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varies by country, but in the US, YouTube Premium looks to cost $14/mo, or $11.66 if paying for the year at once.

edit: that's for the individual plan; 5-member family plan is $23 in the US and I'm not sure whether you can pay for a year in advance.

Does your region have inflated pricing on streaming services or even just YT Premium?

This wouldn't change the value proposition for you personally, but in the US, YT Premium is $139 a year, $11.58 a month (14/mo if paying monthly), and includes YouTube Music. Spotify for comparison is $10.99/mo. Though I know some people prefer other music streaming services, or as in my case just don't use that piece as much.

based on 2022 outlays (6.27T), it's unfortunately about 40 hours.

yes, keys can be revoked [in offline players] by inserting a newer disc with a newer version of the "media key block." wikipedia suggests they're up to version 78 of that data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Key_Block

f2d does seem like float-to-decimal (edit, typo). My brain is off for the evening but might that part have a misplaced parenthesis? They f2d() the random number but then multiply it by the higher-precision expression (previous day's volume / 1 billion), which will give 8 numbers after the decimal in USD as in the tweet they posted. Still, it's fewer digits than without the call I suppose.

I'm sure there are other reasons, or I might be misinterpreting this statistic, but NAR is listed as the #1 lobbying spender in the US in 2022. They and #2 (US Chamber of Commerce) each spent over 3x the third-place organization, and they spent more than 4x the top tech company (Facebook).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/257344/top-lobbying-spen...

for anyone intrigued and/or frightened by the first half of that, here's a context-sensitive recommendation for the film Gattaca (1997) -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca

web search suggests Unity, with the level editor being coded custom as part of the game.

Prodeus also seems to have an option to use those 3D models rather than the derived/simulated sprites. Saw it in an article a while back and thought it sounded cool... might have even stumbled on the article here at hckrnews?

A/B video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb-hPYOIwMw (warning, digital blood)

Looks like it is on XBox/PC Gamepass for those who have an active subscription, but it is cycling out at the end of the month.

It does look like the release date was pushed back a week, about a month ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://staind.l...

https://www.theprp.com/2023/08/22/news/staind-premiere-their... (August 23)

>Citing production delays, Staind have now announced that their new album “Confessions Of The Fallen” will arrive a week later than intended. That full-length outing will now be available on September 22nd.

covered by that page, surfacing here: when the Lack rack was "invented," the legs were made of solid but inexpensive wood. Now the legs are hollow except at the top and bottom. Some people suggest filling them in, or replacing with new 2x2s if anything with some weight will be mounted there.

I'm not a huge fan of subscriptions but like the way JetBrains handled a few things:

- if you're subscribed for 12 months, you get a perpetual license for the version at the start of that period (unfortunately not the end, but better than most subscriptions)

- fairly significant discounts for second and third+ years.

- they had a price increase either 2022 that was in line or below inflation, which they announced it clearly three months in advance -- no "beware of the leopard" -- and gave users an opportunity to prepurchase three years at the old rates in advance.

Unfortunately I think you might have some work to do: it might be a good idea to change all your passwords stored in LastPass up until last year, and I'd suggest changing passwords for high-value and financial sites ASAP. I still have low-priority sites to migrate myself, this article is a nice reminder.

Anyone please correct me if there have been updates here:

In August-October 2022, attackers obtained, among other things, backup files containing LastPass users' vaults. I don't think the company mentioned what timeframe the backups covered, or whether this contained vaults from users who already deleted their accounts.

A vault file contains both plaintext and encrypted information. The Secure Notes function which might be used for, say, crypto seed phrases, was encrypted. Passwords are encrypted. However the URLs for those passwords are in plaintext, possibly along with last-access time. Someone with your vault can see what sites you have passwords for, before even trying to crack the password. Not great for anyone but especially for high-value targets or for those who are in politically-hostile environments.

Since attackers took the files from the source, it does not matter whether you had 2FA (edit: 2FA on LastPass that is. 2FA, with secret outside of LastPass, for sites in your vault is very beneficial here!). They can throw a bunch of GPUs at cracking our master passwords offline. There's nothing we can do; the horses have left the barn or rather were abducted by UFO.

One other thing that affects mostly older accounts is that while modern best practice is to use 600k+ password hash iterations, some users had far smaller numbers, like 5000, or 500, or 100. Or even 1. Not joking. LastPass could have upgraded users on login for years--I believe they do now, but that has no benefit to the compromised data.

[1] is an article on what might have happened: engineer with high-level credentials logged on from a home machine that was compromised from an old version of maybe-Plex (which fixed the relevant vulnerability long before). And of course the company had security practices that allow engineers to access the kit and caboodle of user vaults from their home machines, even if indirectly. In the end it seems this was caught due to Amazon's automated warnings around certain IAM change actions.

ETA: I do appreciate the difficulty of guarding high-value data against determined adversaries. I also wish LastPass would have been more forthcoming as to the details here; to my knowledge they haven't provided exact details on what was taken, or suggested users change passwords in vaults as of October of last year. Is this still correct?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/lastp...

sort of; proper political donations can be looked up https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress

Cloudflare upcoming price changes -- yes, they like other registrars will be affected.

