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- Comment on Windows Media Player and Silverlight are losing legacy DRM services on Windows 7 and 8 1 week ago:
Absolutely, DRM is bullshit. Even Apple stopped using it - and not just for iTunes but also for streaming downloads.
- Comment on Windows Media Player and Silverlight are losing legacy DRM services on Windows 7 and 8 1 week ago:
Nope, not the DRM locked media
- Comment on WD loses hard drive patent lawsuit, owes $262M damages – Blocks and Files 1 month ago:
WD, in turn, claimed the firm had not infringed Suess’ patents
So did they or didn’t they infringe? The article doesn’t say. I imagine MRT disassembled some drives to examine for infringement.
It is also possible that these hundreds of employees across the globe working R&D for Western Digital may have developed the same, or nearly the same, technology. But then MRT filed first if they were awarded the patient.
Given the track record of memory and other computer parts manufactures, I would say it’s more likely that they’re simply lying through their teeth.
- Comment on Hedge Fund Billionaire Ken Griffin Buys 150 Million-Year-Old Stegosaurus for $46 million —Making It Most Expensive Fossil Ever Sold 2 months ago:
Did he use a bedpost as the bidding paddle?
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 2 months ago:
No - I use some standard stuff in areas like that, when I’m able to come right out and under the soffit or siding. If I have to make a run, closer to the ground, with a brick facade, I’ll use it. I won’t go crazy actually trying to burry it when it stays near my house hidden by shrubs.
I have buried it for customers that require connections located in dislocated structures - trenches and filling by others though. 😅
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 2 months ago:
You can save on all that conduit with direct burial Ethernet.
- Comment on Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen 2 months ago:
You name it, we got it!
- Comment on Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ 4 months ago:
Yeah, and bots are software setup and configured by humans to do things for humans. It’s still kind of humans using the internet, just not actively at the keyboard.
- Comment on Bark Air, a new luxury airline for dogs, launching flights in May 4 months ago:
I have had it with these mother-fucking canines on this mother-fucking plane!
- Comment on Bark Air, a new luxury airline for dogs, launching flights in May 4 months ago:
Fucking.
- Comment on shoebills 5 months ago:
That dude looks like he wants to fuck. my. shit. up.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 5 months ago:
You mean the same Ashit Pai who also mismanaged and blew the $9 billion rural digital opportunity fund that was supposed to help underserved areas?
That Ashit Pai?
- Comment on The Story of The Oregon Trail - Learn the story behind one of the most successful edutainment games of all time, and why the original creators never made a penny. 5 months ago:
Look at Johnny 5 over here
- Comment on Sean 'Diddy' Combs: What we know about the accusations against him 5 months ago:
He has a very different take on the word normal
- Comment on B E L I E V E 6 months ago:
Inspiring
- Comment on Please Stop 6 months ago:
Ha!
But yeah, like others have said in this post, it had a bad light cast on it due to the jpg and gif NFTs. Folks started to realize: “wait… this token just contains a link to a web server hosting a jpg file??”
Well, yes. But also the rights.
“The heck you mean ‘the rights’??”
I mean, your Drunk Monkey in Teal Color Theme artwork is yours to use, you’ve purchased the license in the form of an NFT.
“But it’s just a link that anyone could just copy!”
Well, that would be stealing.
So NFTs in that regard are like any movie or TV show, or video game you rent or purchase. That utility may or may not seem to have any value to any one person, but it is a utility, and a pretty cool one if you ask me. But the usage, its implementation, is what matters. Whatever that usage requirement is for the individual or business, blockchain will do it well. Even if it is used to license junk.
- Comment on Please Stop 6 months ago:
To your edit; it was a great example, but if you say anything positive about blockchain (or Apple, or capitalism, etc) you’ll likely be heavily downvoted on Lemmy.
- Comment on Please Stop 6 months ago:
With smart contracts on blockchain you can do exactly that. Everyone involved in the process can ensure they get their cut.
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 7 months ago:
I don’t think that’s why this guy is mad
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 7 months ago:
I mean this is all subjective of course, but something like installing apps on macOS is extremely easy. Like Windows, apps can install themselves in about three or so different ways (not including managed devices), but most macOS apps you download are simply dragged into the applications folder - that’s it. To uninstall, you drag the app to the trash bin and empty the trash.
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 7 months ago:
My man!
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 7 months ago:
So why fuck Apple? You’re using an Android device, Apple has updated their software in a way that doesn’t compel you to want to try an Apple device, end of story why all the vitriol?
I could see, maybe, if you were already an Apple user and wanted them to make a change that you want on your device. But having so much hate for a device you have no intention of using anyway?
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 7 months ago:
Lol, what phone are you using?
- Comment on Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe 7 months ago:
Bruh…lol
I just like what I like. I knew I was gonna get shit for chatting about it.
- Comment on Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe 7 months ago:
I’m not saying it can’t, but the attack surface is significantly reduced.
- Comment on Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe 7 months ago:
Yeah, same for me. I have an android also. But I don’t put corporate data on that, it’s to test various scenarios or using a very specific app for field tasks.
- Comment on Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe 7 months ago:
Right but in my line of business I don’t want it to even be possible. I already made my choice purchasing an iPhone knowing full well I’m locked into the AppStore and my MDM catalog. If I can sideload so can a nefarious actor.
- Comment on Apple refuses to relax its iron grip on iPhones in Europe 7 months ago:
It’s funny, I buy Apple products specifically so that that I can’t side load apps. At work we MDM and Apple’s approach isn’t for everyone, but forcing something like side loading simply isn’t the right choice for all types of users.
I’m all for encouraging them to be on the right side of Right-to-Repair, labor laws, and environmental best practices. But I left the world of side-loading and customization for the iPhone’s tight lockdowns. At first I still couldn’t help myself but to jail-break my first iPhone or two, then I stoped that also.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Merry Christmas!
- Comment on Happy Holidays ♥ 9 months ago:
How dare you…
Fine - “DeVito on a Burrito”