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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Maybe it's me that's broken? No, can't be...
Yeah, keep telling yourself that...
I'm not telling myself that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
possibly customized by sniffing the content of the video data.
If it means that they'll be allowed to break HDCP I might possibly consider allowing it for the side effects.
It’s not “breaking” HDCP. It’s the TV, it’s the receiving end which is doing the decrypting anyway.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
possibly customized by sniffing the content of the video data.
If it means that they'll be allowed to break HDCP I might possibly consider allowing it for the side effects.
It’s not “breaking” HDCP. It’s the TV, it’s the receiving end which is doing the decrypting anyway.
Well the theory is that nothing in between the content source and the final destination should be interfering with the data stream. So, it has to decrypt the stream and then re-encrypt, which if they're going to be offering this as an update to existing boxes might just mean free decryption keys for everyone!
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@Tsaukpaetra it is the “final destination”, as far as HDCP is concerned. It goes from your Blu-ray player or whatever to your TV. The path from the TV to your eyes doesn’t have HDCP.
Edit: maybe I’m misunderstanding. My assumption is that whatever Roku does happens in the TV, not some set-top-box outside of it.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
The path from the TV to your eyes doesn’t have HDCP.
Not yet
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
The path from the TV to your eyes doesn’t have HDCP.
Not yet
: We had personalized ads per device, now personalised ads on public devices per person!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Google now says that any apps using YouTube APIs that block advertisements may soon be blocked from its developer APIs.
Me using NewPipe, which I believe scrapes rather than using the API:
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Water cooling company with liquidity problems. EK may be going bust.
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@Atazhaia said in In other news today...:
Water ... liquidity
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
possibly customized by sniffing the content of the video data.
If it means that they'll be allowed to break HDCP I might possibly consider allowing it for the side effects.
It’s not “breaking” HDCP. It’s the TV, it’s the receiving end which is doing the decrypting anyway.
Well the theory is that nothing in between the content source and the final destination should be interfering with the data stream. So, it has to decrypt the stream and then re-encrypt, which if they're going to be offering this as an update to existing boxes might just mean free decryption keys for everyone!
They're talking about doing this in Roku TVs (TVs with Roku software as the OS), not in external Roku streaming boxes. It would have access to the actual video stream at that point, in addition to knowing that you pressed Pause on the remote.
They could still show ads with just the external boxes; they'd know that you've pressed Pause and, perhaps, some metadata like the name of the thing being streamed. It'd just have less context. (I don't know the details for Roku apps and I'm assuming the boxes don't have access to the video being streamed.)
We happen to have two Roku TVs and two "dumb" TVs with Roku streaming boxes. I find it annoying that they advertise random things on the main menu screen; it'd be more annoying if it started showing ads when whatever we're watching is paused.
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You should not think only physical books count as reading. Too many people dismiss audiobooks, thinking it doesn’t apply as it is someone reading to you
Listening isn’t reading!
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@DogsB Life hack to read more books: Read books while attending boring meetings. This is especially easy if the meeting is remote. E-books are further easy to hide even during normal activities. Open it up in a side window, next to other cruft on your desktop. Keep it on your phone that's on your desk. In-person meeting? Bring your laptop and read an e-book on it.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Roku will inject ads anyway. If it detects a loading screen or pause in the HDMI video stream, it will display an ad instead of the "paused" video
If it detects a pause. I wonder which video player will be the first to offer something to counter this. And how? Will we see 2-pixel wide shifting edge? A small cartoon sheep hopping around the screen while video is paused?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Life hack to read more books: Read books while attending boring meetings. This is especially easy if the meeting is remote. E-books are further easy to hide even during normal activities. Open it up in a side window, next to other cruft on your desktop. Keep it on your phone that's on your desk. In-person meeting? Bring your laptop and read an e-book on it.
Psh, amateurs. I once wrote a short story over an otherwise pointless 3-day meeting.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Life hack to read more books: Read books while attending boring meetings. This is especially easy if the meeting is remote. E-books are further easy to hide even during normal activities. Open it up in a side window, next to other cruft on your desktop. Keep it on your phone that's on your desk. In-person meeting? Bring your laptop and read an e-book on it.
