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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We already do - and play it with them on our family creative and survival servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I regret ever giving my kids access to Roblox. They haven’t had any bad interactions as far as I know but the content mill of poor knock offs is just depressing. They learnt the highlights of Squid Game from “games” that went viral on the platform.

  My youngest wants to graduate to Fortnite and hyper-monetisation aside I’ve agreed they can have it on the family playstation if they drop Roblox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In all DRM devices there are private signed certificates that can be used to establish a secure authenticated connection. To get at them you need to crack/hack/file the top of the chip to exfiltrate the certificate. More modern “Trusted Computing” like platforms include verified boot chains so even if you extract the certificate you couldn’t use it because you also need to sign the boot chain to ensure no code has been altered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely - modern pirates are extracting the digital streams with the DRM removed. However they closely guard the methods of operation because once the exploits or compromised keys are known they can be revoked and they have to start cracking again. They likely have hardware with reverse engineered firmware which won’t honour key revocation but still needs to be kept upto date with recent-ish keys.

  For example the Blu-Ray encryption protocols are well enough known you can get things working if you have the volume keys. However getting hold of them is tricky and you have to be careful your Blu-Ray doesn’t read a disk that revokes the old keys.

  For streaming things are a little easier because if you get the right side of the DRM you can simply copy the stream. However things like HDCP and moving DRM into secure enclaves are trying to ensure that the decryption process cannot be watched from the outside. I’m sure their are compromised HDCP devices but again once their keys get leaked they will no longer be able to accept a digital stream of data (or may negotiate down to a sub-HD rate).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember programming the VCR when VHS was first a thing and I’m definitely not nostalgic for it. It was the best most people could afford at the time but it certainly wasn’t good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus is getting a VHS release⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When did people get nostalgic for the crappy analogue definition that was VHS? What’s next betamax special editions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Church of England? They are pretty vanilla and low key in my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a reason the US is sending 100 of our people to Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand it is to operate the defensive missile battery they have just shipped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people impressed with SpaceX?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are pretty focused on reducing the cost of launches by aggressively re-using components that would normally crash into the sea. Previous launches landed on floating sea platforms but yesterday’s heavy was so big it needed a more stable landing zone. So after boosting the Star Liner the rocket returned down the trajectory it had followed up and then hovered briefly before being caught by two pincers on the very launch pad it had left five minutes before. That’s pretty cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asahi Linux: AAA Gaming Emulation on Apple Silicon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FEX redirects graphics library calls to their native equivalents. This substantially reduces the amount of translated code you need to execute.

  slp did a nice demo at KVM Forum last month. …qemu.org/…/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.… andhttps://youtu.be/10Ztv0UI5I0?si=19KPcA6wGbXM3I…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the 35 brand partnerships in Beetlejuice 2 come back to haunt Warner Bros?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends how well they’ve done it. James Bond talking about his watch was a super clunky one as I remember, but Bond and Aston Martin just makes sense for the character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the 35 brand partnerships in Beetlejuice 2 come back to haunt Warner Bros?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that brand integration was obviously a success 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the 35 brand partnerships in Beetlejuice 2 come back to haunt Warner Bros?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume Wayne’s World still got their cut from Pepsi, Advil and Dominos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly was Yotta doing with people's money? Right now they are basically a gambling platform. But from my understanding they were a no lose lottery. But exactly what was going on in that compan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So similar to premium bonds? Usually those are government backed though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly was Yotta doing with people's money? Right now they are basically a gambling platform. But from my understanding they were a no lose lottery. But exactly what was going on in that compan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The phrase “no loose lotary” should be a red flag right away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For that £9 I get 15Gb of data (including EU roaming). One of my kids gets their phone with unlimited calls/texts + 5Gb of data for £5. I doubt I’m ever going to need more than that as on a recent holiday with heavy use I didn’t even get close to exceeding the usage limits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t if if it was a pay rise or just he’d done more work last year (extra voiceover work for coronations etc).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main pain with CRB checks is having to go through it for every thing. You can’t just apply once and get the certificate and I don’t think the organisation your applying from makes a material difference to the checks that are done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why preventing long-term sickness in the UK is an economic necessity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well duh. We definitely need a much stronger focus on public health and primary care rather than leaving problems on waiting lists until they are harder (and more expensive) to solve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ofcom to ban inflation-linked mid-contract price rises on phones, pay-TV and broadband⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t found any 30 day contracts that can beat a well negotiated renewal. You just need to be firm in requesting the PAC code and make them work to keep you as a customer.

  I got EU roaming included in my £9/month contract but I do need to get temporary travel packs for other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't electric car manufacurers put solar panels on the car roofs?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For range it doesn’t add much in most cases. But it also depends on how long between journeys you have. If you’re traveling in a van and you are going to be stationary for a few weeks at a time then it can start to make sense, maybe with an extra fold out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flood water use⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can, they are called canals. Look at the Nile delta and the network of irrigation trenches used to spread water from the river to the wider areas. There are a number of dam projects in Africa which are all about managing water flows.

  The principle problem is when your divert water it’s usually at a cost to another area that was using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservatives plan to bring back mandatory National Service⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s certainly a bad idea to rely on conscripts to make up the bulk of your fighting force. It’s not a totally bad idea to have a population of fighting age citizens have had some basic military training and know which way to hold a gun. Countries like Finland or Switzerland have a more realistic view of what they may need to do if things ever got bad on their eastern front.

  For the UK we’d have probably resorted to our nuclear deterrent before we consider putting conscripts on the front line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t still complaining about the fact they hired an ex-policeman?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are lots of SBCs out there but the difference really comes down to documentation and how upstreamable everything is. The Pi might not be perfect but it’s a much more reliable design to build something with than many of the other options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British tech firm Raspberry Pi lines up £500m float⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are both. There is a non profit foundation which funds the educational side and the main company which operates for a profit. I suspect the bulk of their revenue comes from the industrial side of things where the Pi makes a much better base than a lot of the half assed hacked together SBC’s out in the market.

  There have certainly been mis-steps asking the way but all in all I consider the Pi to be a British success story. I guess it remains to be seen how much of the valuation goes to the founders and employees and how much is invested into their next phase of growth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Site that let's me filter by standalone novels only?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are even some reading guides depending on what sub-genre you are interested in if you don’t want to read the whole cannon. They all standalone pretty well though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult transgender clinics in England face inquiry into patient care⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The lack of follow up and record keeping at Tavistock was shocking. I’m all for expanding the range of providers to tackle waiting lists but they have to bring a more professional approach to providing care and a more holistic view if the patients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NI is just another tax that goes into the total pot, albeit one that is not progressive and adds to the cost of employment. I’d be happy with it being scrapped and it all going on income tax, perhaps with a scaled employer contribution component. How about the employer contributes a scaled percentage for all employees over the median income for the company?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  European systems have quite a bit of private provision but they are still generally single payer and heavily regulated. Private involvement in healthcare doesn’t automatically involve what they created in the USA.