Oh! Yeah, that makes sense.

vs 70gb for the uncompressed Blu-ray

Blu-rays are compressed too, they’re just less compressed. Uncompressed 4K at 24fps is around 4.7Gbps (around 600MB/s) so 70GB would only be around two minutes of video.

It’s a DRM system called Widevine, that’s currently maintained by Google. It ships in Chromium/Chrome and Firefox as a closed-source binary blob. Firefox asks you before running it, since you may not want to run proprietary code.

You can tell Firefox not to run it, or disable it in the plugins. Instructions are here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm#w_disable-the-google-widevine-cdm-without-uninstalling. Regular videos will still play properly, but videos with DRM will fail to play. Note that practically every paid streaming service uses Widevine DRM, so if you disable it, none of them will work any more.

Plex are likely using it for their free streaming content. I’d guess that they’ve licensed it only for streaming, and need to enforce that users can’t download or record it.

Your own Plex content does not use DRM, so if you’re only using Plex for your own content, it’s fine to deny Widevine from running.

PhD is literally “Philosophy Doctor” or “Doctor of Philosophy”

I doubt it’d slip through the cracks… The late fines are fully automated. The advertised price is a daily rental rate. For every day you have the item, you get charged that amount. Once you hit the maximum amount, it stops charging you and you can keep it (at that point, you’ve paid the full price of a new movie or game, but just own a second-hand one…)

Blu-ray also has much higher quality than streaming services.

In fact, the only way to stream a movie in Blu-ray quality is by using something like Real Debrid, with a fast connection since the bitrate can reach ~100Mbps at times. There’s no legally licensed way to do it. Seems like a missed opportunity IMO.

I’m learning so much from this post.

Thanks Obama

I found what I was talking about: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11614605. It was a feature that the Hangouts extension could use, but the user had to manually enable it in the browser settings for any other extensions to use it.

The apps feature is still there just with a different name. It’s labeled as “create shortcut”, and you have to check the box to open a new window. I use it just because Firefox doesn’t have a similar feature.

I’ve been trying to get it to say that other stores like B&H are better than Amazon (for the lulz) but it keeps saying “I don’t have an answer for that” :(

even in Incognito mode.

I thought extensions don’t run in incognito mode?

I know Firefox doesn’t run them by default - you can specify which extensions you’d like to run in incognito mode.

There’s a bunch of stuff in Chrome that’s special-cased to only allow Google to access it.

Not sure if it’s still there, but many years ago I was trying to figure out how to do something that some Google webapp was doing (can’t remember which one). I think it was something to do with popping up a chromeless window - that is, a new window with no address bar or browser chrome, just some HTML content.

Turns out the Chromium codebase had a hard-coded allowlist that only allowed *.google.com to use the API!

Edit: my memory was a bit wrong. It was this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11614605. The Hangouts extension was allowlisted to use the functionality, but if any other extension wanted to use it, the user had to enable an experimental setting.

McAfee might be doing something weird with the database, for example not closing it properly.

This is something a lot of people don’t seem to understand. Even if code is self-explanatory, I want to know why it was designed that way.

I’ve fixed bugs where the fix was only a one line change, but it was extremely difficult to figure out, so I left a 10ish line comment above it explaining why it has to be done that way.

The Coral is fantastic for use cases that don’t need large models. Object recognition for security cameras (using Blue Iris or Frigate) is a common use case, but you can also do things like object tracking (track where individual objects move in a video), pose estimation, keyphrase detection, sound classification, and more.

It runs Tensorflow Lite, so you can also build your own models.

Pretty good for a $25 device!

I’m pretty sure Google uses their TPU chips

The Coral ones? They don’t have nearly enough RAM to handle LLMs - they only have 8MB RAM and only support small Tensorflow Lite models.

Google might have some custom-made non-public chips though - a lot of the big tech companies are working on that.

instead of a regular GPU

I wouldn’t call them regular GPUs… AI use cases often use products like the Nvidia H100, which are specifically designed for AI. They don’t have any video output ports.

Apparently MacOS apps can be sandboxed and store data securely such that no other apps can access it, in an encrypted format. I wasn’t aware of this either, but it’s been a while since I’ve used MacOS. It sounds like the ChatGPT app explicitly opted out from this sandboxing model.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen an iFunny watermark.

Sounds nice (the massage, not necessarily that particular scent). I’ve never gotten a massage before but I’ve been thinking about getting a couples massage with my wife. There’s so many massage places though. How do I choose one?

comes with the territory of encrypted email

AFAIK they haven’t tried to standardize their implementation, which to me implies that they’re not interested in interoperability. That’s unfortunate. I wouldn’t want to be locked in to a vendor like that.

At least some providers do try. FastMail published the spec for their modern, stateless replacement to IMAP through the IETF as “JMAP”, and built on top of existing RFCs where possible.