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2035 for Switch 2 piracy to get started sounds nice, as someone invested in the platform.

Maybe we should think about this like the concept of public domain. Locked down for X years in order to protect the artist, then opened up for everyone to benefit society.

It's certainly an extremely bizarre and false statement. Curious what he meant as well.

...so you're reinventing usenet?

...I'm in.

Supply and demand? He'd just up the charge in that case.

It's cat-and-mouse but he's getting richer and richer while the value to you will be constantly in flux.

v3 introduced proper nested comments and filtering, problem was they were slow to load but even worse was the design. Just very bloated and padded and the information density dropped through the floor.

(All based on very old memories.)

I also remember Pownce and Oink (Milk's only app?)

https://www.wired.com/2008/12/six-apart-pounc/

https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/14/kevin-roses-oink-shuts-dow...

I think there was a v4 that attempted to bridge the gap between v3 and v4.

Then v5 was when it wasn't curated at all and just a generic news aggregator.

So this is v6 I guess.

I could see some kafkaesque organization writing-up or firing someone for using the wrong font on a PowerPoint presentation.

Such companies should be mocked and shamed, not held up as examples to follow.

I'm going to go the unpopular route and ask, how mission-critical are fonts, really? Protected fonts such as these can't be mission-critical, legally, right?

Never felt myself lacking for fonts in Docs, myself. Quite the opposite, Google Fonts has way more than I'd ever have preinstalled and is now my primary avenue for typeface discovery.

Honestly the most cohesive experience I've found online are forums with strict, sometimes overly strong, moderation where it's allowed to also complain about the mods openly. They can have the power but at least let me bitch when they fuck up.

Maybe WiG?

"As long as it's just theoretical I don't have to feel bad. Just keep plowing ahead and breaking things."

Well it's about to turn from theory to reality very soon.

> Do you wanna do naughty things?? Don't use such services do to so.

Is that really what happened here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Cop_City

It underpins all software, and has wormed its way into Windows. I'm not sure this is as good a point as you think.

Maybe Stallman had something of a point...

I was partial to Micro$haft.

"Installations of new Windows OS tied to pink-eye outbreak nationwide"

We should start this process early and all start sending our fecal samples to MS headquarters.

I was more wondering about these emperors, kings, barbarians, and those in their influence who were casting aspersions at Athens. Why are we giving these historically incorrect people the time of day?

I wonder who those critics were and what they were motivated by. (Rhetorical)

Maybe most of that is floating between them and nVidia back and forth.

In high school I tried spec'ing a lang that excluded shift key usage... fun times.

The dissent seems to be "Ignoring whether or not the President acted lawfully, it would sure create an awful big mess if we undid it. And he's gonna try again anyways, and maybe even succeed in that future attempt, creating an even bigger mess. So for these reasons, it shouldn't be undone."

Curious if others have different readings.

Snippets were already getting Google in legal hot water (with Yelp in the US and news agencies in Australia in particular IIRC) long before LLMs and AI scraping. It's a debatable gray area of Fair Use growing out of early rulings on DMCA related cases, and also Google's win over the Author's Guild at SCOTUS.

LinkedIn and GitHub, hmm. Wonder if there's a common thread...

You could say the original author has enjoyed some post-morgem clarity.

One of the most insightful HN comments I've read in years. Thank you! I'm curious about what you've read and are reading.

Taking it further, imagine a traditional desktop OS but it generates your programs on the fly.

Google's weird AI browser project is kind of a step in this direction. Instead of starting with a list of programs and services and customizing your work to that workflow, you start with the task you need accomplished and the operating system creates an optimized UI flow specifically for that task.

Wild, potentially stupid thought: why couldn't a terminal let users supply a user.css like browsers? They'd only have to support the small subset of text styles.

The other people aren't real unless I'm forced to acknowledge their existence, often through violent but avoidable means.