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It's interesting that Netflix uses the term "piracy" in what is more or less a legal document, rather than something more accurate (but likely more wordy), like "illegal distribution of copyrighted materials".

Anyway, I think the article hits it on the nose why this is becoming a problem again:

> Netflix amassed hundreds of millions of subscribers, some of whom left their piracy habits behind. However, as the ‘streaming wars’ turned legal and convenient streaming platforms into isolated and pricey content silos, momentum started to shift.

I've been frustrated with this, too. When I first subscribed to Netflix, I was happy and satisfied, and rarely (if ever) need to turn to less-savory sources. Their app and website were both polished, snappy, and worked well. I picked up Hulu and HBO subscriptions too (apps not as good, but decent enough), and I considered those three to be a reasonable amount to pay to watch what I wanted to watch. And I was also pleased that, when watching TV shows, I'd be counted as a viewer for the purposes of allowing the studios to decide if a show I like is popular enough to get renewed.

But now... to watch all the shows I want to watch, I have to subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, Max, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Paramount+, and Apple TV+. That's a lot! Not to mention all these services are considerably more expensive than they were during the period of streaming when I was happy with the services. At this point I might as well just get a cable subscription again, which would probably be cheaper (ok, not remotely serious about that, but...). On top of all that, the streaming quality seems to be worse than it used to be; I expect the illegal sources are of better quality.

As much as I'm generally against corporate consolidation, I think this is a case where that might actually be better for consumers (and for the content owners too). Or perhaps a regime of compulsory licensing under RAND terms would allow all the various streaming services to compete on price, quality of experience, recommendations, etc. Ultimately that sort of thing might result in consolidation too, but at least that would be more fair, maybe.

Beyond all that, seems like most of the streaming services have turned their base tier into an ad-supported tier, and have aggressively bumped up the cost of the ad-free tiers. I refuse to subject myself to gross psychological manipulation whenever it's possible to avoid it, so add that to the cost. And for people who are more cost-conscious, their experience gets much worse.
> Development usually involves far more failed compiles than successful ones

This is less true when using LSP.
> This kind of no-notice cancellation of a contract is unheard of in the conference business.

That's a big claim to make. Can someone with relevant experience confirm whether this is true?
Except when people are made aware of the commercial market and able to score something off it, suddenly it turns out they like the reliability, the ergonomics, the lack of bullshit.

Consumers ain't choosing shit. People are talking here as if most people were drowning in money, and shopping around for low price as a pastime. On the contrary, people are starved for funds, they buy cheap out of necessity, enduring whatever abusive or lazy bullshit the manufaturer pulled off to offer their wares slightly cheaper.
This is surprising as I thought the whole premise of SaaS was you just bring your credit card and bam youve got access.
Hardly 'pure gaslighting'. Both can be true. The user is a part of the equation.
VERY cool product. I have a quibble. I searched for "cool pokemon to use" and the top result was "How to use Paypal on Amazon" from "online-tech-tips.com". Understandable that the search results are not perfect - the second result was a perfect match for what I searched for - but anyway, clicking the "dials" icon gets me the following options:

"""Do you like results from online-tech-tips.com? (thumbs down, thumbs up, or banned emoji options)
<a href='make-an-llm-do-something-stupid.com">Summarize result</a>
"""

IMO this feedback widget and (maybe) its backing API could use work. It's not that I like or don't like results from online-tech-tips.com; it's that they're a bad result for the specific context of this search.
I doubt they would cancel a contract already in place for that reason.

Not renew the contract - sure. But canceling an already scheduled event because of low revenue per guest doesn't seem very likely to me?

Or maybe it was some sort of ongoing agreement and canceling it was effectively "not renewing".
> as a reality check, innovation is driven by optimism.

Are you claiming that based on anything more than wishful thinking? I have a vague memory of seeing a study that found almost the opposite: that the key to innovation is having the relentless skepticism to cull bad ideas quickly.

> this whole site here is thriving because of optimism. smart, intelligent optimism.

This site was notoriously negative (e.g. the famous Dropbox post) in its most successful days, and my subjective impression is that it has declined at the same time as it's grown more optimistic.
Not a fan of what DEF CON has become in the last years, so I selfishly hope it somehow "goes away" and reborn in a more technical and actual hacker note.

Too many "security researchers", "staff engineers" and people playing politics.

But I suspect they will have no problem finding another venue, sponsor money has been flowing quite well, so I wish them well.
I’m not sure what you mean by “entire stack” when it comes to mobile development, especially with iOS. If you want to target >85% of all devices, you aim for iOS current version - 1, then Swift and xCode your way into AppStore.

