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I love how confidently stupid and wrong she was here.
What I fucking hate is this pattern of attacks on open source and self-hosting we’ve been seeing. Anthropic’s CEO saying that open source self-hosted LLMs are “dangerous” for example.
Open source LLMs are very dangerous for their bottom line, they have all the same problems as non open source LLMs and the shareholders don't even make money off of them!
Yes. This is a classic case of a large company buying an open source product that was specifically designed to get children to be creative and build their own worlds and then deciding that such usage is illegal unless you pay loads of money.
A perfect snapshot of enshitification.
Minecraft was never open source.
Yeah, I was wrong. It was available free early on when it was pre-release.
I think that would count as enclosure
But that didn't even happen. Microsoft still specifically enables (let alone allows) running private servers. The ESA is just lying.
It's not just open source and self-hosting. They're going after Steam because they actually treat their customers well. Despite still not truly owning your games on their, you basically do. As long as Steam is good, gamers won't forget that services can be good, and we can't have that, can we?
omg omg it strawverry from the hit game madeline
indeed :3
I've beaten every level, and I'm working on the goldberries :3
i have all b and a sides, 5 golden berries, and 3 c sides, currently im playing strawberry jam
waow thats based
i have two golden berries, i think. i definitely have the winged one, and maybe another.
ive yet to play strawberry jam. it seems like it might be harder than getting all the golden berries? im not sure.
strawberry jam has 5 lobbies, the first is comparable to a bit hardrr a-sides, the second is more like b sides and idk how about the rest i didnt play them yet. anyway its much easier than most of goldens, and for sure easier than getting them all because there is only around 200 players who got all the berries (because of farewell)
cool! ill have to check it out.
im now even more motivated to get all the berries lol
I hadn’t heard of Steam being dragged into this. Just let us have some nice things!
For real. I think it ended up being alright, but they sued Valve because of gambling in Counter Strike‽ Like, have they never heard of Overwatch‽
Meanwhile, "Epic" Games profits off of kids who sneak their parents' credit cards for whatever nonsense is going on in Fortnite, and Roblox is full of predators!
All of those, including Counter Strike, are preying on addiction and should either be illegal or at least regulated
True, but why are they only suing Valve? It's sus.
Nice LLM you have there. Be a real shame if one that costs 1/10 the price (and another that can run on a consumer rig self hosted) could outperform it.
That woman is very angering.
Oh but they are VERY dangerous. Dangerous for the 1%’s wealth. What will they do if they have to downsize their billion dollar yachts?????
But the thing is? They're not. Billionaires would still be billionaires without attacking open source and self hosting.
The problem is that billionaires are hungry ghosts. It's not enough to be fabulously wealthy, they just want more. Forever.
I know. I was being facetious.
They can have more immortality in death.