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  1. GitHub restores youtube-dl repository after DMCA takedown

    You missed the main improvement going forward, which is that GitHub has agreed to review every 1201 (anti-circumvention) takedown request by both technical and legal staff at their own expense to make sure it's not frivolous, and will err on the side of the developer in cases where it's ambiguous. In all honesty that's a pretty solid response.
    8 points
  2. GitHub restores youtube-dl repository after DMCA takedown

    Screw music labels anyway. What, they are going to take OBS down because I can record my desktop, which can include running Spotify?
    6 points
  3. Probably in a few months we will learn that NordVPN was the one selling your credentials on the dark web.
    5 points
  4. Microsoft announces improvements to history in Edge

    Edge is adding more features per month than Chrome in a whole year.
    4 points
  5. Ungh! Helpful to identify who is carrying expensive equipment I guess.
    4 points
  6. 4 points
  7. Or they have simply change the name on the building...
    4 points
  8. Microsoft unveils new Fluent icons for its Edge browser

    I wish they'd just hire a team to just redo ALL graphics in the OS all at one time and be done with it... been asking for that since windows 3.1 , even windows 95 didnt refresh all the icons for just a major UI jump
    3 points
  9. Ridiculously over priced.
    3 points
  10. Microsoft announces improvements to history in Edge

    I think it's been underappreciated that one of the benefits of just using a common browser engine is it means more time gets spent competing on the front end features we actually use. The best browser experiences seem to come from the ones that are using someone else's rendering. Meanwhile we spent 15-20 years arguing that everyone needed to make their own rendering engine and the only "feature" people thought they could dream about was "use less RAM".
    3 points
  11. Microsoft Pluton is a new security chip for Windows PCs

    I can't wait for the first malware to attack this puppy!!
    3 points
  12. EXPIRED : Amazon Price Glitch on Samsung 8K Tv's $150

    70 foot? That's some TV (or projection screen) 😄
    3 points
  13. Hulu's Live TV streaming service price getting hiked to $65 per month

    I cancelled my YouTube TV subscription as I could not justify the cost for what I was getting. I get all the locals in HD for free that I can watch anywhere and record using an HDHomeRun TV tuner. Wasn't enough interesting content on the paid channels to justify. They kept raising the price, adding more useless channels/bundles, raising the price, etc., etc.
    3 points
  14. Hulu's Live TV streaming service price getting hiked to $65 per month

    This shouldn't surprise anyone. I saw this coming years ago when I worked at the cable company. Streaming was being introduced as the "Cable cutter" with low monthly rates of 50% less than cable. It was all a scam to get people away from the cable company and lure you into their streaming service. Well, here you go. Now they are getting as expensive as cable, so what's the point in leaving cable then? And Hulu, being stupid by raising their prices to be in par with YouTube. If they want to compete, they need to keep it down, not up. Welcome to the future boys and girls.
    3 points
  15. GitHub restores youtube-dl repository after DMCA takedown

    Github is like a wife-beaten, it has done several times the same act over and over that it is hard to trust it. It says "I swear I will never do it again and take this bouquet of flowers" then, days later, (punch) and a black eye.
    3 points
  16. Still noticing no examples of Biden Tweets that should be flagged. How about the top 5 from this week? month? year? This is not a both sides argument, this is about people being knowingly deceptive and repeatedly giving false and misleading information as 'fact'. I'm shocked Twitter or any of the social media platforms even took time to flag false information. It is kind of their currency, as it allows goofs and fools to believe the stupidest BS possible. Example: The earth is flat crap has never been more popular in the history of humankind. Even 2000 years ago, most people thought the earth was round. (They just had to look at the moon and sun to figure it out.) Yet in 2020, here we are with social media fueling low information goofs with something their lizard brain find 'plausible'. Trump would not have been elected or taken seriously in elections over the past 100 years. News outlets wouldn't let a candidate make up information or change their plan/idea from sentence to sentence with no basis in information or facts. They would have been called out for being a ######ing idiot.
    3 points
  17. 2 points
  18. Awesome! I can't wait until those features come to Edge. Sorry, Chrome, you lost my business last year...
    2 points
  19. I have $2 pulsating LED arm strip for that
    2 points
  20. Why no mention of the best new feature, the new updated icon for macOS?
    2 points
  21. Microsoft Pluton is a new security chip for Windows PCs

