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by bobdvb 2y ago
I work for a large streaming service and a significant part of my work is content protection. Honestly, tech folks misunderstanding of DRM and content protection is significant. There's some assumption that people are inherently honest
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by bobdvb 2y ago
Absolutely don't tolerate abuse and set out your stall early on but I don't think the response is to fire the first volley, but to shutdown an abuser quickly. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" is an old say
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by bobdvb 2y ago
For me, as someone who works in streaming, I/we have no interest in stopping/hindering competition and that's something that certainly gets raised by people who advocate for NN. What companies want, is to be able to invest wi
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by bobdvb 3y ago
There's little point in not writing it to disk, the idea of holding it in RAM vs writing a file to disk is moot. You've got to handle it and the best way of handling that kind of thing at scale is to write it to a temporary disk a
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by bobdvb 3y ago
But most rural consumers aren't ready/able to pay the outlay needed for the build. Normal suburban/urban residential broadband costs >$1000 per household to build, but rural broadband where you need many poles or lots of
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by bobdvb 3y ago
RCS is irrelevant, I barely use SMS, everything I use is either WhatsApp or a little Telegram right now (I have Signal but that's also largely irrelevant).
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by bobdvb 3y ago
There's a thing called Trusted Execution Environments, they're provisioned by the phone manufacturer which is why most people who play with ROMs aren't familiar with them either. But they're heavily related to TPMs. Basi
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by bobdvb 3y ago
I'm so addicted to the next day and Subscribe and Save delivery here I don't think I could give up Prime entirely (heck, we even have Same Day but I rarely use that). But I trust they'll get the message when viewership drops
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by bobdvb 3y ago
I watch Prime Video irregularly, I could absolutely live without it. If I encounter ads, I'll probably watch it even less than before which will probably hurt Prime Video's prospects even more. I'd be delighted if I didn&#x27
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by bobdvb 3y ago
Shouldn't really need a DAC, just use the PWM output. Any $5 microcontroller should be able to do this with some reliability. Heck, the PiPico has programmable IO which could do this without the processor. Or hey, a 555 timer with the
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by bobdvb 3y ago
The Quantel Paintbox graphics system which was what was considered the gold standard for graphics in the 80s and 90s, also had the option to backup it's data to video tape. Although that would have been expected to be broadcast tape fo
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by bobdvb 3y ago
It's a good point about paranoia, the random Chinese guys don't give a shit about you, you're generally insignificant. To your own government you are slightly insignificant but they may take more of an interest.
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by bobdvb 3y ago
I emailed some folks at Apple about some security issues with working in their ecosystem, their response has been from very underwhelming to no reply. So basically I'm on my own within my billion dollar business getting no support. Gue
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by bobdvb 3y ago
Before we lived together my wife moved into a flat and got a landline so she could get online. The phone company installed an ISDN line, great. But when they installed it they never properly explained it to her, so she was using her 56k mod
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by bobdvb 3y ago
I get the argument, but the networks seem to be operating quite inefficiently anyway. They have been given a tonne of spectrum over the years and yet they don't tend to address areas of concern over coverage. They could put in more sma
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by bobdvb 3y ago
Streaming UHD is typically less than 25Mbps per device, Netflix goes as low as 15Mbps. Video conferencing is typically about 5-15Mbps.
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by bobdvb 3y ago
The DRM TEE on Android needs to be baked in at the factory. If an app brings its own DRM then it's not able to use the TEE. If this enabled apps to use TEE like functionality it'd be good for that use case.
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by bobdvb 3y ago
I probably watch more YouTube than SVOD (e.g. Netflix). Plus the family sub for YT Premium is well worth it. But I do sub to Amazon Music not Spotify because of Alexa.
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by bobdvb 3y ago
Teams allows you to put people in a virtual lecture theatre called "Together Mode" where the individuals are cut out. I presume it sends the alpha along with the video.
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by bobdvb 3y ago
It's probably not traffic shaping, its almost certainly a peering capacity issue between Zen and the major CDNs. Zen probably needs more/better peering with Akamai and the other major CDNs than they have. I've written more co
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by bobdvb 3y ago
The whole net neutrality argument was made by people who've never operated a large scale network. I've shifted Tbps for a big content provider for some years now and I also worked for two ISPs. The idea of paying for premium acces
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by bobdvb 3y ago
Many ISPs have been lobbying for a tax on "content generators" which they say they would use to pay for infrastructure upgrades (or line the pockets of their shareholders who knows). The EU has a consultation on it, although I thi
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by bobdvb 3y ago
It doesn't have to be traffic shaping, it can be something as simple as limited peering capacity. Hanlon's Razor applies, this isn't necessarily malicious capping. Most ISPs don't have one fat pipe to this magical "
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by bobdvb 3y ago
There's a stat that 20% of pirate users are "pay never", so I always challenge the idea that if streaming services had a better proposition then piracy would go away. Piracy exists because people inherently want to pay as lit
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by bobdvb 3y ago
Phone companies want to make their services look good and differentiate, so they look for any opportunity to do that with the hot properties on the market. Then streaming services want to increase their reach, so their sales teams will do a
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by bobdvb 3y ago
The biggest issue with generic or burnt in ads is that they're not targeted ads. The value of an ad which isn't targeted is more than an order of magnitude less than one which is targeted. Traditional free-to-air broadcasting (mos
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by bobdvb 3y ago
Take a look at AoIP, AES67 and Dante. While they're IP and not USB, they are very much designed for extremely low latency for professional applications. https://github.com/bondagit/aes67-linux-daemon
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by bobdvb 3y ago
Sadface there was me thinking this was a new and interesting Digital Signal Processing framework.
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by bobdvb 3y ago
India already also has it's own problems, it's been a few years since I looked at India but the last time I did, the ISPs had terrible neutral public peering and almost all peering was being done in Singapore. So if you made a con
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by bobdvb 3y ago
You're both not wrong but that doesn't stop the lawyers wanting these measures. The practicalities of them are irrelevant to the legal team.

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