It's not just as simple as updating firmware. A 720p AV1 stream can take 3x-5x more processing power and up to 2x as much ram to decode than VP9 or h264. A lot of "cheap" smart tv's simply don't have powerful enough hardware to perform the decoding process.

Sure, but if you're generating a lot of hashes there's certainly much better ways to temporarily store those that doesn't involve creating thousands of tiny files and wasting a ton of slack space.

Looking at the side by sides, it sounds like this guy just wants a hill to die on. Personally, I never liked the icons in the menu, so the new menu looks a lot cleaner and easier to use. Similarly, I frequently use a convertible laptop so the new interface looks a lot more touch friendly. On my desktop system though, I'd like the old compact option with the new menu design.

Also damaged the servers for Sufficient Velocity and Spacebattles.

Sometimes it's even blatent. One company I worked for in the past constantly posts internal messages about job openings, like most companies do. However, any time they are looking to hire an engineer, they also blatantly state in the post that they are only considering H1-B applicants, and US Citizens need not apply.

No, this isn't evidence of competence. I'm not saying he's not, because it's easy to demonstrate he's far more qualified and competent than Trump ever was, but this whole "goal" of 200 million shots is smoke and mirrors. The US was already on track to exceed 100 million doses before he even took office, so it was an easy goal to announce. With the additional dosing centers still being set up around the country, the US is already providing 1.6 million doses a day. So the US was already on track to exceed the 200 million mark long before Biden even announced his new goal.

It's all political theater, designed to make him look amazing, which when compared to Trump isn't really all that difficult to do.

I'd love to see companies finally call the bluff on these things. Cut off the state that implements policies like this, refuse to license tech to business that decide to comply, and let the state go back to land lines and dumbphones. See how long it takes before the citizens revolt against the party leaders.

It'll never happen, but it's fun to wish.

Soo... The license agreement specifically states the following:

"You may make unlimited copies of the Software and give copies to other persons or entities as long as the copies contain this Agreement and the same
copyright and other proprietary notices that appear on or in the Software."

Why are they issuing takedown notices for posting this, when they gave the world permission to do this very thing?

it's in the text of the bill - 18-701.3-c states "this section does not apply with respect to special-purpose digital application distribution platforms."

this is followed by 18-701.3-e.7 "special-purpose digital application distribution platform" means a digital distribution platform for single or specialized categories of applications, software and services that are provided to users on hardware intended primarily for specific purposes, including gaming consoles, music players and other special-purpose devices that are connected to the internet."

It's because California isn't a "Shall Issue" state, it's a "May Issue" state. That difference in wording practically guarantees nobody actually gets to have a concealed permit without bribing an official who will always say no without getting something for their yes. And since permits are "technically" available, it's not considered a breach of the 2nd (at least, not to the courts its currently gone through so far.)

Trump's own lawyers are abandoning his lawsuits, since there's no evidence and the "signed affidavits" they presented were all false. This is utterly insane, and I'm finding it more believable every day that he fired his defense due to a refusal to assist with some kind of military buildup to keep him in the White House illegally.

That's the point in the articles linked - Firefox won't be affected, since it uses it's own store. Current versions of Chrome are/will be affected, since they use the OS store. Future versions of Chrome will NOT be affected, since Google is changing Chrome to use it's own internal store in a future build on all OS's except for iOS. (Possibly due to Apples restrictions 3rd party web browsers?).

I suspect Chrome will have finished transitioning to the Chrome Root Program by Sept. of 2021. I don't think this will have as large of an impact as Let's Encrypt seem to think it will. Certainly anything left relying on the Android certificate store will be affected, but anyone using Chrome or any app using the embedded chrome browser should continue to operate normally.

Exactly this. In fact, if you compare some of the child dance acts that have aired on AGT, they are substantially similar or even worse than Cuties. The movie just happens to have had bad press that got the ball rolling, and lasts for more than 4 minutes.

The full quote "This workaround may make a computer or a network more vulnerable to attack by malicious users or by malicious software such as viruses. We do not recommend this workaround but are providing this information so that you can implement this workaround at your own discretion. Use this workaround at your own risk," appears on the ZDNET article itself, and is directly attributed to Microsoft by the articles author - Liam Tung. As you have pointed out, Microsoft has NOT said any of those words, nor have they even hinted at anything to that effect. Basically, Liam Tung has been caught with his pants on fire, and you should look at anything else he's ever written or will write about Microsoft with a very large grain of salt. Because, as terrible as Microsoft might be, Liam is going to twist everything into the worst possible light regardless of truth or accuracy, all for the sake of clicks.