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GitHub (and everyone else) is required to follow the process laid out DMCA takedown requests. The uploader just has to submit a counterclaim, and they can put it back unless they actually go to court and file a lawsuit.

The whole process is dictated by the DMCA.

GitHub didn't do anything. This isn't because the code was taken down (it's still there, as are all the forks that are also perfectly legal); it's because the maintainers decided it wasn't worth putting up with big pocketed harassment to keep doing it.

It's not copyright infringement, so you can just tell them to fuck off and make them sue you. If they submit DMCA, you (and because it's open source, that means anyone, today) can counterclaim and it will get put back up until they actually go to court.

It's just a lot to deal with harassment from a motivated company's resources.

Because even though it's obviously perfect legal, getting harassed by corporations over a hobby project is a pain in the ass.

An SSD on PC is definitely a step up from anything before this gen.

This gen (at least PS5, which leans hard into the tech with hardware decompression on top of the silly raw speed of the drives) is better than PC, though (for now). The hardware you're buying now can do pretty much everything the PS5 hardware can, but because the software stack to use it isn't the same and universal, there's definitely more loads. It's similar to how PS4 games load fast (especially compared to on the actual PS4), but get blown out of the water by PS5 games. I die in Horizon: Zero Dawn, it's 5-10 seconds. Which is fine. But I die in Forbidden West, which is prettier and has more complexity (mechanically and the environment) and it's maybe a second.

It's worth it just for my PS4 library not punishing me with a ten minute wait every time I die. The loading entirely changes the experience and enables punishing gameplay to be far less frustrating, in the same way Celeste can have harder sequences and be less annoying than something like Mario at the same time.

But the controller features are insane as well.

The pricing is insanely aggressive for the tech in it.

You could be banned by specific settings in your AMD graphics driver

You mean injecting code into their executable. That's all AMD.

• Playing and controlling audiobooks on Google Play Books with your voice. You can still cast audiobooks from your mobile device.

Downgrade.

• Setting or using media alarms, music alarms, or radio alarms on Google Assistant enabled devices. You can create a custom Routine that has similar behavior or use a standard alarm.

Downgrade

• Accessing or managing your cookbook, transfering recipes from device to device, playing an instructional recipe video, or showing step-by-step recipes. - You can use Google Assistant to search for recipes across the web and YouTube.

Absolute dogshit that doesn't vaguely resemble a substitute in any way.

• Managing a stopwatch on Smart Displays and Speakers. You can still set timers and alarms.

Whatever

• Using your voice to call a device or broadcast a message to your Google Family Group. You can still broadcast to devices in your home.

Downgrade

• Using your voice to send an email, video or audio message. You can still make calls and send text messages.

Downgrade

• Rescheduling an event in Google Calendar with your voice. You can still schedule a new event.

Downgrade

• Using App Launcher in Google Assistant driving mode on Google Maps to read and send messages, make calls, and control media. You can still use voice control on Google Maps the same way.

No clue what the difference is.

• Asking to schedule or hear previously scheduled Family Bell announcements. You can create a custom Routine that has similar behavior.

No clue what Family Bell is

• Asking to meditate with Calm. You can still ask for meditation options with media providers such as YouTube.

YouTube sucks

• Voice control for activities will no longer be available on Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 devices. You’ll need to use the buttons on your device to start, stop, pause, and resume activities. You can still voice control activities on Pixel Watches.

Downgrade

• Viewing your sleep summaries will only be available on Google Smart Displays. You can still ask for sleep details by voice on third-party smart clocks.

Punishing third parties for no reason by taking away features they had

• Calls made from speakers and Smart Displays will not show up with a caller ID unless you’re using Duo.

• Viewing the ambient “Commute to Work” time estimates on Smart Displays. You can still ask for commute times and get directions by voice.

Laughable "replacement". Having it visible is the whole point.

Checking personal travel itineraries by voice. You can still ask for flight status. - Asking for information about your contacts. You can still make calls to your contacts. - Asking to take certain actions by voice, such as send a payment, make a reservation, or post to social media. You can still ask Assistant to open your installed apps.

Eh I don't care about these.

I don't use Google smart shit because I don't trust them with a microphone. But several of those are features people very easily could have purchased a device for. The cookbook one, as an example, is almost the entire reason you'd buy a device for your kitchen, and the suggested alternative is fucking offensive in how much of a pile of shit it is.

A bunch of stuff that's both convenient and mostly not a huge amount of complexity on the development side. Nice.

Pretty sure "nobara is fine, but I want to change for change to explore the space more" was the point.

But nobara doesn't belong in the title for that.

The only relevant part is the fact that it's impossible for the discussion to entitle them to information. That's the ruling that's the core point of the article and it prevents any other meaningful potential precedents from being set, because the case can't get to ruling on them.

It is exclusively about the discussion. If discussion doesn't entitle them to any information, that's the end of everything. They have no path to proceed in a case or get a ruling on anything else without that barrier being destroyed.

They have many ways to harass both users and companies if it is. It's the only line that means anything. There can't be any precedent set on anything else without that being trampled.

The important legal concept is that it's literally impossible for discussion of piracy to entitle them to any information in any possible context.

The target of their harassment does not matter. Giving them a single bit of data is every bit as unconditionally unacceptable in either case, and you don't get to any ruling on anything else unless you bypass that.

That's not a meaningful distinction.

They're still trying to take action against discussion of piracy. The target does not matter and is not meaningful to the discussion.

That's not really extra nuance, and is about discussing piracy.

The premise that an ISP has an obligation to proactively monitor traffic when they shouldn't even legally be permitted to do so is disgusting.

"Every right", sure. But people have just as much right to decide that they're not OK with the pattern of behavior from Unity, to talk about it, and to avoid doing business with them as a result of it.

For your batshit stated goal of "zero emissions no matter what", they absolutely are the same thing. A fire is emissions.

But again. Even theoretically going back to fire would only be possible if you exterminated the overwhelming majority of humanity.

No, we didn't. Humans discovered fire a hell of a long time ago.

And unless you're willing to exterminate thousands for every one that lives, "go back to fire" isn't theoretically possible either.

A planet without energy use cannot possibly be habitable.