No, sweeny does not believe in those freedoms. He believes in your freedom to give him money.

Specifically, Epic's financial interest here isn't their store. It's their engine. They want to sell ai features to developers. If you've ever heard Epic's pitch as to why you should use unreal, it's all presented in the form of having less employees do work. "Stop hiring shader developers, let the engine do it for you" "Stop hiring texture artists, let the engine do it for you"

Which, in and of itself isn't such a bad thing. But when the slop comes in, the quality goes down. And every damned one of us knows it. And he doesn't want us to know it, so his customers will pay for the new unreal features.

New version of Rectum now produces shit at 3 times closer to shit consistency benchmarks than previous versions of competitors Anus and Colon. Given that we've already decided that you just need more shit constantly and forever and will shove it into every aspect of your life, this must make you very happy.

We already have to cook our resumes for screening bots. There's going to be a lot more stupid automated systems crappily built on this shit we have to manipulate our output to please, and it will suck.

Unfair. It's modestly difficult to game.

Actual feature: it's got a reset button for dimwits with lots of money who are too stupid to learn how to solve one.

I don't personally understand it, thus it is magic is the defining logic of our time.

AI is the unmissable example, but pretty much everything about the current Secretary of Health and Human services seems to be another ideal case.

The only way to win is not to play.

I do think there is some tacit merit in the intolerably pretentious open source purist position. People find it annoying, but "If I don't control the exact source code running on my device, I don't really own it" does seem to be the resounding truth of 2025. And everything running in the cloud or a few specific social media websites just compounds the cost.

Every shitty business idea we could all see coming decades ago has come to pass.

The "minimum" spec is specified to run the game at 1080p low at 30 fps with upscaling.

The "recommended" spec is specified to run the game at 1400p medium at 60 fps with upscaling.

30 FPS isn't playable. It hasn't been for a decade. And at 1080p? What a clusterfuck.

Even unobservant parents don't deserve to have a child commit suicide, no matter how much you feel the right to judge them.

This is one of those recurring things in America where even things that already suck ass are proving themselves perfectly able to get worse to sell out what little value they have for pennies of extra profit.

Well,
I know about a (good no idea?) developer who had a lot of money.
He paid "online gamers" to harvest items for him in an online game.

Because he thought (and told so in public): "I love that game, and when I play it the 5h a week while I have time, I want to play it by the most potential".

Using an LLM for coding is more or less the same.

If you have to write 100 lines of code that you have clearly in your mind, and takes 3h to do right, but an LLM can spit it out in 30 seconds ... does that make you a bad coder? Using an LLM I mean? I would say your boss calls you a good coder, haha!

Focus the energy on any point of the planet - when the time is right.
And get away with it ...

How do you know? Who's checking?
Stupid question.

I am the one checking. Which was pretty clear from my previous post. /FACEPALM

What was your point?

Oh, you agree that "leaking" was tackled 100 years ago?

Because they did not run on pay check to pay check limits and/or still where able to do business without computers, or we simply do not know about them.

Again: a million dollar profit bakery which has 10 or 15 places to sell bread and 2 or 3 bakeries, with a computer crash still has the supply chain of incoming flour and other raw materials: as that was an agreed delivery contract months/years ago. So: no immediate harm. They might have some big long term customers (daily delivered) , and they just continue to deliver. Then the remaining customers are day to day passing customers.

While it seriously might be a pain ... they can continue.

And then look at the ransomware gangs: they are probably small teams ... they do not have the time to attack an absurd amount of companies, but have to do the research to find some which might pay.