You're right, except of course that is if you live in America where the Federal Arbitration Act has leaglised precisely this kind of contractual escape clause and also preempted any state laws that attempts to bypass it. Once again showing that America is land of the free [to get fucked over]

AI is sold as having capabilities it doesn't have. No one who uses AI trusts you, Dario. It helps a little bit, but your entire industry is telling us you have the cure for cancer, yet all you have is the equivalent of improved ibuprofen...pretty useful, but not the cure-all you promise. You tell us your AI can write code...well...that's true if you don't expect it to actually work. You tell us programming will become obsolete....which also means all white collar professions will become obsolete....yet we don't even see evidence that AI saves money. I use your product daily at work. It fails daily...at simple and complex tasks and costs a shocking amount.

Beyond the fact your product doesn't work....once it does, you're going to wreck the economy on a scale we've never seen...so we're kinda glad you're frauding us.

Then there's the reality today: You've raised our electricity bill and caused a MASSIVE chip shortage.

You're forcing something on us that doesn't work...most people don't even want....and you're making things we want and need a LOT more expensive.

You've made our lives tangibly worse and you definitely have not made my life better...nor most of the people's lives you impacted. You haven't even saved money for my employer or helped them. Our director is into AI-wishing....if you wish hard enough, eventually AI will increase productivity. Yeah, it's kinda fun playing with these tools...just like a roomba...but even with a Roomba, I can't throw away my broom. It hasn't actually tangibly changed how I keep my house clean or helped. It helps a little, but I wouldn't notice if it stopped running. Similarly...we can't say AI is useless, but we can't actually measure tangible benefits. There might be some there, but our day to day productivity is pretty similar, if the AI is even helping at all...and we've been using it daily for over 2 years now.

Only a moron would trust any tech vendor, including ones with good track records....you, sir, do not have a good track record. It may be better than grok or Open AI, but it's not a good record and your success rate is VERY low.

Odds in a small claims court are much better... for Amazon. For starters people buying low cost rubbish that burns their house down on Amazon aren't the same kinds of people that go starting lawsuits in a country which lacks a loser-pays legal system.

This isn't about Amazon. Amazon is a symptom of a wider problem. The underlying question is, why on earth are you able to sign your "rights" away? What kind of legal system lets you do that?

And even they had the sense to attempt to encrypt their shitty feature locally. Like seriously WTF is OpenAI thinking?

Putting an article with the headline "Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is 'Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust'" immediately above an article about OpenAI's tool which records sensitive information and then stores it for 48 hours unencrypted and sends some unknown data to their servers in the process is a complete master move.

Dear Anthropic, I don't trust you as far as I can throw you, and since companies are constructs not a physical thing I can't throw you at all, even in the slightest, even if I was god damn Thor.

Why would developers care about a completely underperforming store front with a small user base? I don't thing EGS Linux support will influence a single developer. Not one. There's a bigger store with wide spread Linux compatibility.

Do not confuse the Epic responsible for the games and the store (a true piece of shit company) with the Epic responsible for Unreal Engine. It's like chalk and cheese.

I'm sure the only reason Unreal Engine has Linux as a build target is because Sweeney and the rest of the amoebas working at Epic Games don't know about it.

Well given that EGS is an electron app I'm sure they could throw 5 tokens at Claude and have it done in their coffee break. I won't hold my breath for actual Linux support for the store or for any games that Epic has wilfully removed from Linux without reason. They have promised so much and delivered so little.

Sure, but as a consumer OS, used by ordinary non-technical people who just want to play games or browse the web, that's new.

The cops don't solve a lot of crimes I care about. If your car gets stolen you're still not getting it back unless it was just taken for a joy ride and it wasn't worth breaking down for parts.

There are much better ways to reduce crime than giving the cops the ability to stalk us. They aren't as cool in a dirty hairy cop movie kind of way but they actually work.

That's kind of the problem. The things that actually make our lives better for real are pretty fucking boring. They mostly involve committee hearings instead of the most powerful handgun in the world and counting the number of bullets in a shootout

They just roll and with a fuck ton of money is the problem. It doesn't even take that much.

Normally there are too many jurisdictions for them to bribe them all but we've given unlimited money to the top 0.1% so they've gotten to the point where they can start taking control of local politics. They've been doing it to the school boards for years so that they can control what your kids learn. Texas for example has put a specific denomination of the Christian Bible in their curriculum. And of course a specific version of The ten commandments. And since they control the supreme Court that's probably going to be ruled constitutional no matter how fucking batshit that is.

You have to completely change how people vote. And you have to start taking money away from people like Elon Musk and Peter thiel. Or you have to get used to constant 24/7 Big brother surveillance. It's one or the other you can't have both.

The Outer Space Treaty doesn't really help much here. It doesn't include anything about collecting resources, such as water on the moon. It says nobody can claim sovereignty over it, but that doesn't really do much to prevent conflicts over resource exploitation.

It limits the deployment of weapons, but again it's like civilian space programmes on Earth. They may be peaceful, but you can also strap a warhead to the same vehicle.

I find it interesting that in the end it was for-profit businesses that helped Linux hit the mainstream.

Valve with Proton and SteamOS/Steam Deck. Framework and System76.

Let's not forget AI either, which overcame the hostile community and outdated information problems.

As much as I love open source software, it seems like it will only ever be niche until someone figured out a way to make money from it.

We have moved far beyond "store-front". Modern gaming platforms like Steam or EGS are expected to support a wide variety of in game things including matchmaking (implies external friends list, which implies a social media structure like chat, ideally as an overlay so it can be accessed from within the game) along side a world of other management tasks, such as mod management, update management, achievement management, and that's before you look at things like providing a universal input API to expand hardware support like SteamInput.

Epic did launch "just a store front" and were widely criticised for it.

But they have one thing going for them, their store front is just a web front end. That's actually the biggest criticism. Their damn Electron powered shitshow is an insane resource hog sitting in the background of a gaming session.

No we need to move away from god damn web front ends. Unless you're displaying basic images and providing just a download link, native code a damn app.