bue-rays can evaporate even faster, thanks to drm, you often find yourself with players that don't allow old blue-rays or computers with cpu's that no longer implement some protection mechanism
as long as computers have existed you have always been able to install an application from your preferred source, it is unconscionable and anticompetitive to impose a fee only if the application is installed from a third party source.
is like having a cookie wall where pressing accept all is a single click, instead to do reject all you have to uncheck 50 checkboxes one at a time.
apple is doing the same thing by saying it's okay I use app store vs. I want freedom, because for the first choice it's easy, for the second choice they put a big tax in front of you
> as long as computers have existed you have always been able to install an application from your preferred source
The company that creates a platform gets to decide if their platform is open or closed.
For instance, Microsoft created Windows as an open platform while they created XBox as a closed platform.
Apple created Macintosh as an open platform and created iOS as a closed platform.
Microsoft attempted to close Windows after the fact with Windows RT and Surface RT but consumers rejected that change. The free market decides what consumers find acceptable.
iOS is a platform that favors ease of use and safety over openness.
the law is still in a state where it has not been implemented since the technical part is missing, the body that is dealing with it is agcom (an Italian state agency for telecommunications), the problem is that the platform is not developed by the state but the Italian Football league provided their platform to agcom for free and agcom accepted it without asking any questions.
the problem is that this platform is not neutral, the Football league delegated to an espect copyright protection company to develop it, they have the full power of this platform.
the creators of the platform were the same ones who lobbied the Italian state to convince them in making a law that allows them to be able to block any ip or domain within 30 minutes and without any verification
I worked as an apprentice at the age of 15/16 in a store where they develop software but also provide hardware support for consumer devices (phones, computers, etc.), a customer asked me if it was possible for me to cut off his phone battery with a hacksaw because it wouldn't fit in the case
he was incredulous when I told him it couldn't be done and tried to explain that even trying is dangerous but he didn't want to give up, I hope he didn't try at home
Honestly I find this article too vague, and if you process large amounts of data you rarely do so with orderly reads and writes, even with databases optimized for fast disks (see rocksdb) have disks as a bottleneck even with the most recently developed hardware.
if traffic passes under tls shouldn't it be possible to figure out the content or type of content transmitted/received, shouldn't just an ip over tls be enough?
There are some things related to the size and timing of packets that you can use to infer the likeliness of a given handshake inside the TLS stream. The great firewall does similar things to detect Tor. (Not related to the IP-over-HTTP presented above however.)
with this intermediate protocol within tls you're just adding a fixed (or almost fixed) size to the data being transferred and the timing I think is indifferent
I don't like that there is a horizontal scroll bar, it's uncomfortable to use and I'm not familiar with them, it would be convenient to make that with the mouse leaving the left button pressed it would be possible to make a gesture from left to right and vice versa to be able to move instead of using the horizontal scroll bar
edit: I saw that it is possible to move around using the top left buttons but I find them inconvenient
