https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

That’s not busy work. Busy work, as explained in the article, is work that doesn’t really accomplish anything, like re-folding towels that have already been folded. Or as I’ve had to do before, sweep a perfectly spotless sidewalk. Data validation is valid work.

Probably AWS stuff. An application that hasn’t been designed to scale well can get very expensive very quickly.

Only if you file suit and the court finds it enforceable. Sometimes they say you can sue anyway.

They say their biggest expense is marketing. But I think they’re honest in saying that there are no current plans for layoffs. They just made the plans right after making that statement.

That would probably dissolve some of the plastic parts.

They should fix that, because it’s certainly degrading the experience on Lemmy. A good number of these replies have the tags longer than their actual content.

We’re already at that point. Even recipe sites, which I’ll give the benefit of assuming aren’t already ML-generated, are already so similar, boring, and irrelevant that nobody reads them.

In the past few months, I’ve also noticed a lot of sites showing up in my Google search results purporting to be relevant or answer my question, but when I actually read them they are also completely useless. For example, I couldn’t figure out how to take a friend’s Instagram story and reshare it to my own if I wasn’t tagged in it. Several pages were titled to look useful, but all of them gave only alternatives.

They would only have the trademark as long as they’re still using it. I don’t think there’s anything first-party still in active development for any DS platform, but it’s still recent enough.

It might just not have caught their attention yet.

If they don’t release it for the current Switch, I’m going to pirate it. It’s 95% of the reason I bought a Switch in the first place.

Oracle?

It also allows you to easily take down someone infringing upon your own rights to your work. Prior to the DMCA, you’d either have to rely on the good graces of the hosting platform, pay a lawyer for a C&D, or file a lawsuit.

Because rightsholders have discretion about who they take action against. In this case, Nintendo doesn’t want violence and Pokémon together, so it gets taken down. Minecraft is nonviolent (at least no more than Pokémon itself) so it gets a pass.

They would also take something down for being for-profit or competes with their own products (e.g AM2R being taken down right before Samus Returns came out).

The Xbox consoles are not and never were advertised or sold as a subsidised device, but the ads are sure making it feel like one.

Yeah, because they are subsidized. Microsoft loses money on every Xbox, expecting to make it up in game and subscription sales.

https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-loses-between-100-and-200-on-every-xbox-sold

They can, but Nintendo generally leaves fan projects alone unless they compete with an actual Nintendo product (see AM2R being taken down right before Samus Returns came out), are for-profit, or conflict with the Nintendo image (I think there was a gory Pokémon fan game that got taken down).

There are a bunch of Half-Life ports and remakes, so to save you all the time, it’s a Black Mesa demake (back to GoldSrc).

It has nothing to do with Stardew Valley as far as I can tell. It’s a League of Legends-skinned farming simulator.

The only time mods have been against the rules are when they were to cheat in multiplayer. Plenty of games have had explicit mod support.

Big trucks aren’t necessarily all that heavy. The bed is entirely empty space, remember.

Tasker?