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by account42 1mo ago
Society however determines how we respond when a company abuses a law. Just because suing indie developers may be the best action for IKEA to protect their trademarks does not mean we should let it be the best action for them overall.
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by account42 1mo ago
Then they'll lobby for the eSIM to become a legally mandated component and outlaw use of a product without one. And lawmakers will be happy to oblige as long as they get to use the eSIM for their own purposes.
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by account42 1mo ago
We really need a GDPR-like law that makes it clear that goading users into accepting ToS like this cannot constitute a contract and instead invalidates the agreement for everyone.
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by account42 1mo ago
Hey another benefit of never agreeing to the ToS!
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by account42 1mo ago
New to the concept of parody? They are pointing out the absurdity of the idea that a click to accept shrinkwrap ToS lets LG infringe the rights of whoever talks in front of the TV.
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by account42 1mo ago
No, we should decouple the display hardware from the playback device. Spying or not, the playback part will be obsolete long before the display part.
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by account42 1mo ago
What do you mean by not being validated. UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion necessitates special treatment for surrogates to correctly convert matched pairs of them to their proper UTF-8 encoding of the code point they represent. The question is wh
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by account42 1mo ago
That's correct. Windows does decode surrogate pairs whenever filenames are displayed so its no longer UCS-2.
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by account42 1mo ago
The problem with that is that the idea many stakeholders (especially big platforms) have of "perceptually lossless" is actually compressed to hell garbage. The only way you as a user can ever guarantee actually perceptually lossle
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by account42 1mo ago
> though their implementation doesn't support progressive images yet It doesn't support progressive images or it doesn't support progressive decoding of images? The former would be a massive compatibility issue, the latter
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by account42 1mo ago
> "We don't want to support another pile of security bug ridden C++ library" absolutely aren't "dubious grounds". It is when that didn't stop them YOLO'ing in webp and then avif support.
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by account42 1mo ago
The major blunder here is browsers refusing to support silent videos in <img> tags etc. so we end up with all these hacks. Instead we got animated webp that you can't use for progressive enhancement because it doesn't have i
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by account42 1mo ago
It's not lossless if you have to convert to YUV first.
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by account42 1mo ago
Seems to me that most people still have to get up in the morning to go to a bullshit job just to stay alive and consoom things they don't need. I don't see the big change.
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by account42 1mo ago
It's a very limited view of what's happening that happens to coincide with your bubble.
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by account42 1mo ago
First post shown right now is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49659245 which is essentially an ad for an AI company. So I guess this will need further fine tuning.
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by account42 1mo ago
You sound phobiaphobic.
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by account42 1mo ago
Yes, there are people who eat burgers with utensils. It's more common in quasi-formal settings like business-organized dinners where people don't want to appear messy from my experience.
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by account42 1mo ago
End stage capitalism is itself a result of shamelessness.
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by account42 1mo ago
In what way are these two things related that would make this a tradeoff?
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by account42 1mo ago
Eating in public places not mean for eating subjects others to the smell of your food in the same way that listening to something on speaker subjects them to unwanted sound. Hijabs are more indirect but I would disagree that it doesn't
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by account42 1mo ago
But then people get angry if you don't want those "cultural differences" in your daily life. And when people question why you prefer private transportation.
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by account42 1mo ago
Not if it means essentially outlawing open computing.
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by account42 1mo ago
> without impacting users too much? You mean essentially locking out users with non-default Chrome configuration.
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by account42 1mo ago
With a large enough OLED you can just leave some actually black borders and get perfect integer scaling in all cases.
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by account42 1mo ago
Then IP-range block those places until they get their affairs in order.
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by account42 1mo ago
Self-referential art rarely ends well.
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by account42 1mo ago
Yes and in general, taste can deteriorate with age. Just look at what Cameron did with the 4K remasters of his movies.
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by account42 1mo ago
> The old guard said the show’s producers were crazy to do it with practical effects and should just use CGI since this was what they would have done, if they had the technology. As always, art benefits from limitations. From the [dead]
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by account42 1mo ago
It also takes away variety of the outputs as often it turns out those "uncreative" tasks actually do hide creativity.

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