Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC — and I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

Issue #1375 — January 13, 2024

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Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC mfkl.github.io \| points: 920 \| comments: 320

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I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy amazon.com \| points: 894 \| comments: 495

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US regulator considers stripping Boeing’s right to self-inspect planes on.ft.com \| points: 499 \| comments: 228

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Post Office lied and threatened BBC over Fujitsu dev whistleblower bbc.co.uk \| points: 456 \| comments: 255

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Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling economist.com \| points: 403 \| comments: 326

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Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024 techcrunch.com \| points: 375 \| comments: 320

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Statement regarding the ongoing Sourcehut outage outage.sr.ht \| points: 356 \| comments: 176

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Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video] tiktok.com \| points: 327 \| comments: 342

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Google lays off Bay Area workers, closes Mtn View child care center sfgate.com \| points: 320 \| comments: 313

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Cloudflare lays off new hires i.imgur.com \| points: 285 \| comments: 232

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Postgres Incremental Backup pganalyze.com \| points: 282 \| comments: 56

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Engineer Used Water Pump to Get $1B Stuxnet Malware into Iranian Nuclear Plant securityweek.com \| points: 260 \| comments: 181

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We removed advertising cookies, here’s what happened blog.sentry.io \| points: 259 \| comments: 173

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eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case bbc.com \| points: 259 \| comments: 135

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Vector Databases: A Technical Primer [pdf] tge-data-web.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com \| points: 258 \| comments: 57

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We need technology that is less immersive, not more filiph.net \| points: 257 \| comments: 155

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How virtualisation came to Apple Silicon Macs eclecticlight.co \| points: 254 \| comments: 98

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Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack fosstodon.org \| points: 229 \| comments: 132

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IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired twitter.com \| points: 223 \| comments: 177

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Fly through your shell history github.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 91

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