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[–] dan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not subscription business models that will be affected by this, it's ad-supported ones.

The problem is you're running Chrome now*. Google are in the process of severely restricting the mechanism by which adblockers work in Chrome and its derived browsers - so it's happening now. The only viable alternative left is Firefox, if Google manage to get this proposal past then there's nothing stopping ad-supported sites from forcing you to use Chrome or another browser they know they can serve you ads with. Those types of sites are already comfortable with aggressive anti-adblock tech so no doubt they'll be comfortable with this too.

Switch to Firefox!

* statistically speaking!

[–] dan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can trademark dictionary words.

You can't trademark anything too generic, like you might struggle to trademark a drink called "drink" or something (although you might be able to trademark, eg, shoes called "drink"!), but there's nothing stopping you trademarking words.

Oh, and, Adobe is an english word, too.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

It depends on the movie and how they market it. Usually once it hits streaming services good rips will be available very quickly.

Personally I don’t bother with CAMs or TSs, I’d rather wait until there’s a good rip.

Use Radarr, set the quality you want, watch stuff when it shows up.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Downvoted because that website is absolute ad-ridden dog shit.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I want to buy one. Since Musk outed himself as a complete nutcase, and Tesla’s quality control either got worse or more people realised it was always bad, I can’t find one I like that doesn’t cost the earth.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I’ve noticed the same thing. I’ve been deliberately trying to do a bit of Firefox advocacy for a while (cos I honestly believe increasing its userbase is our only chance to avoid google ruining the internet). But yes every time there’s a bunch of people confidently complaining about how bad/slow Firefox is and advocating for brave or chrome.

Initially I thought it was just a bit of historical baggage but it happens very consistently and aggressively so I’ve had the same thought.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Insurance is supposed to be a service where everyone pays a predictable amount so that they have some protection in the event of something catastrophic happening. It’s reasonable for them to assess risks, and it’s reasonable for them to charge higher premiums for riskier situations, it’s reasonable for them to ask for remediation and eventually cancel policies if someone doesn’t abide by previously agreed terms.

But there’s a line between that and “it’s fire season, send up a drone so we can cancel the riskiest x% and boost our profits”, particularly if that’s happening mid policy, and particularly if it’s in a situation where those people will find it hard to get new insurance.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

That’s an amusing name but they take a photoshop competitor to market using that name they’re going to lose a trademark dispute in milliseconds.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Problem is the effort to find a vulnerability and exploit it is often higher than the effort required to patch it. Because by its nature a browser and the server it talks to are internet connected, Google will be able to revoke keys for older exploited versions at will. As long as it’s well-engineered I think there’s a good chance they’ll be able to keep that secure.

Though I’m sure there will be some successful approaches to ad blocking etc but if something like this gains traction it could completely change the internet. If enough people are running browsers like this then sites could effectively be able to kill off competing browsers that aren’t restricted.

I think the key is to not let it happen in the first place, and boycott browsers that implement stuff like this.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The point of the proposal is to allow servers to be sure the software (ie browser) running on the device is what it says it is, and take away the ability to spoof what browser you’re running (which is currently fairly trivial).

So if someone makes a browser that doesn’t allow adblockers and always shows ads, the server can do things like only serve content to that browser.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Pi with Kodi on it is pretty good.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I miss things like Scrubs, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Community - they all struck a balance between being comfortable/wholesome and cool/intelligent.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine was close but ultimately got bored of itself and started to do weird novelty stuff before petering out. Big bang theory etc are way too sitcommy.

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