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you pay a month in advance
Well, I hate to tell you the devastating news... you might have to eat the $3 this month.
It’s still bullshit.
Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
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Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#92Isn't this sort of rationing exactly the thing that anti-Net Neutrality advocates have been warning about?
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a made up problem. In Germany, journalists asked the network providers and they said everything is fine. Such a ridiculous and pointless thing to do by the EU. Especially since all the apps drop the quality automatically anyway if the connection is slow.
Here in Berlin my DSL connection has been awful since the social distancing began. And many of my friends have complained of similar problems. Frequent disconnections, broken up zoom calls. Though ironically the streaming has been fine from both Netflix & Amazon.
I've had disconnected Zoom calls here (Netherlands) as well, but it seems that's just Zoom not being able to handle the traffic because Google Hangouts and MS Teams are both fine. And Netflix and Disney+ are also working fine.
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a made up problem. In Germany, journalists asked the network providers and they said everything is fine. Such a ridiculous and pointless thing to do by the EU. Especially since all the apps drop the quality automatically anyway if the connection is slow.
I think the point is to protect things like remote desktop, zoom, etc from being pushed out by netflix traffic.
Isn't that mostly a QoS issue?
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#95Makes you think, how much further we could stretch things if we were all using the Nims/C/C++ of the world instead of the Ruby's. Please don't immediately flame, I'm just saying objectively, we could stretch hardware out much further. What do you guys think about this?
I mean, there is always the productivity trade off. If hardware/bandwidth is cheaper than dev time... I guess that was the idea with Go, to be productive to write and more efficient to run than the dynamic languages.
I think incentives in commercial software are out of whack. It's often more profitable to make garbage software that is barely fit for purpose. But that same critique also applies to much of our economic system.
If we want a particular outcome, the incentives need to be aligned accordingly.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US response has so far been fairly muted, with a few notable local exceptions. There are a lot more people stuck at home in Europe. In practice, though, at least in Ireland there's been little obvious problem, though you can definitely see an increase: https://www.inex.ie/ixp/statistics/ixp
Pretty much all of California is stuck at home, and California has 40 million people... that would be the 8th largest country in Europe.
Shelter in Place is basically just the Bay Area, right? And a lot of people still seem to be leaving the home for work there; notoriously, people are still making Teslas!
Also, California is mostly fairly urbanised and well-off. If Germany was the only place in Europe where people were being discouraged from leaving the home, this would be less of a concern. This is really targeting places, especially rural places, with poor infrastructure.
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US response has so far been fairly muted, with a few notable local exceptions. There are a lot more people stuck at home in Europe. In practice, though, at least in Ireland there's been little obvious problem, though you can definitely see an increase: https://www.inex.ie/ixp/statistics/ixp
Pretty much all of California is stuck at home, and California has 40 million people... that would be the 8th largest country in Europe.
It'd probably be the 6th largest in the eu. Smaller than Italy, France and Spain which all have lockdowns.
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a made up problem. In Germany, journalists asked the network providers and they said everything is fine. Such a ridiculous and pointless thing to do by the EU. Especially since all the apps drop the quality automatically anyway if the connection is slow.
Here in Berlin my DSL connection has been awful since the social distancing began. And many of my friends have complained of similar problems. Frequent disconnections, broken up zoom calls. Though ironically the streaming has been fine from both Netflix & Amazon.
If streaming works, but zoom doesn't, maybe the issue is with the zoom servers?
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I hate to tell you the devastating news... you might have to eat the $3 this month.
It’s still bullshit.
While the whole world is trying to deal with the worst pandemic in 100 years, you are going to have to adjust your expectation levels for bullshit.
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#100Isn't this sort of rationing exactly the thing that anti-Net Neutrality advocates have been warning about?
There might be special circumstances afoot.