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Interestingly, my experience is totally different. I loved working with XAML and C# for building Silverlight apps, and would have preferred using that across more platforms. Especially with a nice editor like Expression Bland that got folded into VS.

Not really. It actually is about privacy.

If Google set up a subsidiary in Europe, that ran the service for european users and was the only entity that had access to the data, this would not be a problem. The problem here is Google's insistence that US entities will be allowed to access european data.

It's really strange to me, that we allow this sort of beta testing on public roads. The car is doing multiple things in this video that is problematic with the driver being slow to react in order to see what it ends up doing.

This should not be something that is allowed on public roads by end-users, but rather on closed tracks by specialists. If they want to test it out on public roads, run the analysis and look at whenever it diverges from the drivers decisionmaking instead.

MindGeek could obviously have done more. But i don't think you are being transparent about who promoted and ran that petition.

It was heavily promoted by Exodus Cry, an organisation that seeks to completely ban porn, strip clubs and any type of sex work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry

This whole thing has lead to a lot unintended consequences that has significantly hurt, or impacted sex workers negatively, such as the MasterCard changes that made Onlyfans try and get rid of sexual content.

I think it depends heavily on what area you want support for. EC 2 support is generally very good, billing support is reasonable if a bit slow. Support for a lot of their managed services, or media services is beyond useless. All the support engineer does is take your complaint and says they will check with the internal service team. Your ticket will just end up in "waiting for Amazon" state for weeks or months.

No, actually the danish app has 3 versions.

1. No personal information at all. It only says valid or not valid. 2. Name and date of birth 3. Foreign travel, with name, date of birth as well as information about test type or vaccination type etc.

I think that highly depends on the service. The new App Runner service for instance is a wild ride of buggyness, lack of testing and incorrect documentation.

For Netflix it has a lot to do with how they integrate with the TV's. They tend to integrate directly with the chipset vendor, and then ship their own SDK that the TV vendors integrate. Everyone else is relegated to use the terrible shitty webapps like development with no debugging capability. So for Smart TV's at least, Netflix is on a whole different level than everyone else.

In my experience with AWS support, it's a major difference on whether you are asking EC 2 questions or some of the lesser used service questions.

For Media services, the supporter will almost always need to coordinate with an internal team, which there is no visibility over, and then it becomes a game of telephone to make the supporter relay the information in a way the internal team understands. I've had the same thing happen with peering/networking related questions.

For EC 2, VPC, DynamoDB kinda questions, they are indeed pretty good.

I have a hardware version 4 HS100, and it's completely updated. It receives commands on port 9999 fine, so maybe the beta firmware has been rolled out generally, at least for V4 devices.

Based on experience it will probably not public, or at least very limited.

But customers are likely to get one, at least if they request it.

But why even require payment for these certificates, since Microsoft according to the article doesn't actually place any value on the certificate itself. You still have to build up reputation separately. In that case, it seems entirely unnecessary to require a paid certificate.

I am not sure it's a great way to go in this case. In Denmark for instance, there is no unanimous requirement for conviction, and having been on juries here, it would absolutely result in a lot of people going free. I have absolutely seen cases where one person is either on some principle or just convinced they are right refuse to view the person that is charged as guilty. I am not sure that really should prevent convinction.

But i guess part of this also relies on the make up of the jury. If people in general is more likely to convict easier, it might make more sense to adjust that by requiring them to unanimous, in the reverse situation you might not want to require that because it becomes almost impossible to convict anyone.

Imho this is such an important feature that i don't understand why it's not more common. And even for Zoom and jit.si, the button is hidden in a submenu on mobile.

What would be even better is allowing the meeting chair to simply unmute a single person and mute everyone else to ensure some order.

Not the only browser to support DRM. But the only browser to support PlayReady on Windows, which brings added security compared to what Widevine offers on Windows.

Another popular choice for high quality is Safari on macOS because it implements Apple's FairPlay.

Looks to me like it is a simulation that allows reinforcement AI training to do "real world" tasks. I.e. a test bench for using computer vision, and AI to generate a set of assembly instructions.