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I doubt you will get many long term Mac users disagreeing that the attention to detail has got consistently worse every year since Lion. Trying to push poorly done, rushed UI frame…

> It doesn't support Widevine l1 and never has. Firefox supports Widevine Level 1 on Windows 11 devices with the requisite hardware and has for a year or so. Not many providers oth…

> But on the other hand, it remains a very powerful incentive for publishers and developers to reconsider their choices, as these devices still do have a non-trivial marketshare. T…

I genuinely don't recall the last time I saw one of those that didn't require me to at least go to a registration page to accept the terms and conditions in order to actually trans…

When was the last time you saw a completely open residential wifi access point in the wild? This seems a little like worrying about getting Dodo poisoning.

It's an open poll on a website with no sampling and no detection for bad actors. For goodness sake, this is literally useless. It tells us nothing. Even a games website should be e…

"Sony correctly implements GDPR requirements in the EU" is a less exciting headline I guess.

> For things like movies, they should have negotiated a contract where sold copies are sold copies and cannot be revoked (even if their right to sell/rent copies lapse). It's diffi…

The announcement only seems to have been sent to users in the UK and MoviesAnywhere is a US only service. Also StudioCanal are ultimately the rightsholder who would need to join Mo…

Urgh, that's a huge downgrade. What a shame.

The fact this letter takes aim at something the paper doesn't say is pretty damning. The paper alledges that a series of high entropy identifying metadata about the users system is…

TBH, even LinkedIn seemed to provide me with posts advertising events that happened two weeks ago a bit less pre-acquisition.

Individual self employed photographers successfully use the DMCA to get significant payouts from large publishers and news organisations every single day. Like literally hundreds o…

No there aren't, because having identical builds of games with Denuvo actually removed and present is vanishingly rare. If you compare a game that's had significant performance pat…

That report wasn't suppressed. It wasn't published because the methodology had a 44% margin of error, and subsequently it was totally useless. ( https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017…

The evidence for this supposed performance hit is basically zero.

That's worrying, because Apple Mpas is still a borderline useless hot mess.

That only works in the context of when the sender isn't the adversary, which isn't the case in an age verification system - it very much does treat the sender as the enemy and untr…

> The point of this is that you can use the credentials on your phone to prove that you are an adult to a website using zero-knowledge proofs to avoid disclosing your identity to a…

Twitter only supported 2FA using a mobile number for several years, so they quite possibly have that. People are not always good at infosec for convenience, and Twitter's design fo…

Given how on fire the rest of MacOS currently is I think incompetent management simply not caring about regression testing is more likely.

> The EU has zero knowledge proof age verification systems No, they don't. And they can't.

I hate to break it to you but services have been routinely blocking residential IPs associated with being part of VPN endpoints for the better part of a decade now. Akamai will eve…

The Pro really looks like it's struggling for a reason to exist given how much cheaper this will be and the difference in feature set.

Yes, 100%. If they wanted the policial platforms and had offered to buy them from Warner as standalone for a tenth of the cost Warner would have snapped their hand off. They need t…