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peroo··on JetKVM Mini
Why do you need to use a KVM rather than Sunshine+Moonlight? That's pretty much the gold standard for remote gaming.
peroo··on Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts: Make managing your homelab a breeze
> This website is not affiliated with the Proxmox VE Helper Scripts repository. This website is simply a redesign of the original website, with a focus on readability and security.

I'm assuming there's no malicious intent here, but tteck explicitly warns against these kinds of copycat sites.

peroo··on Wrong Map of Europe
> “Vikingfjord” and “Smalahove” aren’t cities

However, "Smalahove" is placed more or less exactly on the Norwegian town of Voss, which - among other things - is known (in Norway at least) for the dish "Smalahove", seared and boiled sheeps head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vossevangen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalahove

peroo··on Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals
If you're a cynic, announcing that you've "discovered" a large of amount of REE in your iron ore tailings - and having the chief executive of the EU declare it strategically important - seems like a very good way of making sure you can continue mining iron ore for the forseeable future.
peroo··on Warner Music Group Sells Entire Stake in Spotify
No, this is just business. Sony and Merlin have already sold all or parts of their shares, and are in the process of sharing the windfall with their labels. It's a pretty significant chunk of cash, so if Warner didn't do the same they would look incredibly bad.

Broader picture the majors want Spotify to succeed, because the alternative is having the business run by Apple and Google, who only have an ancillary interest in music.

peroo··on Movie rental page on YouTube
Blame the film distributors. Google can only sell what they receive from whoever owns the right in that region.
peroo··on Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online
As bad as the star system is, I'm not sure there's anything better. I think Amazon has the right idea with the "Was this review helpful to you?" buttons, though that may not work quite as well for Yelp if you consider the possibility of review-burying by owners.
peroo··on An analysis of Lionel Messi
I watched rally for a few years, but lost interest after Loeb won his third straight WC. There was absolutely no suspense, everyone knew Loeb would win most of the rallies barring the winter courses.

As for Women's football, there's a reason it's not really appreciated and that is the fact that the skill level is significantly lower. Far fewer women play, which results in less competition and less highly talented individuals. Another problem is that the goals are sized for men, while the women keepers statistically speaking are smaller and can cover a smaller area, which means it's far easier to score with cheap shots. It all makes for rather dull spectating, sadly.

peroo··on YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service
The ability to monetize music on Youtube is unlikely to be a big hit since few labels make much compared to real streaming services. The big hit is going to be for promotion. The only reason indie labels have put up with the abysmal payouts from Youtube have been the fact that it's a great way to promote their music. Youtube is great for discovery and poor for streaming, which makes for great conversion.

However, what Google are trying to do is essentially turn Youtube into a fully fledged music streaming service, but they're framing it as the same old video sharing service to justify continued abyssmal payouts. They can do this because they know that artists will put pressure on their labels to get back on Youtube if they're ever blocked. It's a classic monopolist move, and the only solace is that Google will likely fuck up yet again like they do every time they try to enter different markets.

peroo··on YouTube to block indie labels who don't sign up to new music service
A lot of people are already using YouTube as a free streaming service, and even though artist can monetize their music, the payout is significantly lower than from pure music streaming services. This is seen as a fair tradeoff seeing as YouTube is also a great promotional channel, but Google are now trying to pivot it into a pure streaming service without significantly changing payouts.

It sets a very dangerous precedent for the value of music, which can be incredibly damaging for already struggling indie artists (not so much for the three majors who have received _massive_ advances)

peroo··on Stronger-than-steel fibre spun from wood
Possibly, but that won't help the flora or fauna since young, planted forests have completely different ecosystems than the rainforests we're tearing down. Arguably it won't help co2 emissions much either since old forests capture enormous amounts of carbon in the ground, which planted forests don't.
peroo··on Visualization of where the $1B on Kickstarter went
Through a middle-man able to transfer the money to wherever the company is actually located.
peroo··on Why Google Fiber will never come to Seattle
I doubt Google particularly wants to be an ISP, but something has to be done to break up the stalemate in the US. Google are one of the few companies with enough clout to actually get the ball rolling.
peroo··on How The Guardian successfully moved its domain to theguardian.com
They couldn't change all URLs to be relative, so instead they wrote a filter which would rewrite absolute URLs to match the selected hostname. A simple fix for a relatively complex problem.
peroo··on What the Heck is Happening to Windows?
Or you can just install Skype for Windows Desktop. Metro makes perfect sense when you consider a tablet formfactor like Surface, it just shouldn't be used for regular computers, which is where they screwed ujp.
peroo··on Sony in talks to sell loss-making Vaio PC business
Yep that prevents turbo which stops it from shutting down. Crippling the CPU is a pretty annoying fix, though.

