Reticulating splines...

So Epic is also going to open their games so that anyone can make and sell Fortnite skins using whatever billing system they want, right?
I guess it's good they were big enough to take on the big guys, but sometimes the hypocrisy was palpable.

I don't always want to cast my whole screen. Chromecast was perfect for this. Don't want my email notifications showing up on the big screen while I'm watching a movie. I can start the cast of the video and then my phone isn't needed anymore. I could turn it completely off if I wanted to and it would keep playing.
As one of the other commenters said, the Cast protocol just kind of gets things started- all the video playback at that point happens on the receiving device.

Maybe it worked because it spelled his name "Meyer" instead of "Mayer"

This made me wonder- I haven't heard of anyone publicly breaking or bypassing the Xbox One (or later) encryption yet. Is it the only major console still standing, or am I just way behind on my news? (I know the Xbox 360 and earlier were broken already.)

I'm reminded of Slack's post from 2016: https://slack.com/blog/news/de...
I wonder if they'd write the same thing today.

It seems that Epic has a monopoly on "skins" and "dances" in their games. Why am I not allowed to sell my own skins and dances? They should open up their game to allow me to sell ones I create - and no, they can't take a percentage either. Seems not much different than what they are asking for.

With Apple iOS devices you have to grant permission for an app to access your local network. I'm not saying many people wouldn't just tap Allow when the prompt comes up without thinking, but at least there's a level of blocking at the OS level there.

Not a good made-up example. If it only took you 1 second to make each device, and you never slept -- did it 24 hours a day -- it would still take you 158 years.

And it was only 6.5 years ago that Slack was welcoming some competition.
https://slack.com/blog/news/de...

Completely agree. It's a terrible logo compared to their previous iteration.

For me, the strongest argument in the US is that we already tried permanent Daylight time and people hated it so much that they undid it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So that makes me think Standard time might be the better option. But, I have no data or reasons why. I just think people should know the history before enacting the same mistake.

I remember that Slack made an advertisement welcoming Teams to the arena when it launched.
https://slack.com/blog/news/de...

Do we really want to encourage video calling on airplanes? I guess on private jets would be one thing, but on commercial flights seems tacky.

Yes, this is probably exactly why. They also pulled down their "open source" downloads since that's where the keys were located.