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It’s okay. If you want something genuinely as good as Google, if not better, Kagi is what you want.

Rightists: "Socialism is when the poors get any manner of social benefit."

Never mind that the poors are the primary source of the funds for said benefit. We live in a system where the rich control a system that allows them to plunder from the poor and funnel those funds to themselves.

Capitalism is theft, and theft is capitalism. Capitalism is good.

But pooling our collective resources for the general benefit of all us... that's bad. That's socialism.

How DARE the plebes be allowed to spend their money on themselves when some multimillionaires that destroyed their billion dollar businesses need a bigger yacht and a fourth European vacation home!?

That doesn't work with AI for a variety of technical and practical reasons.

Two people could, completely coincidentally, generate something that is so similar that it looks the same at a glance... even with dramatically different prompts on dramatically different models.

No, the output of an AI is fundamentally "coincidental" and should not be subject to copyright. Human intent and authorship MUST be a significant factor. An artist can still use AI in their workflow, but their direct involvement and manipulation must be meaningfully "transformative" for copyright to apply in a fair and equitable way.

Yes! This is why the hate I see for Epic (or non-Steam in general) bugs me so much. Epic has done nothing but right by developers. While they could definitely make their storefront/app better (and they claim they are working on it) for the customer experience, I have nothing but respect for them as a company.

I will still buy games on Steam first, given a choice, but that is only because I am now a staunch acolyte of the Steam Deck, and installing via Steam is much easier than trying to get EGS games running on the device.

OSS is not a panacea, especially when there are upstream dependencies. Even things you think are safe can be compromised or enshittified. It happens all the time. The important thing is to take a close look at the indicators.

Right now, as far as I'm concerned, Godot and UE are both very safe bets, depends on your project and business needs. Epic's license is not conducive to retroactive shenanigans the way Unity's was. Epic clearly invests heavily in fostering customer trust.

They do, though. Not only do they offer multiple, flexible licenses, their basic license specifically guarantees that it is irrevocable. In fact, if that basic license isn't good enough, they are open to license negotiation.

I strongly recommend reading their basic license. It's already one of the most fair and reasonable "out of the box" licenses in the industry.

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal

I liked Windows 11 when it first landed, then came the forced updates that continually reinstalled trash you removed... like Edge and Teams. And then came the invasive advertising for OneDrive and other Microsoft products.

I'm running dual boot now with Debian + Gnome on a separate partition, and slowly weaning myself of Windows entirely. The only thing I'll miss is GamePass.

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in weeks. And to be clear, I have read a lot of monumentally stupid nonsense in the last few weeks.

I’d say more, but @Aurenkin nailed it, so I will defer to their comment.

Because they realize that a huge number of their customers are small indies, and they want to be able to squeeze them - the majority of their customer base - not just the minority of big companies (who are also the most likely to fight back legally).

Just look at how their scheme squeezes smaller, poorer developers way more than big ones. If Unity went by points like, say Epic does with Unreal, they could shake down the big developers… but wouldn’t get much out of the indies.

I only charge my phone via MagSafe... and the roadside emergency feature is coming to iPhone 14 as well, so I will probably sit out this upgrade cycle.

Honestly, this refresh was so unimpressive I'm surprised they bothered to have an event at all.