And recommend that people switch to Signal.

Seems like the typical case of workers producing things of value that can actually be sold...

If the workers had produced "things of value" in the past couple of years instead of uninspired, repetitive and boring slop, the company would not have been bought by Tencent. But the didn't and now Tencent is cleaning house.

I for one think it's a good thing that incompetence has consequences. And I hope Ubisoft can find its way again, and eventually starts delivering good games again.

It does have environmental benefits because there is no point in amassing 20+ USB cables over time, and companies increase their profits.

If course, it would have been nice if they'd removed the cables and made the products cheaper.

From TFS:

A frustrating paradox emerges for recent graduates: They can't get hired without experience, but they can't get experience without being hired.

To get experience as a software engineer, all you need is a laptop (not even a great one), an internet connection (not even a fast one), and time. Most development tools are free, a lot of tutorials and documentation are free, and so are many libraries and other assets.

Create a GitHub profile. Make a public hobby project that goes beyond a todo list or space invaders, and put it there. Make some non-trivial contributions to open source projects. Add the GitHub link to your CV.

Not all recruiters are able to appreciate that, but several do.

And if you get started with that years before you actually look for a job, it documents your "passion" is real and not just a buzzword you dump into your CV like almost everyone else.

Some recruiters can do the math and understand that 5 years of hobby projects and 2 years of occasional open source contributions translate into "experience".

It's going to be interesting to see how many of them are the same kind of people that vocally have been "considering leaving" Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter/X for years, and will be doing so for years to come.

But CGI [...] don't tamper with the substance of a performance

Counter example: A de-aged Robert De Niro in "The Irishman" who still moves like a 75 year old man.

Many international conferences use Anywhere on earth for their deadlines. That way, nobody can claim they mixed up the time zone. And yes, some people will get a few hours more than others, which has no relevance as these deadlines typically last weeks or months.

In Soviet Russia you leaks Zuckerberg.

• While games initially cost about the same on PC as on consoles, the price eventually goes lower than the console version. After a while, you can get most PC games for 10-15 USD/EUR on sale, and many indie games even cheaper.
• Almost all games on GoG.com keep working for decades on Windows, and so do many of the games on Steam.
• If you buy a game on GoG.com or Steam, and it supports multiple platforms, you have to buy it only once.
• At least some games are available DRM free.

For 10 years, they put up with changes that degraded the quality of their work. Only when their hourly wage was at risk, they quit.

While their were multiple reasons why both Suicide Squad and Concord failed, ultra-realistic graphics was not one of them.

Several people unfavorably compared the graphics of Suicide Squad with earlier Batman games from the same developer.

Concord was widely lambasted for having some of the most hideous character designs in the history of video games. In particular, color composition and proportions showed a large lack of knowledge of the artistic theory behind.

... is the fact that Apple had to increase the minimum RAM on all their current hardware without raising the price. Gone are abominations like a MacBook Pro with 8 GB RAM that constantly has to swap to the SSD.

The current Mac Mini at minimum spec probably has one of the best value for money in Apple history. They probably fix that with the next upgrade cycle.

And EU citizens even get more RAM for the same price without AI (for now).

There is really no surprise nobody wants to make their training data public.

That not true, see for example sigma.ai or kaggle.

How useful these data are compared to closed data (that possibly were scraped illegally) is a different matter entirely.

From the reasoning quotes in the TFS:

[W]e want Open Source AI to exist also in fields where data cannot be legally shared, for example medical AI.

That's fine. Just share it under a different moniker not diluting "open source". For instance, "open weights" seems to already be in use by quite a few people, and feels fairly descriptive of the actual situation.

Laws that permit training on data often limit the resharing of that same data to protect copyright or other interests.

That's fine. Similarly, both open source and closed source software have been co-existing for decades and both seems to have their respective audiences. But if you need to use a lot of terms like "permit", "limit" and "protect" to make your case, it's not really "open".

Don't get too excited though, Django LTS typically means 3 years. Which is somewhat decent, but not really very "long term". In comparison, Ubuntu LTS means 5 years of free support, and optionally another 5 years of paid support.