Trademarks should expire quicker I guess. That said, copyright in general is broken.

Yeah but on the other hand the dumping business model where you sell stuff below cost to kill competition has been a staple of Silicon Valley.

Amd I’d rather the studio earn more money than the publisher in any case.

It might get the EU to make a law.

This is not just a random petition, it has legal force to compel the EU to officially hear the issue.

Ten years and counting here, fuck if anyone knows at this point. My personal (maybe a bit cynical) take is that it really doesn’t matter as the amount of coding skill you use maxes out in the first few years of your career (for 90% of us anyhow), after that cat herding skills and pragmatic system architecture is what’s important. It becomes more important to know what not to do rather than the opposite.

So it doesn’t really matter how fast you are at leetcode if you can navigate the particular brand of spaghetti your workplace is cooking, plus points if you are able and willing to grok new kinds so you can hop jobs because raises are so last century.

Yeah, unlike an outsourcing outfit an AI company won’t take the fall when given shit requirement and shit pay they deliver shit work.

Is your main income through capital or labour. That simple. Always been.

This.

Hungary has this thing where the agitprop always gets some footage taken before the protest starts so the crowd looks smaller as it’s only the early people there from police drones.

You can’t fly your own drone to counter the narrative.

Iran already tried to kill Trump before the election

about laws in general

Terms of Service aren’t laws. Breaking them is not illegal. It’s like using the waterslide while sitting and not lying on your back. In fact, it’s explicitly legal to use an adblocker and control what happens on your device in both the EU and the US. There are ongoing debates whether the surveillance required for blocking adblockers is legal in the EU.

Google does break laws all the time by the way, and is holding a monopoly. If people had to pay for Youtube, alternatives would spring up overnight, but since you can still watch Youtube free, they can’t.

Also, I’d be the happiest person if Google finally figured out how to block people with adblockers completely, so that the majority of people would wean themselves off of one of the world’s biggest disinfo peddlers.

Add to waterfall that the dev team is replaced by a different team from India who don’t speak the same language and are abysmally motivated by abysmal pay. The old devs didn’t even leave the keys for the car, and the new ones are perfectly fine with just letting the engine fire exist because it was not in the management spec to put it out.

Tencent would never allow it.

The US has a sale-or-ban order in force right now, it is not up to Tencent, but the Taco King right now.

Besides it’s software, that has no subsidiaries.

You must mean assets. I’m talking about the legal entity, that’s what subsidiary means, a local US sub-company owned by the Chinese parent company. US Tiktok operations are owned by the local US subsidiary Tiktok Inc, incorporated in California, owned by Bytedance. That ownership relation is entirely regulated by US law.

In this case there is nothing to steal.

$10 billion in US revenue, the market share and the cultural, societal and political impact of the platform is there for the taking.

You can do so to the local subsidiary

Tiktok?

Oh they’ll force you to use it. It will be shoved into every service you use, also ones you need to use. You will not be able to do your work, access government services, or live your life without going through them.

Late stage capitalism has killed the free market a while ago.

Honest question, what is the ableist slur being discussed?

Yeah, and also zero dependency management, so you are free to figure out what combination of Python, Tensorflow and Keras will make it not throw random exceptions.

And don’t forget the number one rule: you must use all the graphing libraries, all the time.

Do you also have nothing but love for those 50+ cell Jupyter notebooks that don’t use a single function and have everything in the global scope?

I wouldn’t mind some corps vibing themselves into bankruptcy.

NGL I’m waiting for the first lawsuit where an engineer is sued by a company by vibe coding as they were told and caused irreparable harm to the company as the whole product has to be redone from the ground up.