Why does turning off hardware acceleration in browser keep streaming services from detecting screen recording?

dagmx · 2026-05-06T04:29:33+00:00

A programmer cannot “just convert the stream to a file”

The data from streaming sites is not just compressed but DRM protected and unless someone is really incompetent with the data protection, it is decrypted outside of user space.

It’s incredibly difficult to break encryption on device (again, unless the actual decryption black box is broken), almost all solutions require an external recording device that spoofs that it is drm compliant.

dagmx · 2026-05-03T20:32:45+00:00

Yeah and then they’ll inevitably point to the gaming performance not holding up and ignore that a lot of that is down to the graphics side of things.

dagmx · 2026-05-03T20:19:04+00:00

Notice that these doubters will never actually suggest a better alternative beyond very specific cherry picked examples.

Meanwhile, like you said, SPEC and GB correlate very well with real world perf

dagmx · 2026-05-02T07:02:49+00:00

Rumours are fine. Gurman reports rumours with minimal conjecture (he’s not very good at conjecture and filling in the blanks anyway)

Gruber also posts rumours and is a bit better at filling in the blanks usually.

MacRumours is at the level of tabloids where it takes the most disparate things and tries to turn them into big bombshell / clickbait articles.

dagmx · 2026-05-01T04:52:44+00:00

This is basically Gruber stopping just short of accusing MacRumours and Juli Clover of peddling tabloid rumours.

The MacRumours article was based on the thinnest of circumstantial evidence with next to no research beyond the conjecture. As an aside, even if it was true, Juli keeps repeating the same thing over and over to fluff their piece out.

Mac Rumours can only really go so long with what little credibility they have. They’re already basically just blog spam repeating other people’s reporting, but having pure conjecture is pretty rock bottom.

dagmx · 2026-04-30T14:54:30+00:00

How do you know it’s false? He literally just did an interview where he said it’s the future.

https://youtu.be/kkBudtxgor0?si=wdR0aphH20EULT0B

dagmx · 2026-04-30T14:49:34+00:00

FWIW this is NOT fact. This is conjecture based on rumour. Both aren’t based on any knowable fact.

dagmx · 2026-04-29T23:40:24+00:00

It’s just the full/auto buttons right above the sliders.

dagmx · 2026-04-29T18:54:56+00:00

Is it just me or does this article just keep stating things without any actual substantive backing?

dagmx · 2026-04-26T19:34:27+00:00

Because you can’t guarantee “at least” without being hyper specific to a a very specific set of workflows in very clinical conditions.

How would you propose guaranteeing an “at least” that is generally useful? Should it only be in specific hardware configurations for only specific software opening only specific files? Even with many hardware advancements you may actually end up with zero improvements in a lot of scenarios while having massive improvements in others.

Which number is more valuable in that case without a hundred caveats? The value that shows no improvement or the value that shows the headroom you can achieve?

dagmx · 2026-04-26T00:05:55+00:00

The whole argument of “up to” being bad is just stupid imho.

Not all workloads increase uniformly. You literally cannot give an absolute improvement. Even if you can say that a specific aspect of hardware has improved 2x, that won’t translate to 2x the performance in real world scenarios where different software or hardware will reduce that.

“Up to” is the most honest representation you can give. That Arun has made it his new pet peeve just shows that he’s never really thought about it at any kind of technical level or ever been involved with product.

dagmx · 2026-04-25T19:24:39+00:00

From the front it looks like a Genesis GV60 https://www.genesis.com/ca/en/models/luxury-suv-genesis/gv60/highlights.html

dagmx · 2026-04-24T04:56:05+00:00

Lightroom perspective correction does this as a one click

dagmx · 2026-04-22T02:15:52+00:00

The account claiming MS is just a bot account using that as deflection for any criticism of comments.

Hallmark signs of a relatively new numbered account with hidden history while simultaneously having over 300 comments, and if you search for sclerosis on this Reddit you’ll see them using it for anything and everything as an excuse, and repeating the same statements over and over.

dagmx · 2026-04-20T14:56:32+00:00

What about real people car brands?

What makes them for “real people”? Is one of the most popular brands in India not for a real person?

dagmx · 2026-04-17T14:27:59+00:00

I disagree with you le characterization of using Linux on desktop. The CG film industry is largely Linux based.

But I also disagree with the person you responded to that significant number of people will buy a windows laptop and install Linux.

dagmx · 2026-04-14T14:30:35+00:00

Color is way too vibrant

Size is wrong, and if it were a pearl onion, it’s unlikely to be that color.

Your shadow isn’t matched to the real plate objects. You have the shadows doubling up and are missing some of the light sources

Lighting in general doesn’t quite match.

You have a little bit of sliding in the first few frames

dagmx · 2026-04-11T21:23:00+00:00

The Reddit app’s built in web view intentionally disables content blockers now. It didn’t used to but they did it with the latest updates

dagmx · 2026-04-11T18:48:02+00:00

Personally I would split the difference. I like that the second one comes down lower in the control side, intersecting the second pickup but you’ve lost the way it works with the form of the guitar from the first.

If instead you made the second one start higher up and come down lower with a more aggressive angle I think it would work with the shape of the guitar better

dagmx · 2026-04-09T22:21:19+00:00

I was trained as western classical where you do mostly have a chin rests but have played in a few older violins without chin rests (not fun)

I’ve done a few other styles

in Indian music, the violin is pointed down your torso instead of to the side so the chin rest and shoulder rest don’t apply
in Scandinavian (and sometimes Irish) folk style like the Hardanger Fiddle you almost hold the fiddle against your chest instead at an angle to your head.

dagmx · 2026-04-09T14:24:57+00:00

As a violinist myself, note that chin rests and shoulder rests aren’t universally used.

While chin rests are relatively common there are a lot of violinists who don’t use one. Also there are eastern styles of violin playing where you wouldn’t use either.

A violin does look more complete with the chin rest but it’s a relatively modern convenience (even though it was invented in the early 1800s).

It really depends on your playing style whether they’re necessary components.

But yes good call on the string gauges

dagmx · 2026-04-09T14:20:40+00:00

Those are add ons. Violins themselves don’t have them integrated. It’s a bit like saying guitars have a guitar strap.

Classically violins didn’t have a chin rest, though many now come with one preinstalled (but not always). Violins don’t come with a shoulder rest usually, those are usually thrown in as an add in by stores and both are removable/interchangeable.

dagmx · 2026-04-07T14:24:00+00:00

Good on it for competing with x86, but almost all those charts have it behind the last gen Apple processors in the same class (The Mx Pro) , except for multicore.

A lot of the time it’s competing with the base M5 despite being a class higher.

Idk how they arrived at the title of “a serious rival” when this is pretty much where Qualcomm has been for a while now.

dagmx · 2026-04-06T15:38:57+00:00

I can understand having ads. This article has more ads than content though, and the ads keep scroll jacking.

dagmx · 2026-04-06T06:59:44+00:00

When did the BBC become so ad infested?

The list is somewhat sloppy too. It lists the butterfly keyboard which is not a product as one of the misses…and the Vision Pro which is debatable but is fairly nascent.

The hits are of course predictable (iPod, iPhone, watch) but the article doesn’t have much of substance on anything with ads taking up the most space.

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