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by andix 11mo ago
Many things that used to be h.264 are now using h.265 (hevc). Without this license a lot of applications can't play hevc at all, they rely on the codecs included in windows (which are unavailable without a license). They either fall ba
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by andix 11mo ago
It only affects new devices, they don't pull the existing licenses. Not every device includes a HEVC license. For cheap consumer devices or custom built PCs no license is the norm. It just used to be the norm for the premium brands to
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by andix 11mo ago
So the fault is at purchasing departments, that buy incompatible laptops. They would probably need to order hevc as an option, or roll out licenses via MDM. Individual buyers can just buy the HEVC license from the Windows store. I think win
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by andix 11mo ago
It probably switches video processing to some legacy stack, that doesn't have all the features.
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by andix 11mo ago
Is it possible to just buy the HEVC extension on the Microsoft store to enable it? I have a PC that came without the license, and I had to buy it to get everything working. It was more an annoyance than a problem, it's only a 99 cent p
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by andix 11mo ago
Isn't there a certification for ms teams for pcs? I've seen a lot of headsets and speakers with a "certified for ms teams" badge on it. I guess Microsoft needs to extend it to laptops too, make hevc support mandatory and
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by andix 11mo ago
I meant the remarks about wiktionary in a sarcastic way. Explaining the word’s meaning twice by itself was a bit funny. Especially as it’s not a very common word a lot of non-native speakers need to look up. Probably also a few native speak
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by andix 11mo ago
I had to look up what curmudgeonliness means, Wiktionary was extremely helpful: curmudgeonliness: The state or condition of being curmudgeonly. okay, let's look up curmudgeonly: curmudgeonly: Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish ne
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by andix 11mo ago
My favorite Calvin and Hobbes reference: https://xkcd.com/409/ There are even more on xkcd: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Calvin_a...
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by andix 11mo ago
I don't think they will actively "pull" their services. They are based in the US, and don't specifically target EU customers. I guess they just won't comply and might be blocked.
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by andix 11mo ago
Try to twist around words and phrases, at some point it might start to fail. I tried it again yesterday with GPT. GPT-5 manages quite well too in thinking mode, but starts crackling in instant mode. 4o completely failed. It's not that
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by andix 11mo ago
Signal already announced they won't add back doors, even if it means they are going to be blocked. Which is really funny, because the EU commission recommends to their employees to use Signal for texting.
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by andix 11mo ago
It really shows how LLMs work. It's all about probabilities, and not about understanding. If something looks very similar to a well known problem, the llm is having a hard time to "see" contradictions. Even if it's reall
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by andix 11mo ago
There are millions of people voting against that stuff. But it would require hundreds of millions to stop it.
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by andix 11mo ago
Will it possible to "DDoS" those systems? It can't be illegal to role-play a grooming situation between consenting adults in a private conversation. If millions of people do that, they must be buried in reports.
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by andix 11mo ago
The UK normalized surveillance for decades. In most other European countries this is a completely different story. The backlash would be far stronger than in the UK.
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by andix 11mo ago
If they really ban everyone under 16 from texting, this would also become kind of a time bomb. A lot of those affected teens will be allowed to vote very soon. And they might have a very different mental image of the EU than the generations
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by andix 11mo ago
I just don't believe they would be able to roll it out. A lot of messaging services won't implement chat control. If half of the messaging apps are getting blocked, people will get angry. There will be massive backlash towards EU.
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by andix 11mo ago
I gave this "riddle" to various models: > The farmer and the goat are going to the river. They look into the sky and see three clouds shaped like: a wolf, a cabbage and a boat that can carry the farmer and one item. How can the
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by andix 11mo ago
I think the selection of models is a bit off. Haiku instead of Sonnet for example. Kimi K2's capabilities are closer to Sonnet than to Haiku. GPT-5 might be in the non-reasoning mode, which routes to a smaller model.
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by andix 11mo ago
I was looking for something more opinionated and hands on. This is a reference documentation.
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by andix 11mo ago
Configuring of the proxy is done by the k8s Gateway controller. Exactly like for the ingress controller. You just use standardized k8s CRDs to configure it. The gateway/ingress controller takes the k8s resources and configures the prox
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by andix 11mo ago
Does anyone know good resources on how to migrate and which gateway controllers are suitable replacements? Ingresses with custom nginx attributes might be tricky to migrate.
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by andix 1y ago
I know another single char user, and couldn't believe it either. I think possible options are a-z and 0-9, so only 36 people in the world got that lucky.
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by andix 1y ago
Most template languages can't do something like that: // data const numbered = true // or false const strings = ["a", "b", "c"] // render const items = strings.ma
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by andix 1y ago
I didn't look deep into Marko yet, but in my opinion JSX is by far the best HTML template language there is. And it's not restricted to React. Most other template languages hits serious limitations really fast. I tried and hated (
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by andix 1y ago
It's still off-topic here at hn. The community is very international, similar things happen in dozens of other countries too. The front page would be full of politics, if those kind of articles wouldn't be flagged. There are a lot
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by andix 1y ago
It's not exactly the same, there are some similarities. There are still free elections happening in the US, there are still courts that rule against the government. And as far as I know those arrested people don't get killed. It&#
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by andix 1y ago
I've never lived in a dictatorship, but I know a lot of people who did, and told me their stories. But from reading this article I couldn't tell if there is a massive crime surge in Chicago, or if it's police brutality, or bo
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by andix 1y ago
I suspected that it's about immigration agents. But it's just really funny how the article claims to explain the issues, without actually explaining it. Why do they use weapons extensively? Are they chasing violent people who shot

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