New story drop! “Terms and Conditions” is live!!
Come for Harvestide, stay for the part where everyone realizes they probably should’ve read page 37...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1voXtGy74ZBHt50_X7YdaPdB2vHx3fmp3YJQ47v8mIRg/edit?usp=sharing
Terms and Conditions Written by: Kathleen Fitzgerald (The Unfrosted Files: Book 13) (Book 12 - here) March, 2026 Arrivals Popolis International Airport — POP, as every sign helpfully reminded you - was busy in the particular way it always was at the start of Harvestide. Not frantic. Not rushed. ...
The 2000s were also the heyday of noteworthy freeware games and sites such as GameHippo, and buying a copy of a digital work then—often on a CD—actually meant owning it and doing whatever (copyright) law permitted. No streaming disservices or prerequisites. Even pre-Microsoft Minecraft, in retrospect, was a relief from signing expansive EULA agreements and possibly trading off privacy for the product. Those days are worth returning to.
There is a silver lining to the whole #python #chardet debacle. If it is legal to throw a pile of code at an LLM, and tell it to write a new version of that code that is not a derivative then that gives us a lot of options too.
GPL compatible #ZFS? no problem! #ReactOS from the leaked NT/2k sources? No problem!
Maybe this is a golden age for the collapse of proprietary software after all. If they can do an end run around the #GPL we can do an end run around the #EULA.
Photobucket Is Using Biometrics To Sell Your Photos to train AI and opting you IN by default
@Vivaldi @librewolf @zenbrowser
And I know someone will ask, so here is Section 7 of Vivaldi's EULA:
"7. Without limiting the foregoing, you are neither allowed to (a) adapt, alter, translate, embed into any other product or otherwise create derivative works of, or otherwise modify the Software ; (b) separate the component programs of the Software for use on different computers; (c) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Software, except as permitted by applicable law; or (d) remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices on the Software or the applicable documentation therein."
https://vivaldi.com/privacy/vivaldi-end-user-license-agreement/
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