These were casual, mutual conversations that sometimes leaned too much in the direction of being inappropriate, but nothing more. Nothing illegal happened, no pictures were shared, no crimes were committed, I never even met the individual. [...] That’s on me as an adult, a husband and a father.

Jesus fucking christ. If you, as a father, are "leaning too much in the direction of being inappropriate" with a minor, you're a fucking pedophile. There is nothing to discuss that's leaning into being inappropriate with a minor, except if you're a pedophile. Trying to make it sound less of an issue just because there weren't pictures sent, is a pathetic attempt of an excuse for being a pedophile.

For being so real and no filter, there's a fucking lot of sugarcoating for admitting the fact that he sexted with a minor.

I specifically don't get how you can do that as a father, and even being the complete asshole that he is, not even once thinking that the victim could be his own child. I really wonder what he would say about such a tweet in this case.

Absolutely fucking disgusting.

It might be, but to be fair, that's what the glorified autocompletion is actually good for, if it's actually used a supporting tool, and not to pump out quantity over quality.

Man, the disclaimer at the bottom that Business Insider is partnered with OpenAI to allow them to train on their articles is really the cherry on top.

Check your blocklist and keep in mind that YouTube is testing server side ads muxed into the media streams, which will not be blocked by traditional adblocking techniques.

If you can not install anything, your only choice is probably to set up a pihole or something similar on your network.

Edit: Some models seem to have advanced settings, where you can change the DNS - you could try to use adguard dns servers, or any DNS adblocker you want to use.

I get that online services cost a shitton amount of money to operate, but the sheer level of degrading quality is not OK. This is just one example of how services are completely barreling towards the shitter at 100+ MPH with no brakes or airbags. I feel some guilt for using content blockers, but that guilt is being wittled away every single day because of websites like this.

That's only partially true. "Simple" pages like a wiki are stupidly cheap in comparison of operational costs. This is not some online image editor, some huge social media outlet or whatever. From a content perspective, the traffic to be served is an absolute joke.

What drives costs for operations up is stupid design decisions (e.g. Cora) and bloating your own page using several ad providers, trackers and a metric fuck ton of additional services like disqus and whatever all of this idiotic shit is called.

And what drives "cost of operations" up the most is pure greed, because for most parts there is no longer an internet community, where someone wants to contribute something cool. Maybe that's where they started, but seeing their page hits climb obviously makes them think about monetizing them. Just add some non intrusive ads, page views still climb, and you see the money coming in - in the case of Fandom with mostly zero effort, since the content is brought by the editors, who even also generate ad views, while generating content. Add one more ad, income doubled. Add a potentially more intrusive ad bringing more money per view - maybe your income triples. It's all just a pump and dump until it becomes the ad-riddled trash, but you don't really need to care, since it's still high ranking in Google results and still brings in visitors.

Obviously this does not apply to all, but to a fucking lot if not most pages, and it's getting even worse with gen-AI content and "features".

Die Logik jegliche Diskussionsgrundlage zu nehmen, indem man seine Argumentation voll auf Putins Propaganda, ChatGPT, Botfarmen, und sonstigen nicht nachweisbare Argumente stützt ist dafür besser?

Ich hab auch nicht gesagt das Deutschland dort als nicht mehr Atom-Nation hinsoll. Allerdings ist dann die Frage von Menschen, die erstmal nicht contra Atomstrom sind, doch berechtigt, warum alle EU-Staaten dort aufmarschieren, Zukunftsplanung mit Atomstrom betreiben, während in Deutschland die Strompreise EU-weit am höchsten sind und Firmen in Nebenstaaten abwandern?

Genau das ist der Grund warum sich solche Resonanzkammern von hardliner pro und contra Gruppen bilden.

Genau, das ist auch der böse Putin. Das es erst auch den Atom-Gipfel in Brüssel gab, bei dem Deutschland als einziger EU-Staat nicht dabei war ist auch nur Propaganda.

Or you can just use vscodium.

"We listened to our accounting, and the massive wave of refunds and unbought mtx is hurting our numbers. PR isn't happy about the reviews either. We'll keep you updated on future plans for fucking you over!

Do you really think that Sony will actually back down? They are calming down the shitstorm that is going over all media, socials and steam. They'll reorganize and will move on with their plans. Arrowhead and Helldivers is just one of many assets.

Yeah, and yet I'm on PC using Steam. If I'd wanted PSN, I'd bought a Playstation. The same secondary account bullshit applies to Ubisoft, Origin, and all of their buddies. Honestly, Steam should simply refuse to list games that require that, since they could simply use your account, but yeah, money.

And so be mad at Sony specifically? But they are okay with Steam having their data and selling it? Do they also not use a smart phone? Do they drive a car made in the last 4 years? Do they use credit cards? Loyalty cards? The outrage over their data use by Sony specifically is ridiculous when everything else is also siphoning the same information for no benefit to them.

