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the title contradicts what's in the actual article.

the proposal is to change the default beahvior, not getting rid of the ability outright. as long as they both retain the ability to change the behavior back to how was before, it doesn't seem like this is as dire as the author is trying to make it out.

I sympathize with the idea of having to add yet another setting change to what I'm sure is a long list of configs/settings updates that most of us have to perform everytime we boot up a new system but this is all that it looks like would be the case here if this proposal goes through

I'm a bit out of the loop, what are people's issues with Tahoe?

often times you will have requirements that the documents you release be digitally searchable and so in these cases, this would not be an option

It depends where you are. most cities in the US have them everywhere now

this is true a lot in the world of paintings. there are regularly auctions where you can buy items "attributed" to (meaning it's speculated but not confirmed) very famous Modern Art painters like Van Gogh, Monet, etc for under $5,000 which, if confirmed, would send the valuation many multiples higher

there was already an attempt to take it down back in 2020/2021 [0]. The DMCA claim's main argument was that ytdl was circumventing Techincal Protection Measures (TPMs) in order to access the content. Thanks to a letter from the EFF [1] which explains how ytdl accesses content in the same way that a browser does (i.e. it does circumvent anything such as DRM), github rejected the takedown.

this is also why ytdl has stood firm in saying they will never attempt to be compatible with anything protected by DRM.

[0] https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/s...

[1] https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...

It's completely true.

Looking at Vizio's financial records[0], the numbers make it clear.

They seperate everything into 2 distinct businesses, Device and Platform+.

Device represents their hardware business of selling physical TVs and soundbars. Platform+ covers all of their other "software-related" business, mainly consisting of ad delivery and selling user data to third parties.

2019:

- Device Net Revenue = $1.7 billion

- Device Gross Profit = $125 million

- Platform+ Net Revenue = $63 million

- Platform+ Gross Profit = $40 million

2023:

- Device Net Revenue = $1.0 billion

- Device Gross Profit = -($8.6 million)

- Platform+ Net Revenue = $598 million

- Platform+ Gross Profit = $364 million

So over the course of just 4 years:

- hardware revenue is down 40% and is actually losing money (confirms they are indeed selling the TVs at a loss)

- Ad/user data revenue, however, is up almost ten-fold (+949%)

- total gross profits of the two combined are up over 54%

[0] https://investors.vizio.com/financials/quarterly-results/def...

why not both?

"Postbox is winding down its operations after being acquired by eM Client"

idk, even that seems too much to me, but maybe I'm just being too senstive.

but like, why is it a website's job to tell me what browser version to use? unless my outdated browser is lacking legitmate functionality which is required by your website, just serve the page and be done with it.

What's the deal with ereaders and their seeming disdain for sane battery life measurements?

Amazon boasts "up to 8 weeks on a single charge" in all their selling points, then, in the fine print states "A single charge lasts up to eight (8) weeks, based on a half hour of reading per day with wireless off and the light setting at 13".

So, it has 28 hours of actual use time, got it. Why not just say that?

I agree that more granular permissions is better (in terms of dictating which sites an extension has access to) but I think the main problem as I understand it is that this is an entirely seperate issue from the one that nukes uBO.

V3 introduces a hard limit on the total number network filters an extension is allowed to set and it's a laughably low number. Far below what uBO uses even on a barebones, default setup

Same here.

Prior to my discovery that fandom was bad and a lot of wikis were moving away, I was following so many instances of out dated info in games I was playing due to not realizing that the wiki was no longer maintained since the active contributors had moved elsewhere and updates/patches to the game had rendered the info moot.

What can a website do just from opening dev tools that it can't do without opening them?

that's a contractual term between Apple, Inc. and OpenAI, LLC.

do you have a source on this or are you just assuming?

And I can almost guarentee you it will magically all turn itself back on/reinstall itself eventually after the OS force updates/reboots itself in the not too distant future.

yes for about 2 years (2015 - 2017) as a part time partner

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/welcome-peter

Wasn't the Moskva spotted by a drone before missile deployment?

