Centurius

7 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Lol they are selling iphones and simply blocked some apps. Surely we don't have to go around doing holocaust comparisons. They are simply a company selling a product and complying with local laws to block some apps. I mean what is the alternative? They don't sell in that country? Does anyone honestly believe that would make any difference? The only difference it would make is that people would have to settle for Android phones in that country. 

IBM didn't provide the Zyklon B for the gaschambers either. They simply sold Nazi Germany something as innocent as punch cards. Turned out those punch cards could be used to really accurately keep track of a population. A company's contribution to oppression might seem minimal, but in reality it can be much bigger. People being forced to go Android would objectively make things better as Android at least allows third party app (store) installs.

15 minutes ago, Forbidden Wafer said:

Now imagine a roof with asphalt shingles (which are dark and I assume heat up quite a lot more than other materials such as clay).

I mean, just touch the asphalt on a road on a very hot day. You'll immediately feel just how much hotter it gets than most other materials. Even in places like Scandinavia those can get really hot in summer.

6 hours ago, BabaGanuche said:

Nowhere. The record is 41.2 C.

 

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

That's the normal masurement usually taken some distance from the surface. When a place hits 30 C it is far from unheard of surface materials often used in construction to approach 50 C. Just try walking in an older city with a lot of stone and marble construction on a hot day (London and Berlin are great examples). The temperature you feel is much warmer and if you put your hand on say the roof of a building (where this satellite dish would be) you can easily burn it if you hold on too long.

12 hours ago, TVwazhere said:

So... Make one rated from, say 32ºF (0ºC) to 140ºF (60ºC). Climates closer to the Equator dont need freeze protection, so make a "Dishy McHeatface"

Unfortunately it's not really a matter of shifting the temperature range up. The temperature range they indicate has very specific reasons based on the technology used. Phased arrays are incredibly amazing (for example, they are the primary reason the most recent forms of military RADAR have become so amazing), but they're also incredibly hot. In most use cases there is some really beefy active cooling going on to keep them from overheating, the kind that for some reason SpaceX couldn't use with their satellite dishes. Best case scenario it was a cost-saving measure, in that case they can make a (more expensive) version for hotter climates. Worst and more likely case scenario, the design is fundamentally unable to incorporate such cooling and they hae to go back to the drawing table.

2 minutes ago, comander said:

THIS IS TERRIBLE, THEY SHOULD FIRE THEIR CEO OVER THIS, HE IS CLEARLY HOMOPHOBIC!!!!!!

 

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On a more serious note, different societies have different cultures. It is not the responsibility of the richest ~5% of Americans to force their ideals on the rest of the world. 

 

It would be forcing our ideals on them if these apps were installed by default and somehow needed to be used to be able to use the product. Allowing people to install the apps out of their own free will is not forcing ideals on them.

2 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

This is outside my expertise so correct me if i'm making wrong assumptions here, but i'm assuming apple is not ACTIVELY helping countries censor, they are complying with countries' demands. They can either comply or the country could refuse to use their stuff, which I imagine isn't good for reducing censorship. IDK, this is outside my bounds by a lot but I'm not inclined to assume Apple is actively helping to censor a part of their customer base. I'd assume this is more down to the countries holding the final say if they allow things

Kind of depends on where you place the line, in most countries Apple absolutely could push back without risking their product being banned. It's mostly the biggest censors such as China, Saudi Arabia and a few others that could conceivably ban Apple products. But even in those countries they could fix the issue, just as Google, by letting people install apps outside of the App Store. Even in China they cannot be held responsible for software they do not themselves provide access to.

3 minutes ago, Roswell said:

No, I’m complaining about you because you chose to post it here. Vice, as most able brained people know, is a notoriously poor source of news. 

It's a perfectly valid source and the content of the article (and the report it is based on for that matter) by and large backs up the title. And that's the last I'll say on that specific matter. If you don't think the topic belongs here, well hey. The forum has procedures to address that.

9 minutes ago, Roswell said:

Your misleading thread title doesn’t match your citation.

In line with the guidelines my thread title was taken directly from the article, complain to Vice about that. The citation by Apple also includes the word many. Not the word all or even most. Meaning that in all other cases Apple decided to block the apps.

4 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Not our fault that asexuality and intersex picked up steam.

 

Honestly self hosting open source communication apps should be more and more popular and should be an option. Its basically the same ease of making a discord server and all you need is a hunk of PC that can run it.

Don't even need that, get a $5 droplet on DO and you can run just about every communication server. Once the load/number of members exceeds the specs you'd likely have enough people to chip in a couple of dollars to go to the next tier up.

