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  • strip out the HDCP

    Interesting, I had figured that was possible in principle but hadn’t kept up with what was actually around.

    But still, the HDCP stream is decompressed video, so if you want to save it, you’ll have to either put it through yet another layer or lossy compression, or burn a ridiculous amount of disk space compared to the compressed stream that Youtube sent to your computer.

    We’ll see how things go. Google in the past has made occasional modest gestures to get in the way of downloading, but they haven’t made serious effort to prevent it. Who knows whether that will last.



  • solrize@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.worldIs Matrix cooked?
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    17 days ago

    I didn’t understand the original post. It seemed like someone whining about a switch to AGPL. But that switch certainly sounds like a good thing to me. I didn’t know the old license was Apache but it still seems like a good switch. Redis (with a misstep in between) did something similar.













    1. if it’s for critical systems, why not Ada?

    2. it would be nice to have some more technical description of exactly how it works, both for the shared memory operations and what happens with complicated data structures

    3. I presume there are the usual locks/futexes but it could be way cool to also have software transational memory (STM) if that’s not already there

    4. at the end of the day if you really want super low latency, you probably have to run on a realtime CPU intended for such stuff, rather than a general purpose CPU under a full blown OS. Otherwise, cacne misses can be almost as bad as page faults used to be.