This can’t be your honest take…

I’m with you. New mechanics? You can drive to the next course? Cool. Can’t wait for the dlc where you get to wash your kart after the race is over too.

Lol, you aren’t wrong there.

You (and everyone) are getting dumber because as convenience increases, intelligence decreases.

Wow. You have some really cool quick-improvenent ideas alongside major improvements. OCR would have applications in so many other situations too!

It definitely sounds like you will be under-appreciated under the new owners, you have so much skill and knowledge that are kinda going to waste with them.

But based on your other comments here, you know this too. Best wishes and good luck in your search.

I feel you so much on this. Bet your work was really cool.

What cool FOSS things would you do first if this take-over company allowed you to?

This point comes up a lot, but how does Photoshop survive? If chrome were split, Im sure they would find ways to make it work.

Corporate licensing would probably be the #1 way they could survive easily. The general public sees alternatives as “junk” to the main thing when it comes to tech. This, imo, is why Firefox is near death.

Now idk if the licensing route would be better or worse for us.

2. While also exponentially increasing the amount of good people becoming more aware of how broken parts of society are.

Let’s hope good people continue to do good things in every way they are able.

Thank you everyone trying to make things better.

Just wanted to say thank you for writing this. Very cool take, that was so well written to get us on board for how and why “that old junk” has personality that is being lost.

Also

Damn.

Doubt it’s not covered in EULA. Probably has something like

Company reserves the right to cancel your account for any reason, or without reason…

That movie couldve been so much more…

Comments like this are just the definition of irony…

About a month ago i asked gpt to draw ascii art of a butterfly. This was before the google poem story broke. The response was a simple

\o/
-|-
/ \

But i was imagining ascii art in glorious bbs days of the 90s. So, i asked it to draw a more complex butterfly.

The second attempt gpt drew the top half of a complex butterfly perfectly as i imagined. But as it was drawing the torso, it just kept drawing, and drawing. Like a minute straight it was drawing torso. The longest torso ever… with no end in sight.

I felt a little funny letting it go on like that, so i pressed the stop button as it seemed irresponsible to just let it keep going.

I wonder what information that butterfly might’ve ended on if i let it continue…