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There are a bunch of free channels on the internet that some TVs can just stream without a dedicated app. These channels are supported by ads like cable/whatever channels, but not locked behind a subscription. VLC is supporting whatever formats they use to allow (or make it easier; IDK) people to watch them if they want.

The other part is that they're working on web assembly to allow sites to use VLC as their embedded video player.

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The scary part is presenting it as a fucking privacy feature with no consequences.

George Santos sues late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for tricking him into making videos to ridicule him (apnews.com)

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos alleged in a lawsuit filed Saturday that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel deceived him into making videos on the Cameo app that were used to ridicule the disgraced New York Republican on the show....

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"Frankly, Kimmel’s fake requests were funny, but what he did was clear violation of copyright law,”

How?

Cameo sounds like work for hire to me. You pay, it's yours.

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If you're actually expecting people to transition without asking for help on a regular basis, you don't know people.

You just made yourself their IT guy for life.

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Do you know what open source means?

They're not relying on Valve's goodwill. The license explicitly permits this.

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No shit.

It's never been a secret what incognito mode does. Websites have always still been able to do whatever they want with your traffic, because the browser doesn't control that in any way.

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Suits like this should permanently get everything you own, including subsidiaries and parent companies, placed in the public domain immediately.

Patriots hiring Jerod Mayo as coach to replace Bill Belichick (theathletic.com)

One day after a mutual parting with the most decorated NFL head coach in history, the New England Patriots hired the man to succeed Bill Belichick. Jerod Mayo is set to become the 15th head coach in franchise history, according to league sources briefed on the matter who were not authorized to discuss it publicly....

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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is leading an investigation into the incident, said pilots had reported pressurisation warning lights on three previous flights made by the specific Alaska Airlines Max 9 involved in the incident.

As bad as it is if a manufacturing issue caused a piece to fall off an airplane, there's a huge amount of negligence in an airline continuing to fly an airplane that has triggered pressure warnings multiple times without investigating and resolving the issue.

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Steam doesn't enforce anything. They provide a very weak opt-in DRM that they literally tell developers they should expect will by bypassed. There are plenty of actual DRM free games on Steam.

People use Steam instead of GoG because Steam works and provides a wide array of value adding features and GoG doesn't.

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They already fucking do.

They just pretend pre-roll trailers aren't ads.

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reportedly cost the studio roughly $42.6 million dollars to make, with a net profit hitting over $49.7 million. Approximately $7 million past the breakeven point,

That's not what profit means.

Their complete butchering of the basics makes it really hard to take their analysis of cash flow seriously.

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Absolutely insane.

I can understand extreme cases, like some sort of disputed IP where their contact to sell the content turns out not to be with the actual rights holder, resulting in no longer serving the content (with an unconditional full refund). But past that they should be legally required to host the content until the heat death of the universe.

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Apple already did though. Even specifically replacing Intel chips because Intel's offering was dogshit that was destroying their ability to offer the design they wanted with their stupid power draw.

The rest of ARM is behind, and Windows has done a shit job of ARM support, but that doesn't mean that's forever.

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If people need to make an account, I'd bet your engagement drops at least 90%. That's the friction they mean.

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"Selling shares before the announcement" was a pretty egregious misrepresentation. He has scheduled pre-registered sales on a regular basis because he gets paid partly in stock.

It was always going to be relatively soon after a sale of stock.

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It has nothing to do with DMCA. It's not copyright infringement.

It's violating an NDA on an unreleased product, and even if they can't actually get damages, the day they do it they never get a review code from anyone ever again.

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Yeah the matching donations was the obvious answer. It's honestly a decent way to do charity as a company (obviously bigger ticket contributions are good, too), because it rewards them for their choices by increasing their value, and your contributions are going places that have some support behind them from your employees. Finding worthwhile causes that don't get money has value, but it's really hard and expensive to do.

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Imagine competition being a bad thing. Is anyone complaining that there are too many laptop choices?

Steam opening SteamOS to other handhelds would be huge, though. Windows is painful.

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If real people hate your game because of the changes you made from the last one (that you took away from them), that's not a review bomb.

It's just a review.

Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else (www.pcgamer.com)

I was planning on paying a rogue, paladin, or warlock (based on my tabletop characters), but this article nearly has me convinced. I am waiting for the PS5 release, so any agreement or dissension from my PC friends? Other class recommendations?...

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I'm skeptical of any article like this on its face. The whole beauty of a well done RPG, especially a CRPG, is that you get choices on how to build your character and how you handle encounters and can be successful with many of them.

If bard is the most fun for you, awesome. If it's "objectively better", the game is flawed.

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Malware labeled "anticheat software" that wants obscene access to low level OS information and is a massive security liability.

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Payment processors have a functional monopoly and should not be permitted to refuse or otherwise be punitive to any category of purchase.

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Opt out is not acceptable under any circumstances. It's not your data. It's your users'.

Sending a single bit back without an explicit, uncoerced opt in should be illegal.

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