Every time a company tries to restrict the number of downloads/reinstalls for a game that you buy a license for, it has backlashed so catastrophically that they’ve walked it back.
So it has happened, yes, but there is no situation currently with game distributors where you pay a license for a single download. They’re all pay once, download in perpetuity.
LLMs have made it so that it takes longer to determine whether content is bad than it takes to make bad content. The solution SHOULD be to demand that people examine the content themselves and turn it into high-quality content, but that’s not going to happen so long as it is possible for anyone to submit pull requests. The only solution that will actually work is to restrict who is allowed to submit content to your projects.
Yup.
There are very niche situations where a free market actually works - situations where there is no hidden information and no barrier to entry, where monopolies can’t arise due to the nature of the specific market. By the nature of these restrictions, nothing of any importance will ever be supplied by these markets.
And there never will be. Not so long as it is possible to hide information from the consumer, and any sort of barrier to entry exists for market competition to spring up.
If it’s something that you don’t really care about others seeing, that’s a prime candidate for cloud storage and more power to you.
This topic is about password lockers. I’m pretty sure you don’t want some schlub who happens to work at Cloud Password Lockers Inc. to be able to get at your PayPal account.
The partnership will happen later on when the noise has died down, and it won’t be publicized.
Don’t store your stuff in the cloud unless you don’t mind someone else accessing it.
If you store things in the cloud that you don’t want other people to access, you better be encrypting it yourself and only opening it locally.
This has been a cardinal rule since day 1.
Two suggestions.
First, take on a hobby project that you can build to your personal specifications, instead of having to push to meet deadlines and put out fires. This will allow you to learn rather than ride herd on an AI. You’re never going to get the time to write code properly at work, so you’re going to have to find time to do it yourself - or you risk losing what skills you have as you outsource your mental load to AI.
The downside of AI is that it doesn’t learn the same way people do. It can churn out code real fast, and if the language has a ton of examples on the internet it can do a pretty decent job of it, but it will never get better, and in fact it will get worse over time as AI output continues to flood the internet and gets scraped for training data. You need to get better, because without actual human learning and knowledge, programming skills will nosedive over time.
Second, understand the limitations of how your workplace runs and accept that. If you cannot accept that, then look for work elsewhere. Lots of workplaces operate on the ‘always move forward’ principle. Tech debt is something that will always be put off, shoring up your processes is going to get in the way of productivity, and as a result, your job will gradually become putting out fires more and more until it’s all you’re doing. This process will only accelerate with AI coding, especially because it means the people doing the work won’t know all the internals of what they’re ‘writing’. This will be your life, eventually. Get ahead of it if you can, and if you can’t, then it’s time to start looking for another job.
GDPR laws allow you to download the contents of a Discord server that you have never been on? I thought it only required access to your own data.
You can only access it if you install Discord.
It’s not so bad in comments that don’t have a significant amount of ‘th’ in it, but this one was like hitting a speed bump every five feet.
Considering that LLM content that makes it into training content makes the trained LLMs worse… is this adversarial?
If you’re running it in a prebuilt container, as long as it works it shouldn’t matter and you don’t need to care.
Of course, when your database gets corrupted after Nextcloud updates because you had an app running that isn’t supported in the new version, it will suddenly matter a lot.
They have an easy tap on what sells, by virtue of running the marketplace.
Find a popular product, make an Amazon Basics version of it, undercut their best vendors, bam! Easy money. And leave the vendors swinging in the breeze with backstock they can’t move any more.
And they own the warehouses. Why not stock them with their own product in preference of vendors?
with no ads
For now.
Eventually it becomes a search engine that replaces the ads on the source material with its own ads, thus choking out the source’s funding and taking it for itself.
It’s the House Rules Committee, and actually one Republican voted in favor.
Isn’t Chuck E. Cheese the company that nearly turned Moppet Video arcade machines into lost media, by destroying the cabinets for a tax writeoff?
It would be fine if it had more ways to differentiate elements from each other - darkening around the edges of windows, buttons that actually look raised so they aren’t identical to a text box, scroll bars that aren’t SO FUCKING TINY that it’s clear MS is embarrassed that they exist in the first place, etc. etc.
but but but how are the corporations supposed to make money off of our data if they can’t harvest it? Think of the poor corporations!!
This is a fact that has been made apparent repeatedly. We know.
However, you were replying to this:
With this:
…which is patently false.