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I'm gonna be the annoying guy and ask... Why? There's an official timeline page and if you want more details there's a page on a community maintained wiki (even independent from the hell that is wikia/fandom/whatever their current name is). I understand there's sense of accomplishment in personal projects... But a lot of this seems to be done by AI anyway, and that's my main gripe. Why are we wasting computing like this? To me this feels on par to using AI for things that can otherwise be easily looked up on a search engine (as long as your SE lets you filter through the slop)

I'm sorry if this feels like a personal attack - it really isn't my intention, but why are we pretending that things like this have no impact? And yes I know massive AI usage in corporate environments, slop image/video generation, etc have much more impact and that even that is still small compared to the amount of compute used from training (EDIT: and yes, what i'm mad about is specifically the environmental impact from this wasted compute). But that argument feels a lot like "my single vote doesn't count". Could we try to not make it worse? Sorry for being a party pooper i guess.

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Congrats to OpenAI for yet another product that has nothing to do with the word "open"

I agree, and in fact I did not compare them. I asked an entirely different question.

You can re-read the first line of my comment if you think I'm putting those two things on the same level, and you will see that I agree with:

> He was a commercial opportunist, not a real activist or whistleblower.

It's not always black and white; let's be honest, yes, Kim Dotcom was probably more about piracy than freedom of whatever simply because that's where his money was. But:

> Isn't it wiser to stop at some point, and find other stuff to do, even if all your nerves say otherwise?

Do you think this should apply to, say, Snowden, Assange, and whistleblowers in general?

With all due respect (which is zero) HP can go fuck themselves, right next to Ubisoft

Lots of piracy sites (which, of course, i would never condone) have doubled their 0.00 usd/eur/jpy price tiers.

Yeah, companies would never do something illegal, or go against their own TOS; especially social media platforms! (/s)

They know they need these communities un-privated asap, because as soon as search engines start reindexing their ranking will take a huge hit (therefore guest users, therefore ad revenue). At the same time they have shown no interest in listening to what the community wants. They are Digg-ing their grave.

Please drink a verification can.

Also:

> Now, all smart TVs come with ads. But you still pay for the TV.

Here's the crazy other solution: let me pay for the TV and don't put ads on it. But I guess milking those who can't set up a simple DNS ad blocker (you wouldn't believe how many people don't even use a browser ad-blocking extension) is too pretty of a penny.

I honestly think answers like this one are the reason more software aren't open-sourced

I'm not a fan of Figma at all and I am forced to use it since there is no better alternative. I found Adobe XD was better but it's getting discontinued (EDIT: last time I heard - I might be wrong? Can't find info on this anymore) and it doesn't run on Linux.

My biggest gripe with Figma is the fact that you can only use components from the same file, unless you're paying (and even then you have to use a team, even if you are the only member, then create a project and add the file with the components in the project, enable sharing of the components, and make sure your second file is in the same project... not exactly a seamless experience, in a UX prototyping software of all places).

Shall you decide not to pay and give up to only using components from the same file, good luck organizing it neatly, since you only get 3 pages.

I used to think that every action these big corps do, has been calculated for months by a team of analytics professionals and even the most apparently nonsensical move has a calculated ROI. After seeing Meta burn money into their metaverse furnace and Netflix insisting on this, I'm starting to think that might not be the case. Then again, Netflix has talked about shared accounts for so long that it only looks like China's final warning at this point.

Netflix won over piracy because it was cheap and had a lot of shows that most people wanted to see. Watch them literally reverse both of those things - make it harder and pricier to use a legal service, and mostly have shitty dramas with one or two hits a year - and try to guess what will happen!