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"All of the big TV makers" except Vizio which is owned by Walmart, of course, who happens to do ACR and ad targeting:

> In August 2015, Vizio acquired Cognitive Media Networks, Inc, a provider of automatic content recognition (ACR). Cognitive Media Networks was subsequently renamed Inscape Data. Inscape functioned as an independent entity until the end of 2020, when it was combined with Vizio Ads and SmartCast; the three divisions combining to operate as a single unit.[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizio

That still doesn't escape ACR, AFAIK. These "smart" TVs still capture screenshots from HDMI inputs.

That's one of the reasons I only buy Sony for years now. ACR & the like are opt-out at the first terms/privacy screen, and you can even go into Android/Google TV settings and just disable the APK responsible. (Samba something-something)

And of course: casual reminder that Vizio does extensive ACR and ad targeting, and even bought a company doing it to facilitate that:

> In August 2015, Vizio acquired Cognitive Media Networks, Inc, a provider of automatic content recognition (ACR). Cognitive Media Networks was subsequently renamed Inscape Data. Inscape functioned as an independent entity until the end of 2020, when it was combined with Vizio Ads and SmartCast; the three divisions combining to operate as a single unit.[1]

But I'm sure Texans are fully aware and consented to this, right?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizio

Peer reviewers can also use AI tools, which will hallucinate a "this seems fine" response.

From what I gather it's that GH Actions is good for easy scenarios: single line building, unit tests, etc. When your CI pipeline starts getting complicated or has a bunch of moving parts, not only do you need to rearchitect parts of it, but you lose a lot of stability.

No, in that case they'd want both to be reported separately so they could use the AirPod with the higher charge.

It can, but it'll be a small subset of stuff. You'll probably be able to just hit install + play on most things, but it'll have a "Steam Frame Verified" program like the Steam Deck's.

Same on iOS, with the fun bonus of the "something went wrong" modal looping as well! (Without retrying, you're just stuck in modal hell)

Same here, I've re-enrolled my Yubikeys 3 times so far, to the point that trying a full re-login asks "what do you want to use for 2FA?" and the list is 6+ generic named "Security Key".

I think it's just a matter of some "I need HDR" syscall.

To be it looked very much like the matte coating on Dell monitors, where bunched up same-color pixels have this "feels like there's a rainbow here but if I focus on it I don't see it anymore" effect. Definitely better than ThinkPad matte, though.

Wait until you try an OLED computer monitor, that screws with the "higher refresh rate => less ghosting" thought process completely.

They've had cloud servers in the US for a while now (Virginia and Oregon), seems like "Shared Regular Performance" and "Dedicated General Performance" have US servers.

A company operating fully remote with global employees still has to do some bureaucratic work with the countries of their employees for payroll purposes. That's what I meant by the experience they had with this.

No, a better analogy would be Germany. You can't count the entirety of Israel on one hand and ~10% of 1940s Germany on the other.

But that's beside the point and still doesn't match what you said, as you considered any company with an Israeli employee to be compromised, essentially.

Do you consider companies with Chinese employees just as "compromised"? We've known of Chinese state surveillance for decades.

I use ProtonVPN for bypassing media geoblocking, and they're fairly good, with some exceptions (BBC iPlayer works via browser but not the Apple TV app, local IPTV doesn't work on any Proton local servers).

They have an Apple TV app so I just switch it on as needed, and it's restricted to just that Apple TV. (Without having to fiddle with a separate WiFi network etc.) IKEv2, OpenVPN and Wireguard work without their apps so I don't have to install their apps on non-sandboxed platforms (Windows, macOS).

Well, yes, but being able to designate a VPN node as a Tailscale exit node directly means you don't need a random server in the middle for it. (Which is beneficial if you use it as an exit node for road warrior devices)

> I work for a fully remote company with employees from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, and we didn't need to partner with any local company

Because your company already has considerable experience in working remotely in another territory, of course they didn't need any help. Or potentially, they were already contracting a firm for local bureaucratic matters.

> Plus it was never mentioned what these "local partners" get in return

Money? They could sell these bureaucratic services at a markup, where they have experience with the paperwork etc. part of expanding internationally.

Additionally, another commenter said they offloaded some worse talent on them[1], so that's another possible benefit to them.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500737

And to cover the astroturfing allegations in this thread: no, I don't work for or have any relationship with ProtonVPN, other than being a user.

That's not the conspiracy theory. The conspiracy theory is painting every single commenter as part of said company/PR agency.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45409794

Back in 2012 or so, I reused an old netbook (an Asus Eee PC) with an Atom CPU & 1GB of RAM, installed Ubuntu Server, and used it as a home server. It handled the printer, DNS-VPN proxying for streaming, and a few other things admirably for years. (And ironically was resilient to Spectre because its Atom CPU was before Intel added speculative execution)

Eventually, the thing that kicked the bucket was actually the keyboard (and later the fan started making "my car won't start" noises occasionally). Even the horribly-slow HDD (that handled Ubuntu Server surprisingly well) hadn't died yet.

Well, that's essentially Windows Update.

No, they're tightly coupled together. Even same-release updates update both the kernel and the userland syscall-implementing DLLs to match.

Windows 7 is still dramatically less secure by design (i.e. not missing patches but architectural changes) compared to Windows 10, even Windows 8 had some meaningful kernel security features that 7 lacks. This includes sandboxing measures that Chrome & Firefox use, meaning you're still less secure even if you're not downloading shady software.

You're frankly better off applying a bunch of registry changes to 10, using a Education or N (EU) edition "illegally", or blocking DNS than going back to 7 just for privacy concerns. You're cutting off your nose to spite your face.

The Israel Azure region wasn't launched until 2023, and AFAIK has substantially less services available than the others. I know Google's Israel region doesn't have as many GPU options, for example.

Dyamically-adjusting (higher) pricing to take advantage of your spending problem, for one.

From the original post:

> According to the German Automobile Association, manual opening is only possible from the inside, which complicates rescue attempts for emergency services.

The issue, other than complicated internal release, was the lack of an external way to manually open the doors. (e.g.: driver is unconscious with small kids who haven't read the manual)

Twitter -- sorry, "X, the Everything App" -- is suspiciously missing from the list. I wonder what could possibly be the reason.

The only APIs that are locked this way AFAIK are PPL, Defender-disabling, and AV registration, all not exclusive to Microsoft, you just have to sign up to an antimalware developer program and sign an NDA.

> They still have the best sync engine[...]

If you mean differential sync (or "delta sync"), Google Drive added it this year and OneDrive added it a few years ago. Google Drive's client is much worse than Dropbox's, though, with it just randomly breaking on Windows often. I've had good experiences with OneDrive on Windows & macOS, though.