Sure, the internet has its problems, but there's also a lot of good places.

There's websites, blogs, forums, which cater to a variety of interests. No need to deal with the likes of facebook, X, youtube, google, chatgpt, or reddit.

There are alternatives to them. What needs to happen is that these companies need to be sued by the USA, which is the home country of all these mentioned companies/sites, into oblivion for monopoly abuse. These are companies which genuinely need to disappear from the market because they're actively harming competition. There are more like them, but the USA seems to be not interested in doing anything about these monopolies it hosts.

But, really, the alternatives are there. Just use your favorite search engine — something different than google or bing — to enter the search query "(interest) forum blog", you'll get loads of results... and between all the countless iterations of those monopolies you'll see *drumroll* a site about your interest.

It was good for as long as it lasted.

No good can come from using AI on such a big code base as the Linux kernel.

And the problem it being an Electron app is exactly what?

MIT is _much_ more permissible than GPLv3. I can entirely understand Ubuntu jumping on a change of software, which does the exact same thing, but under a license which is more favorable for corporations.

That uutils is written in rust, is all a happy coincidence. Security issues aside, with MIT code they can do whatever they want, GPLv3 has all kinds of inconvenient consequences when they work on it. Some of them, I think, a company would be _very_ unhappy with.

I wouldn't be amazed if Canonical wants to be rid of everything GNU from their core OS somewhere in the future, simply because of the license.

That something is written in rust, doesn't automatically mean it's better. Also, as older does not automatically mean better, so does newer not automatically mean better.

They are FEATURES designed to share all your data with the entire world. People just need to figure out how.

Guess what? Now the essay you generated for school, now has a tell-tale sign that it's generated by AI. It makes it easier for your teacher to give you a failing grade.

Guess what? The book you entirely "wrote" with AI, now contains tell-tale signs your publisher will easily find, so they can blacklist you.

Guess what? Vibe coders are more easily caught in the act.

In general this is a really good thing.

The links in the article link to a previous article on /. and to an article on the verge. None of which has a link to the actual order.

Any bets? The eating of documents? Confidential work documents all of a sudden being suggested to your son preparing a presentation for school?

Anybody got any other ideas?

...that this will serve to drive off customers?

Art ought to be human work. When the majority of a work is generated by a computer it's a bad thing.

Electric guitars, synthesizers and such still qualify, because the it's the human doing the majority of the effort, the machine is just mindlessly producing sounds in accordance to what the human wants.

It becomes different when the human says: "Ok, AI, I want a catchy song about stars," and out pops a complete song with lyrics, beats, riffs, and a guitar solo. Where is the human effort in this?

...had a wonderful solution for people like these.

And then readers will refuse to read their books, because LLMs can't replicate the human and the book reads like it has been written by a machine â" which it actually was, at least partially.

Even something as simple as a name can be a dead giveaway.

AI stories, or stories where the author... Errr... Faker "only" used the AI in things like outlining, are a million a dozen. They're not unique, not even in their execution.

It may seem like a good thing that apple has this single app store for all of its devices, but the reality is that it is a monopoly. Monopolies tend to be a really bad thing for markets. If allowed to continue, monopolies tend to harm competition badly. Thing is, that they've got a solid revenue stream and nobody else even has a hope of getting a fair shot at obtaining a big enough chunk of the market to make them matter. The monopoly could also dictate unreasonable terms to people wanting to make use of their system.

Apple, for example, has been demanding a 30% commission from paid apps, subscriptions must be handled via its payment platform (again, with this 30% commission), and, oh yes, if Apple decides to compete with your app, you've already lost because they don't have to pay that 30% commission to themselves and they just preinstall their competing app with the next update.

This allowed them to branch out in other markets, competing under favorable terms with others. They're, for example, competing with Netflix and Spotify. While those are established brands in their respective markets. At the same time Apple does not want to be compatible with Android, it's only so because it was forced to be through anti-trust action.

Another monopoly is Microsoft. It used its dominant position on the desktop to push all competition to the point of irrelevance. Dr.DOS, Netscape, and Be Inc. (BeOS) come to mind here. Also, it is bending over backwards to make sure its office products are incompatible with the rest of the world.

In what universe?

The EU is a bigger market than the USA, you know.

Monopolies have always been illegal and should be appropriately dealt with.

A lot of the monopolies in tech benefit the USA a lot, but basically suck the rest of the world dry. Go to a given website: it's AWS; search for anything: one way or the other, it's Google (Alphabet); The dominant desktop OS in the world: Windows (Microsoft). All of this has lead to significant harm to the competition, no matter where they come from. Worse, they invade adjacent markets and suck the life out of those. So, yes, monopolies ought to be dealt with.

Who actually owns AND DAILY DRIVES an Ubuntu Phone? Sailfish anyone? Yeah, that's because of the Google/Apple duopoly.
Ok, Social media than: anybody got family members even familiar with any alternatives to facebook/instagram/X? Anybody familiar with Mastodon here?
Let's try messaging? Any real people use anything else than WhatsApp?

It's good the monopolies are being dealt with. Because, yes, they are a danger to our freedom... our freedom to choose.