1 minute ago, Vishera said:

Stupid name,I have nothing against them but it's really a stupid name,What's next? - LGBTQIASPBOK++++++++

I just call it LGBT,the pollitically correct knows how to ruin stuff

Nothing to do with being politically correct. LGBT is not all-encompassing for the community. In fact it should be larger than LGBTQIA+ but that one at least comes closest to covering most of the community. LGBT is just Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. Essentially still fully stuck in the two genders narrative. LGBTQIA+ adds queer, intersex and asexual explicitly and provides the + to cover the large variety of other ones such as pansexual, genderfluid, demisexual, agender, etc.

9 minutes ago, CerealExperimentsLain said:

Back In My Day™ we had an Internet where any nerd could spin up a server on an old PII in their closet and post what ever they wanted on the internet.  You could host your own game servers, host your own IRC servers to chat, host your own webservers for your badly photoshopped Star Trek/X-Men fanfic series. Now we're here in the year 2021 where the internet is increasingly dominated by a small number of mega sized corporations and they control so much that the ultimately control much of the very ecosystems we use and what we can and can't do on a range of devices.  We're at the point that they can nearly erase access to anything should a nation they want to make money off of not like it.  Sure for a minority of hardcore users their are work arounds, but these workarounds are increasingly inaccessible to people on what are ubiquitous every day computing devices.

Definitely, I remember those good old days. And heck, all of that is still possible. But good luck getting even more than 1% of modern internet users to spend the little effort to learn how to use them.

That's an unanswerable question as it depends on your usage. Just an OS, a couple of lighter games and a lot of media files? You'll want a small SSD + HDD. A lot of games that you play regularly? A single larger SSD will be a noticeable improvement. And those are only two of the many use cases possible so you'll really need to give more info on what you plan to do.

Summary

According to researchers from the activist group Fight for the Future amongst others, LGBTQIA+ related apps are unavailable in 152 app stores internationally. Saudi Arabia and China top the lists, but even countries such as France and the United Kingdom have blocked some apps. The apps include a wide range of categories; from explicitly gay dating apps such as Grindr to dating sims such as Lovestruck, social media apps like weBelong (targeted at teenagers to find others like them) and LGBTQIA+ news apps such as Edge. According to an Apple spokesperson a significant share of these apps were not made available in those countries by the developers. However Apple explicitly did not deny blocking them at the request of local governments.

Beyond the seriousness of the censorship itself, the matter is made worse by Apple making it all but impossible to install apps outside of the App store. Apps such as the ones mentioned create a safe space where especially younger LGBTQIA+ members can feel safe to explore their identity and preferences. If Apple were to allow third party app installs its compliance with oppressive governments would be much less damning.

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A group of tech researchers and activists has released a new report that says that many LGBTQ+ apps are available in some countries but not others; they have identified LGBTQ+ apps that are not available in 152 different countries.

In a statement about their findings, the digital rights group Fight for the Future said that over 50 LGBTQ+ apps have been made unavailable in the App Stores internationally. This isn't limited to apps like Grindr or other explicitly gay dating apps—OkCupid and Hinge have also been censored in 26 and 135 countries, respectively. Even some games are included in this list, like the dating sim Lovestruck: Choose Your Romance, which isn't available in China's App Store. 

 

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A spokesperson for Apple told Motherboard that in many cases the developers of the app themselves have opted to not make an app available in specific countries. In China specifically, Apple says that it has removed none of the apps (the app developers themselves have, Apple said), and said that Scruff, a dating app for men seeking other men, is available in China. An Apple spokesperson told Motherboard that four of the apps of the 61 Fight for the Future monitored were removed from a country’s App Store for specific legal reasons.

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"Apple is plastering rainbow flags across their marketing operation in the U.S., but in the meantime they are actively helping governments around the world isolate, silence, and oppress LGBTQ+ people," Evan Greer, director of Fight for the Future, said in the group's statement. "Apple’s draconian App Store monopoly–especially its decision to prevent users from installing apps from the open web to maintain control and profits–makes this discrimination and censorship possible."

Fight for the Future went on to say that beyond just censorship, LGBTQ+ people use these apps to find safe communities in countries where they have few legal protections. And while Apple may believe that this is just the cost of doing business in countries that discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, the company's  policies make this censorship possible—especially its long-standing practice of not allowing people to download and install apps from outside the App Store.

 

My thoughts

Most companies changing their logos to Pride ones and supposedly supporting the LGTBQIA+ community tend to do it just because it's good marketing, when a company however actively participates in the oppression and silencing of members of the community they reach a new low of hypocricy. While Apple may hide behind compliance with local laws, it would not be the first company to take a moral stand on a human rights matter. Furthermore, the lack of access to these apps denies local people the ability to organize effectively and renders Apple complicit in their continued persecution. I am a member of the LGBTQIA+ community myself, and it was the ability to access online communities such as those blocked that even allowed me to discover my identity as it allowed me to assign labels to feelings I felt but could not explain.

