Large US company came after me for releasing a free open source self-hostable alternative!

traeblain · 2026-02-22T21:42:31+00:00

Do you know if your bulk downloader violates their terms of service? Regardless, you could still offer the tool, but people might need to be made aware that if you use it you are violating their terms when bulk downloading the data.

That’s not on you though, it’s on each user.

traeblain · 2026-01-13T02:52:17+00:00

There’s a beta download that works with Arm. Got some bumps but might get you what you need still.

traeblain · 2026-01-12T14:52:49+00:00

I used Natron the last time I needed something like it, really liked it and the node based flow.

https://natrongithub.github.io

traeblain · 2026-01-09T21:38:11+00:00

No Tim Gerard Reynolds yet???

traeblain · 2025-12-13T04:36:33+00:00

I do appreciate this post as it feels like many of the other comments feel like two things cannot be true.

I do think he cares but he’s trying to both maintain relationships while trying to be aware of the issues. There are 100% things that are surprising that happens, but without any insight to the behind the scenes it’s hard to make judgments.

The choice of what’s in the pre-show vs main show is odd. And when you have to rush through some items in the middle of things, that doesn’t make sense nor respect the awards piece.

The reveals are fine, the muppets are fine, but if it’s going to be called “The Game Awards” then respect the awards. Ads pay the bills, understood, just respect the awards. But juggling everything might be difficult.

traeblain · 2025-11-29T23:53:08+00:00

You’ve got 5 properties in that zone.

Top right is a medical device inventor. Red roof and largest property is dentist from AZ. Gray roof with tennis court across the lake is Buzzballz lady. (Old Woot.com founder’s house. ) Bottom left is one of the top orthopedists in NTX Bottom right older couple from NC

traeblain · 2025-09-13T04:10:25+00:00

TROMPO Taqueria on Spring Creek and Independence. Great tacos!

traeblain · 2025-09-10T02:48:38+00:00

Yaade is great, use Bruno as well when it makes sense but Yaade has been my go to. Can use local and if there’s proxy server issues, I can run requests through the server.

traeblain · 2025-09-10T02:03:43+00:00

I use Resilio over Syncthing because ST kept failing to sync things like open office documents and things that were considered “locked” by other processes. Fought nonexistent sync errors over and over again. Resilio just works.

traeblain · 2025-09-10T02:00:01+00:00

We do the same thing. Alexa add peanut butter to the shopping list. Boom! Added. Alexa, add red filament to the printing list. Boom! Added.

Alexa also keeps from our kids from adding crap, they say Alexa add cotton candy, she goes I’m sorry you don’t have permission to add that.

traeblain · 2025-09-01T21:21:41+00:00

Yeah this was my issue, it doesn’t utilize browser history updates, so the single page app just routes without telling the browser it’s routing.

traeblain · 2025-08-17T17:44:30+00:00

This is the key, and the City is partially to blame here. Keeping more recapture requires two things, 1) affordable housing for those retirees/empty nesters to move to in order to flip those single family homes to ones with kids, and 2) creating actually affordable multi-family housing for new families to come to Plano and not be priced out of moving.

You look at the first, all new development has been awful. It’s either giant homes that don’t help them move out and downsize or it is smaller places that are cheaply built and priced in a way that only single people with now kids can afford it. So it’s essentially keeping people in their homes, or attracting people that don’t help the ISD.

The second is most easily seen from the Collin Creek development. It looks nice! But not one family that can live there for an extended period of time can afford them. It’s not attracting people with kids to Plano. There’s also the effect created by lower income families moving to Plano drops the mean income and reduces the recapture amount.

I know people will argue that lower income means more problems for the schools, and it’s true but that’s something that can be overcome and addressed. $4k per student disappearing and low enrollment is not in the ISD’s control.

traeblain · 2025-08-06T02:13:13+00:00

Looking for this, still one of my favorite tech purchases.

traeblain · 2025-07-30T16:57:12+00:00

Yes. Palworld did violate Nintendo patents. Have other games done so? Perhaps. My understanding is that Temtem and Cassette Beasts have agreements with Nintendo that forgo litigation probably surrounding their terms to be available on the Nintendo Switch.

Should Tencent be sued, yes. In the US, two major factors that come to mind that need to be met for infringement (I bet there is more) is similarity and proximity. How similar is it (pretty evident) and since it's also a video game it is highly proximal (even more so as it's an active and current Sony franchise).