I am obviously over-simplifying it, but my point is it really depends on the market you’re aiming for. Like if you think you’ll make an app for users in North America, not supporting Android makes more sense. On the opposite side, if you want India, LATAM, you can drop iOS and never learn anything about Swift since your ROI will be very little. Again, heavily depends on what your goal is.
Not to suggest more gadgets are the answer, but my apple watch covers almost all of these now.

GPS, check.

Payment, check.

Lighting, check.

Car/house key, no.

Health tracker, check.
Best to replace attention addition with scaling and see.
This is correct for messenger.com itself, but you can access Messenger through Facebook.com - it's just another tab on the website. If you don't want to visit Facebook.com, though, then yes you're out of luck.
Asking the IRS to do your taxes is like asking the fox how to guard your henhouse.

You might want a second opinion.
> Because a lot of it isn't in control of consumers but from business emissions.

Businesses ultimately only exist to provide to consumers. Even those that sell directly to businesses of governments wouldn’t exist without consumers.

Consumers are either going to have to jump now or fall later.
I find it hilarious that defcon.org can't handle the traffic from being on HN.
No its a DRM issue, its why I run a hidden 25 foot HDMI from my computer to my TV as some broadcasts require the security inside the HDMI cable itself. (I could be wrong on this one but Widevine DRM handles this process I think)
> app and infrastructure are not rocket science

Thanks to Tuya, the software and infra side for making a garbage-quality IoT device is effectively free now. You may be surprised just how much of those you have around you. Any random device class that suddenly gained optional "control through app/voice assistants" feature is likely Tuya in disguise - magic of white-label IoT.
Right, of course we should validate explanations based on empirical data. We rejected the idea that there was a particular neuron that activated only when you saw your grandmother (the "grandmother neuron") after experimentation. But just because explanations have been bad, doesn't mean that all future explanations must also be bad. Shouldn't we evaluate explanations on a case-by-case basis instead of dismissing them as impossible? Aren't we better off having evaluated the intuitive explanation for mixtures of experts instead of dismissing them a priori? There's a whole field - mechanistic interpretability - where researchers are working on this kind of thing. Do you think that they simply haven't realized that the models they're working on interpreting are operating in a high-dimensional space?
I don’t think it’s that bold of a claim. Organizers ask attendees to spend a lot of money to attend, buy lodging and everything else, not to mention pay a lot to organize and it takes a lot of time and effort to line up all the required facilities. I’ve been part of organizing at least a few big events and if we had a late stage hard cancellation, there probably would’ve been lawsuits.
I like watching movies/series from 2000-2010s. Trying to access that content through streaming is like a whack-a-mole game. Some content is available to some streaming services, in some countries, for a small amount of time. Give me a break.

Piracy all the way.
> The million dollar question is: how do you deliver those capabilities (a) without having grandmas phone full of spyware and (b) without giving your favorite Silicon Valley thought leader a 40% cut and total control of the ecosystem?

That seems orthogonal? Grandma's phone has the same spyware either way, but this makes it a toss up whether it can spy on anything real
I considered the Hisense but talked myself out of it because of Android and lack of updates.

Part of me thinks I should just go for it, because I read a lot on my smartphone and miss Android’s Moon+ Reader - with Goldendict for Startdict/Lingvo dictionaries, it made a killer combo for reading foreign language texts with many new words.

Videos being unusable would be a fantastic QoL feature.
You are correct. Poetry and PDM solve this problem.
Optimistic vs. skeptic is a false dichotomy
If Apple decides to begin manufacturing cars, would their prior experience with manufacturing help or is the domain sufficiently different for there not to be any significant knowledge carryover?

Are there any major or significant AI researchers working at Apple? It seems like I only ever hear about the big industry names moving between other big tech companies, but I'm not aware of anyone impactful in the AI space working at Apple. Maybe one of the key factors is that a lot of AI researchers like to publish their findings and Apple seems to be notoriously secretive? So even if Apple has a lot of top-tier researchers, maybe they're not publishing as much.
This sounds very much like the story that StrongTowns has been documenting for years now.
The user is more likely to turn to a drug or their phone if they find their life unsatisfying but that doesn't alter the fact that the drug/phone can be far more stimulating than any experience they'd encounter 'organically'

That's the issue; the real world can only offer up so much so fast. Drugs and the scroll can offer it faster. Expecting people to turn away from that even when it's visibly harming them isn't reasonable; we know for a fact it doesn't happen, people overdose on fentanyl and then immediately go back to buy more.
It's seven months away. It's not like it's seven weeks.
It does sound a lot like the Height-Ashbery of San Francisco in the late 1960's.

I sometimes daydream about finding such a place in the West. If I found one, I'm move there!
It's also possible I might not have bought the work. There's no sale until money changes hands.