This also adds a new angle to the whole App Store dispute beyond just financial and legal ones, as now there are also moral reasons to allow a third party App Store or third party installs in general. Not doing so denies people in 152 countries the ability to properly express themselves in a way we often take for granted where most of us live.

Sources

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avng9/apple-is-letting-over-150-countries-censor-lgbtq-content-in-the-app-store

On 9/13/2020 at 4:00 AM, EJMB said:

I wasn't referring to applications on the average consumer level. I'm talking about cloud computing to be used my national governments and corporations and the unfortunate possibility that everything (and I MEAN EVERYTHING  from your personal info, routes your cars take in the city, to all the cameras and what they see, to all public and private records, you name it and there's a possibility it can be accessed by the internet then it's possible all the data about everyone and what they do and it's electronic record being stored in "hubs") being shared in hubs within countries connected by these. I just feel like it might set a dangerous precedent. I might be overthinking it though...these scientists were just transferring scientific data and knowledge but governments and massive multinational corporations (with evil intent in mind) might not be so kind in using technologies like these.
You could even argue that technologies like these could allow everyone to "control" everything from their own home using speeds like these shared across multiple cities.
TLDR; Basically, there's a multitude of applications for such and to view it at just use for the average consumer is not what I was going for. 

Again, even those don't have access to that kind of scale. Easily one of the largest corporations in the world when it comes to datacenter usage is Amazon, and at most internet exchanges they have 100 Gbps uplinks with a few key IXs having 400 Gbps uplinks. Most government departments are connected to these locations with 10 Gbps ports and often even just Gbps. The largest hub of exchanges, the Equinix Exchange has a maximum throughput of 18 Tbps. That's every single datacenter of theirs and every single peering connection. Basically most of the internet traffic on the world, and they barely have one tenth of the single connection illustrated by these scientists. So I stand by my timeline, Mars before this hits any kind of mainstream.

9 hours ago, GhostRoadieBL said:

What you need to ask is if your audience/clients are interested in hdr & critical colour content from your videos and if what you are producing requires hdr. 

If your videos end up on YouTube or Instagram tv, twitch etc then hdr isn't as critical as many people think due to the lack of consumers watching in hdr or would even notice true to film colour accuracy. 

Commercial work is a whole different story and adding colour critical editing means you can charge more to recover the extra cost of the monitor to support the work. 

 

I'd save your money and go with the LG, unless you are primarily working for contracts 

Thank you, I've made the call and ordered the LG It is only for my own projects yeah, I just thought because LTT always stresses colour accuracy for any content production that it'd apply to my usecase as well.

43 minutes ago, ColdPixel said:

Thanks Centurius. 
 

Equally interested in any other suggested alternative to the C2 if not the CR21 - even if it is more expensive.

Well my recommendation would be more in the scene of content creation because that's what I do. So it will likely be overkill for your web conferencing use. But I've been using the Audio Technika AT2020 for a few months now and it's an absolutely amazing microphone. My voice is so smooth using it. It's a cardioid microphone so if you set the gain right it won't pick up a lot of stuff either.

https://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-AT2020-Cardioid-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B0006H92QK

As far as stuff I saw be decent but haven't confirmed myself

https://www.amazon.com/TONOR-Professional-Microphone-Podcasting-Broadcasting/dp/B01LEEWO7C

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XBQ8UGG

Can't answer number 1 but for number 2, as long as it's an XLR mic it will be compatible.

Hey all,

To go with my new rig I'm looking at a monitor to actually do it justice. Right now I'm on an LG 27UD58 and it's kind of starting to show its weaknesses. I am looking for something slightly bigger that has DisplayHDR 600 or higher and proper coverage of different spectrums for content creation. At the same time I'm also somewhat on a budget and gaming features like Freesync are a pro. As is of course being able to watch 4k HDR content.

This brought me to three options.

LG 32UL750 at €581 https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-32UL750

Asus CG32UQ at €865 https://www.asus.com/Monitors/CG32UQ/

Asus ProArt PA329C at €1214 https://www.asus.com/Monitors/ProArt-PA329C/

Now obviously without money being an issue I'd jump onto the ProArt because looking over the stats it really does look like the best out of the three. My main question is kind of if the LG and/or the CG32UQ are close enough to it in things like colour accuracy and quality that the price difference and losing Adaptive Sync aren't worth it.

I am aware of LG's Ultragear series of 4k144hz panels, unfortunately those are not really available here. I'd really appreciate your advice. The content creation is 4k btw for YouTube (and Twitch but there's no editing there).

