sunbeam60

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Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

sunbeam60,

Cancelled last month. Don’t miss it. Entertain myself by downloading and installing Linux distributions instead. They usually can be downloaded using torrent/magnet links.

sunbeam60,

Yeah, Plex downloads work fine still, on all devices.

sunbeam60,

Your own feelings matter too.

sunbeam60,

Discord is honestly the most awful way to create a helpful community.

It’s a great way to give the 20 most active members of the community someplace to trample on top of newbies trying to get questions answered.

sunbeam60, (edited )

That’s actually the simplest and clearest description of the P/NP problem I’ve ever read.

sunbeam60, (edited )

Yeah, I get the same impression from my brother; he’s active on the science side of the field (recently published in Nature Communications about AI and peptides) and his pet hate is Kurzweil and their ilk.

sunbeam60,

My brother works in molecular biology; he tells me the field’s understanding of peptides have only just begun and it’s only through machine learning that they are now starting to make progress. 99% seem to be post-translational garbage, the other 1% is likely to be the basis of a revolution of treatment options.

sunbeam60,

AN order I said.

sunbeam60,

After 20+ in software, my loyalty towards my current employer is as strong and unyielding as theirs is to me: Not at all.

sunbeam60,

I tried to get into it, but there really was quite a lot of preamble.

sunbeam60, (edited )

By a country mile the “best” book I’ve read. I think the film does an admirable job of staying within and delivering the message of the book without being “not suitable for release without cuts” in some territories. I mean the baby spit roast isn’t really something one can put to film and expect to get license to release everywhere around the world.

But funnily enough the book actually aims for, and IMHO hits, a completely different message than that of dread; for me, it makes me wholeheartedly appreciate the world, nature, and the good deeds we do for each other. It is also, and I’m aware I’m breaking no ground here, a treatise on love, fatherhood and courage. It makes me appreciate that, despite everything, we are still incredible blessed to live in today’s world.

It is quite simply sensational.

By the way, while very different in tone, Station Eleven really hit the same note for me; appreciate what you’ve got, it might just disappear.

sunbeam60,

I’ve already paid for a lifetime license of Plex. Is it worth considering a switch?

sunbeam60,

I regret to inform you I have decided to move forward with another employer.

sunbeam60,

Which country are you talking about?

Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)

Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...

sunbeam60,

For the love of Darwin, really?

Any product manager needs data about how a product is used to make the product better. Of course they need to test if moving a button to a different place leads to an easier to understand setting screen; or if moving extensions into a separate menu means fewer people find the malicious extension and turn it off.

I’ll be the first person to say that Mozilla is bigger than it needs to be and their org size isn’t justified by their results. But to think collecting data automatically makes them suspect seems to me lazy. It’s what they do with the data that counts.

sunbeam60,

If you go through my comment history you’ll find me saying, multiple times, that Mozilla has worked itself into this problem, by adding far more people than they need. The browser would be healthier, I suspect, if there was a 50-strong, open-collective backed, dev team working on just the browser. At the minute the org is enormous and they now need to find a way to pay for that enormous org.

sunbeam60,

Because that allows them to sell the default search engine spot for more; the more you know about an audience the more it’s worth, even this high up the food chain.

sunbeam60,

They are specifically not tying it to people, but to countries.

sunbeam60,

Yeah I can’t explain it either. But it’s just the way.

sunbeam60,

“Confidence coffee”.

Let me explain; when you go on stage, you’re nervous and you need some water because your mouth dries out. Bring water in a mug/travel mug.

It’s self regulating. The dryer your mouth is, the more you need to drink water. The more you appear to sip coffee while publicly speaking, the more relaxed you look.

Compare to swigging from a water bottle; your nerves are on public display.

Confidence coffee=water in an opaque coffee container.

sunbeam60,

Yes, let’s make that thing that WORKS in every other country illegal. British laws for British people!!

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