I'm pretty sure the dlc thing is already possible. Guild wars 2 at least works this way, you can buy the game/dlcs either via steam or via their own store and then you can install and run the game either via steam or via their own launcher (although IIRC the steam way still has the launcher).

It's probably more of a case of steam providing a convenient way for developers to not need their own account system, so rather than them creating their own solution that integrates with steam and other sources, they just straight up use Steam's way.

To be honest I'd love it if they forced a way for steam and other shops to allow migrating your games between them, so I could take all the free games from epic but never use it. Currently my compromise is to just never use it and skip the free games.

Nothing, if that was your point then I misunderstood what you were suggesting - also perfectly valid.

I can't say I know the answer but a few ideas:

• did you access it with a browser? Maybe it snitches on you or some extension does?
• did you try to resolve it with a public DNS server at any point (are you sure nothing forwarded the request to one)?

You could try it again, create the domain in the config and then do absolutely nothing. Don't try to confirm it works in any way. If you don't see the same behaviour you can do one of the above and then the other and see when it kicks in. If it gets picked up without you doing anything..then pass!

His point seems to be rather that he has been using a monetisation approach to his work where he released his work open source and then used the exposure of it to sell his services, which is now being taken away because LLMs hide him from the equation and all the person sees on the other side is "ai solved it for me". That sounds to me more like a business model that leverages open source, which he is now considering changing and charging everyone instead because his previous one is being made impossible. It doesn't sound like he is doing this as a hobby, but as a job. It's not different than being a self employed photographer, writer etc - all the other professions which are revolting against AI for the exact same reason.

To your metaphor, it's more akin to someone going around the street and recording the best songs of every musician there and then putting it on YouTube with a label of "don't bother going to this place, here's the music you wanted". Not only do they not get money directly, nor are they getting any credit or royalty but it even removes the chance of them getting anything out of it, even if it's just exposure to further their career.

I'm pretty sure few people will bask for 6-8 hours a day every day as a hobby without hoping to get something for it.

To your last point..Isn't the definition of charity pretty much along the lines of offering services or resources to others without the expectation of profit? I get your point if it applies to the "I wrote some code which works for me, you can have it as is, good luck" situation alone but that's incredibly rare in open source projects with any popularity (i.e. real users) - a lot of time and effort goes into supporting people and doing things you wouldn't do for yourself.

They absolutely were, without them there's no rhetoric of "oh the other right wing party left us without money so we need to raise taxes to pay back debts", they're then also free to do all the unpopular shit to make sure they're not re-elected and there's money again to steal. It's a back and forth team effort.

I find it difficult to tell how I feel about this. On the one hand it seems in this case the health board is trying to ensure the child survives the operation while trying to honour their wish to avoid the transfusion unless it's clearly necessary, which all sounds good. I also recognise that the reason the child is refusing it is due to religion which they probably had no choice but to be indoctrinated in from birth.

On the other hand, all parties recognise that the child is capable of making their own decision and understand the consequences, but yet still gets ignored. This seems like a slippery slope. Where is the line when the court can decide what happens to someone's body against their will? I could understand it if they also claim the person is unable to make the choice for themselves (e.g. too young to understand the consequences, or under the influence of propaganda), but they are not claiming that.

There is a "non-food crops" slice in the agricultural land part which seems to do exactly this though.

I think your example is great for how the messaging of "pick a job you love and you'll never work a day"/"you can be whatever you want to be" can be quite harmful, I know several people in similar situations with various art/creative degrees.

The only thing I'd add is to consider what a degree will do for you if you can't work in the field it's for. E.g if you get a degree in marine biology it may be used to re-train as a teacher or similar, but not much else. Meanwhile a degree in some business subject will probably allow you to apply for most office jobs in general. You may not love it, but it's a lot easier to have a decent salary and find a hobby than to starve trying to get paid for your hobby.

This is true but there is a matter of being able to split up work into multiple pieces easily and prioritise between services. E.g. the piece of legacy service that nobody likes to touch, has no tests and is used for 2% of traffic can take its' time getting sorted out without blocking all the other services moving on.

You still have to do it and it should be ASAP, but there are more options on how to manage it.

Nah, we just let half the country flood once a year instead.

Luckily they can just keep proposing it nonstop until everyone is burnt out from constantly fighting it while also working a day job.

I'm just so tired of paying taxes and then having to spend more money to support various organisations to fight the government using my money against me. Even sending representatives emails about these issues just feels like spending 5-10 mins of my time to write it, then paying for 5 mins of their time to get back a long version of "yea sure". I might as well just start setting money on fire instead, same outcome less effort.