Also known as a random Internet asshole

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You wish it were private. Would have saved you from the embarrassment.

5-7 trillion and they’ll still end up stealing data from all over the internet.

Because that’s not really how laws work. You don’t add laws over laws to just state the same thing again. Legal books are already fat enough.

Yes, most image search engines are also unlawful. Google knows that firsthand. It’s not because it exists that it’s legal? You seem to believe that.

It’s almost like if big tech corporations don’t care about laws, and the problem is elsewhere?

I don’t know why everybody pretends we need to come up with a bunch of new laws to protect artists and copyright against “AI”. The problem isn’t AI. The problem is data scraping.

An example: Apple’s iOS allows you to record your own voice in order to make it a full speech synthesis, that you can use within the system. It’s currently tooted as an accessibility feature (like, if you have a disability preventing you from speaking out loud all of the time, you can use your phone to speak on your behalf, with your own custom voice). In this case, you provide the data, and the AI processes it on-device over night. Simple. We could also think about an artist making a database of their own works in order to try and come up with new ideas with quick prompts, in their own style.

However, right now, a lot of companies are building huge databases by scraping data from everywhere without consent from the artists that, most of the time, don’t even know their work was scraped. And they even dare to advise that publicly, pretend they have a right to do that, sell those services. That’s stealing of intellectual property, always has been, always will be. You don’t need new laws to get it right. You might need better courts in order to enforce it, depending on which country you live in.

There’s legal use of AI, and unlawful use of AI. If you use what belongs to you and use the computer as a generative tool to make more things out of it: AI good. If you take from others what don’t belong to you in order to generate stuff based on it: AI bad. Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

Can’t go on the Internet, can’t go in public restrooms… Land of freedom.

Maybe « 15M Trello accounts compromised from previous leaks »? I tried to keep it short but not so short that it would be misleading, dunno if the right balance is there.

They have been instructed to take them down and will have to pay a further daily fine for every day they’re not complying (given, the fine is not a way to get away with it, it’s just to make them act quickly on the matter; they could go to court again if they fail to comply in the long run).

The severance package is great

It always baffles me to think that there is no minimum mandatory severance pay in the good old US of A, but considering 6 months of salary is “great” is saying even more about how low the bar is.

15M Trello accounts have been leaked

That title is very misleading. 15M Trello accounts were found to be compromised because of other, previous leaks, but no leak related to Trello occurred.

What I was saying: “your opinion doesn’t state a fact and some devs are indeed complaining about the 30% cut, maybe you should listen to them”

What you heard: MUUUUH FREEDOM OF SPEEEECH

Oh, you don’t agree with me? Really? My heart is broken.

I don’t really remember asking for your opinion on what a fair cut should be or what you think is a rip off. But the fact is that Steam takes more money from developers than other powerful competitors around (but 30% is barely enough to get servers running if I listen to you :D ). Okay. Sure. Yes. Right.

The microtransactions are so awful in Steam that with proposed laws in some countries (like the Netherlands) it would make the whole thing illegal. Some of the worst Valve practices already are, like the loot boxes (they’re banned there).

I don’t tell you that you should switch to something else than Steam. I don’t tell you that there’s a better choice (maybe GOG?). But what I’m saying is that Steam is indeed predatory and has been known for its anti-consumer practices, despite what some True Gamers™ seem to believe.

« There are benefits in using one game manager »

That is very true, and that’s why your game manager software shouldn’t be tied to any storefront or online service.

Epic is worse on some points listed here, better on others.

If you can’t behave in a respectful manner, you shouldn’t interact with someone else.

See? I can do this too.

If you were scammed, go to court. If you need to grasp on any excuse to leash out a shitty online behaviour, fix your life.

No, Steam gained its near monopoly through anti-consumer practices as well: being mandatory for playing Valve games, even offline, as soon as 2004; being DRM-ridden; locking consumers out of their right to sell their games on second-hand market; still enforcing an old revenue share system that’s hurting devs; or putting micro-transactions everywhere with their collectible system that you can’t really disable at all. Just to name a few.

Steam is not better than others. You’re just used to its flaws.