threatening to force Americans into higher subscription prices and fewer choices over what and how they watch" Warren said on Friday

Higher than paying for multiple streaming services? Is there really choice at the moment or different flavours of lack-of-choice? Surely consolidation of the lack of choice is more convenient.

Perhaps the ownership-over-information ship has sailed?

It shouldn't be that you can use your monopoly position of yesterday in order to leverage and have a monopoly position in the market of tomorrow

Hello, which planet are YOU from?

They can just recycle Twitter the way mainstream news does.

They want to drink a glass of water without getting their mouth wet.

To be fair, their complaint is probably best translated at "Look at meeeeee!"

We need to sue them too - the NYT have been kind enough to put up a wall to protect us from their recycled drivel and now Perplexity have covertly injected some of it into our minds. Wtf!?!

A shame Google didn't buy it then it would have been shut down. There's still hope, I suppose.

I mean at this point Trump has wiped his ass with the Constitution...

That would actually make a nice novelty toilet paper. Someone could send a sample to the White House for the official stamp of approval (presumably orange-brown :-)

Trump just made millions of Americans' penises smaller.

> Meanwhile, H.264 has dedicated hardware decoders in world+dog devices, including ancient ones.

Ancient ones, yes, but most devices sold in the past five years have AV1 *decode* support.

Hardware with AV1 *encode* is still pretty rare but a fair number of up-market chips from the past few years have it.

What we mostly care about here is the $20 amtel or mediatek devices sold today, and those are fine.

Netflix can support the older devices with H.264 as long as it makes more sense to pay the patent license fees than to drop support for old devices.

It won't be long before there are no devices that the manufacturer still supports that can't decode AV1 in hardware. Not that most end-users even know their device went EOL and now a potential liability.

Given that Netflix has native apps on most of these systems it should be straightforward to serve the non-patented stream to any device that can play it well.

> They don't do backups at those outfits?

We really need Federal government backups to be centralized at the National Archives.

Both so one expert team can make sure it's done right, instead of hundreds of teams with questionable experience and track records attempting to do it right.

And /also/ so when one agency goes, "whoopise, I guess we deleted the evidence of our crimes!" there is recourse.

Right now, the prosecutor just goes, "shucks, I guess we don't have a case then. Better fire some leaf-node IT contractor."

Back when I got my most-recent car (2015), after I let the trial lapse, they called me every month for like 6 months, ignoring anything I said to them, until eventually I used a more-expressive tone of voice and improved my word choice. It was only after that that they stopped calling me. I can't stand that company.

I do not think "productivity" is what is driving this. I think it is intelligence agencies using AI to go through half a century of collected data to determine who will be the winners and losers in society. "Society" itself is 'Fascist' and wants every social interaction to happen in an expected order.

I do not know how to explain this idea without writing an entire book... but, ignoring Reality will end in Reality reminding 'you' that it can not be ignored. This 'ignorance of Reality' frequently ends up in death, but always provides misery to most people most of the time.

It is too late. Even HIPAA won't help here. The data is not being stored in a directly human retrievable method, so you can not PROVE in an unassailable manner that they are hoovering your data. I am dealing with this a lot right now with companies using AI products and insisting that the data is not used for training. If data is going out of my enclave, then it absolutely is being used for further training.