FMecha

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A billion dollars later, the iPhone 16 is still banned in Indonesia(9to5mac.com)
4 points by FMecha 2y ago|0 comments
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by FMecha 2y ago
In practice, only licensed Blu-ray players (hardware and software) implement Cinavia. While there was an idea/fear that an OS can implement Cinavia system-wide, that did not happen (yet).
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by FMecha 2y ago
Except Cinavia, which worked on audio level, exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia Although it can only trip on certain devices or media players (mainly Blu-ray players, including PS3 onwards), I did read an id
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The antitrust hurdles Nissan, Honda may face on merger talks(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by FMecha 2y ago|0 comments
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by FMecha 2y ago
>I don't know if that has ever been enforced in the car industry, especially for import brands. An example involving Stellantis in Turkey: https://moparinsiders.com/stellantis-turkish-unit-sale-faces... >It'
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by FMecha 2y ago
Multinational antitrust is the issue here. I probably see this as also requiring antitrust approval outside of Japan and there is no way foreign regulators will allow that.
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by FMecha 2y ago
>A fair number of sites hosted and operated outside the European Union reacted to GDPR by instituting blocks of EU users, many returning HTTP 451. My outlook on doing this is that this is not the way to do it because these things exist:
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by FMecha 2y ago
For antitrust reasons, I do not see this as actually happening.
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by FMecha 2y ago
>In the west, you'd buy a PC (or a home computer) to play games, edit documents or manage your business. The latter two were pretty much impossible in Japan, as the computers of that era couldn't handle the complexities of the
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by FMecha 2y ago
It was also popular in Indonesia, but the userbase eventually moved to WhatsApp and Discord. People who run "official accounts" on LINE in Indonesia eventually moved to Twitter (the Indonesia-specific "base"/"m
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Microsoft Sucks at Everything [video](youtube.com)
5 points by FMecha 2y ago|1 comments
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The Logo Community – A YouTube Rabbit Hole [video](youtube.com)
1 points by FMecha 2y ago|0 comments
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by FMecha 2y ago
In 2014, a Polish driver modified their license plate to also contain an SQL injection in effort to thwart speed cameras: https://hackaday.com/2014/04/04/sql-injection-fools-speed-tr...
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Motorsport Games Is for Sale(traxion.gg)
1 points by FMecha 2y ago|0 comments
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by FMecha 2y ago
Microsoft faced the same threat in 2000 but the outcome of elections that year prevented that. Will it be the same?
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by FMecha 2y ago
>I think they’re trying to prevent people from developing hardware alternatives to Nintendo Switch, next logical step after stable emulators. They waged war against Famiclones in the past - see NTDEC (which had trademarks involved, since
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by FMecha 2y ago
>so the company itself has no means of earning revenue from Wii U sales Nintendo's de facto method to do this is to simply re-release them on Switch - though this only matters for first-party titles.
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by FMecha 2y ago
> Emulation is legal. For now. This is just baby steps to Nintendo weaseling themselves into Supreme Court to get Sony v. Connectix overturned. MGM v. Grokster attempted to overturn Sony v. Universal (VCR lawsuit), but while the movie st
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by FMecha 2y ago
>While an emulator does not infringe on copyright and is illegal per US court precedence At least until Nintendo manages to overturn Sony v. Connectix, given recent SCOTUS trends.
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by FMecha 2y ago
Apparently this is the aftermath of Valve v. Zaiger case.
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by FMecha 2y ago
>The biggest irony is that professional sportsmen (it's always men) keep getting bans for gambling on their own sport People pointing this out often leads me to an impression that athletes should be allowed to bet on their own games
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by FMecha 2y ago
Indonesia is also having an illegal online casino epidemic, too. That is in a country where gambling is currently illegal and will continue to be.
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by FMecha 2y ago
In American motorsports such as NASCAR, the term "tech inspection" is used for those stuff.
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by FMecha 2y ago
>The FM Towns relied on Intel CPUs, but the rest of the hardware was designed more or less like any other Japanese system of the era with specialized graphics and sound hardware. This was also true of PC-98, too, to some extent.
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by FMecha 2y ago
This is what traditional forums excel at - for instance, a niche-specific forum may also contain off-topic boards for topics unrelated to the niche, such as general current affairs or media. wrt to Reddit, I mean, Lemmy does exist, but much
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by FMecha 2y ago
That does not even account for offline ads, such as billboards.
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by FMecha 2y ago
>(btw, the FM Towns, IIR, also had specialized graphics hardware to produce arcade-like graphics with tiles and sprites and so on, making it even more different) I originally thought might have confused it with the X68K, whose it's
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by FMecha 2y ago
>In a YouTube video about the history of OS/2, I learned that ole Microsoft back in the 1990s before their mob tactics were curtailed, used to send suited thugs to Japanese PC manufacturers to chastise them for even offering users t
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by FMecha 2y ago
Many Japanese PC games and desktop applications aimed at the home market, from small to large developers, also do sort of these things. Just look up the word "AppLocale".
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by FMecha 2y ago
And the rest is nowadays mostly gacha developers, to which South Korea and China are also eating up their lunch, even at home.

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