Probably defacing PBS?
Though I think that may have kindof been the FBI's idea rather than Anonymous'. (It took place after Sabu was compromised by the FBI and I think it was kindof Sabu that started... was it LulzSec that that PBS hack was done under?)
Fuckin' FBI.
(Also, don't know why you're getting downvotes.)
I was going to end my boycott once they did that.
But like... a week later? (I don't remember the exact amount of time, but I remember it being surprisingly soon on the heels of the OGL 1.1 debacle.) They pulled the whole Pinkertons/MTG bullshit. Had they not done that, I'd have bought more 5e materials, watched the D&D movie, and likely caught up on some Transformers movies by now.
At this point, I don't think much could end my boycott of WotC short of Hasbro selling off WotC and better people being put at the helm of WotC. I don't think much could end my boycott of Hasbro short of a huge shift in upper-level management at Hasbro.
Just that one minor little aspect of LLMs is still... oh, just a little weak. LLMs aren't just a complete scam. Just this one little aspect... needs a tiny bit of workshopping.
I mean, borrowing the DVD from the library will make it unavailable for someone else who might want to watch it, which might incentivize them to buy a copy. Also, if it's always checked out and unavailable when people go to try to check it out, it may increase hype/enthusiasm about it. Buying it second-hand would have similar consequences.
I might pirate it if I can get a chance. Doing so a) wouldn't reduce supply of copies of it in ways that might incentivize others to purchase a copy or stream it on Paramount+ or whatever and b) kindof feels like a slap in the face of Hasbro of the sort I don't mind delivering.
I'm fully aware of how petty this all comes across, but, man, thoroughly fuck Hasbro. What a shitty company. Don't underestimate just how much I hate them. Lol.
fan anger over the licensing changes likely contributed
I know that is the specific reason why I haven't seen it and still intend specifically never to.
(Ok, to be fair I was going to end my Hasbro boycott and see it when they backpedaled and did the dual OGL/Creative Commons thing, but then they pulled the MTG Pinkerton bullshit and that made it clear Hasbro had learned less than nothing from the OGL 1.1 blowback.)
On the one hand, I want to believe Scott Adams succumbed to some diagnosable degenerative mental illness or something. I used to enjoy Dilbert comics/media. (Anybody remember the animated series?)
On the other hand, even reading old Dilbert, a bit of me is always like "ok, yeah, in retrospect there's a disturbing undercurrent of xenophobic right-wing BS going on here". Maybe he was always like this at least to some degree before the Qanon brainworm devoured what was left of his connection to reality.
You can't really and make a profit. You pay more in electricity than you get in crypto.
...unless someone else is (unknowingly) paying for the electricity.
(Of course, when the price of crypto takes an upturn, sometimes it might get profitable again. And I'd imagine there are people mining it even when the price is low banking on the idea that it'll spike again and they can sell it.)
No joke. I'm ashamed to say I have had to endure Weblogic in the past. God was that time a massive clusterfuck.
The company I worked for decided to use two particular separate products (frameworks, specifically; ATG and Endeca, even more specifically) to use in tandem in a rewrite of the company's main e-commerce application. Between when we signed on the dotted line and when we actually started implementing things, Oracle acquired the companies behind both products in question.
The company should have cut their losses, run away screaming, and started evaluating other options. That's not what happened. Instead, they doubed-down and also adopted several other Oracle products (Weblogic and Oracle Linux on (shudder) Exalogic servers) because that's, of course, what Oracle recommended to use with the two products in question. The company also contracted with Oracle-licensed "service integration" companies that made everything somehow even worse.
And the e-commerce site rewrite absolutely crashed and burned in the most gloriously painful way possible. They ended up throwing away tens of millions of dollars and multiple years on it.
When the e-commerce site rewrite did happen, it was many years later and used basically only FOSS technologies. I guess at least they learned their lesson. Until the upper management turns over again.
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