The announcement page might be behind a login, couldn't seem to link it directly

  .com    $9.15 -> $9.77
  .xyz    $9.33 -> $10.18
  .org    $10.11 (today's price... not affected?)
  .net    $10.10 (today's price... not affected?)

I have heard "Promotion-Driven Development" (when it's from the team/eng side)

1080p as it existed before is still available for all users; they added a new, higher-bitrate 1080p format to premium.

Might lean toward postproduction studios' use cases?

No GPU support, but the slide during the presentation showed extended storage (4-8xNVME to PCIe adapters are fairly inexpensive I think), SDI video ingestion, ProTools HDX cards (music I/O and DSP), 25GbE card, and I think a fiber channel one. Since then a third-party company announced a networked audio card.

Possibly some special-purpose accelerator cards; IIRC the first-party Afterburner cards on the last mac pro were FPGA-based; video acceleration is now built into the M2 chips.

I think most of the extra ports that differentiate a Mac Pro 2023 from a Mac Studio Ultra on the spec sheet are on a small PCIe card included with the machine that stays in the top slot.

yes, it has doubled from 65% of GDP to 130% of GDP in the last 15 years (GFC and pandemic). Click 50Y or Max time scales for more history:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt-t...

This has been growing faster than CBO projections, though obviously the last few years were unique (hopefully). Found a graph from the 2015 CBO report that is still in a wikipedia article that projected we'd be at about 75% debt/GDP now[1]. Another article from 2020 as pandemic aid spending was going out warned we could hit 106% by this year.

IIUC there's not a line that we must not cross, but the level, the rate, and the can-kicking on all this debt spending, and debt in general, worries me (even as someone who leans to the left and supports big government projects).

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FederalDebt1940to201...

It sounds like they're leaning on the internal video encode/decode of the M2 ("media engine"), which they claim can decode 22 streams of 8K ProRes on the Ultra. It looks like this replaces dedicated Afterburner cards? And would apply to both the Studio and Pro. But I am not a video production professional.

Config/pricing pages are open now, and it looks like the Pro does match the higher-end Studio configuration. The upgrade choices and prices match too, so they top out at the same spec. Minus the tiny detail of PCIe expansion of course. Pro has a few more ports (extra HDMI and 10GbE, couple more TB4s) as well.

left to right, had to search a few of them. You're probably not out of it, it's just relatively niche professional stuff. Half of them are only relevant for media professionals for example.

Sonnet card - adds storage via a couple SATA SSDs

OWC 8M2 - adds storage via up to 8 NVME drives

Avid HDX card, runs DSP for ProTools (audio)

Kona 5, video capture and I/O

Lynx E44, high-quality audio I/O

Blackmagic decklink SDI 4k - SDI video capture

ATTO high-speed ethernet card, maybe 50GbE

ATTO Celerity Fibre Channel Adapter - Storage HBA

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Having it time-limited, here two years, is another challenge that gets brought up when trialing UBI. It's more of a temporary bonus than something participants can depend on.

(not making a point one way or another for UBI itself)

Since they've now completed the transition to Apple Silicon, I wonder if that starts the timer on deprecating MacOS Intel compatibility. Though plenty media industry users especially stay on older OSes for stability.

I know this is cynical but might a degraded experience for your Android contacts be a significant plus of this feature? (edit: I mean for Apple Inc, not for the end user). Like green bubbles.

from the post, the author (creator of a Reddit client) suggests

> It's too early to know whether this will be a realistic option. From what I've seen, Reddit may be turning developer signups into a manual process where each user would need to message them and get approval. Also it's likely they'd crack down on this if they knew it was happening.

edit to add: following is totally US-centric! Like the blog post I think?

I was not familiar with how much Netflix costs these days, either the subscription or extra sharing slots. Pasted here in case it's helpful. Sorry if this is redundant, didn't find with ctrl-f.

  Standard with ads: $6.99 / month

  Basic: $9.99 / month

  Standard: $15.49 / month (extra member slots\* can be added for $7.99 each / month)

  Premium: $19.99 / month (extra member slots\* can be added for $7.99 each / month)

Note that on Standard, when they say "extra member slots" it's really "extra member slot" because there's a limit of 1 there and a limit of 2 on Premium.

EVs can be heavy; if quick internet search figures are accurate it looks like all Teslas beyond the Roadster are in the top fee bracket -- from the Model 3 (3,500 to 4,000 lbs) to the Model X (5,200 to 5,400)

regarding the Marie Kondo approach being tough -- now with three kids, she feels so too and has adjusted

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/entertainment/marie-kondo-sto...

when JetBrains raised their prices, last October I think, they gave several months notice, made it clear that it was going to happen on their product pages, and let people lock in the current rate for a few years by prepaying.

Seemed a customer-friendly way of handling a subscription price increase.