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10 days agoYes, they did, at least in some cases: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/19/netflix-is-not-facing-the-innovators-dilemma/
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Hmm, maybe I was misremembering. On second thought I think it was actually 7digital I was thinking of that did the regional lossless, I forgot about that one. For example, the same album on Swedish and American stores:
HDtracs also sells some stuff losslessly. Though one thing I’ve noticed I’ve noticed on both Qobuz and HDtracs is tha, in addition to only having some stuff losslessly, the availability of lossless varies by region. The same album might be sold lossless in one region and only lossy in another region.
AAC-LC though works just about anywhere, and AFAIK is also patent free by now.
Care to back that up? You wouldn’t need a license to do something that copyright laws already allow you to do on their own. For example, making additional copies for your own personal use is perfectly legal, if allowed depends on your local fair use or private copying exemption law (provided you do it without circumventing DRM, e.g. via the analog hole), even though of course the movie studio wouldn’t give you a license for that.
Of course, DRM is the real issue here, as due to anti-circumvention the movie industry controls who can legally make players for movies on DVD/Blu-Ray (unlike on VHS and CD).
You can’t rent your copy of Shrek out to people
That’s literally how Netflix got started.
Reddit does have RSS feeds
Unless they start adding cellular connectivity for serving ads. Though maybe the calculation doesn’t work out, presumably most people would either connect the TV to the internet voluntarily, or they’re not gonna use the TV:s UI much and thus not see many ads.
1·2 months agoThis is something that’s now legally required for new cars in the EU.
If you can. The problem there is Play Integrity API, which is used as an anti-competition measure.
Yes, they have a pretty dominant position, but they’re not abusing it, at least not like many other companies, and that makes the difference. For example, they don’t make anything exclusive to their own hardware or their own OS, their software can run on any distro, and their OS can be installed on any adequate hardware. And they don’t lock the Steam Machine to run only games sold on Steam. And a lot of work they do under the hood is made open source (Proton DXVK, SDL, GameScope, driver work etc). It’s mainly Steam itself and stuff part of it that’s kept proprietary (and that’s been relatively resistant to enshittification).
Of course, the thought of Valve starting to abuse their dominance is every PC gamer’s nightmare.
Also, maybe this is just me, but in my experience the pages the Google AI overview links to as sources very often says nothing related to what the AI overview claims, which makes it very difficult to verify the information.
Played that as a kid
The problem is, YouTube has no real competition. No one has the same thing they do. And the same applies to a lot of things today.
Another issue is, subscription services can just raise the price and then start charging people more without those people doing anything, or possibly even noticing, which differs from individual purchases where you had to make a judgement about the price each time. Now, people have to make an actively cancel in order to not agree to new prices (or EULA changes for that matter). It should really be the other way around, so that if a service raises their price, people have to actively agree to the new price in order for the service to keep charging them.
Can’t speak for Uber Eats or Starbucks though.
Out-of-band, I think. I.e. some other means of communication that doesn’t go via the same route they normally use.
over 100% of the BT.2020 pro color space
What does this mean? BT.2020 already requires pure monochromatic subpixels (which you’re not gonna get with LCD), so you can’t go beyond that unless you use 4+ subpixels (in which case the extra colors will just go unused, since HDR video is delivered as BT.2020). Or is BT.2020 Pro a smaller gamut than BT.2020?
This article is the only thing I can find on Google which mentions “BT.2020 Pro”, at least in English.
According to https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-se-support-roadmap.html, Java 8 Extended Support will end in December 2030
Looks like it’s taken a page from PowerShell in passing structured data rather than just text.
6·1 year agoI find it weird when you get “pwd” as a variable
OK, bad examples. On the other hand e.g. X, GitHub, Pornhub, PSN, Steam or Discord do not support IPv6.
The Nvidia driver doesn’t require rebuilding the kernel, just a kernel module.
I certainly do hope they don’t end up with a solution that shuts out common kernel modules like Nvidia, VirtualBox or ZFS. There’s no way they’re gonna make an anti-cheat that blocks the Nvidia driver though, that wouldn’t make any sense.
The bigger worry IMHO is around what distros it will work on. If they disallow user-compiled kernels, they’ll inherently have to only support specific distros (and derivatives which uses the same kernel), so I hope they’d allow all the common distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, OpenSUSE and derivatives of these. I don’t want to end up with these games being blocked by anti-cheat from working on anything but SteamOS and maybe Ubuntu.
The best to hope for would probably be if they can design it so it works anything where Microsoft has provided a Secure Boot certificate, so it will work on any distro that currently supports Secure Boot.