Damn, you only missed the chance for the if you got nothing to hide argument.

If I buy a smartphone, and choose to use Android and Google, I get the benefit of all the stuff Google provides me, by my choice. I can cancel my account, and buy an iPhone next. That's fine for me, because I chose to do that to use the benefits. If I use a credit card for all my purchases comfortably in one place, then it's my choice. I can swap to another payment method or bank anytime. That's fine for me, because I chose to do that to use the benefits.

If I'm forced to create an account that does absolutely nothing for me, then I'd be pissed. Not to speak about people in countries without PSN. Where's that written, and why did they happily sell the game to people they knew they'll lock out? Where's the announcement that a refund policy will be implemented for such cases?

There's a HUGE fucking difference between your Sony bootlicking arguments you post in every thread about this, and the actual impact of Sonys actions.

The account link was optional, but somewhere they have written that the PSN account will be required at a later stage, seemingly due to issues at launch. Now, people who are living in a country where PSN is not available (which are quite a lot actually) will no longer be able to play, neither to refund, since the launch is months ago.

So it's way more than just having yet another account, which is especially ridiculous in the case of PSN for Steam PC games.

If you use a dockerized environment, that will only work better on Linux. .NET8 is AFAIK natively supported on Linux, so there shouldn't be too much of an issue apart from the usual clunkyness. Visual Studio will probably be more of a problem. The "easiest" way would probably be to switch to jet brains or vscode. If you are hardstuck on VS for whatever reasons, you probably should be able to do some voodoo with running it in docker and using the container as a remote desktop, but this will be PITA to setup and maintain.

Because lowering the amount they're charging or increasing the amount of aid will cost more than measly 25 million and doesn't make such good headlines.

The Hamas-led murderous rampage into southern Israel was the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history, killing at least 1,200 people and abducting more than 250 others. Israeli attacks on Gaza have since killed at least 33,634 Palestinians and injured another 76,214 people, according to the Ministry of Health there.

Jesus fuck, Germany is paying symbolic money to roughly as many genocide survivors in Israel as people have been murdered and injured by Israel committing genocide.

The current German government is an absolute fucking joke, and they are doing everything to actually show it.

Again, you may quote the FSF, but there are too many users of open source, as well as developers, who got into it for the reasons I stated. I can assure you that they are not doing it so that corporations can profit off their software without giving back.

If you are developing open source, you are not necessarily developing FOSS. If you are developing FOSS, you are also developing open source.

FOSS is well defined by the FSF, and it has been for ages, and to be frank, therefore no one cares for anyone's personal definition of it.

What I am against is having the cake and eating it, as it's being proposed with this licensing. Either you do FOSS, or you don't. Either you do open source, or you don't. Either you do proprietary software, or you don't. It's really that simple, because depending on your project, you take the terms that you see fitting and live with the consequences. The whole goal of this proposal was to be taken more serious as open source developers and projects, and to ensure funding for further development. Cherry picking the best parts of every model, and making irrational demands does not achieve that.

As I said, I'm absolutely on board that open source licensing and open source development being taken for profit by corpos absolutely sucks, and the usual licensing models have not aged well with the much wider adoption and usage of open source, and there is a need for change - as it's being done e.g. by elastic, redis and others with their dual licensing.

It doesn't matter how hard you want to call it FOSS, but with this licensing terms you describe it is not FOSS, period. And to be honest, you calling out various people for not getting what FOSS is, while you fully ignore the agreed on definition by people who are actually doing FOSS is you discrediting yourself.

You haven't found a license like this, because your model is flawed: A licensing like this will disqualify you from any kind of usage in an actual FOSS licensed environment. Personal users, which will not be providing revenue, will not be really affected by this, and are irrelevant for your point. Corporate users, which you will mostly target by this new license probably won't be able to use your funky new license because they will need to check with legal, and your software will need to have a lot of USPs for someone to bother with that. A 1% corpo-richness-tax will not be approved by any kind of bigger company, because it's a ridiculous amount from the perspective of your potential customers.

You're taking yourself way to important. Open source software is not replaceable as a whole, but individual projects are. If you want to earn money with your project, that's good on you, license it accordingly, but do not try to upsell it as FOSS.

And I fully get your point, and I'm currently working on the same problem in my in-development project, and I'm not sure yet whether to dual-license it, for similar reasons you stated, and live with the consequences of providing OSS, but non-FOSS software, or do FOSS and provide it for actually free.

Edit: Also, the xz backdoor has nothing to do with funding. Any long time maintainer (as in not just a random person contributing pull requests) going rogue can happen in funded scenarios as well.

The color scheme and the bug keycap have been the single reason to buy it, ngl

Yeah, Gateron Silent Reds are basically "off brand" Cherry MX reds, with same specs. I've read that they are supposed to be a bit smoother, and definitely can confirm that, they definitely feel very smooth without any additional lubing