Anyone I talk to about this agrees that the IP theft itself is not a problem but the difference in punishment between the big tech companies and the average person. If someone in a basement had made chatGPT or equivalent, they’d have been put in prison for life, or fined into oblivion. OpenAI does it and suddenly one of the richest companies in the world says “if anyone even thinks about suing or holding them to account we will defend them with our literal army of lawyers”. Then China does it and suddenly IP matters again.

Famously optimistic!

Do you have issues with controllers? I feel like I would miss steam input a lot!

One of these days I should really look at the specific differences that means Linux packages rarely experience this while npm it happens seemingly once a month.

I don’t know of any software that has no bugs.

Edit: typo

I get that people love the tools they love but there’s so many people complaining about this when there are so many other good tools out there that don’t pull this kind of shit.

I tried the rogue like dungeon crawler demo during next fest and it was fine, enjoyed it while I was playing it but quickly forgot about it. I’m not interested in the IP but interested in what they’ll do next since they kicked off an entire genre.

AI has evolved a lot, but the regulatory environment hasn’t in some industries like health where this shit can’t go anywhere near it. Of course there are people who haven’t used it.

Or modern vendor-locked in devices

Text editors with plugin support as potential vectors of malware is a pretty well known problem. It’s why at the very least organisations should be auditing the plugins used and actively monitoring them.

Genuinely worried about that when Gabe passes the torch. I’m glad most of their Linux work is going back to the commons and to open source tools so even if they do become shit we’ll still have decent compatibility.

Yes it’s indirect, but remember that Microsoft is one of their biggest competitors. This isn’t about seeing absolute profit from every change, it’s about improving linux as a platform to make it more viable for consumers, which will make it more viable for developers, which pushes more people to Steam and SteamOS as their first Linux distro and first destination for games. By making the platform perform extremely well on older/cheaper hardware they also create a market for other businesses to create hardware (Legion Go for example) which will increase the PC market and increase the number of people using steam since it’s the defacto monopoly. Yes, they won’t necessarily get every penny from every sale of hardware or even games since other game stores exist, but they will get a huge percentage from the majority of people in the PC market.

What business purpose does it serve to continually improve their product? Hmm. Gee. Hmmmmmmm. Geeeeeeeeee. I’m stumped.

This seems to be the European take too from what I’ve seen.

What’s all this egg doing on my face?

We need a Mozilla equivalent to killedbygoogle.com.

I thought we were unique in this but frankly everywhere in the “western” world is talking about the same things. EU has chat control, Australia has similar efforts, USA aren’t pushing for privacy at all so it’s not a uniquely British problem.

It’s a programming community, you’re programming, you’re fine.

Watching the series on netflix I had the same reaction.

Basically any channel that started doing “reaction” content. Oh you’re reading the top page of Reddit today? Cool, what creative value does that have to me? Absolutely none. Goodbye. I get that it’s really popular but I have no idea why, and I get it’s cheap to make but it’s also shit, so you get what you pay for I guess.

The only exception to this is Jimmy Broadbent who occasionally does his “Sim Racing Stewards” series which is basically his take on Reddit user submitted clips of their online racing mishaps. I find it really interesting to watch because he has so much sim racing experience and, albeit less, experience of real world racing with real life stewards and racing rules. It’s entertaining and interesting and I want to know his opinion on these incidents because he has enough context to have an opinion, and doesn’t act like his opinion is gospel.