I saw them a couple of times in Firefox, but it seem uBlock Origin has had its definitions updated.

They already give you a big, scary warning if you try to open a .lnk file downloaded from the Internet. People do it anyway.

I'm not talking about media container formats. The MP4 container format is based directly on the MOV format and covers the most common cases, and as you mentioned, the EBML-based MKV container format deals with a few corner cases.

The Quicktime framework let you do media decoding, encoding, transcoding and playback, as well as stuff like bitmap scaling, sample rate conversion, and all sorts of other stuff. And you could use "Quicktime components" to add support for additional codecs or other functionality to every application that used the Quicktime framework. If you had a Quicktime Pro license (fairly cheap, or you could use one of the well-known Apple Sales keys if you didn't want to pay), you could use Quicktime Player to do a bunch of basic video editing tasks.

Microsoft DirectShow was probably the closest equivalent, but it never got the same market penetration and third-party support. Now there's no real replacement.

Quicktime used to be the standard framework for media playback, transcoding, etc. It had a complex API, but it held up pretty well for at least fifteen years. But Apple just lost interest in it, stopped updating it, and it sort of fell into obscurity. There's no real modern replacement that covers all the same cases.

The Windows 10 Decrapifier Script, combined with most of the tweaks available in WinUtil should reduce your workload pretty effectively.

Sad it needs to happen...but I hope it helps streamline things for you.

True as that may be...for $2,450, one could buy a Galaxy S25 *AND* an S10+ Tablet *AND* a Michael Kors bag to put them in.

Or, with a few compromises...one could buy a Galaxy S25FE, a Galaxy Tab S10FE, a Samsung Galaxy Book 5 2-in-1, *and* a leather Samsonite briefcase to carry it all.

Props to Samsung for figuring out a way to enable those with a pile of money to visibly demonstrate their affluence, but that price tag is so eye-wateringly high that there's no amount of functionality that can justify just buying a phone and a tablet.

Dog-eat-dog company culture is a trademark feature of the USA. Everything has to be a competition, you have stuff like stack ranking where you sack the bottom 20% every year, so everyone does their best to try and push someone else down to avoid being the bottom of the stack. This cancer started at GE and spread from there. You can't blame India for that.

Europeans will absolutely get what they deserve here.

I think it's safe to say that the European style of democracy, where for some reason every single decision is closely scrutinized and can be vetoed by just about anyone, and every industry is regulated to the point were any change is essentially impossible, and new industries are killed before they can even get off the ground, has turned out to be a bad idea, and the US should immediately turn away from these kinds of policies before we follow suit and become irrelevant.

Canadian content can be good, too. I loved watching Corner Gas.

Yeah, there's also a feature for automatically restarting unresponsive instances that depends on US-East-1 no matter where you deploy. It basically works by regularly sending heartbeats between a service running at US-East-1 and your instance. If it doesn't see any heartbeats for a while, it thinks your instance is unresponsive and restarts it. When US-East-1 went down, every instance with this feature enabled was constantly being restarted, no matter where it was deployed. That contributed to a lot of web sites going down.

US-East-1 is the original AWS region, and they just keep hacking stuff onto it and never clean it up properly. The networking is a mess that no-one understands. On top of that, it's the default region when creating an instance, so a lot of people don't change it and end up with their stuff running there for no good reason. Never deploy anything to US-East-1 if you want it to be reliable.

If it's attached to a university, it can still be useful for people to learn to write software targeting supercomputers. Dealing with the distributed memory and extreme parallelism requires a different approach to designing software. You don't need the fastest supercomputer in the world to use as a training setup.

SEO killed search. If anything, AI has made it slightly useful again.

If you’ve ever tried to argue with an LLM, it quickly becomes obvious that they don’t even really know what words mean, and this article explains why. They don’t actually have any real life experiences to relate to those words. They’re not trying to understand the world, they aren’t even really exposed to the real world as a source of data, all they’re really trying to accomplish is arranging words into patterns that humans will find authentic and convincing. That’s the main thing these models are optimizing.