8 posts tagged ‘DRM’
Autoenshittification, YouTube, and Disenshittify or Die
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Cory Doctorow (July 2023, Hacker News): Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket.[…]The car manufacturers got so desperate for chips that they started buying up washing […]
Just Get a Brother
ifixcoinops (via Hacker News): Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going “Just get a Brother, they’re fine” and manMANLike this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are […]
Sony Removing Purchased Discovery TV Shows
PlayStation Store (via Hacker News, Reddit): As of 31 December 2023, due to our content licensing arrangements with content providers, you will no longer be able to watch any of your previously purchased Discovery content and the content will be removed from your video library. It isn’t that streaming content is no longer available; they […]
Vivlio
Romain Dillet (via Jason Snell): While Amazon’s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten’s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these two tech giants. And it proves that you can compete with tech giants with a team of 35 as long as you have a distinct strategy with […]
Amazon is finally killing Comixology for good
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Amazon has announced that, as of December 4, 2023, the Comixology app is officially done. Amazon purchased the digital comic book service in 2014, and has gradually blurred the lines between Comixology and its own Kindle digital book services. But come December, the standalone Comixology app will officially be no more. — Read the rest
iPhone Parts Pairing
Tripp Mickle, Ella Koeze, and Brian X. Chen (via Hacker News): Unlike cars, which can be repaired with generic parts by auto shops and do-it-yourself mechanics, new iPhones are coded to recognize the serial numbers for original components and may malfunction if the parts are changed.This year, seven iPhone parts can trigger issues during repairs, […]
Classic 90s game Worms 2 hacked to run on modern computers—and to have its hidden features
In this video, Nathan Baggs revisits a classic from his youth to get it working on modern computers. Not only that, but the reverse-engineering expert leads to the discovery of hidden features in the game, which he then activates. Then he gets netplay up and running like it's nothing! — Read the rest
Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API
Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Amid rising community concern, Google says it will no longer develop controversial technology that was said to fight fraud online though to critics looked more like DRM for websites.[…]Apple incidentally has already shipped its own attestation scheme called Private Access Tokens, which while it presents some of the same concerns […]