Comments by "LoneTech" (@0LoneTech) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. Two days? I once spent over a year returning to and rereporting the same blatant spam, at reducing frequencies. Absolutely nothing happened to the spam, but youtube frequently deletes my comments instead.
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  2.  @thedave1771  New features, bug fixes, updates for compatibility with other changes all have value. It's reasonable to pay for those. That's drastically different from demanding everyone has to pay indefinitely for a chance to maybe keep what they have.
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  3. And of course an extra fee for having not been helped by a teller, too.
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  4. I disagree with one statement: "The intention is to prevent piracy." The intention is to make the publisher pay the DRM peddler. As the DRM itself is purely antifunctionality, and pirates are unaffected, only legitimate customers harmed, "prevent piracy" is at best a shoddy excuse.
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  5.  @LN997-i8x  Usually it's that the math works for them, not the company. Just grab those bonuses and leave with accolades before the consequences catch up.
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  6. "Stop stabbing me!" "I have never stabbed you with an awl."
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  7. By Apple's metrics, if they make it hard enough to break into the device (durability), noone will attempt repair and they profit. Note how their "longevity" metric was reduced repairs, not prolonged usability.
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  8. This is exactly why I sought out Hue lights in the first place; I connect them to Home Assistant using a Conbee II USB dongle.
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  9. YouTube's response has been entirely clear: They know this pisses people off, they know they're doing it without reason, and they don't care one bit. They've intentionally designed it to be unfixable. For them, it's far more important that a system be automatic, no matter how wrong (including directly illegal), than to make any sort of sense.
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  10. Parties that have signed this document wouldn't be allowed to say so, no. They'd be able to discuss the text of this document (as that was information made public through no fault of theirs) but not whether they themselves were offered the same one, or any at all.
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  11.  @brettski74  It's murky waters. They would be bound regarding their agreement, but this document isn't their agreement. Inevitably they'd stay mum because Apple could (and very likely would) punish them regardless of right.
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  12. Top notch repair video! I particularly appreciate where he showed something in the marketing blurb that might be real with the matched opamps. And yes, grinding off component markings is quite literally playing dirty; it's blatant sabotage.
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  13.  @NedTheDread  By explicit design no. That's what the OEM bootloader lock prevents. Otherwise the umpteen layers of recovery systems might actually have been usable!
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  14. It's much easier to have Chrome itself recognize and skip that piece of code. It would just be an undocumented optimization, the specialty of e.g. nvidia's driver division. The fun part: That's exactly what ad blockers are. Code to remove hostile data and get at the content more efficiently. The only distinction is the degree of hostility; Youtube have decided to upgrade the baseline for ads from distraction to obstacle.
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  15. ​ @Mallchad  There's an extortion industry out there that calls it "DRM" or "copy protection". Malware added on with the specific purpose of making devices not function. The specific machinations, like time bombs and ransoms, vary, but the core remains.
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  16. It's not just tightening. The parts that slide don't have the right surface properties or shape. You get effects like tightening deforming them so only the center has any pressure, where it has the least leverage to stop it folding. Adding a rubber washer might help.
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  17. ​​ @TorutheRedFox Technically it doesn't even say you reached the domain owner - only that a certificate authority (of which there's an insane number listed) signed off on the name. It completely trusts e.g. GoDaddy, Amazon, China Financial Certification Authority or Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu. You can extend some web browsers e.g. with Certificate Patrol to at least alert you if the certificate changes unexpectedly.
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  18. Pretty sure it is. It shouldn't take many points: 1. Owner owns printer. 2. Owner does not authorize disabling of printer, a purely hostile action. 3. No click-through EULA can form such an authorization.
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  19. They could have e.g. not instituted their policies to dismiss all negative feedback and allow transfer of the remaining endorsements to different articles.
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  20. While disposable income is nice, I wouldn't want to take away the right of people to share their creations and contributions freely if they so choose. I think we agree on something that Microsoft have been trying to hide and prevent for decades: If you buy software, it is yours. That's what buying is. With FOSS you get the plans too so you can study and improve it, as well as the right to share again.
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  21. Well, that is indeed ridiculous. By the way, last I checked XCover was the only reasonable Samsung phone, at least hardware wise; their lockdowns on the other hand are madness. Prior to that, S5.
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  22. This is indeed near FUBAR.
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  23. I'm stupidly sensitive to gluten. Contamination happens. For me it results in negative nutrition and several painful hours stuck in the lavatory, with damage that doesn't fully recover. I'd probably be more careful about it if it was immediately life threatening; as long as that doesn't happen multiple times every week, I'll live. Other conditions can be far more severe, e.g. peanut allergies can cause asthma and cardiac arrest. The level described here is where an article goes from "gluten free" to "may contain traces of gluten". That distinction happens when it's handled at a facility that also handles gluten, even if they take care to avoid contamination. Even "gluten free" is only a concentration limit. I might prefer to avoid the risk by getting a prewrapped food, but it's fairly normal for restaurants not to have that (or single serving packs). Far better they say they can't accomodate me than serve me a sauce that ruins my night.
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  24. There's one reason: Batteries will swell a little during their lifetime, and that means you want to leave them some margin, without letting them rattle around. Adhesives are a simple option to achieve the latter constraint. Not necessarily a good one, mind. The traditional method involves a mechanically constrained frame integrated into the battery pack. In the eyes of these manufacturers, replacing that with glue is a win/win/win scenario: cheaper to build, negligibly lighter or smaller for advertising, and harder to repair. For customers/owners, that's loss/illusory/loss. For society, that's all loss; there's nothing to gain in making the insanely rich marginally richer, nothing to gain in making tools break (aside from actively damaging ones like farting cars). It's environmental crimes for the sake of greed.
