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Re:iPhone Duo Teardown on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:01AM (#50243881)
Right now those are being butchered too with the excuse of parental controls
Re:Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:55AM (#50228453)
If it came out 15 years ago it would have been a big success. These days there isn't a lot of patience from srudios execs and audiences to allow for a TV series to get it's footing. I'm seeing this with a lot of older good TV shows that wouldn't be successful in today's environment (for example star trek TNG)
Re:Xbox Turns Down Netflix $500M Offer on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:52AM (#50228442)
To be fair last of us after season 1 was pretty bad too. Halo got better in season 2 but the awful first season killed it. Other then fallout and arcane there haven't been any good game adaptations (on TV). I'd go as far as say that twisted metal was more fun than any of them.
If governments had to take down websites waiting for the patches this week then there are important users of php out there who have the money and should be contributing. I think php needs better public relations and people who can knock on the right doors to get funding.
Same would apply to mobile phones and tablets and yet a lot of people here defend mega corps for locking them down
Aren't those run by docker? php foundation cannot be responsible
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my water kettle has wifi support for some weird reason.
Re:OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites on Saturday September 26, 2026 @01:39PM (#49858775)
If I was caught trying to exploit a government site I'd be in trouble. Why no one is knocking the doors of these companies?
Netflix had an advantage with own productions which is dying now. Shows are cancelled left and right so people don't want to invest time. Also looks like full season dumps is affecting the long term profitability of productions. People watch a season in a couple of days and forget about it, if a new season is planned it takes 2 years to be released by which time viewers forgot the show existed.
In the meantime Netflix content is getting worse, possibly they reached the threshold which customers can't excuse the expenditure.
Re:Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:07PM (#49807360)
bought an xbox series x + gamepass at the start of covid lockdowns. been playing since. before that i hadn't played video games in like a decade. maybe there aren't a lot of people in my category but to me gamepass + xbox is the closest thing to netflix for games. series x brought some nice things like quick resume which is fantastic for someone who only can dedicate a little time per day on gaming. for people who are not hardcore gamers it really ticks a lot of boxes.
I am either blind to ads or i see no ads in android (samsung). of course many apps have ads, at least not in the actual OS.
Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:40PM (#49744055)
*Cyprus
Especially with windows backwards compatibility it's not possible to rewrite it with every release
Re:Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days? on Sunday August 16, 2026 @01:02AM (#49317058)
Those have become rare recently
Re:The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:50PM (#49264288)
general question: is there an alternative to archive.is ? it seems to be blocked in my country.
Re:OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment on Sunday August 09, 2026 @11:18PM (#49238849)
It doesn't work with tailscale. Won't prompt you to go through the web sign in.
Re:OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment on Sunday August 09, 2026 @11:17PM (#49238844)
I don't use it for work I use it for my private projects and this allows me to work on them even when I'm commuting which used ti be wasted time.
Re:OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment on Sunday August 09, 2026 @11:16PM (#49238834)
I frequently use openchamber on the go. It's very good at this.
Unfortunately Hollywood been feeding us human generated slop for a long time already. Transition won't be hard.
I think you are either pretending that you don't understand or can't understand what I'm saying.

At which point did I mention apps?

Anyway this discussion is over.

I don't think I said anything about trust. I was talking about content delivery. All the things you mentioned before are avoided using this method of delivery.
They are making money out of this. Subscription is like a month's Netflix for a year's access to everything. Multiple "providers" offering this which means there is money to be made.
Re:Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When AI Bubble Bursts on Saturday August 01, 2026 @12:12AM (#49130956)
It hasn't plateaud but the generational leaps are definitely getting smaller.
No there are services that provide global cdn access to torrents. Your provider sees https traffic from your closest cdn edge. You don't share back at any point. These things are a couple of steps more to setup than getting a Netflix subscription and work almost an any device.
post refers to apps. how about browsers? will this allow browsers to block content based on the user's age ?
Re:LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:12AM (#49017525)
I've seen a lot of open networks in stores, cafes and malls in my country too but on most occasions they at least take you to a captive portal to accept their TOS or ask you to enter an email address to spam you later, they are not just connect and browse with zero interaction.
Re:LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @07:33AM (#49005093)
interesting. any idea why?

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