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by pipo234 3y ago
I suppose they could do that, but wouldn't they still need to pay the 1.8B? [Added] ... And continue to support products and services already sold?
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by pipo234 3y ago
Funny that Apple manages to pitch this change first and foremost as an (unfortunate, but necessary) change to users in the EU . That is not what this is, that is not the impact it has. It's going nuclear, scorched earth, FUD on any
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by pipo234 3y ago
Most of the software I've built doesn't have "a spec.", but let me zoom in on specs. around streaming media. MPEG DASH, CMAF or even the base media file format (ISO/IEC 14496-12) at times can be pretty vague. In pra
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by pipo234 3y ago
Ah yes! You're right! I completely forgot about the deceleration exhaust.
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by pipo234 3y ago
As a proud EU citizen, I'm embarrassed to admit this € 8.5M project looks like complete vapourware.
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by pipo234 3y ago
As a linguist, I liked the novel but I totally agree the "first contact" aspect is pretty shoddy. The microbes magic is like a necessary evil to explain why we suddenly can (and must) go interstellar. The story also includes some
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Apple laptops are widely popular amongst developers I'm not so sure they are popular for the right reasons, though. When targeting anything server-like developers quickly grab something like docker desktop as a kind of poor-man&#x
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by pipo234 3y ago
Yes, C++ definitely tends to rely more on binary dependencies, shared objects. Rust will probably have to as well, once frameworks and libraries get to size and maturity that you want your OS vendor to take over responsibility (and compile
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by pipo234 3y ago
GOOGLE?! So... left hand cleaning up the mess created by the right hand? Isn't that called a Ponzi scheme, or something?
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by pipo234 3y ago
Maybe some EU country would like to step in and offer this as a basic service to all their citizens? (I'm sure Mozilla would be happy to give a discount.)
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by pipo234 3y ago
I believe a German (?) court recently ruled that sending a do-not-track header in HTTP request is sufficient. So essentially, a website showing a cookie banner despite a visitor already expressing her/his preference using DNT, is a ma
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by pipo234 3y ago
Regulation "failures" are mostly about the wording, the how; less about what and why. I guess rather than regulating cookies, they meant to regulate tracking. Or maybe even regulate targeting , rather than tracking . The cookie
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by pipo234 3y ago
I think the fact that apps are available for Meta's products show that (at the time) there was confidence into a potential growth category. And (currently) there is no confidence that Apple's product makes any commercial sens
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by pipo234 3y ago
I don't have stats either, but working for a company that offers the shuffles for that kind of monetization for streaming media (jitm packaging and remix, drm, personalized ads, live2vod) and enthusiastic Podcast listener I tend to bel
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by pipo234 3y ago
Brilliant. I particularly liked the first comment (Anonymous Coward): > Wray meant: > Of course, we have probable cause. > We always have probable cause for everything we do–well, mostly anyway. > Well, I mean, we could ma
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by pipo234 3y ago
Looks like a Will Law (of DASH fame) pet project. Interesting to see where it will lead. Seems to have sponsorship from some industry heavyweights Meta, Cisco, Twitch, Google, Akamai, Ericson. But notable absentee is of course: Apple (!) h
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by pipo234 3y ago
It's nice that there is a work-around. This time. And the next time. I for one use System76' Pop!OS derivative (which is great!), but that might ultimately play out like a RHEL <-> CentOS/Rocky/Alma drama. It will
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by pipo234 3y ago
Interesting! Had a look at the spec [1] which looks a lot like AV1. Has the same OBU elementary stream concepts, ISO 14496-12 bindings, codec param string, the whole enchilada. What's missing so far is DRM (common encryption), but I&#x
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by pipo234 3y ago
Good riddance! So the proposal was sponsored by HP, Symantec and Intel. I was expecting something related to Microsoft and it's ill conceived idea of "Managed C++", but it all boils down to: Hans Boehm. As surprised as the ne
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Was it all but dead because people thought h264 was good enough, until 2.5 and 4k became more prominent in media consumption? (Lack of) a compelling use case certainly played a role. Sure, reducing bandwidth is in itself a noble (and p
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by pipo234 3y ago
+1 Indeed. Compared to other standards in streaming media, I'd say that AOMedia has found adoption a lot quicker. h265 (HEVC) was all but DoA until years after it's introduction Apple finally decided to embrace it. It is still by
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by pipo234 3y ago
Quoting from the automated translation: > In general, patience is a little too great with greedy employers. "Making a mistake" or "not knowing" is, in the eyes of too many, an okay excuse when an employer does not ful
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by pipo234 3y ago
You're absolutely right of course and I stand corrected. I was thinking of the cool , companies (Silicon Graphics, Apple, NeXT, BeOS) and high end stuff (SUN, Hewlett Packard, DEC), of the pre-WinTel era. When CPUs had one core, int
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by pipo234 3y ago
I see why that sentence is considered over the line , but in context it does not sound like he's endorsing another holocaust . > To be entirely plain. > I have always viscerally opposed war. I have dedicated my life to conflict
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by pipo234 3y ago
> I think it's an example of a company suited for venture capital. I guess it makes sense from the investment angle. Ie. need to grow, and need to grow fast, therefore need for lots of cash, therefore need for risk takers. B
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by pipo234 3y ago
Sounds like they were basically a victim of venture capital. First the pressure to grow (too) rapidly, then the gutting for failure to deliver. Growing a company with wild ambitions sustainably is hard. I feel sorry for the employees that t
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by pipo234 3y ago
> Problem with this is it means you are giving money to providers that sell with DRM Indeed. And also do not underestimate the cost of adding DRM to media. Don't know about ebooks, but for streaming media I would estimate about ha
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by pipo234 3y ago
Lack of specifics and context and utter absence of links to sources indeed strongly suggests this was a GPT-generated click bait.
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by pipo234 3y ago
> The overhead of booting windows maybe once a year? No way! If you were to boot into Windows only once a year, I'm sure there will be a couple of updates waiting to be installed, forcing you to boot into Windows at least twice a ye
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by pipo234 3y ago
Some serious interference around areas of military tension: East Mediterranean, Black Sea South-West, Baltic Sea. Scary.

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