What are you suggesting should have been done here?

To be fair, there are important differences between open source and closed source software.

I’m curious how it’s considered a “layoff” if it’s based on performance rather than the job itself being eliminated.

At first I thought this was an announcement from Microsoft.

Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.

E099: PROGRAMMER IS OVERLY POLITE

The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.

otherwise we would just switch it off

If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.

A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?

The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.

Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?

Try HTTrack: https://www.httrack.com/

Terrible technique. Everyone knows it’s left hands only.

Reminds me of the internet legend known as The Forgotten Employee

We are Linux. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your hard drive will be reformatted to service us. Resistance is futile.

Wouldn’t it be states 51-60?

Some have stopped working, like SteamLink, but others still work. I know it’s just a matter of time.

Mine can because it also has Netflix, Hulu, etc. built in.

From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.

Looks like compatibility hacks for various websites.

Interventions - are deeper modifications to make sites compatible. Firefox may modify certain code used on these sites to enforce compatibility. Each compatibility modification links to the bug on Bugzilla@Mozilla; click on the link to look up information about the underlying issue.

User Agent Override - change the user agent of Firefox when connections to certain sites are made.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Compatibility/UA_Override_&_Interventions_Testing