Bogasse

I subscribed to a pack for "most streaming services in my country" because I earn enough money now and wanted to try being honest. But I will very probably not renew it, I pay 50€/month, but still use Plex almost as often :

1. The web apps suck, the mobile ones are often worse (laggy, contrast changes while watching, lack of features ...)
2. Some shows are not available in a decent quality : in France we have Kaamelott, owned by Canal+, they probably made an intern upload the episodes so it's only available at 360p
3. They try to control what you watch : the "continue watching" section of Netflix has been randomly placed between line 1 and 4 for a while now, seemingly just to push their bulshit recommendation algorithms that will me watch yet another cheap copycat
4. Some "premium" movies are not part of any subscription (eg. Puss In Boots 2)
5. Some show may not be available anywhere when shady exclusivity contracts expire (eg. "Au service de la France" was only available through piracy last time a friend tried to watch it) ...

Sooooo ... I was ok with the services sucking but I can't be okay with them so obviously not trying to improve.

It's also incredible how I was pirating everything else when I was a teenager (video games, books, audio, ...) and managed to stop almost immediately when I received my first salary.

Ow, this one seems to particularly suck 🙁

So we've reached the point where the web doesn't exist anymore in the general opinion, it's just wall gardened apps now ? 🙁 #web4.0

I think smart watches had a few iterations before they found how to sell them. Now it's mostly marketed around health, which I don't recall being the case a few years ago?

I'm not surprised so many would buy it, but it surprised we reached this number before the first reviews. That a brand new line of product and I'm not even sure what people will use it for 😶

On a more positive note, Facebook and XFormerlyKnowAsTwitter are not essential parts of the internet. You can choose to not use or care about them. It is much harder to not use NTP, and it's great that it is an open and comprehensible standard 👌

Does the ninth person have two different earpieces !? Common !

TBH Disney is already mostly producing shit, Pixar movies were still kinda good I think ?

I suppose there are a lot of companies who would be glad to make you pay for their proprietary video standard, we would just pay for something formerly free 😟

So next LTS might have to be resilient to the 2038 bug (32 bit signed timestamps overflow). I wonder how many softwares are vulnerable 🤔

Browsers compared themselves with this metric for a while, but they had to stop before they reached an integer overflow.

And I suppose people at OpenAI understand how to build a formal proof and that it is one. So it's straight up dishonest.