I watched the Mad Max movies. This looks absolutely not like anything in them.

Nice to see that at least in the hardware market, competition still works. It is normal for companies who don’t offer competitive value for the money to just fail. This is how market economies are meant to work.

The answer to “copyright” overreach is just piracy. I can play pirated games, watch pirated movies, listen to pirated music… Of course, I will be able to just use a pirated model locally. Or I can just use a Chinese or Russian one - they can speak English just fine.

Can’t he see all that porn traffic?
The porn sites are usually blocklisted by AI companies because they don’t want their LLMs and image gens to generate porn.

Yeah, that is how you make sure that you stay a quasi monopoly and can keep taking that massive middle man cut.
It makes no economic sense for a corporation to play fair and allow competition to rise.

No shit, Sherlock.
And people would actually happily get addicted to an AI assistant which is reliable, safe, capable, kind, and fast.
They really should try making a great product. Then they don’t need any tricks. People love great products.

Valve is one of the less evil ones. But GOG didn’t need to be forced by court to have a no-questions-asked 30 days return policy.

Gamers can buy wherever they want. But game devs either sell on Steam or they basically don’t sell at all.
It’s not a full monopoly. He just has a quasi monopoly. And there are rumors that devs who sell cheaper on other platforms risk not being shown to buyers on Steam…
With great power comes great opportunity for abusing that power to take more middle man tax.

With Gabe’s absurd amount of middleman tax money obtained by running the defacto PC games store monopoly, the solution is oddly simple: Just start a bank and become a payment processor.

Baby is like “I’m not maintaining shit without proper centralized package management. Gimme Gentoo!”

Not wrong… But also sounds a lot like communism (the people own the means of production and all that). So it might be a bit too radical for the US.

So their chatbot is able to change the email address used to recover an account? I guess, they vibe coded that system.

That will not work long-term. When prices are high for a long time, it becomes more and more attractive for governments to start their own foundries for economic and strategic reasons. And while that is not easy, China is on its way, ASML and Zeiss actually are European companies, and no one starts at zero because there are a ton of patents which already expired or expire soon.
A fully industrialized nation which really wants to make chips can make chips. Making the best chips is pretty darn hard, but making the chips from a few years ago is doable for China and the US right now, and the EU in ten years.
On a bloc level it makes sense to have your own foundries independent of foreign influence just for military and infrastructure reasons alone.

The US profits a lot from having so many waterways. When they are usable, they literally are the cheapest and most efficient mode of transportation.

I guess, California is killing Windows without knowing.

In my experience with Claude Code Opus, analyzing or generating files eats the most tokens while thinking is actually surprisingly cheap. I guess, the token-counting is somewhat wrong on purpose to incentivize use of high-effort thinking mode because when you incentivize using lesser models or modes, people get disappointed by the output quality and stop using the service…
So just let it analyze the code base for flaws and bugs in a loop using lots of sub agents for each type of bug or code smell.

The good thing about that method is that it is technically malicious compliance; but it also offers a high degree of plausible deniability and likely yields some actual bug fixes to offer as justification.

Doing it just once every once in a while without fanning out into tons of agents rereading the same files is the non-malicious-compliance way of using AI for bug hunting and usually worth it. Also let it write tests for the found bugs (and properly review those tests using the natural neural network in your head).

You can’t even properly review the result of burning 4.5k in tokens with just a single senior dev.
The real limit still is how much high-skilled natural neural compute you got to make sure that the AI output is actually any good.

Always keep in mind that your own state is almost always the group of actors having the most power over you. They are the ones who can hurt you or just make you jump though an infinite amount of hoops without any fear of consequence.

Normal people really can just ignore everyone who is or comes after “Hackers”. Focus on your own government. That’s where the real risks are.

I got app-emulation/proton-ge-custom-bin from the kzd overlay. The overlay is in the eselect repository list.

It’s Microslop. The people who had any resemblance of work ethics left a long time ago. No one still working there gives any shits about QA - especially not the management.