Mindwipe

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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> You need widevine to play Netflix at all No you don't. Safari doesn't support Widevine at all for example.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
All of them have varying levels of secure implementation, and services will usually only send high resolution content to devices that can demonstrate (with signed keys) the more secure options. Including Widevine. Widevine Level 3 is a soft
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
The entire graphics chain needs MS signed drivers, so no. (Netflix do the same thing on MacOS with Apple signed drivers, backed up by hardware based security.)
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
If there were they would be revoked.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
I'm afraid "it won't work" is not something British politicians care about very much, as we can see today.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
It's a euphemism for penis.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Most of the industry uses HDR grading tools made by Dolby.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
If anyone involved in this piece had ever mentioned Operation Choke Point during the last fifteen years this might have been better argued.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Indeed. The Sharepoint app for iOS is particularly fun for this. I have gone to the trouble of installing a Sharepoint application. The idea that people are doing this who do not want a directory tree as 99.99999% of what they do is insane.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> But today you can shoot 4k on a new mid-tier cellphone, or for even less money on an older used flagship phone, and edit 4k video on just about any used business laptop of the last 5-8 years. You can, but you aren't really gaining
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
This is correct. It's also how it works with Airplay 2 on iOS now. There isn't really a use case for wanting a higher resolution to cast it elsewhere.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> A lot of people subscribe to Creative Cloud and have access to animate. Back in the Newgrounds days the number of people creating content who would have had legit access to Flash and Photoshop was... not high. CC users were not the peo
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Animate is trapped behind the wrong payment model with no marketing. I don't think there's a lack of desire by an audience.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Nothing in that article suggests OnlyFans is "one of the biggest" distributors of child abuse material. It's only substantive example is a single individual who was able to fool a moderator that family members passport was th
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> We continue to work to overturn or repeal SESTA. How, exactly? You have made no public efforts, made no submissions to equally bad laws such as the Online Safety Bill in the UK and achieved nothing. If you had put anywhere near as much
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Because currency markets are generally negative towards government intervention and economic protectionism. You can say that's reasonable or unreasonable, but it's unquestionably true. The UK has suffered over the last six months
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Ultimately if the UK were to start protecting it's gas output then a) the value of British currency would likely drop even further, pushing up inflation and prices further and b) the UK can't cover it's peak electrical supply
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> It comes down to content moderation. If a company begins to moderate content that travels through its network, it can be held liable and forced to remove things that any entity or governmental body could disagree with. Cloudflare alrea
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Except they're not, because they shut down Switter.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
That's exactly what happened with FOSTA and they roll over and ask for their tummies to be tickled, because Cloudflare's official policy is that the lives of sex workers isn't terribly important.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
There's got to be some recognition at Microsoft that the entire Windows 11 project is being held back by the Taskbar and Start Menu UI team right? If I were an engineer on Windows and I saw every day how take up of useful improvements
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
I don't have an ad blocker. It's fine. Really, it is.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
No, she literally voted on them as part of the second chamber. Nobody said that the fact the matter became law was down to her exclusively, but the fact she is a Baroness is directly relevant to the passage of the legislation in the UK and
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Because she used her peerage to push similar laws in the UK as an unelected member of the Lords - the Online Safety Bill and Age Appropriate Design Code were both significantly pushed through and amended by her as an unelected peer, and she
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> Anyway, it seems like the clickbait here is "British" and the article would have taken exactly the same angle if her title was Senator. Would it? Senators are elected and have democratic legitimacy, which Life Peers do not.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Not especially, since a life peerage gets you unelected upper chamber rights to draft the UK's laws - Kidron heads a pressure group on censorship, and was given the ability to vote on the legislation they suggested, and was allowed to
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> But that was the promise and hope. There was no promise, no sign of this ever happening, and no chance of it ever doing so. There is no economic model that makes sense for it - music is licensed collectively because the economic cost o
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> At least with cable, I didn't have to buy Verizon and Comcast and Cox to watch ABC, ESPN, and HBO. Perhaps not, but you were also driving to Blockbuster to get additional titles every two weeks in person.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> As long as the same amount of content is being produced, consumers still need to pay the same amount of money to see it all. And indeed this isn't the case - a LOT more content is being produced, and a lot more high budget drama i
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
All of which seem roughly as likely as your hard drive falling over at the same time as it's backup.

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