Where did I say “oh well, nothing we can do?” You’re literally tying random arguments to my name.

Nobody here made the argument that what is legal is exactly what is fair. Nobody here made the argument that Nintendo being overly litigious is a good thing. The only argument made is that copyright law is flawed because companies abuse it and that lawmakers need to fix it.

He never said that creating an emulator was illegal. He said that Nintendo is legally in the clear to do what they did. In Yuzu’s case, Nintendo sued and both parties settled, and they reached an “agreement” with Ryujinx to take down its emulator.

As far as I’m aware, the Yuzu case isn’t settled law as it calls into question whether the use of dumped keys to “bypass” copy protections is legal under the DMCA. This question isn’t about emulation, even if it’s a step required for emulation to be possible.

Since there are many issues with copyright law right now, corporations have a free pass to bully people in a multitude of ways, and the Yuzu lawsuit and Ryujinx “agreement” are just new ways of doing the same thing. All OP is saying is that lawmakers need to re-create copyright and IP laws to make them more fair and make sense so that content creators and/or homebrew devs and/or fangame creators and/or emulator devs can do their work with a far less shaky legal foundation.

I didn’t know that Secret Service was mandatory for former US Presidents.

Lobbying is a good concept corrupted by greed, as are many things in the US.

OpenAI the non-profit owned OpenAI the company since the company was created. The non-profit is simply reducing its stake/share of the company and giving it to investors and/or Altman

Creators get way more money with Premium viewers than ad-based ones, or at least it used to be that way.

“Competitors choosing” is usually considered to be price fixing, which is anti-competitive and/or monopolistic. Amazon et al aren’t the only US companies guilty of this or other anti-competitive behaviors, even if they’re a notable example.

It’s a mix of both. When Amazon came around, stores got less traffic and had to get rid of niche products, and because shelf space was so important, there could only be so many products carried by a store.

LLMs have real uses, even if they’re being overhyped right now. Even if they do fail, though, more nuclear power is a great outcome

Because there’s absolutely no valuable information that exists on YouTube, right?

Lina Khan actually takes action against companies unlike many of her predecessors.

You mean the TSMC.

As someone with few USBs available, Ventoy takes me 2 minutes to flash, several minutes to copy a set of ISOs, and then any time I need it, it takes 0 minutes to have a working USB with some arbitrary ISO. Sure, it’s not up to date, but I don’t need it to be if I need to recover an install or use some random tool.

Defcon is a useful resource for networking and learning. It being run by and for good guys doesn’t mean bad guys don’t find the event useful. The vague risk of “getting caught” is probably worth taking, regardless of whether that risk is tangible, especially if they follow proper security practices.

You (probably) wouldn’t see this page unless you were on Windows

The EU isn’t the only place on the planet, even if its laws have an impact.

You can adapt, but how you adapt matters.

AI in tech companies is like a hammer or drill. You can either get rid of your entire construction staff and replace them with a few hammers, or you can keep your staff and give each worker a hammer. In the first scenario, nothing gets done, yet jobs are replaced. In the second scenario, people keep their jobs, their jobs are easier, and the house gets built.

I’ve read enough accounts from both men and women to know that sexual harassment is not taken seriously at many places.

I do agree that it’s a stupid phrase, but the point of it is to say that bad apples ruin the bunch. Police in the US, especially the bad apples, rarely are held accountable.

If we’re talking about the latest version of Windows 11, I would say it’s dumbed down, but everything I personally need is still there.