The problem is that too many execs are thinking like this guy. It’s not actually tenable to replace programmers with AI, but people who aren’t programmers are less likely to understand that.

Right and Windows’ direction is so clear and not hype-driven at all

Choosing to produce generic and soulless music for profit isn’t a good reason to dislike a band?

Yeah man, pull that ladder up behind you!

Except what he actually wants is for AI companies to be free to slurp whatever they want, but for average joes to still have the book thrown at them for pirating the Adobe suite.

Aren’t there already pretty specific laws about what amount of a work can be copied before it’s plagiarism?

To be clear, at this point BattleEye requires no effort from the devs to get working on Linux. On the contrary, the EFT devs have gone out of their way to ensure it does not run on Linux, and have deleted forum posts requesting a change in this policy.

The EFT devs have their heads very far up their asses when it comes to Linux. They specifically banned the platform and have deleted forum posts about the topic. Fuck em, there are better games in the genre by this point (Hunt Showdown runs great on Linux for example…)

https://lemmy.ml/u/yogthos?page=1&sort=Controversial&view=Comments

Boy, you’d sure think that if someone was a “race supremacist” that some of those views would be among their most controversial comments, huh? Instead of pretty objective statements combined with a good amount of anti-racist sentiment?

Yeah no shit Sherlock

No it wouldn’t, and there is plenty of discussion about those topics. What will get your comment deleted is thoughtless parroting of literal US propaganda.

Oh no God forbid people have consistent and coherent political views

I don’t think this author has any idea what she’s talking about. The italic paragraph near the top attempts to justify her ignorance, but she’s very clearly drinking the AI CEO Kool-Aid. AGI is not a stop down the road that LLMs are taking us on, it’s a hypothetical destination that we don’t even know if we’re driving toward. We can’t even define what causes consciousness yet, so there’s no way for us to model it digitally. It will happen eventually, but even the non-PR quotes in the article are hedging based on rough estimates and general trends. It’s totally possible that we go another century before true AGI, and that’s ignoring the real potential for big losses in scientific progress given current political happenings.

Have you tried recently? We’ve been pretty much at parity for years now. Almost every game that doesn’t run is because the devs are choosing to make it that way.

I think we all know this, but it’s the exact same argument for Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn. Getting off centralized, corporate, for-profit cloud services should be a priority for anyone who is philosophically aligned with FOSS.

The books are way better if you care to try.

Yeah SteamOS is nothing special. Any of the big distros can give you a similarly solid gaming experience these days.

I’ve been enjoying Tauon, it does the things I want

No, but that’s a local program processing and saving data entirely on your system. It’s a world of difference from what a web browser does, which is oversee a whole suite of protocols connecting you to remote servers and transmitting data back and forth in requests that build on and reference each other. With the complexity of modern web interactions, there’s a ton of reasons why a browser might need to store your data and share it with others, even ignoring profit-seeking motives.

And let’s remember that the last thing Mozilla got heat for was the introduction of a method to anonymize bulk user data for sharing & selling purposes, as opposed to the granular, extremely invasive tracking that 99% of websites are doing these days.

I see a company that needs to make a decent amount of money in a crazy competitive environment, that’s trying their best to do so in the way least destructive to user privacy and choice.

I more meant that the average user actually wants a significant amount of data collection and telemetry, as part of their normal web usage. There are some true privacy geeks who are actually maintaining near-anonymity on the modern internet, but there’s a lot of people who get riled up about things like this while using Android phones, or signing up for loyalty programs, using corporate social media, etc.