Uh, huh, sure.

So lets say I am ahead in a field and have a few up and coming competitors. There is a simple solution to the problem, lets get the government to regulate us all. This causes our competitors to massively slow down as they have to respond to the regulations that I wrote (I don't have to slow down as much - I wrote the regulations such that I am already following them of course). There is also a cost to complying with regulations - it tends not to scale with size more like a static cost. As a large incumbent I can spend a billion dollars complying with regulations. That small startup can not spend a billion dollars to comply, even is I can limit my costs to something I can afford to pay - that is money I am paying regulators not engineers making my product better.

the actual production cost of $30 million as indicated by the tax writeoff stated value

The tax write-off can only be for part of the production cost, isn't it? You don't get to deduct the entire cost of the movie.

It's well-reported that WB sold the film below costs to Ketchup, and they paid $50 million for it.

Audacity has been on a very long journey to modernize itself. It wouldn't shock me to learn that they shipped it with functions that are being most widely used or easiest to carry over just to get over the hurdle of getting a major release out the door. It's a beloved tool; I know a bunch of people for whom it's a production linchpin, and I think the developers working on are aware of the number of edge cases where only some tiny fraction of their users make use of a feature. Those people can stay on version 3 for now.

IIRC, a lot of what needed to happen with Audacity was an overall change in user interfaces, which required a lot of deep thought about how people interact with the application. It may be that some of the unhandled features just don't align with the current user experience.

But the forced obsolescence caused by systemd is fine.

If the guardrails are so ineffectual to prevent the thing from happening, then they're not guardrails, they're guidelines.

The system was designed to withstand morons and self-serving grifters.

No it wasn't. The system has glaring flaws in that it requires all members to act in good faith. Soon as they dont, there are zero guardrails.

Who the fuck doesn't do it West to East.

SMHEO

Decades of appealing to the independents is what got us into this mess, they threw away their base.

There is a reason I qualified that with "open source projects for AI."

Toasters will fly (again) before Nvidia's graphics tech gets open sourced.

Nvidia has been a pretty big supporter of open source projects for AI over the last half-decade or so. Many of the company's technologies are open source, most notably their open-weights model, Nemotron, and Dynamo, their inference serving and distribution framework. So it would be surprising to see them do anything to close off the Hugging Face collection. If nothing else, keeping it open is in Nvidia's own self-interest. The frontier AI companies themselves are all designing their own AI chips (e.g. OpenAI Jalapeno, Meta MTIA), which reduces the amount of Nvidia hardware they need to buy. Whereas smaller operations using open source models will inevitably pair those with commodity COTS hardware, which is where Nvidia reigns supreme.

~nt~

We pay you to pay us, we're now doing Trillions!

Epic added a Linux build target to Unreal Engine 4.1 in 2014. And since UE5 in 2020 the entire development toolchain has been feature complete in Linux. Meaning you could make your Unreal game on Linux and then release it natively for Linux (and Windows/consoles/mobile devices/etc).

So while Epic has not been the best supporter of Linux, they have not been ignoring it, either. The core engine is ready. What's left is that the anti-cheat software (Easy Anti-Cheat) and the store need to catch up.

Epic looks to be hiring to improve the anti-cheat situation as it currently lacks kernel-level support, and this latest announcement indicates that they're working on getting EGS running as well.

So surely companies are going to line up and donate right . . . . right?