vinhill

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vinhill,

By the contract, you couldn’t say anything detrimental about the game, so such a statement would still be forbidden. Whether such a vague limitation on what a content creator can say would hold up in court is a different thing.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

vinhill,

I wouldn’t assume a corporation is a moral entity, Spotify’s only goal is to maximise profit. Maybe it’s a problem of our economic system or regulations around monopolies.

vinhill,

Well LoL has no official Linux support, so a low current number of users is no indication of the size of the potential Linux player base.

vinhill,

Especially imagine it showing the price. If you buy a laptop with windows pre-installed, you also paid for a license.

vinhill,

There is one important difference when it comes to what rhetoric is suitable between France and Russia, I think. Russia has control over the narrative within it’s land, about the media and limits free speech. If Russia doesn’t follow up on it’s threads, there are no internal consequences and externally, Russia might lose some credibility but still say an unpredictable danger. I think France has a lot more to loose when not following up on their threads / red lines. In terms of diplomacy with other countries, internally with the government appearing weak to its citizens and towards Russia too.

vinhill,

I suppose I’m not the only one watching Shaun?

Förderung großteils gestrichen: Batterieforschung in Deutschland droht das Aus (www.n-tv.de) German

Die Bundesregierung kürzt ihre Förderung für die Batterieforschung massiv. Experten warnen vor schwerwiegenden Folgen für den Industriestandort Deutschland. Die Forscher vermuten hinter der Entscheidung auch politisches Kalkül....

vinhill,

Na das stimmt nun ja auch nicht. Wie der Artikel sagt, die wichtigen Sachen wie Wasserstoff, efuels etc werden weiter gefördert.

vinhill,

Aber nur, wenn sie ihre Leistung nicht in Form von Erwerbsarbeit erbringen ;)

vinhill,

But they speak from a high a position of superiority and rightness.

vinhill,

There are talks in the EU with the DMA about bringing this back.

vinhill,

Could even use the money for new open source projects or for funding the VLC fork.

vinhill,

docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/…/about-forks

It’s basically like a copy of the original repository. But you can pull in and merge changes from the original, make a pull request for the original to pull your changes. Fork+pull request enables you to contribute to someone else’s repository. Things like Chromium are in part forks of Safari, just that they diverged over time.

vinhill,

Buying previous generation products. I got something like a Braun series 5 instead of the newest series 9, as there isn’t that much difference.

vinhill,

Mozilla has a budget of around 200 mil for software development, so the 7 mil are probably not enough. Not defending the high pay though.

Also, AI Integration into browsers could very well be a deciding factor for mainstream users when choosing a browser. So having some expertise around e.g. running LLMs privacy preserving on client hardware for page summarisation could pay off. Llamafile for example, is something cool coming from the Mozilla AI stuff.

vinhill,

The same with resumes. Using a LLM to write a resume and cover letter out of key facts, sending it, turning it back into key facts around the applicant.

vinhill,

Cost of development was 221 mio in 2022

…mozilla.net/…/mozilla-fdn-2022-fs-final-0908.pdf

vinhill,

Yeah, I guess your point stands. But also, it’s 221 mio for Mozilla as a whole. Firefox might again be a fraction of this. While e.g. the Linux foundation has a lower budget, with all the contributed work hours of volunteers / corporations, a fork of Firefox is more realistic than the 500 mio make it out to be.

vinhill,

Bei mir (RWTH, Informatik) war’s normalerweise so, dass man mit ~20 Studenten und zwei Betreuern in einem Zoom Raum war, Kamera einen selbst+Bildschirm+Schreibtisch zeigen musste. Ton musste an sein. Mit einem beliebigen Browser geht man dann auf Dynexite, welches angeblich registriert, falls man den Tab wechselt.

vinhill,

Google does not just show a link. It scrapes the content of the page to build a search index, i.e. consomes the content. This happens without explicit permission and in the past, there were no opt-out ways. Then they use this knowledge to provide search go users and incorporate ads to make money without paying the original pages. Google also started to show you these handy answers by showing some text section scraped from the page.

Like, there certainly is a similarity. And there is the difference that Google mostly feeds users to the original webpage while GenAI can replace the content.

vinhill,

Tbh, if you get such a notice, you could also disagree with them and get a lawyer. It’s just that your situation is much more clearly in breach of copyright.

vinhill,

Even if this were not covered by copyright. Our copyright system is broken and laws can be changed. Especially if they don’t correspond to what the majority sees as moral.

vinhill,

Actually, what is the reason that Firefox seems to be preferred over Chromium? Is it the license? The control Alphabet has over it?

One has to agree that there is a lot more money poured into chromium, the code is more modern and easier embeddable, it is more feature-complete.

Though, it’s good to have two independent browser engines and a non-profit (+for-profit subsidiary) dedicated to a free, open, user-focussed browser.

vinhill,

Might be the out of memory killer. For me, Mach (Firefox’s build tool) usually did a multi-processed build assuming around 1 GB RAM per thread. Run ./mach build -j10 to limit the build to e.g. 10 threads. Or set mk_add_options MOZ_PARALLEL_BUILD=10 in your config file.

vinhill,

Google sheets isn’t FOSS, right? Is there something comparable in libre?

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