Posted on MSN, lol.

YouTube feels like entirely shady stuff these days.

I mostly use an alternate front end, but every once in a while I go to YouTube and its a wall of AI slop videos and stupid tiktok-like shorts. It's near unusable.

Not even. Near the end of of covid, I had people using my house address and mailbox for about 20 fraudulent EDD claims.

I called EDD and the only fraud claims they would hear were employers defrauding employees. They refused to even take the info I was giving them. I called my state congress woman to ask if her office knew of a way to report these. EDD never got back to her staff with any way to report them either. They just don't care.

The tax authorities, on the other hand, absolutely will come after you if you have money they think is theirs. But that's not cuz they care about fraud, they're just wired to always get the money, no matter what.

Damn. They are spending a lot to market this movie.

Across the board, California doesn't care much about fraud, and the "nothing to see here" response is the usual one. When that one fails and citizens demand oversight from their elected officials, those people fall back to the "due to term limits, nobody currently in office was around at the time, so it's impossible for us to know what happened." line.

It's subservience, not fear on CBS's part.

Good on Colbert for bringing a little Streisand effect to the party.

Zenni eyewear: the urban surveillance countermeasure you didn't know you need.

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Why the feds and Wal Mart hate Zenni eyewear.

The article doesn't really misrepresent anything... Apple is indeed walking back their promise, and their doing it the T&Cs nobody reads, while doing "opt in" by forcing users to make a choice on this based on deceptive doublespeak.

maybe there is an actual explanation for HDMI Forum’s decision that I am missing.

HDMI has never been an open standard (to the best of my understanding anyway). You've always needed to be an adopter or a member of HDMI forum to get the latest (or future) specs. So it's not like they've just rejected a new idea. The rejection is fully consistent with their entire history of keeping the latest versions on lockdown.

Standards organizations like HDMI Forum look like a monolith from the outside (like "they should explain their thinking here") but really they are loosely coupled amalgamations of hundreds of companies, all of whom are working hard to make sure that (a) their patents are (and remain) essential, and that (b) nothing mandatory in a new version of the standard threatens their business. Think of it more like the UN General Assembly than a unified group of participants. Their likely isn't a unified thinking other than that many Forum members are also participants in the patent licensing pool, so giving away something for which they collect royalties is just not a normal thought. Like.... they're not gonna give something away without getting something in return.

I was a member of HDMI Forum for a brief while. Standards bodies like tihs are a bit of a weird world where motivations are often quite opaque.

Skip the olive oil. If you're buying it on a beans and rice budget, its gonna be fake olive oil anyway. Just use corn/canola/veg oil.

Not really silent so much as waiting for the new talking points.

They should just mandate that the child pornographers set the evil bit. It would save the EU leaders the trouble of learning how cryptography works.

Since that name is now burned, maybe we could start a new organization to fight fascism. And to let the world know that we've reached a point of fascism we can't turn back from, we can call it Turning Point.

It'd be fun to let them wrestle with calling brand Turning Point a terrorist group.

Sorry for being an idiot, but what is an agentic OS?

Agentic OS is a buzzword that's meant to imply that the OS is (or has) an AI agent doing useful things for you in the background without you explicitly asking it to do those things (ie an agent working for you). For an agent to be useful, (they say) it has to know and learn everything it can about you, your life, your friends, activities, contacts, work, and so on.

The tradeoff is pretty extreme though. Everything you do on the PC is watched, analyzed, catalogued, and retained by MIcrosoft (and possibly whoever they choose to share the info with, which is likely every government that asks). The features that do this are generically called client-side scanning and Microsoft has a few specific variants you can read about called Copilot Recall, and Copilot Vision.

They could solve this problem and a bunch of others by banning the surveillance and collection of user data without consent.

Americans get nothing. The president gets another distraction from whatever batch of crimes he's committing today.

When I was in grade shcool in California in the 70s, we were forced to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of class each day (very common in school and government functions across the USA at the time), but also in my school, we would follow the pledge with the whole class singing a verse of This Land is your Land. I didn't understand or appreciate this until many years later.

I bought one a bunch of years ago. Maybe 10 years. It worked fine. Did it's thing. Then for no reason google chooses to kill it. Fool me once.

Some kid with a high capacity clarinet playing Pumped Up Kicks probably. Praise Jesus.

The license is royalty free. AOMedia requires it's contributors to contribute royalty free, and AOMedia has worked hard to ensure it doesn't infringe anyone else's IP, but that doesn't stop other companies (some patent trolls) from asserting "You can't do xyz without infringing some obscure patent I own." These companies (like Dolby) target the companies that license AV1, and say "You've infringed my IP. Pay me $x per product that implements AV1, or I will sue you for much greater damages." So AV1 really is licensed royalty free, what we have here is a third party that isn't part of AOMedia (that really liked making money the old way) trying to extract revenue on dubious claims of patent essentiality.

The fun part is that nobody really knows (or cares) whether AV1 is really infringing any IP. They know that the threat of litigation is likely to induce enough people to just pay that the whole charade is worth it. And perhaps ironically, the companies like Dolby want to litigate even less than the companies they are threatening because litigation tends to be a winner take all thing. If they lose, then nobody pays them; not even the companies they bullied into paying. The video codec IP world has operated this way for decades. This is what AOMedia hoped to change. It's Governing Members are some heavy hitters. If they were to defend AV1, they could easily out-muscle players like Dolby. That might happen, but these sorts of things play out over a very long time horizon.