That trying to blame this all on AI is kind of specious. Gamers have a lot to be pissed about. Maybe AI was the trigger, but Companies involved in gaming have been treating gamers like shit in recent years. I think it is more like the crows coming home to roost.

AI can be blamed on two aspects. First is the replacing humans part. That's the obvious one. The other one is the fact that AI is the latest reason GPUs, RAM and SSDs are expensive because Nvidia decided to prioritize AI over gamers and not producing enough GPUs to meet demand. At the same time AI is pushing demand for RAM and SSD storage so prices have risen 400+% the past few months.

Gamres being treated like crap, well, is inherent in the industry, which usually results in games being modified, not cancelled outright or studios closing. And usually that anger is pointed at the big studios like Ubisoft, EA and Activision, not on smaller studios and indies who generally are far more accommodating to their audience.

And how will that impact FOSS? You have to remember copyleft depends on copyright to work.

If non-commercial infringement is allowed, that removes GPL from power. Because I can say make an improvement to a piece of GPL software, and as long as I don't make it commercial I can release my changed software without releasing the source code.

So I take Linux. I add my closed source driver to it, and only provide you a Linux kernel binary with my driver built in. I distribute it freely. I would not be violating the GPL because your non-commercial infringement would bypass the need to follow the GPL. This can be brought to an extreme where I sell a hardware product for Windows. For convenience, I also provide free on my website a Linux kernel binary with the driver on it. The product is designed for Windows and all the software stuff I provide is Windows based. But a Linux binary exists for someone to play around with it on Linux.

That would be non-infringing non commercial use of Linux, allowed by your copyright law. And since it's allowed by copyright, I don't need the GPL.

GPL requires "all rights reserved" - if you don't have the right to distribute, GPL gives you that right through an alternate means. So in my example, under the present law, I couldn't distribute Linux because copyright law lets me use it under "all rights reserved" but forbids me to distribute it. If I want the right to distribute I have to follow the license known as GPL which provides me with additional rights only if I follow it. Thus, non-commercial distribution of Linux would mean I could get away with releasing binaries without source.

YouTube makes sense, but X? X is just annoying and I want to disable it on my discover feed. Because everytime you click on it just wants you to log in. At least with other news sources, you get the rest of the headline before logging in so you can decide. With X you just get half of a thought.

Plus the whole Elon Musk thing makes it a lot more irrelevant for my day to day use. But X is special and I can't seem to disable it from my feed. I can block other sites entirely, but X only lets me block one by one.

It's also likely not a priority. People forget that login managers exist, and they work independently of the desktop environment. I mean, you log into any non-Linux machine graphically and it asks you for a username, password, and what environment you want to boot into - you can often have basic ones like twm or fvwm, full fat KDE and GNOME, even ones like CDE and Java (on Solaris).

You picked when you logged into your machine, not when you installed the OS (e.g., Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc). Generally speaking that's likely why no one bothered to maintain compatibility with BSD - you just didn't need it.

Yes, which is why gasoline pipelines exist. There will be days when the pipeline carries say, 87 octane gas, and basically all the refineries move their 87 octane on that day, regardless of if it's Esso, Chevron, Shell, BP, etc. It's all pushed on the pipeline and they grab it at the other end. It's basically all mixed up in the end.

Then the gasoline is prepared into fuel and that's where all the detergents and other additives are added to the gasoline. The minimum amount is actually dictated by law - so all those "Max Octane with cleaning keeps your car performing its best" ads aren't lying per se, but even the 87 octane has a minimum package of detergents, additives and stabilizers required by law.

(I actually simplified the gasoline description - it's not actually 87 octane because octane is just knock resistance and many fuels use octane boosters. It's why you can get beyond 100 octane gas. It's actually just "gasoline" and octane boosters are added at the end like ethanol. Yes, that's why you have E10 and other blends - they are used to improve octane rating. Other octane boosters you have heard of is "lead" (tetraethyl lead, which is why you also hear it called "ethyl") which was banned in almost all gasolines in the mid-00s worldwide. The only leaded gasoline is avgas, and even that's being phased out by 2030, it's just a really hard problem when you have engines spanning nearly a century).

Snaps, Flatpaks, AppImages and such solve a particular problem - how to universally package a Linux app. As in if you want to release a piece of software for as many distributions as possible, these methods are the "universal" method to work in basically all Linux distributions.

Docker solves a slightly different problem but it too can be used to solve the issue. Docker is a userspace "virtualization" format which lets you create a custom userspace necessary for your program. Some programs have dependencies that basically no distribution can support - usually because the libraries needed are cutting edge latest versions that few distributions would have except in their testing branches. Thus you can use Docker to set up an environment where you can customize the userspace as you need it. Maybe you're trying to get a very old program to run - it doesn't run on modern Linux, but needs say, Ubuntu 14.04. Setting up 14.04 on modern hardware can be a nightmare, but you can use Docker to set up a 14.04 user environment to run your program under a more modern Linux system.

Of course, it's really all solutions to address DLL Hell on Linux - a very real problem since very few libraries generally try to maintain binary compatibility across versions making it a potentially tricky process to keep things running. And other libraries can fail to maintain API compatibility so you end up supporting older versions of a library far longer than you want to.

(Docker is not actually a virtualization platform. It's doesn't virtualize anything - it's just an application that uses namespaces on Linux to fake applications into thinking they're running alone on the system - as far as the Linux kernel is concerned, it's just another process that's being isolated from other processes in the system. It's important to realize that any kernel level exploit run within Docker will still affect the "main" system).

