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New comment by gsich in "Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund"

gsich — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:43:11 +0000

This was planned for DVDs too, but they failed miserably.

In any other case: use MakeMKV

New comment by gsich in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

gsich — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:23:17 +0000

lines of code produced. similar dumb metric.

New comment by gsich in "USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits"

gsich — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:50:28 +0000

You sure?

Those regulations go even higher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra-low_voltage

New comment by gsich in "Leaving Mozilla"

gsich — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:08:09 +0000

Gatekeeping is not always bad.

New comment by gsich in "Leaving Mozilla"

gsich — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:39:31 +0000

It's a skill check.

New comment by gsich in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

gsich — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:47:23 +0000

Not only that but VHS gained "Hi-Fi" in the 80ies. Only a CD had higher quality, but considering the equipment it was played probably not by much.

New comment by gsich in "Thunderbird Littering My Home"

gsich — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:54:39 +0000

Another unit that requires mental load.

New comment by gsich in "Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts"

gsich — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:12:05 +0000

VHS audio was superb.

New comment by gsich in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

gsich — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:49:48 +0000

So? Still not antisemitism.

New comment by gsich in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

gsich — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:01:58 +0000

"antisemitism" loses it's meaning if you are using it this way.

New comment by gsich in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

gsich — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:07:26 +0000

DNT exists, not even that is honored by websites. There is no need for a cookie banner for technical cookies.

New comment by gsich in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

gsich — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:06:49 +0000

Yes, but that's not what usually is associated with P2P. That is normal client-server model.

New comment by gsich in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

gsich — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:01:05 +0000

because real P2P is hard for realtime stuff. Be it timing or network port forwarding issues.

New comment by gsich in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

gsich — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:01:59 +0000

Then don't. People will find a way to replace those.

New comment by gsich in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

gsich — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:59:53 +0000

Modern Warfare 2 and 3 have an unpatched RCE. Still available on Steam.

New comment by gsich in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

gsich — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:06:20 +0000

not a trivial solution.

New comment by gsich in "Scrcpy v4.0"

gsich — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:48:41 +0000

true, my bad. Somehow if your device was in Intune, this never worked, I had to use Samsung Flow instead (which has other quirks).

New comment by gsich in "Scrcpy v4.0"

gsich — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:15:14 +0000

--keep-awake, finally.

New comment by gsich in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

gsich — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:34:57 +0000

When Youtube removed email notifications I had to build a RSS->email tool, I don't send mails for videos that have no duration (livestreams) and videos <1min.

New comment by gsich in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

gsich — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:23:31 +0000

>And to the haters: Show me any company or product from Germany in IT that is Top 100 globally. Only SAP is or has been featured somewhere below the bottom. And I gurantee you, no one fell in love with its UX/UI

Games count I suppose?