Timo @timo@soundcafe.nl

step 1: DRM in the HDMI cable prevents you from recording displayed media

step 2: DRM in the display system prevents you from screenshotting the player

step 3: steganographic watermarking disables cameras to prevent you from recording the screen

step 4: mandate step 3 compliance as condition of licensing an essential patent for modern cameras

Is the word "facile" always derogatory?

I've just read someone arguing that "we need facile and effective editing tools."

I *think* they're using it to mean "easy" - but I've only seen it in a negative context. Or am I mistaken in how to use it properly?

He seemed a little in trouble.

So please, don't give me this "the war about the word #hacker is lost" bullshit. It's not. We just keep surrendering and undermining our own position.

So, stop using the word "hacker" to mean "cybercriminal". Stop using the word "hack" to mean "breach" or "compromise".

There are better words.

Like "cybercriminal", "breach", "compromise".

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
/rant

Please, don't panic: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been published on October 12, 1979.

Exactly 42 years ago 🙊

@pisscotheque

Salvador Dalí: great artist, but shit at civil engineering

one of the hidden perks of the northern latitudes is that, as you get further north, you get more and more dramatic and drawn out sunrises and sunsets. if you’re north of the arctic circle, you get what essentially amounts to a whole-night sunset/sunrise.

like this:

Privacy vs Security https://chriswiegman.com/2021/09/privacy-vs-security/

Please, enough with the dead butterflies (2017)

Link: https://www.emilydamstra.com/please-enough-dead-butterflies/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27948008

Someone in the YouTube comments called the new HTTP203 video the “the least wrong video on color spaces” they have ever seen.

So, uh, you should watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGyLHxn16pE

@craigmaloney
The Blues Brothers

Nice mini-site from Alvy Ray Smith, one of the cofounders of Pixar, debunking a lot of the myths about Steve Jobs' involvement in the company.

TLDR; he was a very useful investor for them but the idea that his "vision" shaped the company is incorrect. Around the time Toy Story was poised to be a hit, he positioned himself to *look* like a visionary.

http://alvyray.com/Pixar/PixarHistoryRevisited.htm