> 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.

On the bright side, at least they have the training to properly evaluate the information presented. You, likely, do not.

The reasons those standards existed is because it absolutely *IS* distracting. The reasons those standards are not used in this situation is that the car company gets more money for showing you those ads. Everything is for sale, including your life.

You are correct that they have been collecting the data for decades. AI is what is enabling them to actually go through all of the data. THAT is why there such a rush to power AI. Previously, your data would only be analyzed as part of an investigation; now, everything will be analyzed. Every single post on Slashdot is being fed through AI to target any/all of us. But Slashdot is nothing compared to the rest of the Internet, which is receiving the same treatment... as is your phone calls and shopping habits. There WILL be a New World Order and the majority of people on the planet will be its victim. A thousand points of light... a thousand families. This shit has been planned for decades.

The exec that needs to hear it will never hear it. Information travels FROM the "most important" person TO the least important person. If you are not the most important person, you are utterly useless and have no input.

I can actually believe this is something LLM is good at, especially with the numbers they describe. Door to door numbers cite 4 to 8 changes in their efforts, compared to the 2.3 and 3.9 points from this study. And, in this era of fake news, we are apparently content with untrue political rhetoric, so hallucinating facts probably doesn't do as much to hurt effect. The hard part was natural language processing, which is basically already a solved problem. And what does it mean to move someone's opinion 4 points anyways? It possibly says more about how we pick political candidates.

Trump would use those to go after jaywalkers...

The scrap metal deal would pay about $10,000 for it. Scrap bronze currently sells for $3.05/pound.

"There is no way this plastic we melted into this part could possibly ever melt again!"

Don't give Trump and Musk any ideas!!!

I have my own private septic tank, so no, actually. Anything that comes out of my butt essentially goes into a black hole.