edinbruh

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[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Which is bullshit because DRM doesn't effectively prevent ripping (source: you can find pirated hd content). So it's literally only harmful to the customer.

I'll give you a quick demo of how DRM is literally useless at protecting content:

  • You need:
    • a machine with any Nvidia GPU series 600 or newer running Windows, a browser with DRM support (e.g. chrome), and optionally sunshine. This is not an uncommon setup
    • any other machine that can run moonlight (even a phone).\
  • Services often use widevine as DRM provider, so using the Nvidia machine visit this test page and make sure DRM is working
  • Normally the DRM api ensure that the decrypted content of that video can never in any form get out of a special GPU buffer, not even the browser can access it
  • enable sunshine on the machine
  • Connect from the second machine to the using moonlight and notice that the video is not being shared. DRM seems to be working correctly.
  • Now disable sunshine and enable Nvidia gamestream from GeForce experience, and set it up to share the whole desktop
  • connect from the second machine to the first using moonlight
  • now the video is being shared to the second machine, and DRM is circumvented. There is literally nothing preventing you from recording the screen on the second machine

Now, this is a terrible way of ripping content, it causes at least one reencoding, which reduces quality (a lot of people won't even notice it), but it is a stupidly simple working demo of DRM circumvention.

Btw, that procedure is not the result of some study, reverse engineering, or any clever stuff. I was literally playing a game in streaming and I went "hmm, I wonder what would happen if I streamed widevine" and it just worked.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 8 points 2 years ago

Once I asked a professor to participate in a project. So he interviewed me and asked me about my skills, as they do, and one of the questions was "do you know oop? Java?", me: "just the basics", him: "even better".

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 7 points 2 years ago

As the video points out, a lot of the work in xorg (and Linux in general, fwiw) is done by red hat engineers. So red hat cutting on that investment bears direct consequences for everyone else. Unless of course someone steps up and takes their place in maintenance, but it's not gonna happen, which is literally why Wayland (and not some revamped xorg) is the future of Linux desktop.

Also, red hat's decisions often trickle down on most other distros. E.g.: systemd, pulseaudio, pipewire, gnome, not including proprietary codecs, etc.

So, they technically don't arbiter, but they definitely set the pace.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Where whores glow and manwhores plunder

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 9 points 2 years ago

This reminds me, there's a national football (not the american one) team that goes to a sports retreat in the same mountain town where my family goes on holiday. So one time we came across one player that was training solo while we were on a walk, and because we don't really care about football we just went on with our conversation, and the guy looked at us absolutely flabbergasted for a few seconds and then said "hi" and went on his way. Keep in mind we are in Italy, so football players are used to the most thorough fangirling from everyone.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

Fun fact: when learning some instruments (e.g. bowed instruments) you also number the fingers starting from your index (because you don't play with the thumb)

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This will affect the productivity goals of the company

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago

What's the source of that book?

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 11 points 2 years ago

And where were your Alan Moore memes on 5th November?

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That's weird because it's against the law.

A recent (few months ago) EU law mandates that if your platform is big enough (in the EU market) to gatekeep users from using other platforms, then it must interoperate with competing services. That means you should thrive because you make a better product, and not because it has more users.

The fine is a considerable percentage of the company's earnings, that supposedly even the likes of Amazon and Google cannot overlook.

This includes Whatsapp that in a few months will have to be interoperable with competing services like telegram. This requires a protocol, the IETF is working on that. Google probably wishes to use RCS, but Matrix is also working with the IETF.

Apple says iMessage is not that widespread in the EU and should not be included, Google says it is and should be regulated, that's because this regulation will most likely have effects even outside the EU.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it's the flatpak version, try the package manager one. The one on flathub didn't integrate very well and only really worked for steam games.

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