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by jhasse 8y ago
Good point. I wonder if that would apply though.
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by jhasse 8y ago
Just as the only browser with DRM would have a huge advantage in that scenario, the one streaming service without DRM would have, too. I honestly think Netflix would take that chance for their own content.
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by jhasse 8y ago
They could block that, too. (It won't work on Android and iOS anyway)
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by jhasse 8y ago
Premium is DRM-free, but Google Play purchases, which you can watch on YouTube, use DRM.
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by jhasse 8y ago
I would guess, that they fear, that Metastream could implement a feature, where only one of the users has paid for the content and streams it to his peers.
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by jhasse 8y ago
I would guess that Firefox's approach is only possible, because Mozilla made sure it is. I doubt that anyone else is allowed to "redistribute" the binary by automatically downloading it at runtime without getting a license.
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by jhasse 8y ago
The situation would be the same, if his web browser was a fork of Firefox.
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by jhasse 8y ago
> Download and sandbox the Widevine binary blob the same way that Firefox does. Done. Mozilla has a license to redistribute the binary. You can't simply do that (legally).
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by jhasse 8y ago
Yes, with DRM. You can check if it's used by looking at the address bar: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-r...
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by jhasse 8y ago
Most YouTube videos (including the one you linked) don't use DRM, that's why 1080p works on Linux. Netflix only works with up to 720p on Linux.
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by jhasse 8y ago
Firefox will ask you to download a proprietary blob which is needed for DRM the first time you visit Netflix.
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by jhasse 8y ago
There is an exception: https://www.gog.com/
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by jhasse 8y ago
> No, blame the movie studios, record labels etc. They're the one which require asinine DRM support for web browsers. Google/Microsoft/Apple/Adobe want to support media content, but to do so requires towing the line w
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by jhasse 8y ago
Makes sense, thanks for the explanation. > And language extensions are hardly unfair. In practice they're used all over the place, and people expect them to work in their IDEs, especially when they're off in some header they di
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by jhasse 8y ago
Awesome :)
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by jhasse 8y ago
My guess would be that in C# and Java, re-indexing is faster, because those languages have faster compile times in general. Therefore I would put this as a compile time problem. > This also isn't a complete solution for accuracy, as
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by jhasse 8y ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316922118_An_Invest...
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by jhasse 8y ago
Also with mount namespaces ;)
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by jhasse 8y ago
> Which no user has ever cared about. The user cares because it results in fewer bugs.
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by jhasse 8y ago
Yes, I have used Eclipse and IntelliJ. Have you used cquery for example ( https://github.com/cquery-project/cquery )? In my experience performance is excellent and it can even be used with large code bases like Chromium.
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by jhasse 8y ago
> it shuold have been a better C. It failed. It was supposed to be more secure than C. It failed. If it's worse and less secure than C, why is it so popular? Why didn't all people continue to use C?
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by jhasse 8y ago
True. Still it's enough data to show that C++ is a wild success and is used more than just in a few niches. Has it supplanted C? Definitely not. But in some areas it did (e.g. game development).
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by jhasse 8y ago
No, the problem is that the driver uses it's own API called EGLStreams instead of GBM, which everyone else (including Sway) uses. Open-source is not a requirement for Sway support, just GBM support.
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by jhasse 8y ago
The proprietary driver doesn't support the features (i.e. GBM).
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by jhasse 8y ago
Because that would be more work. Why not switch to a browser which supports webm/VP9?
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by jhasse 8y ago
> I was measuring by number of projects. I think even going by that metric C++ does pretty good. Not exactly "number of projects", but here are some numbers: GitHub statistic: https://octoverse.github.com/projec
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by jhasse 8y ago
> I wouldn't call C++ a wild success. It's failed to supplant C for its entire life, and thrives only in a few niches. Aren't web browsers one of the most used consumer software today? I wouldn't call them niche.
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by jhasse 8y ago
Most programming languages can call C code, so you don't have to rewrite something when switching to them.
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by jhasse 8y ago
> Rust has it's C++ style problems (compiling time, not good enough IDE support), [...] Actually, since language servers like clangd, cquery and ccls, IDE support is not a C++ style problem anymore.
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by jhasse 8y ago
nameof_enum doesn't work with GCC :(

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