Yes, but I have a feeling it comes down to licensing, and until they work out the terms with rights holders they will disable it for everyone. Then, once they work something out, they will graciously enable it for higher-tier subscribers with additional licensing fees. Then everybody wins.

"TAKE OFF EVERY ZIG"
-Andrew Kelley

Ah the classic memes are still good.

This is the first I've even heard of Zig. Has anyone here used it before?

Yes eventually we will be like the great hymenopterans with a single ruling creature and millions of mindless drones to feed it.

It's not about making them better, it's about making them cheaper. I don't think they can make money on a mass-market device with everyone and their grandma asking this thing dumb questions constantly. Think Alexa but every API call costs $1.50 in compute to run. It needs to be cheaper to get that kind of market segment cornered.

So what exactly makes these unhealthy? I consistently get voted down whenever I question this, but just because it's "ultraprocessed" doesn't make it unhealthy. If one person eats a homemade cupcake every day, and the other eats a Hostess Refined Palm Oil Dessert, is the Hostess one more unhealthy because it's "ultraprocessed"? If you control for calories and portion sizes, I doubt it.

No, the real problem lies in people eating shitty food that is convenient and tastes good. Perfectly rational thing to do in the short-term, which makes it a difficult behavior to change. So instead we have regressed to this "harm reduction" mode: Can't fix the problem, so let's invent another made-up bugaboo to fuel our two minutes hate and distract us from looking in the mirror. In this case, we blame the food--it must be poisoned by big corporations!--instead of blaming the person making bad lifestyle choices.

I'm not sure what the goal is here* but what result do they expect? Do they want Bimbo Bakeries to stop putting so much sugar in the bread? Or maybe McDonald's will stop salting their fries? Or maybe just put warning labels on everything with too much salt or saturated fat or sugar like they did in Canada. I'm sure none of those will help. We live in unprecedented times where we can eat like this, might as well enjoy it. Pass the Ozempic.

*I lied--I know the goal is for the lawyers involved to make boatloads of money at the taxpayers' expense.

First Street very likely doesn't have some magic model that can predict the future better than anyone else.

When you get a mortgage you have to pay for a flood survey. Even my house 700' above the village where the bank is.

Your flood risk is absolutely predicted by the flood history of your location. The bank writing the mortgage has the skin in the game which is why they make the buyer pay for the flood survey.

It sounds like First Street might be liable for damages based on pseudoscience if these Realtors bring a case. It would be interesting to see them present solid evidence that they prospectively beat the existing flood models and survive a cross-examination.

If they've published a peer-reviewed paper then I missed it.

Hostile design is often a sign of libido dominandi, not just laziness.

SmartTube has probably hundreds of settings you can tweak to improve usability and accessibility. The developer clearly has a user-first philosophy.

You have Revanced for Android but Apple doesn't allow such things.

It has some excellent accessibility improvements over stock.

Cheaper to just pay the bribes.

In America it's known as K-street. Or "donating" to an Inauguration Gala. Or hosting a high court judge in a European palace for a couple of weeks. Or giving decision makers absurd private sector salaries when they 'retire'. Or giving the Governor's wife a $200K no-show job. Pick your branch, there's a way.

In India the system is less formal.

More than that:
- They cannot talk about what happens to them in the future.
- They cannot have lay people (outsiders who are not bound by a religious gag-order) come to the convent as they might report on what is done in the future.
- They cannot seek legal representation, no matter what happens to them in the future.

It is a deal with the devil.

Nice one, it really helps when the characters are tedious and uninteresting too.

But how else does your TV get firmware updates that change things in subtle ways to the annoyance of its users?

Maybe they can start broadcasting their content with a red tint and make you use those special decoder glasses to watch it.

Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..