A lot of open-source software uses copyleft licenses like GPL. If a company uses that code to build its own products, then some or all of their new code may also become open source. This is an important part of how open-source projects stay open. Organizations like FSF have taken big companies to court over this and won.

AI companies trained their slop-generators on that open-source code. In many cases, it will reproduce it line-for-line. But courts currently hold that the generated code is no longer subject to the original copyright restrictions. It’s nearly impossible to publish open-source software without being scraped for AI training.

Didn’t Discord just leak a few million “age-verification photos” that they sorta promised to delete, but didn’t?

Who could have predicted that hanging ten conflicting kernel-level anti-cheat installations might cause compatibility problems?

In this case, I knew it because of a “botanicals” set that I assembled recently.

Those sets use a lot of pieces in creative ways, often in unusual colors. In particularly obscure cases, like this crown or the rose petals that were originally from a car fender, the manual will include a brief trivia callout.

I remembered the callout, and that was enough to find it by keyword on the fan database sites.

Ah yes, the 39262 minifigure crown, also used as a flower.

It’s usually because of cheap electrolytic capacitors. Letting a $10+ item die because they were too cheap to pay $0.25 instead of $0.15 for a properly rated component.

You’re confusing PEGI (the European games rating body) with ESRB (the American equivalent).

PEGI has ratings 3, 7, 12, 16, and 18, and it gave Balatro the highest rating of 18.

ESRB has ratings E, E10+, T, M, and A, and it gave Balatro the relatively low E10+ rating.

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Now explain PartialEq, and why it’s mandatory.

SATA= Slow (Max 6 Gbps) PCIe = Fast (Max > 100 Gbps in theory)

This is the maximum rate from the drive to the motherboard. Many drives are fast enough that SATA works become the bottleneck. With PCIe, the drive can run at its full speed, whatever that may be.

This isn’t funny, this is just the sad state of software these days.

Those fish know what they did.

That’s weird, the watermark says, “I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

It’s a matter of trust. This is just the latest in a long and increasing train of Microsoft abusing their market power. They have proven, time and again, that they cannot be trusted.

Anyone who tries to pull an “I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further” gets a lifetime boycott.

But do they have a video about Deus Ex?

The monologue is a quote from Deus Ex, talking about one of these electronic gizmos.

Don’t worry, this just means your job is safe from being replaced by AI. No search results means no training data.

That would be nice. Our admins don’t bother with anything like this, but they also block me from fixing things.

Pro tip: Use molten lava. Lava is a liquid, but I don’t think anyone describes it as “wet”.

IRL Raven from Snow Crash.