Tl;Dr is that matt mullenweg saw that other people were making money from free open source software, and his capitalism boner is trying to fuck everyone over.
He has control over both WPEngines competition and the non-profit Foundation, and is using his Foundation position to try extort his for-profit company’s competition. Typical CEO behaviour.
This whole drama makes me wonder if it’s only a matter of time till I have to migrate my company away from WordPress.
Man, fuck matt mullenweg
Am I the only one who feels like this is an AI generated article incorrectly summarizing the actual info?
Oh bro, you can’t park there bro
She did the request for her own info because she suspected staff were dragging their heels with her other requests, and the request for her own info proved her suspicions were well-founded.
Asking for information on how a section of government operates should be commended, not discouraged. The government works for the people and their operations should be transparent. Doubly so when they act like they have something to hide.
But, Ive been a staff member who had a bad day and found a customer’s legitimate request frustrating - “this is the last thing I needed” - so I have some level of sympathy for the staffers too.
Good news!
“from her now ex-boyfriend.” - buried deep in the article
I wanna know what concert it was. #swiftie lol?
In my country we’ve had these electronic labels for many years, using them was part of my first real job a decade ago. And here they definitely can be updated centrally, and in near real time.
Mayor says the city will stop using tech by the end of 2024.
Tech is still operational in April 2024 (8 months before the end of 2024).
Breathless expose article showing that the tech is still in use.
Profit???
If one owned a real switch would that alter any of the steps? Like, I imagine whatever keys you need would be on it?
For the record I know nothing and am just guesstimating based on 90’s PS1 emulation.
This behaviour is why I roll my eyes when the edge fanbois are all like “iTs AlL cHrOmE aNyWaY”.
Fuck any company that uses their power to try trick people into using their software, yes including google.
More like, OpenAI has said “so what if we were speeding, everyone does it” (did that work last time you got a ticket?)
Relevant exerpt from the article: “The company recently made a similar argument to the UK House of Lords, claiming no AI system like ChatGPT can be built without access to copyrighted content.”
Bruh idk why the difference… Educate me?
Jesus. What a lucky escape!
Honestly, Wikipedia doesn’t avoid this. People constantly game the rules to remove or change content that doesn’t suit them. I recall an instance where employees of a company were busted editing that company’s page, they were caught because there were so many different editors all from the same corporate IP. And that’s just the low hanging fruit that makes the news - I would wager there’s 10 instances that never get noticed for each one that people spot.
Having not yet read the article, if the species in question aren’t Bezos, Musk, Gates et al, then the report writers have missed the mark.
Exactly! If it’s not already, breaking the law should be an examption to the whole concept of a limited-liability company - so you can’t just shut down the company and move on to another.
Wouldn’t it be nice if fines were based on the past/present/potential revenue (not profit) from the location where the offending took place?
Dig a trench on an archaeological site without permissin? Pay the full amount your business case said you might ever receive from the work you were making the trench for.
Drink drive? Instantly lose the vehicle you were driving.
Knowingly breaking the law should have extra penalties, I.e. corporate death penalties should be commonplace for those who knowingly break the law.
I mean, cuntdown still found the money for a $400,000,000 rebranding… Were their profits down by $400,000,000 or are they spending hundreds of millions on a vanity exercise with a side benefit of good PR?
Also, reminder that they all made record profits over the pandemic and “slightly less than the most ever but still well above traditional levels” isn’t a fair amount of profit for them to make.
Ah yes, a 650k company for a company making billions.
Proprtionate to my own income, that’s like $50 fine. Pathetic.
Basically, he’s a CEO and therefore thinks every dollar on earth is his by right. I think the best summary is that he’s using his competing positions at the non-profit foundation to benefit his for-profit company.