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by Mindwipe 4y ago
No, there have been multiple official announcements.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
DV is an additional metadata layer on top of HDR-10 PQ. If you play it back on a non Dolby Vision device it will just play back the same as a HDR-10 file would do. No tonemapping is required.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
At least in part it's attempts to defeat ad blockers cause constant attempts to fetch to go back and forth. These cause non-trivial issues on corporate firewalls a lot of the time. But yes, the desktop site is garbage. They don't
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> (which I wouldn't be surprised to happen at some point, given how they're treating it with the newest features) Luckily the absence of the newest features is generally a positive.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
It's more that no supplier can credibly claim that they can deliver it. If there's a rights dispute about a piece of underlying code for example, the terms can say what they like but they can't override it not being that enti
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> I suspect this won't happen, and that Valve have contingencies in contracts to ensure this never happens. They don't, and they literally can't.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
The private copy law does not permit you to obtain copies from elsewhere, make copies from a source that was not legally obtained, or to bypass a technical protection measure to make such copies.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Not all of them, no. Broadly just the European ones, plus a few others where it's not worth setting up a different regional HQ.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> No one expects things to be perfect or that there will be no mistakes, but there's a whole lot of space between "perfect" and "braindead stupid". There is but I am not terribly convinced the difference is emplo
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> For those confused by the title, here's what's going on ... Didn't read the article huh? That's very much not what it outlines.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
But the article here explicitly makes clear that it isn't.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Not unless Bitcoin makes transactions work better, faster and more scalable than they currently do.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Discover also basically doesn't exist in most of the world, and AMEX barely so.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
The main issue is that neither Google nor Samsung seem to understand European law on this point - it is blocked by both of them in Europe, presumably because of GDPR, but any lawyer who claims that GDPR prevents an individual for recording
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
A bit muddled I think. Spotify wouldn't be as keen to dump it's music business and get into podcasts through exclusivity if it's core business worked as well as claimed. Likewise, Netflix hasn't actually imploded. It&#x2
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Because the pricing isn't predatory, and doing it any other way would cost a thousand times more.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> As I understand it , China is a bigger market for Hollywood than the US at this point. Definitely not at this point. There was a point it looked likely five years ago, but US box office is holding up better than expected, and the Chine
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Better Call Saul isn't a Netflix show. It's an AMC commission made by Sony Pictures. It releases weekly because Netflix get it outside the US at the same time AMC air it on television. I think Netflix should move to a weekly model
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> AppleTV has been running circles around Netflix (and other streaming services when it comes to quality) No it hasn't, Apple TV has been making shows for a narrow demographic of people who hang around on HN and nobody else. That&#x
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> If Netflix starts cracking down on things like that it's just going to get really irritating for customers. They are likely to err on the side of caution. Spotify already does this, on the same restriction, and it is a complete no
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> One household is not clear; if my wife is travelling for her job and my son too while I stay at home: how does that work? Does nobody here pay tax? Household has a pretty clear meaning, people ordinarily resident overnight in the same
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> The household license is dumb and customers are reacting to such dumbness by canceling and shutting down the company. Customers aren't reacting because it hasn't happened yet outside of a few tiny test countries. Excluding no
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> It's dumb though because it will usually play on DisplayPort which has nothing like HDCP. DisplayPort absolutely supports HDCP.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Not especially. I mean, if part of what you're trying to do is deliver a persistent payload to the target machine then the T1/T2/SIP with the M1/2 will make your life more difficult after the machine reboots, but that is
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500005292701-... "Additionally, a subset of age-restricted servers that are specifically focused on explicit pornographic content will be blocked entirely o
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
I'm not, Apple are just extremely inconsistent with the policy.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> iOS doesn't have windows, so if it wants to get the user to do the captive portal without them sitting there in confusion it has to pop it up. It does, they're just normally fullscreen ones. The point is that that captive po
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
> That's about the long and short of it. Apple has no control over which Apps you run. It has total control over which Apps you run on an iPhone. Which you know when you buy the phone. I'm as much of a hostage to Apple as I am
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
It did. Apple repeatedly said that wasn't sufficient.
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by Mindwipe 4y ago
Because the App Store review team is capricious and contradictory. We've also seen third party Reddit app developers not allowed to feature content that the main Reddit app is despite toggles, and Discord not allowed to feature content

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