https://openarena.ws/svn/source/assets/COPYING

So glad to see a Red Dwarf comment!

Thank you! I needed to see this comment, the whole premise of this post is icky to me.

It's definitely done, apparently new development is still happening, but there hadn't been a new release for a long time.

Assets are licenced under the same licence as the engine, GPL2.

Licence for game assets: https://github.com/OpenArena/gamecode/blob/main/LICENSE

How about not hard code this in the first place. If they are hell bent on this logic then let each instance admin list the instances they want to use?

The terror of war.

Nobody wins in war, and I hate how angry this photo makes me feel.

I really want to watch that movie again now. Thanks for the quote!

I don't get it. I'm not seeing the same thing, and I can't find any reference of anyone else reporting the same issue online either. Either this isn't an accurate report, or it's some very specific A/B testing. I can't find any options in settings that mention this functionality either.

I think it's valid to boycott Russian companies, or any companies that supports them. Justifying it to be the best search engine doesn't necessarily make it right. And yet I still have a paid Kagi subscription, but I don't blame people who don't, and think their use of Yandex should be more obvious.

Agreed. I pay for Kagi, and find their search better than any other, and struggle when I'm forced to use another search engine temporarily.

Agreed, AWS make pricing deliberately difficult to control.

Check out budget actions, you can set that to stop EC2s on certain thresholds. Not perfects but can help. Also if you can use parameter store instead of secrets manager, you can save a bunch of money there too.

That's awesome that you've surrounded yourself with people like that - but people that believe this shit do exist and there is enough of them that it's still a huge problem for many people today, just acknowledging it happens and it shouldn't can make a positive change!