Blue_Morpho

Your mom is lying to herself.

Why tho?

The title of the article is extraordinary wrong that makes it click bait. There is no "yes to copilot" It is only a formalization of what Linux said before: All AI is fine but a human is ultimately responsible. " AI agents cannot use the legally binding "Signed-off-by" tag, requiring instead a new "Assisted-by" tag for transparency" The only mention of copilot was this: "developers using Copilot or ChatGPT can't genuinely guarantee the provenance of what they are submitting" This remains a problem that the new guidelines don't resolve. Because even using AI as a tool and having a human review it still means the code the LLM output could have come from non GPL sources.

Steam was by no means the first form of DRM While there was a game that had online authentication before Steam, Steam popularized it to make it industry standard. Copy protection is very different than online authentication that restricts your ownership rights. . If you bought a CD or floppy disks in a store, you were buying a license to use the code on the disks, but you were explicitly denied the rights to resell Absolutely untrue! You were denied the right to copy the software. If you bought a CD, you absolutely had the right to resell it.

Purposely making code and behind the door deals to exclude any browser development or success for years does, yes. There was no code to exclude other browsers. Netscape at the time was the monopoly web browser. Netscape failed because Netscape 4 was a disaster. JWZ wrote about it extensively. I personally experienced Netscape’s failure. Netscape 4 had a bug in their dialer that couldn’t handle area codes. When I called to tell them, despite having already paid tens of thousands to Netscape in licensing fees, they wanted $80k to look at the problem. I called my friends who ran other ISP’s to ask them what they were doing because Netscape 4 was broken. They said they weren’t even trying- they were shipping only IE 4 on their CD’s. I wanted my customers to have the choice so I spent the development time to work around Netscape’s bugs and had my tech support field the calls. Netscape ran themselves off a cliff. The Netscape coders themselves said so. It is utterly ridiculous to claim that MS sabotaged them somehow with “code and deals”. So is Netflix a monopoly then because it wiped out video rental stores? As I already said, monopoly is a label given to businesses that have dominant marketshare. It doesn’t matter how it is obtained. Once you own the market, you have restrictions placed on you that smaller companies don’t have to keep the free market working. Monopoly is again, the manipulation of market forces and regulatory control. That’s not the definition used by the government. You are declared a monopoly and after that restrictions are placed on your actions.

Steam is not the main force behind that. Steam started it! You must be too young to remember the uproar in the gaming community about HL2 being the first Steam game and requiring Internet authentication to play with the ridiculous restriction of not being allowed to resell the game you bought at the store. It was years later before they eased selling restrictions but still never to the amount that consumers enjoyed before Steam existed. Gabe was the original techbro: “Hey I know it’s illegal but what if we do it anyway. Then we use the profits to pay the lawyers to make it legal.” It’s why France sued Valve to require them to follow the laws that exist for everything else. videogameseurope.eu/…/video-games-europe-welcomes… Steam was like Walmart moving into a new territory- with the added consumer hostility of adding restrictions to purchases that consumers used to enjoy. It was because of Steam’s success that other businesses realized that consumers would take abuse if it meant they could get their entertainment conveniently.

Trump purging his best staff like Stalin in 1938.

Stop connecting to My connection. Connect to your own.

but actively doing things to make other browsers difficult to download and use on their operating system. That is absolutely not true. I was President of a mid sized ISP at the time. We shipped both IE and Netscape on CD for consumers to pick which they wanted to install. The bundling was a problem because of their already pre existing dominant market position. Apple is not declared a monopolist because they do not own and control chrome Microsoft did not own and control Netscape’s rendering engine which was the really dominant market player. Apple uses their market position to make Safari the majority web browser in the US. (phones outnumber home pc’s and Apple has over 50% marketshare.) go ahead and contact epic’s legal department. I don’t give a fuck about Epic. Steam is Walmart and Epic is Kmart.

It’s to stop someone with rights to generate keys If it was only about developers then consumers could have the right to resell their game at whatever price they wanted.

