To anyone promoting Affinity, they've sold out to Canva, a Venture Capital fueled mega corp looking for a public offering. Enchittification is inevitable.
Please look for FOSS alternatives instead.
To anyone promoting Affinity, they've sold out to Canva, a Venture Capital fueled mega corp looking for a public offering. Enchittification is inevitable.
Please look for FOSS alternatives instead.
I'm not thoroughly aware of their dealings, but these amounts of private investment aren't going to pay for themselves. If you raise 100 million, investors typically want a billion back, or more.
From the looks of it, Bitwarden might've tried to go with the Open Source model to get free development resources, trust (because it's an open source PASSWORD manager), and general goodwill. But now that they've deemed that got enough of a market share (or investors are starting to breathe down their necks), it's time to start raising the walled garden.
Even if they claim after the fact that it was a "Bug" that the client couldn't be built without their proprietary sdk. The very fact one exists is a bad enough sign, specially when its influence is spreading.
VC is a devil's bargain. Raising VC money is NEVER a good sign.
I wonder~ I wonder~ I wonder whyyyy...
I stand in solidarity with Godot.
The one owned by the state.
I've been tired of "modern" security doing nothing but annoy people. Recently, a Portuguese bank "innovated" by exclusively allowing login only on a mobile device. Yes, a clean web browser with 3FA is not "secure" enough, has to be done on a mobile device. Clearly, desktop PCs are too insecure to conduct transactions.
Therefore, because one does not trust their mobile device. One simply spun up a clean Pixel VM, shared my data with Google and just did their work there. Peak security.
I love it when marketing manages to spin Armageddon levels worth of copyright infringement into "spirit of the law" just because a program is magically called "AI". Machine Learning is just pattern recognition software.
Software that runs on data assembled from petabytes of copyrighted information... And then promptly resold to us.
We may decide later on if it's okay to do this. But I'm pretty sure that if it wasn't for the labels we'd have legal WW3 happening right about now.
Oh ho... No, you're not the only one I'm afraid. It was fine until a couple hours ago, the newest comments confirm it so. Not sure what's going on.
Hopefully Ross figures it out and it goes back up soon. Thanks for the interest!
EDIT: It's back up.
Hey folks, just sharing the message. I believe it's related to piracy as it frequently comes into contact with the preservation of media. As whatever is DRM Free and capable of working offline, is effectively able to last indefinitely.
If you're European and eligible, please consider.
Cheers
I know you mean this is as joke, but oddly enough, Pitfall, by Activision is still available!
Off the top, Krita and Inkscape. Haven't transitioned yet, but I have ceased receiving updates. Next OS workflow will no longer involve affinity.