This is a massive loss. At this point we need specific legislation. Insane to grant fair use to a for-profit copier that provides no benefit to the owner of the copied item and competes with it in the market. I cannot overstate how shitty this is.

Imagine if it was trying to build a feature for a client who needs to look at a demo every time.

You can definitely learn how to code, I believe in you.

What’s the Rationalist reaction to these developments? Are there any vestigial AI-fearers that haven’t switched over to straight up Phrenology like Slatescott and are currently genuinely still worried about the apocalypse because of this?

OSI is gonna mandate that we call it open source now, didn’t ya hear?

Can’t people run it locally supposedly?

I didn’t think today was gonna be a day where I’d read about sounding then breaking glass rods but here we are.

Fuck lmfao 🤣

You’re being perhaps too generous to consider ESR a famous FOSS personality.

They’re gonna ruin cities by further limiting the rights of pedestrians to work around their mediocre programming.

Definitely, there was no coming back from that debate.

fuck the accelerationists for pumping shitheaded propaganda into the fediverse, for the victory lap they’re taking now, and for the general idea that their revolution is worth our deaths

So much this

still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-you’re-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples

It’s dream logic.

The writing has been on the wall since they reprinted Alpha as non playable $250 packs.

Russia complaining that the US sells too many weapons is an awkward line when the AK platform is the universal symbol for armed conflict across the globe.

Launch all the nukes?

Did the jargon file fail to evolve, or did Raymond just stop maintaining it? It roughly coincides with when the full extent of his brain breakage became apparent (“anti idiotiarian manifesto.”)

Or maybe it represents the end of when the Stallmanites, The corporate types (incl. Raymond) and the Linux Fandom actually saw eye-to-eye.