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>It will be worse than the dot com bust.

And whose fault is that?


>because LLMs aren't spitting out textbooks verbatim

Except that via the right prompt injections, some LLMs were caught they could spit out chapters of LoTR or Harry Potter 90% verbatim.

Safeguards LLMs implemented to prevent the output from being verbatim and to be considered legally transformative, are not legitimizing the IP theft, they're just covering it up, kind of like evidence spoliation.

But that's just my opinion, the courts will have to decide this one.


>After initial discovery and creation of the PoCs, we reached out to EA Games in August 2025 to report these issues. EA was helpful but confirmed that the issues were not within scope of their support.

Man, I gotta respect the balls on the author for reaching out to EA, and with a straight face, expecting them to push a bug fix for a ~23 year old game. Someone at EA who got the email probably got a chuckle out of it.

Also happy to see this classic RTS is still being played and even developed by the community. I'd be curious to know what the age of people this invested into the game is, if it's all 30+ year old boomers with nostalgia and knee pain, or if Generals also found its way to the current generation of players. "Can I have some shoes?"


> an those will have to be payed for by the populace

As always, "subsidize the losses, privatize the profits".


That reasoning from your parent was like the child logic of "we don't need to kill animals for food, we can just buy chicken at the supermarket".

Yeah, but if you deindustrialize by the time you decarbonize, because your industry left or went bust from expensive energy and environmental regulations, you now have an even bigger problem.

That's the weed number

>Ever since they got the delicious taste of white-labelling chromium instead of fixing ie

What exactly was wrong with Edge Legacy(not IE) based on their own engine that they need to fix, and why was Chromium a sweet taste?

AFAIk Edge Legacy was kicking ass in all benchmarks. Their only achilles heel was Google messing up Youtube and G-apps to break they way they got displayed on Edge LEgacy forcing users to switch to Chrome.


Edge Legacy was always playing catch-up trying to be sufficiently compatible with Chrome.

And personally, I preferred the native IE UI over the Chrome-lookalike Edge UI.

I’d still have liked for Microsoft to keep maintaining their own engine, but I can understand why they didn’t.


I was playing with the RTM release of Windows 10 which came with the "new Edge" browser (post-IE, pre-Chromium). It's a cool piece of software, very slick and minimal browser UI and not a hint of Copilot anywhere (since that would come ~8 years later).

I imagine it was not as compatible and it was less work to simply rebrand Chromium as Edge.


What was wrong is that they had to foot the bill. Now Google does the hard and expensive part for them.

I meant what was wrong from the user's perspective who complained. Not from MS's perspective.

> What exactly was wrong with Edge(not IE)

The constant fear of having Copilot shoved down your throat whenever you close and update Edge. And Microsoft homepage.

> why was Chromium a sweet taste?

Do zero of the heavy work maintaining a browser engine. Do maximum (little) work of adding AI slop.


>The constant fear of having Copilot shoved down your throat whenever you close and update Edge.

Copilot only cam after they switched Edge Legacy to Edge Chromium.


Same. I go to technical or other forums in order to pursue hobbies of interest and escape the political shitshow of the real world, not be reminded of it every step of the way. I don't want to be bombarded with their opinions on the matter, even if they were to align with my own. Virtue signaling becomes a slippery slope that only induces more division, anxiety and fatigue over those issues, while not actually helping with solving them in any meaningful way.

>And, to be honest, if the EU would get off its ass and at least try to foster some alternatives, even those of us in the US would benefit.

What exactly do you want the EU, the Brussels based institution, to do here? Because AWS didn't come into existence because Uncle sam came in and twisted Bezo's hand telling him to invent a hyperscaler that will conquer the world.

EU's lack of comparable domestic alternatives is a consequence of the failure of its entrepreneurship and free market in the SW private sector, and nothing that EU institution can do about it to magically fix this since the solution is not MORE regulatory interference form government bureaucrats who don't know how the internet works.

You might be able to force innovation if the governments can throw money at the problem if the VC sector is lacking, but they can't force economies of scale and mass adoption without a China style great firewall, in which case you'd then have even bigger issues.


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