24 minutes ago, TetraSky said:

It was piracy after all, no matter how they tried to spin it. This was bound to happen. I'm just surprised it happened so quickly after the video. Surely MS was aware of them before... right?

 

At least the DIY version should still be possible, but the pre-compiled ISO was the obvious no-go.

Microsoft almost certainly was aware, however companies are wary of something called the Streisand effect. If they had taken action sooner, they would have needed to file either a suit or issue a cease and desist. After doing that it would have reached the press who would have loved to jump onto 'Big company ruining small independent harmless software tweaker', initiating both bad press and making more people aware of the project even existing and possibly compelling them to seek it out. So leaving it to stay in its own extremely small niche would result in less attention than stepping in. Now the moment that one of the biggest technology YouTubers in the world makes a video on it that audience of a couple of hundred, maybe thousand people becomes potentially millions. At that point the damage is already done and you may as well proceed to take it down. That's why they likely had a cease and desist letter ready at Microsoft Legal just waiting for a large enough influencer to discover it or for it to grow larger naturally.

13 minutes ago, Hymenopus_Coronatus said:

I guarantee that was not the goal here. Idk if you are joking or not though.

 

I'm also sure @LinusTech and the rest of LMG had no idea something like this would happen to the project by making a video. Honestly, I'm not sure why this video would affect it, since most of LTT's audience is interested in gaming or gaming PCs, I doubt that many would use Windows 10 Ameliorated anyway, considering "hit-or-miss" DX12 support. I think MS blew this out of proportion and should have considered who LMG's main audience is, which I don't believe includes too many people willing to sacrifice things like DX12.

 

Seeing this happen is a real shame though

You clearly weren't here back when Windows 10 initially released. People were happily giving up DX12 and any other creature comfort the new OS offered by sticking to 7.

16 minutes ago, elfensky said:

I have edited my article so include a tiny bit of research. Current SA pricing is comparable to Europe's (Belgium specifically) pricing, so I think it's okay to compare the prices in this case.

Not really, current pricing is based on current market trends. The prices in the promotion would be the MSRP, so for an apples to apples comparison you need to find launch MSRPs for the Xbox Ones (Playstations can't be compared the same way because the logistics are different for Sony).

13 hours ago, EJMB said:

 

They claim it would be possible to download the entire Netflix library in less than a second. 
 

 

178 Tbps is roughly 22.3 TB of storage, there is no way the Netflix library is that small. Even the Open Connect appliances they install in ISP datacenters for faster speeds to end users contain ten times that and those don't contain the entire library.

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I am very much interested in this as it will open the avenue for fully based cloud computing for everything (and I mean everything) in the world where everything can be accessed in an instant. Although there will be some socio-political concerns with that possibility...it might be an inevitability moving forward.

This isn't even remotely intended for actual widespread use. These speeds are possible only under incredibly specific conditions and at a price that no consumer or business can afford. At best you'll see this used for site to site connections between research institutes and the like where they can actually utilize that datarate. Most of the world is still on 10 Mbps or less, the high end for consumers has only the last year or two started moving into >1 Gbps speeds for home networks and less than that for internet. Even the largest companies often don't have more than a 400 Gbps uplink and getting even that costs millions. By the time a regular consumer can download at 178 Terabits, we'll likely have colonies on Mars.

21 hours ago, NickolasStone said:

Now I wish there were 32/38in 4k 144hz+ monitors. The only ones we have are either tiny or gigantic.

Keep an eye on https://evedevices.com/pages/spectrum, slightly smaller but 4k 144hz and DisplayHDR 600 certified

Eh due to NVENC I'm basically defaulting to Nvidia anyway, but even if that were not the case I wouldn't expect AMD to bring anything to the table that comes close to the 3080 or 3090.

3 minutes ago, whaka said:

looks fine for me, the fact it's spread like this prove the pressure was not really bad. maybe a lack of pressure on the upper left.  but anyway, the die area is fully covered.

so, yes, deliding and liquid metal between ihs and die should fix it

Before possibly doing something to your CPU that could permanently destroy it if done wrong, and as you mentioned you don't have the money to get a new part if it breaks, ask the person who gave it to you how it ran in their system. If the CPU ran with normal temperatures recently there is no reason to assume the TIM is the culprit why it's overheating now.

41 minutes ago, bestdgl said:

Website and box says that supports Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) and in bios it shows the 3000 and 3200mhz xmp profile.
Ram list shows only up to 2666 sticks but bios and box says different. It's weird.

Maybe you guys are right and it doesnt support more speed.

 

OR my sticks arent compatible.

Yes, it does support XMP, up to its rated maximum speed of 2666 Mhz. The bios can identify RAM but because the chipset is not rated for it, it won't be able to use it. The B chipsets are never intended for overclocking (which running RAM at higher speeds is).