ryper
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- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 1 day ago:
As opposed to the discs movies are sold on.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 1 day ago:
Apparently “recordable media” here means the kind you can record on at home, e.g. CD-R, DVD-R.
- Comment on Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding 1 week ago:
With any tech that allows the same quality in less space, there will always be someone pushing to cut quality to save even more space.
- Comment on The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge 2 months ago:
Maybe the news about the Windows client changing DNS settings was too much bad publicity?
A VPN would naturally route all your traffic through a secure tunnel, but you’ve still got to do DNS lookups somewhere. A lot of VPN services also come with a DNS service, and Google is no different. The problem is that Google’s VPN app changes the Windows DNS settings of all network adapters to always use Google’s DNS, whether the VPN is on or off. Even if you change them, Google’s program will change them back.
- Comment on Discord Quests have started (ads) 2 months ago:
There’s an opt-out in Settings under Privacy & Safety.
- Comment on Beginner needs help with setting NextCloud without a domain 3 months ago:
This doesn’t help with your current issue, but you should use Nextcloud All-In-One instead of setting up individual containers like in the tutorials you linked. It will create and manage all the containers that are needed.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
Careful. There are quite a few terms of service that you’ve agreed to over the years that if certain aspects of them were enforced, you wouldn’t think they were very reasonable.
Epic has an entire legal department to read over agreements like that, and yet they deliberately breached the terms. That’s hugely different from someone unknowingly breaching a TOS that they didn’t read.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
Epic changed the mobile versions of Fortnite to add an option to pay for V-Bucks through their own system, which is against the terms of both Apple’s app store and Google’s. That got them kicked off of both app stores and then they sued Apple and Google.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
This isn’t some random developer, it’s a developer that has already breached a contract with Apple. It’s reasonable for Apple to be wary of entering into another contract with them when the CEO is publicly complaining about the terms.
There’s definitely a case to be made that Epic shouldn’t need an Apple developer account to make their own app store, but Apple is well within its rights to deny them an account based on their history.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
Apple said one of the reasons they terminated our developer account only a few weeks after approving it was because we publicly criticized their proposed DMA compliance plan. Apple cited this X post from this thread written by Tim Sweeney. Apple is retaliating against Epic for speaking out against Apple’s unfair and illegal practices, just as they’ve done to other developers time and time again.
Epic breached the terms of its agreements with Apple and Google to kick off its lawsuits against them in 2020, and now that Sweeney is openly complaining about Apple’s terms for third-party app stores Apple doesn’t trust Epic not to breach those too. Seems reasonable.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring 4 months ago:
I don’t suppose the people responsible for the over hiring have seen any consequences?
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra 4 months ago:
The headline isn’t clear, it’s actually one fee; the ad tier doesn’t have Dolby and the ad-free tier does.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 5 months ago:
I’ve got some bad news for you…
- Comment on Microsoft KB5034441 Windows 10 security patch for BitLocker bypass is leading to errors and has a complicated fix 5 months ago:
The manual fix requires the recovery partition to be after the OS partition, while my partitions go Recovery, EFI/System, then OS. I guess I’m just SOL? I don’t even have BitLocker enabled but an update that won’t install is going to be annoying.
- Comment on Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now. 5 months ago:
I think that stopped working as of Picard season 3.
- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 5 months ago:
He’s gotten into wrestling for WWE, and he’s actually pretty good at it. He’s probably getting paid pretty well there.
- Comment on Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from you 7 months ago:
In Safari I just had to switch to Reader mode
- Comment on A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly 7 months ago:
The Epic Games Store isn’t profitable so it may not be a good example for how fees should be set.
Also, Epic is trying to argue lower fees would benefit consumers but games generally aren’t cheaper on Epic’s store than on Steam.
- Comment on Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM 7 months ago:
I’m in Canada and I haven’t registered on a banking site recently, but I have definitely had stupidly low password length limits on banking sites in the past. The password from my old Bank of Montreal account that was last updated in 2015 is only 6 characters, and it’s only numbers and letters; I would have definitely had 1Password generate a better password if the rules had allowed it.
- Comment on Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM 7 months ago:
Banking site: We’ve implemented the Web Integrity API because security is important to us. Also the banking site: Your password can only be six characters.
- Comment on Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma 7 months ago:
The “Sunset” edition of Microsoft Money is still available for free, although not directly from Microsoft anymore. It’s old but it can handle regular accounts and investment accounts.
- Comment on Mint is shutting down, and it’s pushing users toward Credit Karma 7 months ago:
I got YNAB 4 in a Steam sale before it was delisted and I don’t understand what the subscription version could possibly add to make it worth the cost. Having it connect to your accounts is more convenient than downloading OFX files, but it’s not worth $99/year.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
The Amazon Music that’s included with Prime is bad enough that it sounds noticeably worse than my music from the iTunes store even on Bluetooth earbuds. Free Spotify might be the same.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 8 months ago:
Apple Music has lossless on the base tier, Spotify is supposedly going to put it on an extra-expensive “Supremium” tier.
- Comment on Rockstar, Necrosoft and other game devs slam Epic and Songtradr for "trashing" Bandcamp as layoffs announced 8 months ago:
I remember subscribing to eMusic for some number of song downloads a month and downloading stuff from artists I’d never heard of to use up my downloads at the end of the month.
- Comment on Edge 118: updated on-page search may send data to Microsoft 8 months ago:
You left out the important bit before that:
When users enable “include related matches in Find on page”, Microsoft Edge submits the following data to Microsoft cloud services using a HTTPS connection:
Seems like nothing gets sent if you do a normal exact search.
- Comment on Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica 8 months ago:
It’s at the bottom of the article:
Advance Publications, which owns Ars Technica parent Condé Nast, is the largest shareholder in Reddit.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I just want to be able to tell a video service to not recommend stuff I’ve already watched. Disney+ is like “Because you’ve watch show A, you should watch show B. Also, because you’ve watched show B, you should watch show A.”
- Comment on Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp 8 months ago:
A good reason would have been potential “synergies” with Harmonix, which they also own, but I don’t recall ever seeing anything about that. Collaboration between the company that sells music and the company that makes music games seems like a no-brainer to me.
- Comment on Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp 8 months ago:
They’re also increasing the price of V-Bucks to try to get even more money out of Fortnite players.