Monthly Archives: July 2019

Prime Video Is Finally on Chromecast; YouTube on Fire TV

Posted on 2019-07-09 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Huh, Google and Amazon seem to have stopped squabbling about streaming customers. Presumably they decided they'll be able to squeeze everyone for both services, and the hardware buys are inconsequential.
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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 9 3900X Offer Incredible Linux Performance

Posted on 2019-07-07 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: That's mostly a good sign for all-AMD Linux workstations that have both performance and no major bullshit with drivers. ...now raise your hand if you're surprised that systemd (and associated mono-culture) is causing a weird regression across the whole modern ecosystem? Surprised pikachu?
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Designing a proper USB-C power sink

Posted on 2019-07-05 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: The RPi folks have a strange history of screwing up their USB circuits. It doesn't help that USB is more than a little insane, but the sense resistors setup is a clever, fairly obvious, and very well documented way to do cheap sensing. It's an easy fix, I wonder if/hope they'll respin the PCBs for the one extra resistor.
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Fight over surveillance cameras sent back to Fayette judge

Posted on 2019-07-05 by pappp

Source: Kentucky.com -- State

Article note: We really, really need some accountability for surveillance. A legal framework that constrains the labeling of cameras and usage of collected data would be a decent start. What exactly the access regime to the data should be is a harder competing-constraints question. A bunch of disobedient citizens with lasers could also help the problem, but that would be less elegant.

A legal fight to reveal what kind of surveillance cameras Kentucky's second-largest city has and how they're used will return to Fayette Circuit Court after an order to release the … Click to Continue »

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Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

Posted on 2019-07-03 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: The world is being eaten by rentseeking. Rentseeking is facilitated by regulatory capture.
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YouTube mystery ban on hacking videos has content creators puzzled

Posted on 2019-07-03 by pappp

Source: The Register

Article note: This, if applied as written, would eliminate a substantial fraction of the content I consume on YouTube... Random Hacker Con talks, LockPickingLawyer, retro-computing stuff...

Recent policy remains unclear about what's disallowed

Updated  YouTube, under fire since inception for building a business on other people's copyrights and in recent years for its vacillating policies on irredeemable content, recently decided it no longer wants to host instructional hacking videos.…

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