The TV itself is overlaying ads onto content supplied via HDMI. This includes BluRay players and Nvidia Shields.

I don’t think there was anything mentioning content detection of BluRays to stop playing the ads

Hey hey, slow down. There’s a healthy middle ground. We could waterboard him whilst he’s in the guillotine, then when he’s begging for air we release him head first

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It’s more expensive, especially in super deep water

The “AI” that I think is being referenced is one that instructs officers to more heavily patrol certain areas based on crime statistics. As racist officers often patrol black neighbourhoods more heavily, the crime statistics are higher (more crimes caught and reported as more eyes are there). This leads to a feedback loop where the AI looks at the crime stats for certain areas, picks out the black populated ones, then further increases patrols there.

In the above case, any details about the people aren’t needed, only location, time, and the severity of the crime. The AI is still being racist despite race not being in the dataset

Oh gotcha, I thought you meant consumer protection laws. Not international trade. My bad for not catching that

Sorry, the support for my bionic eyes must have been dropped. Where is this insane protectionism?

Subscribing through the iOS YouTube app is $19 because of Apple’s cut. He might mean that?

It’s just got a disproportionate amount of downvotes

I’m surprised by the amount of people who didn’t understand this is a joke. It’s not even that subtle.

Gave me a good laugh though

In the very specific set of examples in the above posts, it’s basically only “Stranger Danger”. It’s literally about Omegle.

But I do very much agree with your point when talking in a wider context

Apple did https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/08/8gb-ram-m3-macbook-pro-like-16-gb-pc/

It’s not directly mentioned in this conversation, but the excuse as to why they put such a pathetic amount of RAM in the laptop is that “Macs use it more efficiently”

edit: The quote is “Actually, 8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems. We just happen to be able to use it much more efficiently.”

Also Apple™ RAM costs like 4 to 8 times as much. Being $200 for 8GB. So assuming fantasy land Apple™ iMagic™ means 8GB = 16GB it’s still a minimum of twice the cost per dollar

Me too, everything I’ve seen just finds a copy and rips it from YouTube

It’s both really. Too many people rock a cracked screen, then upgrade it as soon as they can. Rather than looking after their device or getting it repaired.

But at the same time, corporations limit device longevity due to bad practices. Like limited security updates, planned obsolescence and anti-repair policies.

In short, not enough people care enough, and the companies prey on this. Attacking the “upgrade culture” is valuable, as legislating against these bad practices can only happen if the people exert enough political pressure

Exactly, headline should be more like “Google executives want Google engineers to make ad-blocking (near) impossible”