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Not sure about VLC, but I’ve a Plex server locally and Apple TV app works fine for streaming from the server.

Looking at this it looks like the vast majority of Roku revenue comes from their platform, not devices.

https://www.investopedia.com/how-roku-makes-money-5119488

Within devices/players:

> The segment reported a gross loss of $90.6 million in 2022, a deterioration from the gross loss of $37.8 million one year earlier.

Biggest wins for me when recently switching from a Firestick to an Apple TV is how much faster it’s been to use and the lack of crud.

Seems the Firestick has some heavy subsidises they make up for with activities like this post.

> not understanding how technology works when it's so central to our everyday lives just seems baffling

I don’t know. I appreciate the sentiment and would also like more tech literacy, but there are lots of areas central to our lives and I think it’s unrealistic to expect a good understand across it all.

I think it’s on us to be able to adequately communicate and understand the needs of those that ask us for help.

Just as you would want a doctor to explain what your condition is in a way you would understand.

Having buildings to live in is pretty central to most of our lives too, and we have some knowledge and intuition of what looks safe and can be used, but most of us leave the engineering to someone more in the know.

Farming too, I rather people in the industry work on maximising yield to feed us all with tools made and tailored for them.

I think when people go to the quickest solutions for them in tech (i.e. Ms 365, Spotify, John Deere, ABC MRI Scanner etc), I’d rather have them focused on the details of their trade than learning how to use a terminal, jailbreak a tractor or replace a magnet in an MRI scanner.

Those that want to, great, but I think most don’t have the time or interest to take on that kind of deeper learning.

Which AirPlay to Google Cast bridge are you using? Thanks

Source?

Obligatory Tom Scott video of the robots working in presumably the same warehouse

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ssZ_8cqfBlE

Don’t just look at the photos. Read the commentary. Adds an extra level of awe.

I think that is kind of the point. If the company can’t take enough revenue to pay its way fairly, then the UK Supreme Court has, in effect, ruled it’s not a business for the UK.

Overly simplified solution: Raise prices to cover a decent wage.

Looking at the network requests when you hit that button it seems to be hitting a lot of tracking providers opt out API endpoints. Which is good I suppose, though better not to even include their scripts until you agree to it

I did something similar a few weeks ago and found that https://rclone.org/ worked for me to automatically port Google Photos data to a Nextcloud instance with WebDAV. That being said, it cannot pull the original quality images, only the compressed version.

Something close to this is this video from the perspective of the earth, showing the planets at the same distance from earth to the moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usYC_Z36rHw

simula67, are you aware that the website (http://jojiantony.xyz) in your profile goes to an Apple phishing website?

We are having great success with Phabricator - https://www.phacility.com/

Pet peeve of the day.

Tried to right click on the header logo so I can check out their main site in a new tab.

Instead I'm blocked and get prompted to download their brand assets...

Please don't mess with established interactions.

> In my opinion AI-powered Sales Assistant, should check old/new customers, get information about their needs, check whether they need to buy product again, find new leads, tell Sales Manager about them, for further decision making and many more things it should capable of doing.

Not to detract from your point, but as an aside I always find it interesting when comments like this are made.

I'll paraphrase a thought from Nick Bostrom in "Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies" that development in AI for the most part will be a series of small incremental steps, to the extent as to redefine our definition of AI as we solve each seemingly astonishing problem. The redefinition occurs as we understand how these solutions work, label them and let them become as familiar to us as Goal Trees, Rule-Based Expert Systems and Neural Nets are to us now.

Would we be as similarly disappointed at the level of intelligence of "AI" at a time when we do have products capable of doing as tuyguntn indicates?

> If the messenger app is open-source ... you can satisfy yourself that the messenger app isn't sending your private key

But only if you are building and installing the app from source, and have audited each release. OS apps installed through app stores suffer the same lack of visibility as a CS app.

I think the point is that this is a step towards consumers purchasing headphones with a digital usb/lightning/whatever connector, not to carry around an adaptor.

I guess we'll see in time whether the idea takes off.

For SSL from Qualys, Inc https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

Generally speaking they do this so you have to watch the video through the publishers own video streaming service in your own country.

Can someone explain how the 2+1 lanes work and how they would reduce road deaths?

Personally I don't have a strong opinion either way. It's interesting that manipulating the URL you will get through the paywall anyway. Another submission uses http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...