Fascinating. Thanks for the link.
The first dude seems like a blatant copy of Guile to me, so I had to look up what the court thought:
In spite of the intentional similarities between the two games, the court concluded that Data East did not infringe upon Capcom's copyright, as most of these similarities were not protected under copyright.
So 100% guilty of being a blatant copy, but not illegal.
Are least it's evidence that worry they might need to need to influence anther election.
Silver lining...?
I wanted to fact check this, but I guess Meta doesn't have a tool for that, anymore. I'll have to accept it at face value.
As a developer, we use AI "extensively" because it's currently practically free and we rarely say no to free stuff.
It is, indeed, slightly better than last year's autocomplete.
AI is also amazing at letting non-developers accomplish routine stuff that isn't particularly interesting.
If someone is trying to avoid paying for one afternoon of my time, an AI subscription and months of trial and error are a new option for them. So I guess that's pretty neat.
Every technology shift creates winners and losers.
There's already documented harm from algorithms making callous biased decisions that ruin people's lives - an example is automated insurance claim rejections.
We know that AI is going to bring algorithmic decisions into many new places where it can do harm. AI adoption is currently on track to get to those places well before the most important harm reduction solutions are mature.
We should take care that we do not gaslight people who will be harmed by this trend, by telling them they are better off.
Thanks for that mental image... Dancing Bear.
Amazon - the logistics company - is just a front end for (and leech on) various drop shippers, lately, anyway.
Amazon used to carry quality guarantees, and have meaningful reviews, but lately the wild West crapshoot of the rest of the web is just as good.
(And at least on the rest of the web I have some idea who I'm buying from, and can avoid them after a bad experience. On Amazon, it got to where there was no way I could tell.)
Controlling people's media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty.
I can't think of any app developer or political party who would do that.
(This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)
I'm sure they will grow out of it, by the time they turn 21
(This is intended as an amusing reference to DOGE's habit of hiring surprisingly young professionals.)
I would welcome a utility that makes it easy to find donate links for my software packages, based on my Apt, Flatpak, and F-Droid package lists.
I'm a developer, so my chances are pretty good. But I take your point.
Even if I weren't, there's enough software options out there that I don't have to pick between paying for proprietary software and living with abandonware.
So I think the need for this security is exaggerated.
Of course. I used proprietary software for a long time. Having things I relied on get abandoned got old, but it worked.
I just expect more from most of my software, now.
Oof. I don't like this sentence, because I'm in it.