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Comment Re:So, they're cloud connected? (Score 1) 44

it's not like it's constantly streaming your camera to the cloud

How do you know that?

Being from Google, I rather assume the opposite - and that they probably focused their engineering effort to make sure the reduced battery life didn't give their corporate surveillance activities away.

Comment Re: Why is casting a feature of the app not the OS (Score 1) 95

Netflix casting doesnâ(TM)t actually do what many people here seem to think it does (forward the video stream to the target device).

What pressing the cast button does do is initiate streaming directly from the provider to the casted-to device (presumably using the credentials of the initiating device). The initiating device then becomes a kind of super-remote that has fancies like visual scrubbing and such. And the device is freed up for e.g. searching for something better to watch. Way better than a stupid TV remote.

Only it doesnâ(TM)t work anymore (on Netflix. Prime, Britbox, Crave etc still wok fine).

Comment I'll tell you what will happen (Score 2) 237

What always happens when you try to block kids from doing anything: they find a way to do it anyway.

We older folks too were "blocked" from doing stuff as kids, pre- and post-internet, and we too did it anyway. And it actually made us smarter, as we had to devise ways around the obstacle.

Kids are smart. This will just make them smarter.

Comment Perfect storm of mediocre (Score 0) 18

Microsoft hasn't been able to do proper security - or proper development for that matter - in half a century, and AI is notorious for pissing out poor quality code.

Glad I only use the git part of Github.

If only Microsoft saw some sense and quit pushing this disaster of a technology - or at least gave people the option to leave it out of their activities. Fuck this AI shit, seriously. It's getting really tiring now...

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