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spinax commented on Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku blog.roku.com/developer/2... · Posted by u/kaladin-jasnah

xattt · 4 years ago

Wikipedia has a history of carriage disputes between the company and other companies. Sure, the recent Google spat could have been a one-off thing, but they seem to have an issue with a lot of folks.

My personal experience is that when one individual has a bunch of problems with a number of others, it is probably the one individual that’s the problem.

spinax · 4 years ago

I find your presentation of this argument disingenuous and in bad faith.

> they seem to have an issue with a lot of folks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roku#Carriage_disputes

4. They have 4 listed disputes in Wikipedia: NBC/Universal, HBO, Spectrum, and Google; the first three were resolved (the first one the same day as the grievance).

https://channelstore.roku.com

There are hundreds (if not hundreds upon hundreds) of services provided over the Roku hardware/service including it's direct competitors (Amazon Prime TV / Fire stick), more than I can sit here and count without wasting my life.

You would have readers believe that Roku is out there pissing everyone off, being the bad kid on the block, making demands and being a troublemaker. They have had 4 disputes. 4. Out of hundreds of partners. 4.

spinax commented on Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku blog.roku.com/developer/2... · Posted by u/kaladin-jasnah

josteink · 4 years ago

> It's amazing to me that Roku has the plurality of the US streaming market (37%), yet its development ecosystem is so terrible.

Step 1: be a cheap (the cheapest?) option in the early phase of a market. This way you build up a sizeable customer-base using a market-segment with low/no expectations.

Step 2: app-developers will be forced to support your platform, despite low-quality platform, ecosystem or SDK if they want to be “everywhere”.

Step 3: With better/more popular apps supporting your platform you can start making more expensive devices or even sell/rent your platform to other players needing a checkbox to check before they can launch (ie smart-TVs).

Roku is really crap to use, but by playing by this book they’ve seemingly done well (as a business) so far.

spinax · 4 years ago

> Roku is really crap to use

I disagree, I find the Roku experience to be quite easy to use and it does what I want with no surprises in the UX.

spinax commented on Feature comparison of ack, ag, Git-grep, grep and ripgrep beyondgrep.com/feature-co... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer

opencl · 4 years ago

If you follow the "If you have updates to the chart, please submit as a GitHub issue." link, you can see that there are a few dozen open issues and the page was last updated 2 years ago.

spinax · 4 years ago

Ahhh, I did not (my bad) - I don't track grep features, not a hobby :) this chart could have been more truthy 2 years ago for all I know. Thanks.

spinax commented on Feature comparison of ack, ag, Git-grep, grep and ripgrep beyondgrep.com/feature-co... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer

spinax · 4 years ago

Some of these line items are really obtuse and in some cases just not right, "Don't search in binary files" and "Treat binary files as if they were text" for example caught my eye - GNU grep has the `--binary-files` option which supports both of these features. Others like "can pipe output to a pager" seem like a half-hearted attempt to give a +1 to a specific tool while ignoring that you can... pipe the output of any of them using... a pipe.

spinax commented on Proton wins appeal in Swiss court over surveillance laws swissinfo.ch/eng/business... · Posted by u/dane-pgp

maxwell · 4 years ago

You're really making the Nuremberg defense?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

By complying they also risked their entire existence.

Their brand seems destroyed already.

spinax · 4 years ago

Since we're tossing around wikipedia links,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

spinax commented on Proton wins appeal in Swiss court over surveillance laws swissinfo.ch/eng/business... · Posted by u/dane-pgp

throwawayswede · 4 years ago

Hardly. The company still has not owned up to their major fuck up in my book. They are willing to save themselves on the account of their customers. Dead company in the world of security, but might drag on in the scam world.

spinax · 4 years ago

> ProtonMail, in fact, had to comply with a Swiss court order, which came after the French police had requested Swiss cooperation through Europol, making use of international judicial assistance.

What exactly did / do you expect Proton to do here? They were given a legal mandate to comply and they complied. Did you have a fantasy that they would fight the Swiss and French governments (and apparently Europol) when given a valid court order and risk their entire existence?

spinax commented on Fastmail, Runbox, and Posteo under DDoS extortion attack therecord.media/ddos-atta... · Posted by u/conjuredbytes

NabiDev · 4 years ago

Own the whole email provider, use protonmail? Ironic.

spinax · 4 years ago

The name on that email is not one of the Runbox folks listed on their About page, so one can only guess who that actually is or how the email was sent; it could have been a BCC for all we know. https://runbox.com/about/runbox-team/

spinax commented on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro store.google.com/category... · Posted by u/mikeevans

executive · 4 years ago

https://www.asus.com/Mobile/Phones/ZenFone/Zenfone-8/

spinax · 4 years ago

From a quick look at tech specs from a few sources (asus, gsmarena, etc.) the USA version lacks 5G band n41, which is the backbone of T-Mobile (+Sprint).

spinax commented on Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore starting January 31 developer.apple.com/news/... · Posted by u/ezhik_

codetrotter · 4 years ago

For the most part a very good thing.

Wonder what that means for third-party HN client apps though, since HN accounts cannot be deleted.

spinax · 4 years ago

Not sure which reply to post this under, so I'll just reply under GP - it took me about 3 minutes to locate a popular HN client which specifically advertises account creation in the overview. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal/id1308885491

(Android user, can't test it)

spinax commented on What the GNU? ariadnavigo.xyz/posts/wha... · Posted by u/nathell

don-code · 4 years ago

While I generally agree with the author that the userland monoculture isn't helpful for portability, that argument belies the fact that most people I've worked with _want_ those extra features that GNU gives them. I started using Linux and IRIX around the same time - but I actually didn't really "understand" the difference, because someone had gone out of their way to install the GNU userland.

That's something the article leaves out: while GNU and Linux are many times seen as a unit, there's a rich history of installing the GNU tools on other Unixes, because of the extra functionality they offer.

There is, of course, the argument against portability. At my last job, as the only Linux user on my team, I more than once wrote shell scripts that only worked for me - as soon as someone on macOS ran them, they'd run into a missing feature on `sed`, or a different calling convention on `date`. Which is why, at my current job, I'm very begrudgingly a macOS user - it makes me a better coworker.

spinax · 4 years ago

One of the first things we did on Solaris installs was install the GNU userland (it's been so many decades, I forget the specifics - packaged somehow, not ./configure; make) so we could get GNU sed and awk (and bash and vim) amongst all the other things. My anecdotal experience matches yours, we wanted those GNU features on our Solaris experience, they were/are useful extensions.