SANTA CLAUS-MAN WILL RETURN…

… IN AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY

The economic angle is already obvious, but even if we leave that aside: the more people see a film, the more people will see her likeness used without her consent.

Seems pretty important to me.

Seems pretty freaking important, given how residuals work?

There isn’t an API for browser extension data. They are searching for the existence of thousands of specific addresses to perform the search.

New installs, or new users? I’d assume the latter?

I am vaguely familiar with Cities Skylines and many other city sims, and I’ve never heard those acronyms. This isn’t a Cities Skylines-specific community, so it’s more than fair to ask for an explanation of them.

Wait. Coruscant, Tatooine and…?

Horses are living animals, just like people. Do you think horses chose to mostly stop procreating because cars took their job?

It’s been what, 10 years? Since GPU prices first sharply rose due to Bitcoin miners. Competitors haven’t popped up so far. I don’t believe this will change.

So when will GPUs get cheaper again?

Firstly, the GNOME Foundation’s financial woes long predate the rise in AI scrapers.

Sure. Does the Gitlab -> GitHub redirect also long predate the rise in AI scrapers?

I know of no such increase.

If you haven’t been staying up to date, maybe do that before dismissing explanations? The increase in scraping is such a massive issue that it’s been discussed to death again and again, and big parts of the open internet has changed.

You’re basically calling bullshit on a charity having increased fuel prices, because you’re not aware of any Iran conflict!

Ah, and why isn’t it reasonable to assume that the increase in hosting costs which is hitting everyone for the last few months, is also hitting GNOME? Why do you think they are exempt, when even big commercial platforms are struggling with the amount of traffic generated by AI scrapers?

Given that hosting costs have objectively increased across the board due to AI scraping, and the GNOME project just introduced these changes, it is obviously sensible to assume that GNOMEs hosting costs have increased too.

It’s not stupid insofar that it is an additional fingerprintable data point. But it’s obviously still much harder to fingerprint you if many users share the same value that you have, so it is invalid.

This was honestly obvious to anyone who read his many LKML gaffes. There’s no way to maintain a healthy psyche if you constantly butt heads with everyone in your field, while a portion of your “fan base” keeps fueling your non-compromising egocentric views.

Everyone needs a reality check every now and then.

That’s also my approach. If I want to use a slur for comedic effect, I only do so if nobody I’m addressing is actually part of the targeted group.

Damn, that sounds great! Hard to believe we’re already at 3.2, it felt like I was waiting for 3.0 for a decade!

The Wayland story for such tools was pretty bad for a while, but AFAIK the necessary protocols are now in place, so it should be possible to build this now (though probably not with all features due to security).

But I’d love something like AHK with a saner scripting language, maybe Lua or JS (through QuickJS)!

Ozempic!