Chaotic OSHW/FOSS dev/artist
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  • Imo it is more important whether the site can work with no js and no cookies than it being officially foss.

    If you can throw js out of the window - the amount of bad stuff that can happen is drastically reduced. And what you can already see in the html source of the page is literally what you get.

    And yes, there is such amount of websites (incl foss ones) and making them is so easy that maybe the constructive benefit to the humanity of opensourcing a particular one is minimal.
    At least unless it is literally a thing that threatens the privacy of billions of people. But those are not going foss or js-optional any time soon.


  • I am not sure what is the point of working at/with Ubisoft if you want to change anything. It’s also not like game developers have no other workplaces paid well enough. One collaborates with a company that is for long years openly dismissive of both their users and devs and is super conservative in their designs. It is not for fame either, because ± no player will ever know their names.

    It feels just strange. These people are fighting for what exactly? For better Ubisoft that was never theirs and never promised to be theirs? For little control over company which concept is clearly at odds with their mental state and which will continue to be at odds with them for many years to come even if they have a seat and will just slowly drain their life away?

    Isn’t forming their own company or joining one with closer views like a bazillion times better and lifespan-caring?