I'm pretty sure it was all his idea, including the smug marketing-driven leadership. Sounds like he had exactly the team he wanted working on this thing.

The law does not differentiate, which is why he has gone to great lengths to maintain his anonymity.

It's weird that you seem to think that, in order to be an act of rebellion, something must be legal. You also imply that a thing cannot be two things.

When John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, he committed a crime, an act of rebellion, and a murder.

Personally, if Banksy tagged my house, I would be so fucking happy. I could sell my house for a shitload if it had an original Banksy on the side. That would be like getting mad if you went on vacation and someone broke into your home, didn't steal any of your stuff, but completely remodeled everything so it was way better than before. Sure, they committed a crime, but it would be weird to complain about it.

You could have made the distinction between immersive games and casual games without the weird 'no true Scotsman' fallacy.

Yes, "gamer" traditionally refers to someone who plays a bunch of console or PC games, but you still sound ridiculous getting on your high horse about it as if gaming is some sort of noble pursuit.

The OP was wrong and pedantic. You're just pedantic. I roll my eyes at both of you.

Apparently you do not have much experience with macOS. I have my gripes about it, but I have yet to find the perfect desktop operating system. I still have gripes about the Linux ecosystem, too, they are just different.

The only OS that really fits your description is Windows. What a piece of garbage.

In this context, allies means people who give Trump lots of money and use the money he sends them via government handouts to reshape the media landscape so it benefits his fascist aims. This is absolute cronyism at its worst.

But I guess you are okay with ill-gotten gains as long as they are properly laundered.

Pretty much all those big solutions you are talking about are being replaced with SaaS solutions as the boomers who made these spreadsheet monstrosities age out of the workforce. While I do not like the cloud-everything part of this, at least the data is in a database, where it belongs.

Collabora office is LibreOffice. The UI you want is two clicks away in regular LibreOffice, it just is not the default.

I hate the ribbon interface. It is extremely inefficient. Things are hidden, it requires multiple clicks to get to basic functions, and it takes up too much room.

The best word processor interface is to put the LibreOffice toolbars vertically to the side like how Adobe interfaces work (or ClarisWorks back in the day). It frees up the most vertical space, which is what you always need more of in a word processor, and you can quickly get to everything you need.

Collaboration.

Physical media is a waste of resources at a time when we are already doing everything possible to destroy this planet.

Also, physical media makes little sense for movies/shows you will only watch once. Which is most of them. Again, it becomes wasteful because I either have to have to drive to Blockbuster or have Netflix mail me a DVD.

I completely understand criticizing the way streaming is implemented, but in no way does physical media provide a real advantage. If it became popular again, they would just find an even more complicated DRM and make it just as shitty as it was before.

If you think of every published paper as a grant application for the next round of research, then this would not seem strange.

I think it sounds like positive and interesting research. That does not mean that we should make any assumptions that it will actually turn into a viable solution to the nuclear waste problem, but I think cynicism is equally unwarranted. At the very least, lessons are being learned that could help us find better ways of dealing with nuclear waste in the future.

It is unfortunate that basic research frequently gets misappropriated as propaganda, but the research is still important.

Gnome is still the default on the biggest distros, but KDE really should be. KDE is something a non-Linux user can immediately find usable. It does not take much to make Gnome usable, but the biggest Linux distros should not have a broken by default DE that takes several extensions to turn into a DE that has the functionality users expect.

If I write an article based on a giant e-book that I didn't read, and merely pulled out quotes an AI helped identify for me, then how am I supposed to know what context those quotes were provided in? Your suggestion to do a search and check the quotes does nothing to solve the problem that I have not read the book. It only functions to solve the problem of "I need to make it appear as if I have read the book."

If I had read the book, I could just use that basic search function to find the quotes to begin with (since I would know what I'm looking for), and since I would have to check the AI using that same search function, no time is saved, extra work has just been added.

The problem is in cases like this where "oversight" would have taken just as much time as not using the AI to begin with.

A lot of coders can save time with AI because oftentimes "checking the work" means running a function. You test it the same way you would had you written it yourself.

But with writing, "checking the work" means doing the research that you were trying to avoid by using an AI. In the example from the article, he tried to use the AI to extract and organize quotes. If he had used the AI to do that and then double checked that everything was extracted correctly, would any time or effort have been saved? For the same reasons, math teachers can grade their students' work much faster than English teachers, and hence they can provide students with many more graded assignments.

The people peddling AI have no interest in distinguishing between when it can usefully solve a problem and when it cannot. They pitch it as the solution to everything.