Is Roblox really considered the metaverse? I feel like it's just an MMO with a game editor. Not that different than many other games with custom game editors. It feels like a stretch to call this a paradigm shift.
Well, Roblox is almost as metaverse as any metaverse. Metaverse is just a buzzword for MMO's with level editors, that are also supposedly selling land that's worth something, a good place for a corporate themepark and having business meetings with uncanny 3D avatars that sound like your colleagues.
I can also strongly recommend Gandi. Used them to manage 40+ domains for my old company. Professional and good coverage of the TLDs.
Nice is also that you can buy credits - that way I could renew a bunch of domains that expired at different times and filing only invoice to bookkeeping.
Of course not, but I’ve seen similar concepts before. And they all list some information about the business (especially monthly income) that are very relevant.
It can be - if you have client side code that you do not wish people to mess around with it's all about adding resistance to convince the person who attempts that it's not worth the time and effort.
Some examples:
- Licensing logic
- Anti-cheating for games and similar
Most likely it will be breached eventually, but no reason to leave the door unlocked.
It's way easier for him to have a high horse about doing FOSS "correctly" when he was in an academic environment with different pressures for most of his career. There'd be a different tune sung if he were an average Joe with business requirements to fulfill.
You do realize that he is not an average Joe with business requirements to fulfill because he decided to mount that high horse, right ?
This argument of 'Oh, he'd be singing a different tune if he had to deal with today's reality' is so naive.
The fact that he doesn't (/doesn't have to) deal with everyday reality is his whole point -- he has claimed that it is unrealistic to use software that confirms to his set of values, so he denied to participate in that reality.
The difference being that on apps like Infinity I might be entering info on third parties, like contact details of our clients/customers. On websites like HN I'm concerned only about _my_ privacy as I'm only processing _my_ personal data. On an app like Infinity, I would be processing personal data of third parties. So if Infinity has a data breach and the personal data of such third parties is exposed, I might be liable if I picked a platform with weak security. Before granting them access to the personal data that I process, it is my duty (under the GDPR) to make sure that they are actually reliable.
Epic released Unreal Engine for Fortnite about one month ago.
Meta have some interesting stuff in their pipe.
I think that especially Roblox will shift how the younger generation view games, with more emphasis on social. It is their MMOs.