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  • This is the most "no sh*rt Sherlock!" Article headline I've read all day.

  • Cool maybe this means more indie games...

    Idk I gave up a long time ago when I learned rolling layoffs was the norm in game development.

  • People speeding in your neighborhood is a rich people problem. Guess who's putting themselves first in their own legislation?

  • I would disagree on the selling point. If you provide something for "free" that is advertisement supported, you sold it to an advertiser.

  • Ive been thinking about this a lot and if you think about this like they are selling a stolen product then it can be framed differently.

    Say I take several MegaMan games, take a copy of all the assets, recombine them into a new MegaMan game called "Unreal Tales of MegaMan". The game has whole new levels inspired by capcom's Megaman. Many would argue that the work is transformative.

    Am I allowed to sell that MegaMan game? I'm not a legal expert but I think the answer to that would generally be no. My intention here is to mimic a property and profit off of a brand I do not own the rights too.

    Generative AI uses samples of original content to create the derivative work to synthesize voices of actors. The creator of this special intention is to make content from a brand that they can solely profit from.

    If you used an AI to generate a voice like George Carlin to voice the Reptilian Pope in your videogame, I think you would have a different problem here. I think it's because they synthesized the voice and then called it George Carlin and sold it as a "New Comedy Special" it begins to fall into the category of Bootleg.

  • Agreed. They should but there are these Cafe Standards that need to be dealt with. The cars have to be larger to be exempt because we're using wheel base to help determine fuel economy (it should be weight not wheelbase) These exemptions need to go away.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy

  • People are gonna end up forking this just to change the name :: facepalm::

  • I agree with a lot of your points but I do think containers a great solution.

    I've been a really big fan of Universal Blue lately. It presents a strong argument for containerizing everything. Your core is immutable and atomic which makes upgrades seamless. User land lives in a container and just gets layered back on top afterwards.

  • Yeah, I think as the replacement for x before Wayland?

  • I think they are! I'm still trying to do more with ZFS everyday.

  • Ubuntu used to get a lot of undeserved hate but lately the hate feels deserved. Ubuntu has been the face of the usable desktop Linux for a long time and they just keep tripping over themselves every time they try to move forward.

    Their intentions are usually good. A lot of things they propose usually end up being adopted by the community at large (just not their implementation). They seem to just yank everyone's chain a little too hard in the direction we're eventually going to go and we all resent them for that.

    Off the top of my head, there was Upstart (init system), there was unity (desktop), and now snaps (containerized packaging). All of these were good ideas but implemented poorly and with a general lack of support from the community. In almost each case in the past what's happened is that once they run out of developers who champion the tech, they eventually get onboard with whatever Debian and Rhel are doing once they were caught up and settled.

    Valve's lack of interest in maintaining the snap makes sense. The development on the Ubuntu platform is very opinionated in a way where the developers of the software (valve) really want nothing to do with Canonicals snaps.

    On another note: my favorite thing about the Ubuntu server was LXD + ZFS integration. Both have been snapified. It was incredibly useful and stable. Stephane Graber has forked the project now into INCUS. It looks very promising.

  • It's difficult to trust anything when you firmly believe the source of the well is tainted. There's a religiosity to it.

  • What a nice drawing of Louis Cole (Knower)!

    /s

  • TBH when I got this exact pop up on my last windows laptop (dell xps13) I actually panicked and installed PopOS on it.

    I didn't feel like distro hopping, I just needed it to work. I guess that shows how I feel about PopOS at the moment.