Psh, amateurs. I once wrote a short story over an otherwise pointless 3-day meeting.
Hopefully the story turned out at least as good as the meeting
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Life hack to read more books: Read books while attending boring meetings. This is especially easy if the meeting is remote. E-books are further easy to hide even during normal activities. Open it up in a side window, next to other cruft on your desktop. Keep it on your phone that's on your desk. In-person meeting? Bring your laptop and read an e-book on it.
Psh, amateurs. I once wrote a short story over an otherwise pointless 3-day meeting.
Hopefully the story turned out at least as good as the meeting
I had to keep half of my mind on the meeting just in case it veered toward anything that might actually have something to do with me, so it ended up very... stream of consciousness. Hallucinations, an abduction, a dead gimp and a (not very) daring getaway. I think I'd read Sin City: Hell and Back and watched Pulp Fiction recently. You can guess the rest.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Ok, I think we can start. Let's go 'round and introduce ourselves, all.
... Call me IshmaelI once did this on a Usenet group where some schoolteacher had introduced her students with something like "Hi, we're a group of students who want to connect with others interested in {topic}."
My response was "Hi, I am an apteryx, a wingless bird with hairy feathers."
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@boomzilla Placing bets that it's not compilable by a modern dev environment.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I hate it when tongue-in-cheek is an accurate prediction of truth.
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Demonstrating tact and good self-awareness:
Systemd dev shits on sudo for having a large attack surface and proposes to replace it with more systemd. To minimize attack surface, it focuses on core features like "tinting the terminal background in a reddish tone" and "inserting a red dot in the window title". (The latter two are probably just a bunch of ANSI control sequences and will be overridden by anybody else doing the same about 0.5 commands down the line. Plus - I love it when devs insist on making my terminal less readable.)
Also: "run0 make me a sandwich" does not have the same ring to it.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Demonstrating tact and good self-awareness:
Systemd dev shits on sudo for having a large attack surface and proposes to replace it with more systemd. To minimize attack surface, it focuses on core features like "tinting the terminal background in a reddish tone" and "inserting a red dot in the window title". (The latter two are probably just a bunch of ANSI control sequences and will be overridden by anybody else doing the same about 0.5 commands down the line. Plus - I love it when devs insist on making my terminal less readable.)
Also: "run0 make me a sandwich" does not have the same ring to it.
Oh my fucking gods... "This small single program with a single responsibility has a too big attack surface, lets roll it into this huge fucking monolith that is the biggest single attack surface across several OSes".
systemd devs deserve to be dragged out behind the shed and shoveled.
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@cvi did Slashdot get sold to The Onion?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@cvi did Slashdot get sold to The Onion?
No, but apparently the Onion changed hands recently.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@cvi did Slashdot get sold to The Onion?
No, but apparently the Onion changed
handsbelts recently.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
lets roll it into this huge fucking monolith
Which monolith?
Systemd is one project with one code repository, but it is not a monolith. The
/lib/systemd
directory contains dozens of separate binaries that each do one task and some more are in/bin
.Yeah, of course the proposed
run0
could only be simpler if it lacked some of the features, but the features ofsudo
are actually being used, and required in many cases.
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@Bulb I think that's more of a feeling that systemd exudes like a bad smell around it, that it is a monolith even though it actually isn't.
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Not today's news, but I didn't see it until today, and it hasn't been posted here, yet:
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sudo
TIL that this utility has a logo, and the logo is based on the xkcd comic
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
lets roll it into this huge fucking monolith
Which monolith?
Systemd is one project with one code repository, but it is not a monolith. The
/lib/systemd
directory contains dozens of separate binaries that each do one task and some more are in/bin
.Yeah, of course the proposed
run0
could only be simpler if it lacked some of the features, but the features ofsudo
are actually being used, and required in many cases.Can a majority of these separate binaries be run entirely outside of systemd?
