People on another forum have accused me of having an "axe to grind" when I remind others of philosophical or practical problems in replies to their comments. They've also accused me of actively avoiding keeping my information up to date. Is any of the following seriously out of date?
* "This tall" refers to console makers' requirements for financial stability, industry experience, and zoning and physical security of an office, which might block a studio funded as a bootstrapped start-up from porting even a finished PC game to a platform.
EDIT: Struck resolved issues
- 2-factor authentication on Twitter is expensive because it supports only SMS, not TOTP or U2F, and only one account per number at that.
You must be this tall* to port a video game that uses buttons to a handheld platform that North Americans are likely to own.(Discuss in more detail)- Games for current generation consoles don't support community-developed mods.
- There are only an estimated 105.4 million legally distinct musical hooks, and BMI alone controls a tenth of them. (Discuss in more detail)
- Code signing certificates are still too expensive for hobbyists and largely specific to each platform, especially for driver signing on Windows.
Not everybody is in a position to immediately switch to a web host that supports Let's Encrypt.- New web browser features requiring TLS (formerly called SSL), such as the Service Workers needed for offline web applications, do not work across a private network.
- HTML5 Application Cache was deprecated too soon, before Service Workers were ready.
- Without ads, a lot of websites would go out of business because they're not sticky enough for a monthly subscription to one site.
- Without JavaScript or WebAssembly, OS-independent rich apps would have to run in an x86-64 VM instead. (Discuss in more detail)
- Many rural users still can't get wired broadband.
- Sites are broken in Safari because not every web developer can afford a separate computer just for testing on a 2% browser.
* "This tall" refers to console makers' requirements for financial stability, industry experience, and zoning and physical security of an office, which might block a studio funded as a bootstrapped start-up from porting even a finished PC game to a platform.
EDIT: Struck resolved issues