Within “interactive entertainment”, we can divide things into four forms – patterns of design that, in theory, work in a certain way. Toy: Systems that have no prescribed goals Puzzle: Prescribes a goal Contest: Allows measurement, play session is limited Strategy Game: Obfuscates measurement, incomplete information requires ambiguous decision-making
I own an older Nixplay W10P frame from 2023 which, despite having gigabytes of free space, will no longer accept new photos due to recent mandatory changes in the Nixplay’s terms of service. I’m not opposed to a company charging for services but their reasoning of “rising storage and bandwidth costs” is unconvincing given both have declined significantly in recent years. It’s reasonable to speculate that the next update will continue to erode the reasons I chose the frame in the first place. Who wants to bet it will be something to do with AI?
We’ve recently finished two significant changes to how Mozilla Accounts handles password hashes which will improve security and increase flexibility around changing emails. The changes are entirely transparent to end-users and are applied automatically when someone logs in.
We released PyFxA 0.7.9 last week (pypi). This added: