They are, even in name. There’s some weird business structuring loophole where the “uber” OpenAI group is a non-profit, that runs/oversees the for-profit subsidiary OpenAI. It’s like OpenAI inc vs OpenAI co or some rediculously meaningless distinction.
The assets following you are here to help.
It’s always vintage meme time at !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world
Yeah, this whole mess takes on an entirely different light when you know that these fines are entirely performative since they couldn’t track down anyone from libgen to force into court or to collect from.
While I wouldn’t be so quick to lump everyone with a (obvious to you) stupid belief as being absolutely inconsolably incompetent, as everyone has blind spots…
There’s that very old saying: Ignorance is bliss.
It very, very much is.
What a clickbait title. Not OPs fault, they just copied the original article title.
Saved you a click: This is about a short interview with one of the leads behind Fallout Tactics and Brotherhood of Steel. When 3 was coming out, Todd Howard said that for their purposes, Tactics and BoS didn’t happen.
Game lead says it sucked to hear, but he’s happy that elements have become canon in kind of a back door way, and thatcs good enough for him.
It was a different time with far less people needing clearly defined canon lore for things, and the canon of the other series Todd oversaw/sees Elder Scrolls was/is a massive clusterfuck with multiple conflicting events being simultaneously canon due to “dragon breaks” allowing multiple conflicting game endings to somehow all have officially occurred all at once. Seriously look up how the lore handles the endings of Daggerfall, or the fact that the entirety of the gameplay area of Oblivion (the Empire) had been consistently described as a (tropical) jungle in every game pre-Oblivion.
Anyway, here’s the relevant quote in its entirety, with bolding added by me that changes the sentiment from the headline significantly:
“It sucked,” says Orman. “You don’t want to be told that what you’ve done is non-canon. By the time he said that I had a lot of distance from this, so it wasn’t heartbreaking or gut-wrenching—it was just like, ‘Oh man. You didn’t have to officially say it, we could have existed in this weird quantum state where it was kind of part of things.’ But the way things go now, with the reinterpretation of IPs and the retelling of stories—and especially with the creation of the TV show, where it’s existing in the universe, but they’re taking liberties and they may have to make adjustments to make that world work for TV—lots of ideas are going to get shuffled around. There have been little bits and pieces of Tactics which you can see kind of are canon now, just through the back door over time. And that’s good enough for me. I don’t need anything more than that.”
Is this an ironic community where people just repost shit from facebook?
Where in the fuck am I?
And if you want to avoid the Microsoft stank, there’s VS Codium that has been de-Microsoft’d, like Chrome vs. Chromium.
You can disable online results permanently with about 15 minutes of web searching and adjusting settings (including within registry and group policy, but still).
With NAT existing, I’m not sure there’s a significant reason to switch anymore.
Plus the “surprise” privacy and security benefits of just… not having every network connected device directly addressable by anyone else on the global network. The face of the internet and networking in general, plus the security and safety concerns around it, have changed dramatically since v6 was first created.
Because no matter how sad you get, it isn’t going to bring the deceased back.
There’s also a huge matter of intent. OP didn’t stroll into a funeral you were attending and be an ass. Lemmy isn’t your personal space for anything in particular, it’s a public forum. At absolute worst you held a funeral at an amusement park and are getting upset that they didn’t shut down the rides and that others are still having fun.
More seriously: What could you possibly need Lemmy to inform you about regarding these things? Are you undecided still somehow?
There’s a big difference between not wanting to swim in this shit in one social media app, and trying to shut it out entirely. I don’t need additional reminders about how shit things are, especially not ones with a peanut gallery spewing the same dumb jokes I’ve seen a million times.
It won’t effect the core.
The last time he threatened this was the last time he changed his license, because of retroarch making a core of Duckstation in the first place. The Duckstation dev seems to have a real problem with anyone using his code, down to declining bug fix pull requests because he was pissed off at the people complaining about the bug in the first place.
He claimed Retroarch violated the licensing when they made it a core. Not sure if they actually did or not. Wouldn’t put it past them as the Retroarch lead devs have done shit like that before. So then they forked his code from before the original license change and used it to make the Swanstation core.
I honestly thought that the Duckstation dev had followed through with his threat years ago and had stopped development.
Either way, it’s best to just ignore emulator dev drama like this. Just use the best software and ignore the authors. Unfortunately a lot of them have personality and/or psychological issues that lead to a disproportianate amount of drama.
Does anyone else wonder where all this recent FUD about Firefox’s funding is actually coming from? No offense meant, but this really doesn’t seem natural to me.
Firefox’s funding has been this way for well over a decade. Why does it only suddenly matter now, when Google is under a lot of fire politically and making a lot of anti-consumer moves in rapid succession?
Maybe there’s a ton of people who truly weren’t aware of this, but I really have to ask what the motivation is behind the tech news outlets suddenly talking about this all again. It’s not new information. It really doesn’t qualify as news.
Firefox has been more or less doing fine for multiple decades now, regardless of the main source of their finances. While I don’t agree with their continued fad chasing, I have no concerns about the longevity or trustworthyness of their core “product”, the browser. I’m even less concerned when I consider the large, diverse, and healthy community of forks surrounding it.
Edit:
More to the topic: Gecko is why Firefox is important. More specifically, the fact that it uses a unique underlying engine. Doesn’t matter what they call it, just that there is an open source web browser engine that exists at feature parity with commericial and closed source browsers.
More edit:
As far as Mozilla’s decisions making sense in terms as a business, I really could care less. To me, Mozilla’s existence is to ensure continued adequate funding for Firefox development and maintenance.
Any further pursuits in the realm of things that would be good for open source software and privacy are important but secondary to keeping their primary product, the browser, alive.
It’s also vitally important to note that Google has a basic business contract in which they pay Mozilla to make Google the default search engine in Firefox. That is it. They don’t own Mozilla or Firefox, have any direct seat on the board, or have any postion with them involving decision making or influencing. No one knows what happens behind closed doors, but there has never been any quantifiable reason to believe that Google is pulling Firefox’s strings.
The announcement was that they were deprioritizing all non-browser projects, iirc.
Famicom Detective Club got a translation/remake for the switch. Might be that?
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Oof, yeah. Pretty good beginning, sans the near constant lack of clothes for the protagonist. Not erotic per se, just needless in my opinion.
But then the segment with the shut in just brings a lot of things to a very awkward halt. In my opinion it’s a complete tone and focus shift out of nowhere from “slight otaku feel” to “full otaku fantasy”. And even that speeds through at the same breakneck speed that the action segments had.
That’s about as far as I’ve gotten so far. Hope it gets back up to the quality level it felt like before that segment. Thanks for sharing this!
Law overwhelmingly overrides contracts, and these types of “haha, you chose to give up your legal rights” contracts are completely unenforcable, but you have to have the means to challenge it in court in the first place. 🤡
Supernaturalists is the title I think. Should be on my shelf at home, so I might be able to edit this and confirm later.