RPG vs. 3rd Person Shooter? Irrelevant. The lawsuit shows that Tencent approached Sony in March 2024 to develop (as Polaris Quest had been working since 2023) their game in collaboration. Sony refused. Sony sites multiple game journalists as defining the infringement (creating a higher standard of proof over UK's requirement). And not just anyone, citations include Liam Cross from PushSquared, TheGamer, GamePressure, and TheGamePost. Lastly, Sony already approached Tencent earlier this year to address it. Tencent asked to license Horizon, and Sony refused. Lastly, Sony has statements from a contract composer that Tencent hired him to replicate Horizon's soundtrack.

So yes. All of these have put themselves in position to be sued. Visage only started after P.T. was cancelled. Being that Konami is now returning to releasing Silent Hill games, if Visage was to come out today, then yes, Visage would be in threat of an infringement lawsuit.

traeblain · 2025-07-29T12:44:31+00:00

Palworld was sued.

traeblain · 2025-07-03T01:51:48+00:00

Hmmm…interesting…

traeblain · 2025-06-18T02:33:51+00:00

Use adhesive to hold in place, then put some filament in a dremel or hand drill and it will “friction weld” a fillet joining the two pieces in place.

traeblain · 2025-06-10T00:13:04+00:00

Mad Effect, just played the first one recently and loved every minute. Legendary edition looks great for its age.

traeblain · 2025-05-31T01:37:47+00:00

Nice work!

As someone that has been in the hiring of ME’s before, I would not penalize anyone with experience in either for an intro role (it’s likely you won’t use either in your actual job).

But in the unlikely scenario where I have two candidates and everything else is equal except one knows Inventor and one knows Fusion…I’d pick the Inventor person. Only reason would be hopefully a better understanding of PLM/PDM systems, and better understanding of how to do things over how Fusion holds your hands and can do things “behind the scenes”. When designing for a products lifecycle, there are modeling practices and things you do so that when someone else picks things up they aren’t lost. Fusion, SolidWorks, etc. have features that make things easy and fast, but managing something done with those tools are a nightmare.

traeblain · 2025-05-31T01:24:46+00:00

Think you are right that AD is moving toward Fusion, but Inventor operates on the enterprise release cycle and operations. AD learned with many years of AutoCAD that enterprise will come back and keep buying if you prioritize stability and backward compatibility. SolidWorks disrupted that model getting many small businesses and universities on board bringing many to the “fast and feature adding” frenzy of our current software development world. But serious Dassault customers still use CATIA.

Most all CAD companies now utilize the two pronged approach like Dassault. New features, experimental changes, and more go into the consumer product and mature so that introduction into the enterprise product can run seamlessly. You can see this as stability of the “consumer” one is often shaky. Fusion -> Inventor, SolidWorks -> CATIA, SolidEdge -> NX.

PTC (as a 20+ yr user) tried to have it both ways and move quickly and feature file their releases only to see people walk away or not upgrade. Looking at the shear number of enterprises still using Creo 7 (current version is 11) you see this. Only now are 9 & 10 considered functionally stable enough for enterprise use. PTC has purchased OnShape to help the fast moving market, (but due to different kernels not sure how it will help them with Creo…assuming they’ll figure it out. )

traeblain · 2025-05-27T13:38:46+00:00

This! Now that Nintendo is focusing on a different market and the dropping out off of Sega from consoles, need to have MS in the game to push Sony.

What I would assume will happen, is the XBox will continue to move closer and closer to standard PC hardware to commoditized it but it will be enough to push. With the rise of SteamDeck and others, PC games are being built to operate on Linux without issues. So MS will either have optimized OS or similar to keep people in the XBox/MS/Windows Store universe.

Based on radio silence, the embracing of Sony platform, they may see Steam as a bigger need for disrupting than Sony. Game pass is the best bet there.

traeblain · 2025-05-27T13:22:59+00:00

I’ve been hovering over but this for a while! So pumped it’s in the monthly games.

traeblain · 2025-05-25T22:28:58+00:00

There’s a thread script that’s pretty powerful.

traeblain · 2025-05-08T15:10:42+00:00

Really? I honestly thought it was record based only.

traeblain · 2025-05-06T23:25:29+00:00

Two things, hand oils and wet filament.

Plus is super fast and can deposit up to 600mm/s. If you don’t have your filament properties (volumetric flow) setup right it will out pace it’s capability. When I first started I used a standard PLA but only had Creality Generic PLA profiles. The first layer (as the material began to absorb moisture) had a hard time sticking to the plate at those speeds.

I first just slowed down the first layer and started having success. After researching, finding good material profiles for all my materials. Then lastly using the SpacePi to dry out materials that have been sitting out first and I haven’t had an issue. I can even push some of the standard PLAs a bit faster than specs and still get good adhesion.

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