It was restricting the web browser market. If bundling a web browser is an uncompetitive act that requires government intervention then Apple, Google (Android), and commercial Linux distros would also be sued by the government. Microsoft was sued, not for the action in isolation but because of their monopoly position. They didn’t get their monopoly from bunding a web browser. They already had a monopoly. People overwhelmingly chose Windows because it was the best. At the time Linux didn’t have consumer friendly distros and MacOS was still cooperatively multitasked like Windows 1.0 from 1982. Steam’s monopoly destroyed ownership of games. You used to buy a game at Egghead, and when you were done playing, you could sell it for whatever the free market said it was worth. Steam’s monopoly also means you can’t open a small game store- they wiped out those businesses just like Walmart. Vendors deal with Walmart because a tiny profit of being in every Walmart is better than a large profit from a few stores exactly like vendors sell on Steam.

Microsoft purposely hindering the ability for competing software, Nope. MS was declared a monopoly because of marketshare and therefore had to add support for competing software. Offering a better service that attracted customers. Monopoly is from marketshare. How it is obtained doesn’t matter. Once you are the biggest company you need to have restrictions placed on you so that smaller companies have a chance to compete.

It only applies to steam keys. A steam key is the receipt that you paid for the game. It is ridiculous that companies get to skirt laws by saying, “It’s on a computer.” Imagine you buy a car. Years later you go to resell it for less and the manufacture claims you can’t because the sales receipt that proves you are the legitimate owner is a “Steam Cars Inc key” and therefore all existing laws do not apply.

monopoly laws they violate A monopoly is holding a large marketshare. It is a label determined by courts. That the marketshare is from consumers picking the product is irrelevant to being declared a monopoly. In the late 90’s Windows was the overwhelming market leader for OS’s because the alternatives weren’t good. Linux didn’t have good consumer focused distros and was therefore used on servers. MacOS at the time was still cooperatively multitasked like Windows 1.0 from almost 20 years earlier. So Microsoft was declared a monopoly and had restrictions placed on what it could do despite all other competitors already doing what Microsoft did (like including a web browser). That’s why years later Apple was able to make Safari the ONLY web browser (all “alternatives” were just reskins of Safari) whereas Microsoft was forced to include support so that you could switch the default web browser.

The security is monitoring your public records. Could you link to any of their services that aren’t about public records like titles, credit cards, credit ratings? Because that’s all I saw on their website. There’s another company named aura that appears to be completely unrelated that provides security services in Malaysia- like physical guards for your business. I get the idea of mocking security companies that get hacked. But this is a bad example. All their data was already public. It would be like being mad at Lemmy because your username jjlinux and all your posts got “hacked” and posted to the Internet.

He didn’t need the job, they needed him.

but we’re literally talking about a potential currency alternative so the process/method is extremely relevant. You are holding up an imaginary system (crypto with all the safety of a credit card) against the existing credit card. We weren’t discussing potential ways crypto could be fixed. As crypto exists today it is not immune to fraud as you claimed.

I wish it was that way. Soo many ads are completely irrelevant. The only platform where I get good ads is google news (the swipe left on Pixel). It's filled with Adafruit ads. I'm cool with that.

Your comment was interesting but a complete non sequitur to start with the claim "I disagree". Nothing you wrote refuted the claim that the current "war on Iran" is more of a terrorist operation. Ukraine has boots on the ground so it's not really comparable to Ukraine.

You can have progress without forcing people into starvation because “it’s the system”.

It’s the other way around. An employer is legally responsible for an employee’s actions while working. Uber says, “They’re not employees, they just use our app.” So Uber has no incentive to carefully vet drivers. It’s only after an Uber driver rapes someone that they kick them off their system.

while still having an overall ledger to prevent fraud. That’s not crypto. If you get scammed using an old fashioned credit card, the credit card company yoinks your money back for you from the scammer. If you transfer crypto it’s gone.

Just because there’s a inconvenience for consumers doesn’t mean you make workers suffer instead of fixing the problem.