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  25.  @deftknight7418  On some level, I agree; the original idea of the patent served a societal purpose, motivating inventors to share their inventions. But the modern approach of "be a megacorporation and hold all rights for many generations" isn't that, at all. The most trifling of features, like identifying similar marks in a compression algorithm, are suddenly forbidden to use, in the name of protecting the profits of companies that don't bother to build any of it.
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  26. That number appears to be one of those easily quotable myths. There's an article on it from the Drum, though it's largely inconclusive; the main indication is just that the number was made up rhetoric, as far as it can be traced. More telling is the part where the advertising agency representatives don't want to give a real number. Remember, they're selling the ads, not whatever the ads are for. Also notable, that article remarked on an ad every 3 minutes as being a frightening, overblown and scary proposition. Cable TV, Tiktok and Youtube easily surpass that. 😮
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  27.  @Mano-us7ct  They don't sell "personal information", just personally identifiable information. Ancient weasel language. The "non-personal" information typically includes when you're home and where you live (it's just "metadata"...).
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  28. ​ @Lugh314  As I recall, that phrase went "adequately explained". Every single department coming around in turn to hit the same target - and each unable to explain why - isn't.
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  29.  @--_--IMP--_--  It's a solid question. One example would be all those times they refuse to play back what's been paid for and predownloaded, striking in particular when it's harmful (as you're unable to connect and performed steps to access that specific content). This instance may have been averted but it's still their routine behaviour. And all those times, you're under suspicion, surveillance and punishment for daring to pay them for their services.
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  30. Lexmark at least advertise standard protocols and that they can keep printing with empty cartridges.
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  31. Nope. They're discontinuing the models where that was the only option. They're not offering to fix the sabotage for already purchased ones, even at the owner's expense.
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  32. If you think this is too long, there are closing statements from 35:04. Prior to that are direct counters to the ad the title referred to, after that is some important lessons.
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  33.  @FalkonNightsdale  Basically the process, except it doesn't even have to be you who paid. This can be done maliciously and probably has been.
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  34. He's not complaining about the lanes, he's complaining about the obstacles disabling them.
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  35. Yes.
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  36.  @XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX  That is untrue. Your fingerprinting doesn't have to be anywhere near subtle; e.g. it could be a tolerant match of a blurhash. We're not talking about an exact integrity check, just "could this be the video we've seen". Youtube's main content is chunked dash, not continuously reencoded streams. Sure, they could waste tremendous power on reencoding everything on demand, but that's not the current status. The simplest thing to do is just collect a DHT of youtube video ID to dash contents, only holding dash lists that have the correct length. Live streams are more complex, though.
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  37. May I recommend the Mitchell & Webb sketch Needlessly ambiguous terms?
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  38.  @Cheepchipsable  You're forgetting in your analogy the part where the bus driver randomly goes back in the bus to demand to see your ticket, but only if you bought one. Ensuring the bus arrives slower no matter how many rode for free, including zero, and never hassling them the same way.
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  39.  @rossmanngroup  At the point it's illegal to place a home near a workplace, and more space has to be paved to house cars than either, and you're regularly fearing for your life trying to use roads without one, I'd say they are making you use cars. Particularly when they block and destroy public transit. Granted, it's not the same they every time and each one is acting for their own benefit, but the effects remain.
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  40.  @emulationemperor8924  Whether that propping up is unfair competition practice is a separate matter. The sale of dangerous goods should be penalized with unit fines that adjust to match. Scamming enough people to outweigh the fines for when they're caught should not be an option.
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  41. Today the experience of scrolling a bit further gets you to the fake search entries that have nothing to do with what you asked for but proclaim they know where you live. And the things that were based on your entry use substitutions and rarely match either.
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  42. Some extremists are extremely worth listening to. For instance, RMS holds the position that software should all be fully user respecting, which he branded as "free software". I think, like the patent system, there could be a more moderate position; e.g. video games could have a window of time when they're not freely reproducible, for rewarding the developers, much like the patent system was intended. Some corporations like Disney and Nintendo hold views at the opposite extreme, that the populace should not have the choice to even maintain their purchased games, let alone share them.
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  43. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you get it fixed soon.
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  44. I'd guess the reviewers have no incentive to check the video properly, so the whole purpose of the review process is spoiled by paying them for the wrong thing (e.g. processing many cases or giving firm replies, even if wrong).
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  45. There are absolutely advertisers running away from this platform. It's likely the adpocalypse with demonetization of videos "not suitable for advertisers" was a knee jerk reaction to early warnings. When that didn't improve things, Youtube doubled down and decided to cater to the remaining advertisers - where the largest group seems to be scammers, and less worried about ethics. What we're seeing is optimization for poor metrics, over and over again. They spend effort on claiming my mom isn't my family, but aggressively hide away options to report ads that are literal fraud.
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  46.  @LukasJosai  I wasn't looking for RGB at all, but specifically warm and cold white, preferably with high CRI. Turns out the budget option was picking up a heap of Philips starter kits on clearance from a grocery store. They're called "white ambiance".
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  47. What for? Like all privacy settings, it only downgrades your experience, doesn't reduce their tracking.
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  48. Bloody annoying is what it is.
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  49.  @CoolKoon  It's more an example of an abuse this clause is enabling (via "tivoization", where firmware is locked in) than something copyright law should ever have been involved with.
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  50.  @CoolKoon  Ah, that's a suggestion of a different law, preemptive/prescriptive as opposed to this one that's outlawing cures. I understand the view now, but I think that would be hard to get through comparing e.g. how the tobacco industry still exists.
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