Switching to the onboard Intel GPU works as well, but that means foregoing hardware decoding which means a bunch of things run like glue. I actually ended up just replacing the fan which solved the issue for at least another year until I can get a new copmuter.

peroo··on Sony in talks to sell loss-making Vaio PC business
I love my Vaio-Z, but it's a bit like a Lamborghini - pretty and sleek, but not all that practical. It has a blazing graphics card but the fan noise could rouse a coma patient. Even worse, after a year it simply started shutting down because cooling wasn't working particularly well anymore, and the fan never goes below medium speed, even when idle. The RAID-SSDs failed too, and are extremely expensive to replace, so I had to put a new SSD in the optical drive bay.

Needless to say, next time I'll be buying something a bit more practical, and likely for a lot less money.

peroo··on A Dolphin's Tale: The Story of GameCube
I agree Off-TV play is a really nice feature, but in my opinion the cons outweigh the pros.

- Few games use it in any meaningful way. - It's bulky and unfamiliar. - It muddies the image of what the console is (is the tablet the Wii U?) - It raised the price of the console significantly. - It threw away the momentum they had for something none of their install-base wanted.

While I love my Wii U, it's destined to become another 20m failure. I hope that I'm wrong and that with time they can really iterate on their online functionality and get some better 3rd party support, but I'm not optimistic. If nothing else the 3DS is killing it, so it's not like they're going broke any time soon.

peroo··on Hotfile shut down
That's presumably a result of razor-thin margins and quick turnarounds. Competing on quality against free labor is quite hard.
peroo··on Hotfile shut down
The irony of the situation is that it's unprofitable to license anime for the US precisely because the fansubbing community already distributes "free" copies, and most anime-fans consume the majority of their content that way.
peroo··on Jury: Newegg infringes Spangenberg patent, must pay $2.3 million
Planet Money has a story on one such case: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/07/188370495/when-pat...

In that particular case, which was regarding a ridiculously broad patent for offsite network-backups, the plaintiff lost on a technicality; there was proof of a co-inventor who hadn't been included in the patent-filing. If it wasn't for that oversight they would almost certainly have won the case.

peroo··on Kickstarter pledger scammed multiple projects for rewards
Presumably he pays with a credit card and does a chargeback two or three months after payment, at which point physical rewards have already been shipped. Most payment processors will hold a reserve for a set amount of time for this exact reason.
peroo··on Kickstarter Should Do More to Protect Backers
I think it's a bit early to say since Kickstarter only really took off about a year ago and many projects have longer schedules. That said, if the biggest failure Kickstarter has had so far is a 100k board game, then I'd call it a roaring success. I'm fairly certain that we're talking >99% delivery rate, even if they might not all deliver exactly what the backers expected.
peroo··on This $200 3D printed bot can crack your phone's PIN in 20 hours
Android phones, and possibly iPhones as well, have multiple options for screen locks, one of which is a pin. That said, it will block pin entry after a set amount of failures after which you have to wait a set amount of time or log in with your Google account. I imagine the wait time scales if you continue guessing, rendering this bot quite useless.
peroo··on Javapocalypse
Verbosity is Java's middlename. That said, 3rd party libraries can get you a long way.
peroo··on Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine Released
The "Stash" feature on the speed dial page seems intended to replace it. I've long since stopped using in-browser bookmarks in favor of just keeping tabs around forever, so this seems like a good compromise.
peroo··on Opera 15 Preview for Windows and Mac with Chromium Engine Released
Widgets have been a zombie product for years, with virtually no users and no development. It was actually removed from Opera about a year ago IIRC, so Chrome had nothing to do with it.

The only thing I'll miss from O12 is Dragonfly. Probably just a habit, but I found it much more intuitive and well designed.

peroo··on We are Switching to Dart
Why does so many startups feel the need to brag about the fact that they're switching to <hot new technology>? To me it just comes off as an attempt to convince themselves it's a great idea.

How about coming back in a year and telling us how it turned out instead? Actual case-studies and analysis are interesting, fashion statements are not.

peroo··on The Hobbit: Why 48FPS Makes Film Less Magical
> If the overarching plot is to kill a dragon, there are some difficulties when trying to stretch it out into 9 hours of films.

From what I've gathered the dragon will be dealt with in the second movie (hence the name), while the third movie will deal with the aftermath, as well as being padded with content from the LOTR appendix. Personally I think the first movie will make more sense in light of the sequels, though that of course doesn't really defend the somewhat lackluster nature of it.

peroo··on Shadowrun Returns: an old-school turn-based RPG on Kickstarter
> Publishers think that it isn't worth the money/time to build games like this.

And arguably it isn't. There's little doubt there's money in it, but not enough money to make it worth a large publisher's time.

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