Do not, I repeat, do not infodump on someone today.

Hi, my brain is wired so that it obsesses over details, combs through data and sifts through documentation, over decades even, only some poor soul to give me attention, which promptly opens up the spigot.

Please be advised, you will know why VST2 instrument plugins can take audio input, but only because Native Instruments sort of “hacked it in” during the 2000s, even though it wasn’t apart of the VST2 specification, which Steinberg obviously isn’t a fan of, because even to this day Cubase won’t recognise audio inputs from VST2 instruments in Cubase, but you can with VST 3 instrument plugins, and even though VST4 was at some point announced, it was presumably scrapped because plans for VST5 was leaked time after, but never actually came into fruition. Really though, vendors should be distributing CLAP plugins and contributing back to CLAP, because we could really use an open standard beyond Steinberg’s proprietary SDK, but then people like Native Instruments, Arturia, etc would have to “port their plugins” over to CLAP, which shouldn’t be too hard since it’s sort of API compatible - though not really - but since they won’t see instant returns they probably won’t dedicate the billable hours… so anyways, I program Maxforlive devices nowadays - oh, wait. Butterfly…

No, I’m sorry. Zionists gotta project everywhere, now that people in the mainstream are aware of what’s truly happening.

Yeeeey I’m a majestic deer… don’t touch me!

Also known as catching up to Discord, until they reach feature parity and some people actually use it, and then BAM: service discontinued.

No, but as someone who just dumped Nova after realising I’ve been given some company free reign of my device (because I’ve had it so long) I feel Neo is closer to being a more comparable feature set… though still not as much as Nova

Everybody’s dead, Dave…

Better yet, tell them you’re dying, and if you need to, fake your death, move to Argentina, make that dive bar you always dreamt about.

Oh heck yeah. The first Godot driven VST effect? Yeah buddy… or clap. Do it in clap!

Si. We’re about to see how the iron dome stands against it. Maybe Iran has figured out a way to bypass Israeli defences…

Some subversion of 3, which is fundamental to a lot of software found out in the wild.

It’s taking away right of ownership. A direct license of ownership, a copy or copies, defines the parameters of which the user is allowed to operate.

Running locally with access to installer that can be archived allows for more individualistic control. Having access to a Steam library is one thing, but having a local Steam backup is also possible.

However, if a game relies on online functionality it could be frustratingly because it was a “live service”, “online only” or subscription based. In either of these cases, you’re being deprived of value, of control. It vests all the power in the distributor over the contents value at any given point and time, with control over scarcity and accessibility.

As such live services and subscriptions should be disparaged, because it only makes you subservient. Laws should be put in place to guarantee access to games executable and for them to be stored and run locally.

I say this because I think people at large are getting swindled right now and it’s so saddening.

Funny how a bunch of non-governmental institutions uphold colonialism and anyone who wants to partake has to play ball… it’s like as if there’s an empire, an empire with flags from China, workers from Mexico and intellectual property made by Indians… but I can’t quite put my hamburger on it…

If you subscribe to play video games, you’re an idiot. Musicians want to exit streaming now, while game publishers sees prime real estate for exploitation.

…well of course it’s beneficial to their product, and a detriment against everyone else, which is why I called it a conflict of interest.

Either that, or you used the wrong word. Care to elaborate?

Photosynthesisn’t, or in the southern sociolect, photosyntheain’t.

The logic is a little problematic, because it also means you mislead ordinary users, and honestly the infosec industry has a conflict of interest as well.

In my day, son, a WYSIWYG spat out HTML and CSS. It was up to you to integrate it.

Did you read the new features? CSS and HTML component testing, complete with web scalability (I.e media-query). Sounds very WYSIWYG to me.

But yeah, I know it’s an open source Figma, because Figma can ligma balls.

Is… is this the comeback of WYSIWYGs?

“American taxpayers do not want to invite the proverbial fox into the hen house,” wrote the officials, led by Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen.

…then wtf is TurboTax? Aren’t they getting way too much information regarding taxing, aren’t they becoming a central company with probably the economic oversight of an authoritarian nation?

Also… the IRS is where you file your taxes. To say they shouldn’t have a system to make that easier, while claiming they are getting all the information… when their job… is to get all that information from the tax payer in the first place.

Is these officials stupid, or do they expect their constituency to be?

Here’s a little theory; the IRS has been gamed for many, many decades, so that oligarchs can have an easier time hiding money and avoiding taxes, while ordinary tax payers are overburdened by an outdated, obsfucated, unnecessarily complex and archaic filing practice.

Again, US officials licking boot by way of acting tough.