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SpaceScotsman

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  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • They haven't blocked the windows feature, they're using DRM to interfere with it. Microsoft could easily change how the DRM works any time they want, rendering all these hacks useless.

  • Japan using generative AI less than other countries

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  • I take issue with this article using the language "lagging behind in the use of generative AI". That language seems to imply there is something wrong in this behaviour.

  • 🚨 New York City is holding a public hearing on Mayor Adams's controversial proposal to cap e-bike speed-limits at 15 mph. People can file a written comment until 5 p.m. 📢

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  • Good idea - if you also cap car speeds at 15mph

  • What type of piracy do you think will become harder to do over time?

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  • Netflix's short stint with FMV / chooe-your-own adventure games highlights a perfect case of difficult preservation - all the runtimes are closed source apps, all the data is streamed from a server, and all the logic is held on the server.

    In theory (big caveat) with enough time, effort, and determination you could reverse engineer your way around even the worst Denuvo has to throw. For simple streamed content like images and sound you can always analog-hole your way around preserving content.

    But for anything where the key thing you want to preserve, like logic, that depends entirely on a server somewhere existing, that's a problem.

  • (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

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  • Honestly, "country of origin" will have straight lines drawn on a map that are so far removed from where the people who lived there originally considered their borders even that's probably not pinning it down well enough.

  • Don't close my tabs!

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  • This is why you keep a several hundred megabytes history file set to remember "forever"

  • Capitalism is killing us

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  • fiercely confident of their own independence

    In fairness, if you let the average cat out into nature it would be fine. Dump the average libertarian into nature and they wont last the night.

  • Volume [Mr Lovenstein]

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  • This is a fair point. If people demanded their money back when a film has bad audio, I wonder if that might incentivise the industry to care more about this.

  • Volume [Mr Lovenstein]

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  • This is a real pet annoyance of mine, and I have seeing apologist posts on the internet about it.

    If the actors cant enunciate properly except when they're shouting, that's not adding realism, they're doing bad acting.

    If the sound engineers can't get a good audio balance for anything except the loudest moment in a film, that's not a limitation of technology/sound physics, they're bad at mixing.

    If the director can't keep all of this in check and make a film that people can actually enjoy, that's not artistic choice, they've made a bad film.

  • (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46]

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  • I'm surprised VLC fares that badly with CCs encoded this way. Usually it's pretty good. I'm also now wondering if ffmpeg also shares the same problem

  • GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releases

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  • Yes, this helps, thanks.

    I already understood the need to avoid private money agents like Paypal, visa, etc. In the UK we have the BACS and FPS systems that allow for direct free money transfer. Though they should be more usable for day to day transactions, they work well enough if you need to send a significant amount of money between bank accounts.

    Your explanation of the anonymity seems like the real value add of these digital currencies. The fact this only applies to the buyer and not the seller is a good choice, and definitely wins over blockchain crypto. Looking at it more closely, the fact they use signed tokens rather than proof-of-x is also a very good choice.

    I will need to read up on Taler's docs more closely. But looking at the summary of features on their site something hits me as an immediate problem - you need to "load up" a wallet. If Jane Doe wants to buy a coffee, it's far easier to just use a bank card (which may interface through a private money agent like visa, or a middleman like google/apple). Loading up private wallets isn't a difficult concept (it's how gift cards work), but it does add extra steps of friction that I think will need to be removed before this can really be taken up by the general public.

    It may harm the anonymity aspect, but I think that to get people using it a system that could operate like a tap-once-and-done bank card payment, loading up a wallet for immediate spend seems like the best solution. It would also help alleviate any fears that typically are associated with blockchain based digital currency - primarily of losing the signed digital money as it sits in a wallet out with the bank account's protections. And once the system is normalised and people are used to it, then all the architecture is there for anyone that really needs the anonymity.

  • GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releases

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  • There's something I'm really struggling to understand when talking about things like Taler, and the "Digital euro" idea which has come up recently as well: What is it actually doing that's new?

    Money is distributed digitally already. When you get a paycheck, no-one is actually moving physical paper and metal cash from a business account bank vault to a customer account bank vault, it's just numbers in a spreadsheet. So what's actually new when we're talking about digital currency like this post?

    There must be something I'm missing here.

  • Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI

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  • For a brief brief moment I was elated when I parsed the title as 'Palantir says it has given up on AI'. Then I read the article and was left dejected.

  • "It's free real estate"

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  • Adjusted to the initial sale value of the car - Less easy to cheat by not declaring income, and bigger cars (likely more expensive) that take up more space, pay more.

  • Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"

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  • Absolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It's an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.

  • Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones

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  • Users need to know what this dot means, and some like children or the elderly will likely not understand the ramifications

  • Paris Mayor: I want a city with less cars. Perhaps it's controversial, but I think I'm on the right side of history. I had lobbyists from car companies threaten me in my own office.

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  • A true "Thanks Obama" for modern times

  • Velvet Spider

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  • purpose

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  • OK, but all the ticks can go die in a fire