what they did to music, attempting to consolidate a single big hub for it (regardless of whether the authors consent) and creating their own new chokepoint. A lot of people already post other people's podcasts on YouTube with dubious permission.

If successful, that'll be yet another medium completely enveloped by the Google ad industry. I would like to pretend people would be too angry at midroll ads in their history podcasts, but the boiled frog is mush at this point.

It's kinda funny because I just watched a Doctorow interview from a couple years back where he talked about this exact thing happening. Let's see how it plays out.

Edit: apparently it is direct uploads only, but Google promised it'll have RSS feeds next year. Might as well pirate all those shitty "2 bros talking" dead podcasts for some dollar.

Unity’s runtime fee will be collected once a game “has passed a minimum revenue threshold in the last 12 months” and “has passed a minimum lifetime install count,” according to the blog post.

Unity Personal and Unity Plus customers must pay $0.20 per install after reaching $200,000 of revenue in the past year and having more than 200,000 lifetime game installs.

Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise users will pay $0.15 and $0.125 per install, respectively, after making $1 million in the past year and having more than 1 million lifetime game installs. (Those fees will decrease as higher thresholds are met.)

You literally pay less the richer you are. Most efficient system.

Thankfully the retroactive bit was dropped, but Jesus what a horrible decision. Really sucks that Unreal is also complete trash for 2D development (which is the main indie environment), but at least Godot got more devs.

As the first-ever democratically elected leader of the UAW, Fain, a long-time union member himself, has taken a more confrontational approach to negotiations than his predecessors — including filming himself throwing Big Three automaker proposals in the trash.

He has repeatedly doubled down on the union's key economic demands – including 40% pay raises he says would be in line with CEO wage increases, the restoration of pension and retiree healthcare and cost of living adjustments.

That's the spirit!

The UAW walkout is the 17th strike in the U.S. involving more than 2,000 workers so far this year, according to data from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

This kinda confirms a bit for me what I thought was just some confirmation bias, that the US is getting really strike-happy. Good for them!

In the 130 days since the WGA strike began, the AMPTP has only offered one proposal to the WGA, on August 11th . Since then, the companies have not moved off that proposal even though the WGA in turn presented our own counterproposal to the AMPTP on August 15th . The current standstill is not a sign of the companies’ power, but of AMPTP paralysis.

One executive said they had reviewed our proposals, and though they did not commit to a specific deal, said our proposals would not affect their company’s bottom line and that they recognized they must give more than usual to settle this negotiation. Another said they needed a deal badly. Those same executives—and others—have said they are willing to negotiate on proposals that the AMPTP has presented to the public as deal breakers. On every single issue we are asking for we have had at least one legacy studio executive tell us they could accommodate us.

When the companies send messages through surrogates or the press about the unreasonableness of your guild leadership, take those messages as part of a bad-faith effort to influence negotiations and not as the objective truth.

Every day Christmas is getting closer and I definitely didn't expect this strike to last until then. These media conglomerates really do have infinite greed.

This got me by surprise, since right before the first round he had some 3-4% of voting intention, suddenly got 23% of the votes and is now leading the second round by ridiculously large margin in a strange, unsourced X (Formerly Twitter)™ post here.

I'm not particularly acquainted with the politics of Equador, but considering that one guy was murdered the other month, polls are getting very wonky, and this article, is it weird that I feel a distinct smell of dollar?

Anybody here know what's up?

I've heard this term a couple of time but never actually looked into it, and it is such an alien concept to me right now. I apologise in advance for sounding dumb here.

I can understand slums and favelas having a harder time getting access to fresh food, but how come entire government-recognised and incorporated neighbourhoods with electricity, water and all those more complex services can't have small grocery stores for basic healthy things like rice?

My gut answer is "yes!!!" or "revolution" but I want to hear what y'all think. For those unware, some creative professions such as film writers get paid a small portion of all revenue generated by their work after it's been produced, which is called a "residual," and it's part of their current fight with hollywood not properly paying those residuals due to the streaming loophole.

Since most programs that are profitable are based on the work of long gone developers (basically capital that gets worked on by machine labour), I think this might be a great demand for an eventual software development union.

What do y'all think?