I’m sure minimizing the concerns people have with the Democratic centrists by writing it off as the AIPAC-funded will-endorse-a-republican-if-a-Muslim-is-the-alternative ones just having “had a weird laugh” will totally make them see you as a worthwhile and trustworthy ally!

No, just no corporate-owned users-as-a-product site. Millions of people are willing (and already do) host downloaded files from AO3 on their phones and computers. That’s redundancy.

My partner is planning to start using the Grimmory (ebook reader) instance I set up on our home network, when AO3 is back up. I suspect this has been a wake up call for a lot of fans that media is not safe in one centralized place.

I mean it’s sort of been over for Microsoft for a long time now, though to many non-IT folks it may not be so apparent.

I remember when 90% of web servers were IIS. And MS Exchange was every corporate email server, running on the 90% of servers that were Windows Server. And every laptop was a domain-joined Windows NT Toshiba or Dell.

Now even Microsoft runs their web services on Linux servers. No dev who is not forced to at gunpoint uses a Windows laptop. You’d be hard-pressed to find an SRE or DevOps hire who could confidently explain how to stand up and manage containers on a Windows Server host. And they’d probably walk out of the interview if you even mention Powershell or WMI.

The article is a bit late to the game, because Linux already won.

https://commandlinux.com/statistics/server-os-market-share-windows-vs-linux-vs-bsd/

I think the Expedition 33-style use of parry is more down to people wanting to appeal to the Souls-like demo. It was fine in E33, but it’s massively overused.

It used to be a fairly strong representation of the American Heartland; farming, manufacturing, mining, etc. Then manufacturing collapsed, the steel towns died, the jobs moved elsewhere, and it’s basically a very rundown shell of a state.

And because of that, the people who still live there hate everyone else (especially ‘libruls’, who Fox News tells them are the ones responsible) and are miserable to be around (I have family there).

If Anthropic ever goes under, Nexon gonna be comin’ for me…

I don’t think the primary counterargument is tech progression, I think the primary counterargument is that decoherence as defined here, and tech debt in general, are usually a function of humans balancing work time vs deliverable demand (for coding), and making tradeoffs like those adhoc patches vs rebuilds-to-maintain-coherence… but that is not intrinsic to coding, and is much less relevant to an agent swarm who could feasibly decide that a full rebuild using the lessons gleaned about design, but without the actual code debt, is warranted and possible within a short time window.

If a cyclical process of n iterative updates > rebuild back to coherence > n iterative updates > rebuild back to coherence etc is used, you could mitigate the exponential loss of coherence, provided you set some kind of baseline for what rebuilds produce.

Is this actually your first comment, or do you clear them after some interval?

For me, there’s no point just controlling screen time for the sake of controlling it, I need to have something actually available and ready to replace it with. Recently I started reading (physical) comics, picking up a couple of the “trade paperbacks” for the Dark Horse Alien and Predator comics. Or re-reading some Gene Wolfe or Tamsyn Muir. Self-imposed technical controls are pointless, to me.

The goal of that fee as a rate limiter is to prevent one developer from releasing hundreds of “games”, not to prevent thousands of developers from each releasing one.

100 dollars to see your “game” on Steam is a minimal barrier, especially if you have the money to be AI-generating art for games.

You’ve grouped together a couple different classes of software, with different purposes.

“Bossware”: this is the BS one, that is used for monitoring employees. Remote screenshots, activity times, application use clocks, etc. No one should ever put up with having this.

MDM (Mobile device management): This is IT software for managing device settings across a fleet (used to mostly mean smartphones, but now it actually means laptops), like enabling disk encryption, enabling the firewall, installing software and security updates, etc. It is also what you use for e.g. remotely wiping devices (e.g. when they’re stolen). It doesn’t usually monitor user activity.

EDR (endpoint detection and response): this is security software for detecting malicious activity, meaning malware or adversarial actors (I.e. hackers). It often also enforces security settings like USB disablement and software allow/blocklists. This is a 90% automated, and a device that’s not doing or having done to it anything malicious is just a green checkmark.

I run our security team, and I tell people up front that I’m not interested in what employees are doing as long as it’s not destructive or dangerous. I don’t and wouldn’t deploy bossware. I ain’t a cop, and I won’t roleplay one for my employer.

Sail North is a “shanty”-esque folk artist/band, and a lot of people think they are using AI (I have no clue if they are or not, that’s just the lmgtfy synopsis).

Whether there is a legal issue depends entirely on 1) the jurisdiction of the app developer, and 2) the jurisdiction of any third party whose code they may be mis-attributing or misusing.

What arguments can I use to make my point?

Make the point to whom? The app store? None, and there should not be; you can’t and shouldn’t be able to initiate legal claims on someone else’s behalf. If you suspect that they are bundling OSS software against the license terms of that software, you should reach out to the OSS owners. They have the right and means to make a claim. Otherwise, as far as you know they could have an agreement with the devs (and more realistically and importantly, any claim of relief you make- including removal of the app- may not be what they want).

Many people suspect that this developer is lying when they say they’re not using LLMs for development. Any way to disprove that claim based on the package archive?

Not feasibly, unless they accidentally packaged a .claude file into it.

Yeah I feel this, but I don’t think it’s bad; I want new games to be such a high bar that it’s raised peoples’ expectations, because I get to play those games too. I can still go back and play FF8 and Nox and even Pax Imperia, but I don’t need kids to be able to appreciate those games, those are my nostalgia-bong hits. If they’re all clamoring for GTA6 graphics, it doesn’t detract from my old games.

That wouldn’t be “spoiled”, that would be (rightfully) “entitled”.

This isn’t a commercial product, so I’m not sure why the AI use matters. It’s not replacing a paid dev position.

It’s literally antivaxxers, but for computer viruses.

It’s super awesome. One modicum of power shifts to consumers to control the products they buy, and the corporatists come running with their “think of the devs” arguments despite devs not being paid in royalties/residuals.

Average boomer contemplating their kids.