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@Carnage I think most of them can, and does something useful. Well, some of them are services, so they are only useful if run from some kind of init, but I think they would work with other init like openrc.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Also: "run0 make me a sandwich" does not have the same ring to it.
we can start calling services running as root "runes" and make it all sound like voodoo for outsiders
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Also: "run0 make me a sandwich" does not have the same ring to it.
we can start calling services running as root "runes" and make it all sound like voodoo for outsiders
let's also rename root to deity, or something similar.
Edit; Oh, and resurrect sorceror linux.
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Also: "run0 make me a sandwich" does not have the same ring to it.
we can start calling services running as root "runes" and make it all sound like voodoo for outsidersUhm, they are already called "daemons" - sounds magic enough to me.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Also: "run0 make me a sandwich" does not have the same ring to it.
we can start calling services running as root "runes" and make it all sound like voodoo for outsidersUhm, they are already called "daemons" - sounds magic enough to me.
We've also got scrolls already.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Also: "run0 make me a sandwich" does not have the same ring to it.
we can start calling services running as root "runes" and make it all sound like voodoo for outsidersUhm, they are already called "daemons" - sounds magic enough to me.
We've also got scrolls already.
Have Bethesda sued yet?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZhTxdD6O7Y
TLDW: Limited Run Games, a company that releases physical editions of video games, has published some retro games for the 3DO. They sold them at premium prices ($60+ USD) and people have found that they're just burned on CDRs
e: Here's the actual article, if you don't want to listen to this annoying voiced guy
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZhTxdD6O7Y
TLDW: Limited Run Games, a company that releases physical editions of video games, has published some retro games for the 3DO. They sold them at premium prices ($60+ USD) and people have found that they're just burned on CDRs
e: Here's the actual article, if you don't want to listen to this annoying voiced guy
Burned CDRs are more expensive than pressed CDs, aren't they?
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@Carnage Only if you produce and sell enough units to offset the initial setup cost. I'm guessing they figured that a) the target audience for Plumbers Don't Wear Ties on 3DO in 2024 is close to 0 and b) the
AVGN fanscollectorssuckers who would buy this item would just display it on a shelf rather than trying to play the game.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Carnage Only if you produce and sell enough units to offset the initial setup cost. I'm guessing they figured that a) the target audience for Plumbers Don't Wear Ties on 3DO in 2024 is close to 0 and b) the
AVGN fanscollectorssuckers who would buy this item would just display it on a shelf rather than trying to play the game.Had a quick check, at the highest per CD pressed, the price I found was USD3 per disc, and that was for 25 CDs. About 10 times the price of CDRs, but then you also have to burn the CDRs and you need a wage slave to do that. At series of 25000+, pressed CDs are the same price as raw CDRs.
Seems to be a bit of a toss with regards to price then, but unless your series are stupidly low, pressed CDs seems cheaper. Especially since you also get labels in that price, something that comes on top of CDRs, or you pay more for the CDRs with custom labels.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Burned CDRs are more expensive than pressed CDs, aren't they?
It turns out they had put out a line of bullshit about this:
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This is all deeply dumb all the way down.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Burned CDRs are more expensive than pressed CDs, aren't they?
It turns out they had put out a line of bullshit about this:
They just needed to plug in their platinum plated IDE cable the other way around so that data flowed in the proper polarization.
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@hungrier
when buying CDRs in big spindels was a thing ... you couldn't even get those everywhere around here. I knew guys at uni who had a business driving to buying CDRs and other hardware and selling it again.
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Today, in shooting yourself in the foot. PC gamers are a fickle lot. EPIC has Fortnite and is giving away about $70 a week in free shit and can't erode Steam's market share much. I have no idea who thought this would go well.
Suspect it will blow over in a week and Sony will have 100000 new users by June.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Today, in shooting yourself in the foot. PC gamers are a fickle lot. EPIC has Fortnite and is giving away about $70 a week in free shit and can't erode Steam's market share much. I have no idea who thought this would go well.
Suspect it will blow over in a week and Sony will have 100000 new users by June.
Good guy devs.
I was about to get the game and check it out, but now I wont. I don't have a PSN account, nor do I plan on getting one.