Mindwipe

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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> When films aren't available on any of the streaming services I subscribe to, what do you expect me to do? Pay another £60 per annum to watch one film on a streaming service I'll never use again? I read somewhere there are 100
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
I mean apart from the fact it doesn't know where anything is sure.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
I didn't say that anyone was trying, but ultimately even as a producer if your export market suddenly increases pricing by 3x, the local producers have very little incentive to distribute locally rather than exporting, which will knock
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
They don't, it's an unexpected side effect of putting pressure on Eastern Europe and the Ukraine. I imagine Putin expected Kazakhstan to be able to manage this internally better than they have, and are now very concerned. It'
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Russia causing fuel instability to attack the Ukraine is a bigger factor than crypto farming I expect.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Perhaps Apple has a slight bit of self reflection and just realises that after the catastrophe that was Apple Maps that they'd be no good at making a search engine? They have no in-house expertise and the small scale search products th
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
It isn't.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
This is why Netflix only serves Firefox low resolution video.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> It's 100% legal In some territories. Though I would note breaking DRM to format shift content isn't legal in basically any functioning country in the world.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Hospitalisations and deaths will likely increase regardless, as so many more people will be infected, even if it's proportionately less dangerous to a given individual. But I agree, more data in the next few weeks are what we need to m
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
It's also worth noting that while people tend to simplify the discussion down to the US, the legal status of software emulation is... a lot more ropey in some non-US territories. In the UK for example, there is no legal ability to form
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
LG pushed HDMI 2.1 on their TVs a full year before Sony did.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Well, let's hope this means an about face in Twitter's awful, awful, awful design direction. It is hard to see how any design team that thought it was a good idea to take a font commissioned for logo work, try and make it the body
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> That's enough time that it won't cause perverse incentives (publishers/studios sitting on a work of art until it goes into the public domain), Twenty years is absolutely short enough for that to happen.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Also, Mickey Mouse can be held in copyright for perpetuity, but Disney has to pay a lot for this right and continually increase the valuation/tax if someone wants to buy it from them. A quick reminder that the copyright in Mickey
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Yep. It's literally nonsense and factually wrong, but gleefully posted here because it agrees with HN's general ideological slant.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Country A has very little recourse if Country B decides not to honor the intellectual property laws of Country A. The most that can be done is an embargo/sanction, which may or may not be a worthwhile tradeoff for country B, depen
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
This is a fairly poor article. I can't take seriously anything that notes US copyright was increased primarily to reach some form of life+70 and then claims that Disney was responsible, not mentioning it's that exact number becaus
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Furthermore, it seems like so much more content now is not included in the monthly fee Disney literally haven't done any Premier Access titles in months now that cinemas have reopened. Disney+ was always a service aimed at taking
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> the pricing felt fair, yet sustainable to me To be blunt, what you felt about it wasn't really relevant. It wasn't sustainable in terms of revenue, and was a fragment of what Disney received from their previous licensing deal
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
The film industry solved unauthorised downloads? Hasn't Glyn Moody been claiming that it's still a huge issue due to DRM for a decade? I can't think why nobody takes him seriously.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
The notion all AV content should be in one place strikes me as rather incongruous with the widespread opinion on HN that all text content trending to Facebook and Twitter rather than a million blogs has been a disaster. FWIW, I don't t
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Disney+ initially available at what I considered a fair price It was a completely unsustainable predatory price aimed at making initial marketshare. Disney+'s price target is roughly £30 per month... As is Netflix's.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Right now consumers aren't aware of how important it is for the device to have drivers in the mainline kernel tree to avoid getting pwned. Customers are actively hostile to updates, because they hate UI changes. If you want custom
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
IIRC it doesn't actually send the content, just a hash of it that can be checked against popular channels or on-demand content. So text contained within a screen wouldn't be identifiable.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> I presume the CPU here was VERY cost conscious and so trade-offs were made. It was also more intended as a media chipset and they managed to flog it to Nintendo, and was an early effort by the team involved.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> It was wild west, proper ones were never cracked to my knowledge. Some did, some got close. Most card based systems have to replace the cards every five years or so when their intel suggests groups are getting nearer cracking them. Ult
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
Either that or pausing crypto operations without the required voltage, but that reduces your fault tolerance.
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Also also, I hope other popular cryptoprocessors aren't so vulnerable? You might be surprised, but also this chip wasn't intended to be used to secure a chain of trust but had to be press ganged into service after being let d
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by Mindwipe 5y ago
> Obviously you'd never use something like this for trusted boot, but with Windows 11 requiring a TPM, and applications moving in the direction of "we refuse to run unless the environment is pristine" (e.g. video games wit

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