If you run a store, and a customer shows interest in a product and physically touches it is he/she stealing if she chooses not to buy it? Let's say it's perfume, and the customer samples some of the perfume, then decides not to buy it. The customer has experienced it; if the customer doesn't buy the perfume, is that stealing?
There are dozens of other conferences that do anything else you want a security conference to do. The point of Defcon at this point is to be the giant annual social event.
The simplest explanation is often the correct one. Casinos aren't exactly known for having moral qualms. They are, however, known for caring about their bottom line. They probably analyze every single event they host and then shuffle things around to maximize their expected revenue based on their past experiences with the same type of event.
Or they figured they're somehow net negative when they do gamble :D
Not everything is about money or the bottom line. Sometimes it's about politics. Vegas takes a loss on so many things. Nevada has grown more and more corporate over the years. This move doesn't surprise me at all.
No, as it was a configuration issue down to the VPS provider, who are now huge but at the time were just starting out, and a known issue - we coached them through fixing it.

I do have bug reports and patches floating around for all sorts of other arcane stuff, from drivers to the Linux kernel to memcached to nginx - most of which are from 10-15 years ago now, as I ended up bogged down running the business.

These days The Understanding is instead deployed for living off grid and making infrastructure work.
I believe many (most?) of these structures tend to have single points of failure, and you don't want your whole building collapsing because a single line broke.
Addiction to smartphones, porn, shopping, eating, coffee, gambling etc. all work on the same neurological pathways. While it’s not the same as a drug addiction, “just don’t do it” isn’t that straightforward. People have to go to therapy and rehab to get rid of some of these, but somehow when it comes to smartphones, the opinion is that “it’s not that hard”.
https://mbasic.facebook.com - at least for now a cut down version that still allows messenger designed for those with low bandwidth.

I would be curious to hear your experience - it's been functional for me for quite some time, but just recently it's had a banner declaring that it was going away....
> And also actually food in US does somehow seem to last for longer, as probably the manufacturers anticipate this need and optimize for that (as there's no free lunch, likely at the expense of other factors);

Probably taste, at least anecdotally - every single person from my side of the world that visited the US that I talked to, mentions the food there tastes just bland in general - and that's both veggies and highly-processed foods.
What kind of extra complexity other than just manufacturing more treatments? A lot of any extra complexity should be handled by the additional patient's medical providers anyway.

Depending on the rarity of the illness, this may be something that the government can easily force pharma companies to accept. They accept far more in regulatory burden and still do business.
What a labyrinthian Wikipedia article. Surely they could have written it more clearly, and in plain English.
I wonder if torrent sites are a better 1 stop shop place where you can find everything?

I also personally believe as tech makes it easier for indy type groups & average individuals to make longer form content, Netflix may just become irrelevant to companies like YouTube who have better distribution channels.
Current stats are that 50% of Americans aged 30-49 have a social media addiction.

Under 29 who knows but obviously higher.

You can't expect a coke head to not snort the whole bag. We just don't believe social media addiction is like a coke addiction. This isn't going to just get better either. What are the kids that grew up watching tiktok as a first memory all of the sudden going to become ludite hippies in 15 years?

I even had the thought that maybe generation alpha would be reactionary against all this. Looking that up, holy shit is that wrong.
Look at the payoffs. The company's payoffs are those primarily of its C suite: bonuses paid based on short term results.

The unsanctioned archivists have the payoff of the enjoyment they get from preserving and sharing media they love, which has no built in time limit like the former.
It's a great question actually! Why would people who have tons of possessions and live in comfort not just spend all their time enjoying being happy, harmonious and fulfilled?
Why is it that having possessions doesn't seem to fulfill all our social, emotional and cultural needs?
For a conference at this scale, there's not a huge difference between seven weeks and seven months.
I didn't see that option on mobile, but I got it added. Click the search provider icon in the search bar, go to search settings, then manage search providers, then add new. Add it with this url: https://stract.com/search?q=%s
Apple Maps can display directions on the lock screen. It seems to also work with turn-by-turn navigation. Does this count toward the global screen time?
> Same goes for Atlas Shrugged, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

I've got all three of these on my bookshelf behind me. Seems like we have similar taste! Any other recommendations? One I'd add to the list would be Unsong(can find it free online).
Yeah, but these days almost all white collar workers are on a desktop at least eight hours a day, and when you go home at night wouldn’t you prefer the form factor of a larger screen rather than a handheld one?
I think that second reference has a couple errors, and this has nothing to do with IP packets (datagrams).

As js2 notes, the entire DNS message has to be prefixed with a 2 byte field (and they seem to have omitted that in their diagram at the top of the page, the DNS header is 14 bytes, not 12 for TCP). That is the limiting factor. The DNS server doesn't really care what the underlying limits of the TCP stack are or whether the response fits in a single IP datagram (that likely needs to be split up).

