Is that a surprise? If you don't know what I'm talking about open a private browsing window and go hit the Sign-Up button and see what happens.

We've been a closed club for years.

Apparently you can create an AI to get rid of these popups. I've heard this tool MongoDB may be useful for this.

That's a strawman argument. We're not talking about Curl. Curl's dev's took a different approach to what was going on and specifically determined they aren't legitimate and took no action. On the other hand FFMPEG devs looked at it and ... fixed the bugs.

So by what metric do you determine that this isn't legitimate and quality? The FFMPEG devs seemingly deemed it worth their time to take action after analysing the case.

Again, whoever read this "slop" decided that there was sufficient reason to then proceed to fix the bug. Why call it "slop"? If you felt the need to fix something then by definition it provided you with valuable information.

I agree Google should invest more in open source and that AI tools are creating newer and higher workloads, but right now it doesn't look like the work is worthless - based on the actions of the very team complaining about it.

Except that's the case for many bugs across many pieces of software. That doesn't make the bug less severe, it just makes the likelihood of being affected lower.

It's also one of the cases for depreciating and removing old code, precisely because someone somewhere will be running with it on by default. You say "included by default" and I ask "by whom"? I must have some 20 copies of the FFMPEG libs on my computer with all the different software packages that include them using compiler flags unknown to me and out of my control.

The problem is not Gema, it's that the legal system is stuck in the 50s and 60s and doesn't have written logical precedent for the kind of thing AI does. Gema are just a bunch of dicks, but the problem is currently the legal system *sometimes* agrees with them. That's the thing that needs to be addressed.

Can you use MongoDB to create an AI App that removes a shitty pop-over cancer which should never be a thing on a desktop browser? I'm not using the Slashdot mobile site.

While you're absolutely right, the current state of copyright law and technology is at a disconnect. We're in a world where we need to convince people of such analogies (and even here on Slashdot the idea of hearing and memorizing isn't clear (I'm in the AI doesn't memorize department, it doesn't store an original copy), so that analogies start applying in a legal context.

What we need is for laws to actually exists which address this curious situation of a computer "learning" from what it sees or hears. Currently we don't have any which is producing wildly inconsistent outcomes across the legal field.

You of course are a fan of throwing good money after bad? If it was so crap then it wouldn't be a bug worth fixing. Yet it was fixed.

It's not a surprise I don't get the rubbish logic you apply. No one does.

Correct, but supporting both is the most expensive. This is why many shop owners would like to eliminate cash.

Phones and tablets have supported rudimentary multitasking from the beginning. Some 15 years ago both iOS and Android introduced features to keep multiple apps active and running even if they weren't displaying anything. Split screening multiple apps were introduced on Android 7.0 in 2016.

There's nothing in the hardware preventing this. By the way iPadOS 26 introduced a full window manager.

Yep, that is unrealised potential. Apple being the limiting factor is what the entire story is about.

No a recession is a decline in the economy. You can cut one industry without going into a recession in a country. But yeah China has in part produced less steel and cement. Now do you want to discuss the everloving fuckton of solar, wind, and storage they are building out along with the fact that there are nearly 40million EVs on Chinese roads compared to close to zero in 2014?

But yes one must focus on cement and steel and ignore the words "in part"

And yet the results of the analysis align nicely with the amount of green energy they have brought online. It also is an analysis of all CCP statistics, the same statistics that had no problem pointing out emissions were rising in the past.

I don't know what your point is. Do you have any real criticism other than an ad hominem attack?

CO2 and smog are not related to each other. That much is evident at home where places like LA have *increased* CO2 emissions while eliminated the thick smog that used to blanket the city.

By the way China's air pollution in urban centres peaked back in 2006 but stayed steady for a few years after that while their CO2 emissions skyrocketted. However along with their greening ambitions they launched in a decade ago they also launched a clean air policy, and all pollution metrics have nearly halved in the past decade which is a HUGE DECLINE compared to their emissions.