He secretly paid people to grind his POE2 character to become a top-leveled character and then claimed credit for it. Yes, he is pretending to know what he’s doing.

Not only that, but we make it goddamn trivial for not just Wikipedia but for other Wikimedia projects. Doing this is just stealing without attribution and share-alike like the CC BY-SA 4.0 license demands and then on top of that kicking down the ladder for people who actually want to use Wikimedia and not the hallucinatory slop they’re trying to supplant it with. LLM companies have caused incalculable damage to critical thinking, the open web, the copyleft movement, and the climate.

The scene in The Incredibles where Helen is flying the plane uses accurate pilot slang as she communicates with the tower.

Oh shit, the tone police are here. I’m not under the impression the person I’m responding to is going to change their behavior after this has already been widely talked about to death for years, and so I really don’t care what tone I use. This person is helping make the lives of real, actual, perfectly innocent trans people (and especially the lives of trans women) hell because they a) don’t care about those people or somehow more pathetically b) do care but can’t restrain themselves from buying themselves a children’s toy to that end.

Is someone upset they can’t fork over more money to the rabidly transphobic piece of shit and the media conglomerate megacorp?

You looked all that up and neglected the definition of commercial and commerce.

No I didn’t, but I knew someone with no idea what they’re talking about would insist otherwise without a shred of evidence. Commerce is the voluntary exchange of products and services. If I give you a pig for a goat, we’ve engaged in commerce. If I give you a toothpick for two dollars, we’ve engaged in commerce. If I give you some data for money, we’ve engaged in commerce. If I paint your house so that you redo my shower, we’ve engaged in commerce.

this one however is actually involved in commerce

Cool story. How?

• The Signal app is free. It’s free to be compiled on its own. It’s free to be downloaded from the Play Store or the App Store. It’s free to be downloaded from their website. It’s free to be reused and redistributed and modified by anybody for any purpose at any time. At no point is Signal ever given anything of any tangible value by anybody for a download.
• The Signal app is free to use. No feature of the Signal app is gatekept in a way that would allow you to pay Signal anything of any value to use it.
• Signal’s servers are free to use, and it can be self-hosted.
• Signal does not collect any metadata on you in a way that could be worth anything to any commercial interest.
• Signal does not contain advertisements within its application or on its website.
• As the Signal Foundation is a 501©(3) non-profit, we can look at its form 990. Part VIII (page 9) breaks down income. 10.12 million was made in licensing fees, 0.14 million made in service revenue (keeping in mind that this can be any service, and it’s transparently obvious that Signal doesn’t make service revenue; past press releases have indicated that the Signal Foundation helps companies like MS incorporate the Signal Protocol into their messengers, which is likely where this comes from), and 8.4 million gross on selling securities. (I imagine the licensing fees are giving big corps like MS, Facebook, and Google the rights to say they use the Signal Protocol, which while an open standard is likely trademarked by the Signal Foundation. That doesn’t make Signal a “commercial app”.)

Please enlighten me how this constitutes commerce, because you haven’t actually said anything other than “yuh huh”. The Signal Foundation engages in commerce, but to say that the protocol or app or service is a commercial product is nonsense that not only has zero evidence but is disprovable.

(Signal isn’t a commercial app. It’s free as in freedom, free as in beer, and free as in “there’s no data kept on you to possibly sell”. The Signal Foundation is a 501©(3) non-profit, and the Signal app’s development and running costs are funded through the Signal Foundation. Please stop using this “commercial app” line.)

I really don’t think this is true. It might push some politically engaged users to Firefox, but unlike Musk, most people don’t know who Thiel is, and as long as he keeps it that way, nobody will care.

Justice Department is 100% lobbing this over to JD Vance’s buddy Peter Thiel who’s going to enshittify it even further and turn it with its massive install base into a tool for techno-fascism.

So basically anything that makes it more useful than just doing it yourself.

Not even close, but okay.

Dude fuck off.

The great thing about RISC-V if you care about sovereignty in an age where CPUs run the world is that it’s an open standard. Contrast this with x86 which is owned in some part by US-based Intel and some part by US-based AMD as well as ARM which is owned by Japanese-owned, UK-based Arm Holdings. If you want to use x86, you’re shelling out license money to Intel and AMD, and if you want to use ARM, you’re shelling out license money to Arm Holdings. You never truly “own” what you’re producing.

Bruh what? 💀 I chose the highest-profile and arguably best emulators for each major system, let alone that almost every other modern one uses GitHub too. If all of these emulators are flying under the corporate radar, I will deliberately inject myself with rabies and die a slow, agonizing death. I couldn’t come up with this shit if I got cross-faded on meth and fentanyl.

Legitimately shocked that this abject fucking nonsense got three upvotes. Want to know how I know Sony knows PCSX2 exists? Two former PCSX2 developers are working on “ports” (read: shitty, subpar emulation) of PS2 games to the PS5. They got their jobs because of their work on PCSX2.

Edit: I’m going to go off a bit more, actually, because I’m sick of living in an era where zero-information dipshits can just say any unresearched, unsubstantiated bullshit online and put it into immediate contention with obvious, demonstrable facts presented with sourcing by a subject matter expert:

• I’ve included a Wikipedia article where applicable; these articles will often have links to these emulators being discussed in popular gaming outlets.
• This doesn’t even count emulators like Snes9x, PCSX-Reloaded, and Project64 which are no longer top-of-class but which have their own Wikipedia articles, were wildly popular in their day, and host their code on GitHub.

Just a reminder don’t have emulators on GitHub.

I don’t like GitHub, but this is simply untrue. We host the PCSX2 project on GitHub, and GitHub even donated some amount at one point to the project. The following major, top-of-class video game console emulators (non-exhaustive) are officially hosted on GitHub:

PlayStation:

• DuckStation (PSX/PSOne)
• PCSX2 (PS2) (Wikipedia article)
• RPCS3 (PS3) (Wikipedia article)
• shadPS4 (PS4) (Wikipedia article)
• PPSSPP (PSP) (Wikipedia article)
• Vita3K (PS Vita)

Xbox:

• xemu (Xbox)
• xenia (Xbox 360) (previous Wikipedia article deleted)

Nintendo:

• Mesen (NES etc.)
• bsnes-hd (SNES)
• Gopher64 (N64; recently started as a successor to simple64)
• Dolphin (GC/Wii) (Wikipedia article)
• Cemu (Wii U) (Wikipedia article)
• SameBoy (GB/GBC)
• mGBA (GBA)
• melonDS (NDS)

Sega:

• Genesis Plus GX (libretro core for multiple)
• Flycast (Dreamcast)

Atari:

• Stella (Atari 2600) (Wikipedia article)
• Atari800 (Atari 8-bit/Atari 5200)
• A7800 (Atari 7800)

Misc:

• BizHawk
• MAME (Wikipedia article)
• ares
• higan (Wikipedia article)
• libretro (Wikipedia article)

Keep in mind that I’ve only chosen what I believe is the top one or one of the top ones from major consoles. If I could pick multiple per console, this list would be a mile long.

Yeah, to me, the PlayStation might seriously be one of the ugliest major home consoles of all time (beaten out by the PSOne which looks like a cheap toy). And this isn’t even a generational thing: a grey N64 and Sega Saturn stand head-and-shoulders above the PlayStation in terms of looks. Cool how compact it was, at least.

People focus on mortality too while failing to account for the sorts of lifelong disabilities viruses like these cause when you do survive them. Absolutely sickening.

A comment that says “I know not the first thing about how machine learning works but I want to make an indignant statement about it anyway.”

Obviously the newest Intel is the 13th generation

Erm

Fascists always eat themselves in the end.