Theyll just charge as much as each individual can afford and pocket the difference.

If these guys make agi we are getting the worst people in the world owning all human knowledge and renting it back to us

I think so yeah, i have lifetime from ages ago

You control your own disk but by putting it on nexus you’ve put it into their repo and said others can depend on it.

Preventing removal (from lists) was just necessary.

Its not unreasonable to say if you release a mod and others depend on it you cant change your mind. Imagine if anyone could remove their contribution to the linux kernel at any point.

Its not about them taking ownership, its about them preventing petty drama which is actually the most important job for a mod site.

Nexus does have collections, modpacks installed via its own modding tool.

The mules are inevitable, shovel faster

At least gamepass and the ms aquisition spree gave us Pentiment.

Seems a small thing to have released after buying half of the industry but thats microsofts problem. Maybe they can sell them all again when they get bored.

Fixed hardware for devs to target for games is great, thats the advantage of consoles.

Honestly one of the xbox problems is theyve fragmented “xbox” so much you have to start caring which one you have for different games. Huge mistake.

I think theres an argument here for making consoles better at other computing stuff to be more relevant.

Not sure they can market that effectively tho even if it might help overall.

Its been left behind

If youre talkong about local models youre not really talking about what everyone else is, and youre already avoiding the wave

I dunno, if we were pushed off machine code onto non-deterministic compilers that ran on a machine thousands of miles away with no way to know when it was changed i think we’d have balked at that too, even if compilers themselves are entirely positive.

No im not arguing its hard to define, im arguing that youll have to ban children from whats app. Private minecraft servers (even ones owned and run by the kids) too. If you dont do this you leave a space for the tech giants to bring the targeted ads and then youll have to ban kids from each space as they move in.

Any communication channel will fall to this if you take the approach of banning children from them one by one instead of stopping this behaviour by the tech giants entirely by legislating against targeted advertising directly. These services are just as toxic to adults.

Because the line between “social media” and “talking to other people” is so blurry as to not exist.

Also, and more importantly, the power of these companies is so great in effect youll only enforce that facebook etc. are the only ways of talking to each other that can exist legally and entrench the very problem you want to solve.

For example, is whats app social media?

Im not sure what youre arguing here? its possible to control access well as a parent, but so much easier if the state force everyone on the internet to provide id in order to prevent teenagers talking to eavh other?

You yourself csn target what you think is harmful but a law will hit everything and everyone, and like i implied in the driveby about roblox still might not actually block something you find unacceptable.

This is just the wrong approach to achieve the goal.

Youre on lemmy! This is like the one place people will decry facebook, x, reddit, insta etc. But what your arguing for will end up with them as the only services that can navigate existing legally, and children will still work around blocks because they simply dont care about consequences for lying about their age.

Dont worry theyll get plenty of poison after the ban too from roblox chat

Thanks this is useful to know

The koch brothers were behind the tea party, and ive never seen anything linking them to russia.

At a guess that astroturf movement was hijacked by others but im not sure we can pin much of that on russia specifically.

And you need a blank tape to copy to, the makers of which did have to pay a charge to content firms to cover piracy.

In this tortured analogy the blanks are also included in the ai firm product, so yes they would have had to pay

It’s not that I don’t believe them, but anything coming from spooks has to be looked at a little sideways.

Thanks for the reply. I just couldn’t figure out how they had enough intelligence to find all these telegram groups, maybe that’s easier for a nation state than I thought.