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by hot_gril 2y ago
Cisco is the only recent-ish video chat app I can think of that has required an extension. The other I can remember is original Hangouts about a decade ago, cause at the time WebRTC wasn't commonly supported. Chrome was the only browse
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yes, I get it. Since they wanted to take this precaution, they could have told us and let us disable it. Instead, it was obvious that they tried to hide it for as long as possible. By the time someone proved it and there was enough PR fire
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Apple said it themselves about the 6S at least: https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/6/13853280/apple-iphone-6s-... Mine shut down once, at a low %. It was a very easy decision to disable the throttling. Eve
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Mine almost never shut down once I disabled the throttling. Maybe once.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
It was off by default, but it turns on if your phone unexpectedly shuts down. They later added the option to turn it off. The thing is, they were covering up a battery defect unique to a few models like the iPhone 6. Also the throttling was
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah, they tried very hard to take my headphone jack away by slowing down my iPhone 6. I waited for them to add that option to disable the throttler. Only reason I recently stopped using that phone is it completely died from being dropped.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Generates a lot of heat. I first noticed when my phone was unable to do nav while wirelessly charging in a rental car.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
... why did the other comment get flagged?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Yeah, so people with a choice of browsers might prefer it not be the one exposing exclusive APIs for its parent company, and it might affect that company's "we're not evil" image.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
If so, the API has to be available to competitors. Maybe this is why Meet is in-browser while all the other ones work better in apps. Despite this, Meet still hasn't won because it's just not very good.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
You're saying it's not a big deal while also saying it improves the product. The debug panel is apparent, but we don't know what else the API's data is used for. Maybe Meet uses it to improve performance too.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The special built-in API reveals system-wide CPU usage, not just for browser processes. Still surprised extensions can see browser processes though. Edit: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference&#x2F
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by hot_gril 2y ago
I don't think it's this. Tried a Meet call in Firefox just now. If you click the troubleshooting button, there's a CPU chart greyed out that says "try Chrome to see your CPU usage." Sure enough, in Chrome you can vi
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The implementation is what I was thinking of. I've also heard claims that VP9 is inherently slower to encode than H.264, but no idea if that's accurate. AVC/H.264 has very broad hardware support. For example, the 2019 MBP I&#
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Beside the point, but I don't think Chrome extensions have access to those hardware details.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
At least other video conferencing tools don't lag like Meet, so users don't need to debug ;) I think this has to do with all of them using H.264 while Meet uses VP8/9.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
The entire difference is whether or not you have to type "if err != nil { return err }" repeatedly. Some languages force you to handle exceptions, and some force you to handle non-exception errors.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Javascript and Golang didn't need metaprogramming for this. Some of this has to do with not adhering to the OOP-everywhere model. Where's the metaprogramming in Django?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Tell this to the huge number of websites that use cookie banners, not me.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
As far as I can tell, a corporation is already not treated as a literal person, only it has some of the same rights. Simplest example, a corporation can't run for a public office. What do you suggest should be changed, no 1A for a corp
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by hot_gril 2y ago
What else is a corporation then?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
If this isn't a written policy, it's not a good enough guarantee. If you're only judging based on Apple: Just because it takes long to be penalized doesn't mean you won't be, and Apple has a lot more legal resources
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by hot_gril 2y ago
My assertion is that we don't know whether or not fraudulent votes have changed the outcome of an election, whether coordinated or not. You keep saying it's never happened, without any evidence.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
How are real businesses selling bowls with leaded glaze and no warning? Not referring to a farmer's market but something like West Elm. If they're getting away with this, then yeah, the law is broken. If Daiso is just over-using t
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Cookies alone don't make you non-compliant, it's what you (or anything embedded on your site) do with them. You can also be non-compliant without cookies, but that's not fixable with a banner.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Impersonation isn't the issue. In almost every state, ID isn't required for voter registration, so there's no way to tell if you're an eligible voter or even a real person. Maybe if we have access to how many people regi
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by hot_gril 2y ago
But most bowls don't have P65 labels. I only see those at very cheap places like Daiso. What gives?
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by hot_gril 2y ago
This reminds me of software services that intentionally avoid exceeding their uptime SLOs so they don't set dangerously high expectations.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Right, the breadmakers don't give a shit about this. That's ok, the breadbuyers like me don't give a shit either.
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by hot_gril 2y ago
Exactly. It's like insurance, even if you have no sympathy, you're probably ok paying a little for other people's accidents because you could just as easily have one. Allergens are different, though.

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