• https://publiccode.eu/en/
• https://publicmoneypubliccode.org.uk

And there are several individual EU countries that are moving to open source software, but so far they are not very keen on actually supporting their development. And sadly, EU is moving away from funding open source via Horizon program. https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/17/foss_funding_vanishes_from_eus/

“Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror. His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden and governments led by them were responsible for killing thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians in just the past year alone as part of state terrorism and genocide. Would killing them be “a measure of justice” by the same standard (I’m not advocating for violence, just asking a theoretical question)?

It’s the killing of Hassan Nasrallah he calls “a measure of justice,” not Isreal’s attack <…>

Isn’t that one and the same in this case? If killing one valid target requires killing many innocent people, that’s not justice, that’s terrorism by US own definition.

They’re upset with Epic and their exclusives

facepalm

<…> their shitty storefronts that have extremely limited features by comparison.

Have you used Steam in the early days? It took 5 years before they added basic community features.

Plus we all know the decreased commissions is just their way of attempting to gain market share, as opposed to just making a better product.

A better product means nothing if you have no users. Case in point all the enshitified platforms that still exist to this day.

Steam is far from perfect, but it’s also far and away the best option we have.

Only option. That’s the ultimate issue, which you prefer to ignore.

This is not new, but it’s well sourced and easily digestible for most people. The issue is that Valve has de facto monopoly and when Epic Games (even selfishly) tried to address that issue gamers went for their throat instead of cheering.

There are small storefronts that exist in the background, but they are either indie only like itch.io, Game Jolt or run by a publisher with primarily their catalog like GOG, Origin, Uplay (or whatever it’s called now), Battle.net, etc. And even then many of them eventually become available on Steam because that’s what gamers ask for. People are too stupid to help themselves, so unless some regulations force a change, we are stuck with this.

<…> managed to exit it first time <…>

That is not possible…

Added to the post body.

Only in UK English, US English doesn’t.

The company does not distinguish between how many posts were removed and how many were labeled.

Best kind of transparency.

Yeah, worse than Google/Apple app store’s 30/70 split which is already a robbery.

Mostly it comes down to hypocrisy. He’s been a vocal critic of identical “products” in the past when released by other companies, but now suddenly everything is fine when it is him doing it.

That’s straight from the mouth of Rabbit founder Jesse Lyu, who gave the number to Fast Company <…>

They are only pro-consumer when it doesn’t evolve Big Tech. They are owned by Big Tech…

Criminal racket 101. Regulations are created so that companies would be forced to pay politicians to bypass those regulations.

Well, yes, that’s the whole point of their existence. How else would they be able to evaluate the traffic? They can read everything in plain text.

As opposed to giving all that unencrypted traffic to Cloudflare and letting them make money from it?

I would agree if it was outside of Japan. But since we are talking about Japanese courts, more precisely Tokyo courts, this has huge likelihood of success.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/this-windows-powershell-phish-has-scary-potential/

Don’t take this as an insult, but you really need to come back when there is an independent audit that confirms the claims. Verifying cryptography is not something even a tech-savvy person can do, even if the source code is available.

The majority of it’s funding is from various US entities. Even the whole concept was born from US military. But that really doesn’t mean anything these days. As an open source project, you take money from whoever wants to give it to you. It’s not like users who spend hundreds of dollars on proprietary software per month will give you any.

<…> I found that it takes about .3 KWH to generate an AI image <…>

There isn’t really set power usage per image, since different models will take different amount of time. There are 100s of different factors and optional toggles that can increase or reduce time needed.