Mindwipe

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by Mindwipe 4y ago
HBO Max supports Atmos on some devices. Don't remember which off the top of my head. As do Netflix, Apple and Amazon.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
HDR helps a bit, but in some cases it makes it worse, because the HDR grade has been done by a colourist on a $15k mastering monitor in a pitch dark room, and assumes that anyone watching at home is doing likewise. The dynamic range crush o
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Somewhat. As one of their customers, I think their password policies are extremely unhelpful to creating secure logons, and make it almost impossible to use a password manager.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> Games perhaps? It's very hard to conclude Apple care much about breaking a bunch of games on the Mac when they cut off 80% of the Macs gaming library a year earlier by removing 32bit execution, presumably mostly to ease the use of
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
I hate to break this to you but you are going to pine for these days very shortly. The UK is pretty insistent that they will require almost every site on the internet to be suitable for under 13s or credit card age verify.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
As always, not actually doing something useful like banning payment discrimination, just passing laws to protect speech they like and not speech they don't like.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> They aren't. We're nowhere even close. To the point where I can't even envision how that could happen. We are pretty close - Mastercard and Visa's (non-public) BRAM rules are pretty clumsy and arbitrary, and effecti
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
It's a shame the FOS does not have any powers to address banking discrimination due to frankly broken enforcement systems though. They really should.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
There are much, much, much easier ways to patch this.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
It's German law being discussed. Germany doesn't have a fair use element to their copyright law, just some specific exemptions. Parody isn't one of them.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
5G offers significant improvements in network congestion. I want my phone to work in busy cell tower areas, so that is absolutely something I was demanding.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
I very much agree. Apple isn't just fiddling with the UI. It has actively got worse with every rendition of MacOS since Lion, and the pace of destruction is getting faster. Frankly, the UI teams have no idea what they're doing any
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
God I hope so.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
I think the Internet Archive's insane legal strategy and wishful thinking with their Covid lending library is more than well known enough without me spelling it out explicitly.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> A very good choice, because the Internet Archive is financially far less secure than the Wikimedia Foundation That's at least in part because the IA board are idiots however.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
I think that's fair enough, but there's also a reasonable criticism that they are a) not being straight about that ambition in their fundraising efforts and b) some of their projects are significantly more political than textbooks
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
The only 4K download service is https://www.kaleidescape.com/ via a proprietary STB which will cost you multiple thousands.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
No, Widevine certs are considerably more complicated than that. And they are individualised to the device, so there is no prospect of copying them over.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
This is not correct.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> Isn't this already illegal? Not in the slightest, and has been actively encouraged since Operation Choke Point and FOSTA/SESTA.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
I think this comment was sarcasm, given PayPal have pulled this sort of stunt for years now (especially against anyone involved in adult content). They have always abused it. It's not new.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
PayPal have done this to sex workers and queer artists for fifteen years, so you'll have to forgive me not really giving a shit about the latecomers to this. We absolutely need to criminalise banking discrimination, but ultimately we a
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
You're not really, it just doesn't cost YouTube any more in terms of licensing the music for their music streaming service than it does to clear the rights for YouTube Premium, so they literally may as well include it. A YouTube P
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> Would it kill these platforms to, at the very minimum, give you credits for another movie in the case where the movie you "bought" becomes unavailable? In practice this usually happens, but I'm not surprised nobody commi
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> 3. In the storage facility a digital backup is made and uploaded to a cloud storage Generally speaking neither of these parts are legal in most territories without rightsholder permission.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
You couldn't play a downloaded title on a non-Apple Apple TV device or via AirPlay 2 tbf. In both scenarios the playback support is that the file just gives the credentials for the device with the Apple TV app or Airplay 2 to go and st
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
TBF, it was "voluntary" for the old spec too. Everyone agreed to it in writing because otherwise they were told legislation would be swiftly passed. That's not really voluntary.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> Why not just make content available to everyone for a reasonable fee? Because your definition of "reasonable fee" isn't.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
TBF it's very unlikely anything running this will be able to connect to PSN at all, given this isn't for the current firmware as it is.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> Not all Android TV devices support all the streaming services. Mine works fine with Disney+, Amazon, and Apple TV+, but Netflix won't support the device for some reason. That must be... an extremely niche device. With some conside

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