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ViViDboarder commented on New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint   antoinevastel.com/bot%20d... · Posted by u/avastel
2h · 3 years ago
> I don't buy, support, or condone DRM'd media

this is good, but it would also be helpful if you supported the anti DRM movement. Some people have developed ways to get around certain DRM such was Widevine, from dumping your own CDM to Widevine proxy. Just ignoring the problem is not going to make it go away. Over the last two years DRM use for streaming content has increased significantly. If you want to really help, I would look into contributing code to these projects, or donations.

ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
I'm not seeing how that doesn't help support DRM?

It does nothing to dissuade content gatekeepers from employing restrictive DRM on their sites.

Anti-DRM would be avoiding anything that gives money to those that employ DRM to incentivize the removal of the DRM. Frankly, flat out piracy (streaming ripped content) is more likely to result in the removal of DRM than making it appear that the DRM is working well for the provider.

ViViDboarder commented on Twitter's API is down?    · Posted by u/mvid
Nextgrid · 3 years ago
You will have 2 problems with this:

1) the law, at least in the US. Laws such as copyright and maybe even the CFAA have been abused to outlaw adversarial interoperability. You'd need to either practice good opsec and operate anonymously or be based out of reach of US-allied law enforcement.

2) Apple (and maybe Google too?) - they will remove any client for a third-party service unless said client has explicit approval from the third-party, all the way up to ridiculous levels such as rejecting an app using the LAN API of smart home devices explicitly designed for this purpose: https://community.lifx.com/t/app-store-rejection-permission-...

ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
Regarding point 1, recent judicial decisions on scraping seemed to have entrenched it as legal.

On two, it seems like they are concerned with trademark to me. A workaround could be making a website that parses and displays Twitter content and call it something else. Then, in an app, make no mention of Twitter and only the website.

ViViDboarder commented on Walgreens Executive Says Shoplifting Threat in San Francisco Was Overstated   nytimes.com/2023/01/06/bu... · Posted by u/jrochkind1
water554 · 3 years ago
The fact that I have to pay $4 for a gatorade says otherwise
ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
That’s because San Francisco is expensive. A sandwich with no sides at many places downtown is more than $10 and I’m pretty sure it’s not organized shoplifting…
ViViDboarder commented on Walgreens Executive Says Shoplifting Threat in San Francisco Was Overstated   nytimes.com/2023/01/06/bu... · Posted by u/jrochkind1
Our_Benefactors · 3 years ago
Or, the threat was overstated because the product was protected. Don’t hold your breath for a trend reversal in SF.
ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
Until the plastic results in loss of sales because people don’t want to bother, we probably won’t see it reversed. The cost is sunk. Why wouldn’t they leave it, even if ineffective, as long as it doesn’t cost them anything?
ViViDboarder commented on If you like startups you should love anti-trust   alexwrites.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/connor11528
perryizgr8 · 3 years ago
Population is growing. Your company's target market is a subset of population. Unless your target is a niche that nobody new is joining, then your company must grow just to maintain status quo. If you sell phones and you're not growing, it means you are actually contracting. That's why everyone is crazy behind growth. It means your business is not dying.
ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
Theres that kind of growth, and then the expectation that you grow into every conceivable vertical to expand more rapidly or support stock prices for an otherwise stagnant business.
ViViDboarder commented on Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project without your permission    · Posted by u/Ephil012
ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
Years ago someone reported this about GitHub projects as well. If I recall correctly, working as intended was the response.
ViViDboarder commented on Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed   mastodon.social/@pixelfed... · Posted by u/mindracer
busssard · 3 years ago
i mean there are thousand of small photo sharing apps, and instagram was hardly the first... Naming the filters the same seems a bit stupid though...
ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
Yea. That’s the part that is ripped. Making a new photo sharing app shouldn’t be controversial.

I like Pixelfed, but it was naive to rip the filter names and think that was somehow ok. It was also a totally unnecessary thing to copy. An imitation filter could be called anything and people will be able to tell (assuming you did a good enough job imitating).

ViViDboarder commented on Instagram is threatening legal action against Pixelfed   mastodon.social/@pixelfed... · Posted by u/mindracer
jhfrjn · 3 years ago
Lol, it's federated, you don't post "on Pixelfed" you post on whatever host you're on and maybe that host is federated to lively other hosts
ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
Yea. And you’re not “on the internet”. It’s a series of nodes that talk with each other and route requests between them. /s

There is no strict technical definition of “on” in this case.

ViViDboarder commented on Silicon Valley offices less empty than other regions   paloaltoonline.com/news/2... · Posted by u/gumby
softwaredoug · 3 years ago
This is what makes modern Nimbyism even more destructive.

We’re heading to a new urban death spiral. With no commuters and empty office building. Residential density could salve some of the issues that creates for cities. But nimbyism will of course prevent that, and leave cities the decaying while stodgy citizens delay any solution and argue against density.

ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
No commuters? What city are you referring to? In SF, Muni is packed along my commute to the city. Probably there’s not as much commuting, but there’s certainly quite a bit.

Also, more dense housing actually usually means less commuting. That’s one of the reasons I generally support it. People living closer to work means less commute time resulting in less carbon as well.

ViViDboarder commented on California’s population shrinks for third straight year   sacbee.com/news/politics-... · Posted by u/theduder99
zbrozek · 3 years ago
I don't understand the hate towards market rate housing. Want the market price to come down? Build more supply. We're so far short of healthy levels of stock, however, that there's no relief in sight with merely-modest pro-housing policies. We need something akin to post-ww2 levels of construction.
ViViDboarder · 3 years ago
As far as I can tell, the people against market rate housing are really just using low-income housing as justification of their NIMBYism.

Kind of like how domestic espionage is justified with calls of “think of the children”. They try to make you seem heartless to oppose their position.

u/ViViDboarder

KarmaCake day1893March 29, 2015View Original