In an office it's easier to do performative productivity where you look busy buy aren't actually doing anything productive. It just looks like you're not deadweight because you're getting something done.

Deadweight is easier to hide in an office than it is WFH - because things often get passed around more informally as in "Hey Joe, can you get me those X numbers for the week" instead of doing them yourself. WFH those kinds of people would be constantly asking for stuff over Teams and such and be much more annoying and easier to point fingers at.

The top talent leaves. The deadweight hangs around.

Yeah, I don't see the real loss here. He already has the final output - he used ChatGPT for grant applications and such, and probably used it for drafts.

He lost his draft work and notes. He still has the final results. People lose notes all the time - it happens. You write them on scraps of paper that later get lost. Or once the final paper is done, you chuck the notes in a box and never look at them again until they get tossed out as garbage during a clean.

All he lost were is intermediate notes and stuff he did with ChatGPT. That stuff can be recreated but shouldn't need to be because it lead to the final work.

The EU probably does want worse relations with the US... the narative that "The US is steamrolling all you helpless tiny European countries" bolsters the EU's power even further. Honestly, it's all heading towards authoritarianism at this point; dark times.

Probably, and at the same time, it's not like the US government isn't helping in that goal.

After all, Sun Tzu said to never interrupt while your opponent is making a fool of themselves. With Trump trying to bluster his way around the world, the EC just has to poke him the right ways to convince people that's what the US is going to do.

All the EU and other countries have to do is appear to be the more reasonable one. Apple can complain all they want - they've also dug their own grave, so even Apple's narrative isn't without suspect.

Apple complains to the US government, Trump blusters some more, and both Apple and the US government get painted in an even worse light.

Meanwhile this happens, Apple is panicking about what the EU is going to do, and all the EU has to do is wait. See what happens next. Maybe Apple cracks and offers something.

EBay's buyer protections mean they will have to deal with more seller/buyer service disputes that may arise from people using agentic shopping assistants.

That's likely the problem. They don't want to deal with returns or other things because your agentic AI bot mistook "RAM box" as actual RAM and payed way too much for a box. It's likely to result in sellers being inundated with refund requests because they wrote their descriptions that fooled AI bots and such.

And any proper solution like "you're responsible for your bot's purchases" will likely go unread.

Plus they probably don't want AI bots constantly scraping their site and the load that puts on their server and then filtering out half the listings.

Shorter people make it possible to reduce seat pitch so you can stuff more of them in an airplane.

But some airlines are starting to demand passengers use the bathroom before boarding to save money as well.

Yeah, but enterprise printers do. They often have a hard drive and can be configured to save a copy of every print job to the hard drive. And the filenames and usernames are logged, I've seen the status messages and print logs on them (they're usually accessible to users if you go for the recent prints screen to see if you printed your file to that printer).

But I've also seen options to save printouts to hard drive for later retrieval and printing, so it's not too big a stretch to imagine a printer that can save a copy of every printout. Usually you can download them and preview them before requesting a reprint. They're not easily available as a PDF or anything since it's just saving a copy of the file that was spooled to the printer. Most also can often save a copy of everything scanned for copying as well since it passes through the same hardware in the end.

These are basic enterprise class printers. Not quite your basic home office printer, but the big ones that look like copiers and have all sorts of fancy collating and stapling and other features.

Most offices don't use such auditing features because they generate just a lot of data - if people are constantly printing stuff out you just have a lot of noise to deal with and having to have someone go through every printout to see if it's suspicious is a lot of work. But I suppose if you're a sensitive government office you might do and have a whole team of people whose daily job is to go through and examine what people printed

If they're being dubious, that's because they likely realize that anything like that could easily be applied the other way. If an official can be arrested for making a mistake on a form, chances are so can any other official for any reason.

That could easily apply to anyone - including say, the spouses of the judges. Make an innocent error (e.g., check the wrong box) and risk arrest.

The courts have already set up a huge minefield with their shadow docket with rather thin explanations making it hard to avoid hitting precedent because they failed to explain themselves so you can't go "that was different". It's entirely possible they may write themselves into a corner where they're forced to rule against their own interest because some lawyer creatively applied their own decisions against them. And because those rulings were thin, they have to come up with a reason why they were wrong that time but they don't have anything to explain the initial decision.

The thing is, when you take Ozempic or other GLP-1 drugs, things happen. Things that are scary to the food industry because one of the huge side effects is the stuff that makes food "good" and "cravable" suddenly stops working.

You can want potato chips, but after taking GLP-1, one chip will make you feel very sick like you ate poison. Several people I know report that they no longer crave their favorite foods because it just tastes bad, makes they sick, and other things. Healthy foods like vegetables and such, no such problems.

Some even reported feeling full rather quickly and feeling sated the whole day afterwards. So they don't even want to eat.

It's basically a miracle drug and the food industry doesn't want to face a drug that makes all their attempts at making junk food addictive suddenly stopped working.

Well let's not be too hasty. If they anti-vaxxers want to remove cellphones and wifi from their homes, I think we should be all for it. It's a lot harder to spread your misinformation when you're chained to a computer you know. And recording vertical videos to appeal to the TikTok crowd is oh so much harder.

Let them have their study and let them voluntarily remove cellphones and other modern tech conveniences from their lives. Heck, maybe because of it the enshittification of the world will slow down because they'll need access to offline stuff.

Plus, it goes directly against big tech - Apple, Google, Facebook, etc - the banning of cellphones and such.