No, this is different. OpenCore refers to when part of an application is open source, but major functionality or components of the application itself are not.

ElasticSearch is this way, where the elasticsearch package itself is fully open source (AGPL), but you have to pay tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars for its SIEM addon.

What OP is talking about wrt discord is not actually non-FOSS at all, it’s purely about the community (support, discussions, and documentation), nothing about the application itself.

Even the Steam integration does not change the status of the source code itself; OP could fork it and remove the Steam integration.

They may not have (publicly known) info sharing agreements with the US, but they’re not adversaries either. China is.

Get a VPS in Hong Kong. Set up your own point-to-point VPN (OpenVPN, wireguard tunnel) on it. Is the Chinese government spying on you via the VPS stack itself? Sure, probably. But they’ll laugh their assess off at a US govt. request to turn over that data.

I’m against AI art because that is going to be used to degrade not just the value of artists’ labor, but the actual art being viewed itself, because the people who will be choosing what looks “better” are the same marketing and business execs with no taste who have been turning out non-AI CGI slop for 15 years+. They’ll become a filter that slowly converges everything towards the im-14-and-this-is-cool Marvel-ification of media that we’re already wallowing in.

Just like how “Millennial Grey” was foisted onto us who cannot even afford to buy homes, and effectively blamed on us, AI Coke Bear will somehow end up being our “choice” of art too.

But this gotcha is nothing new; I remember people doing this to troll bozos who claimed they could spot photoshops back in the early 2000s. People playing the “I can spot AI because it’s so bad” aren’t being “blinded” by their anti-ai hatred or something, they just want a reason to play at being smart online. I guarantee you this is not the only thing they become instant “experts” in when there’s online controversies.

Ignoring that Bloom’s Taxonomy is outdated and disproven (not that it was ever based on empirical data)…

students are supposed to get to the application point in undergrad and that college is supposed to provide that practice

This hasn’t been true for a long time, ime; colleges have mostly been about laying foundations for years, ever since we moved to a gen-ed system that disfavored any kind of specialized learning at the cost of any usable skills (and since defunding and prison-ifying high schools made even gen-ed baselines not happen in practice). They’ve been having to make up for what kids aren’t getting in high school, but that also means that by the time they leave with an undergrad they have almost no experience of applying their knowledge to real-world-repevant problems.

Uh, as someone who does malware analysis, sandbox detection is not easy, and is certainly not something that a non-malware-developer/analyst knows how to do. This isn’t 2005 where sandboxes are listing their names in the registry/ system config files.

There is leaked Windows source code online… Is that also freeware for me to train an OS-building model on?