    Can shove that firmly where the sun doesn't shine.
    2 points
  22. WinUI 3 Preview 3 is out with ARM64 support

    Those awful M̶e̶t̶r̶o̶ oops U̶W̶P̶ oops WinUI controls which are disliked by many and the Win32 ones preferred
    2 points
  23. Mozilla Firefox 83 comes with big JavaScript enhancements

    All good stuff! It has been my default browser since before it was called Firefox.
    2 points
  24. Microsoft Pluton is a new security chip for Windows PCs

    Will this new feature allow users to run Linux, either live off a USB stick or installed as dual boot?
    2 points
  25. Microsoft Pluton is a new security chip for Windows PCs

    I read Microsoft's original announcement too. Two things in it caught my eye. First, they said Pluton replaces TPM. Second, they said Pluton updates its firmware from Windows Update. These two make me think Microsoft isn't making Pluton for general-purpose computers. Rather, I think they are working on a new mobile device, which comes with Windows.
    2 points
  26. EXPIRED : Amazon Price Glitch on Samsung 8K Tv's $150

    One person commended "Woot 2 TV's and 1 soundbar delivered. Thanks OP and" ... so they were also selling $1,000 sound bars for $150 too.
    2 points
  27. Fingers crossed they don't ruin it with a hole.
    2 points
  28. The phones from Earth: Final Conflict had a similar idea (bearing in mind the show aired 20 years ago) in that show you pulled apart the two sides to expose a large rolled out screen. https://earthfinalconflict.fandom.com/wiki/Global
    2 points
  29. Presumably, development for the new ARM Macs helped them make this?
    2 points
  30. We knew it from the beginning, but with that second video it really confirms that he isn't the sharpest tool in the box. I keep meaning to take a trip to Sweden...
    2 points
  31. Halo 4 is live on Steam, Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass for PC

    Yes, but the line says "shed its console exclusivity", which is true.
    2 points
  32. Actually, the future is younger generations simply choosing not to pay for content that is already riddled with commercials, like Hulu-Live. That's what "cutting the cord" was all about in the first place. And the industry is still seeing record cord cutting, even during the pandemic, as consumers really, really like commercial free TV. https://fortune.com/2020/09/21...g-record-covid-19-pandemic/ That's why broadcast sports had plateaued as a business model ten years ago and is already dropping alarmingly (especially when adjusted for population growth and increasing worldwide access) before the pandemic. https://www.forbes.com/sites/b...jor-sports/?sh=24c7a4c7584f "This evidence corresponds with related information about younger adults cutting their cable cable cords, opting for streaming services, and adopting new viewing habits like binge-watching series rather than following sports."
    2 points
  33. 😔 Space is hard. Just like any technology that's now in common and reliable use, it takes time and many many failures to get to there.
    2 points
  34. https://i.imgur.com/B0i9WDW.png Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again
    2 points
  35. GitHub restores youtube-dl repository after DMCA takedown

    Interesting how many more people now know about Youtube-dl because of all of this RIAA crap. Way to go morons. I'm glad it's been reinstated, I've been using it for a long time and it's an invaluable tool.
    2 points
  36. I've commited myself to Arch

