Wow, I'll be switching from Firefox to Task Manager!

I don't think they're pretending. Open source software is a valuable resource for basically all major tech companies, and a lot of it is driven by major tech companies. Some kind of combination of open source and proprietary software will always be a thing for them. This isn't some major contradiction, they use either model based on the specific needs of the project.

This is why some think "Open Source" is too permissive since they see it as free/cheap labor to be exploited by huge corporations.

I'm not sure that I see it that way, but I can see their point.

It's as if I'm being gaslit into thinking I don't know what the word means!

It's very common for forums to have rules against posting in a thread that hasn't seen any activity for an arbitrary amount of time. When you do that, you will often cause a thread that has fallen from the front page to bump back to the top of the front page. It's not clear why this is a problem, though. Maybe regulars just dislike seeing old topics brought back up?

I'm a good enough software engineer that this isn't true. I bet I get paid a lot more than you. 😎

(The above statement is not a truthful statement.)

Here's what Kagi gave me:

The passage discusses the concept of "enshittification" in the tech industry, where companies initially attract customers through innovation but then exploit them by increasing prices and fees. This phenomenon has occurred at companies like Facebook, Google, Uber and food delivery services. The term was coined by author Cory Doctorow to describe how these companies stop innovating and focus only on generating value for shareholders at the expense of customers. However, the passage notes that increased unionization among tech workers and more aggressive antitrust enforcement could help reverse these trends and encourage more competition in the industry. An interesting point highlighted is that while enshittification is not necessarily directly malicious, it can be a product of business environment pressures and lack of regulation that incentivize prioritizing profits over customers. This suggests policy changes may be needed to realign company incentives with serving users.

I don't think that's correct. There's a vetting process (so it cannot be "any mod"), and it can't be an existing free mod.

Creations must be standalone, so it cannot depend on other community releases, free or paid. Creations must be all-new to qualify for release. You cannot re-purpose older releases – or work by other authors, unless contracted. Creations cannot contain anything produced through generative AI.

https://creations.bethesda.net/en/creators/bethesdagamestudios

This isn't meant to be a call-out or anything, but I think we should resist the urge to explain how bad certain things in the US are by comparing them to scary nonspecific foreigners. It seems to me the worst aspects of US society are largely home-grown and then sometimes exported. Eventually the impulse to say "this isn't what America is/should be, this is what they do in lesser societies" stops making sense.

The MS-DOS version of this game was actually not winnable without cheats because the jumping physics changed and they didn't update the level layouts for that.

You may know this, but Firefox does support multiple profiles. I regularly open it with firefox -p "PROFILENAME" depending on whether I'm working or not. you can go to about:profiles to manage the different profiles.

I've worked in "secure" environments for the US military and yeah, open access to the internet while you're on the job is absurd to expect

Right, even if you don't use anything affected by the restrictions being put on the API, I just feel like Reddit will get noticeably worse from here on out. Huffman is basically promising that it will.