If you do not want to run the servers, open source it.

The problem with that, from Ubisoft's perspective, is that every moment you spend playing an "old" game is a moment not spent playing Ubisoft's latest game. They would probably argue that's stealing since they seem to feel entitled to customers continuously spending money on their new products. I guess I've "stolen" a lot from Ubisoft since I refuse to buy their products.

the studio argued that customers had purchased a licence to use the game, not unlimited ownership rights

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

Now why would you give away ANY portion of it, let alone a major ownership stake? That doesn't makes sense and is counter to human nature. You simply would not do that.

And yet companies do it all the time. In this case, the ownership would transfer to a different entity, but the concept is extremely similar. If Altman actually is on board with this, then he believes he's not giving away half of the company for nothing in return. Which raises the question: what does he expect to get out of this arrangement?

ports aren't insecure, protocols are

True.

The people who block ports pointlessly just because they've been abused in the ancient past are idiots too.

Huh? Blocking inbound ports in which you don't actively host services or outbound ports in which you don't require traffic is just good security.

You will note that Europe isn't busy doing the same thing with Chinese electronics and software. That's because as brutal a regime as China is they are at least predictable.

Agreed, although countries should also be questioning the predictability of China, especially with regards to their not-so-secret ambitions over Taiwan.

I don't think people really can process just how crazy it is that the president of the United States threatened to seize Greenland by force and that the only reason he stopped is that Congress told him no

In his second term, Trump has shown absolutely no regard for Congress. For the most part, he does whatever he wants and Congress just lets it happen. I'm still not certain what his intent was for disclosing ambitions over Greenland, but I narrow it down to one of two things: he was using it as a bombastic distraction from the fuckery he was actively engaged in at the time, or he does sincerely maintain those ambitions but he's starting with less controversial targets for Americans (Venezuela, Iran, Cuba) before he gets around to countries with more sympathetic ties to the U.S., such as Greenland and Canada.

Yes, it will make the economy more efficient. And just imagine how efficient the economy would become if we managed to eliminate the need for all spending!

Keep in mind that the "American Century" included nuclear nonproliferation. Which, to be sure, was already on life support. But it's dead now. We're all going to miss that.

This is especially true after the latest attack on Iran. The excuse the U.S. gave for that attack was to prevent Iran from creating a nuclear weapon (despite the fact that we reportedly "obliterated" their nuclear program less than a year ago). The irony is that the attack will likely strengthen the Iranians' resolve to develop a nuclear weapon since the U.S. does not attack nations with nuclear capabilities. And other countries that aspire to become nuclear powers are probably looking at that with similar sentiments.

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Science Foundation's $368 million Ocean Observatories Initiative

For reference, this program costs taxpayers approximately 0.368 ballrooms.

Absolutely! Public disclosure was always a courtesy. And bounties were set up to allow researchers a method of profiting on their discoveries without resorting to selling them on the black market, because as you pointed out, doing so is perfectly legal. In fact, researchers would likely make much more money doing that, so Microsoft should stop acting so entitled and make sure that they take good care of security researchers.

From the outside it's hard to know whether MS actually mistreated the researcher badly enough to justify their displeasure

The irony is that a lawsuit would bring that to light during discovery. Microsoft probably has little intention of following through with their threat of a lawsuit, but in the unlikely chance that they did, it could open them up to even more public scrutiny about how they address security issues. And if they did file a lawsuit, other security researchers could protest in solidarity by publicly disclosing their findings before notifying Microsoft. Microsoft: when you're in a huge hole, stop digging!

Because a strictly vegetarian diet can lead to deficiencies in minerals, such as iron, and vitamins such as B-12 and D. And it's not as easy to compensate as you may think. For instance, spinach is high in iron but the human body doesn't absorb iron from spinach nearly as well as it absorbs it from meat.

That isn't to say that vegetarianism isn't healthy - it's just that you need to put in a decent amount of extra work to avoid deficiencies and many people either don't realize it or don't follow through with it until they have issues.

Dell's laptops have really gone down the shitter in the past few years, but I've been extremely satisfied with their servers. Granted, I haven't used servers from any other company, but the couple of times I investigated alternatives I always came away with a strong preference for Dell.

No, systemd doesn't exist on the BSDs after all these years, and they don't plan to either

Nobody plans to get an STD, but after enough fucking around it becomes inevitable. FreeBSD and certain Linux distros are capable of running Desktop Environments without systemd due to extensive implementations of shims, which are essentially duct tape to provide the functionality that gets shifted to systemd over time. As systemd continues to extend its tentacles further into the Linux ecosystem, it requires far more duct tape to keep everything running. DEs may eventually reach a point where they contain so much duct tape that they become too hard to maintain. It may take many more years for that to happen, but it's certainly not impossible.

This is not as bad as I had originally thought. Apparently the Web Serial API only works with devices with a CDC-ACM (Communications Device Class - Abstract Control Model) interface and it's highly unlikely that most consumer keyboards or mice support that. However, there's also WebHID and WebUSB which may be able to interface directly with consumer keyboards or mice, but I don't believe any browser other than Chromium-based ones support that.

That's the latest incarnation of the American Dream, although you can avoid the morbid obesity part by taking weight loss drugs and spend the rest of your life looking like a player in NBA Jam's big head mode.