The Supreme Court, siding with the Trump administration, agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments in a watchdog’s lawsuit seeking public records about trillionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

CREW claims DOGE is a federal agency and therefore is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

The Trump administration argues that DOGE is exempt from FOIA’s requirements as a presidential advisory body.

They sided with Trump in that they’re letting the administration argue its case, not in final outcome (yet). Misleading title.

I, for one, will always welcome Housepets related content.

I don’t know, feels like Jennifer is pretty spot on some days.

adorabelization

I am not at all convinced that this is a real word, but it absolutely should be.

I haven’t tried the vibe coded suite, so I can only speak from what I’ve read, but my understanding is that it’s attempting feature and control parity with Adobe’s suite, which none of the other options have or try to have. If someone who’s used to Adobe can make the switch without having to functionally learn new software, it’ll be a lot easier to get people to actually do it.

I get what they’re trying to say, but it’s a weird take.

If you know what you’re looking for, finding a game on Steam is trivial. You type in the name, you find the game. Any company can do external advertising, and if someone finds out about their game and wants to buy it on Steam, they can do that.

The ‘issue’ is that there’s tens of thousands of games on Steam so if you’re relying on Steam to advertise your game, or relying on people just happening across it, you’re going to be out of luck if you’re not a big title, and honestly, I don’t think that’s Steam’s problem. In fact, I’d argue that Steam is doing more than they could reasonably be expected to do - they’re a storefront, and obviously what they want to promote visibility on is the products that’re going to sell the best. The fact that they have things like curators and ‘For You’ recommendations and sales and things that smaller developers can use to increase visibility on their games is more than most storefronts offer. If you want to find something in itch.io, for instance, and you don’t know what you’re searching for, it’s extremely difficult. Same goes for Humble, and to a lesser extent GoG.

So I guess my feeling is, yes, it’s a problem, but it seems to be set up often times as Steam’s problem, and I don’t think it is.

Sure, and if the momentum and publicity this has generated is the catalyst that gets people to do it, then great. Good outcome in the end.

With regards to this specific project, I think the best case scenario would be a bunch of developers taking the code and using it as a starting point, going through it with a fine-toothed comb and re-writing however much needs to be re-written. There’s never been a viable competitor to Adobe’s suite, and if this results in that, then we can at least applaud the outcome if not the methodology.

I’d eat it. Hopefully llama isn’t the only outcome but I’d roll the dice.

Bastille Day 2: Electric Boogaloo