he would not want professionally shipped code to carry an invisible marker that could raise questions about authorship, compliance, or client policies.

Gee, if only there were some way to create code that doesn't raise questions about authorship. Some sort of skill that people could learn that allowed them to deliver code to their clients that complied with their policies...

Who is this "they" that killed Google Keep? In what way did they do so? The only thing I've found is that the Chrome app was discontinued in 2021 as part of the general push to get rid of Chrome apps, but that has no real effect on anyone's ability to use the service.

Paying to run it on someone else's computer. WPEngine charge $130/month for the level of their Essential plan that's supposed to handle 100,000 visits/month. That's $1560/year, which is near enough to his claim that it's probably what he was on.

I'm very suspect of the arithmetic here. Given the economic climate I'm not at all convinced that an 8% increase in revenue will result in an 18% increase in profit...especially since to get 2025 to only a $150K shortfall it looks like you have to ignore $250K in property taxes, on the assumption that their application to become tax exempt will be granted.

Unfortunately DuckDuckGo sucks ass at search, even compared to how much the Google search results have degraded over time. I use the no-AI version as my primary search engine, but I have to resort to using Google to find the thing I'm looking for about 1 in 5 times.

For future reference: "throwing hands" means initiating a fight, it's a piece of slang that is very distinct from throwing your hands (up/in the air.)

Your behaviour is indistinguishable from that of someone who is defending them, since you're arguing their side of the lawsuit. The magazine is legally required to publish a reply which is "suc­cinct and con­fine[s] it­self to the sub­ject mat­ter of the con­ten­tious rep­res­ent­a­tion," not any given reply that Palantir wants to make. As quoted at several removes, "Republik’s managing director Katharina Hemmer said Palantir had wanted the magazine to publish a very lengthy counterstatement to each article. Republik believed the proposed statements did not fairly address or rebut the reporting"

Strictly speaking I think they're being sued for not forcing it on their customers. If it had been genuinely a change in service offerings that everyone was forced to accept I think they would have been in the clear, but resorting to trickery instead of force is a no-no.

And Vaxry's defense of the community was "actually, we harassed a transphobe a few months later." Yes, great, you're shitty to everyone. Yay.

You can't prevent client-side cheating with a server-side implementation. For instance, making enemies on the other side of a wall visible uses data that the server has to supply to the client in order for the game to work, just in an unintended way. The server also has no way to verify whether the client is accurately conveying the results of user inputs or gently correcting them to move the aim to an enemy's head instead of a gazebo.

It would still be nice if all game companies supported Linux, but it requires active effort and isn't something they can get for free by being better programmers.

Well, I guess you've chosen the path of not knowing what a pronoun is, since all of the examples you've given use chat as a noun. Good luck with that; I don't think we can have a productive conversation without shared meanings of words, so I'll bow out.

No one's getting particularly heated, we're just saying that someone who spews obvious nonsense in an area of supposed expertise probably shouldn't be trusted about other things.

I would believe that at some point over the course of the past few years 82% of employees had sent at least one slopbot query to an unsanctioned service during work hours. 82% actively doing it on an ongoing basis for work-related reasons? Is to laugh.