You never had to do any such things for business. You just tell them theyâ(TM)ll be fined into ceasing to exist and thatâ(TM)s that.

We got all of the dystopian bullshit of cyberpunk, with none of the cool aesthetic.

I'm not on the engineering team at my company, but I do a little bit of coding as part of my job.

My company has a good AI coding policy: "You are responsible for all code you check in. You are encouraged to use AI responsibly, but you must check it for errors. If you turn in code that is bad, you can't blame the AI."

Plus, while we are trying out a few different AI platforms, we have token limits (I don't know what they are, because in my role I never come close to hitting them - but company-wide I know our budget is lower than one engineer salary.) And different platforms are allowed for different things. Any company-proprietary information is only allowed in certain AI platforms; and nobody is *EVER* allowed to put sensitive information (API keys, passwords, even user names) into any of our AI platforms.

In my role, I often interact with customer data (customer logs, customer integrations, etc,) we have exactly one AI platform we're allowed to put "customer data" in to, because it's the only one we have 100% control over the data for. That platform does have multiple models available, though.

As for what I personally use it for when coding? Debugging. "Crap, this shell script isn't passing through this environment variable properly over SSH, figure out what I did wrong."

Or "A customer wants to integrate our API with - write me a Python script that does " and have the AI look up that other company's API info and get me a starting point. I never directly use any of the code generated this way, I use it as a starting point for my own code. An "Oh, that's how that company's API works", which I then verify on the API documentation link the AI gives me, to make sure it was actually telling the truth.

In all nordic countries that has been a requirement since forever

Weaker than a 5 year old base model PS5. Costs several hundred more. GG.

Most of the world consumer law is very clear that if you give a license to use something, and its sold as "buy" rather than "rent" or "time limited" , its not revokable

Then what you are describing is not at all a license.

We never ever bought software to truly be able to do with it as we pleased. If this were the case, every piece of software would cost from dozens of thousands to billions of dollars per sale made. After all, nothing would've prevented the first buyer from legitimately making and selling copies of or otherwise sharing it with whoever they wanted.

I beg to differ. Acts of rebellion like this can land the "rebel" fined at best and in prison at worst.

Whataboutism is not actually an argument.

It WAS. I challenge you to provide a link to Darwin sources of MacOS 26.

It's not a "massive list" and the things mentioned are barely an inconvinience (oh noes, Photos drops location details and Facetime doesnt work unless you had contact within 30 days, oh noes). The biggest would be restrictions on the web browser and you can have per-site exclusions.

So what the fuck are you talking about?

I am reading through the list in your link and I don't get it - what part of this is supposed to be "unusable"?

"Author of Systemd Quits Microsoft To Prove Linux Can Be Trusted"

does not mesh with

"It is unclear why Poettering decided to leave Microsoft."

Apple Watch? Apple Silicon? Airpods and AirPods Pro?

Literally best-in-class after best-in-class.

You clearly aren't a fan. If you were, you'd knew the precise movie where instead of being competent and making the right decisions and getting fucked anyway, the franchise turned to supposedly smart people doing dumb shit all the time.