As they seem to figure out the actual limit is RD payload + DNS overhead <= 64k bytes. What they are forgetting is that the TCP segment overhead means that this maximum wouldn't fit in a single IP datagram anyhow. Since the minimum TCP header size is 20 bytes any DNS message >65514 bytes will have to be split.

In practice none of this matters though as the OS had better make the TCP maximum segment size less than the MTU to avoid fragmentation, often something 1460 or less.
Any DNS query substantially over that is going to be going in multiple IP datagrams.
I guess "doesn't suck" is the highest praise that it can be given. Perhaps that's all the higher the author aspires towards in their life. Reading that they spent their career in public education and noting that the national average math scores don't even reach the proficient level, I guess "doesn't suck" is all they shoot for.
Both of these have a common element:

A: "Not giving someone money for an item/produced good"

B: "Not giving someone money"

B can apply to a near infinite number of cases. A is one case that is "within" B. So... the root meaning is the same. If you call A stealing, you have to call B stealing, but that's ridiculous because, for example, each day, I literally don't give money to the entire world. According to your logic I would owe the whole world population the value of every item/produced good.
Exactly this. I recently wanted to gift my sick mother something to let her watch the shows she likes while she gets better. I check all the major streaming sites, genuinely wanting to buy a subscription because it would be way easier. I considered buying her subscriptions to all the major companies but decided the hassle of managing the logins would be too difficult for her. So in the end I reluctantly ended up torrenting everything onto a single usb stick for her. There is currently genuinely no other way to watch all the things you want in one place other than this. Netflix has accelerated the problem by making their catalogue nothing but shitty self made shows, every year it just gets worse.
That’s fair, and I’m sure compulsive use in public isn’t great, but it feels like such addiction is comparatively less time spent than an office worker who’s on a desktop for the majority of the day.
Don't those have their own problems, though? Like their domain gets blocked, so you have to find it again. They video quality is just kinda ok, and if you want a copy to stream to your TV, it's either not possible, or won't look very good. Years ago my partner used to use some of these sites to watch some foreign-language shows that are just not possible to get in the US at all, and it just always seemed so sketchy and unreliable.

How do these sites fund themselves, anyway? Ads, I guess? Tho not sure what ad networks will show ads on sites that are 100% copyright infringement.
I was living in the only english-speaking country in South America. Netflix wouldn't give me French subtitles or secondary audio because apparently south america=spanish for their divisions. I don't see how subtitles would fall under the broader licensing agreements. The subs/langs were available for the same titles in Canada.

(More absurd because France is a part of South America via French Guiana).
The site: operator seems to work in most search engines these days.
Google Maps is filled with fake listings and false reviews.
Genuine businesses get negatively reviewed by rivals.

Google is abysmal when it comes to ensuring listing quality on Maps.

Other day read a post on reddit by someone who spoke with a local business - with many positive reviews - paid advance money to book a service and then realized he/she had been scammed. The scammer probably didn't even reside in the city.
Discretely, then my wife tried, then my mom's wife tried and then my wife's cousin who is an immigration cop tried.

I've lived here for 12 years, I know how it works.
Making a wearable HUD seems more practical to me. All anyone seems to be using their Apple Vision Pro for so far is running normal apps.

User input is arguably better with a pocket multimedia keyboard. You can certainly text faster and probably even code in vim.

The AR tracking is wasted on floating windows and video calls from your normal cell phone in your other pocket won't make your face look like a video game character from 15+ years ago.
From talking to people working on this project, there's always been some sort of interesting paradox in terms of dealing with the potential of bad PR due to accidents and fatalities linked to self driving versus one of Apple’s most valuable asset: its brand.
Perhaps they will be some calculated outcome in whatever product comes out of that org, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they end up pivoting to high quality cars with assisted driving (at best).
> But C used 9-bits for char

I expect you meant 8 bits for char!
> Why would the conversation not be about editing the Firefox source code to add or remove "features" to meet one's personal needs.

Because extensions are way easier to write, less likely to break because they use mostly stable public interfaces, and don't require an amazingly long compile.
This comment is a great example of what I am talking about about. "Virtue". You directly implied that you believe I must be morally inferior since I am poor.

Maybe one of the reasons I am poor is my because of my integrity.
I mean, they've been running this event, which has topped 20k attendees, for something like 30 years. So one entity with the relevant experience is... them?
Chapter 11 FTX’s restructuring plan was certain to fail, according to Stark.
Last quarter, FTX spent around $53,000/hour on legal and consulting expenses.
John Reed Stark, a former member of the U.S SEC, has hinted that the legal team may be trying to benefit from the bankruptcy proceedings via the FTX restructuring plan.

Given the large gains made by the legal team during bankruptcy proceedings, Stark said in a post on twitter that all FTX clients should get a sardonic “Thank You” message from the legal team. In addition, Stark made the sardonic comment that in 2024, every member of the legal team would be able to purchase a new beach home.