Doesn’t the use of VoIP often make these hard to trace, as well?

Every piece of software that’s available in Russia or China has to comply with their laws. Their laws are fucked up. This is also very easy to circumvent.

Sure, a lot of times they’re just letting other people lie through their products.

I’m really not a fan of echo chambers on politics, and lemmy tends to be well outside of mainstream politics.

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I think I was running x11amp, but it was Linux-only at the time.

Huh, it’s funny, my company uses Webex and I’d probably prefer Teams.

Only on one instance, because I don’t want the same bookmarks and set of extensions on every computer. I wish it were more configurable.

It’s not for no reason, it’s to lower bandwidth costs. It may not be a reason that benefits you but there is definitely a reason.

I just turned off tpm and my laptop has mostly stopped nagging me about upgrading. I did get a notice that win10 support is ending soon.

I dunno if it’s the hardware requirements. The ads are the thing I don’t want. Not sure I see the point of moving the start menu either.

Uhh, yeah, we’re a representative democracy. This passed through both houses of congress and is on its way to be signed by the president. You know, the completely normal legislative process.

There’s a reason why the bill doesn’t go into effect until after the election.

I know that I heard (on the 538 podcast) that before voting on this, congress was given a security briefing about it, and after that there was wide bipartisan support for the ban (and we all know how rare bipartisan support is these days). It sounds like the security briefing was pretty compelling. If it’s not just theoretical that Chinese gocernment could leverage tiktok to spy on Americans and influence them, and there’s evidence that they are already doing it, I think it makes the case for the ban much stronger. But the information has not been made public.

I’ll also note that they set the ban to not go into effect until after the election.

It’s mostly bone tea.

This is not a very helpful article summary.

One of the key benefits of the codec is that it helps maintain video quality during compression and decoding, so many users are excited about the potential for higher quality AV1 video. However, not everyone is happy with the change — particularly those with older devices and midrange phones. It’s mostly newer higher-end phones that have hardware decoding support for AV1, so those with midrange devices and older flagships may have to rely on software decoding now that YouTube has opted in to the libdav1d decoder. Many of these Android users have expressed concern over how the change will impact their battery life if it means a move away from hardware-accelerated decoding.

They’ve being doing this for a very long time, and they do it on all their idevices too (with storage).

MKBHD is pretty popular. His subscribers are probably the demographic that might be interested in this thing. So I’m sure his bad review has impact. But unless he’s a big outlier or has a personal axe to grind with the company it does not seem like there’s any ethical consideration to making such a harshly negative review. People should probably be more suspicious of the reviewers who don’t give the product a harsh review.

I mean…yeah, of course this was going to happen. Did people think they would ignore 3rd party apps providing a work around for their ad block?

Not for long, though.