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Yep, this is more or less a VAT in disguise

I miss old contextual advertising. Like you read a sports website, you see ads for matches, sports gear, etc, all based on the content not the user preferences.

I hope wherever money they are saving trying to enforce this lawsuit, lose 100X in lose subscriptions and PR. It's so mess up, where a company can enforce contracts from an unrelated service, just because they are the same holding company.

This is the type of behavior antitrust authorities should enter to break the company in different entities.

I wonder if this would become more common with things like ChatGPT.

Let's say you've been working in place A, you show your code to an LLM service (like the dozen or so Copilot-like services) and tell them to refactor. And for the sake of argument, let's say the LLM uses your code and questions for its next training dataset.

A few years pass, then you go to work at Place B, and ask a question that happens to be related to the problem that Place A's code solved, and they give you Place A's code as is.

I'm so grateful to John Riccitiello, without his pricing changes, not as many indie devs would have jumped on Godot.

No, this is a Cry (for the) Engine.

In an age where the typical user has to install and reinstall games because storage is limited and games are getting heavier and heavier... that's going to be a problem.

Feels Like Malicious Compliance, so MS can say "See, technically we're Repair Friendly" similar to Apple "repair program". But with those prices, unless the device has sentimental or software value, you're better buying a new one.

For some context in pricing, a battery for a framework laptop cost $59 US (now in discount for 50).

They should ask for the testimony of that famous hacker who leaked, I think his name was 4chan /s

I'm stunned by this.

How is this even legal? The youtuber got the packs from the company through a logistical error, didn't sign an NDA or embargo agreement, and gets armed mercenaries at his door for 'leaking' when the company did.

This it's some criminal level of intimidation, something you expect from a gangster or a cyberpunk dystopia where companies bypass the state establishing arbitrary punishment for internal rules you didn't sing on.

I hope this guy lawyer up, and get as much as possible from them.

Why a company with the minimum brand awareness thought this was a good idea, it's still beyond me.

Yes and now. Yeah the VHS VS Beta situation was exaggerated, but you'll be surprised on how much on Netflix, and youtube UI tricks were stolen from innovation made in adult sites.

I'll even say that the high bandwidth push in the public was highly related to that. Even HTML5 video players, adult websites were faster to implement it than big streaming websites that still used flash or similar tech.

For a moment I tough was a parody of that meme of kids discussing "Is Fortnite Actually Overrated?"