Just because the legal system is bad doesn’t make an illegal system better. You fix the legal problem. "I can’t find a cab doesn’t mean the solution is unregulated gig workers. “Don’t worry if an independent contractor rapes you, just give him 1 star and the free market will fix the problem.” Think of how much money Starbucks would save if they made their employees provide their own coffee machines, beans and paper cups. That’s where it’s going.

which is?

I'm guessing those tanks have been sealed from when you filled them? Gas goes bad primarily from absorbing water from the air, oxidation, and evaporation. Since the tanks were kept closed, the gas will last for years. Gas cans that are used frequently need stabilizer because every time you pour a little to fill a lawnmower, fresh air gets in to replace the volume poured out.

What happens to the guy that was driving it? Does he just blink out of existence when the car shuts off? The car is the car. I didn’t mention a person. I didn’t state that it is being driven. I asked if you believe the car is still running after being disassembled because anything is possible.

I don’t agree that the cessation of brain activity necessarily means the end of the subjective experience. What happens to a car when you turn off the engine and then disassemble the parts? Is the car still running? You believe in infinite possibilities so the chance of it not running is tiny?

There was a news story two weeks ago about Waymo taxis in Texas driving through 20 bus stops over a few days. The only response was, “company officials treat this very seriously and are working on a fix.” It’s bizarre how if you drove through twenty bus stops in three days, you would not only lose your license but be in jail on multiple charges. But if a corporation does it it is, “Oops, we will do better next time.” Utterly insane.

I’d guess cursive and AOL.

That’s a check are you were rich and old.

The answer is no on the immediate timeframe because current market prices already include Chinese manufacturing capacity. It will take years to build the factories that can bring prices down.

Get a 3d printer! I have been printing non stop fixing things.

Reply to Zephora so he sees it.

Not familiar with exactly what you are talking about but Amazon sells universal Dknobs for $8. You put whatever size you need into the knob.

But that leaves the utilities with alle the risk, Not if you make the data center pay for it. If a consumer wants a utility upgrade, the consumer pays all costs upfront. I know this because my neighbor works for the power company and was trying to get gas lines run to our neighborhood. The cost the power company would charge us was hundreds of thousands which even divided by the number of homes meant it would never pay off vs outlr existing cost for propane delivery.

The resources are finite whether the taxpayers pay or the corporation that needs the electric upgrade pays.

He did a comparison of products ending with a recommendation. That’s a review. I don’t know why you can’t accept that.

You don’t watch all of his videos which is why you have the wrong idea. It’s the 2024 video where he reviewed Tru Tone. If products are compared in detail and a suggestion to buy is given, it’s a review. It doesn’t matter what you think the channel is supposed to be. What matters is the content.

At this point you are nitpicking and being pedantic to attempt to “win” an agurment not being had. You wrote 3 paragraphs to avoid admitting that despite my writing about his detergent video, you responded with his dishwasher video because you haven’t watched all his content! Comparing samples with an independent lab isn’t a review? Come on. As I already said just because most of his content is “talking head”, doesn’t mean he can’t recommend products. Which he clearly has done.

His dish washing video went to great lenghts to explain how something works That’s a different video. He recently did another video of detergent and why his brand of detergent that he is selling for charity is better than pods.

Where’s the option for whatever I’m wearing during the day?

His dish washing soap video went to great lengths to create experimental comparisons to show his brand of detergent is better than pods. He has done experiments with other products too like dehumidifiers.

He is promoting a product. That product possibly has what many perceive as a severe defect (flicker). He could say it doesn’t personally bother him but still compare it to other lights in the same way he compared colors in detail. Is the flicker large or small? I love his channel and watch every video. But that doesn’t mean I have to ignore when he misses a detail.

Careful reviewers cover all factors independent of their personal bias.

I meant ignore in the context that he said it doesn’t personally bother him.

His obsession over color quality while ignoring the flicker is very annoying.

You really need a Cube XX or equivalent for Tate mode games. I’m helping!

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