    I think if I go away from Arch, maybe Gentoo. But for now, I'm happy where I'm at.
    2 points
  37. GitHub restores youtube-dl repository after DMCA takedown

    tbf, it does have the might of Microsoft's legal team behind it.
    2 points
  38. From our older article on this topic (https://www.neowin.net/news/twitter-will-add-labels-to-misleading-us-election-result-claims) : "Exempt from labels will be Twitter accounts from official sources, such as state election officials or news outlets with independent election decision desks. These include ABC News, Associated Press, CBS News, CNN, Decision Desk HQ, Fox News, and NBC News. These sources will also be considered when labeling potentially misleading tweets, so if a claim is challenged by these sources, a label will be applied to indicate that."
    2 points
  39. "I'll take Logical Fallacies, Alex. Let's go with Moving those Goalposts!" Alex cannot hear you. Too soon?
    1 point
  40. M1 MacBooks will sell a TON. This will push developers to finally start making desktop-grade ARM apps. Hell, Windows on ARM has been on the market for what, 3 years? And pretty much everything still has to run through emulation? Microsoft just does not have the developer trust with a transition like this. I think M1 MacBooks (as much as I hate locked down systems but what can I as a consumer realllly do about it apart from not buying a machine I would have never bought) will definitely push ARM on Desktop
    1 point
  41. and huawei lose its honor....
    1 point
  42. EXPIRED : Amazon Price Glitch on Samsung 8K Tv's $150

    ya, I tried getting that too. I remember the thread well.
    1 point
  43. this was started after Surface Pro X was released & MS released their plans for Windows on ARM. Adobe did mention they'll be bringing some of the CC apps, or at least a lite version, to ARM. But it looks like ARM Macs are the much more impressive hardware than Surface Pro X for media development How do you know that? I haven't seen any benchmarks comparing an ARM Mac to the Pro X yet. Granted one is a laptop and the other a convertible so you may be correct just from the different focus of the devices. MacOS performance maybe more optimized as we see with iOS devices - their CPU is way ahead of Qualcomm, but latter have the better GPU. Additionally fans in MBP & MMini mean no throttling, so that high performance will sustain than just be burst mode. Finally Qualcomm is terrible with driver support - with desktop CPUs/GPUs, regular driver updates from intel/amd/nvidia help a lot in ironing out bugs, and optimising stuff to get noticeable performance improvements in Games/Software. Qualcomm has more of a 'ship it, then forget it' motto - whatever updates we'll get (Quacomm wil probably forget this chip in a year) will be from MS, but it may not get the most out of the hardware. Apple ecosystem being tightly integrated should not have this problem. But again these are all expectations from what we've been seeing for the last decade, things hopefully should be better than worse.
    1 point
  44. Hulu's Live TV streaming service price getting hiked to $65 per month

    I don't like the trend but it's still cheaper to use streaming services... I get Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, ESPN+, Hulu, HBO Max, Netflix, Spotify Premium, YouTube TV and my end is just $60 a month.
    1 point
  45. sounds more alpha then beta to be honest.
    1 point
  46. Feel free to link to a Biden tweet that deserves the flag as per Twitter's rules.
    1 point
  47. Right wingers keep asking stupid questions like this to try and discredit 'facts'. Quit it.
    1 point
  48. Intel begins shipping its Xe-based Server GPU

    Hello, When silicon companies introduce a new product or technology, the first release is often for enterprise use. As process manufacturing yields increase, the technologies find their way down the product line to the value end of the spectrum. It seems the product is geared towards companies that host steaming mobile games, so the end users or consumers of that would ultimately be people who play those types of games on their mobile devices. Interestingly enough, Intel hasn't been in the mobile CPU or RAM market for a while (Atom for Android, StrataFLASH, etc.). This might be a good strategy for them, though, since the server market is an established space for them, and this gives them a way to not just defend against incursions from AMD and ARM, but to grow that business. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point
  49. Computer freezing for a few seconds

    For anyone curious if I solved this, I'm pretty sure I did. I set that X4 BIOS setting for my m2 SSD back to X2 and haven't had a freeze since. My computer wakes from sleep properly now too.
    1 point