AI is maximizing the move fast and break things approach, including not asking for permission from its userbase.

It's consistent with believing that AI is the future -- if a company doesn't perform really well, it loses that race. And if the userbase they piss off is also the userbase that's skeptical about AI, then they're not pissing off anyone that's relevant to the company winning.

Downside: Pissing off users is gross.

By migrating to another code forge and paying them so they're sustainable.

Which doesn't answer your question at all, but it is the metric they'll pay attention to. And it is the the thing that actually addresses the underlying problem.

>> hobby

> You don't have to support

This isn't just a kernel thing. Expecting volunteers to dump time into compliance is ridiculous. Not because they oppose the idea, but because huge swaths of the internet run on people doing something for free -- and they'll just do something else if governments begin threatening them.

Europe realized this with their new infosec liability regulations. If you're giving your labor away, you're not liable for your software; if you're making money off your software, step up and do better. Maybe California and the others should learn more from the EU.

> Expecting volunteers to dump time into compliance is ridiculous.

Exactly, so any distribution that relies on volunteers will likely include a region-locking clause in their documentation (which may or may not be a GPL violation)

Many big distributions (Ubuntu, Suse, Fedora) are sponsered by big tech companies, and are not maintained by volunteers.

Abortion prosecution or societal ostracization.

Streamer doxing.

Literally just being trans.

HIV fear mongering.

Illegal fuckery with your insurance rates.

Employment discrimination.

Stalking.

Racial discrimination.

Can you imagine trying to fully trust a mental health professional today? A patient can't see a therapist's notes, but they sure as hell can be breached.

There is zero LEGITIMATE use for your breached health data.

Can you give me example of it actually happening? If not this is the definition of hysteria

The business owner is in a job that takes a huge amount of their life, with a suicide rate four times higher than average.

People accuse veterinarians of being in it for the money, the same day another owner decides to euthanize their dog because they don't want it anymore. While an angry owner on social media is rallying pitchforks over something that the vet can't even respond to due to privacy standards.

I have no sympathy for PE that's wandering around our lives, destroying the actual purpose of businesses to extract profit from everyone they can.

CLAs have a use beyond shitty anti-open source rug pulls, but they've been abused enough that I'll trust the FSF first.

And I fully acknowledge that the FSF isn't and will never be perfect.

There are times when it is best for the project to stop being fully open source. Such a hardline stance that it should always be open source and changing that is considered a rug pull is a harmful mindset to have as it can result in projects dying or missing their shot at success.

> The tech companies don't really have any issue paying

It reduces profit.

Wrong, using grid power without adding capacity will result in tech companies paying more for electricity too. They want to add capacity.

Are you absolutely sure they don't want us to add the capacity for them with a pathway for further government subsidies?

Almost everything in tech has been subsidized in one way or another via tax avoidance schemes or outright lobbying and manipulation of the market.

Why would this be any different?

> You also can't see a doctor in the UK unless you're effectively dying

This is not true.

I don't know where that narrative comes from, but man, is it getting old.

> It's not impossible, it's just extra work that usually goes unrewarded.

That sounds like profit motivated negligence, and it sounds like a standard justification for why Europe is going to hold companies liable.

We will all owe the EU a massive debt of gratitude. Hopefully USB C was just the tip of the iceberg.

It is indeed. And that sucks but that's what it is. Product design is about calculated risks and trades. It's a good thing regulators are here to help because companies won't do it on their own and the general public doesn't care enough.

Excepting small communities: if you're looking for anything but humor, sort by best typically ruins the comments.

Subreddits get jokes or noob content going to the top.

PBS's Spacetime channel on Youtube -- one of the few channels with a budget to go into more depth (as in, not afraid to show you some math) on science -- has three types of comments at the top: jokes, thanks to the algorithm, and commenters saying they're too dumb to understand the video.

Political posts here on HN end up with the attention getting rhetoric going to the top.