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And the FOSS system seems to be collapsing right now for the same reason that anarcho-communism only works short-term until someone sees commercial value in it and abuses the system to the limit.

• Big corporations initially providing exceptional services based on FOSS and after a while use their market share to excert undue control about the system (see e.g. RedHat, Ubuntu, Chrome, Android, ...)
• Big corporations taking FLOSS, rebranding it and hiding it below their frontend, so that nobody can interact with or directly use the FLOSS part (e.g. iOS, any car manufacturer, ...)
• Big and small companies just using GPL (or similar) software and not sharing their modifications when asked (e.g. basically any embedded systems, many Android manufacturers, RedHat, ...)
• Big corporations using infrastructure FOSS without giving anything back (e.g. OpenSSL, which before Heartbleed was developed and maintained by a single guy with barely enough funding to stay alive, while it was used by millions of projects with a combined user base of billions of users)

The old embrace-extend-extinguish playbook is everywhere.

And so it's no surprise that many well-known FOSS developers are advocating for some kind of post-FOSS system that forces commercial users to pay for their usage of the software.

Considering how borderline impossible it is for some software developer to successfully sue a company to comply with GPL, I can't really see such a post-FOSS system work well.

Not sure why they even brought it up or reported on it.

I mean, it's kinda similar to "Streetlights where out of service during road accident", but it was noon and the lights wouldn't have been on either way.

Sadly (or luckily, depending on how you look at it), GTP is much much worse at writing code than media would make you think.

It's about at the level of a young teenager who knows nothing about coding except how to copy code they found on google.

You must be a hardcore alcoholic if you had to abstain for that long.

Python sure has changed since I last used it.

That makes the babies even smaller.

This ladies and gentlemen is an example of people using ai to make kid books. It's a big thing right now and easy money but could have consequence if kids start reading these they at a young age.

FTFY

That's a good vintage. That one is fine. But it will make your baby smaller.

Well, political forecasting is like reading tea leaves even for professionals and even when it's just for the next year.

So it's safe to say, nobody knows what's going to happen.

But generally speaking, political tensions like the one currently in the US need some form of release. They build and build until something lets all of this vent.

Historically, these vents have been (civil) wars on their soil, revolts or catastrophies that require the country to be literally rebuilt.

The US hasn't really had any of these for a very long term. Wars in foreign countries can reduce the temperature a bit, but only until the public's attention span hasn't passed.

The US system is also built for polarization, so let's see what happens.

If they are lucky, some kind of worker's uprising could be enough. If they are unlucky, they are going to have a dictatorship next year.

But nobody knows what's going to happen.

You mean, what am I fanting about?

I mean, it worked at least in Austria, Germany and Spain

Thanks! Couldn't be bothered to look it up :)

In that case, let's hope he's an absolutely incompetent idiot who will fail fast and spectacularly or an old guy who will die fast, so that when he's gone people all agree that this wasn't a great political experiment and all join in together to rebuild the political system much better than before.

Cuphead will now be renamed to whatever the cup from Beauty and the Beast was called.

If the amount of money you save that way is larger than what you'd earn in the time it takes you to create new accounts and the time you spend for refueling at 3-4 gas stations than it would if you'd only hit one, then go for it.

And don't forget the fuel it takes you to get to the next station.

For me it wouldn't be worth it, but if you have more time than money, go for it.

It sucks a lot when people are so deep in their petty trench fights over brands that they think there is only "Me for this, You for that, You simp".

I don't care about Epic and neither do I care for Steam. I buy my games where I get them the cheapest: Key resellers. And I don't care on which online store the cheapest price lands.

If I was still developing games, I'd deploy them on both or on the one who pays me the most for an exclusivity deal.

With that out of the way: I am only explaining simple backgrounds to people interested to listen.

But sadly so many people fight over an online shop as if it was politics.

Do you fight like that for your favourite online retailer? Or your favourite supermarket chain?

What Steam and Epic do is business. They are no charities. They do stuff that makes them money. So any sane user should see it as a business transaction and buy where the price is best for what you get.

If you have the time to do that, it would probably work at first until the staff recognizes you and either doesn't let you repeat that move or even outright bans you from purchasing there.

No further trouble expected, but don't expect this to work for long for you.

If all other executives would earn as much as the guys from Wikipedia, the world would be a better place.

However, the comment I replied to made a pretty universal claim about rulers.

Yeah, universal statements tend to lack nuance.

But especially with the right-wing parties I see quite a bit of malice for the point of personal gain.

And at least in Austria, Germany and the UK the conservatives are so deep into working for personal gain, that they completely forget what would benefit the country and the people.

(I don't have enough deep enough insight into the governments of other countries in Europe to say anything about that, but from what I read, Hungary and Italy are not better off)