Mindwipe

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by Mindwipe 2y ago
Yeah, if it was "we acknowledge that is bad for hardware to have one installation path" and they were allowing itch.io to have an indie VR store that might be cool but they are very much not.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
While I think Google needs a better clear vision in many cases, god help us that the people who have screwed up every hardware launch for a decade now get to run the OS too.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
Remind me never to buy anything from said company...
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
This can't run offline.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
> This is absolutely completely wrong. No music service supports FairPlay aside from Apple Music. Why would they? Because they want to support Safari and Homepods generally. > Music you buy from all services is DRM free and music you
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
Jobs died a long time ago. Apple do license Fairplay sometimes nowadays (especially the weaker music version), and all major music services absolutely support it.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
> Just to focus a bit on DRM/Widevine: the fact that Google decides who can use Widevine absolutely helps them to weaken competing platforms / OSes. There are multiple other widely used DRM systems. PlayReady is very licensable
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
"Rescued Tumblr" would certainly be news to the remaining users of Tumblr.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
I think it's a bit naïve to suggest that Apple weren't coming after the Hackintosh exploits for their own unrelated reasons to be honest, and they absolutely knew what they were.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
Wha? Hacker News is literally constantly claiming that there are too many competitors to Netflix and there needs to be some kind of compulsory licensing to reduce competition. Like there are hundreds of posts on the front page every week to
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
> As far as I know, current ad blockers can't block ads from Widevine (DRM protected) streams, so I guess it's only a matter of time until Chromium team comes up with Widevine for webpages and then it's game over for norma
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
That paper is nearly twenty years old. Breaking DRM to format shift in France is illegal and has been for many years.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
> Most Blu-ray discs require an internet connection to play on most players and PCs No they don't. It's not even in the spec (it is in the BD+ and UHD Blu-Ray specs, but no disc has ever been released that used it for anything
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
> When Netflix had just about everything, piracy took a big hit. So never then. (Also if this is circa 10 years ago every study suggests piracy is lower today than it was then.)
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
There's this weird thing where people don't understand that Europe has a long history of very strong copyright law. The life + 70 years term of copyright comes from Germany, not the US, and globally companies harmonised there. The
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
Holland and every EU country also has an anti-circumvention provision similar to the DMCA. Indeed, it's an easier case than in the US in many EU nations IMO, and with criminal rather than civil penalties in some of them.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
High Sierra broke FAT32 files over 2GB which was similar levels of fun.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
Especially when it was not in the beta version and introduced with the release candidate. I do not have very kind words for Apple's dev teams today. Charitably I am trying to think that screwups happen, but this is bad and it is very h
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
Broadly every other system of library lending in the world has mandatory collective licensing, but coupled with a significantly larger state funding to pay for said license.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
It would also be nice if a company as big as Meta could invest enough to make the Mac experience not literally "go and buy a different machine."
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
If Apple want to charge more for X-code and it's not mandatory to use it to sign the keys they should. I think everyone knows how that would go for them in a competitive market.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
The Quest already runs Android. It just doesn't run Google Play Services and their apps.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
No it isn't. Where have you got any of those ideas from?
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
> Its going to be an unpopular take, but crypto solves this. As in currency. Make people attest to things with locking a very small amount of money. So claims Elon on Twitter, a platform that is very obviously to anyone who uses it compl
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
Apple are being actively dishonest in their justification here. If you work at Apple and are reading this, it's time to start asking serious questions about why your company is happy to lie to the public and lawmakers to try and juice
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
The DRM is Apple's and built into the M series chipsets. "Root" does nothing here.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
If Spotify raises prices they have to pay the vast majority of that out to labels still, it's all percentage models. And they likely lose subscribers to they literally get poorer. Spotify knows it's only way out is exclusive conte
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
Spotify loses money (which is why they keep trying to do things that are not music to keep the company afloat), and while Apple doesn't split out Music it's fairly unlikely that is a profitable business either. Music is literally
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
> Everyone else saw Netflix making a lot of money At the time Netflix was literally making a cash loss despite paying less than the cost of production for most of it's output.
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by Mindwipe 3y ago
The Office 365 message that it is unable to log into a resource (usually because your VPN has dropped, not unusual for home workers nowadays) doesn't even go into focus when it's supposed to be at this point. I am baffled as to ho

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