You'd be surprised how many companies ignore GPL. Providing broken links to the source code tarballs, telling you to send an email request to get the code then proceed to ignore the requests, etc. Only the most famous case got sued, the rest simply got away with it.

It has been confirmed that The Crew does have a hidden offline play capability:

I can now confirm that local save data functionality is indeed built into all our copies and is not absent from the game, we have even obtained a sample save data file. This + the fact that we literally see offline mode in action in the prologue means that there 100% is an offline mode, if anyone was doubting at this point.

Save data dumper has been released to allow dumping your save data that can be used to play offline with a mod later:

Yes. a server emulator for offline play is in development by r00t0.

The save file dumped from ubisoft servers and is planned to be used for the offline mod so no progress will be lost.

However, you only have a limited time, after 31 march the servers will go down and your save file will be forever lost.

And now Ubisoft has deleted the game from everyone's account...

CoffeeScript was a fad, but TypeScript seems to gaining more and more popularity these days, with new runtimes like deno supporting them natively. TypeScript finally gave Microsoft relevancy again in webdev world, so I bet they'll go a great length to make sure it stays that way. If Microsoft were still making their own browser engine, I bet they'll make it natively supports TypeScript too.

I always thought ubuntu logo is three kids holding each other hands, not three buff dudes hugging each other.

Google execs knew this motto will just get in the way of maximizing profits for shareholders, so they dropped it a few years ago.

Charges for keeping this invoice confidential: $100,000.00

Considering we're seeing this invoice right now, they didn't keep it confidential did they?

Thanks to wasm, you don't have to bow to Google's whim and can choose to include jpeg xl support on your websites if you want: https://github.com/niutech/jxl.js

My memory is hazy, but during the subreddit protest, he was somehow removed from moderator list (did the admins got involved?), and the sub reopened shortly after. From then on, any thread about migration to Lemmy is full of people roasting each other. It was awful. No idea why those who remains were so vehemently opposed to migration of a piracy community. It's not like you can openly discuss piracy stuff on Reddit without risking removal by the admins.

Combine this with Chrome enforcing manifest v3 starting at June 2024, YouTube ads will be virtually unblockable on Chrome, even with an ads blocking extension installed because Google will be controlling the ad blocking mechanism used by the ad blocker. They can arbitrarily reduce the max number of the blocking rulesets, how often the extension can update the rulesets, or even elect to skip running any rulesets that target YouTube or Google domains.

Say, if you compress some data using these LLMs, how hard it is to decompress the data again without access to the LLM used to perform the compression? Is the compression "algorithm" used by the LLM will be the same for all runs (which means you probably can reverse engineer it to created a decompressor program), or will it be different every time it compress new data?

I mean, having to download a huge LLM to decompress some data, which probably also requires GPU with big VRAM, seems a bit much.

Systemd is huge. It's a complex project that covers not just the init system, but also process management, networking, mounts, sessions, many other things. Many people think its monolithic design run counter with the Unix philosophy and wish to use distros without systemd.

Because they lost the GPU, I kid you not.