Drones were speculated to have been involved but it was said they were used to distract the ship's defense system as the missiles were in the air, not in the initial spotting/targeting. Although I suppose they could've pretty easily done both.

+1 for itsycal.

- solid integration with macOS Calendar app (shows all your events and has a "+" option to create new ones)

- can also display a time clock along with the date and also has fully customizable datetime patterns meaning you fully replace the system date/time. I especially love doing this and now being able to just click on the date time in the menubar and see a calendar popup (instead of datetime settings which I never need quick access to) similar to the Windows clock

I can't find the source but in some of the communication Selig released between him and Reddit a few days ago, Reddit themselves confirmed that their pricing is based on lost oppurtunity cost per user, not just expenses

I think GP's point is that the amount of the settlement is not enough given the total number of users involved, rather than the class action itself is insignificant.

In my opinion, in these type of cases, the amount should be directly correlated to how much revenue the company generated from the sale of the data. If the sale of my data is deemed illegal/unethical/etc, then I should reap all financial benefits plus damages.

What's stopping FB from just continuing this practice and just upping their costs to their customers to include this added "cost" of doing business?

I feel like even that would fall under the umbrella of a desktop app in the context of this asine bill. they didn't say desktop apps with a GUI, just any "app" running on a desktop which I'm sure they would argue includes bash or whatever else you're running as your CLI.

Right but the point is you at least need to notfiy them first and give them the chance to do something. If you're unsatified with what they've done, or lack thereof, then sure.

not GP but I do agree to a point that the records of Messi/CR7 at the club level are more impressive than Pele's.

Pele played all his club games in Brazil (18 seasons with Santos) and the US (2 seasons with the Cosmos) where the level of competition was far lower than the likes of the Spanish/English/French leagues (plus the Champions League) that Messi/CR7 play in.

I don't think it's as simple as that though since Messi/CR7 also play with much more talented teammates than Pele did so that factors into things as well.

Pelé's goal ratio is almost one per match, for 20 freaking years.

Just looking at goal ratio, Messi is pretty comprable here. According to Wikipedia Pele's goal ratio is .93/match over 20 seasons while Messi's is .87/match over 17.5 seasons.

Got "1234" as a passcode on a long-forgotten family iPad or test iPhone? Better go change it to something secure...

according to the article, I don't think this will be possible because you won't even be able to turn on Advanced Data Protection in this scenario.

"You must also update all your Apple devices to a software version that supports this feature."

Just to get the feature enabled you're going to have to go and "touch" all of the devices you're signed into and either update their OS (and also update their passcode if you're smart) or sign out of them.

the fundamental ideas of open source

A bit ironic that Copilot itself is not open source.

Organic Chemistry 1, 2 and 3 at NYU have always been considered challenging and “weed out”.

It seems this "weed out" culture around orgo is very much an established thing in the world of the sciences/pre-med which is a little strange to someone like me that is not in that world. How come one particular subject is used so universally to weed people out as opposed to just weeding out the bottom x% of people with lowest overall GPA's? Is orgo so much more important to scientists and medical professional compared to other subjects such as biology, anatomy, etc?

isn't Brave chromium-based? Have they stated yet if/when they will take MV3 into/remove MV2 from their codebase?

You are not misrembering. They announced it at the beginning of this month [0][1] and have officially shut down all of their hosted instances as of about a week ago [2]

[0] https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32683722

[2] https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/...

Holy hell, this blog is virtually unreadable. Article content aside, the fact that after pretty much every single paragraph there's 1-2 giant links to some other article and/or an ad is just infurianting and makes it impossible to focus. I stopped reading after the first few and will be adding this site to my blocklist.

agreed, I didn't mean to imply that they did. merely that this is something that is inherent to Steam's platform meaning they as much a part of the problem as the publisher here